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ARCHAE EDITIONS is devoted exclusively to the works of a single author, Richard Kostelanetz. Created in response to well-known limitations in the traditional channels of literary communication, ARCHAE (formerly RK), first of all places on sale mint-condition works of his that are no longer available from their initial publishers--sometimes at remainder prices, other times at prices they would have if published anew today, and, if copies are scarce, at prices in truth essentially for archives. It also collects privately produced editions and from time to time also issues new books, audiotapes, films, videotapes, and holograms. The date of this list is March 2012.

• A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes (1993), first ed., paperback, 246 pp., $20.00.
• Accounting (1973), the initial numerical book, in its revised edition, 4 1/4″ by 5 1/2″, side-stapled, l4 pp., $50.00. (The withdrawn, defective edition, a curiosity, $10.00.)
• Acoustic Fiction I: Ululation (1992), 26’, which is the first of a projected series of compositions whose narrative proceeds exclusively in sound, backed with No, I’m Richard Kostelanetz (1992), which is speed-based acoustic humor, on a 60′ audiocassette, $20.00. (These are also available in Kaddish and Other Audio Writings, see below.)
• Ad Infinitum: A Fiction (n.d.), a second alphabetical novella, 3″ x 4 1/4″, saddle-stitched, l6 pp., copublished with Int’l Artist’s Cooperation, $10.00.
• American Imaginations (1983, in German), a collection of long essays on major vanguard artists (Robert Wilson, Merce Cunningham, John Cage, Gertrude Stein, Charles Ives), co-published with Merveverlag, Berlin, 159 pp., $10.00.
• American Writing Today (1982), original paperback only anthology of critical essays, with contributions by Hassan, Hall, Proffer, Koch, Ashmead, Hernton, Fiedler, Bruce-Novoa, et al, since reprinted in more definitive form, but with certain earlier contributions missing. Vol. 1, 339 pp., $30.00; Vol. 2, 318 pp., $15.00. One volume hardback, Whitston, very scarce as original printing was destroyed, $100.00.
• Americas’ Game (1999), a 60 min. hifi stereo multitrack composition of and about the sound of baseball as a reflection of the culture of the Americas, verbal/visual score, published exclusively on an audio-only VHS tape, along with notes and a complete velobound graphic score, gathered together in a box, signed & lettered A to Z, $75.00. CD-R, $16.00; audio download, $5.00.
• An ABC of Contemporary Writing (1995), an aphoristic update of the classic Ezra Pound polemic, focusing upon .avant-garde literature published since 1950 or so, originally published by San Diego State University Press, 283 pp. $20.00.
• And So Forth (1979), over one hundred drawings of related geometric shapes that form modular narratives from page to page, published as loose sheets gathered into an envelope, with a preface by the author, 9″ x 12″, $20.00; individually initialed and numbered by the artist, one to ten, $100.00
• Antitheses (1985), a two-sided, laser-viewable transmission hologram of complementary three-dimensional fields of antithetical pairs of words, only one copy available, $10,000.00
• Archae Alphabet (2004), each of the 26 letters imaginatively articulated, one to a book page, handsome letter-pressed, in an edition limited to 10 copies, hardbound, $500.00.
• Arenas/Fields/Pitches/Turfs (1983), originally from BkMk-University of Missouri at Kansas City, the principal collection of poems composed in geometric arrays of four, eight, and sixteen words, 71 pp., $20.00; 30′ stereo audiocassette, processed at the Electronic Music Studio of Stockholm (1987), $10.00; 3/4″ U-Matic 30′ cassette composed at the Experimental TV Center, $125.00; VHS hifi stereo $60.00.
• Arts History (1981), a two-sided poster with a chronological chart of works in several genres on one side and Mary Emma Harris’s photograph of the author tripled on the other, 11″ by l7″, $1.00 (folded in half), $3.00 in a tube.
• Asdescent/Anacatabasis (1978), electronically modified reading of texts radically reworked from the KJV (and since reprinted in Prose Pieces [Atticus Press, 1985], 46 minutes, monocassette, $6.00.
• The Avant-Garde Tradition in Literature (1982), a comprehensive collection of extended critical essays about the more extreme developments in modern literature, with essays by Wellek, Markov, Hayman, Kenner, Antin, Sokel, et al. Originally $30.95; 424 pp., hard, $20.00.
• Audio Writing (1984), an introductory, comprehensive lecture-demonstration of his “publishing” with audiotape, with examples from over a dozen works. 91 minutes, stereocassette, $12.00. [Audio Art (1978) is an earlier self-retrospective. 45 minutes, stereocassette, $10.00.]
• Aural Literature Criticism--Precisely 10-11-12 (1981), an anthology of critical essays on literature whose principal means of coherence and/or enhancement are aural (Scobie, Zurbrugg, Lurie, Reeder, Peter Mayer, Tom Conley, et al.), 192 pp. Hardback, $15.00; paperback, $6.00.
• Autobiographien New York--Berlin (1986, in German), selected excerpts from Autobiographies, along with new material, co-published with Merveverlag, Berlin, 192 pp., $10.00.
• Autobiographies (1981), a history of a life composed not as a continuous narrative but as a multi-perspective collection of bits, written both currently and long before (and at times by others), 284 pp., library bound, $30.00; perfectbound, $12.00.
• Autobiographies at 50 (2007), second volume in a continuous series of alternative autohistorigraphy, 224 pp., 9″ x 7″, paperback, $50.00.
• Autobiographies at 60 (2004), third volume, 192 pp., 8 1/2″ x 11″, paperback, $50.00.
• Autobiography (1975), a handwritten numerical image, on a card, 4″ x 6″, $2.00.
• A B. B. King Companion (1997), first edition of an anthology since revised, 296 pp., paperback, $19.50.
