Freilicher Melvyn (20 results)

paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Book shows heavy wear all around, cover and book edges are worn.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Softcover 1987 edition. Covers and text in very good condition. Binding firm. Pages unmarked and clean. {86 pages}.

Paperback. Condition: In quite good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11in], paperbound with pictorial covers.

36pp, (8.5 x 11 inches), b&w drawings. Good in orange lightweight wrappers (soft cover). Covers very lightly worn with a few tiny spots. Spine is sunned (faded). Corners lightly bumped, some lower page corners are dog-earred. Otherwise clean and tight, no tears or creases. There are markings throughout, comments, proofreading corrections, etc. But I believe that they are actually part of the booklet, which is a take-off on the sort of study guides prepared for college classes. Humor and satire, with a bite. Laid in is a single sheet with information about the first issue of "Crawl Out Your Window." With a note in green ink, noting that the address given for the periodical is also Freilicher's address. Signed simply (freilicher). Ephemera.

Condition: Good. November 1975. 4to. [38] pp., illus. We don't know what this is. It appears to be Dada-esque jottings of a man with a vivid imagination and an axe to grind. This would make a great gift for people with a taste for the oddball. Very good in stapled wraps, with "Hi Paul!" written in ink on cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine. 4to, 10pp, corner-stapled. Scarce poetry magazine from 1972 Los Angeles, includes three pages of work by John Wieners (reprinted from his Selected Poems). Unmarked copy with light wear, has not been folded for mailing or addressed. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine. 4to, 102pp, printed wrappers. Nice copy of the rare eighth issue of this important San Diego journal of experimental writing. Issue includes 8 pages of writing by Kathy Acker, and also features work by other experimentalists. Unmarked copy from the collection of Robert Duncan. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 4to, 176pp, printed wrappers. Nice copy of this rare late double issue of this important San Diego journal of experimental writing. Issue includes 13 pages of writing by Kathy Acker, and also features work by other experimentalists. Unmarked copy, a few minor indentations to cover. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to. Wrappers. 126pp. Cover by R.A. Robboy. The final number of this journal of experimental literature, all of whose contributors were current or former residents of San Diego. This issue of highlights includes Kathy Acker, Lydia Davis, Rae Armantrout, and Michael Davidson. Soiling to one page (without much impact) otherwise light wear only, the lower wrapper moderately marked.

Softcover poetry journal, 100 pages; good condition; foxing to covers and title page; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

17 pp. & 39 pp.; 20.5 x 26.5 cm.; staple bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; Double / "flip" issue of the socio-political publication, The Flue, published by avant-garde arts organization Franklin Furnace. Publication reads on one side as "Sex, Performance and the 80's" and on the other side as " L.A. London Catalog." Contents for "Sex." includes: "Quotable Sex Quotes;" "The History of Sex at Franklin Furnace," by Martha Wilson; "Interview with Carolee Schneemann," by Linda Montano; "Interview with Charles Ludlam," by Vanalyne Green; "Live Sex Acts," by Linda Burnham; "On and Behind the Screen: Notes in Progress on Visual Pleasure in Performance and Film by Micki McGee; "The Summer of the Boy: Issues in Performance," by Melvyn Freilicher; "All You Need is Junk," by Barbara Baracks; "Performances from Franklin Furnace 1981 - 1982," photos by Benita Abrams of "Charms" by Dentures Art Club (Stan Kaplan and Joan Giannecchini), "Doing the Dishes," by Susan Mogul, "Life on the Farm," by George Sand; "Artist's Page," by Richard Zigun; "Artist's Page," by Cecilia Vicuña; "Artist's Page," by Sandy De Sando; "Book Reviews;" "Fuel," by Barbara Quinn; "Editorials;" and "More Quotable Sex Quotes." Cover photo by Vanalyne Green. "L.A. London" contents include: "Introduction," by Martha Wilson; "Artists' Pages," by Rose Finn-Kelcey, Feminist Art Workers, Rose English, Linda Montano, Tina Keane, Tam Giles, Linda Nishio, Hannah O'Shea, Nina Sobel, Sally Potter, Cheri Gaulke, Carlyle Reedy, and Sonia Knox; "Interview with Susan Hiller and Suzanne Lacy," by Tony Whitfield and Lisa Liebmann "Special Artist's Page" by Leslie Labowitz and Aria Natale Starus, born Sunday, May 23, 1982. Reference : No. 334 in "The Book on Books on Artists' Books" by Arnaud Desjardin. London, England : The Everyday Press, 2011, pp. 181. Fine / Very Good. Dust soiling of verso with red scuffing from title ink. 4 mm. tear to top edge of verso. Contents clean and unmarked.

4to. 116pp. With illustrations. Orig. illustr. wrappers. Very good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Np, nd, 1974. Unpaginated octavo in stapled wraps. Series C, No. 1 in the 'American Revolutionary Political Pamhplets' series. Described by the author as a novel for Virginia Woolf, with woodcut illustrations throughout. Signed by the author own the front wrap, with letter from Winifred Schuchman laid in. Wraps ceased and torn, else VG. Signed by Author.

paperback. Condition: Good. softcover book in good shape , light wear to cover and book edges.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 4to, 100pp, printed wrappers. Nice copy of the rare seventh issue of this important San Diego journal of experimental writing. Issue includes "New York City in 1979" (14pp) by Kathy Acker, and also features work by other experimentalists. Unmarked copy, light wear and soil, spine a bit toned. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine. 4to, 92pp (plus plates), printed wrappers. Nice copy of the rare second issue of this important seventies journal of experimental writing. Issue leads with "The Rebel" (5pp) by Kathy Acker and also features work by other experimentalists. Unmarked copy, light wear. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine. 4to, 100pp (plus plates), printed wrappers. Nice copy of the rare third issue of this important seventies journal of experimental writing. Issue includes "For the Ladies Who Sing: Three Stories" (12pp) by Kathy Acker and also features work by other experimentalists. Unmarked copy, light wear. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine. 4to, 100pp, printed wrappers. Nice copy of the rare first issue of this important seventies journal of experimental writing, includes an early 10-page contribution from Kathy Acker ("The Black Tarantula"), plus work by other experimentalists. Publisher's circular for the first issue (mentioning Acker) laid in. Volume and issue number written on contents page, clean overall (circular has edge wear). Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Self published book by San Diego poet Melvyn Freilicher, presumably his first book, which comes with a typed note to fellow poet Armand Schwerner stating "Kathy Acker suggested I send you this book, I hope you like it." Acker was a link between NY and San Diego at the time. The book is signed by Freilicher in black pen as well. Aprox 40pg of poems and illustrations, possibly by Mel, possibly by cover artist Wilhelmina Korevaar. Bound in wraps with black binding tape. Binding solid, with one small corner of tape a bit peeled back but hardly. Bumped at the bottom right corner of the cover and the duration of the book, but most felt at the cover. Besides the signature, all contents inside clean and without damage. Glossy covers clean as well, with some scratching and soiling to the back cover especially at the upper corner there is a small coffee stain. Indented in the back cover, only seen under bright light, is the formner address of Armand Schwerner, possibly left after Freileicher wrote his address on the original package in which this was contained. Now in mylar. Alongside the note, an interesting document of a poet who alongside his own work was involved with many fascinating poets and artists of the time, and who went on to a long career as an educator and writer in San Diego. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 4to, 10pp (corner stapled), horizontal mailing fold. The rare first (of two) issues of the 1977 reboot of this experimental literary magazine. Includes writing by Hannah Weiner and the editors. This copy addressed to publisher Jack Shoemaker. Light outer wear and toning and some corner folds. Not Signed.