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

Havana: Casa de Las Americas, 1978. Signature-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 392 pp. Very good, spine faded, spine ends chipped,.

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.

Santiago, Chile: Editorial Universitaria, S.A., 1963. First edition. Signature-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 65 pp. Very good, wraps worn and faded, front free endpaper owner-inscribed, introduction page light pencil marking.

University North Carolina Pr, 2008. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Dust jacket is torn across spine to the bottom left corner of cover, otherwise jacket is is clean. Clean boards, tight binding, clean Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Paris: mahj, 2016. Soft cover. Near Fine. Light wear to wrap. Tight binding, clean text block and bright leaves free of soiling. Bilingual, English and French. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

New York, NY: Rizzoli International Publications, 1975. Hardcover. Good/Good. LA MACCHINE CELIBI / THE BACHELOR MACHINES. Marc Le Bot, Bazon Brock, Michael Carrouges, et. al. Rizzoli International Publications, New York, NY. 4to, 236 pp. Hardcover. Book is in good condition, minor shelfwear along edges, head and heel of spine slightly bumped, old price sticker on front pastedown, Slight 1/2" ding to top of back board, clean and unmarked within. Dust jacket is in good condition, slight shelfwear along head of DJ spine and corners, 1/2" closed tear on rear bottom seam between DJ cover and flap along with creasing, othewise cover is clean and bright. Book is in overall good condition An inquiry in writing and art of the melding of sexual desire and machinery, as seemingly here first conceived by Marcel Duchamp, with heavy emphasis on Dada and Surrealism. Parallel text throughout in english and italian, numerous reproductions of machine schematics and various artwork related to libidinal mechanization.… Read More

Diane de Selliers Editeur, 2006. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover, blue board with gold printed text, this fine copy is housed in an illustrated sheeth of the same boards. Sheeth has light wear, otherwise is in near fine condition. Pages contain full page illustrations and are without wear, toning, or spotting. Text is in French. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall.

London / Athens,OH / Cape Town: James Currey / Ohio University Press / David Philip, 1991. Perfect-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 202 pp. Very good condition, rear cover wrap top edge tear, else light shelf wear. The writings of Govan Mbeki produced while serving 24 years at Robben Island Prison.

Bologna, Italy: Damiani, 2021. Hardcover, brown cloth boards with pasted down print and black lettering, no dust jacket, quarto, unpaginated. Very good.

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.

New York: Random House, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover in illustrated dust jacket. Brown paper-covered boards blind stamped with publishers logo over black cloth spine stamped in gilt lettering. 370 pp. Very Good or better; top of text block soiled, mildest edge wear, rectangular impression indented to top of rear board. Very Good unclipped jacket is sunned to spine and shows light edge wear and soiling.. Jacket design by Bill Allen. Collection of Hansberry's last plays, compiled and edited by her husband Robert Nemiroff after her death of cancer in 1965. This copy bearing a presentation inscription from Nemiroff, dated July 1972, to arts patron Mary Kaplan to front free end paper: "For Mary Kaplan - who helped to make these pages possible. with warm regards Bob Nemiroff

Italy: Damiani, 2015. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover, black quarter cloth over photo illustrated boards. Tight Binding with leaves free of soiling or creasing. Some light toning and wear to the slip cover an quarter cloth other wise this copy is in fine condition. Black and white print by artist included. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1982. Hardcover, [octavo], blue cloth boards with gilt lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 180 pp. Very good with good dust jacket, well-worn and chipped around perimeter with moderate tears all around.

Massachussetts: AUGTWOFIVE, 1970. First Edition, of 500. Staplebound [octavo] in illustrated red textured wraps, unpaginated [20 pp]. Inscribed by author. Very Good, faded near spine and gently bumped to fore corners.. Scarce chapbook accounting the author's time in Brixton prison on drug charges, delivered in a hazy fugue stream of language that drifts between the cell and his rich interior (and exterior) worlds, humming the same Velvet Underground song to himself and escaping into chasing "the retinal image of birds which nest / beyond the walls would drag them down suck the taste of / sky from their beaks". A powerful expression of the mind's turmoil and freedom while its body is locked away by men and law. Lengthy and poetic inscription to a friend who has known the author on "both sides of this moment

Privately printed, 1946. Hardcover octavo, red cloth boards with blue paper title(black lettering) adhered to cover, 90 pp. Very good, wear and rubbing to cloth at ends of spine exposing small threads, lightly rubbed at corners as well, minor foxing to paper edges, some damping stains to paste down pages at front and back of book; overall a clean and unmarked copy./No dust jacket.

London: Unbound, 2013. Hardcover, quarto, in illustrated boards, 368 pp. Very good. Cover design by Here Design.

Chevy Chase, MD: ORIT Press, 1995. Saddle-stapled octavo in glossy pictorial wraps. 50 pp. Near Fine.

Jefferson, North Carolina & London: McFarland & Company, 1993. Hardcover blue cloth boards with white lettering, no dust jacket, 6 1/8" x 9 1/4", 782 pp. Near fine. History and discography of the Liberty record label founded by Simon Waronker in 1955.

New York: The Kulchur Foundation, 1979. Perfect-bound in printed wraps, 9-7/8 x 7-5/8 in. 148pp. Soiling to wraps. Moisture rippling to front cover at top of spine. Very good..

Racine, Wisconsin: Concerned Theatre Japan, 1972. Saddle-stapled, [quarto] in pictorial wraps, [46]. Near fine.