Search Results: Authors starting with E from Better Read Than Dead

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1958. First Edition. Black cloth spine, lettered in brown, backing brown paper covered boards with decorative "95" printed to both. In pictorial jacket. Very Good, tight square binding, small stain to front board. Previous owner inscription and decorative card pasted into front free endpaper. Light toning, trace abrasion to edges of text block./Good only jacket, soiled, edgeworn and lightly sunned to spine and front, some shallow chips, creases, closed tears. Dampstained to front.. Jacket design by Janet Halverson. First trade edition of Cumming's final book published in his lifetime, preceded by a limited signed edition of only 300.

Hatje Cantz, 2011. Hardcover. Very Good. Light dings, scratching, and fraying at the corners of spine board. Binding is tight and leaves are bright and free of soiling. Small, 1 in creasing to the bottom left of some pages. Very good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

New York: Roof Books, 1989. Softcover octavo, illustrated glossy wraps, [vii] 182 pp. Very Good or better, light shelf and handling wear.

New York: United Artists, 1983. 4to, side-stapled glossy paper wraps, yellow glassine front end paper, unpaginated paper leaves. Good, heavy creasing to wraps and to first few leaves, wear and soiling to wraps. Cover by Yvonne Jacquette. Penultimate issue of the journal published by Mayer and Warsh's United Artists press. Featuring Joe Brainard (Self-Portrait 1982), Kathy Acker (from "My Death, My Life" by Pier Paolo Pasolini), Anne Waldman in conversation with Edwin Denby (perhaps his last interview?), Bernadette Mayer, Lee Harwood, Rudy Burckhardt, Bill Berkson, and more.

New York: Harper & Row, 1973. First Edition. Perfect-bound octavo in illustrated wraps. 96pp. Very Good.

New York: Dasein - Jupiter Hammon Press, 1964. First Edition. Staplebound [16mo], illustrated wraps, 36 pp. Near Fine, trace wear. A bright and clean copy.. Early title from the founder of the "Howard Poets". Johnston began publishing poems as early as 1945, when he was 15, but didn't receive wider acclaim until his first volume Concerto for Girl and Convertible and Other Poems was published in 1960. He would be anthologized throughout the 60s but only ever offered a few titles of his own, making them exceptionally scarce on the market.

New York: The Free Press, 1969. First printing. Hardcover, octavo, quarterbound beige cloth spine and red boards, black and red spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, black endpapers, 202 pp. Very good book, cover boards top cloth edges lightly worn and toned, top edge text block dust-soiled; good dust jacket, moderate damping and creasing throughout, 1/8" tear to top edge, verso side soiled. Cover design by Sam Salant.

Port of Spain, Trinidad: Scope Publishing Caribbean, 1977. Saddle-stapled 16mo in stiff pictorials wraps. 35 pp. Near Fine. Scarce collection from this little-known Trinidadian poet.

Baltimore, Maryland: Atlantic Center for Research and Education, 1983. Softcover octavo, saddle-stapled in glossy illustrated paper wrappers, 63 pp. Very good, very light wear and creasing to cover wrappers, small area soiled on bottom right corner of last 12 pages.. Semi-annually published journal of anarchist literature, social theory and review. Contents of this issue include film reviews from 1940s-1950s anarchist newspaper, Resistance, secretary and contributor, David Wieck; "Anarchy for Muppets" by Elaine Leeder; and a statement on reviewing films from SA's editor; extensive poetry contributions; book reviews; and a contemporary to 1980-1983 guide, 'Back Notes, Black Notes,' to anarchist printed matter among other content. Two tipped in letter-sized and folded sheets: a gift certificate to Social Anarchism form and a subscription form, both to complement the 5.5 x 11" pink slip notifying the termination of subscription, hand-written in marker with additional typed lettering.

Baltimore, Maryland: Atlantic Center for Research and Education, 1980. Softcover octavo, staple-bound in illustrated white paper wrappers with blue lettering and decoration, 55 pp. Very good, some very light wear and creasing to cover wrappers, some light discoloration and soiling to wrappers and back pages, otherwise strong and clean copy.. Journal of anarchist theory out of Baltimore, MD with contributions of book reviews, essays, poetry and more from David DeLeon, Tuli Kupferberg, Diane Di Prima, John Zerzan, Judith Malina, more.

Little, Brown, 1986. Soft cover. Very Good. Light smudging and discoloration to wrap. Tight binding, clean text block, and bright leaves free of soiling or creasing. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

Rotterdam, Germany: NAI Publishers, 2018. Soft cover. Very Good. Book is in very good condition, sharp corners, tight binding, some edgewear to extremities, general shelving and handling wear, clean and unmarked within. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

New York: Random House, 1964. First edition. Hardcover, [octavo], green cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 317 pp. Very Good with soiled top edge in a Good dust jacket, unclipped, with chipped spine ends, chipped, joints torn and rubbed, front panel creased and torn, sunned rear panel.. Jacket design by Howard Gray; photograph by Chris Corpus. Pasted down publisher's plate to front free end paper denoting this copy as a a gift from the author opposite the personal bookplate of its recipient, novelist Thomas Berger, to pastedown.

New York: Boosey and Hawkes, Inc, 1966. Saddle-stapled in orange printed wraps. 85 pp. Very near fine. Cover by Joe Brainard. Elmslie's libretto for the opera composed by Jack Beeson.

Calais, VT: Z Press, 1986. First edition, one of 1,250 copies. Perfect-bound in French wraps, 8vo, 72 pp. Short closed tear to base of front spine hinge, else about near fine. Cover drawings by Jennifer Bartlett from In the Garden. Elmslie's libretto for an opera based on Anton Chekhov's play of the same name, as set to music by Thomas Pasatieri. An uncommon publication, despite its generous limitation.

Austin: Skanky Possum Press, 2000. Perfect-bound in glossy pictorial wraps, 8vo, 87 pp. Very good. Front and back cover portraits by Ken Tisa. Kenward's reading copy with annotations in Elmslie's hand and tipped-in slips sequencing a reading order. We suspect this copy was used in preparation for a reading with Bill Berkson at the St. Marks Poetry Project on October 17, 2001. The most heavily annotated work in the book is "Fifties Probe," which Elmslie in a letter written earlier that month to Lucia Berlin references as the centerpiece of his reading, calling it "my Ashbery Roast cut a tad" (Livingston, Love, Loosha, p. 171).

Calais, VT: Z Press, 1980. One of 250 unsigned hardcover copies (though called for, this copy unnumbered). Hardcover, blue cloth; yellow title-label mounted to spine in pictorial dust jacket, 8vo, 122 pp. Mild dust soiling to textblock top, else fine./Near fine dust jacket. Cover by Joe Brainard.

Detroit: Broadside Press, 1968. First Edition. Saddle-stapled octavo in printed matte card wraps. 24 pp. Near Fine. First printing of the first collected volume of poetry from the black Nebraskan poetry, issued by Dudley Randall's seminal Broadside Press.

New York: George Brazillier, 1983. First Edition, stated. Hardcover [octavo] in illustrated dust jacket. Green cloth with black stamped lettering to spine. 163 pp. About Fine in a Near Fine clipped jacket.. Jacket Design by Melissa Feldman.

New York: George Braziller, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover [octavo] in illustrated dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt stamped lettering to spine. 179 pp. Very Good or better, foxed text block and light wear to edges. Near Fine unclipped jacket, one crease to front flap, mild toning and soiling.. Jacket design by Lionel Stern.. Attractive First American Edition of the fourth novel from the eminent Nigerian novelist.