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

Eclipsce, 1976. Hardcover. Near Fine. Two small, 1 in, tears to the back of dust jacket. Clean boards, tight binding, clean square text block, and bright leaves free or foiling or creasing. Near Fine. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall.

Munich, Germany: Prestel, 2015. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Book is in very good condition, sharp corners, tight square binding, minor shelving and handling wear, clean and unmarked within. Jacket is in very good condition, some edgewear, general handling and shelving wear, small closed tear to head corner of front panel. Overall in very good condition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall.

New York: Kent Fine Art, 1989. First printing of 3,000 copies. Hardcover [quarto] in black cloth with stamped lettering, 108 pp. No dust jacket, as issued. Very Good, with some soiling to rear board and mild edgewear.. Catalog from Laffoley's 1989 show from Kent Gallery, limited to 3,000 copies. Inscribed by Laffoley "To: Rollie Ristine, architect / From: Paul Lafolley, 1998". Laid in is a healthy amount of related loose material: the press release and illustrated program from Laffoley's 1998 show "Building the Bauharoque" at Kent Gallery, presumably where this copy was inscribed; a xerox of a piece on Laffoley in a 1996 issue of Artsmedia with a note in blue pen regarding Rollie and with Laffoley's phone number, although seemingly signed "Bob"; a xerox of the Bauharoque program with a cover page of a spreadheet by Ristine dated 3/9/98 working out comparisons between Laffoley and Achilles G. Rizzoli, potentially for a piece that was seemingly never published. Paul Laffoley was an accomplished… Read More

New York: L.B. Fischer, 1945. First American edition. Hardcover, octavo, green cloth boards, stamped brown spine and cover titles, pictorial dust jacket, [4], 228 pp. Very good book, spine lightly bruised and rubbed at ends, cloth edges lightly worn; very good dust jacket, spine rubbed, spine ends chipped and worn, small sections missing at joints, edges lightly worn with close tears, flap seams worn, toning throughout and to edges of flaps.

Washington, DC: Titanic Books, 1978. From an edition of 200 copies. Saddle-stapled in printed wraps, 11 x 8.5 in. [12]pp. Toning to wraps, which also show creasing and some light water-rippling. Good to very good.. A single long poem about Frank O'Hara. Although not marked as such to the book itself, this copy from the personal library of noted librettist, artist, and New York School poet Kenward Elmslie.

Brooklyn: Autonomedia, 1988. Perfect-bound, octavo, pictorial wraps, 224 pp. Very good, spine ends chipped, edges and corners lightly worn, lower cover top edge surface closed tear, lower cover top corner creased.

Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1977. Authorized facsimile copy produced from microfilm-xerography. Hardcover, [octavo], blue cloth boards with gilt lettering, no dust jacket, 232 pp. Very good, slight cant to spine. Former copy of Roberto Marquez, inscribed to him on first page, with his owner's inscription of 'Robert Marquez 5/77' above George Lamming's 1978 dedication. Copy has occasional Marquez underlinings and brief annotations.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1973. Fourth revised edition. Softcover, quarto, in glossy illustrated wraps, 377 pp. Good condition, lightly faded and discolored spine with minor creasing, similar discoloration to wraps with slightly curled and creased corners, very light edge wear and soiling.

New York: N.P., 1978. $4.95" Edition (circled of two printed options: $4.95 or $100). Softcover [12mo] in black and white pictorial wraps, unpaginated [40 pp]. Very Good, some rubbing and creasing to wraps. Internally clean, binding sound.. Artist's book from Louise Lawler, a "screenplay with no film" one year before her first solo installation in which she played the audio of John Huston's "The Misfits" over a blank screen. Text is with Janelle Reiring. Each copy was printed with a price option to the inside cover: "The price of this books is $4.95 or $100. The price of this books is $4.95 or $100. The price of this copy is encircled:", of which this is circled $4.95 in red. Highly scarce.

Rochester, VT: Schenkman Publishing Company, 1992. Perfect-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 261 pp. Good condition, wraps worn, text block with under-linings and annotations. Cover designed by Kathryn Miles; cover photograph by Joan Flocks.