• Behold Visual Poetry (1993), a verbal-visual essay, $10.00.
• Beyond Left & Right (1968), the first and perhaps best of a series of anthologies of futurist social thought, with contributions by Boulding, Fuller, Muller-Thym, Theobald, Brzezinski, Deutsch, McLuhan, et al., and a long introduction by the editor. Hard, $75.00 (only one copy left); hardback, no dustjacket, $49.00; paper new (only one left), $50.00; paper used (three left), $20.00.
• The Book of Eyes (2012) is a velobound exhaustive exploration of contemporary typefaces for a single letter, in sum telling a story about printing possibilities—the first limited edition of a book-art classic later reprinted prefectbound.
• Breakthrough Fictioneers (1973), a supremely compendious anthology of avant-garde literature--visual, verbal, indescribable--with over one hundred contributors, introduced by the editor, 384pp. Hard, $75.00; soft, $40.00.
• Combinations (1977), an exhaustive numerical image, elegantly printed on a glossy card, 4″ x 6″, $2.00.
• Come Here (1975), an erotic visual fiction, imaginatively designed and printed. 20 pp., saddle-stitched, $20.00. Signed & lettered, $75.00.
• Complete Audio Writing (1988), a dozen cassettes, including Audio Writing, Invocations (with an English opening), Eight Nights of Hanukah/Praying to the Lord, Openings & Closings, Asdescent/Anacatabasis, Foreshortenings, Seductions/Relationships, Two German Horspiele, Experimental Prose, The Gospels Abridged, Americas' Game, Onomatopoeia, Carnival of the Animals, $100.00.
• A Condensed Novel (2007), 15 cards/chapters, each with only sentence, $400.00.
• Constructs (1975), the first of a series of collections of visual fictions, whose scrupulously square and symmetrical line-drawings metamorphose variously in systemic sequences, prefectbound, 112 pp., 8 1/4″ x 8 1/4″, $25.00. Signed & lettered, A-Z with alternative black covers, $100.00.
• Constructs Five (1991), 167 pp., 8 1/2″ x 11″, with twenty-nine narratives, individually titled, one of ten signed and numbered, velobound, $100.00.
• Constructs Four: Stories (1991), 176 pp., 8 1/2" x 11", with twenty sequences, identified only by roman numerals preceded by the generic identification of “CF,” dedicated to Sol LeWitt, whose early forays into book-making inspired this line of work, one of ten signed and numbered, velobound, $100.00.
• Constructs Six: Stories (1991), 180 pp., 8 1/2″ x 11″, also with twenty-nine narratives, individually titled, one of ten signed and numbered, velobound, $100.00.
• Constructs Three: Stories (1991), 186 pp., 8 1/2″ x 11″, with twenty-five discrete narratives, individually titled, velobound, one of ten signed and numbered, $100.00.
• Constructs Two (1978), 71 pp., 5 3/8 square, with seven distinctive narratives, printed by Karl Young/Membrane Press, scarce, $50.00. [A single proof sheet, 11″ x 17″, with 12 images for the front & back covers, copyright page, misc., numbered 1-30, initialed by the author, $20.00.]
• Conversing with Cage (1988), first edition (Limelight), paperback, 299 pp., $50.00; hardback, scarce (only one copy), $150.00
• A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes (1993), first ed., paperback, 246 pp., $15.00.
• A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes (2000), second enlarged edition, hardback, 726 pp., $45.00
• Ecce Kosti (1996), a collection of encomia, 160 pp., 6″ x 9″, $10.00.
• Echo (1969), a visual poem in negative, elegantly printed by John Furnival at the Openings Press, 5 1/2″ x 7 1/2″, $5.00.
• Echo (1975), one silkscreened print, 26″ x 40″, of the image in positive. Signed, one of fifteen, $200.00.
• The Edge of Adaptation (1973), the fourth and last in the series of future-thought anthologies, with Nader, Bookchin, Farson, Szasz, Bowers, Gans, et al., 180 pp. Hardback, scarce, $30.00; paperback, $20.00.
• "The End" Appendix/"The End" Essentials (1979), a spikey reconsideration of his earlier The End of Intelligent Writing bound back-to-back with an abridgement of his most famous critical text, 256 pp. paperback, $6.00 . Hardback, $30.00.
• The End of Intelligent Writing: Literary Politics in America (1974), a provocative radical analysis that is still relevant and true of the crisis in cultural communication. 480 pp. Hardback, $100.00; paperback under its subtitle, $75.00. (If this is too pricy for you, consider “The End” Appendix/“The End” Essentials [1979], described above.)
• Epiphanies (1983, in German), the first gathering of his single-sentence stories that have been appearing in periodicals since 1979, co-published with Literariches Colloquium Berlin in a handsome edition, 48 pp., $15.00. A VHS-NTSC copy of a 20-minute film with a German soundtrack, $75.00. Epiphanies (2007), 1000 sheets in a box, POD, $500.
• Complete Epiphanies (1989), three 90’ audiocassettes, with innumerable single-sentence stories, read by over six dozen readers, initially in English, with sections in German, Chinese and Vietnamese, $40.00. A VHS-NTSC copy of 16 mm. film nearly four hours long (and never copied), with soundtrack mostly in English, a dozen years in progress, ostensibly about the exhaustive experience of the experience of story, $200.00 for two SP-VHS tapes; $150.00 for a single EP-VHS tape. Four DVDs, $100.00.
• Essaying Essays (1975), a stupendous, incomparable anthology of alternative forms of exposition, with over a hundred contributors, including Auden, Babbitt, Burke, Foreman, Fuller, Hassan, Kahn, Maciunas, Rauschenberg, Reinhardt, among others--in RK’s opinion, the very best of his gatherings, 476 pp. First edition (since reprinted). Paper, scarce, $75.00.
