Synaesthesia press (53 résultats)

Soft cover. Etat : New. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing. A Paperback Original. ADVANCE REVIEW COPY. New in wrappers, as issued.

First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 150 numbered copies.

Soft cover. Etat : As New. No Jacket. Fine in hand-tied wraps, as published. One of 300 copies, letterpress-printed and signed by the author. the synaesthesia press is proud to announce the publication of June 1, 2014 by Tosh Berman. It's a hand-made, limited-edition chapbook published in an edition of 300 copies in March 2015. I designed and letterpress printed June 1, 2014 on my Vandercook OS 219. The text was both hand-set type and printed from polymer plates. I bound the book by hand, too. Tosh signed the run. The book includes three tipped-in color illustrations. There are four variant covers (no specific limitation). I printed about the same number of each color: Steel Blue, Factory Green, Safety Orange, and Kraft Speckletone. -- Around March of 1967, my father received a large envelope that was addressed from London. What came out was a black and white photograph and a letter, addressed to Wallace. It was a very formal business letter and it came from Brian Epstein, who I knew at the time was the manager of The Beatles. Tosh's father is Wallace Berman, "an American experimental filmmaker, assemblage and collage artist and a crucial figure in the history of post-war California art." The letter was a formal request for Wallace to sign a release, allowing The Beatles to use his image on the cover of what would become arguably the greatest rock record of all time -- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Tosh continues: My first impression was an image of a funeral, with all the people at the ceremony facing the camera. The image was in black and white, and the picture had a flatness to it, like nothing stands out, except the whole picture itself. Thinking back on it now, it reminds me of a Kabuki stage.  Remember, it's the Spring of 1967 and only a handful of people had actually seen what would become the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. June 1, 2014 is a terrific vignette. If you're a Tosh fan or a Beatles fan or a fan of Wallace Berman, it's essential reading. A variation of June 1, 2014 later showed up in Tosh's book, Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World, which was published by City Lights Books in February 2019. It's really a terrific memoir, and if you're not an L.A. local, here's another place to grab a copy. Finally, June 1, 2014 first appeared as one of 365 posts Tosh shared on Facebook in 2014. That's where I first read it. Tosh completed one vignette every day that year, and he's now calling the collected writings the 2014 Series. As the title suggests, the vignette  was posted to Tosh's FaceBook feed on June 1, 2014, which was also the 47th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper's commercial release. Some copies remain for sale at the publication price of $24.95. You may request one of the four colors; if they're available, I'll be happy to accommodate. If you're a bookseller, inquire about discounts to the trade. Signed by Author(s).…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Limited Edition. Staple. Limited Edition signed by author on limitation page (Colophon of extra cover. ). Condition: Very good with light wear to covers and no marks to text. Poetry; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Broadside 13 x 4.5", black lettering on cream paper. Light creasing/faint spot, lacks corner and tip else very good condition. "synaesthesia press broadside number 4 set in Bembo Roman and printed by Jim Camp; this is a keepsake from the 2001 Arizona Book Fair". SIGNED BY THE POET JED ALLEN. SCARCE.…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Broadside 13 x 4.5", black lettering on cream paper. Light creasing else very good condition. synaesthesia press broadside number 4 set in Bembo Roman and printed by Jim Camp; this is a keepsake from the 2001 Arizona Book Fair". SIGNED BY THE POET JED ALLEN. SCARCE.

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. No Dustjacket. First Edition. ISBN 9789652505637. Trade Paperback. No statement of later printing on copyright page. Slight wear to corners and edges; otherwise tight, sound and unmarked in Very Good condition. No Signature.

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Inkstamps, 8.5 x 5.5", die-cut stapled wraps, unpaginated, spine a little sunned and wrinkley, but still a decent copy. LIMITED TO JUST 50 NUMBERED COPIES (this is #41), SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, JIM PRITCHARD, WHO DRAWS A SMILING SUN, CLOUDS, AND A BIRD ABOVE HIS SIGNATURE.

