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Auction archive: Lot number 159

Archive of books, letters, and miscellaneous ephemeral items all relating to or by Michael McClure, many signed

Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$330
Auction archive: Lot number 159

Archive of books, letters, and miscellaneous ephemeral items all relating to or by Michael McClure, many signed

Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$330
Beschreibung:

Title: Archive of books, letters, and miscellaneous ephemeral items all relating to or by Michael McClure, many signed Author: McClure, Michael Place: Various places Publisher: Date: Various dates Description: Includes: Solstice Blossom. With a hand-painted frontispiece illustration by Wesley Tanner. Wrappers. No. XX of XXX copies, signed by McClure and Tanner. Arif Press, 1973. * Lion Fight. Cards and linen bag in clear plastic box. No. 13 of 300 copies, limitation card signed. 1965. * Hail Thee Who Play. Wrappers. No. 198 of 250 copies. Signed. Black Sparrow Press, 1968. * Envelope from the Phoenix Book Shop in NY, with punched ticket for "Oh Bonney Harlow Match Oh," and a few other papers within, including a silver card with a McClure poem "Liberation" printed on it, signed with his initials. * The Shell - A Play. Printed on a continuous scroll, housed in mailing tube with paper label. Signed. 1969. * Plane Pomes. Wrappers. No. 29 of 100 copies. Signed. Phoenix Book Shop, 1969. * 2 copies of: The Sermons of Jean Harlow & The Curses of Billy the Kid. One in wrappers (one of 50 copies), the other in blue, gilt-lettered boards (one of 1200 copies, and signed). Four Seasons Foundation, 1968. * Manila file folder from the office of Grove Press regarding McClure's "New Book of Torture." Contains press clippings, a 2/10/60 typewritten publicity questionnaire completed by McClure with his hand-written notes, etc. * Hand-colored handbill for a 1974 reading by McClure and Allen Ginsberg at St. Marks Church in NY. * Is the Instant So Complex? Poem broadside. Signed. * 666: Hymn to Lucifer. By Frank Reynolds 1968. * With Bruce Connor. An untitled poem in wrappers. Dave Haselwood, 1966. * Thirteen Mad Sonnets. Wrappers. No. 244 of 299. 1964. * The Cherub. Boards. No. 23 of 250 copies. Signed. Black Sparrow Press, 1970. Plus 6 other items, mostly poetry in wrappers, plus one file folder of broadsides, clippings, etc. Collected by a Grove Press associate. Lot Amendments Condition: Some general wear to most; mostly very good. Item number: 214290

Auction archive: Lot number 159
Auction:
Datum:
5 Aug 2010
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: Archive of books, letters, and miscellaneous ephemeral items all relating to or by Michael McClure, many signed Author: McClure, Michael Place: Various places Publisher: Date: Various dates Description: Includes: Solstice Blossom. With a hand-painted frontispiece illustration by Wesley Tanner. Wrappers. No. XX of XXX copies, signed by McClure and Tanner. Arif Press, 1973. * Lion Fight. Cards and linen bag in clear plastic box. No. 13 of 300 copies, limitation card signed. 1965. * Hail Thee Who Play. Wrappers. No. 198 of 250 copies. Signed. Black Sparrow Press, 1968. * Envelope from the Phoenix Book Shop in NY, with punched ticket for "Oh Bonney Harlow Match Oh," and a few other papers within, including a silver card with a McClure poem "Liberation" printed on it, signed with his initials. * The Shell - A Play. Printed on a continuous scroll, housed in mailing tube with paper label. Signed. 1969. * Plane Pomes. Wrappers. No. 29 of 100 copies. Signed. Phoenix Book Shop, 1969. * 2 copies of: The Sermons of Jean Harlow & The Curses of Billy the Kid. One in wrappers (one of 50 copies), the other in blue, gilt-lettered boards (one of 1200 copies, and signed). Four Seasons Foundation, 1968. * Manila file folder from the office of Grove Press regarding McClure's "New Book of Torture." Contains press clippings, a 2/10/60 typewritten publicity questionnaire completed by McClure with his hand-written notes, etc. * Hand-colored handbill for a 1974 reading by McClure and Allen Ginsberg at St. Marks Church in NY. * Is the Instant So Complex? Poem broadside. Signed. * 666: Hymn to Lucifer. By Frank Reynolds 1968. * With Bruce Connor. An untitled poem in wrappers. Dave Haselwood, 1966. * Thirteen Mad Sonnets. Wrappers. No. 244 of 299. 1964. * The Cherub. Boards. No. 23 of 250 copies. Signed. Black Sparrow Press, 1970. Plus 6 other items, mostly poetry in wrappers, plus one file folder of broadsides, clippings, etc. Collected by a Grove Press associate. Lot Amendments Condition: Some general wear to most; mostly very good. Item number: 214290

Auction archive: Lot number 159
Auction:
Datum:
5 Aug 2010
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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