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

Hatje Cantz, 2019. Hardcover. Near Fine. Slight wear to the boards from handling, otherwise this copy is in near fine condition with tight binding and clean, bright leaves free of soiling or creasing. Full page photographic illustrations. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall.

Florida: Boca Raton Museum of Art, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover quarto, gray cloth with black titling stamped to spine, 144 pp. In dust jacket. Near Fine, trace edgewear. Bright and clean./Near Fine jacket, unclipped, shows some edgewear and shelfwear, else bright and clean as well..

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1967. First edition. Hardcover, [octavo], black cloth boards, gilt spine titles, brown end papers, pictorial dust jacket, 280 pp. Very good book, cloth edges worn, corners bumped; very good dust jacket, spine soiled and rubbed, spine ends chipped with close tears, wraps lightly soiled, edges worn. Jacket design by Larry Lurin. The first and only novel from Pulitzer Prize nominated Boston Globe journalist and social justice activist, Bryant Rollins, published during the Civil Rights movement. The novel is set in Boston, dedicated 'to all the cats who used to hang out on the dark corners of The Hill in Roxbury.'.

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'

Austin/San Francisco: Mike & Dale's Press, 1998. First edition. Copy "E" of 26 signed and lettered, from a total edition of 300. Saddle-stapled imprinted orange wraps, 8-1/2 x 6-5/8 in. 50pp. Near fine, with mild sunning around spine.. This copy additionally inscribed on the title page to Kenward [Elmslie]: "To Kenward with admiration Hoe Nguyen 10-25-98". With a section of six black-and-white images by Suloni Robertson at center. Title re-editioned in 1999 by Nguyen's Skanky Possum Press, who also issued Elmslie's Blast From the Past (2000) and Spilled Beans : A Conversation (2001).

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969. First edition, second printing. Hardcover, [octavo], black cloth boards, embossed gilt spine titles, yellow end papers, pictorial dust jacket, 188 pp. Very good book; very good dust jacket, spine ends chipped, covers soiled.

Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Study of the Illustrations of William Blake. Dark Figures in the Desired Country: Blake's Illustrations to The Pilgrim's Progress. Gerda S. Norvig. University of California Press; Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA; 1993. Hardcover with navy blue boards and silver lettering on spine in glossy illustrated dust jacket. 4to, 327 pp. Book in very good condition, lightest wear to edges and corners of boards and very light soiling to edges otherwise very strong binding, clean and unmarked interior text blocks with bright illustrated plates. Dust jacket in good condition with 1" tear to the bottom rear of jacket, interior of jacket has an 1.5" x 3.5" water mark, some streak marks to back of jacket and some light wear and light soiling all around, otherwise clean and bright on front and completely in tact (please consult photos). Book listed, collated & photographed by Better Read than Dead Books.… Read More

New York: Longmans, Green and co, 1936. First edition, second printing. Large 8vo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on spine, in illustrated jacket, 570 pp. Very Good, corners bumped, former owner's name on front endpaper, fading to tail of spine./Very Good jacket, some chipping especially to crown and tail of jacket spine, 2"x1" patch of exposed paper where former price sticker was removed.. Jacket illustration by Arthur Hawkins. Leo Tolstoy's distant relative and more famous as the author of Stalin Prize winning epic The Road To Calvary, here is Alexei's novel of the Russian intellectual during the revolution, his plight and his survival. Translated by Edith Bone and Emilie Burns.

Prestel, 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean boards, tight binding, clean square text block, and bright leaves free of soiling or creasing. Text in German. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

Walther König, Köln, 2019. Soft cover. Very Good. Light wear and smudging to wrap from handling. Tight binding, clean text block, and bright leaves free of soiling or creasing. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

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: 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.

San Francisco: Inferno Press, 1951. Signed and numbered (142) edition of 150 total. Saddle-stapled [octavo] in red printed dust jacket. Black card wraps, untrimmed leaves. 28 pp. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, lightly soiled , toned, and rubbed..

San Francisco: THIS, 1977. Saddle-stapled in printed wraps, 7 x 5 in. [32]pp. Very Good, with some light handling and shelving wear, wraps lightly soiled.. From an edition of 350 copies.

Silvana Editoriale, 2017. Soft cover. New. New in shrink plastic. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

Hatboro, PA: Folklore Associates, 1964. Hardcover, octavo, black cloth boards with olive green lettering and decoration, no dust jacket, decorative end papers, 287 pp. Very good, minor shelf wear with lightly soiled paper edges/No dust jacket.

University of Georgia Department of Art, 1981. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. Book is in good condition, 1" damp stain to bottom left of cover, fading across cover, top right corner is bumped with slight crease. Otherwise book is clean and unmarked, binding is square and tight. Overall book is in good condition. Collection of black and white photographs of the late 19th century Deep South taken by a largely enigmatic British-born photographer. A window into a lost time. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

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

Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2018. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Book is in very good condition, sharp corners, square tight binding, clean and unmarked within. Jacket is very good condition, with the most minor of shelving and handling wear. Overall in very good condition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. 8vo, black cloth boards with stamped gilt letter on spine, 191 pp. Very Good, lightly bumped corners, tail spine rubbed with minor fraying./Good jacket, closed large triangular tear taped by former owner, general handling and shelving wear along extremities.. Jacket design by Alan Tunbridge.