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
Station Hill Press, Inc., January 1988. Paper Back. This collection of writing represents, in Sondheim's words, "a basic text for postmodern poets." Sondheim states, "My approach would describe something like the impossible search for the grounds of the Self in sexuality and ideology; the hysteria of the loss of speech;..... More
AMS Press, March 1988. Cloth. In dustjacket with darkened/sunned spine & mild edgewear. Jacket nicked top edge at fold. Ochre cloth boards with black lettering spine edge. Tight binding. Light tan stains fore-edge. Clean interiors. More
J J Weber Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1921. Cloth. Octavo (6-inches x 9-inches). Tan cloth boards with brown lettering on spine & front panel & von Allart van Everdingen illustration same front panel. Darkening margins & spine mixed with dark stains on edges. Binding sound. Textblock edges darkened. End pages decorated with more..... 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
Arcade Publishing, September 2015. Trade Paperback. What put a white cop and a black youth on a tragic collision course? This moving account is more timely than ever. On a frigid winter's night in 1973, William "Rabbit" Wells, a young man of mixed race, was shot and killed by a...... More
The Viking Press, 1928. First American. Hardcover. First/first (US) in dustjacket with heavy chipping/edgewear. Darkened edges. Not price clipped. Original price of $3.50 on flap. 1/2-inch to 1/4 inch chipping front panel & head of spine. Chipped/nicked corners. Creased/torn piece bottom edge at fore-edge. Quarter bound: black cloth spine &..... More
Allison & Busby Ltd, January 1970. First Edition. Cloth. First/first (UK) edition in edgeworn dustjacket with marginal darkening. Not price clipped. Navy blue paper covered boards with gold lettering spine edge. Faint foxing/grey dust stains top textblock edige. Clean, sound binding without internal markings. More
Tam Tam Books, January 2005. First Thus. Paper Back. Autumn in Peking takes place in an imaginary desert called Exopotamie, where a train station and a railway line are under construction. Homes are destroyed to lay the lines, which turn out to lead nowhere. In part a satire on the..... 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
Lawrence & Wishart, October 1936. First Edition. Cloth. First/first (UK) in heavily darkened at spine and margins. Chipping top & bottom of spine with one large 3/4-inch deep chip/tear and one small nick. There is small torn hole in jacket front panel 1/4' x 1/8'. Not price clipped. Original British..... 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
T.V. Boardman and Company, January 1953. First Edition. Cloth. First/first in dustjacket with two inch piece lost from base of spine. Elsewise in jacket overall good with edgewear: with a few (four) 1/2-inch closed tears & a single one-inch closed tears. Some rubbing & darkening. Not price clipped. Original British..... More
John Calder, 1977. Cloth. Reprint in edgeworn dustjacket, with heavily sunned spine, 2 small tears & a one & three-quarter inch closed tear top edge front panel. Not price clipped. Original British price on bottom corner front flap. Red cloth boards with gold lettering spine edge. Sound binding, clean interiors..... More
Faber and Faber, 1969. First Edition. Cloth. First/first (UK) in dustjacket with darkened margins & spine. Not price clipped. Original British price on flap bottom corner. Top flap corner is creased. Air Force blue cloth silver lettering. Slight sunning to textblock edges. Interiors clean without markings. More
Faber and Faber, 1961. First Edition. Cloth. First/first UK edition. Originally issued in French in 1956 as L'Emploi du temps; In very good dustjacket. Not price clipped. Original UK price on flap lower corner: 21s net. Speckled patterned white & maroon cloth with maroon lettering & gold clockhands spine edge..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, January 1976. First American. Hardcover. First/first (U.S.) in spine-sunned dustjacket. Not price clipped. Original price of $6.95 on flap. Quarter bound: Ochre cloth spine with silver lettering. Caerulean blue boards with fade to edges and a few grey spots with title in silver. Rose topstain. Sticker residue..... More
Hachette Books, November 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. 2017 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER The partial inspiration for the ABC television mini-series! "You could read Cleve Jones's book because you should know about the struggle for gay, lesbian, and transgender rights from one of its key participants--maybe heroes--but really, you should read..... More
Paragon House, November 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first in very good dustjacket. Quarter bound black cloth spine, silver lettering & stone blue textured faux-leather covered boards. Tight binding. Clean, sound, and unmarked. No underling. No side-notes. Complete number line. More
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
Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. Hardcover. In dustjacket with minor edgewear & darkened edges. Not price clipped. Quarter bound: airforce blue boards with gold lettering & greige cloth spine with gold lettering in azure rectangle spine and gold lettering without framing. Navy blue end pages. Non-authorial inscription on front free..... More
Icarus Press, Inc., November 1982. First American. Cloth. First/first in price clipped dustjacket. Jacket is curled & worn at edges with one & one-half inch tear at top of rear panel. Black cloth boards with stamped gold foil lettering on spine. Tight binding. Clean & without markings internally. Complete number..... More
Boni & Gaer, January 1948. Paper Back. Heavily tanned/discolored at margins & spine. Top textblock edge darkened. Edgewear & chips at corners, edges, etc. Internal text unmarked. Not pretty, but is good reading copy. More
University of Illinois Press, January 1971. First Edition. Cloth. First/first in edgeworn dustjacket with foxing & staining. Peanut brown cloth with gold lettering on spine & front panel. Foxing to textblock edges. Tanned end pages. Clean interiors without markings. No underlining. No side-notes. More
Overlook Press, February 1996. First Thus. Cloth. Narrow octavo (4&1/2' x 8&1/4'); Stated, 'First Edition 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 .' Do not take the First Edition too seriously. This little book has been reprinted many times with several different English translators and numerous publishers..... More
