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  • Discrete Series.
    OPPEN, George.
    $20.00
    Cleveland: Mother/Asphodel (1966). First printing of this reissue (originally published in 1934). [38 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers with integral dust jacket. Cover art by Magdalene Arndt Sinclair. Oppen's first book.
  • Notes Toward the Definition of David.
    OPPENHEIMER, Joel.
    $75.00
    Minor Confluence: Perishable Press, 1984. First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in wrappers. Illustration by Pati Scobey. One of 210 copies on Bodleian paper SIGNED by Oppenheimer. Three poems.
  • Estremamente Variabile.
    ORI, Luciano.
    $450.00
    Firenze: Téchne (1970). First edition. [128 pp]. Bumps to lower corners, else near fine in illustrated wrappers with original wrap-around band (two short tears). The self-proclaimed “first visual novel in the history of Italian and European Literature.”
  • Sleeping on Doors.
    ORLEN, Steven.
    $75.00
    Lisbon: Penumbra Press, 1975. First edition. 25 pp. Fine in full cloth-covered boards with printed paper label. One of 200 press-numbered copies on Nideggen SIGNED by Orlen. Original prospectus accompanies.
  • Like a Tree.
    ORVINO, Jennie.
    $35.00
    Milwaukee: Gunrunner Press (nd). First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in oblong stapled wrappers. Cover design by Jim Forest. One of 250 copies.
  • Damn You, England: Collected Prose.
    OSBORNE, John.
    $55.00
    London & NY: Faber & Faber (1994). First edition. 264 pp. Pages lightly toned (cheap paper) else very near fine in near fine dust jacket. Dated (18.4.94) and SIGNED by Osborne. Book reviews, profiles, and letters by the playwright.
  • The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Jim and Ron.
    PADGETT, Ron and Jim Dine.
    $45.00
    NY: Cape Goliard Press/Grossman 1970. First US trade edition. 4to. [120 pp]. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with a few light wrinkles to front cover. Poems by Padgett profusely illustrated by Dine, who also designed this volume.
  • White Dove Review 5 aka Vol. 2, No. 5.
    PADGETT, Ron with Joe Brainard and Berry Kennedy. eds.
    $500.00
    Tulsa: White Dove Press, 1960. Summer. [22 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Cover art by Brainard, who also contributes three drawings and the design of an advertisement. Work also by Berrigan, Jack Anderson, David Omer Bearden, Richard Dokey, Richard Gallup, Carl Larsen, C. Cleburne Culin, LeRoi Jones, Dan Teis, Gilbert Sorrentino, Martin Edward Cochran, Robert Creeley, and Padgett.
  • My Father’s Glory and My Mother’s Castle: Memories of Childhood.
    PAGNOL, Marcel.
    $150.00
    San Francisco: North Point, 1986. First edition. 341 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Rita Barisse. Foreword by Alice Waters. Published to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of Chez Panissse.
  • Dans le Cadre de la Retrospective Nam June Paik.
    PAIK, Nam June and Charlotte Moorman.
    $20.00
    Paris: Centre Culturel Americain, 1979. First edition. 4 x 8 inch card, printed in green on white stock. Fine. Announcement for exhibition, screenings, and performances by Moorman and Paik (TV Cello and TV Bra).
  • Gondola Happening.
    PAIK, Nam June and Charlotte Moorman.
    $150.00
    [1966]. 8 1/2 x 11 inch flyer. Very near fine. A happening at the Ponte di Rialso for the opening night of the 33rd Venice Bienale on 18 June. Printed quotation attributed to John Cage via Heinz-Klaus Metzter, “Venice is the most progressive city in the world, since it has already abolished the automobile.”
  • Global Groove.
    PAIK, Nam June and John Godfrey.
    $125.00
    NY: WNET 1974. First edition. 18 3/4 x 13 inch poster. Folded twice for mailing, but not mailed. Fine. Poster photograph by Peter Moore, design by Jim McWilliams. Merrily Mossman directed this performance. Allen Ginsberg, Charlotte Moorman, Jud Yalkut, and John Cage are among the listed participants.
