Willard Maas (27 results)

Hardcover. Condition: UsedGood. Hardcover; stated first printing; fading and shelf wear to exterior, with w rinkling to cloth at spine; light soiling and spotting to page edges; in go od condition with clean text, firm binding. Dust jacket shows scuffing, soi ling, and edge tears, with wrinkling at spine.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. VG+/G. Minor edge wear and rubbing to dust jacket. Book is in excellent condition with minimal wear. Interior is clean. No writing or markings of any kind. Ships securely in a box.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Missing. Alternate Edition. 748 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate wear. Clean text, no markings. Lightly worn along edges and surfaces.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Minor shelf wear to binding. Tanning on pastedowns & endpapers. Pages toned with age, otherwise Text is unmarked. DJ shelf worn with scuffs, creases, light soiling, toning & small tears in a mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by the Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1965. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with light shelf wear and previous owner writing on front endpapers. Dust jacket is very good with light shelf wear. and small tears to edges.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 1225pp. Slightly cocked with a bowed front board and slight spotting else very good, lacking the dust jacket.

hardcover. Condition: good. Tanning to pages. Some scratches and smudges to cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition (colophon on copyright page) hardcover without DJ in VG condition: slight handling, slight fraying at the top of the spine. 70 pages, a little age-yellowed. [8oz]. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. 1225 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. This Has Two General Aims; To Provide Materials For The Teaching Of Discursive Writing, And At The Same Time To Give The Student A Fairly Broad And Various Acquaintenance With His Cultural Heritage.…

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. No. 3. Near fine in wrappers.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Vol. XXIII, No. 3, Autumn 1934. 165-213pp. Wrappers. Front wrapper detached but present, edgewear, and toning, good only. Contains the first appearance of three poems by Wallace Stevens "Gallant Chateau," "Gray Stones and Gray Pigeons," and "Polo Ponies Practicing." (Edelstein C92). Also prints contributions by William Carlos Williams, George Oppen, Parker Tyler, H. R. Hays, Arthur Machen and others. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Clean grey boards with gilt print on cover and along spine. Extremities are lightly rubbed. Some soiling to page edges. Binding is tight. Interior is clean and clear. Dust-jacket is in decent shape, price sticker at bottom of spine, faded, scuffed and lightly worn and chipped along extremities.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Printing. A Fine copy in black cloth, in a Fine jacket, not price-clipped, with tiny nicks to spine points. Text clean and unmarked. 70pp. Maas's second collection of verse. Q12928.

Hardcover. Alternate Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Few open tears along front/rear panel edges. Van Ghent, Dorothy & Willard Maas - Plato, Homer, Maxim Gorky, D. H. Lawrence, Stendhal, Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Kafka, Et Al.

Hardcover. Alternate Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Few open tears along front/rear panel edges. Van Ghent, Dorothy & Willard Maas - Plato, Homer, Maxim Gorky, D. H. Lawrence, Stendhal, Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Kafka, Et Al.

Hardcover. Alternate Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Open tear to jacket crown at front panel with creasing. Rubbing to edges of boards.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

[2] pp.; 6.7 x 10.6 cm.; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; Double-sided mini-announcement for film screenings held at The Living Theatre, New York City, April 27, [1957]. Includes films by Stan Brakhage, Willard Maas, Marie Menken, Charles Boultenhouse, and Ben Moore. "Discriminating film audiences welcome with excitement the announcement that The Living Theatre will present six new films by The Gryphon Film Group, America's leading expirimental film-makers, who have won world reputations for their films, many becoming avant-garde classics. The Films to be previewed are Wedlock: An Intercourse and Window Water Baby Moving, two films on marital experiences (Love-making and the birth of a child) by Stan Brackhage; Hand-written, 'a color film in black; a young man discovers in his hands the instruments of poetry" and Henry James Memories of Old New York, a color evocation of New York through old prints of the nineties, by Charles Boultenhouse (music by Teiji Ito) Dwightiana, an amusing animated tour de force in color (jazz score), and Zenscapes, (meditations on Japanese gardens (music by Lucia Dlugoszewski), by Marie Menken. Also Gryphon classics: Geography (commentary by Goerge Barker), Desist Film (a beat party) and Mechanics of Love, Brussels Fair favorite burned by Customs on re-entering the United States." --text from flyer Very Good. Slight bumping of corners. Clean and unmarked. …

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First separate edition. Octavo. [28]pp. Stapled wrappers tanned with a bit of soil, very good or better. First separate edition of the text of a symposium held in 1953 and published in *Film Culture* in 1963.

