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Auction archive: Lot number 159

Three pieces from the X-ray Book and Novelty Co. [and] A Bibliography of the White Rabbit Press - two pieces signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 159

Three pieces from the X-ray Book and Novelty Co. [and] A Bibliography of the White Rabbit Press - two pieces signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Title: Three pieces from the X-ray Book and Novelty Co. [and] A Bibliography of the White Rabbit Press - two pieces signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Author: Place: Various places Publisher: Date: Various dates Description: Includes: Bukowski, Charles. Be Cool, Fool. Single 12x28 cm (4½x11") sheet printed in three colors. Folded into thirds, as issued. Single poem with illustration printed letterpress in two colors. A few spots, else fine. Produced for inclusion in X-Ray Spare Parts Grab Bag No. 1. San Francisco: X-Ray Book Co., 2002. Hirschman, Jack. Ferlinghetti Arcane. Letterpress chapbook. Saddle stitched printed wrappers. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the title page and Hirschman at the colophon. No. 82 of 100 copies. San Francisco: X-Ray Book Co., 2011. Horowitz, Michael. City Lights Bookstore 1969. Letterpress chapbook. Saddle stitched printed wrappers. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the title page. No. 68 of 200 copies. San Francisco: X-Ray Book Co., 2012 Johnston, Alastair. A Bibliography of the White Rabbit Press. Illustrated. (8vo) cloth and illustrated dust jacket. One of 500 copies. Berkeley: Poltroon Press/Anacapa Books, 1985. X-Ray Book Co. of San Francisco has been publishing fine limited editions by an eclectic assortment of authors since 1992. From 1957-1968, the White Rabbit Press published sixty-three books and ten broadsides. It was the primary publisher of the work of Spicer, Robin Blaser, and Robert Duncan—the three central figures of the literary movement first known as the Berkeley Renaissance, and later as the San Francisco Renaissance. Lot Amendments Condition: A few spots to the Bukowski piece, light wear to the jacket of the White Rabbit volume; else fine. Item number: 284518

Auction archive: Lot number 159
Auction:
Datum:
18 May 2017
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: Three pieces from the X-ray Book and Novelty Co. [and] A Bibliography of the White Rabbit Press - two pieces signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Author: Place: Various places Publisher: Date: Various dates Description: Includes: Bukowski, Charles. Be Cool, Fool. Single 12x28 cm (4½x11") sheet printed in three colors. Folded into thirds, as issued. Single poem with illustration printed letterpress in two colors. A few spots, else fine. Produced for inclusion in X-Ray Spare Parts Grab Bag No. 1. San Francisco: X-Ray Book Co., 2002. Hirschman, Jack. Ferlinghetti Arcane. Letterpress chapbook. Saddle stitched printed wrappers. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the title page and Hirschman at the colophon. No. 82 of 100 copies. San Francisco: X-Ray Book Co., 2011. Horowitz, Michael. City Lights Bookstore 1969. Letterpress chapbook. Saddle stitched printed wrappers. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the title page. No. 68 of 200 copies. San Francisco: X-Ray Book Co., 2012 Johnston, Alastair. A Bibliography of the White Rabbit Press. Illustrated. (8vo) cloth and illustrated dust jacket. One of 500 copies. Berkeley: Poltroon Press/Anacapa Books, 1985. X-Ray Book Co. of San Francisco has been publishing fine limited editions by an eclectic assortment of authors since 1992. From 1957-1968, the White Rabbit Press published sixty-three books and ten broadsides. It was the primary publisher of the work of Spicer, Robin Blaser, and Robert Duncan—the three central figures of the literary movement first known as the Berkeley Renaissance, and later as the San Francisco Renaissance. Lot Amendments Condition: A few spots to the Bukowski piece, light wear to the jacket of the White Rabbit volume; else fine. Item number: 284518

Auction archive: Lot number 159
Auction:
Datum:
18 May 2017
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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