Iowa City: Search for Tomorrow, 1970. 8vo, pp. [28]; text illustrations, mostly collage style, pictorial paper wrappers; wrappers lightly toned with small stain on lower wrapper, near fine. With contributions from Joe Brainard, Anseim Hollo, Jack Marshall, Allan Kornblum, and others. Signed by Kornblum on inside wrapper. Kornblum was, in..... More

North Clinton: Search for Tomorrow, 1971. 8vo, pp. [36]; text illustrations throughout including portraits of the contributors; yellow pictorial wrappers; fine. With contributions from Andrei Codrescu, Kit Robinson, Aram Saroyan, Steve Toth, Alan Soldofsky, Allan Kornblum, and so on. From the library of Allan Kornblum, who was, in addition to..... More

New York: Moretus Press, 1979. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxxiv-[xxxvi], 217-[220], title-page within dec. border printed in blue and black, 20 full-page illus.; negligible wear to extremities, else near fine in a slightly soiled jacket. Letters from 1919-1941. More

Buffalo, NY: published by the editor, December 1970. Staplebound journal, 11.5 x 8.75 inches, pp. [66]; text on recto only, stiff tan paper covers; creasing and chipping to covers, textblock fine. Featuring poetry and prose by Michael McClure, Lewis MacAdams, Pheobe MacAdams, F. E. Peters, Charles Olson, Ed Sanders, and..... More

New York: Knopf, 1928. First edition, one of 80 numbered copies printed on inomachi Japan vellum, signed and inscribed by Mencken, 8vo, pp. [12], 132, [2]; red paper with gilt title on cover and spin, worming to upper joint, bookplate on front free endpaper, else very good. A collection of..... More

New York: Books International, 1959. Oblong 8vo, pp. 233, [1]; text illustrations throughout; stiff black and white paper boards; light toning to textblock edges, owner signature title and bookplate on inner cover; very good. "A compilation of the proceedings, selected papers, reports, supplementary and graphic materials prepared or assembled in..... More

[New York: The Conjuring Arts Research Center], 2006. 8vo, pp. [2],197, [2]; text illustrations throughout; timeline of Japanese magic laid in; green printed paper wrappers, fine in fine dust jacket. Contains the following articles: "An investigation into magic in Japan after the opening of the country, pt. I," Mitsunobu Matsuyama;..... More

[New York: The Conjuring Arts Research Center], 2010. 8vo, 173, [1]; text illustrations throughout; black stiff paper wrappers; fine. Laid in is a manuscript letter from "Bill" (likely William Kalush) to Jerry Farrell, mathematician and amateur magician. Including the papers: "Nellie Bly on magnets, mind readers & fakirs! Fakirs! Fakirs!"..... More

[New York: The Conjuring Arts Research Center], 2012. 8vo, pp. 193, [3]; text illustrations throughout; stiff pink paper wrappers; fine. Including the articles: "An investigation into magic in Japan," Mitsunobu Matsuyama; "A cheat for two," Thierry Depaulis; "The antidote or counterpoison against the knights of industry," A venetian. More

[New York: The Conjuring Arts Research Center], 2015. 8vo, pp. 203, [1]; text illustrations; burgundy stiff paper wrappers; fine. Including the papers: "Faustino Chacon," Enrique Jimenez-Martinez; "The world according to James William Elliott," Jan B. A. Janson; "Elliott: appendix one, [two and three]," James William Elliott; "Monge and his shuffle,"..... More

[New York: The Conjuring Arts Research Center], 2016. 8vo, pp. 211, [5]; text illustrations throughout; green paper wrappers, fine. Including: "Galasso: on the trail of Horatio," Mauro, Massironi; "A devotione," William Kalush; "Borges and magic: how to hid a murder with a card trick," Federico Luduena; "The mysteries of Pharaoh..... More

[New York: The Conjuring Arts Research Center], 2019. 8vo, pp. 203, [1]; text illustrations throughout; purple paper wrappers; fine. Including the articles: "Pinetti: New discoveries," Pierre Taillefer and Jacques Voignier; "The Cavaliere Pinetti de Merci's physical entertainments," Johann Wilhelm Andreas Kosmann; "Plaisantes inventions: a rarity found," Georges Naudet. More