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Illus. cover and centerfold by Jack Micheline, 8.5 x 5.5", pict wraps by Jack Micheline, 22pp, minor extremity wear else a nice clean copy. LIMITED TO 150 NUMBERED COPIES (this is copy #31), SIGNED BY EACH OF THE AUTHORS AT THEIR OFFERINGS. Synaesthesia Chapbook Series No. Seven. Publisher's name spelled differently on title and colophon/back cover.…

Soft cover. Etat : As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. As new in hand-tied wraps. 10 pages. Silk screen and letterpress printed in an edition of 100 copies -- give or take. 10 pages. This is how the fourth installment of Volta came to be. I was working in Budapest when I came across a handful of notebooks. School notebooks. Maybe short hand practice books? It was on a studio set -- a school room set specifically -- and the studio produced pornographic movies. I got a kick out of that.  A notebook sat on each of the 20 or so desks in the "classroom". I love books and deconstructing books and putting them back together in different ways. (I blame this squarely on the shoulders of Joseph Cornell and his Manual of Marvels.)  I scanned all the desks looking for my favorite. One of them screamed Cy Twombly. Very loudly. Right in my ear. So I stole it. Took it? Appropriated it! Better to ask forgiveness than permission.right? When I got back to my studio, I pulled it apart and let it sit there a few weeks while I thought about what do to next. I love flea markets almost as much as books. Maybe more. One of my favorites is the Pasadena City College flea that happens on the first Sunday of the month. Except January, of course -- cause of The Rose Bowl Parade. (Speaking of which, I hate the Rose Bowl flea, so if you're looking to assassinate me, don't bother looking for me there.) I found two interesting printer's blocks at P.C.C.  The open hand of God? An instrument to measure and/or fix things? Who knows. But I knew they belonged in one of my books. I love Warhol almost as much as I love fleas and Twombly and taking books apart and putting them back together. Loving and appreciating Warhol as much as I do might be a trite-and-silly thing -- especially now -- but it's my thing. And I stand by it. So I grabbed two solid blocks, lots of random cans of (mostly) brightly-colored inks, the printer's blocks I found, and then I got busy. As I was working away, I fucked up the most important part of the book. So I slapped some white gesso over the whole page and wondered what next.for the next few weeks. I have piles of found photos from my Adventures in Flea Markets in my studio, and one of them screamed Why Not? Right in my ear. Very loudly. So loudly I had made a silk screen of The Photo That Screamed At Me, and that screen had been sitting in the corner of my studio ever since, ready to rumble. Why not? I love Wallace Berman's work more than everything I've mentioned here, and you've probably heard me say this more than once: Volta is a direct response to Semina. "Art is Love is God." -- Wallace Berman.…

First edition. 9 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 103 (of 200) numbered copies. Designed by Johnny Brewton, with his illustration. First separate appearance of this excerpt from BEAT HOTEL, with an introduction, slightly revised, that appeared previously in MEMOIRS OF A BASTARD ANGEL. synaesthesia press chapbook series number 9.…

First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 243 numbered copies. Poems by Denis Johnson, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Steve Fisher, and Charles Bukowski. Cover and four internal drawings by Bukowski.

Stapled Soft Cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Softcover chapbook with dust jacket. Folded & stapled. One-half inch tear to top edge of front panel of jacket. Else pristine, fine all around. No markings.

Pamphlet. Limited Edition. very good++ signed on the title page and also inscribed. limited edition no. 70 of 99 signed copies. contains three additional poems laid in.

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Pict string-tied wraps with keyhole die-cut cover, 9pp, string tie a little loose else a nice, clean copy. LIMITED TO 203 NUMBERED COPIES (100 OF WHICH ARE SIGNED, this is #88), SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, HAROLD NORSE, ON TITLE PAGE. Synaesthesia Press Chapbook #9.

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. 6.25 x 5", string-tied pict wraps, 20pp, very minor wear to spine ends else a nice, clean copy. LIMITED TO 99 NUMBERED COPIES (this is #7), SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, BARRY GIFFORD.

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Illus. by author, 8.5 x 5.5", pict sewn wraps in printed glassine dustjacket, decorative endpapers, 8pp. Comes with three printed illus. on stiff brown wraps: 4.75 x 5.25", geometric pattern and two 6.25 x 4", one a skull and the other an outdoor scene showing a group of people with one man kneeling before a king, all stored in a plain glassine envelope. Plymell was a contemporary of Kerouac, Corso, and Burroughs and roomed with Ginsberg and Cassady. Notably, he printed the first R. Crumb "Zap" comic. "'Journals From Lysidia'", Number 10 in the Synaesthesia Press chapbook series, was published July 1999 in an edition of 125 copies. 99 are numbered; 26 lettered copies were published for the patrons of the press and include additional illustrations. This is C". SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. SCARCE.…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Illus. cardstock, 6.5 x 5", folded once vertically, nice copy, SIGNED BY THE POET, MIKE LONEY. "[T]his is a keepsake from the 2001 Arizona Book Fair". SCARCE. "[S]tanding at the window / watching for the / tattooed ballerina who stole my heart".

