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

New York: The Viking Press, 1975. First American Edition. Hardcover [octavo] in pictorial dust jacket. Black cloth with orange and green lettering to spine. Gray endpapers. 139 pp. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket.. Jacket Design by Roy Kuhlman. First American Edition of the posthumously published experimental novel by B.S. Johnson.

Kingston, Jamaica; London: Sangster's Book Stores with Heinemann, 1970. Second impression by Sangster's Book Stores with Heinemann in 1970; first published by Knopf in 1949. Hardcover, octavo, slate cloth boards with gilt lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 344 pp. Very good, front free endpaper owner-inscribed, up to 50 pages in text block under-lined with annotations from literary critic and translator Roberto Marquez; very good dust jacket, spine ends chipped, covers rubbed, edges and corners worn and rubbed, edges creased/Very good dust jacket, chipped spine ends with. Cover design by Joint Graphics. Considered to be an early work in introducing patois to a new, younger generation by way of a manuscript written entirely in Creole, hardly facilitating its publication. In his introductory note to this 1970 printing, V.S. Reid recounts a brief history of Jamaica leading up to the opening of his first novel. It's October 1865, the beginning of the Morant Bay Rebellion in St. Thomas Parish, the… Read More

Kingston, Jamaica; London: Sangster's Book Stores with Heinemann, 1970. Second impression by Sangster's Book Stores with Heinemann in 1970; first published by Knopf in 1949. Hardcover, octavo, slate cloth boards with gilt lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 344 pp. Very good, some gently shelf wear and toning to paper edges/Very good dust jacket, chipped spine ends with some rubbed sections and discoloration, rubbed covers with mild edge wear, chipping and some creases; seams of flaps worn and creased with chipped corners. Cover design by Joint Graphics. Considered to be an early work in introducing patois to a new, younger generation by way of a manuscript written entirely in Creole, hardly facilitating its publication. In his introductory note to this 1970 printing, V.S. Reid recounts a brief history of Jamaica leading up to the opening of his first novel. It's October 1865, the beginning of the Morant Bay Rebellion in St. Thomas Parish, the subject of commemoration in his work, In the wake of a 3… Read More

New York: Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, 2011. Hardcover quarto quarter bound gray cloth spine with gold corrugated boards and die-cut title. Very good, lightly bumped spine and corrugated sections/No dust jacket.

The Hague and Paris: Mouton & Co, 1975. Hardcover octavo black cloth boards with white lettering in glossy pictorial dust jacket, 305 pp. Near fine, very lightly soiled edges, light markings and soiling to paste down end pages/Very good, lightly chipped and worn spine ends, lightly foxed and rusted covers extending onto flaps, lightly worn perimeter aspects. Jacket photo by Cas Oorthuys; Cover and jacket design by Jurriaan Schrofer; Printed in the Netherlands.

Yale University Press, 2008. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Light wear to the dust jacket from handing. Clean boards, tight binding, clean text block, and bright leaves free of soiling or creasing. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

Chicago, New York, San Francisco: Belford, Clarke & Co, 1889. Revised edition. Hardcover, [octavo], brown cloth boards, gilt spine titles, 218 pp. Very good, spine ends cloth worn, corners rubbed.

Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1971. First edition. Hardcover, [octavo], black cloth boards, stamped gilt spine titles, yellow end papers, illustrated dust jacket, 222 pp. Very good book; very good dust jacket, spine creased, spine ends chipped, edges with close tears. Jacket design by Roy Wallace.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First edition. Hardcover, [octavo], green cloth boards, black spine titles, illustrated dust jacket, 178 pp. Very good book; Very good dust jacket, spine ends chipped, front and back covers with several tears along edges. Jacket design by Emil Antonucci. First printing identifying marker of 'A' printed under copyright statement to colophon. Tipped in editorial copy slip rubber stamp dated Sep[tember] 22 1952.

Amsterdam, Holland: Errol Sawyer Foundation, 2011. Hardcover. Very Good. Book is in very good condition, tight square binding, some light bumping to corners, light shelving and handling wear, clean and unmarked within. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

London: Neville Spearman, 1982. Third printing. Hardcover, octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 192 pp. Near fine book; very good price-clipped dust jacket, upper cover top edge creased and lightly warped, otherwise light shelf wear. Jacket design by Carol Smither. Burr pioneered studies and theories in Bio-electrics, herein proposing the concept of 'L-fields' as the fields of life through which electric current flows and can be measured. He further describes these fields as the communicative bridge connecting inanimate life to the living world. Burr elaborates on the blueprint for life which can provide an electrical mapping of biological, agricultural and physiological systems and patterns essential to understanding how their components interact.

New York: New York University Press, 1965. 8vo, orange cloth boards with black lettering to spine in pictorial jacket, 246 pp. Very Good, slight cock to spine, light fraying to tail corners, some shelving and handling wear./Fair jacket, significant amount of chipping, including one large 2" chip at tail of spine and onto front and rear jacket panels, chipping and tearing along front panel and front flap, long tear with some chips missing through entirety of jacket spine, soiling, held together in protective mylar jacket,.

New York: Corinth Books, 1968. Signature-bound in pictorial wraps, 8-1/8 x 6 in. 48pp. Light edge wear, moderate rubbing to wraps. Very good or better.. Cover by George Schneeman. Inscribed to Kewnard Elmslie by Schjeldahl on title page: "To a peach of a guy (Kenward!) Love, Peter July 28, 1968". Schjeldahl's first book of poetry.

Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 1994. Signature-bound, octavo, pictorial wraps, 255 pp. Very good, gently shelf-worn, lower edge lightly soiled. Inscribed on first page to Village Voice Editor, 'For Karen [Durbin], my dear Boss, again. This time, it's right. Admiringly, Peter Happy New Year 1995'.

[New York]: [Ronald Feldman Fine Arts], 2007. First edition. Perfect-bound, 7 7/8" x 8 3/8", in glossy illustrated wraps, [28]. Very good, gently worn with minor soiling to wraps. Exhibition catalog from Edwin Schlossberg's 2007 show.

Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society Press. Near fine. Cover design by Ellen B. Zanolle.

New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1996. Signature-bound (oblong) quarto in printed wraps. 67 pp. Very Good or better, light edge wear and some rubbing to covers. Lightly bumped at bottom fore corner..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover [duodecimo]. Green cloth blindstamped to front with gilt lettering to spine. 218 pp. About Very Good, with gently pushed corners and spine ends, forward cock to spine (although it stands up straight by itself), boards lightly rubbed and soiled, cloth creased to rear board, text block mildly soiled and foxed.. True first printing of one of the most enduring and momentous novels of 20th century American literature, with all relevant points: Scribner's seal and 1925 to copyright page; "chatter" on p. 60; "northern" on p. 119; "sick in tired" p. 205; "Union street station" on p. 211. All these would be reset and corrected for the second printing.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Softcover octavo in illustrated glossy wraps, 546 pp. Good condition, worn around edges and corners, lightly creased wraps, with former owner's minimal inking to interior pages, overall a very strong reader's copy. Cover design the Em Space.

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022. Hardcover. As New. In original shrinkwrap. As new condition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.