  • Cineprobe: An Evening with Jud Yalkut and Nam June Paik.
    PAIK, Nam June and Jud Yalkut.
    $40.00
    NY: Museum of Modern Art Department of Film, 1972. April 18. Two 11 x 8 1/2 inch sheets, stapled upper left. Fine. Statement of objectives, program, and notes on and by the filmmakers. The recto of the second leaf is printed on the illustrated flyer for the event, as issued.
  • New Cinema Festival I.
    PAIK, Nam June with Charlotte Moorman and Takehisa Kosugi.
    $75.00
    NY: Film-maker’s Cinematheque, 1965. 11 x 8 1/2 inch flyer, printed in black on grey paper. Fine. Program for this performance featuring performance by Moorman and Kosugi, and video tape.
  • But Then I Thought: Actually, “Zen” is Boring Too.
    PAIK, Nam June.
    $20.00
    Paris: Musee D’Art Moderne [1972]. First edition. 4 3/4 x 6 inch illustrated card. Fine. Video image of Paik on the recto with the title text. Concert information on the reverse.
  • Electronic Opera no. 2.
    PAIK, Nam June.
    $35.00
    Boston: WGBH TV [1972]. First edition. Single long sheet folded three times horizontally (4 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, closed). Fine. Paik was one of number of artists commissioned to create works employing the rep of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
  • Electronic Video Recorder.
    PAIK, Nam June.
    $100.00
    [NY]: Cafe Au Go Go, 1965. First edition. 11 x 8 1/2 inch flyer. Very near fine. Paik’s breakthrough event during which he played his ‘Pope’ tape on a borrowed portable video recorder. In addition to details on the time and place of the performance, Paik recounts the development of his idea to combining television and video tape. “As collage technic replaced oil-paint, the cathode ray tube will replace the canvass.”
  • New School Presents Nam June Paik.
    PAIK, Nam June.
    $125.00
    NY: New School, 1965. First edition. 16 1/4 x 7 3/4 inch poster, printed on both sides. Very near fine. Performers include Charlotte Moorman, Philip Corner, Dick Higgins, Peter Moore, and others. On the verso is Paik’s essay, “Electronic TV & Color TV Experiment.”
  • The Color of Time: Video Sculpture by Nam June Paik.
    PAIK, Nam June.
    $45.00
    Waltham: Rose Art Museum/Brandeis University, 1984. First edition. Three items: a one-sided 7 1/2 x 11 1/4 inch card with exhibition details, a tri-fold program for the work (7 1/2 x 11 1/2, closed) both of which feature artwork by Paik on the front panel, and the ‘84/’85 issue of keeping current, again with details of the event. All items fine. The latter two items reprint photographs of Charlotte Moorman, who performed two Paik compositions at the opening reception. The second item reproduces a Peter Moore photograph of “Rectangular Fish (detail)”. For the three items:
  • WNET/THIRTEEN “Good Morning, Mr. Orwell” press release.
    PAIK, Nam June.
    $50.00
    NY: WNET/THIRTEEN (1983). First edition. Three 11 x 8 1/2 inch sheets, stapled upper left. Fine. Thorough description of this international event hosted by George Plimpton, featuring a statement on Orwell’s vision by Paik. Scheduled performers include Laurie Anderson, Peter Gabriel, Cunningham and Cage, Ginsberg and Orlovsky, Charlotte Moorman, Joseph Beuys, Ben Vauthier, Salvador Dali, Karleinz Stockhausen, and others.
  • World First Video-Tape Monthly Magazine.
    PAIK, Nam June.
    $125.00
    (np): (np) 1967. 11 x 8 1/2 inch flyer. Fine. Paik’s proposal for this broadcasting sea change. “Someday London Times will become ‘VIDEO-TAPE’.”
  • Come & Go & Return & Scandinavian Avant Garde.
    PAIK, Nam June. et al.
