Search Results: Essays from Pistil Books Online

This, 1989. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Book shows light wear to covers. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, , text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 125 pages with prose, plays, essays.

Orbis Books, 1996. Trade Paperback. Fine. Book is in excellent condition, with one corner slightly bumped as the only flaw, otherwise as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 245 pages.

Great Britain: Andre Deutsch Ltd, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Slight edge wear. 244 pages.

Seabury, 1978. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Kostyu, Frank. Book shows light wear to covers, Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind on paper foxed at front and back at edges. 110 pages.

Novato, CA: New World Library, 2017. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. A new, unread book in excellent condition. Publisher's sticker on first endpaper.

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Colophon states this was an edition of 750 in hardcover. In clear acetate cover. 198 pages.

Gingko Press, 2009. Oversize Paperback. Near Fine. XL. Book is in excellent condition with a smudge of black oil paint in the upper back corner and some very light handling marks. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Reprint of the 1914 publication in large format with the typographical errors left in. Contents include: Ezra Pound poems, several manifestos, story by Ford Maddox Hueffer, by Rebecca West, Botrices and notes by Wyndham Lewis: Futurism, magic and life, Notes on some German woodcuts, Policeman and artist, Orchestra of media, Melodrama of modernity, Exploitation of vulgarity, Our vortex, etc. Illustrated by Edward Wadsworth, Wyndham Lewis, Frederick Etchells, W. Roberts, Jacob Epstein, Gaudier Brzeska, etc. copyright Pistil Books, 2011

Bamberger Books, 1993. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Book is in excellent condition, with very light shelf wear only. Creaseless covers and spine. Binding is solid and square, sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 104 pages. Publisher's page is marked ""First Edition"". Scarce. Poet, editor, and translator Ron Padgett was born in 1942 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As a high-school student he founded the avant-garde literary journal The White Dove Review with his friends and fellow students Joe Brainard and Dick Gallup. Soliciting and publishing work from poets such as Allen Ginsberg and Robert Creeley, the magazine ran for five issues. Padgett moved to New York City in 1960 to attend Columbia College. Awarded a Fulbright in 1965, Padgett spent a year in Paris studying and translating French poetry. He eventually made his home in New York City�s East Village and became a vital part of the Second Generation New York School Poets, a group that included Ted… Read More

London: Constable and Company, Ltd., 1950. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Book shows light wear to red cloth covers, some spine fading, a few shelf wear marks. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Small format 143 pages. Marked ""first collective publication 1950"" with 1950 copyright.

Fray, 2014. Trade Paperback. Fine. Book is in excellent condition; new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Issue #1 of Fray magazine, unpaginated, about 100 pages.

McClelland and Stewart, 1970. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 138 pp. Tan cloth over boards with gilt lettering on spine. A collection of 42 columns originally published in the Vancouver Sun and now published in book form. Illustrated with many black and white sketches, some full page.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday Anchor, 1954. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Book has a tight binding. Edge wear and marks to cover, about 15 pages have underlining in pencil, previous owner's name (Nora Dudwick) neatly printed on front end paper, 320 pages. Photo shows a very similar copy with the price Xed out; this copy has no X.

N Y: Continuum/Seabury Press, 1979. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name label inside. 246 pages.

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1984. Trade Paperback. Very Good. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 346 pages. In a clear plastic book cover.

West House Books, 1999. Trade Paperback. Fine. Book is in excellent condition, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind.

N Y: Charles Scribner' Sons, 1932. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Light wear and marks on full black cloth cover. Previous owner's bookplate inside. A later printing. ""Hemingway became a bullfighting aficionado after seeing the Pamplona fiesta in the 1920s, which he wrote about in The Sun Also Rises. In Death in the Afternoon, Hemingway explores the metaphysics of bullfighting the ritualized, almost religious practice that he considered analogous to the writer's search for meaning and the essence of life. In bullfighting, he found the elemental nature of life and death."" [Wikipedia]

Coward-McCann, 1967. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good. Book is in excellent condition in light purple (!) cloth, gilt embossed print at cover and spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes but very light shelf wear only, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket is worn with chipping, numerous small closed tears, now wrapped in archival clear cover. Fairly scandalous quotes on Proust, Nijinsky and Picasso on back cover, contents include: On Raymond Radiquet, On my phisique, My escapes, On Diaghilev and Nijinsky, Dreams, Pain, Death, Frivolity, Rule of the soul, Guillaume Apollinaire, Youth, Beauty, Drama in mime, etc. Marked ""First American Edition"" on publisher's page.

N Y: E.P. Dutton, 1982. Trade Paperback. Very Good. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 242 pages. Light wear to cover and spots to front endpaper. Previous owner's inscription.

Arrow Books, 1960. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Book shows light wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind on age-toned paper. 253 pages. Author photo back cover.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name label inside. 366 pages. Stated First Edition.