Paper Snake by Ray Johnson (10 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardback--1965 --book excellent--dust cover has slight edge wear.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. This is a fine hardcover copy with a very good dust jacket with repaired spine. Completely clean. Illustrated in color. This is the original edition, not the reprint. 9" high X 11" wide. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.…

First Edition. First edition and first printing. Oblong hardcover. Publisher Dick Higgins presents this early book on artist Ray Johnson. Includes a look at his personal collection of mail art that was sent to him by Johnson with numerous illustrations and texts. A near fine copy in illustrated boards and in a very good plus dust jacket with some small chips to the spine ends, a tear to the bottom of the front panel and some other minor wear. Still, a very pleasing copy.…

Couverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. 1ère édition, Couverture rigide, jaquette 22 x 27,5 cm.

Pictorial boards. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. A lovely copy of the February 1965 1st trade edition. Clean and Near Fine to Fine in a crisp, price-intact, Near Fine dustjacket, with 2 tiny, almost microscopic chips along the rear panel's edges. Oblong quarto, filled with Johnson's wild illustrations, correspondence art, doodles, poems, etc. Astute, pithy essay on Ray Johnson by William Wilson along the dustjacket flaps. Ray Johnson (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Cloth/dust jacket Small Quarto. illustrated cloth, dust jacket unclipped, unpaginated, first edition, Dadaist Marc Dachy's name in ink on title page, glassine put on dj Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.…

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Like New. First Edition. Publisher: Something Else Press, New York, Feb., 1965. FINE hardcover book in FINE mylar-protected dust-jacket. First Edition, First Printing. As new.

Boards. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. The February 1965 limited edition, purportedly of 197 copies. In its rich-blue, patterned boards, this is a distinctly different binding from the pictorial cloth of the trade edition. Furthermore, this copy includes an original piece of Ray Johnson art, a 7" strip of collage (with thin striped paper running vertically against a deep blue), contained within an envelope fastened to the front pastedown. The book itself --an oblong quarto-- is clean and very presentable as well. Tight and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact, VG+ dustjacket, with light chipping --and just a touch of very lght creasing-- along the panel edges. Ray Johnson (illustrator).…

First Edition. First printing. Oblong quarto (22cm x 28cm). Color pictorial cloth-covered boards; dustjacket; unpaginated [50pp]. Tight, straight, and unmarked - a Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.47 on front flap), clean and crisp but for a brief closed tear (1") to bottom edge of rear panel, accompanied by a tiny triangular loss (ca. 1/8"); still Near Fine. The first commercially-published volume devoted to Johnson's work, comprised of texts, graphics, mail art and assorted Pop and Fluxus-inspired work by the noted avant-garde figure once described as "New York's most famous unknown artist." In a 1968 interview, Johnson described the book as, ".all my writings, rubbings, plays, things that I had given to the publisher, Dick Higgins, editor and publisher [of Something Else Press]." A quintessential artist's book of the Sixties, very nicely preserved.…

First edition, first printing, one of 1,840 copies only. This compendium of mail art by "New York's most famous unknown artist" (New York Times) was assembled by Dick Higgins, the founder of Something Else Press and Johnson's close friend, from his personal collection. The Paper Snake publishes all Johnson's "writings, rubbings, plays, things that I had mailed to [Higgins] or brought to him in cardboard boxes or shoved under his door, or left in his sink, or whatever, over a period of years" (Ray Johnson estate, online). Grace Glueck, "What Happened? Nothing", New York Times, 11 April 1965. Oblong quarto. Text and illustrations throughout printed in black, blue, brown, and red. Original pictorial cloth, spine lettered in black on red ground, front cover lettered in red on white ground. With dust jacket. Covers faintly toned, front endpapers sunned at edges; price on unclipped jacket changed in pencil, a little toned with a few nicks, short closed tear at head of front panel: a near-fine copy in like jacket.…