Search Results: Authors starting with B from Crane's Bill Books

Babas Edizioni, 2014. Boards. Near Fine. 16mo. 118 pp., color plates. Italian-English. Colorful, witty, and sometimes mildly disturbing assemblages, many incorporating small toys. Tiny scuff at head of spine, a few mild scuffs and spots on back cover. Oblong 16mo.

New York: New Directions, 1987. First Edition. . Cloth. Fine/Very Good. xviii, 104 pp. Jacket sunned, edgeworn, with "American Book Award Winner 1988" seal on front. Size: 8vo

New York: Grove Press, 2004. 1st Edition . Boards. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by the author. 225 pp. Spine a bit cocked, bumped at head and heel; otherwise Fine. Jacket lightly handled, lightly bumped at head and heel of spine and folds. Size: 8vo

New York: Grove Press, 2001. 1st Edition . Cloth-Backed Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 264 pp. Spine slightly cocked and lightly bumped at head and heel. Jacket bumped at head and heel of spine and folds.

San Jose, CA: Mango Publications, 1981. Stapled Wraps. Near Fine. 8vo. Chicano Chapbook Series No. 9. Inscribed and signed by the author and dated 1982. Head and heel of spine and upper corners lightly bumped, lower corners bumped just a bit more heavily, lower wrapper and page edges bumped.

Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1982. Wrappers. Near Fine. 8vo. 32 pp. Tight and apparently unread, with head and heel of spine very lightly bumped, wrappers very lightly sunned and dusty, otherwise Fine.

Groveland, MA: Variety Arts Press, 1983. Stapled Wraps. Very Good. 8vo. Barbara Kasa. 100 pp., line illus. Head and heel of spine and corners bumped, with nicks at head and heel; page edges lightly dustsoiled.

Greensboro, NC: Unicorn Press, 1980. First Edition (of 500 copies) . Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket (As Issued). Unicorn Folded Broadside Series, Series One, Number Two. Large broadside, folded twice and mounted inside printed card wrappers, as issued. Inscribed and signed by the poet, on wrapper, to David Ray and Robert Stewart, "my friends at New Letters." Wrappers bumped and creased at spine and corners, sunned, handled, edgeworn; broadside Fine but for one corner very lightly bumped. Issued without dust jacket. Size: 8vo

Billings, MT: Yellowstone Art Museum, 1998. Wrappers. Very Good. Oblong 8vo. 48 pp., color plates. Russian paintings and works on paper from the Isaak Brodsky Museum, Saint Petersburg. Spine edges rubbed, corners lightly bumped.

Paris: Levy et Neurdein. 2nd Edition . Wrappers. Good. 12mo. n.d. (1911). viii, 142 pp., foldout plan and 48 b&w plates from photographs, including a five-page wide foldout panorama. Second edition, significantly expanded from the first of 1897. A guide to the ruins of this Roman city in Algeria. The author was chief architect of the Historical Monuments Department of Algeria. In French. Chipping and a couple of short tears at head and heel of spine; light edgewear, very light dustsoiling, and a few specks and spots to wrappers; wrapper corners and first and last few page corners lightly bumped.

Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico: Ediciones Arlequin, 2001. Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). Coleccion Canto de Satiro. 150 pp. Poetry. Front of wrapper has a couple of small faint stains and two small nicks at fore-edge, one wrapper corner lightly bumped. Size: 16mo

Bowling Green, OH: Contact II, 1981. Stapled Wraps. As New. 22 pp. Originally issued as a supplement to the Summer-Fall 1981 issue of Contact II.

Leon: Ediciones Leonesas, 1983. Wrappers. Very Good. 4to. 109 pp., illus. 39 pieces, words and music. In Spanish. Wrappers lightly handled and edgeworn, mild curl to wrapper corners.

Stockton, CA: Wormwood Review Press, 1979. Limited . Stapled Wraps. Very Good. No. 159 of 700 printed. Issued as Wormwood Review 75 (Vol. 19, No. 3, [81]-120). Spine and corners bumped, ownership note in ink on front cover, a couple of small nicks on back.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 255 pp. The author's only novel. Warmly inscribed by Barker to Santa Fe rancher Alva Simpson, with a few lines of verse, and signed "S. Omar Barker / SOB." Head and heel of spine bumped, otherwise Fine. Size: 8vo

Portland, OR: Breitenbush Books, 1986. First Edition. . Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Anita Bigelow. 79 pp. Slight lean to spine, heel lightly bumped, otherwise Fine. Jacket lightly bumped at heel, edgeworn. One of 100 copies signed by Barnard and Bigelow, this copy out of series. 1986 Western States Book Award for Poetry. Size: 8vo

Coffeyville, KS: Coffeyville Historical Society, 1992. Cloth. Good/Poor. 4to. 84 pp., b&w illus. Foreword by Gary Misch. Good only, with light rippling from moisture to fore-edges of last few pages, and jacket dampstained on rear panel and flap.

Paris: Gallimard, 1969. Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). Le Manteau d'Arlequin. 200 pp. Wrappers a bit sunned, rubbed and edgeworn; very minor soiling to page edges. Size: 16mo

Santiago de Chile: Editorial Nascimento, 1968. Self-Wraps. Good/No Jacket (Paperback). Coleccion Araucaria. 135 pp. Also includes "Elogios sentimentales que los poetas escribieron al nino que enloquecio de amor." Wrappers worn, sunned, rubbed, dustsoiled, bumped and chipped at edges and corners, with closed tears at crown and front top edge; page corners bumped, pages tanned throughout, faint dampstain to first couple of leaves only. Size: 12mo

Kyoto: Shikosha, 1985. Self-Wrappers. Good. 4to. 125 pp., gorgeously illustrated with 80 color plates, 29 illustrations in color (mainly from photos) and many in b&w. English-Japanese text. Good only, due to about an inch of jagged loss at crown; otherwise Very Good, with wrappers shelfworn and mildly bumped at edges. Interior bright, clean and unmarked.