Brooklyn, NY: Journeyman Books, 1962. Saddle-stapled, octavo, paper wraps, [48]. Very good, spine worn, edge wear, lower cover corner creased and rubbed. Published by Emil Antonucci's Journeyman books.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969. First edition, second printing. Hardcover, [octavo], black cloth boards, embossed gilt spine titles, yellow end papers, pictorial dust jacket, 188 pp. Very good book; very good dust jacket, spine ends chipped, covers soiled.

San Francisco, CA: Imprinting Press, 1974. Softcover octavo, saddle-stapled in glossy yellow pictorial wrappers with black lettering and silver photos on covers, x, 59 pp., [44] pages of appendices (A - F) and last page is a letter-sized folded sheet with 'analytical summary' of interstate and international cases. Very good, wear, rubbing & fading to cover wrappers along saddle-stapled spine and additionally worn corners and edges, fading and soiling to color and prints on wrappers also to be considered. Printed for Joanna Leary and filed at the California Court of Appeals while Dr. Timothy Leary was in jail in 1974 with a bail set at $5,000,000 implicating Leary in the drug trafficking conspiracy referred to as "The Brotherhood of Eternal Love." Prior to the trial the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs were heavily spying on Leary with several government agents informing on Leary's activity. This publication was used in the trial in Leary's defense with 8 pages of printed sources of… Read More

New York: Random House, 1981. First edition, third printing. Hardcover, [octavo], quarterbound yellow cloth spine and title-embossed red boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 147 pp. Very good book; very goodf dust jacket, spine chipped and lightly peeling, covers gently creased round edges, edges worn with some peeling, flap seams rubbed, edges lightly worn, corners lightly worn, front flap vertical creases. Jacket design by Robert Aulicino.

Turner, 2019. Soft cover. Fine. Tight binding, clean text block, and bright leaves free of soiling or creasing. Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

Chicago: Third World Press, 1978. First printing. Signature-bound, octavo, pictorial wraps, 252 pp. Good condition, spine and joints moderately rubbed and creased with wear, lower cover wrap lightly soiled with wear, upper cover wrap rubbed and worn with creasing to edges and additionally with a bruised closed tear.

London, England & Dunmow, England: Pall Mall Press, 1962. Hardcover 8vo charcoal boards with white lettering in an illustrated jacket, 296 pp. Near Fine, light rubbing to boards at top edge, corners and top of spine; strong sound binding with clean interior./Very Good jacket, light chipping at ends of spine with 1/2" section missing from top, a few light creases along top and bottom of front with light wear to edges, 1" tear to top right corner, interior has mild damping.. Gift inscription on front free end paper: "For Wayne Fredericks with all good wishes Carl Legum London March 1962". [J.] Wayne Fredericks was a career diplomat, notably the top to Africa in the JFK administration.

New York, New York: Seabury Press, 1974. First English Language Edition. 8vo, blue cloth with black lettering on spine in pictorial jacket, 216 pp. Very Good (+), some rubbing, crown of spine lightly pushed, lightest soiling to front boards./Very Good jacket, some soiling, 2" closed tear from jacket where jacket spine meets front panel taped by former owner, resultant creasing from tear across top of front panel..

New York: The Seabury Press, 1977. First edition. Hardcover navy cloth cloth boards with gilt lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 5 5/8" x 8 1/2", 215 pp. Very good, lightly soiled top edge with former owner's ex libris plate on front paste down./Very good dust jacket, chipped at spine ends with small tears, similar wear and tear to corners and edges.. Front free end paper inscription, 'For Lydia Anne Di Lorenzo May your seasons be blessed - Madeleine L'Engle'.

Georgetown, CA: Dragon's Teeth Press, 1970. Living Playwrights Series. Softcover, octavo, in illustrated wraps, 68 pp. Very good, rubbed and soiled wraps with moderate creasing. Drawing by Tamas Konok. Cornel Lengyel's 5th published work, The Master Plan (1978). Title page inscription to fellow playwright, artistic director and founder of the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC, 1967), For Douglas Turner Ward...1978. Tipped in Dragon's Teeth Press party invitation, Douglas Turner Ward : please consider the role omega? --- -- Ω. As an addendum to this note on the invitation, written in the book on dramatis personae page, 5th character from the top, "OMEGA, a survivor" and annotated by C. Lengyel, [a black hero ].