Kathy Acker

Works by Kathy Acker available at The New Rare.

  • Kathy Acker — Pussycat Fever, AK Press, 1995. Front cover. Hot pink ground. Centre: illustration by Diane DiMassa of four figures — a punk girl in the foreground, two women behind, a figure in a pointed hat at rear. Purple ink throughout. Title "Pussycat Fever" in large purple block letters upper left. Author and illustrator credits right: "Kathy Acker / illustrated by / Diane DiMassa / and / Freddie Baer". Kathy Acker — Pussycat Fever, AK Press, 1995 — interior spread. Left page: full-page black-and-white illustration by Freddie Baer. A young girl in a dress surrounded by cats and large feline faces — leopard, tiger, domestic cats — rendered in dense Victorian collage style within an ornate floral border. Right page: text beginning "Before I—" in serif type with decorative border.

    Kathy Acker — Pussycat Fever, AK Press, 1995

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    Kathy Acker — Pussycat Fever, AK Press, 1995

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  • Original 1978 Kathy Acker The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec paperback, TVRT Press and Printed Matter, New York. Front cover with black-and-white photographic image of two pairs of legs, one in stockings raised in the air, the other bare and low. Title in lowercase serif type: all she wants is love... Publisher imprints PM and TVRT Press at foot with ISBN 0-931106-21-4. Original price $4.50 at top left. Covers with age toning and surface wear. Reverse of 1978 Kathy Acker The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec, TVRT Press and Printed Matter. Back cover with black-and-white photographic image of intertwined bare limbs and hands. Title and author credit in white serif type at lower centre: The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec / By Henri Toulouse Lautrec. Age toning and surface scuffing to covers.

    Kathy Acker — The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec (1978)

    Kathy Acker — The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec (1978)

  • Original 1991 Kathy Acker Hannibal Lecter, My Father paperback, Semiotext(e) Native Agents Series, New York. Front cover in vivid pink with repeating text pattern in lighter pink forming the background, overlaid with bold black title lettering and author name. Printed wrappers in good condition with minor shelf wear. Reverse of 1991 Kathy Acker Hannibal Lecter, My Father paperback, Semiotext(e) Native Agents Series. Back cover in magenta-pink showing a halftone portrait photograph of Acker and the text: This writing is all fake (copied from other writing) so you should go away and not read any of it. ISBN and series imprint at foot.

    Kathy Acker — Hannibal Lecter, My Father (1991)

    Kathy Acker — Hannibal Lecter, My Father (1991)

  • Original 1982 Kathy Acker Great Expectations paperback, Open Book Publications, San Francisco. Front cover with title in bold serif type above a black-and-white woodcut illustration of a hunched long-haired figure leaning over a bed with a cane. Printed wrappers with toning and wear to spine. Interior spread of 1982 Kathy Acker Great Expectations, Open Book Publications. Left page shows black-and-white woodcut of a hunched figure at a desk. Right page opens Chapter 1 titled Plagiarism, subsection I Recall My Childhood, with Dickens-derived opening paragraph. Page 5.

    Kathy Acker — Great Expectations (1982)

    Kathy Acker — Great Expectations (1982)

  • Front cover of 1988 Kathy Acker Algeria French edition, Le Dernier Terrain Vague / DTV Compact Livre, Paris — full-bleed image by Kiki Picasso: saturated composite of fragmented urban photography, abstracted figures, and colour fields in yellow, green, orange, and blue; Kathy Acker in black diagonal type at lower left; ALGERIA in large bold black capitals; DTV logo at upper right; cover design functioning as graphic assault and media noise. Back cover of 1988 Kathy Acker Algeria French edition, Le Dernier Terrain Vague / DTV Compact Livre, Paris — full-bleed image by Kiki Picasso: dense field of small human figures rendered in warm amber, orange, and white tones against a glowing ground, figures repeated across the surface in a pattern suggesting mass, heat, and dissolution; TTC 69 F / ISBN 2-86219-035-7 printed vertically at left; compact livre logo in black square at lower right.

    Kathy Acker — Algeria (French edition), Le Dernier Terrain Vague / DTV, Paris, 1988

    Kathy Acker — Algeria (French edition), Le Dernier Terrain Vague / DTV, Paris, 1988

  • Kathy Acker — Blood and Guts in High School, Grove Press, New York, 1984. Front cover. Black ground with red border. Large red and white hand-lettered title: "BLOOD AND GUTS IN HIGH SCHOOL". Author name "KATHY ACKER" in white at top. Centre: oil painting illustration by Sue Coe — a dense, dark scene of figures, a cat-like creature in a suit, playing cards, a coffee cup, industrial machinery, and a crescent moon. Grove Press Evergreen logo upper right, price $7.95. Kathy Acker — Blood and Guts in High School, Grove Press, 1984 — interior page. Full-page line drawing of a multi-armed deity figure in the style of Indian iconography — Kali-like, with multiple heads arranged in a crown, necklace of skulls, weapons and objects in each hand, standing over a prone figure. Small figures and animals at the margins. Caption in a ruled box at base: "The Devil is an image. Imagine Hell. We grab the book, and run." Cream paper, black ink.

    Kathy Acker — Blood and Guts in High School, Grove Press, New York, 1984

    Kathy Acker — Blood and Guts in High School, Grove Press, New York, 1984

  • Kathy Acker — Blood and Guts in High School, Hakusuisha, Tokyo, 1992. Japanese edition. Front cover with dust jacket. Cream ground. Upper band: blue speckled paint surface. Lower band: blue-grey layered paint surface, stepped at right edge. Centre white band: Japanese title 血みどろ臓物ハイスクール in large black brushstroke type. English title "BLOOD AND GUTS IN HIGH SCHOOL" in spaced blue capitals at top. "KATHY ACKER" in spaced blue capitals at base. Kathy Acker — Blood and Guts in High School, Hakusuisha, 1992 — interior page. Three-language vocabulary lesson. Left column: Persian/Farsi script. Centre: English handwritten phrases — "father", "see my father!", "my father is dead.", "my father is blue.", "body", "my body is life.", "my body is hot.", "cunt". Right column: Japanese translations in small printed type. White space dominant.

    Kathy Acker — Blood and Guts in High School, Hakusuisha, Tokyo, 1992 (Japanese edition)

    Kathy Acker — Blood and Guts in High School, Hakusuisha, Tokyo, 1992 (Japanese edition)

  • Art Scribe No. 51 magazine cover, 1985, featuring Basquiat cover art — green background with black figure and red circle, £1.50 price printed, Artscribe Ltd Art Scribe No. 51 magazine open spread showing full Basquiat cover art, 1985 — black figure with outstretched hand and red circle on green background, Artscribe Ltd

    Art Scribe No. 51 (March–April 1985) — Basquiat, Kathy Acker, Lynne Cooke

    Art Scribe No. 51 (March–April 1985) — Basquiat, Kathy Acker, Lynne Cooke