• Esthetics Contemporary (1978), first edition of an anthology since revised also for Prometheus (1989), with some selections not reprinted again, 444 pp. Hardback, $40.00; paperback, $25.00.
• Exhaustive Parallel Intervals (1977), an elaborate numerical work backed by an exhibition announcement, 4″ x 6″, $2.00.
• Exhaustive Parallel Intervals (1979), a book-length narrative, perhaps the closest semblance of an RK novel, whose entire content is a diamond-shaped array of numbers whose positions change in systematic sequence, 160 pp., 6″ x 9″, perfectbound, with an afterword by the author, $10.00; library bound, $30.00; signed & lettered from A to Z by the author, $100.00.
• Experimental Prose (1976), several early experiments with multi-tracked tape that have since been internationally aired. 40 min. audiocassette, $5.00. Individually signed & lettered, $50.00.
• Extrapolate (1975), a second constructivist novella that can likewise be read in either direction, 3 3/4″ x 3 3/4″, 24 images, limited ed., $25.00; signed & numbered, $100.00.
• Fields/Pitches/Turfs/Arenas (2007), 99 cards, completing the publication of a text written long before, $200.00.
• Fifty Untitled Constructivist Fictions (1991), 290 pp., 8 1/2″ x 11″, spiralbound, with sequences made further abstract through the elimination of individual titles for stories that have distinct beginnings and ends, ten copies signed and numbered, $150.00.
• Fillmore East: Recollections of Rock Theater (1995), with reviews written at the time of memorable performances along with contemporaneous photographs, $20.00.
• Flipping (1991), 150 pp., 8 1/2″ x 11″, probably the most daunting book in this later series of Constructivist Fictions, as it contains only three images whose appearance in the sequence is mixed in various ways, velobound, ten copies signed and numbered, $75.00.
• Foreshortenings & Other Stories (1978), which rearranges 84 sentence-modules in systematically different ways, 28 pp., $15.00. Stereocassette (1977), 60 minutes, with two completely different readings of the text, $10.00. Audio download, $4.00. 3/4″ U-Matic cassette (1989), 30’, read by the author, processed at the Experimental TV Center, $125.00; VHS, $60.00.
• Four Major Visual Poets (1980), the Michael Phillips selection that includes 33 pages of RK along with three others, $4.00.
• A Frank Zappa Companion (1997), a selection of texts about and by, 274 pp., new paperback, $39.00; used, $15.00.
• Future’s Fictions (197l), the initial anthology of radically alternative fiction (Gins, Gerz, Helms, Bory, Mohr, Furnival, et al.), prefaced by the editor’s “Twenty-Five Fictional Hypotheses,” paper only. $25.00.
• Gertrude Stein Advanced (1989), a hardback anthology of critical essays focusing on the more experimental Stein texts, with Allen Ginsberg, Leonard Bernstein, Donald Sutherland, John Ashbery, Robert Marx, $75.00.
• The Gertrude Stein Reader: The Great American Pioneer of Avant-Garde Letters (2002), a monumental selection from her more radical, innovative texts, 544 pp., paperback, $20.00; hardback, w/ dustjacket, $49.50.
• The Gospels Abridged (1986), a 62 min. abridgement of an earlier audio composition of the first four books of the New Testament considered as a fugue, stereo audiocassete, $12.00; compact disc with elaborate notes, $15.00. Hifi stereo videocassette, with continuous kinetic syntheses, 3/4″ U-Matic, $150.00; VHS, $75.00. DVD-R, $25.00.
• The Gospels Complete (1986), 120 minutes of continuous audio fugue, two CD-R, $32.00; audio download, $15.00. A single DVD with continuous video syntheses accompaniment, $50.00.
• Grants and the Future of Literature--Precisely Two (1978), RK’s detailed, severe critiques of the NEA, NEH, NYSCA, CCLM and literary granting in general, $2.00.
• The Grants-Fix (1987), a comprehensive, detailed critical exposé of literary funding at the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, etc., 320 pp., velobound in a limited edition, $100.00.
• Hidden Meanings (1989), single-sided transmission holograms, including Ho/Log/Rap/Her, Ambiguity (with numerals), Madam/Adam, Abracadabra, Hell/Elle, Ho/Log/Rap/Hy, $4,000.00. (A 8″ x 10″ plate of Ho/Log/Rap/Hy alone is $300.00.)
• Home Movies Reconsidered (1993), 60′ VHS in which RK considers family footage both personally and generally, $100.00.
• Human Alternatives (1971), the third in a series of anthologies of futurist social thought, with contributions by Zworykin, Cage, Ginsberg, Moholy-Nagy, Trocchi, Leary, and John Diebold, along with a fresh introduction by the editor, 297 pp. Hard, $25.00; paper, $20.00.
• I Articulations/Short Fictions (1974), 64 pp. + 64 pp., a second selection of poems bound back to back with an initial collection of stories both verbal and visual. Hardback, signed A/B-Y/Z, thirteen copies, $100.00; paperback, $50.00.
• Illuminations (1977), the third collection of visual poems--a sequel to Visual Language (1970) and I Articulations (1974), 48 pp., saddlestitched, $5.00; signed & lettered from A to Z by the author, with special red covers, $50.00.
• Imaged Words & Worded Images (1970), a handsomely produced anthology of visual poetry (Kriwet, Furnival, Indiana, Bory, Beste, Phillips, et al.), introduced by the author. Hardback only, $75.00.
• In the Beginning (1971), a visual novella based on the alphabet, 64 pp., perfectbound, $5.00.