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Illus., 8.5 x 5.5", unpaginated, bottom forecorner of front cover lightly creased else a very nice copy of this SCARCE chapbook. LIMITED TO 50 NUMBERED COPIES (this is #10), SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, TSAURAH LITZKY.

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Illus., 8.5 x 5.5", pict stapled wraps, a nice copy. LIMITED TO 50 NUMBERED COPIES (this is #49), SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, JOE MAYNARD.

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. 8.5 x 5.5", string-tied wraps with black paper dustjacket, 25pp, a nice copy. LIMITED TO 99 NUMBERED COPIES (this is #6), SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Foreword by Anselm Hollo. SCARCE, as are all of the Synaesthesia Press books.

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Poems are printed on two stiff brown wraps 10.25 x 5.25" in matching trifold folder and sleeve. Fine. "200 copies of Barry Gifford's Elegies were printed and assembledin the fall and early winter of 2004. All work completed by Jim CampThe first ten copies have been set aside for the patrons on the press. All copies have been signed by the author". THIS COPY IS 7/10 AND SIGNED BY BARRY GIFFORD INSIDE THE SLEEVE. SCARCE.…

Booklet. Etat : Fine. 125 copies of which this is no. 46. 25 p. 21 cm. White card covers in black paper jacket. Signed by author on title page. Note by Anselm Hollo. Afterward by Charles Plymell.

Wrappers. Etat : Fine. Limited Edition. Printed green wraps (soft-cover), saddle-stiched, bound back-to-back, (7.25 x 6.25 inches). Unpaginated; illustrated by Fritz Scholder. Signed Limited Edition #62/99 copies. Signed by both author and illustrator on colophon page. Letterpress printed and bound into wraps using Olive Larroque French handmade paper by Jim Camp at his synaesthesia press. Publisher's prospectus laid-in. A clean, bright copy. Fritz Scholder (illustrateur). Signed by Author(s).…

First edition, printer's proof. [28 pp]. Fine in printed boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 20 numbered copies designated "printer's proof" initialed by the publisher and dated (8/7/03) and SIGNED by Aossey.

Handsewn Wrapers. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket (As Issued). Limited/Numbered. One of 99 numbered editions signed by the author and the artist on the "Friends" side. Number 11 of 99. Includes the promotional literature. There is an publishers prospectus loosely laid in which tells about the excerpts from his books that are included in this publication. The book was inscribed to me when I hosted him in Austin, where he spent his early years of life. H wrote a short inscription about coming back to Austin and signed it. Scholder, Fritz (illustrateur). Signed & Numbered on the Dedic.…

Pamphlet. Etat : Fine. First Edition. A short story, printed letterpress with handset type; illustrated by Kathy Sheehan with linocuts. An edition of 50 copies; string tied in wrappers. A fine copy, marked "out of series" and "o/s.".

Soft cover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. Chap book in which Barry Gifford recalls a visit to see Willlam S. Burroughs at the Bunker. Hand-sewn wrappers with die-cut cover, pp. 4, illustrated by Billy Childish. One of 26 lettered copies from a total edition of 176. Signed by both the author and artist at the title-page and includes three additional woodcuts created for the book by Billy Childish - these are enclosed in an envelope laid in. All presented in a larger, illustrated manilla envelope which shows minor creasing, the book itself and prints are in immaculate, Very Fine condition. Signed by Author(s).…

Softcover/Paperback. Etat : Fine. First Edition. Fine unread condition limited edition softcover chapbook signed by author on title page. #7 of 203 numbered copies. Free of owner's marks with very tight binding. Has been stored in a bag. As such, shelfwear negligible. signed by author or artist.

A "magazine" assembled and edited by Jim Camp in the spirit of Wallace Berman's Semina, this issue done in the style of a small, handsomely printed chapbook. The "Busty Pin-ups!" issue devoted to color collages utilizing images of pin-ups. One of 250 numbered copies (of a total editon of 276). In keeping with Berman's practice these copies were sent to friends and not offered for sale. As new in publisher's printed envelope.…