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1980ref. 414310Del Mar California: Melvyn Freilicher 1980. Softcover. Near Fine. Two issues. Quartos. Illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Two issues of this San Diego-area experimental prose magazine. Most notable for the contribution by Kathy Acker For the Ladies Who Sing: Three Stories in No. 3. Melvyn Freilicher unknown books
1978ref. 414309Del Mar California: Melvyn Freilicher 1978. Softcover. Fine. Quarto. Illustrated wrappers. Fine. Three issues of this San Diego-area experimental prose magazine. Most notable for contributions by Kathy Acker Including The Rebel in No. 2; and For the Ladies Who Sing: Three Stories in No. 3. Issue No. 2 is Inscribed by co-editor Paul Dresman probably to the poet Michael Lally which amounts to a full-page letter. Issue No. 4 is signed "Hello Jane" with a drawing of lips. Melvyn Freilicher unknown books
1996ref. 539586Chicago: Quarterstick Records 1996. Unbound. Near Fine. Broadside. Illustrations by S. Clay Wilson. Measuring 17" x 22". Folded twice as issued. About near fine with light general wear and some color loss at the folds. A promotional poster for the Mekons album Pussy King of the Pirates produced in collaboration with Kathy Acker and her book of the same name. Quarterstick Records unknown books
1989ref. 54284New York: Grove Press / Evergreen 1989. Second Evergreen Edition. Octavo 23.25cm; photo-illustrated card wrappers; ii67-1657pp; illus. Trivial wear to extremities else Fine. A sharp copy of Acker's best-known novel written in the 1970's and first published by Pan Books in London in 1984. Grove Press / Evergreen unknown books
ref. 146188N.p.: N.p. 1976. Archive of six autograph letters signed and one typed letter signed from Kathy Acker to fellow experimental novelist Rudolph Wurlitzer twenty five pages total undated but written during the first half of 1976 based on dates mentioned in the body of one of the letters. From the collection of Rudolph Wurlitzer with provenance. Acker and Wurlitzer were in a relationship begun while they were both in New York and continuing briefly after he left the city for Nova Scotia where he was a the time of this correspondence. Two of the letters directly address their relationship and correspond to letters written by Wurlitzer as quoted in Chris Kraus' 2017 biography of the late writer "After Kathy Acker." The letters offered here were not available to Kraus something she mentions when discussing the relationship with Wurlitzer and have never been published or previously available for sale. In addition to Acker's frank discussion of her feelings toward Wurlitzer the letters take a broadly confessional tone as Acker discusses her mental and emotional state as well as her conflicted feelings regarding the writing she was doing at the time. She writes candidly about feelings of isolation introversion and exhaustion with life in New York and its attendant social obligations presenting a version of Acker that is at odds with both her own self-mythologizing and her already established persona as a post-punk literary icon and chronicler of the downtown avant garde scene. Acker is similarly candid regarding her own writing mentioning both "The Adult Life of Toulouse-Lautrec" and "Florida" both 1978 as in-progress saying of the former "the hell with Toulouse I wanted to finish it off with hell and this is hell" and of the later that it "is about characters. Have to make characters grow." She goes into some detail regarding her feelings about "The Life of Johnny Rocco" section of "Toulouse" calling it "a horrible book" and noting that she's "scared of this book. Scared to type it up. Something very raw about me in it" but also noting that the "only good thing" about the book is that it was "the first time I created a real character who isn't me." Finally Acker speaks at length about the books and films she is consuming in particular noting the influence of Japanese literature and cinema on her work and often relating them to her own ambitions as a writer. She quotes a long passage from William Faulkner's "Go Down Moses" and compares her work unfavorably to it briefly discusses Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" mentions reading Yukio Mishima Osamu Dazai and Yasunari Kawabata and in one letter provides a lengthy synopsis of the plot of all three films in Hiroshi Inagaki's "Samurai Trilogy" before briefly relating the themes of the film to her relationship with Wurlitzer. Of the influence of Japanese literature she notes her desire in her own writing for "simple paragraphs each paragraph an image. 1 2 3. The flow absolutely like straight line.like those incredible Japanese novels I've been reading." Autograph letters signed on 7 x 8.25 inch lined notebook paper. 23 pages rectos only. Near Fine with faint horizontal folds. Typed letter signed on 8.5 x 11 paper. Two pages rectos only. Near Fine folded twice for mailing. N.p. unknown books
1989ref. 167397London: British Film Institute BFI 1989. Softcover. First UK Edition. Includes 18 essays on Warhol's film work. Very Good plus in perfect-bound wrappers lightly toned on the wrapper edges. British Film Institute [BFI] unknown books
1984ref. 85393London: Aloes Books 1984. First Edition. Octavo. 21cm. Publisher's original pink decorated card wraps. 29pp. Some minor creasing and scuffing to the edges and extremities a touch of sunning around the spine area; internally clean. A very good copy. A short piece originally published as a short form story entitled "Girl Gangs Take Over The World." Published immediately prior to "Blood and Guts in High School" often cited as Acker's breakthrough publication "Algeria" is an intense introduction to Acker's speeding lush weird writing style where every event is bitter ammunition for an assault on comfort complacency and the things we hold taboo. Aloes Books unknown books
1948ref. 27263Paris: Éditions surréalistes 1948. First edition. 13 p. 17 cm. Wrappers fine. One of 30 numbered copies on Marais paper. Fine. An anti-clerical tract signed in type by Adolphe Acker Sarane Alexandrian Maurice Baskine Jean-Louis Bédouin Hans Bellmer Jean Bergstrasser Roger Bergstrasser Maurice Blanchard Joë Bousquet Francis Bouvet Victor Brauner André Breton Jean Brun Pierre Cuvillier Pierre Demarne Charles Duits Jean Ferry André Frédérique Guy Gillequin Arthur Harfaux Jindrich Heisler Georges Henein Maurice Henry Jacques Hérold Véra Hérold Marcel Jean Alain Jouffroy Nadine Kraïnik Jerzy Kujawski Pierre Lé Stan Lélio Pierre Mabille Jehan Mayoux Francis Meunier Nora Mitrani Henri Parisot Henri Pastoureau Benjamin Péret Gaston Puel Louis Quesnel Jean-Dominique Rey Claude Richard Jean Schuster Iaroslav Serpan Seigle Hansrudy Stauffacher Claude Tarnaud Toyen Clovis Trouille Robert Valançay Jean Vidal Patrick Waldberg. Éditions surréalistes unknown books
1996ref. 0297521996. A promotional poster for the annual Toronto literary festival which each year since 1980 has brought together some of the best writers of contemporary world literature. This poster is one of only a handful of copies signed by all or most of the year's participants approximately 70 signatures. Signed by: Nicholas Shakespeare William Gibson William Kotzwinkle Kathy Acker Sherman Alexie W.P. Kinsella Lynne Reid Banks Louis Begley Marie-Claire Blais Isabel Colegate William Gass Matt Cohen Maeve Binchy Hershel Parker Mavis Gallant Janette Turner Hospital Susan Sontag Tobias Wolff D.M. Thomas Kazuo Ishiguro Timothy Findley Lawrence Block Al Purdy Paul Quarrington Ruth Rendell Joan Mellon Nicholas Jose Oksana Zabuzhko Lorna Crozier and many others. From the collection of the promoter of the festival Greg Gatenby. Designed by Arnaldo Pomodoro. 17" x 24". Fine. No Binding. Fine. unknown books
