Marcel Dekker, Inc., January 1971. Hardcover. In dustjacket darkened at margins & spine. Grey cloth boards with red foil lettering stamped on spine. Tightly bound. Slight darkening of textblock edges. Interior text is without markings, underling, or side-notes. Etc. 'Papers presented at the Second National Methadone Maintenance Conference, New York..... More
Oxford University Press, April 1976. Paper Back. No further information has been provided for this title. Clean, sound, no markings. 2nd printing. More
Pyramid Publishing, April 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first. White cloth with gold lettering on spine & gold peace symbol/crucifix design on cover. Mild soiling to boards. Some tanning/darkening to end pages, especially at gutters front & back. Poetry by 13th Floor Elevators leader & Texas madman musician (July 15, 1947..... More
Agit Press, January 2000. Stapled Pamphlet. Octavo (Five-inches x Eight & 1/2-inches) 62 Page stapled pamphlet with cardstock cover. Clean, without markings. Very good overall. More
The Bookworm / The Tapeworm, 2015. Limited. Soft Cover. 12mo. First/first; Signed & numbered, #79/150 on title page. Clean & sound without markings. Scratch mark across middle of back panel of wrapper. More
Polity, October 2014. Hardcover. "I lived the same life as everyone else, the life of ordinary people, the masses." Sitting in a prison cell in the autumn of 1944, the German author Hans Fallada sums up his life under the National Socialist dictatorship, the time of "inward emigration". Under conditions..... More
Modern Library Giant, 1970. Cloth. In price-clipped, edgeworn dustjacket. Black cloth covered boards with silver lettering on spine & stamped lilac 'ml' in lilac border. Likewise stamped lilac Modern Library running-man logo with two lilac bars. Tanned end pages. Tanned/su-darkened textblock edges top & fore-edge. (465 pages). More
University of California Press, January 1970. First Edition. Cloth. First/first (US) in heavily darkened, mildly edgeworn dustjacket. Not price clipped. Original price $15 on flap. Some soiling to jacket. Pine green cloth covered boards with gold lettering. Darkening to textblock edges, end pages. Tight binding. Inked side note written in..... More
Stein & Day, January 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. First U.S. edition in tattered marginally darkened dustjacket. Not price clipped. Original price of $5.95 on jacket flap. Red cloth covered spine with gold lettering & grey paper covered boards. Boards faded at edges. Mildly darkened from exposure to sun/light top textblock..... More
Beacon Press, January 1960. Cloth. In edgeworn dustjacket with a 1/2 inch closed tear top edge, rear panel. NOT price clipped. Original price of $5 on flap. Olive green boards with black lettering on spine. Mild cock to spine. Sound binding. Slight darkenng to board edges. Spine edge gently bruised..... More
University of Chicago Press, May 2005. First Edition. Cloth. With a half-dozen books of poetry published to date, Kenneth Fields distills some forty years of teaching and writing about poetry into Classic Rough News, a collection of fresh sonnets and sonnet-like lyrics that attests to both Fields's skills as a...... More
Scribner Paperback Fiction, February 1995. Paper Back. The New York Times Bestseller-- Jack Finney's long-awaited sequel to his classic illustrated novel "Time and Again". Simon Morley, whose logic-defying trip to the New York City of the 1880s in "Time and Again" has enchanted readers for twenty-five years, embarks on another..... More
New Directions Books, January 1960. Cloth. In dust jacket with edgewear, some damp staining & spidery closed tear along front fold at bottom. NOT price clipped. Original price at $5 on flap. Dust jacket illustration by Andy Warhol. Solid binding. Clean & unmarked text. More
Duckworth. January 1934. First Edition. Cloth. Maroon cloth with fading gold lettering on spine. Boards worn at edges & especially at top & bottom of spine. Bottom is chipped one-quarter inch. Heavily foxing/tanned end pages & within. Underlining & notations in pencil scattered through text. Color pencil note on rear..... More
Brentano's LTD., 1924. Limited. Cloth. Numbered/Limited #637 of 1000 published copies. End pages have wonderful black ink C.R.W. Nevinson illustrations. Heavy tanning/fading to jacket spine. Also considerable edgewear/chipping and small closed tears. Mildly slanted spine. Textblock top edge tinted black. Tanning to end pages. Foxing to deckled fore-edge. Considering the..... More
Brentano's, New York. First American. Cloth. Heavily chipped, darkened, tattered dust jacket. NOT price clipped: original price of $2. Top textblock tinted black. Fore-edge foxing Black cloth with fading gold lettering. More
The McBride Company, January 1953. First Edition. Cloth. 364 copies of Norman Dougls issued, of which 350 were for sale. This is #279. In mildly edgeworn, price clipped dustjacket, heavily darkened at spine, margins & verso. Red-orange cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Scattered splotches of discoloration to..... More
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, January 1971. First Edition. Cloth. First U.S. edition in edgeworn dustjacket, with especially heavy chipping & wear top & bottom of spine. Not price clipped. Original U.S. price of $10 on top of jacket flap. Black cloth covered boards with somewhat faded gold lettering on spine..... More
Edward Arnold Ltd., 1965. Cloth. 3rd Edition/3rd Printing (U.K.); (4&1/2 inches x 6&3/4 inches); Duodecimo (12mo.); In tattered, heavily chipped, price clipped, dustjacket. Spine sunned & darkened at margins. Pine green cloth boards with gold lettering on spine & author initials front board. Sound binding. Slight spine lean. Darkened top..... More
The University Press of Kentucky, January 2000. First Edition. Cloth. Samuel Beckett's role as translator of Cunard's Negro has traditionally seen as apolitical. In this work Friedman argues that his role resulted from his support for the causes espoused in Negro, racial justice and equality, and the belief that these..... More
Oxford University Press, January 1951. First Edition. Cloth. First/first U.S. in dustjacket. Teal cloth covered boards with gold lettering. Previous owner's name & a date inked front free end pages. Roughly torn page fore-edges. More
Freedom Press, September 1967. Pamphlet. 31 pages. (5 & 1/2 x 8 & 1/2 inches) Stapled pamphlet with darkening/tanning to margins. More
McSweeney's, December 2013. Hardcover. In thirteen electrifying stories, our very first all-Latin-American issue takes on the crime story as a starting point, and expands to explore contemporary life from every angle?swinging from secret Venezuelan prisons to Uruguayan resorts to blood-drenched bedrooms in Mexico and Peru, and even, briefly, to Epcot..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, September 1976. Cloth. Signed by Gardner on blank page after FFEP. 7th printing; early reprint of this US edition, first printed in same month, September 17 and reprinted five times before this printing. Fair to guess it was selling out quickly. This has always been my favorite..... More
