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

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962. Hardcover, [octavo], blue cloth boards, stamped yellow and white spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 219 pp. Near fine book; very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Glaser.

Otis Books/Seismicity Editions/Beyond Baroque Foundation, 2015. Softcover octavo, in black glossy illustrated wrappers, 249 pp. Very Good. Light wear to dust jacket. Tight binding, clean square text block, and bright leaves free of soiling or creasing. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

New York City, NY: Chelsea Associates, Inc, 1976. Softcover 8vo in illustrated wrappers, 239 pp. Very good condition, wear around corners and edges, rubbing to joints of spines on cover wrappers. Clean, unmarked and strong sound binding.. Various writings from prodigious poet, critic, novelist and literary workhorse Laura (Riding) Jackson---selected by the author for this 35th issue of Chelsea under the editorial guidance of Sonia Raiziss. Limited edition, one of 200 copies signed by the author, this #116.

Manchester, VT: Hudson Hills, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Book is in very good condition, light shelfwear on tail of boards, otherwise sharp cornered, square binding, clean and unmarked within. Dust jacket is in very good condition with light shelfwear along edges along with some rubbing. Overall in very good condition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall.

Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2019. Hardcover quarto in beige cloth with embossed black lettering in quarter sized printer's overlay, 387 pp. Very good, soiled rear board and a last 10 pages have light water damage, some fair warping to edges, otherwise lightly worn/Good, printer's overlay worn around edges with soiling and damping.

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1984. Side-stapled [quarto] in printed card wraps. Yellow end papers. 32 pp. Near Fine.

Vancouver, B.C.: New Star Books, 1978. Signature-bound, [octavo], in pictorial wraps, 95 pp. Very good. Cover photo by Sylvia de Swaan Ames.

New York: Smyrna Press, 1981. Perfect-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 167 pp. Very good, light separation of part of text block from spine. Cover and photographs by Judy Janda. Tipped in promotional material from Pulp Press Book Publishers featuring Breaking the Silences Poetry of Cuban Women edited by Randall.

New York: Jonathan O'Hara Gallery, 2007. Hardcover, quarto, with illustrated boards, no dust jacket, 71 pp. Very good. Catalogue of Rauschenberg work at Jonathan O'Hara from February 8 - March 17, 2007. Text by Lewis Kachur.

Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Coimpany, 1976. Softcover, mass market, in illustrated wraps, 221 pp. Good, lightly worn wrappers with some chipping to edges and creasing to corners, book has been very lightly warped, strong binding, clean copy.

New York City, NY: Grove Press, 1963. First edition, first printing. Hardcover octavo, black boards with silver spine lettering in a pictorial dust jacket, 410 pp. Very good, slightest cant to spine and gentlest wear to edges and corners/Very good, ends of spine have some chipping and wear, a couple 1/2" to 1" tears at bottom and top of cover where remnants of tape adhesive linger from the interior, some chipping at corners leading into clean flaps, some general wear and tear along perimeter aspects of this otherwise very nice dust jacket. Cover photo Richard Seaver.

New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971. Hardcover, [octavo], red cloth boards, gilt spine titles, 191 pp. Very good book, text block lightly marked; very good dust jacket, edges worn and chipped, cover verso side soiled. Jacket design by Jim Driver.

East St. Louis, Illinois: Black River Writers, 1972. Third Printing, March 1972. Softcover octavo, staple-bound in heavy yellow paper card stock wrappers with red and brown lettering and decoration, 32 pp. Very good, light wear and rubbing to perimeter aspects of paper wrapps, slight crease to book along spine. Cover design by Oliver Jackson. Early collection of poems by this Black Arts Movement collaborator and close friend and tireless promoter and editor of the late Henry Dumas.

New York: Harper & Row, 1973. First Edition, stated, with full number line to pp 172. Hardcover [octavo] in pictorial dust jacket. Maroon paper boards backed with purple cloth, gilt stamped lettering to spine. Illustrated end papers. 172 pp. Very Good in a Very Good jacket.. Moving and influential memoir from the son of famed psychoanalyst and subject of government persecution Wilhelm Reich.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983. Hardcover, octavo, beige cloth boards, black spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, [xvi], [2], 221, [3] pp. Very good book; very good dust jacket, spine ends lightly bruised with nicks, upper cover bottom right hand corner 1/16" tear, minimal soiling overall. Jacket painting by Wilhelm Reich; cover design by Marc Cohen.

New York: Orgone Institute Press Inc,, 1945. First Edition. 8vo, tan cloth with blue lettering to front boards and spine, 273 pp. Very Good, general handling and shelving wear consistent with age, toning and soiling to boards, some light bumping to extremities and corners, slight cant to spine, former owners name written on front pastedown and stamped on front free endpaper. Copy formerly owned by noted Canadian musicologist Jack Diether.

Kingston: The Institute for Jamaica, 1976. First Edition. Perfect-bound octavo in illustrated wrappers. 266pp. Slight edge wear, rust offsetting from stapled card to front, card itself is foxed. Otherwise clean and sound; Very Good (+).. Cover by Gisa Malburg. Presentation copy of the notable Jamaican writer's penultimate novel, an account of Juan de Bolas and the Jamaican Maroons. This copy, with a card from Reid stapled to the front wrap with "Compliments" penned to it, is further inscribed to half-title for his daughter Sonia (from his 1935 marriage to Victoria Monica Jacobs): for my daughter / Sonia / from Daddy / Victor Reid / Nov. '76

Florida: Boca Raton Museum of Art, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover quarto, gray cloth with black titling stamped to spine, 144 pp. In dust jacket. Near Fine, trace edgewear. Bright and clean./Near Fine jacket, unclipped, shows some edgewear and shelfwear, else bright and clean as well..

Boston: Institute of Contemport Art, 2019. Hardcover, folio, yellow cloth boards with pictorial dust jacket, 240 pp. Very good/Very good jacket. Jacket design by Beverly Joel.

New York: Grove Press, 1967. First Printing. Hardcover gray cloth boards with white lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 5 5/8" x 8 1/4", 160 pp. Very good, fair dust jacket, worn and chipped spine ends with bottom end missing 1/8" section, perimeter aspects are slightly creased and chipped with light wear, very mild soiling throughout with 1/8" trimmed from top.