• In Youth (1972), an anthology of fiction, poetry and imaginative essays by North American writers born after 1937 (Atwood, Beekman, Grossinger, Meltzer, Katz, Korn, Pritchard, et al.), with an introduction by the editor, 327 pp. Instantly trashed, so very scarce, softcovered, $30.00.
• Inexistences (1978), constructivist stories with blank sheets, approx. 666 pp, 4″ by 4″. Only twenty-six copies were signed & lettered, $50.00.
• Intellectual Correspondence in the 21st Century (2005), cd-rom, 108,000 words, $40.00.
• Intermix (1991), 290 pp., spiralbound, 8 1/2″ x 11″, where images of many sequences, perhaps fifty, are kept in individual sequences, one of ten signed and numbered, $150.00.
• Invocations (1981), an audio-art piece about the sound of the language of prayer, 6l minutes long, in 25 languages, recorded in West Berlin and composed at the Electronic Music Studio of Stockholm. The Folkways Record, with opening prayers in Hebrew & Syriac, is now available from us at $15.00, while Folkways-Smithsonian has reissued it as # 37902 in a handsome cassette box. Both have extended notes. The five other versions, beginning with openings in, respectively, German, English, Scandanavian languages, Latin, Italian-Yugoslav languages, are available from us on audiocassettes, $12.00 each; all six for $60.00.
• John Cage (ex)plain(ed) (1996), a thorough introduction to his art in several media, 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″, 192 pp., scarce, $24.00.
• John Cage (1970), a documentary monograph of writings by and about America’s most prominent and influential composer-esthetician. Illustrated. American ed., hard (with Scott Hyde’s classic cover photo of Cage’s palm), $100.00; British ed., paper, only one copy, $80.00. [Note that this was reprinted in paperback with a different cover and updated data by Da Capo in 1991.]
• John Cage, Writer: Selected Texts, second edition (2000), paperback, 304 pp., $95.00.
• John Cage im Gesprach (1989, in German), a translation of an abridged text of Conversing with Cage (about which see the final page), 238 pp., $15.00.
• Kaddish (1990), an audio composition about the sound of the Diaspora as reflected in the various ways that the Jewish prayer for the dead is spoken, 23:00. Audiocassette, $8.00. Video version in which an English translation appears in the screen in various kinetic arrays, 3/4″ U-Matic cassette, $125.00; hifi stereo VHS cassette, $60.00.
• Kaddish and Other Audio Writings (2007), a book with two cds taped in, with definitive audio realizations of RK’s compositions Kaddish, This Is My Poem, No I’m Richard Kostelanetz, Seductions, Relationships, Ululation, Praying to the Lord, Carnival of the Animals, and Excelsior, 19 pp. +, $40.00.
• Kinetic Writings (1989), currently mute realizations, of both poems and fictions, that exploit capacilities unique to video, 22 min., 3/4″ U-Matic, $125.00; 1/2″ VHS, $60.00.
• Language & Structure in North America (1975), a well-illustrated catalogue of a traveling exhibition, 80 pp., $10.00.
• Literary Holography (1989), all holograms along with a booklet about the work, $20,000.
• The Literature of SoHo (1982), a “special double issue” of the magazine Shantih, 8 1/2″ x 11″, saddle-stitched, 132 pp., scarce, anthology w/ John Cage, R. Foreman, M. Mohr, K. King, V. Acconci, D. Higgins, et al, $100.00.
• Major Innovations: A Three-Part Essay, 11″ x 17″, imaginatively designed with examples (for Passages North, Winter 1991), 8 pp., scarce, $50.00.
• Manifestoes (1975), a broadside poster, 17″ X 22″, of a syntactically circular statement-within-statement-within-statement, $2.50. Signed & numbered, 1-80, $10.00.
• Master Minds (1969), elaborate profiles of major American artists and intellectuals (Glenn Gould, Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter, Hofstadter, Paul Goodman, Ellison, Niebuhr, McLuhan, Ginsberg, Cage, Kahn, Pierce, et al.), 370 pp., $75.00.
• Merce Cunningham: Dancing in Time and Space, an anthology of criticism, second ed. (1998), 280 pp., paperback, $30.00.
• Metafictions (2007), 48 cards, POD, $200.00.
• Metamorphosis in the Arts (1980), an unillustrated critical history of the avant-garde, mostly in America, in the 1960s, in painting, sculpture, film, dance music and the new intermedia: inferential art, environments, artistic machines, etc. 323 pp., paperback, $15.00; hardback library binding, $20.00; signed & lettered, $100.00.
• Micro Stories (2010), over 900 pages, with three words or less to a page, each page imaginatively designed by Louis Bury, $500.00.
• Milestones in a Life (1975), an early skeletal fiction, as it appeared as a prize-winner in a Canadian newspaper, 17” x 22”, signed 1-50, initialed by the author, $15.00.
• Minimal Fictions (1994), 96 pp., 5 1/2″ X 8 1/2″, mostly of one-, two-, and three-words stories, along with the “More of Less,” a cycle of 127 single-sentence erotic fictions, paperbound, $10.00.
• Modulations (1975), a constructivist novella printed as a ladderbook that can be read from front to back and front again, 3″ x 3″, 28 images, limited ed., $25.00 signed & numbered, $100.00.
• Moholy-Nagy (1970), a documentary monograph of writings by and about the most accomplished polyartist of high modernism. American edition, only one copy left, paper, $100.00; British edition, ex-library, only one copy, $75.00. Second ed., paperback (1991) with an updated bibliography, but without color reproductions, $25.00.
• More Complete Audio Writing (1992), five audio-only VHS Hi-Fi cassettes, nearly thirty hours of work in sum. I includes Audio Writing and many shorter pieces, including the version of Invocations that begins in English. II includes the longest, American version of New York City, Anacatabasis, Relationships, and Die Evangelien. III includes both versions of Onomatopoeia, Invocations with the Latin opening, Acoustic Fiction I: Ululation, and Asdescent. IV includes the International version of New York City (commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk, which distributed it around the world). V includes four hours of Epiphanies mostly in English, with some German and less Chinese and Vietnamese. $125.00 apiece; $500.00 for the entire set.
