Item 1051The Sweet Bye and Bye
New York: Boosey and Hawkes, Inc, 1966. Cover by Joe Brainard. Saddle-stapled in orange printed wraps. 85 pp. Elmslie's libretto for the opera composed by Jack Beeson.
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Item 1073Blast from the Past
Austin: Skanky Possum Press, 2000. Front and back cover portraits by Ken Tisa. Perfect-bound in glossy pictorial wraps, 8vo, 87 pp. Kenward's reading copy with annotations in Elmslie’s hand and tipped-in slips sequencing a reading order. We suspect this copy was used in preparation for a reading with Bill Berkson.....
Item 3324Blast from the Past
Austin: Skanky Possum Press, 2000. Front and back cover portraits by Ken Tisa. Perfect-bound octavo in glossy illustrated wraps. 87pp. One of Elmslie's personal copies of this later collection, with holograph notes in black pen made within indicating his own selections for giving a public reading of certain of these.....
Item 2774The Orchid Stories
Garden City, NY: Paris Review Edition / Doubleday, 1973. Jacket painting by Joe Brainard. First Edition, stated. Hardcover octavo in illustrated dust jacket. Red blind stamped cloth backed with black spine bearing gilt-stamped lettering. Publisher's maroon endpapers. 247pp. First Edition of Elmslie's experimental romans-a-clef, loosely inspired by Mann's Buddenbrooks and.....
Item 1074Three Sisters
Calais, VT: Z Press, 1986. Cover drawings by Jennifer Bartlett from In the Garden. First edition, one of 1,250 copies. Perfect-bound in French wraps, 8vo, 72 pp. Elmslie’s libretto for an opera based on Anton Chekhov’s play of the same name, as set to music by Thomas Pasatieri. An uncommon.....
Item 2187Bimbo Dirt
Calais, VT: Z Press, 1981. From a total edition of 750 copies. Signature-bound in glossy red printed wraps, 9 x 11-7/8 in. [80]pp. Text by Elmslie with illustrations by Tisa reproduced in black-and-white and color, including one fold-out color plate. The basis for parts of the recording "Palais Bimbo Lounge.....
Item 2276Penguin Modern Poets 24
Hardomondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1973. Perfect-bound, octavo, green paper wraps, 215 pp. From the collections of New York School poet, publisher and librettist, Kenward Elmslie. Elmslie’s proof copy, with his name penned on front cover, of the 24th installment in the Penguin Modern Poets series, as guest edited by John.....
Item 1077Miss Julie
New York: Boosey and Hawkes, 1968. Signature-bound in blue wraps, 4to., 224 pp. Vocal score for the opera by Rorem, for which Elmslie wrote the libretto. Based on the play by August Strindberg.
Item 473The 1967 Game Calendar
New York]: [Boke Press], [1967]. First Edition. Softcover quarto, staple-bound in B&W paper wrappers, unpaginated with text and drawings on rectos [24]. Twelve pages each of text and poems for each month of the calendar year, 1967. While Elmslie and Brainard would go on to collaborate many times, this is.....
Item 1022Stage-Duo
Cherry Valley, NY: Rocky Ledge Cottage Editions, 1983. Joe Brainard, cover drawing. One of 200 copies signed by Waldman and Elmslie at their contributions, and by Brainard to rear cover. Single-sheet folded once, 11 x 8-1/2 in. [4]pp. One poem each by Waldman and Elmslie, written for a reading at.....
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