    $75.00
    NY: The Black Gate [1967]. First edition. Two 11 x 8 1/2 inch flyers (both fine) for this event held at the Black Gate 22-24 June. The first part of the concert featured Takehisa Kosugi, Charlotte Moorman, Paik, and Jud Yalkut; the second Lars-Gunnar Bodin, Gunnar Johnson, and Ralph Lundsten. On the second flyer, the dated of 22 June has been added in pen. For the pair:
  • Come & Go & Return & Scandinavian Avant Garde.
    PAIK, Nam June. et al.
    $45.00
    NY: The Black Gate [1967]. First edition. 8 1/2 x 11 inch flyer for this event held at the Black Gate 22-24 June. Fine. Kosugi, Moorman, Paik, and Yalkut listed to perform.
  • Continuous Performances of New Music.
    PAIK, Nam June. et al.
    $75.00
    NY: Kenneth Werner, 1967. Three 11 x 8 1/2 inch sheets, stapled upper left. Light toning along one edge, else near fine. Program for this seven hour event. Listed performers include Corner, Friedman, Higgins, Knowles, Mac Low, Moorman, Neuhaus, Paik, and many others performing works by Cage, Wolff, Krumm, Mumma, Werner, Higgins, Brown, Lucifer, Schmit, MacLow, Bussotti, Goldstein-Marcy, Sheff, MacDonald, Corner, Feldman, Knowles, Zajda, Ashley, Czajkowski & Friedman, Christiansen, Stockhausen, Paik, and Iimura.
  • The Circular Gates.
    PALMER, Michael.
    $100.00
    Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1974. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 134 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards and cloth spine with printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 175 numbered copies SIGNED by Palmer. Morrow & Cooney 191b.
  • Primera Canción del Exilado / The Exile's First Song.
    PARAEJA, Miguel Donoso.
    $20.00
    Mexico City: El Corno Emplumado, 1966. First edition. 65 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Illustrated with drawings by Pedro Alcántara. Original Spanish text with an English translation by Elinor Randall. Colección acuario, vol. IIX.
  • Midnight on the Diamond Air: Poems.
    PARFITT, Will.
    $25.00
    Cardiff: Seond Aeon (1970). First edition. [12 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. “A first collection of experimental poetry.” The seventh Second Aeon chapbook.
  • Interiors and Places.
    PARK, David with Richard Diebenkorn and Elmer Bischoff.
    $45.00
    San Francisco: Hackett Mill (2015). First edition. Oblong 8vo. [40 pp]. Fine in full cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front panel. Foreword by Francis Mill. Essay by John Seed. Fourteen color reproductions. Original exhibition announcement accompanies.
  • Llama’s Allmanac.
    PARKER, Linda. ed.
    $40.00
    Gloucester: Llama’s Almanac (1972). 4to. 105 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. First and only issue of this periodical. Irby, Enslin, Lansing, Robert Kelly, Hough, Charles Stein, Harvey Bialy, and many others contribute.
  • Bitter Music: Collected Journals, Essays, Introductions, and Librettos.
    PARTCH, Harry.
    $75.00
    Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press (1991). First edition. xxx + 487 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Thomas McGeary with his introduction. Features the text of a journal kept by Partch while he wadered the West Coast of the US as a transient, thought by Partch himself, to have been lost.
  • El Ángel Desterrado.
    PASAMANIK, Luisa.
    $45.00
    Buenos Aires: Editorial La Mandrágora (1962). First edition. 44 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Carlos Alonso. Dated (1969) and INSCRIBED by Pasamanik, “To the editor / Marvin Malone / wishing to know your magazine / ‘The Wormwood Review,’ / with friendship / Luisa Pasamanik” with the additional of a mailing address in Argentina.
  • The Exiled Angel.
    PASAMANIK, Luisa.
    $35.00
    Los Angeles & Fairfax: Red Hill Press, 1973. First edition. Narrow 4to. [20 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers with Press address correction stamp. A long poem, translated by Jack Hirschman with his introductory note. Dated (Dec. 3, 2006) and INSCRIBED by Hirschman inside the front cover.