• More Short Fictions (1980), the most advanced one-person collection of experimental stories, both verbal and visual, ever published in America, 224 pp. Paper, $8.00; hardback, $15.00; signed & lettered, $75.00.
• Music of Today (1967), an introduction to the avant-garde traditions, originally to accompany a Time-Life set of lp discs, 59 pp, paper only, $30.00.
• The New American Arts (1965), a collection of extended critical essays on new developments in literature, modern dance, music and the visual arts, with RK’s chapters on theatre and film, as well as an introduction. Hardcovered, $75.00 (only two copies).
• The New Poetries and Some Olds (1991), a second collection of essays on poetry, hardback, 304 pp., $5.00.
• Nicolas Slonimsky: The First 100 Years (1994), selecting the greatest American musical lexicographer, 393 pp., $49.95.
• Numbers One (1974), a suite of six silkscreened images of progressively more intricate numerical art, 22″ by 30″, in a portfolio, with notes, individually signed & numbered in an edition of l50, $400.00.
• Numbers Two (1977), visually organized numerical images, 8 1/2″ x 11″, 7 cards in an envelope, $5.00. Individually signed & lettered, A-Z, $30.00.
• Numbers: Poems & Stories (1976), initial collection of numerical work, in tabloid-sized newsprint. 24 pp., $5.00. Signed & lettered, $50.00.
• Numerical Meditation (1975), a single image between wrappers, signed & lettered, 6″ x 9″, $5.00.
• Obliterate (1974), a dissected fiction distributed over sixteen sheets, 2 3/4″ by 2″, in a folded cover, $20.00.
• The Old Fictions and the New (1987), which collects RK’s fiction criticism, including manifestoes about his own work; only a few copies remain, 205 pp, $30.00.
• On Contemporary Literature (1964, 1969), a comprehensive anthology of critical essays about major post-WWII writers and writing in Europe and North America. First edition, 639 pp., hardcovered, o.p.; first edition, papercovered, $30.00; second expanded edition, 699 pp., papercovered, $30.00.
• On Holography (1978), 9 1/2″ x 14″ (diameter), initial hologram of five syntactically circular, grammatically seamless statements in a revolving cylinder. $2,500.00.
• On Innovative Art(ist)s (1992), hardback collecting RK’s writings on visual art, including Polyartistry, 356 pp, $50.00.
• On Innovative Music(ian)s (1989), collecting RK’s classic essays on avant-garde music, including double profile of Milton Babbitt & John Cage, Glenn Gould, E. Carter, BB King. A. Hovhaness, etc., $25.00.
• On Innovative Performance (s): Three Decades of Recollections of Alternative Theater (1994), hardback collecting RK’s notes on dance and individual nonliterary presentations, as well as profiles of Robert Wilson and George Rhoads, 276 pp., $30.00.
• One Million Words of Booknotes (1996), contemporaneous notes reflecting wide reading, 678 pp., double-columned, scarce (as original printing was destroyed), $79.00.
• One Night Stood (1977), a minimal fiction with no more than two words to a paragraph, published in two radically different formats. “I wanted to see whether the experience of reading the exact same words could be made radically different.” 176 pp., 5 l/4″ x 4″, perfectbound, $2.50 ; clothbound gray, $10.00 ; clothbound red signed & lettered by the author, $50.00. Also 24 pp., 11″ x 17″, newsprint, $1.00 ; signed & lettered, $25.00.
• Onomatopoeia (1988), English words whose sound resembles their meaning, composed through a computer and digital sampler, two realizations, each 11 min., stereo audiocassette, $10.00; with kinetic visual poetry of the text, produced at Experimental TV Center (1989), 30′ 3/4″ U-Matic, $125.00; 1/2″ hifi stereo VHS, $60.00
• Openings & Closings (1975), over three hundred one-sentence stories--either the openings of hypothetical fictions or the closings. Paperback book, $9.00; signed & lettered, A-Z, $50.00. Audiocassette edition (1975), 60 minutes, of the author reading parts of the text in inventively amplified stereo, $10.00 . A color videotape edition (1975), 3/4″ U-Matic cassette, $150.00; 1/2″ reel to reel or VHS cassette, likewise 60 minutes, $75.00.
• Partitions (1986), a hifi stereo videotape of long words in which shorter words are embedded, in increasingly complex configurations, based upon a long poem by RK, 27:40, music by Gordon Jillson, 3/4″ U-Matic, $125.00; 1/2″, VHS, 60.00.
• Partitions (1993), the complete text, originally published by Bright Moments (Wally Depw), 5 1/2″ x 4 1/4″, horizontal format, stapled, unpaginated, $30.00.
• The Poetics of the New Poetries--Precisely 13-14-15-16 (1983), co-edited with Benjamin Hrushovski, with Zavarzadeh on Hassan, Lo Bue on Cage, Cluver on “Verbivocovisual Ideograms,” S.J. Schmidt, H. & A. de Campos, et al. 239 pp., $8.00.
• A Portable Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1995), an editing selection that incidentally a good guide, 350 pp., paperback, $19.95.
• Portraits from Memory (1975), a book-length visual poem of portraits of past loves, 37 pp. Hard, $30.00; paper, $10.00. Hardback signed & numbered to 10, $75.00.
• Possibilities of Poetry (1970), an incomparably comprehensive anthology of post-WWII North American poetry, with a long introduction, 552 pp. First printing, paper, $75.00; third printing, $25.00.
