Search Results: Titles starting with A from Dividing Line Books

Philadelphia: Riling and Lentz, 1963. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 8vo. xvii+217pp. Blue cloth boards with gilt spine titles. Some light soiling to fore-edge of textblock, else near fine in a good (+) jacket that shows rubbing to front and rear panels, light sunning to spine panel, and a few minor chips and tears. A history of Civil War belt buckles. Foreword by Stephen V. Grancsay.

NY: Columbia University Press, 1969. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 306pp. First edition. Full green cloth with gilt spine titles. One bump to top of rear board has slightly split the cloth; else near fine in a very good price-clipped jacket with light sunning to spine panel and light wear at spine ends. Studies in Oriental Culture Number 3.

NY: Persea, 1985. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Small 8vo. 66pp. First edition. Full maroon cloth with gilt titles. Signed by Bartlett to the title page. Additionally, Bartlett has dated and inscribed the front free endpaper to a former owner "who can quote poems, from the Metaphysicals to Whitman." VG+/VG+. Boards lightly shelfworn. Toning/flecking to the textblock. Unclipped "$13.95" jacket has a short closed tear at head of rear panel and light general edgewear. The author's only book, a collection of deeply felt poems written in deceptively simple language.

NY: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 341pp. First printing, full number line. Signed by O'Rourke on the half title page. Cream papered boards with red spine titles. NF/NF. Light bumping at spine ends, a few spots of quite light spotting to top of textblock. In an unclipped jacket with light crumpling at the spine ends.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 289pp. Presumed first (no statement of printing). Full green cloth with gilt spine titles. NF/VG. Top rear board corner lightly bumped, one spot of soiling on copyright page, else fine. In a price-clipped dust jacket with a shallow 1.5" triangle missing at base of front panel, light edgewear, and a few short closed tears. Translated with annotations by Anne Hyde Greet, with a forward by Warren Ramsey.

NY: George Braziller, 1996. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 146pp. First edition. Black textured paper boards with gilt spine titles. Light bumping at base of spine, else fine in a very near fine, unclipped jacket with a patch of sunning to rear panel. Translated by Robyn Marsack.

NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2014. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Small 8vo. 37pp. Staple-bound softcover in printed wraps with cover by Sara Falk-Mann. First edition, one of 750 copies. A near fine copy, lightly soiled/shelfworn. Kaplan's sardonic and subversive "introductions" to 14 contemporary writers. Rear cover blurb by Chris Kraus.

London / Hamilton, NY: Macdonald / Colgate University Press, 1960. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Softening to spine ends, light bumping to top front board at spine, light off-setting to front endpaper, else very good (+), with a "Colgate University Press" label tipped onto the title page. Unclipped very good (-) dust jacket shows creasing, wear, and small portions of loss at spine ends and tips. 3/4" open tear on spine panel.

Oakland / Berkeley: Kolourmeim Press / Pantograph Press, 1999. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. 39pp. Staple-bound softcover in printed wraps. First edition. Near fine with light soiling to front cover. An uncommon later work by the avant-garde American poet associated variously with Surrealism, the New York School, and other poetry movements.

NY: Random House, 1969. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 440pp. First printing. VG/VG. Full red cloth with white spine titles and red topstain. Very light bumping to board corners and spine ends. A few spots of foxing to prelims. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Unclipped jacket lightly sunned along spine, with slight edgewear and a diagonal crease to the rear flap. The second collection of essays, criticism, poetry and fiction culled from literary magazines. Includes poetry by Asbery, Brautigan, Dorn, Jim Harrison.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. 8vo. xix + 131pp., indexed. Decorative paper boards, oatmeal cloth backing, gilt spine titles. Fine in a very good jacket with several closed tears along top edge (tape-repaired to the interior) and browning/sun-fading to spine panel. Collects three essays that "make an important contribution to our understanding of ancient cylinder and stamp seals and their place in the history of art, mythology, and religion.

NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 343pp. Reprint of 1974. Junior Library edition illustrated by Arthur Szyk. Translated by Mrs. E.V. Lucas & Mrs. H.B. Paull. VG/VG. Bound in green and tan full cloth with pictorial endpapers and color illustrations throughout. Shelfwear at spine ends. Unclipped "3.95" jacket shows light wear and rubbing, with a few short closed tears around the spine ends.

London: Fulcrum Press, 1967. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. 140pp. First edition. #27 of 100 hand-numbered copies signed in pencil by Eigner. Buckrum boards, grey Glastonbury Antique Laid paper. Very fine in a fine, price-clipped jacket featuring drawings by Patrick Caulfield. A lovely copy.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 285pp. First printing. Signed by Jones and warmly inscribed to her friends on the front free end paper. NF/NF. Blue cloth boards with black spine titles and front panel design. Light bumping at spine ends, a touch of dust soiling to the top of textblock, else fine. In an unclipped "$4.95" jacket. Internally tape-reinforced at the lightly rubbed top spine end, with some light browning to the perimeters of the flaps and light dulling to spine panel. A young adult novel set in Russia in 1840.

Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1956. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. vi+114pp, indexed. First edition (no additional printings stated). Two-tone black and red cloth boards, silver titles. Light offsetting to free endpapers, else very fine in a fine, unclipped "$3.75" jacket with a 1/2" closed tear at head of front panel. No fading to jacket spine panel. A superior copy of the Austrian School economist's controversial examination of the psychological basis of anti-capitalistic thinking.

NY: Oxford University Press, 1973. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 157pp. First edition. Blue cloth, gilt spine titles. A fine copy, bright square and clean, in a very good (-), price-clipped jacket with several short closed tears, light chipping, with small portions of loss at spine ends. A nice copy of Bloom's paradigm-shifting work of literary criticism.

NY: Appearances, 1994. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. 32pp. Staple-bound softcover in black-and-white glossy wraps. First edition. Light wear/curling at bottom corner, else near fine. A collection of poetry in Topp's distinctive style, insouciant, banal, and subversive. Cover and drawings by William Wegman.

NY: Knopf, 1967. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. 8vo. 361pp. Full green cloth, gilt and green titles, vibrant red topstain. Mild bumping to spine ends, moderate foxing to the upper 2/3 of the deckled fore-edge, else near fine in a near fine, unclipped "$5.95" jacket, lightly edge-worn, with a short closed tear and some light creasing at head of spine panels. A nice copy of the first Lispector title to appear in English. Translated from the Portuguese by Gregory Rabassa.

Berkeley: Cloud Marauder Press, 1970. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Staple-bound in printed wraps. Unpaginated. First edition. Light browning along spine, small stains at base of rear cover and table of contents page. A collaborative collection of poems, surrealist, scatalogical, and silly by turns. One of 700 copies. Cover by Reese Bullen.

NY: Gordon Press, 1974. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. 35pp. Limited edition reprint of 200 copies. Red leatherette, gilt titles. Without dust jacket, as issued. Partial rubbing to spine titles, which nonetheless remain legible. Some off-setting to rear pastedown. Else near fine. A verse play from 1904.