joe brainard illus (4 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. First edition, wrappered issue, one of 750 thus. 66pp; illus. 4to. Glued in wraps. Moderate edge wear and light sunning to wraps; half-inch closed tear to head of rear cover. About very good. Signed, dated, and inscribed in year of publication by Elmslie to front flyleaf: "For Gerrit - "Insignias appeared." Love, Kenward June 14, 1968." Presentation copy of this early book of poems by American poet, librettist, and publisher Kenward Elmslie (1929-2022), as inscribed by him to fellow poet Gerrit Lansing. Illustrated with 31 black-and-white line drawings by Elmslie's partner, writer and artist Joe Brainard (1942-1994). Inscribed by Author(s).

Zustand: Very Good +. New York: C Press, [1967]. First Edition. Signed by Elmslie at title page dated 1967 with brief inscription to previous owner. Quarto; unpaginated, printed recto only. Black and white illustrations by Brainard. Stapled wraps. Mild toning and rubbing to edges; binding sound; pages unmarked; Very Good or better.

Zustand: Very Good+. [New York]: [Adventures in Poetry], [1974]. First Edition, Limited to an unspecified number of signed copies (presumably 26), of which this is no. 25. Quarto (28cm); publisher's white staple bound card wrappers; [26]pp.; illus. throughout. Light dust-soil to wrappers, else Very Good to Near Fine. Signed by the author and illustrator on colophon in rear. Imprint information provided by Fischer. Fischer 46.

First edition, signed limited issue, number 23 of 250 hardcover copies signed and numbered by Ashbery and Brainard, who in this work exemplify "the possible interplay between verbal and visual art. Brainard finds perfect complementary images to reveal further delicate facts and observations throughout" (Diggory). Joe Brainard's "drawing style was virtuosic, equal to all moods and genres, from the important 'suites' of high-contrast black ink drawings, like those in his collaboration with John Ashbery, The Vermont Notebook" (Kernan, p. 54). There were also issued an additional 26 signed and lettered copies with an original ink drawing by the artist. The trade edition was published in wrappers. Terence Diggory, Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets, 2015; Nathan Kernan, "Joe Brainard: The Madonna of the Future", Joe Brainard's Art, 2019. Octavo. Title page printed in green and red. With 47 full-page monochrome illustrations by Joe Brainard, and a half-tone from a photograph of the authors. Original green quarter cloth, white paper boards, paper spine label, front cover lettered in brown and red with a black illustration by Joe Brainard, red endpapers. Binding square and firm, spine lightly sunned, foxing at head of front cover and edges, contents clean and crisp. A very good copy indeed.