• Precisely Complete (1977-83), with all sixteen numbers in five volumes, $50.00.
• Precisely One (1977), the initial general issue with contributions from Klinkowitz, Zelevansky and the editors, RK and Stephen Scobie. 64 pp., saddle-stitched, $3.00.
• Prose Pieces/Aftertexts (1985), two collections of experimental prose, bound back to back, $25.00.
• Prunings/Accruings (1977), nonsyntactic religious prose that can be read from front to back, or back to front, 24 pp. Saddle-stitched, only signed-lettered, $35.00.
• Rain Rains Rain (1976), a long poem printed on twenty-three white cards, 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″, which may be read in any order. $5.00. Individually signed & lettered, on red stock, $50.00.
• Recyclings, Vol. 1 (1974), initial volume, covering only 1959-67, of a nonsyntactic literary autobiography, 64 pp., saddle-stitched, $2.00; signed & lettered, with red covers, $25.00. The complete Recyclings (1984), 320 pp., 5″ x 7″, perfectbound, $6.00; clothcovered, $16.00; signed & lettered, A to Z, $75.00.
• Reincarnations (1981), a fiction composed entirely of photographs, with an afterword by the author, 64 pp., saddlestitched, 5″ x 7″, $5.00; signed & lettered, $50.00.
• Richard Kostelanetz (1980), a vertical visual poem, 19″ by 5″, letterpress, with an exhaustive array of all the English words found in the author’s name, $25.00.
• Scenarios (1980), the most path-breaking, mind-bending, various anthology of scripts to perform ever published anywhere, at any time, 714 pp., $40.00.
• Seductions/Relationships (1981-83), an audiocassette of two formally experimental erotic narratives, 25 + 31 min. $10.00, videocassette with hifi stereo sound and kinetic syntheses (1988), 56 min., 3/4″ U-Matic, $150.00; 1/2″, VHS, $75.00. Each of these two pieces is available alone, with similar sound but different video syntheses likewise produced at the Experimental TV Center, on 30 min. cassettes, each 3/4″ U-Matic, $100.00; $1/2″ VHS, $60.00.
• Seeing through Shuck (1972), an anthology of muckraking criticism and reportage (Adler, Karpel, Abbie Hoffman, Weisstein, et al.), with an afterword by the editor, 343 pp. Instantly trashed by its original publisher, a mass paperbacker, so only one copy remains. Paper, $100.00.
• Social Speculations (197l), the second in a series of anthologies of futurist social thought, with contributions by Fuller, Kahn, Shklovskii-Sagan, et al, and an introduction by the editor, 366 pp. Hard (poor condition), $30.00; paper, $10.00.
• Solos, Duets, Trios, & Choruses (1991), 64 pp., 6″ x 9″, a collection of RK’s poems comprised, as the title says, of one word, two words, three words, and groups of complimentary words, $10.00.
• Stringsieben (1989), a spectacular realization of a horizontally extended German text, 12 min, 3/4″ U-Matic NTSC, $125.00; $60.00. (For PAL transfers, query.)
• Stringtwo (1989), one extended string, with continuous two-letters overlap, 37′ in length, with music by Joseph V. DiMeo, 3/4″ U-Matic, $150; 1/2″ VHS, $75.00.
• Tabula Rasa (1978), a constructivist novel with blank pages, approx. l,000 pp, 8″ by 8″. Only twelve copies were signed & numbered, $200.00.
• Text-Sound Texts (1980), the only collection exclusively of North American sound poetry and related performance texts (Amirkhanian, Bissett, Glenn Gould, Mac Low, Oldenburg, Kerouac, Schafer, et al.), 441 pp. Hardbound, $25.00; paperbound, $10.00.
• The Theatre of Mixed Means (1968), a critical introduction to the nonliterary theatre in America, including extended conversations with Cage, Oldenburg, Rauschenberg, Kaprow, La Monte Young, Anna Halprin, Robert Whitman, Ken Dewey, USCO. First edition, hardback with photographs, $100.00; 198l reprint without photographs, paper, $20.00.
• Thirty Years of Critical Engagements with John Cage (1996), 384 pages, definitive texts of RK’s critical essays about and interviews with Cage, limited edition, $50.00.
• 3 Element Stories (1998), 112 pp., with each page containing three words that in any order suggest narratives, $30.00.
• Three Places in New Inkland (1977, with two other authors), constructivist fictions, $30.00.
• Three Prose Pieces (1975), color video realizations of “Excelsior,” “Plateaux” & “Recyclings,” 30 minutes in sum, 3/4″ U-Matic cassette, $130.00; 1/2″ reel to reel or VHS cassette, likewise 30′, $60.00.
• Three Visuals (1973), a broadside, 17″ x 11″, with “Manifestoes,” “Concentric,” and “Disintegration”, $10.00.
• Turfs/Fields/Pitches/Arenas (1980), a chapbook originally published by High/Coo, exclusively of four-word poems in a miniature format, 4″ x 2 3/4″, 20 pp., only a few copies left, $20.00.
• Twelve from the Sixties (1967), an anthology of choice stories (including Koch, Barth, Bellow, Pynchon, Irvin Faust, Tillie Olsen, et al.), with a critical introduction by the editor. First printing, paper, $50.00; third printing, $15.00.
• Twenties in the Sixties (1979), a compendious gathering of RK’s previously uncollected critical essays on literature, thought, culture and experience, in an unusually designed 8 1/2″ x 11″ format. 328 pp. Paperback, $10.00.
• Two-Element Stories (2003), severely minimal fictions, designed by Aryeh Cohen-Wade, saddle-stitched, 24 pp., very scarce, $24.00.
• Two German Horspiele (1983), two sequences of very short audio pieces, collectively titled Dialogues and Conversations, produced on a Fairlight CMI, 90 min. cassette, $10.00.
