Item 2944The Last Supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog
Menlo Park: Whole Earth Catalog, 1971. Saddle-stapled quarto (7 x 10-1/4 inches) in pictorial wraps, 128 pp.
Literature
Item 3735Thought Control In U.S.A. No. 3 : Literature, Music, The Arts, Architecture
Hollywood: Hollywood A.S.P. Council, P.S.A., 1947. Saddle-stapled octavo (6 x 9 inches) in printed wraps, 248 pp. Book No. 3 (of 6) in the series of the collected proceedings of the Conference on the Subject of Thought Control in the U.S., called by the Hollywood Arts, Sciences & Professions Council.....
Item 2980The Verdict and Other Stories
Ibadan: Daystar Press, 1965. Saddle-stapled octavo (5 x 7 inches) in illustrated wraps, 76 pp. Collection of short stories published in Nigeria, including "The Verdict" by E. Okoronkwo-Eze; "I Will Repay" by Ofia M. Okoro; and "Nwanna's Choice" by Douglad U. Ninedey.
Item 1924The Watchmaker of Dien Bien Phu
Hanoi: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1974. Signature-bound, octavo, pictorial wraps, 280 pp. A Collection of Vietnamese Short Stories (1945-1964) with contributions from Kim Lan, Nam Cao, Ho Phuong, To Hoai, Nguyen The Phuong, Huu Mai, Bui Hien, Xuan Sach, Vu Thi Thuong, Bui Duc Ai, Nguyen Kien, Ma Van Khang.....
Item 3147Orghast at Persepolis: An International Experiment in Theatre
New York: Viking, 1972. Hardcover octavo in pictorial dust jacket. Olive green cloth with lettering stamped in purple to spine. Green endpapers and topstain. 264pp. Book-length treatise on Peter Brook and his International Centre for Theatre Research.
Item 550Spidertown
New York: Hyperion, 1993. Jacket photograph: Jerry Bauer. Jacket Design by Victor Weaver. First Edition, Stated. 8vo. Quarter black cloth over black paper boards with silver gilt lettering to spine. First Edition, Rodriguez's first novel tells the story of Miguel, a young Puerto Rican dealer living in the South Bronx.....
Item 1019The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula #6
San Diego: [Kathy Acker], 1973. Saddle-stapled in printed self-wraps, 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 in. 28pp. Printed in blue on tan paperstock. The sixth volume (of six total) of Acker's serially self-published first novel, issues of which were mailed to subscribers. Republished in a single-volume trade edition by TVRT Press in 1975.....
Item 1814A Season in the Congo
New York: Grove Press, 1969. First Evergreen printing. Signature-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 104 pp.
Item 2735Yardbird Reader Volume 2
Berkeley, CA: Yardbird Publishing, 1973. Art Direction by Doyle Foreman. First Edition. Perfect-bound [octavo] in stiff pictorial wraps, xiv, 224 pp. Second reader from Al Young and Ishmael Reed's journal Yardbird, one of the better elevated platforms for (primarily) black thought and writing of the time. This volume includes work.....
Item 749Topology of a Phantom City
New York: Grove Press, 1977. Cover design by Kevin R. Deardoff. First trade printing. Softcover octavo in glossy illustrated wraps, 142 pp. Grillet's ninth novel translated from the French by J.A. Underwood published by Grove Press in 1977. First American trade paperback printing inscribed by author on half-title page to.....
Item 1390The Adventures of Maud Noakes
New York: New Directions, 1961. Jacket design by Andy Warhol. First edition. Hardcover, [octavo], quarterbound black cloth spine with red lettering and red boards in pictorial dust jacket, 159 pp. Early cover art of Andy Warhol.
Item 3072Strangers
New York: Orion Press, 1960. First American Edition. Hardcover octavo in illustrated dust jacket. Gray patterned boards backed in off-white cloth, decorative patterns to front board and lettering to spine both stamped in black. 174pp. First American Edition of the Tunisian writer Albert Memmi's second novel.
