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

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. First paperback edition. Perfect-bound, [octavo], illustrated wraps, 725 pp. Very good. Cover design by Janet Halverson.

Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2003. Hardcover with black boards and gold lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 8vo, 171 pp. Very good/Very good jacket.

Edition Patrick Frey, 2018. Soft cover. Near Fine. Very light wear to the wrap, other wise this copy is in near fine condition with tight binding and clean, bright pages free of marking or spotting. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover [octavo] in illustrated dust jacket. Green cloth board with green lettering and decorative blocking. 154 pp. Very Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, mildly rubbed, soiled, and edgeworn.. Jacket by Mary Jane Gorton. Attractive first printing of Gallant's second book and first novel, a medium she scarcely worked in, much preferring the short story format for which she is best known.

Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2017. Hardcover oblong quarto with illustrated boards, no dust jacket, unpaginated [108]. Very good, lightly soiled boards, lightly worn around corners, edges and joints.

Berlin, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2018. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. book is in very good condition bordering on near fine, corners sharp, binding is tight and square, clean and unmarked within. Dust jacket is in very good condition, clear plastic dust jacket, some minor scuffing to front panel, otherwise clean and very transparent. Overall in very good condition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall.

San Francisco: The Trystero Company, 1968. October 30, 1968. Folded tabloid newsprint (11-1/2 x 16 in). Black ink. 16 pp. Very Good. Some toning, foxing, soiling and edgewear including shallow closed tears and chipping, but all material present.. Underground weekly which ran for 62 issues (before rebranding and flying under the masthead Good Times until 1972) from the Bay Area countercultural scene and Berkeley Free Speech Movement. Edited by Marvin Garson, the SFET became a hotbed of radical journalism, underground cartoonists, and even organic food justice (with Alice Waters frequently contributing recipes and columns). This issue contains a PSA on voting abstinence by CITIZENS FOR A GROOVY AMERICA, Wayne Collins on the Berkeley Movement, part two of Jeff Shero's interview with William S. Burroughs (see isssue 38), Dan McCauslin's account of a confrontation and reclamation of a NYC theater from Rock impresario Bill Graham with the Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers, Marvin Garson's review of… Read More

San Francisco: The Trystero Company, 1968. October 2, 1968. Folded tabloid newsprint (11-1/2 x 16 in). Black and blue ink. 16 pp. Very Good. Some toning, foxing, soiling and edgewear including shallow closed tears and chipping, but all material present.. Underground weekly which ran for 62 issues (before rebranding and flying under the masthead Good Times until 1972) from the Bay Area countercultural scene and Berkeley Free Speech Movement. Edited by Marvin Garson, the SFET became a hotbed of radical journalism, underground cartoonists, and even organic food justice (with Alice Waters frequently contributing recipes and columns). This issue contains a call to shut down Columbia University, a poem entitled "Up Against the Wall" by Peter Dale Scott, an illustrated poetry centerfold on the history and role of printmaking and its revolutionary potential by Frank Cieciorka and Ellen Estrin, a review of Brecht's "Baal", and more.

San Francisco: The Trystero Company, 1968. October 23, 1968. Folded tabloid newsprint (11-1/2 x 16 in). Blue ink. 16 pp. Very Good. Some toning, foxing, soiling and edgewear including shallow closed tears and chipping, but all material present.. Underground weekly which ran for 62 issues (before rebranding and flying under the masthead Good Times until 1972) from the Bay Area countercultural scene and Berkeley Free Speech Movement. Edited by Marvin Garson, the SFET became a hotbed of radical journalism, underground cartoonists, and even organic food justice (with Alice Waters frequently contributing recipes and columns). This issue contains articles on the death of Aristotle Onassis, the yucky and mucky fundraising overtures of RAMPARTS to less than revolutionary figures aboard yachts, the various fisticuffs and intimidation beatings by the Progressive Labor Party, investigative journalism on Indian affairs in Downeast Maine, "Theater as Brick not Theater as Banana" by Joan Holden and R.G.… Read More

San Francisco: The Trystero Company, 1968. October 9, 1968. Folded tabloid newsprint (11-1/2 x 16 in). Black and brown ink. 16 pp. Very Good. Some toning, foxing, soiling and edgewear including shallow closed tears and chipping, but all material present.. Underground weekly which ran for 62 issues (before rebranding and flying under the masthead Good Times until 1972) from the Bay Area countercultural scene and Berkeley Free Speech Movement. Edited by Marvin Garson, the SFET became a hotbed of radical journalism, underground cartoonists, and even organic food justice (with Alice Waters frequently contributing recipes and columns). This issue contains articles on solidarity with Mexican students and activists after the military occupation of the National University, part one of a Jeff Shero interview with William S. Burroughs, a long feature on El Teatro Campesino's "The Shrunken Head of Pancho Villa", a pictorial centerfold on the Godard Festival entitled "The Three Lives of Jean-Luc Godard", a… Read More

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2023. First edition. Hardcover, octavo, black boards with silver lettering in pictorial dust jacket, cartographic end papers, 363 pp. Very good, parallel bumps to top edge of boards/Very good jacket. Cover photograph by Josef Koudelka; endpaper maps by Bill Donohoe.

