An Anecdoted Topography of Chance (Re-Anecdoted Version)
by Spoerri, Daniel [Daniel Isaac Feinstein], with Robert Filliou; Emmett Williams (transl.)
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/VG+
- Seller
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Kutztown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York, Cologne, and Paris: Something Else Press, 1966. Book. Illus. by Topor. Fine. Original Cloth. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ivory cloth, lettered in copper and black, dark blue topstain. As issued, with numerous leaves still unopened along bottom edges. xx,214 pp., illus. endpapers, all 80 catalogued object illus. in line drawings. Pictorial dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges and top front corner, light shelf wear, 1/2" triangular closed tear midway down rear joint; verso shows illus. of all objects catalogued internally in terms of their placement upon the table; now in mylar. 1st American edition; first published in Paris, 1962 as Topographie Anécdotée* du Hasard. Very scarce issue by the avant-garde and experimental Something Else Press, founded by Dick Higgins in 1963, which published approx. 50 volumes between then and its demise in 1974, its list of authors including John Cage, Gertrude Stein, Claes Oldenburg, John Giorno, Brion Gysin, William S. Burroughs, Merce Cunningham, Marshall McLuhan, and Jackson Mac Low, among others..
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- Bookseller
- Saucony Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 037102
- Title
- An Anecdoted Topography of Chance (Re-Anecdoted Version)
- Author
- Spoerri, Daniel [Daniel Isaac Feinstein], with Robert Filliou; Emmett Williams (transl.)
- Illustrator
- Topor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- VG+
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Something Else Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, Cologne, and Paris
- Date Published
- 1966
- Bookseller catalogs
- Esoteric Studies; Art: Painting, Drawing, Sculpture;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Saucony Book Shop
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About the Seller
Saucony Book Shop
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Kutztown, Pennsylvania
About Saucony Book Shop
The Saucony Book Shop, located in the heart of scenic rural Berks County, epicenter of Pennsylvania German folk culture (our shop specialty), offers a full range of gently used, rare, and antiquarian books, with many volumes of scholarly merit and an unabashed emphasis on the quaint, the curious, and the utterly obscure. We make no attempt to be a general-service book shop. Our inventory is highly selective, individually chosen from among the hundreds of thousands of books to which we have access annually at auctions, library and estate sales, and through individual scouts and vendors. We do not handle material that does not meet our expectations in terms of condition or interest to our specialized, idiosyncratic customers. Despite maintaining a browsing inventory of more than 15,000 volumes, we have minimized our carbon footprint by maintaining our entire operation in a cozy ca. 1890 barn and lean-to adjacent to an historic creamery in rural Maxatawny Township. Our shop is available for browsing by appointment and occasionally, in temperate weather, by chance, so email or call ahead to peruse the eclectic selection gracing our shelves, or ask our ferociously over-read staff for recommendations. Selling antiquarian books of merit since 1981. Full search and appraisal services; always keenly interested in purchasing quality used books, whether by the piece or by the bushel. Thanks for reading about us! Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
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