• Two Sacred Texts: The Eight Nights of Hanukah/Praying to the Lord (1983, 1981), a stereo audio cassette of two audio interpretations of traditional sacred texts, the first commissioned by the CBC, the second by SPDF-NPR, $8.00; videocassete with hifi stereo sound and kinetic syntheses (1988), 12 min., 3/4″, $100.00; VHS, $50.00.
• Unfinished Business (1990), an intellectual nonhistory of RK’s unfunded proposals for 1963-1988, large format, sheets in an envelope, 130pp., $30.00; velobound, signed & numbered to ten, $100.00.
• A Universe of Sentences (2007) 244 cards, POD, $300.
• Video Fictions, DVD with 99 narratives randomly presented, $49.00.
• Video Poems, DVD with 99 sections randomly presented, $49.00.
• Video Strings (1989), several endless streams of letters, composed of overlapping words (including one string in German), enhanced in different ways, to the music of Gordon Jillson, 29:42, 3/4″ U-Matic, $125.00; 1/2″ VHS, $60.00.
• Video Writing (1987), a 55-minute retrospective of early video art, narrated by RK and directed by Robert Boynton Weyr, 3/4″ U-Matic, $150; 1/2″ VHS, $75.00.
• Visual Language (1970), the first one-person collection of visual poetry published in the US, including many of his best-known, most anthologized poems, 6″ X 9″, 24 pp., $5.00. Signed & numbered, 1-150, with red covers, $25.00.
• Visual Literature Criticism--Precisely 3-4-5 (1979), an anthology of critical essays whose principal means of coherence and/or enhancement are aural (Seaman, Zelevansky, Peter Mayer, Aaron Marcus, Doria, Klinkowitz, Phillpot, et al), 192 pp., $8.00; hardback, $20.00.
• Vocal Shorts: Collected Performance Texts (1998), several texts meant for live presentation, each imaginatively designed, 145 pp., 8 1/2″ x 11″, velobound, $75.00.
• Word Prints (1975), seven silkscreened prints of the best early visual poems (Live, Die, Disintegration, Me, Echo, Marriage, Truth), between boards, 26″ by 40″, individually signed & numbered in an edition of fifty, $1,000.00.
• Wordsand (1978), a catalogue of art-autobiographical essays, manifestoes, and explanations, about art with words, numbers, and lines, in several media, along with complete documentation, which was initially published to accompany an early traveling exhibition, saddle-stitched, 92 pp., $5.00. Signed & lettered, $50.00.
• Writings on Glass (1998), essays by and about America’s most popular serious composer, 368 pp., hardback, $29.00.
• The Yale Gertrude Stein (1980), a monumental anthology of the more experimental Stein, as drawn from the eight volumes posthumously published by the Yale University Press, with a long introduction, 464 pp., hardback library binding, $50.00.
• The Young American Writers (1967), a pioneering gathering of poems, fictions, essays and dramas by writers born after 1936 (e.g., Higgins, Charyn, Oates, Sanders, Cott, Gangemi, W.M. Kelley, King, et al). Hardcovered, $30.00; papercovered, $15.00.
• Virtual Chapbooks (2010), several websites identified under this title on RK’s eponymous website.
• Younger Critics in North America (1976), a gathering of extended critical essays written by North Americans born after 1939 (A.D. Coleman, S.R. Delany, Peter Frank, Eric McLuhan, Montag, Sitney, Perkins, Peck, Cornwell, Stott, Davey, Slotkin, et al., intro. by RK), 205 pp., 8 1/2″ X 11″. $25.00.
• Younger Writers in North America (1971), a special edition of American PEN (III/4, Fall, 1971), with contributions about their publishing (and related activities) from Samuel R. Delany, Dick Higgins, Michael Feingold, Wm. M. Hoffman, et al, 71 pp., 5.00.

From Kindle (Amazon) are available Book Art, Anthologies, and Alternative Publishing; On Sports and Sportsman; Home and Away: Travel Essays; Preambles to the New, The Maturity of American Thought, The Art of Radio in North America, and Categories, all wholly authored by RK.

For photocopies of such unpublished books as “More On Innovative Music(ian)s,” “More Crimes of Culture&,#8221; “Person of Letters in the Contemporary World,” “1001 Stories,” “More Portraits from Memory,” “Bilingual Poems,” “Lovings,” and “More Openings & Closings,” please inquire.

For information regarding the Richard Kostelanetz-Martin Koerber films about the great Jewish cemetery of Berlin, in six different languages, query your local Goethe House or RK himself (ArchaeEditions@aol.com), who has video copies that, because of deficient scale, are not acceptable for public presentations. In preparation is a DVD that will contain all six languages plus a seventh soundtrack in English with RK’s commentary on the footage.

Testimonies from A Berlin Lost (n.d.) is a 30-page spiral-bound booklet of testimonies selected from the various versions, $10.00.

Prices and stocks are subject to change, both up and down, without prior notice. The date of this list is October 2010; it will be updated biannually. Discounts only to dealers, paying in advance. (Only defective copies can be returned.) Inquiries about other Richard Kostelanetz publications are also welcome. Please add $3.50 for postage and packing on all orders. Retail customers in New York State must also pay appropriate sales tax. With every order above $50.00, we add gratis, upon request, a copy of Recyclings, Vol. 1.

Addendum: Archae Editions is now distributing a dozen numbers of Assembling co-compiled with others, including A Critical Assembling (1979) and Pilot Proposals (1981), except Fourth of which only a few copies remain ($225.00), in addition to Assembling Press books by H. J. Korn, Mike Metz, Paul Zelevansky, Kenneth Gangemi, Donald Porter, Raymond Federman, Peter Barnett; ask for a separate list of its offerings.