New York, New York: New American Library, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo, black and blue cloth boards with gilt lettering down spine in illustrated jacket, 304 pp. Near Fine, corners on tail of front and rear board lightly pushed, some fading to top 1/4" crown of spine./Good Jacket, chipping to crown of jacket spine along with closed 2" tear, large 1" wide tear along entire tail of rear panel and onto tail of rear flap, closed 1/2" tear at crown of rear panel where it meets rear flap, rubbing to front panel, otherwise flap copy and illustrations largely unaffected by wear..

New York: Books in Focus, 1979. Hardcover, [quarto], illustrated boards, no dust jacket, 198 pp. Very good, spine fade, boards lightly soiled, top edge foxed. International speeches of South African statesman Prince Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi on the crisis in his country, selected from speaking engagements over the course of 1977-78. Title page author inscription.

Paradise Valley, AZ: Pro West, 1980. First edition. Hardcover, 6 1/4" x 9 1/4", green boards with black lettering in glossy pictorial dust jacket, 271 pp. Very Good/Very Good jacket, soiled and edgeworn throughout but complete.. The last Edsel known to be built came off the assembly line of a Louisville, KY Ford Motors Plant November 19, 1959. Warnock spent years interviewing former Ford fabricators, designers and linesmen attempting to reconstruct the short history(1957-1960) of the Edsel automobile once he found out that all pre-1957 documenting and photographic memoranda of the automobile had disappeared. Named after Henry Ford's son, the Edsel failed commercially after a multi-hundred thousand dollar advertising campaign and it's television debut on the Bing Crosby show with Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney and Louis Armstrong in 1957. The car was introduced during a time of noted depression in car sales.

Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ardis, 1988. 8vo, black cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, 135 pp. Very Good, some foxing to top of text block, crown of spine lightly pushed./Very Good jacket, some shelving and handling wear, light rubbing to extremities, some small tearing along crown of front and rear panel.. A heralded novel by the infamous emigre, Gazdanov's novel has been compared by his contemporaries to the likes of Proust. Despite having his roots firmly in Russia, his work was never published in the Soviet Union.

London: Century Publishing, 1985. Hardcover, octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 192 pp. Near fine book; very good dust jacket, lightly worn with some creased edges, 1/4" tear to lower cover top edge.

Brooklyn, NY: Trobar, 1961. Side-stapled 8vo, illustrated cardstock wraps, 28 pp. Good, strong binding, foxing and toning throughout, soiled wraps former price in pen to front cover. Cover by Abbe Breuil. Star-studded and storied poetry and poetics journal from the Deep Image school. Contributors include Paul Blackburn, Robert Creeley, Edward Dorn, Robert Duncan, George Economou, Seymour Faust, George Hitchcock, LeRoi Jones, Robert Kelly, Rochelle Owens, Jerome Rothenberg, Armand Schwerner, Gary Snyder.

Brooklyn, NY: Trobar, 1962. Side-stapled 8vo, illustrated blue cardstock wraps, 44 pp. Very Good, light edge and handling wear, slight vertical crease running throughout. Cover by Abbe Breuil. Star-studded and storied poetry and poetics journal from the Deep Image school. Contributors include Robert Duncan, Louis Zukofsky, Margaret Randall, Diane Wakoski, Gerrit Lansing, Jackson Mac Low, George Economou, Robert Kelly, LeRoi Jones, Jerome Rothenberg, Armand Schwerner, Paul Blackburn, Joel Oppenheimer, Philip Lamantia, Rochelle Owens.

Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, 1950. First Edition. 12mo, red boards with gilt stamped lettering to front and spine, 232 pp. Near Fine, trace edge wear to boards, light foxing to end papers, minor abrasion to top of text block, previous owner inscription to FFEP./Very Good pictorial jacket, fading to spine, light edgewear, soiling, rubbing. All material present.. Grandson of the famed political theorist and economist Henry George, Henry George III set out to write a novel on the dangerous labor condition of coal miners in the Eastern U.S., inspired by the particular plight of labor as it relates to the political ideas of his grandfather, where a single land tax (and that land's natural resources) alone could suffice to subsidize and sustain a just and equal society. Blood & Coal is his attempt to illuminate the injustice of the working conditions of miners as well as their relation to the capital and value being extracted through their exploitation. Scarce as is, especially so in a presentable jacket.

Orient Commerce, 1971. Soft cover. Very Good. Some tearing to dust jacket and small dings to boards. Tight binding, clean text block, and bright leaves free of soiling or creasing. Text in Italian. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall.