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

Port-of-Spain, Trinidad: National Cultural Council Publications, 1964. Revised Edition. Signature-bound quarto in textured pictorial wraps. viii, 127pp. Very Good or better, lightly edge worn..

Matosinhos, Portugal: Casa da Arquitectura, 2019. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Very clean copy of this book in very good condition. Very light bumping to edges and corners. No jacket issued. Clean and bright pages with strong binding. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall.

San Francisco: Solidarity Publications, 1984. First Printing. Perfect-bound [duodecimo] in illustrated glossy wrappers. 183 pp. Near Fine save one dog-eared corned to p. 130.. First printing of this dual-language poetry collection from the revolutionary Salvadoran poet, translated by the Roque Dalton Cultural Brigade and with an introduction by Margaret Randall.

Centroamerica: Educa, 1976. First edition. Perfect-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 487 pp. Very good book, spine faded, wraps worn and rubbed, wraps moderately creased.

Willimantic, CT: Curbstone ress, 1981. Signature-bound [sextodecimo] in illustrated french-flapped wrappers. 53 pp. Near Fine. Essay by the revolutionary Salvadoran poet Roque Dalton, published as the first in Curbstone's Art on the Line series of "essays, interviews, manifestoes &c. by 20th century artists &/or politically engaged artists speaking to, or from, the point where their commitment and art interact

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover [oblong quarto] in illustrated dust jacket. Blue cloth stamped with black lettering, illustrated end papers, 128 pp. Very Good, toned to edges, lower rear corner pushed, lower front bumped. About Near Fine jacket has mild edge wear, remains bright and whole.. Beautiful, heavily illustrated monograph on the acclaimed outsider artist, whose voluminous and privately conceived body of work held whole vibrant fantastical worlds which continue to inspire and intrigue to this day after their posthumous discovery. This copy with a gift inscription from poet Ann Lauterbach to fellow poet Kenward Elmslie to half title in black marker: "an inspiration for the inspired Kenward for Christmas 2001 with all love from Anni Boxing Day Greenwich Ave 'Lundi'

Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press, 1986. Perfect-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 158 pp. Near fine.

New York: New Directions, 1982. Hardcover [quarto] in pictorial dust jacket. Maroon cloth with gilt stamped lettering to spine. 107 pp. Near Fine in a Very Good or better jacket with mildest toning, soiling, and edgewear..

Andover, MA: Warner Modular Publications, 1973. Signature-bound, [quarto], pictorial wraps. Good condition, wraps worn, text block water-damaged bottom edge.

Saint Quentin, France: Geopolymer Institute, 1983. Signature-bound, octavo, paper wraps, 252 pp. Very good condition, spine creased and soiled, spine ends lightly worn, covers lightly soiled, edges and corners worn.

New York: Anthology Film Archives, 1992. Perfect-bound, [octavo] in glossy pictorial wraps, 128 pp. Very good, some foxing to paper edges and slight warping to corners of wraps, former owner stamp on top corner of first page, 'Barney Rosset'. The Flow of Energy is a manifest of the work of artist and filmmaker Jim Davis. Included here are three essays by friends and admirers: Robert A. Haller, P. Adams Sitney, Stan Brakhage. Plus excerpts from The Journals of Jim Davis(1964-1968) and an essay by Jim Davis, The Only Dynamic Art. An index to the book is his lengthy filmography (1946-1972). With ownership stamp of Barney Rossett, legendary publisher of Grove Press.

New York: Illustrated Editions Company, 1932. Hardcover, [octavo], quarterbound yellow cloth spine and blue cloth boards, red-framed gilt spine titles, brown spine decoration, gilt and red cover decoration, pictorial dust jacket, 228 pp. Very good book, end papers toned, edges toned; fair dust jacket. Illustrated by Lawrence Chaves. De Quincey's 1821 drug memoir chronicling his addiction to laudanum, here fully illustrated.

Los Angeles & New York: MOCA/Skira Rizzoli, 2012. Hardcover quarto, pictorial boards, 240 pp. Very Good+, some gentle pushing to corners, light shelving wear, else clean.

New York: Arbor House / William Morrow and Company, 1988. First printing. Hardcover, [octavo], blue cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 302 pp. Very good book, spine tilted, rear endpapers pencil-marked, edges dust-soiled; very good dust jacket, top cover edge faded. Jacket design by Thomas Canty.

New York: Arbor House, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover in illustrated dust jacket. Green cloth stamped in gilt lettering over blue paper boards. 310 pp. About Near Fine in a like jacket, light soiling and edge wear.. Jacket illustration by Ned Dameron.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004. Perfect-bound, [octavo], in illustrated wraps, 572 pp. Near fine, wraps lightly edge worn.. Cover art by Ricardo Morin/Rob Stephenson. Originally published in 1988, the memoir of Samuel Delany begins in the late 1950s following his father's passing and his early pursuits of a writing career after receiving a work scholarship based on the merit of his early manuscripts. He soon meets Marilyn Hacker while attending City College of New York and after their second sexual experiment, she became pregnant and the couple moves to the lower east of Manhattan in the early 1960s. The rest of the memoir is titled 'the peripheries of love' detailing his sexual adventures cruising the bath houses, streets and times square theaters coupled with the transgressive genesis of ideas through the 1980s which would craft his writing and become some the finest criticism, essays, memoir, and science fiction of the 20th century.

New York: Viking Penguin Inc, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover octavo, silver stamped titling to quarter white cloth over gray boards, 326 pp. Near Fine, foxing to top of text block, toning to edges of boards, trace soiling, trifle edgeworn. Sound binding and bright, clean leaves./Near Fine unclipped jacket, trifle toned and edgeworn, else fine.. Jacket Design by Neil Stuart. Beautiful First Edition of DeLillo's most enduring and best known novel, widely considered to be his masterpiece.

Rome, Italy: Punctum, 2015. Hardcover. Very Good. Book is in very good condition, shelfwear along edges, rubbing with small tear at tail of spine, some fraying of paper boards, otherwise book is clean and bright, binding is tight and square. Inscribed by Delogu on title page: "London 2016 To Steve waiting for his trip to Rome" 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1965. First printing stated. Hardcover octavo halfbound in black cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on spine, red boards with printed black lettering and decoration, in pictorial dust jacket. Very good, lightly worn edges, publisher's red top edge stain/Good unclipped dust jacket, lightly chipped and worn around edges, small 1" tear to joint of spine, lightly spotted covers, small black grease marker price, 2" x 2" piece displaced from top back cover. Jacket Design by Irwin Rosenhouse; Jacket Photo by Fabio Coen.

New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1949. Hardcover, [octavo], black cloth boards, gilt spine titles, no dust jacket, 432 pp. Very good book, cloth boards bruised and worn.