• From Future Press, at the same address, can be obtained formally alternative books by Ian Tarnman, Bob Heman, Paul Nagy, and Loris Essary-Carl Clark.
• From Aseidad (Michael Peters, 7 Alsen St., Albany, NY 12205), Dis/sections (2003).
• From Autonomedia (P.O. Box 568, Brooklyn, NY 11211), Crimes of Culture (1995), Political Essays (1999), Film & Video: Alternative Views (2005), Toward Secession (2008), Skeptical Essays (2010).
• From Bartleby & Co. (15, rue des Prêtres, B-1000 Bruxelles), Thrice (2009).
• From Black & White (112 W.Broadway, Jim Thorpe, PA 18229), Tranimations (1998).
• From Blue & Yellow Dog, Fic-tions/This Sentence (2010)
• From Blue Lion, Furtherest Fictions (2007), 256 pp.
• From BOA Editions (92 Park Ave., Brockport, NY 14420), Wordworks: Poems New & Selected (1993).
• From Candace Hicks (2705 Martin Lydon Ave., Fort Worth, TX 76133), Infinities (2004).
• From Cervena Barba (Somerville, MA), Bilingual Poems (2007).
• From Cornerstone Press (1825 Bender Lane, Arnold, MO 63010), Simultaneous Translations (2008).
• From Dexter Sinister (38 Ludlow Street (Basement South); New York, New York 10002), Foul Stories (2007), Minimal Aphorisms (2007).
• From Found Street (2260 S. Fredinand Ave., Monterey Park, CA 91754), Selected Shorter Stories (1994).
• From Further State(s) of the Art (741 Park Ave., 3rd Fl, Hoboken, NJ 07030), Radio Writings (1996).
• From Ghost Dance (526 Forest, E. Lansing, MI 48823), the chapbook References (1990).
• From Generator Press (3202 W. 14th St., # 3, Cleveland, OH 44109), the chapbook March (1990).
• From goodbookpres (875 Central Parkway, Schnectady, NY 12309), a fold-out, Uninflected, Nonsyntactic Prose (1991).
• From Greenwood, Politics in the African-American Novel (1991) and a hardback edition of Twenties in the Sixties (1979).
• From Hal Leonard, A B. B. King Reader (2007).
• From Koja Press (1113 Ocean View Ave Brooklyn, NY 11235): Thirty-Five Years of Visible Writing (2004) .
• From Lingua Blanca (CI, Stenbocksv. 24, 02860 Esbo Finland), Finglish Interweaving (1995).
• From Liveright-Norton, AnOther E. E. Cummings (hardback, 1998; paperback, 1999), an anthological radically reintrepretative selection.
• From Lulu, More InSerts & Unfinished Fictions (w/ John M. Bennett).
• From Luna Bisonte (137 Leland, Columbus, OH 43214), Word Whirls (with John M. Bennett) (2005), Sdrowkcab Tzrohs Slevon (with John M. Bennett) (2005), Scram/Bleds (2008).
• From Marymark Press (45-08 Old Millstone Dr., E. Windsor, NJ 08520), Seven Jewish Short Fictions (2006), Ghosts in Numbers (2008).
• From New York Quarterly (PO Box 2015, Old Chelsea Station, New York, NY 10113), Recircuits (2009).
• From Offerta Speciale (Corso de Nicola 20, I-10128 Turin, Italy), Which Witch? (1999), Multiple Ghosts: Subtexts (2009).
• From Presa (PO Box 792, Rockford, MI 49341), Po/ems (2008), More Fulcra Poems (2009), Purling Sonnets (2011).
• From Prometheus Press, the second edition of Esthetics Contemporary (1989) and paperback copies of The Avant-Garde Tradition in Literature.
• From Redfox (Dugort, Achill Island, County Mayo, Ireland), Fulcrapoems (2007), Erotic Minimal Fictions (2010).
• From Runaway Spoon (P.O. Box 3621, Port Charlotte, FL 33949-3621), the chapbooks Fields/Pitches/Turfs/Arenas (1990), Repartitions-IV (1992), MoRepartitions (1995), Fulcra (2005).
• From San Diego State University Press, An ABC of Contemporary Reading (1995).
• From Talisman (P.O. Box 3157, Jersey City, NJ 07303-3157), More Wordworks (2006).
• From Unicorn (3019 Branderwood Drive, Greensboro, NC 27406), Ghosts (2005).
• From the University of California Press, Writings on Glass, amended paperback ed. (1999).
• From the University of Michigan Press, The Old Poetries and the New (1981), which is the first collection of RK’s essays on poetry, and Writings about John Cage (hardback, 1993; paperback, 1996), which is an anthology of criticism.
• From Yale University Press, paperbacks of The Yale Gertrude Stein (1980).
• From Wadsworth Publishing: Classic Essays on 20th Century Music (1997, with Joseph Darby).

Should any of these publishers not have these books available, please ask us for copies.

“There is one final area of collecting which calls for more extended discussion. I refer to an extremely small group of authors--innovators or ground breakers, the ones whose work made such an impact that the entire course of English and American literature was altered ever after. A careful scrutiny of book prices over the past century will reveal one incontrovertible fact: that is, theirs are the works that stay in demand, whose prices continually rise, regardless of the fashions in collecting.”

--Robert A. Wilson, Modern Book Collecting (1980)

Individual entries on Richard Kostelanetz’s work in several fields appear in various editions of Readers Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers, Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature, Contemporary Poets, Contemporary Novelists, Postmodern Fiction, Webster’s Dictionary of American Writers, The HarperCollins Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature, Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Directory of American Scholars, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in American Art, NNDB.com, Wikipedia.com, and Britannica.com, among other distinguished directories.

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