Item 427Man As An End
London, England: Secker & Warburg, 1965. First British Edition. Large 8vo, forest green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, 254 pp. Literary, Social and Political Essays.
Item 1857War of Time
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. Jacket by Muriel Nasser. First American edition. Hardcover, [octavo], blue cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 179 pp. Translated from the Spanish by Frances Partridge.
Item 538Darkness and Dawn
New York: Longmans, Green and co., 1936. Jacket illustration by Arthur Hawkins. First edition, second printing. Large 8vo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on spine, in illustrated jacket, 570 pp. Leo Tolstoy's distant relative and more famous as the author of Stalin Prize winning epic The Road.....
Item 2938In Love
London: Peter Owen, 1987. Octavo (5-1/4 x 8 inches) blue cloth boards with stamped gilt spine titles in pictorial dust jacket, 213 pp. Originally published in 1953, this is a reprint appearing in the Peter Owen series of Modern Romance Classics.
Item 406My Face For The World To See
New York, New York: Harper, 1958. Jacket design by Leo Manso. First Edition. 8vo, green cloth with white lettering and illustration on black spine in pictorial jacket, 183 pp.
Item 1811Black Fauns
London: New Beacon, 1984. Cover design by John Hendrickse. Signature-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 328 pp. Alfred Mendes was a Trinidadian novelist and co-editor, along with C.L.R. James, of the two pioneering 1929 and 1930 issues of literary journal Trinidad.
Item 1165The Trial of Christopher Okigbo
New York: The Third Press, 1971. Jacket design by Bennie Arrington. First printing. Hardcover 5" x 7 1/2", beige cloth boards with gilt lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 145 pp. At the time of publication, 1971, the Kenyan-born political scientist and author was approached by Idi Amin to an appointment.....
Item 1662Allen Verbatim
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974. Hardcover, [octavo], red cloth boards, stamped gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 269 pp. Title page inscription to poet and literary critic Aldon Nielsen from Allen Ginsberg and Gordon Ball. Jacket photos Bruce England and Douglas Moore.
Item 2623True Story : prose by Alta
Oakland: Mama's Press, 1973. Saddle-stapled octavo in glossy illustrated wraps, 36 pp. Two titles from the mononymous publisher, author, raconteur, and general literary powerhouse. In 1969 Alta founded California's only woman-owned feminist publishing house Shameless Hussy Press, named after her own sometime honorific "The Shameless Hussy". While her biggest impact.....
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Item 2971Obsidian : Black Literature in Review [6 issues]
Detroit: Alvin Aubert, 1975-78, 1982. Perfect-bound octavos (5-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches) in illustrated wrappers, 98 pp. (Volume 1, Number 2); 90 pp. (Volume 2, Number 2); 125 pp. (Volume 2, Number 3); 105 pp. (Volume 3, Number 3); 122 pp. (Volume 4, Number 1); 198 pp. (Volume 8, Numbers 2.....
Item 2467Yellow Flowers
New York: Dot Books, 1972. Signature-bound in glossy pictorial wraps. 35pp. The only printing of Andrew Wylie's poetry collection issued on Richard Hell's Dot Books following a co-editing stint on six issues of the art and poetry journal Genesis Grasp, 1968-1971. Hell befriended Wylie at cinemabilia in the early 1970s.....
Item 2960Dragonsinger
New York: Atheneum, 1977. Jacket by Fred Marcelino. First Edition. Hardcover octavo (6 x 9.5 inches) in illustrated dust jacket. Lilac cloth with lettering stamped in maroon to spine. Maroon endpapers. 264pp.
Item 1815Foundations
London: New Beacon, 1966. Cover design by Art Derry. After studying and labor organizing in Trinidad, La Rose moved to Britain in the 1960s where he decided to employ himself as messenger to the world of Caribbean letters. As co-founder, along with Andrew Salkey and Kamau Brathwaitre, of the Caribbean.....