Bernard Bador (12 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Translated from the French by the author with Clayton Eshleman. Slight shelf wear.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Minor wear & toning to wraps. Light wear and soiling to edges of text block. Text is unmarked.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Paperback Edition. Signed and warmly inscribed at length to Venice West poet writer John Thomas. In pictorial wraps, 8vo, 130pp. (creasing and bumping to upper cover corner, first 23 pages dogeared. Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall. Signed & Inscribed By Author. Book.…

paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1986; San Francisco; off-white illustrated glossy paper covers with black titles; covers contain rubbing and shelf wear; Interior is clean and unmarked; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; 130 pages.

Soft Cover. Condition: New. First Edition. Softcover original 1995 1st Printing of this paperback original with date to title page, no remainder or other markings, a pristine new copy of the uncommon first printing; 8vo; 342pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Atop title page: Author's Copy in Eshleman's hand with a few notes in the text; A very good paperback copy; 342 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 6 inches x 9 in., 130 pp., including colophon. Poems in French with facing English translations. Glossy, color printed paper card covers with design by Laurie Haycock, using a collage created by Bernard Bador. This copy has a long, initialled, inscription in ink on the half-title-page: [-] this [copy of] "Sea Urchin Harakiri" hoping he will not bump into my druidic & suicidal sea urchins in a local sushiya if not, will he accept to perform a lobectomy to save their race (for the sake of French and Japanese gourmets!) in stopping this morbid ritualistic urge? With the compliments of a rubberized poet trying with the help of his cousin, to avoid the attacks of hordes of tire busters. B. Los Angeles [19]86. The initialled, 1986, typed letter with some notes by Bador, added in red or violet inks, concerns the subjects of his inscription and lobectomy: [-]Just a short note to authentify this ink tracing closer to an incision of a laser scalpel on the paper reflection of the mind than to a sensible representation of my patronym. My only consummate interest in lobectomies derives from my suspicion that contemporary surgeons erroneously assert that our mind resides in the brain just like some of our ancestors did believe that the intestines were the holy shelter of our soul! New discoveries may prove the mistreated toes the ultimate seat of intelligence! [-] Yours surrealistically B. Inscribed by Author(s). …

Condition: Collectible; Very Good. [WITH ORIGINAL COLLAGE] Los Angeles: Panjundrum Books, Inc. 1986. Hardcover in hand-screened and applied pictorial cloth boards. 1st Edition / 1st printing. 9x6 in., 130 pages. One of 25 special hardcover copies (of a total 1st edition printing of 1000) with an original, tipped-in collage fronts and signed colophon by Bador, Clayton Eshleman, and Robert Kelly. Poems in French with facing English translations. Collage on stiff sheet has become loose and caused light foxing to title page, covers a bit soiled, else very good overall condition; no owner marking, NOT EX-LIBRARY. (fpbw).…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Hardcover without Dust Jacket as issued. First Printing. SIGNED and NUMBERED EDITION OF 25 COPIES. This is copy #6. Includes an original collage on stiff paper by the author, originally tipped in, now loose and laid in. Bound in maroon cloth boards with hand screened limitation information and applied full color illustration. With title information to spine in gold. 130 pages. With original French and English translation on facing pages. AS NEW. Not read. All corners pointed. Binding tight and square. Without tears, creases, bumps or chips. Not marked and very clean and bright. All items carefully wrapped and sent boxed. Signed by Author(s).…

No Binding. Condition: Fine. #16 of 150 printed copies. Printed on textured yellow paper, measuring 16" x 24". SIGNED by co-translator, the poet Clayon Eshleman, and artist Nancy Spero. In excellent condition with no traces of wear; ships in a poster tube. Signed by Author and Artist.