spoken word
10 + 2 : 12 AMERICAN TEXT SOUND PIECES
Berkeley: 1750 Arch Records, 1974. First Edition. 33 & 1/3 RPM LP album. Vinyl and album cover both near fine. Minor scuffing to album cover corners. Anthology of text-sound compositions, with work by Charles Amirkhanian, Clark Coolidge, John Cage, John Giorno, Anthony Gnazzo, Charles Dodge, Robert Ashley, Beth Anderson, Brion.....
TODAY'S POETS: Their Poems - Their Voices / Volume 1
New York: Scholastic Records, 1967. First Edition. 33 1/3 RPM LP album, no. FS 11001. Near fine in shrink wrap, album sleeve corners faintly bumped. Poets Donald Hall, Louis Simpson, Joseph Langland, and Robert Francis, each reading a selection of their own work. Cover design by June Martin. Liner notes.....
THE LION FOR REAL
New York: Island Records, 1989. First Edition. 33 & 1/3 RPM LP album, no. GJ-6004. Vinyl and album cover both near fine. Minor wear to album cover corners. Album of Ginsberg's recitations of his own poetry, with musical backing from Mark Bingham, Michael Blair, Ralph Carney, Bill Frisell, Beaver Harris.....
DIE KUNST UND DER RAUM [LP Recording]
St. Gallen, Switzerland: Erker-Verlag, [1967]. First Edition. LP. 33 & 1/3 RPM LP album, no. 25-164. Vinyl near fine. 9 3/4 inches. Album cover very good, with rubbing and light scuffing to edges. Heidegger's reading of his own lecture on art and space, issued to accompany its first printed edition.....
A CHILD'S INTRODUCTION TO SEX
Wonderland, 1962. First Edition. 33 1/3 RPM LP, no. RLP 1459. Vinyl near fine. Cardboard sleeve very good minus, with light rubbing/scuffing and edgewear; spine split. Educational record for children ages 5 and older, intended (per the liner notes) for home use by parents. Levine, a professor of clinical pediatrics.....
THOMAS MANN: Selections From His Writings Read By The Author (In German)
New York: Caedmon Records, Inc., 1952. First Edition. 33 & 1/3 RPM LP album, no. TFC 1004. Vinyl near fine. Album cover very good plus, with minor scuffing and edgewear. Selections include: Toni Kröger (Chapter 1), Lob der Vergänglichkeit, and Die Busse (from Der Erwählte). With liner notes by Monika.....
LOLITA: And Poems Read by Vladimir Nabokov
Spoken Arts, [1965]. LP. 33 & 1/3 RPM LP album, no. SA 902. Vinyl and album cover both near fine. Light toning to protective paper sleeve; minor scuffing and toning to album cover edges. Nabokov's own reading of a selection from LOLITA (Part Two, Chapter 35). Side Two includes the.....
SELECTED POEMS / READ BY THE POET IN SPANISH
New Rochelle, NY: Spoken Arts, [1972]. First Edition. 33 & 1/3 RPM LP album, no. SA 1114. Near fine in shrink-wrap. Directed by Arthur Luce Klein. Album cover photo of Neruda by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Scarce.
ATLANTIC INCEST [Bells of Atlantis Soundtrack LP]
n.p. n.p., [2014]. First edition thus. LP. 45 RPM 12-inch single-sided LP album. Silver-colored vinyl near fine. A few smudges and light wear to album cover verso. Yellow paper label mounted to cover, numbered 52 of a limited edition of 200. Nin's own reading of a piece from her "House.....
CONVERSATIONS REGARDING THE FUTURE OF ARCHITECTURE
Louisville: Reynolds Metals Company, 1956. First Edition. LP. 33 & 1/3 RPM LP album. Vinyl very good plus. Album cover very good, with rubbing and minor scuffing to cover edges. Collected interviews with seven major 20th century architects: Ernest Kump, Gordon Bunshaft, Eero Saarinen, Philip Johnson, Mies Van Der Rohe.....
THE DOWNWARD PATH TO WISDOM: Complete Short Story [LP Recording]
New York: Caedmon, 1952. First Edition. LP. 33 & 1/3 RPM LP album, no. TC 1006. Vinyl near fine. Protective sleeve lightly chipped, heavily toned. Album cover very good: mild sun and soil, with some scuffing and tape reinforcement to edges. Part of the series KATHERINE ANNE PORTER: Selections From.....
NINE PULITZER PRIZE POETS READING THEIR OWN POEMS (Twentieth Century Poetry in English)
Washington DC: Library of Congress, [1963]. 33 & 1/3 RPM LP album, no. LC 2043 PL 29. Red translucent vinyl, near fine. Album cover good plus, with moderate scuffing/soil and minor dampstaining. Partial tears along spine and top edges. Album issued by the Library of Congress from its Archive of.....
DEBRIEFING: A Reading by Susan Sontag
New York: Tanam Press, 1979. First edition thus. LP. 33 & 1/3 RPM LP album, no. TC 1537. Vinyl near fine. Toning to protective sleeve. Album cover very good, with light scuffing and rubbing. Sontag's reading of excerpts from her story, written in April and May of 1973 and published.....
THE GRAPES OF WRATH EXCERPTS: Read by Henry Fonda
New York: Caedmon, 1978. First edition thus. LP. 33 & 1/3 RPM LP album, no. TC 1570. Vinyl and album cover both near fine. Toning to paper record sleeve. Side 1: 32:07. Side 2: 25:38. Excerpted reading of Steinbeck's novel, by Henry Fonda, star of the 1940 film adaptation, shown.....