Revue internationale de littérature contemporaine. Rome, directeur: Giorgio Bassani. Un volume 14,3x23,2cm broché, de 496 pages. Bon état. Les textes sont publiés dans leur langue d'origine. Fondée en 1948 par Marguerite Caetani, princesse de Bassiano, également mécène de la revue Commerce de 1924 à 1932, dont le palais se trouvait à Rome via delle Botteghe oscure. Excellente revue internationale dont tous les textes sont inédits. Les meilleurs écrivains, notamment les poètes, du monde entier y auront publié au cours des 25 livraisons semestrielles éditées jusqu?en 1960. Livres.…

dj. First Edition. First printing of 1000 signed copies. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 70pp. Gentle toning to text; a bit of paste offsetting to endpapers , still a tight, Near Fine copy in the original dustwrapper, unclipped, a shade sunned on spine panel, Near Fine. Second published collection by the poet, experimental filmmaker, and tangential Warhol Factory figure, Willard Maas (1906-1971). Maas and his partner/collaborator Marie Menken produced, among many other projects, two biographical short films about Andy Warhol (Andy Warhol's Silver Flotations, 1966; and Andy Warhol, 1965). Maas and Menken have been described as ".a legendary couple in the New York art world, not only for their influential underground films, but also for their lavish parties and salons, which brought together artists, writers, filmmakers and intellectuals. According to Warhol, "Willard and Marie were the last of the great bohemians. They wrote and filmed and drank (their friends called them 'scholarly drunks') and were involved with all the modern poets" (see Electronic Arts Intermix, "Visions of Warhol" online resource). Signed.…

Paperback. Condition: Very good. Paperback. IX of 20 copies [of 165 total] printed on Duca Di Modena for presentation. Prelims foxed, ink name on front free endpaper, else a very good example in the original glassine jacket [tanned as usual].

8vo. Original printed wrappers; glassine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, an unnumbered copy from the edition of 165 signed by Maas. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED in pencil on the front free endpaper to the playwright and poet Jane Dransfield: "To Jane Dransfield / belatedly but no less affectionately / Willard Maas.". Glassine chipped at corners, toned.…

First Edition, 1935. Limited Edition. 1/20 copies (of a total of 165cc) printed on Duca de Modena, an Italian handmade paper, for presentation, Numbered and SIGNED by Maas on the colophon page (#XVI). Bound in frenchfold wrappers with covering gl assine. This copy additionally INSCRIBED by Maas on the half-title leaf "For Buzzy--/Through/the years--/Willard". In addition, there are ten pages of original typescript on onionskin stock, with Maas's name and address, on the upper right corner. None of the poems typed is reproduced in this collection. Book is Fine--glassine browned and fragmenting from oxidation. An interesting copy--the typescript poems may correspond to versions published elsewhere--we have not checked.…

[12] pp.; 22.8 x 15.2 cm.; staple bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; Program for three plays produced during the 1959-60 season at the Living Theatre. "The Theatre of Chance I : The Marrying Maiden," by Jackson MacLow, directed by Judith Malina, designed by Julian Beck, lighting by Nikola Cernovich, and music by John Cage with the assistance of Richard Maxfield ; "The Theatre of Chance II : Women of Trachis," by Sophocles, a version by Ezra Pound, directed and designed by Julian Beck, music by Lucia Dlugoszewski, lighting by Nikola Cernovich, film by Willard Maas and Marie Menken and "The Connection," by Jack Gelber, directed by Judith Malina, designed by Julian Beck, lighting by Nikola Cernovich, and music by Freddie Redd. Program also includes the essay "The Theatre of Chance by Judith Malina and "A History of the Living Theatre." Good / Very Good. Light wear to cover edges and light yellowing of pages, otherwise clean and unmarked. …

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. [New York]: The Living Theatre, [1962]. Broadside flyer (28x21.5cm). Pink paper printed offset with black block text. Near Fine. A scarce piece of Living Theatre ephemera advertisinga reading of works by an impressive line-up of Wagner College poets, including early appearances by Frank Lima, Gerard Malanga, and Joseph Ceravolo. The event was moderated by filmmaker Willard Maas. As of July 2026, we locate only one separately cataloged copy at Brown University.…

[1] pp.; 21.3 x 30 cm.; color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Single sided flyer, mini-poster promoting showings of "Geography of the Body," "Desist Film," "Mechanics of Love," and "Noguchi" at The Living Room Theatre. America's leading experimental film-makers personally introducing their own works including Willard Maas, Stan Brakhage, Marie Menken, Charles Boultenhouse, and Ben Moore. Good. Folded once in half, light handling marks, mild soiling to the right edge of recto.…

Original Poster for a night of Avant-Garde Films hosted by the Gryphon Film Group at the Living Theatre on April 27, 1959. Filmmakers were present to introduce their works, including Stan Brakhage with his landmark short "Desistfilm" (1954). The Gryphon Film Group was founded by Marie Menken and her husband Willard Maas in the mid-1950s with the help of Charles Boultenhouse and Gregory Markopoulos. It was one of the earliest attempts, with Amos and Marcia Vogel's Cinema 16, at setting up a experimental film society in the United States. The group's primary interest was furthering the poetic and lyrical qualities of film, often focusing on the perception of corporeality, which is reflected in the film's presented, both of the human form, in "Geography of the Body" (Maas, 1943), and sculpted object, "Visual Variations on Noguchi" (Menken, 1945). Poster 8.5 x 12 inches. Near Fine.…