New York: William Morrow and Company, 1968. Second printing. Hardcover in illustrated dust jacket. Green cloth with titles stamped in black and white to spine. 248pp. Second printing of the debut novel from the celebrated carnivalesque Southern Gothic author Harry Crews (1935 - 2012). Scarce in any state of its.....
New York: Walker and Company, 1969. Jacket illustration by Jack Gaughan. First Edition. Hardcover in illustrated dust jacket. Slate-gray cloth with titles stamped in black to spine. Publisher's blue topstain. 286pp. Ex-library copy. First printing of the landmark science-fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018), which follows a galactic.....
London: Frederick Muller, 1969. Second impression. Blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt to spine in illustrated dust jacket. 206, [207]pp. 8 x 5-3/4 inches. Third novel from the Cameroonian author Mongo Beti (born Alexandre Biyidi Awala, 1934-2001), translated from the French by Peter Green.
Ashland, MA: Origin Press, 1959. One of 200 copies printed in Japan. Red cloth with titling stamped in gilt to top board and spine. 296pp, errata slip tipped in. Small-run edition collecting the first twelve parts (of 24 total) of the Objectivist poet Louis Zukofsky's (1904-1973) magnum opus, the epic.....
New York: vehicle editions, 1978. One of 1474 softcover copies of the first edition's 1500, of which 26 are hardcover and signed and numbered (which, curiously, this somehow is as well despite its binding). Perfect-bound in illustrated red and white card wrappers. Red endpapers. Book-length poem by Ted Berrigan (1934-1983).....
[New York]: Totem/Corinth, 1978. Seventh Printing, 1978. Saddle-stapled in illustrated card wraps. 47pp, [1]pp advert. Seventh printing of the debut chapbook from revolutionary Black Arts Movement poet Amiri Baraka (1934-2014, United States), published under his former name LeRoi Jones. This copy signed "Amiri Baraka" to title page in black pen.....
San Francisco: SF MoMA, 1997. Saddle-stapled in glossy illustrated self-wraps. 6-5/8 x 10-5/8 inches. [10]pp, illo. Catalog from the first West Coast solo exhibition of American artist Kara Walker (b. 1969), which ran from February 14-May 13, 1997 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Upon My Many Masters.....
New York: Bola Press, 1982. Drawings by Melvin Edwards. First Edition. Saddle-stapled (6 x 9 inches) in illustrated stiff wraps. 47pp. Signed first printing of the fifth collection of poetry from Black Arts Movement poet Jayne Cortez (1936-2012), published on her own Bola Press and illustrated by her husband Melvin.....
Paris: Art - Gout - Beaute. Drawn, Described and Coloured by Huguette Rouit. Signed and hand-numbered (60) of an unspecified edition. Unbound folio with silk ribbon ties. Marbled paper-covered boards backed and cornered in maroon calf. [1], 54 loose color plates. Beautiful folio overview of women's fashion and design --.....
Los Angeles: Rocker Publications Committee, 1938. First Edition. Green boards with titling stamped in gilt to front and spine. viii, 255pp.
1937: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. First Edition. Yellow cloth with decorative titling printed in red to front boards and spine. 401pp.
New York: Random House, 1967. First Edition, First Printing, stated. Hardcover in dust jacket. Gray blindstamped paper-covered boards backed with blue cloth. Gilt titling stamped to spine. Publisher's blue topstain. xii, 198pp.
Point Reyes, CA: Eidolon Editions, 1976. First Edition. Perfect-bound in illustrated self-wraps on brown textured cardstock. 6 x 11 inches. 21pp, illustrations. Finely printed poetry chapbook from Audre Lorde on Eidolon Editions, one of the many publishing hats of Lorde's high school classmate, friend, and peer Diane di Prima.
New York: M.E. Fitzgerald, 1919. Disbound (previously saddle-stapled) in printed self-wraps. 32pp. Pamphlet penned by Alexander Berkman (b. Russia, 1870-1936) and Emma Goldman (b. Russia, 1869-1940) on the brink of their deportation from the United States to the Soviet Union on the infamous "Red Ark." Berkman and Goldman were well-known.....
New York: CUZ Editions, 1998. Cover art by David Wojnarowicz. From an edition of 537 copies. Stab-stapled in black unprinted wraps. Glossy pictorial dust jacket. 40pp.
New York: NACLA, 1968. First printing. Saddle-stapled quarto (8 x 10-7/8 inches) offset printed in mechanically-duplicated illustrated wraps. Folded infographic poster (17 x 21.5 inches) laid in. 36pp. First printing of this contextual manifesto of the Columbia University occupation of Spring 1968. Rather than recount the actions of the occupation.....
New York: Self published, 1982. Accordion-bound (4.5 x 5.5) in printed self-wraps. Publisher contact stamped to inside front wrap in black ink. 6pp. Poetry chapbook from artist and poet Didi Susan Dubelyew, published in conjunction with the poetry performance of the same name presented for the Spring Opening at P.S......
New York: The Third Press, 1971. First American paperback edition. Perfect-bound in illustrated wraps. xvii, 60pp. First American edition of this collection of poems from Leopold Senghor Senegal, one of the major poets of the Negritude movement and President of Senegal from 1960-1980.
Brooklyn: United Artists Books, 2002. Cover photo by Ed Bowes. Edition of 226 copies, with 200 unsigned (of which this is one) and 26 lettered and signed. Saddle stapled (6 x 8 inches) in pictorial wraps. Red endpapers. [24]pp. Scarce collection from the conceptual poet Bernadette Mayer (1945-2022), who was.....
New York - Washington - London: Frederick A. Praeger, 1968. Third printing, 1968. Hardcover octavo in dust jacket. Brown cloth with titles stamped in gilt to spine. xv, 173pp. Translated and with an introduction by Mercer Cook.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974. Jacket Design by Lawrence Ratzkin. First Edition. First printing, stated. Hardcover octavo in dust jacket. Olive paper-covered boards backed with red cloth, bearing titles stamped in black. 167pp.
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover octavo in illustrated dust jacket. Navy cloth with titles stamped in gilt to spine and illustration stamped in gilt to top board. xiv, 606pp. Handsome copy of the scarce first edition of Hugh Kenner's acclaimed study of Ezra.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. Jacket design by Muriel Nasser. Fourth printing. Hardcover octavo (7-1/4 x 10-1/4 inches) in dust jacket. Beige cloth with titles stamped in gilt to top board and spine. Decorative endpapers. xxix, 586pp.
New York: Sheridan House, 1937. Early printing. Hardcover octavo (5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches). Gray-blue cloth with decorative roundel stamped in black to top board and titles in black to spine. 314pp. Early printing of Ben Reitman's fictionalized memoir of "Box-car Bertha", compositely drawn from women he knew from his own.....
New York: Random House, 1971. Jacket Design by Kenneth Miyamoto. First Edition. Hardcover octavo in illustrated dust jacket. Black cloth with titles stamped in silver to spine. 149pp, illo.