The Viking Press, September 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first (U.S.) in dustjacket with mild edgewear. Not price clipped. Original price $10.95 on front flap. Quarter bound: blue cloth spine, gold lettering with rust red paper covered boards. Board edges beginning to fade with mild dark staining. Textblock top edge has..... More
E.P. Dutton, 1929. First Thus. Cloth. First American Edition in dust-stained, spine-darkened pink dustjacket with blue lettering and chipping/edgewear with considerable wear to top of spine. Spine & corners Carolina blue & boards sky blue. Much faded/darkened gilt printed paper labels spine and front board. Edges of cloth worn/frayed top..... More
Library of America, January 2003. First Edition. Cloth. This Library of America volume, along with its companion, offers a uniquely panoramic perspective of the fight to bring an end to racial segregation in the United States. It gathers the work of over 150 diverse writers, representing the best in American..... More
Harper & Brothers, New York, January 1948. Cloth. In edgeworn dustjacket. NOT price clipped. Original price of $3 on flap. Heavy foxing to white areas of back jacket panel. Quarter bound: black spine & gold lettering & grey cloth boards. Heavy tanning to front end pages. Previous owner's name inked..... More
St. Martin's Press, 1976. Cloth. In very good dust jacket. Not price clipped. Blue cloth boards with silver lettering spine edge. Sound binding. Slight tanning to end pages. Interior text without markings. No underlining. No side-notes. More
Stanford University Press, August 2002. First Edition. Cloth. This posthumous book represents the first publication of one of the seminars of Cornelius Castoriadis, a renowned and influential figure in twentieth-century thought. A close reading of Plato's Statesman, it is an exemplary instance of Castoriadis's pragmatic, pertinent, and discriminating approach to..... More
Houghton Mifflin Company / Riverside Press, January 1965. Cloth. This is the 2nd printing of American first edition from 1965. In price-clipped dustjacket, mildly edgeworn with dust stains, marginal darking. Scarlet color cloth covered boards with gold lettering on black title block. Rose topstain top textblock edge. Faint foxing textblock..... More
Phil and Jim, November 2005. Cloth. Folio in mildly edgeworn dustjacket. Black cloth with silver lettering, bumped top corner front boards. Otherwise clean, sound, very good+/fine overall. More
Seven Stories Press, August 2010. Paper Back. Before the US invasion of Iraq, before the American public saw the infamous photos from Abu Ghraib, the CIA went to the White House with a question: What, according to the Constitution, was the line separating interrogation from torture--and could that line be..... More
Glenburn Publishing / Australian Print Group, 1991. Paper Back. In very good condition overall. Sound binding. Without markings. Darkened at edges. Pages 92 & 169 are creased. Facsimile edition of story originally serialized in The Australian Journal between 1870 & 1872. It was published in single volume format in 1874..... More
Ungar Pub Co, November 1981. First Edition. Cloth. (Five-inch x Eight-inch) Octavo. First/first (US) in dustjacket. Turquoise paper covered boards with black lettering on spine. Mild wear to board edges. Tight binding. Clean internal text. No underlining. No side-notes. More
Verso Books, December 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first in mildly edgeworn dustjacket. Not price clipped. Black paper covered boards with silver lettering spine. Slightly bruised base of spine. Some slight sunning textblock edges. Tght binding. Oppossing dark stains (about 1/16th inch diameter) rear free end page & pastedown at bottom..... More
Verso, October 2000. First Edition. Paper Back. "In the annals of popular protest in America, these have been shining hours, achieved entirely outside the conventional arena of orderly protest, white paper activism and the timid bleats of the professional leadership of big labor establishment greens. This truly was an insurgency..... More
Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, January 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first (UK) edition in price clipped dustjacket. Navy blue faux-leather with gold lettering on spine. Clean interiors. No markings. More
Simon and Schuster, January 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first (U.S.) in dustjacket darkened at spine & margins. Mildly edgeworn. Quarter bound: black textured, faux-cloth paper covered spine with gold lettering. Grey spots along spine that is worn at bottom & top edges. Salmon colored paper covered boards worn at edges..... More
Penguin, January 1967. Mass Market PaperBack. A well worn mass market copy of a scarce title in any condition or format. Tanned/darkened, heavily foxed. Spine leaning. Yes one might even say cocked, but for truth's sake the last name of Claud Cockburn (1904-1981) is pronounced 'coburn', like the great Hollywood..... More
Anchor, 1998. Paper Back. News correspondent Leslie Cockburn has dined with the Cali Cartel, marched with the Khmer Rouge, hunted down the Black Turban in Afghanistan, pursued the Russian mafia to the Arctic Circle, shared pomegranate sauce with the Ayatollahs, and stopped a small Kurdish war, but she has never..... More
Continuum, February 2006. First Thus. Paper Back. >. Clean, sound, carefully read. Slightly worn wrapper edges. An excellent biography of the great British expermental novelist, B.S. Johnson (1933 -1973) by another terrific British writer Jonathan Coe, not so avant-garde (who is?) but a smart, eclectic author of novels, children's books..... More
Knopf, February 2002. First American. Hardcover. "At once uproariously entertaining and deadly serious--a comedy of manners and mores, but also a conscientious and politically charged reminder of an age quite easily forgotten, yet not far removed from our own." --Henry Hitchings, "Times Literary Supplement" The acclaimed author of "The Winshaw..... More
Raw Books & Graphics, 1983. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Folio (10 & 1/2' x 14') stapled; 44 page comic in cardstock cover with 2 staples. Mild wear to cover edges. Some creases from stapled edge. Mild rubbing. Very good overall. Scarce brilliant mixture of comic art and typeset excerpts..... More
Viking, May 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first (US) in dustjacket mildly darkened at margins. Not price clipped. Original price of $11.95 on flap. Ochre end pages. Quarter bound: umber cloth covered spine somewhat faded gold lettering & tan paper covered boards. Slight spine lean. Foxing top edge & deckled fore-edge..... More
Hamish Hamilton, January 1991. First Edition. Cloth. First UK edition in dustjacket. Not price clipped; original British price on front flap. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Clean, sound & tightly bound. More
Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1952. Cloth. US 1952 reprint of 1951 edition in edgeworn, spine-sunned, dust jacket with heavy marginal foxing/darkening. NOT price clipped. Original price of $4. Rose tinted top edge. Orange end pages. Solid binding. Clean interanlly with marginal darkening of textblock. More
Zero Press, January 1956. First American. Cloth. First/first (US) in very good dustjacket with extremely mild edgewear. NOT price clipped. Original price of $3.50 on front flap. Sound binding. Clean text without markings. No underlinings. No side-notes. An Introduction to Brothers and Sisters by Asa Benveniste, a (4 & 1/2'..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First American. Cloth. In clipped, edgeworn dustjacket, heavily darkened at margins & spine. There are orange/red stains on the back jacket panel splashed through the blurbs for 'Some Borzoi Fiction' promotion. Turquoise cloth boards with brown stamped lettering & floral decoration. Topstain is faded grey, but..... More
