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.....
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.....
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. Jacket design by Bob Cato. First edition, first printing. 4o, tan cloth with decorative blind stamping to front boards and green foil lettering to spine, 409 pp. The collected poetic works of the great poet of Martinique, erstwhile collaborator with Picasso, and co-founder of.....
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.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First American Edition. 8vo, decorative blind stamped black cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on spine, 278 pp.
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.
New York, New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1957. 8vo, quarter bound in decorative paper boards with red and silver lettering on black cloth spine in pictorial jacket, 229 pp.
Calais, VT: Z Press, 1977. Illustrated by Alex Katz. Copy “H” of 26 lettered copies signed by Mathews and Katz to colophon at rear. From a total edition of 750 copies. Perfect-bound in green printed wraps, 8vo. 178 pp. A prose work by Mathews based on the words occurring in.....
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.....
Howell Soskin, 1946. First Edition. 8vo, red cloth boards with blue lettering in pictorial jacket, 295 pp.
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.
New York City, NY & London, England: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1982. Jacket design by Judith Kazdym Leeds. Second Printing in a first state dust jacket. Hardcover 8vo quarter bound with purple cloth spine and silver lettering, cream boards in an glossy illustrated dust jacket, 245 pp. Alice Walker's double.....
Boise, ID: Ahsahta Press, 2015. Softcover, illustrated wraps, 86 pp. Signed. Signed by Boyer to title page in black ink.
Indianapolis, Indiana: Bobbs Merrill, 1971. First Edition. 8vo, red cloth boards with black lettering on spine in pictorial jacket, 387 pp. Scarce and comprehensive anthology of some of the most important American poets of the second half of the 20th century.
Lion Edition Publishing, 1950. Soft cover. Some creasing and a small, 1 cm, tear between wrap and spine of the front cover. Tight binding, clean square text block and bright leaves free of soiling or creasing. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall.
Chicago: Big Table Publishing Company, 1971. First Edition, Stated. Oblong 12mo. Black cloth boards with blue lettering to spine. Unpaginated. First Edition, Stated. Experimental minimalist erotic poetry, dedicated to Chuck Berry.
Boston: Beacon Press, 1968. Hardcover with black paper and beige cloth boards and black lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 8vo, 224 pp. After being out of print since it's original publication in 1936, the 1968 reprint here present with an introduction by the author.
Boston: Beacon Press, 1968. Hardcover with black paper and beige cloth boards and black lettering no dust jacket, 8vo, 224 pp. After being out of print since it's original publication in 1936, the 1968 reprint here present with an introduction by the author.
New York: Random House, 1950. Warren Chappell. Two volumes in slipcase, 8vo, red cloth with decorative titleblocked spine, [xv], 919 pp, [viii], 729 pp. Attractive two-volume deluxe edition of Austen's complete novels, with 12 sepia illustrative plates by Warren Chappell, housed in a slipcase.
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Mexico, D.F. Ediciones Estela, 1946. First Mexican Edition. Octavo, illustrated French-fold cardstock wrappers, 289 pp. First Mexican Edition of Traven's most enduring work, and its first North American publication. A bard of the dispossessed, Traven came to Mexico first from Europe and settled in for the long haul as it.....
Providence: Burning Deck, 1976. Perfect-bound in pictorial wraps, 9 x 6 in. 42pp. Inscribed by Guest on the half-title: "Admiring glances from the countess as ever, Barbara." Kenward Elmslie's copy, presumably inscribed to him.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. Jacket design by Sarah Eisenman. First edition. 8vo, quarter bound in white paper boards with silver lettering on beige cloth spine, 166 pp.
Nairobi: East African Publishing House, 1969. Staplebound 16mo, pictorial glossy wraps, 89 pp. Scarce first staplebound edition, printed on letterpress by afropress in Nairobi and published on the prolific East African Publishing House. Recently reprinted.
New York: 0 to 9 Books, 1968. 4to. Side-stapled in red wraps stamped in red on front cover. [38] pp. Mayer's first book, published by the 0 to 9 imprint she ran with her brother-in-law, artist Vito Acconci.
New York: United Artists, 1983. Cover by Yvonne Jacquette. 4to, side-stapled glossy paper wraps, yellow glassine front end paper, unpaginated paper leaves. Penultimate issue of the journal published by Mayer and Warsh's United Artists press. Featuring Joe Brainard (Self-Portrait 1982), Kathy Acker (from "My Death, My Life" by Pier Paolo.....