Ashbery John Text (7 results)

Condition: Good. 4to. Unpaged. Glossy Softcover. Good, slight fraying on cover spine, slight sunning and aging throughout, slight creasing and marking on covers. B&W prints throughout.From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz (1919-2019). Well-illustrated (illustrator).

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Exibition announcement. Single sheet of glossy stock folded to make a large square card of two leaves. Cover illustration in color, two-paragraph statement of more than two hundred words by John Ashbery about the artist on the left-hand inside page, schedule on the right-hand inside page, rear cover blank. Elusive Ashbery item. As his is the only authorial text, in a bibliography this would be considered an "A" item. Short tear at right-hand edge of both leaves. Unfortunately, since first listing this item it was jammed and now has a shallow S or low wave shape and a crease across the lower part, so it is now primarily of documentary value for the Ashbery text. It is recuperating in a stiff plastic sleeve.…

Paperback. Condition: Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Fine in oversize pictorial printed wrappers. A trade-size paperback original. (8 1/2" X 10 1/2") 110pp. Illustrated. ; 8vo 8 1/2" - 10 1/2" tall ; 110 pages.

Condition: Good. 8vo. [30 pp]. Stiff printed wraps with French folds. Very good. Black and white plates. Grey endpapers. Includes preface by poet John Ashbery. Catalog created on occasion of exhibit "Lynn Davis" at the New York Edwynn Houk Gallery from November 11 through January 13, 2000.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition, trade issue. Introduction by John Ashbery. Slim oblong quarto. Fine in pictorial wrappers.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Oblong quarto, [14]pp., followed by a suite of sixteen leaves of plates. Fine copy in the publisher's printed wraps. Deluxe issue, copy M of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Winkfield on the limitation page, and with a bound-in collage by Winkfield (signed and titled on the verso). Scarce.…

First Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies specially bound and signed by the author and illustrator, this being copy 'M.' Octavo (23.75cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and patterned cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [6],7-101,[7]pp. With a full-page original ink illustration of flowers by Brainard tipped in following the copyright page (signed and dated "Brainard 74"). Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket, with shallow loss at the crown. Deluxe issue of Ashbery's 1975 experimental book-length poem, often overlooked in favor of his critically-acclaimed Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror published the same year. "In fact, The Vermont Notebook has often been elided entirely from the Ashbery canon: excluded from Ashbery's bibliography in some subsequent volumes, the poem failed to make an appearance in the poet's 1985 Selected Poems.An innovative hybrid of prose, verse, and line drawings provided by artist-poet Joe Brainard, The Vermont Notebook differs significantly from Ashbery's more classically Stevensian verse of the period. Formally, the poem is characterized by quasi-cinematic jump cuts, blatant appropriation of found material, and meaningful white space separating its mostly prose paragraphs. Beyond mere stylistic difference, this most essayistic of Ashbery's books reflects and refracts, with typically Ashberyian irony, a number of arguments about environmental and sexual politics regnant during the decade when it was written" (Schmidt, Christopher. "The Queer Nature of Waste in John Ashbery's The Vermont Notebook." Arizona Quarterly, Vol.68, No.3 (Autumn 2021), pp.71-72). Difficult to find for years, until it was published by Granary Books in 2001, and included in the Library of America's volume of Ashbery's work. Uncommon in the deluxe issue. Kermani A21.b; Morrow & Cooney 207c. …