Search Results: Authors starting with B from Better Read Than Dead

New York: Crown Publishers, 1953. Hardcover, [octavo], blue cloth boards, pictorial dust jacket, decorative endpapers, 530 pp. Very good book; very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Larry Hoffman.

New York: Macmillan, 1912. Vol 1: First Edition, Second Printing Vol 2: Second Edition. 8vo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and illustrative decoration on spine, 871 pp (2 vols). Vol 1: Very Good, some fading and soiling to gilt on spine, light rubbing to crown and tail of spine, corners lightly pushed in, some rubbing to boards, light soiling to top of text block. Vol 2: Good, slight cock to spine, some rubbing and fading to gilt of spine, damping damage to front and rear board, rubbing to crown and tail of spine, light soiling to top of text block.. In two volumes: Includes Vol. 1 "Lyrical Poems," styled as "Poems" on spine of book, and Vol. 2 "Dramatic Poems," styled as "Plays Revised and Enlarged" on spine of book.

London: Clarendon Press, 1899. Hardcover, 6 5/8" x 9 7/8", maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering, no dust jacket, 87 pp. Good, ex-library copy, wear to cloth boards all around, with withdrawn stamp to title page and circulation stamp to rear end paper, soiling to free end papers. Global history of the musical bow as instrument and tool by British composer, teacher and musician, Henry Balfour Gardiner.

Los Angeles, CA: Science of Mind Publications, 1974. Second printing. Softcover octavo, in colorful illustrated wrappers, 92 pp. Very good, light wear and rubbing to perimeter aspects of wrappers, creasing along spine to back cover, light soiling to cover in marker, unmarked text block with strong binding.

London, England: Socialist Workers Party, 1992. Softcover octavo, staple-bound in pictorial glossy wrappers, 47 pp. Very good, lightest wear around perimeter aspects of wrappers, price sticker on back cover.

London: Frank Cass & Co, 1968. Hardcover, maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 8vo, 323 pp. Very good, worn cloth edges/Very good jacket, soiled and discolored spine with lightly chipped ends, chipped edges with minor tears.

New York: Grove Press, 1964. First edition. Hardcover, [octavo], gray cloth boards, red spine titles, brown end papers, pictorial dust jacket, 79 pp. Very good book, spine slightly tilted, second page of contents lightly marked, top edge lightly soiled; very good dust jacket, spine ends chipped, covers lightly soiled, perimeter edges marked with few close tears.. Cover photo by Leroy McLucas.

New York: William Morrow and Co, 1966. First edition. Hardcover, [octavo], quarterbound black cloth spine and gray boards, white spine titles, red end papers, pictorial dust jacket, 252 pp. Good book, title page ink markings, text block separation to rear board; very good dust jacket, spine ends chipped and creased, edge wear and creasing, cover soiling. Jacket design by Cynthia Basil; jacket photo by Robert Adelman; author photo Leroy McLucas.

New York: Just Another Asshole, 1979. Unbound newsprint tabloid [folio] in printed self-wraps, hand-stamped title to front in red. 48 pp. Near Fine, save a spot of fray to spine.. Third issue, the first to be co-edited (with Jane M. Sherry), of the legendary Downtown / No Wave journal from Barbara Ess. As per usual, a heavy-hitting cast of contributors, including Kim Gordon, Dan Graham, Jenny Holzer, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Lynne Tillman, and many others. From Ess's deadstock -- an unusually clean copy.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1966. First edition, stated first printing. Hardcover, [octavo], green cloth boards, black and blue and gilt spine titles with decoration, pictorial dust jacket, gray top stain, cartographic end papers, 368 pp. Very good book; very good dust jacket, spine dust-soiled, spine ends chipped, covers soiled with close tears. Jacket design by Carl Smith.

New York: Just Another Asshole, 1987. Perfect-bound [oblong octavo] in pictorial multi-colored wraps. 142 pp. Near Fine, light shelving and edge wear.. Cover photo by Ted Serios. Seventh issue of seminal journal JUST ANOTHER ASSHOLE, edited by publisher Barbara Ess and musician / downtown luminary Glenn Branca. The Cool is Countless: 120 pages of photographs from Branca, Mitch Corber, Nan Goldin, Dan Graham, Gary Indiana, Jim Jarmusch, Barbara Kruger, Richard Prince, Arleen Schloss, Lynne Tillman, David Wojnarowicz, and many more followed by essays from Gary Indiana, Cookie Mueller, David Rattray, and more.

Richard Barnes, 1966. First Edition. Softcover [quarto], in printed brown card wraps, 100 pp. Very Good or better, with trifle edgewear.. Cover design by C.H. Hertel. Self-produced edition of Barnes' early theatrical and critical writings, compiled in 1966 soon after his lifelong post teaching English at Claremont McKenna began in 1966. Barnes was a poet of some note and perhaps best known for his translations (with Richard Mezey) of the poetry of Jorge Luis Borges. Laid in is a typewritten signed letter to Thor Wood, recently appointed to head the Performing Arts Research Center for NYPL (which itself had just relocated to Lincoln Center), telling him this copy was for him and "the other to insinuate into the Lincoln Center library if you'd be so kind", which Wood seemingly obliged, as NYPL holds one of just nine copies we could locate worldwide. Additionally inscribed "for Thor, and Damned good too / Dick Barnes" on the title page.

Johannesburg: The Classic Magazine Trust Fund, 1966. Signature-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 80 pp. Very good condition, wraps worn and faded, corners chipped with a tear, lightly soiled. This issue is dedicated to the memory of The Classic founding editor, Nieman fellow, and writer, Nat Nakasa. He passed away July 14 1965 at the age of 28. A majority of this issue features his work, some previously published, as well as contributions from Nadine Gordimer, Can Themba, William Plomer and a eulogy from Athol Fugard.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First American edition. Hardcover, [octavo], blue cloth boards, stamped yellow spine and cover titles, decoration; pictorial dust jacket, 329 pp. Very good book, cover boards lightly soiled, edges worn, corners bumped; good dust jacket, spine faded, spine ends chipped, covers soiled, front cover toned, edges and seams chipped with close tears. Translated from the Spanish by Aubrey F.G. Bell.

Kingston: Sangster's Book Store, 1976. Perfectbound [octavo] in pictorial wrappers. 128 pp. Very Good, soft creasing to wraps and some mild edge wear.

New York: Las Americas Publishing, 1969. Hardcover, [octavo], brown cloth boards, gilt spine titles, no dust jacket, 134 pp. Very good book, text block lightly marked. Translated by Edmundo Garcia Giron.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, [octavo], black cloth boards, gilt spine titles, gray end papers, pictorial dust jacket, 177 pp. Very good book, top edge dust-soiled, fore and bottom edge lightly foxed; very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Ruth Ansel.

New York: Hill & Wang, 1968. First American Edition. Hardcover duodecimo, blue cloth with silver lettering stamped to spine, publisher's blue topstain, [xxi] 88 pp. Near Fine, some toning near edges, light soiling, else clean./Very Good unclipped jacket, some edgewear throughout, light sunning to spine, general soiling and rubbing. First American Edition (March 1968) of Roland Barthes' classic essential introduction to semiology, first published in French fifteen years prior to this English translation. Preface by Susan Sontag.

New York: Hill and Wang, 1968. First American edition. Hardcover, [octavo], brown cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 111 pp. Very good book; good dust jacket, spine ends chipped with close tears, joints rubbed, covers rubbed and soiled, flap seams worn with tears. Jacket design Ronald Clyne. Translated from the French by Annette Lavers and Colin Smith.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. Hardcover, [octavo], red cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 104 pp. Very good book; very good dust jacket.