Search Results: Titles starting with C from Dividing Line Books

Fathom Press, 1979. Soft cover. Fine. Fathom Press, 1979. One of 326 copies. Printed by Robie Liscomb, with cabbage drawing by Rita Lannon and calligraphy by Peter Fraterdeus. Saddle-stitched with white thread in off-white wraps with yapped edges, 11 x 7-3/4 in. [24]pp. Some light finger smudges to interior, else about fine. Howe's sixth book; a handsome production.

Chicago: Free Black Press, 1970. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Chicago: Free Black Press, 1970. First edition (stated first printing). 8vo. Saddle-stapled in illustrated card wraps. 24pp. Moderate foxing/spotting to front cover and underlying leaf; oxidation to staples; musty. Very good. First of two collections of verse by an author who died, apparently quite young, in January 1972; published while she was a student at Northeastern State College in Chicago. Poems exploring various social and political facets of Black womanhood. Introduction by Eugene Perkins. N.B. The second printing amends the title's "Calling" to "Callin'."

NY: Doubleday & Company, 1969. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition of Disch's celebrated New Wave science fiction novel, a dystopic riff on the Faust legend and imperialistic American military policy; as inscribed by him to New York School poet, librettist, and publisher Kenward Elmslie (1929-2022). Disch, a poet as well as a novelist, was an active participant in the New York poetry scene, his work represented in Adventures in Poetry and other contemporary journals; he and Elmslie surely had a more than passing social relationship. The quotation in Disch's inscription repeats a line from Elmslie's book-length poem The Champ (Black Sparrow Press, 1968). In 1971, Disch was to include a chapter from Elmslie's novel-in-progress, The Orchid Stories, in his anthology of speculative fiction, The Ruins of Earth. NY: Doubleday & Company, 1969. First edition. 184pp. 8vo. Black cloth; orange spine titles; dust jacket, featuring design by Saul Lambert.… Read More

Argyle, NY: Spinsters Ink, 1980. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Argyle, NY: Spinsters, Ink, 1980. First edition. 8vo. Perfect-bound in yellow printed wraps. 77pp. Yellow highlighting to 23 pages; light bump to bottom fore-corner; small feminist sticker at top fore-corner of front cover. Very good. An important non-fiction prose work by American poet Audre Lorde (1934-1992); an empowering and fiercely feminist account of her experience with breast cancer and mastectomy, portions of which originally appeared in the feminist literary journal Sinister Wisdom. N.B. Priced to reflect the presence of highlighting; else a quite sharp copy.

NY: New Directions, 1996. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. NY: New Directions, 1996. First edition. 168pp; 8vo; red cloth boards; dust jacket. Fine in a fine, unclipped jacket. With a laid-in bookplate signed by Davenport. A collection of short stories by the polymathic American writer and artist Guy Davenport (1927-2005).

London: Chatto & Windus, 1938. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Inscribed copy of the second collection of poems--lyrical, formal, rather mannered--by the prolific but largely forgotten author of such novels as The Asiatics and The Seven Who Fled. First edition. Octavo (6 x 8.75 in.); 50pp.; patterened- paper boards backed with black cloth. Signed and inscribed by Prokosch on the front free endpaper. Near fine, with light shelfwear and some very minor splitting to the board paper at the corners. In a good only jacket with chips, splash marks, and an internally tape-repaired closed tear at head of front panel. Original "5s. net" price still present at base of front flap.

London: Bloomsbury, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The first printing under this title of the 1952 book originally published under the pseudonym Claire Morgan as "The Price of Salt." With a new afterword written by Highsmith specifically for this edition. First edition thus. Octavo (9.5 x 6.25 in.); 262pp.; blue textured paper boards, in dust jacket. Light bumping to bottom corners and spine ends. Very light toning to interior edges of textblock. Price-clipped jacket shows moderate crumpling at spine ends and tips. A very good (+) copy in like jacket. Basis of the 2015 Todd Haynes film starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.

London: John Long, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. London: John Long, 1969. 12mo. 191pp. Revised hardcover edition of a book first published in 1937. 8th title in the Department Z series. VG/VG. Signature bound hardcover in brown paper boards. Bottom rear board corner bumped/crumpled. A handful of pages with small creases. Dust soiling and a few spots of foxing to text block. Text bright, clean, and unmarked. No tanning. Unclipped jacket in very good condition, with light edgewear and soiling.

NY: Doubleday & Company, 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition copy of the third book in Asimov's Black Widowers mystery series. NY: Doubleday & Company, 1980. First edition. Octavo, 8-1/2 x 5-3/4 in. 182pp. Red papered boards; black spine titles; dust jacket. Light shelfwear, bumping to spine ends. Unclipped ("$7.95") jacket several short closed tears with creases, toning to spine and interior. Near fine in a very good jacket.

Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Harold Hill, 1967. 8vo. 186pp. First edition. VG+/VG+. Hardcover book bound in black cloth shows a bump at base of spine, and light spotting to top of textblock. Binding strong; text clean and unmarked, though pages have a light musty smell. Unclipped jacket bright and clean, with some creasing at the base of the spine. Printed map endpapers, with a fold-out map at rear of book.

NY: Davenport Press, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. xvi+279pp+8pp bibliography. First printing thus. Front free end paper inscribed to a former owner "In memory of George Milburn, whom I wish you had known," by Milburn's widow Mary. Full tan cloth with gilt spine titles, in fine condition. Unclipped "$18.95" jacket bears several short closed tears along top edge of front and rear panels, with a shallow band of loss at the head of the spine. Reprint of Milburn's under-appreciated classic novel, originally published in 1936, detailing the effects prompted by the arrivalf of the Montgomery Ward and Sears Roebuck catalogues on a cast of more than 70 characters living in a small Oklahoma town.

Oberlin, OH: The Local Paper, 1982. Soft cover. Near Fine. An artist's book exploring the threat of nuclear war through a simple yet compelling conceit: pairing text from the N.Y. State Civil Defense Warden's Manual (ca. 1952) with photographs from the 1981 Michigan State Fair. Saddle-stapled; 11 x 7.5 in.; unpaginated (20pp., including covers). About near fine. Uncommon, with only five holdings located in OCLC, including MoMA and the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago.

Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 2002. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Providence: Burning Deck, 2002. From an edition of 1,000. 93pp. 8vo. Signature- bound in photo-illustrated wraps. Near fine, with light wear and soiling to wraps. This copy from the library of New York School poet, librettist, and publisher Kenward Elmslie (1929-2022); inscribed to him and signed by both authors on the half-title: "For Kenward." Prose-poem biographies published on the Waldrops' own press, as originally commissioned for and printed in Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, ed. Joyce Nakamura, vol. 30.

Yellow Springs, OH: Community Publications Cooperative, 1973. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Yellow Springs, OH: Community Publications Cooperative, 1973. 176pp.; illus. Octavo; perfect-bound in illustrated wraps. Light bumping to crown of spine; mild shelfwear. Very good or better; a nice copy. An autobiographical account of life on a 1960/70s hippie commune, Saddle Ridge Farm, in rural Oregon. Told as a series of narrative vignettes elaborating various aspects of communal life--"food," "parties," "meditation," "money," "A school?" etc.--as well as more personal reflections on interrelations with other members. With sporadic line-drawn portraits throughout. N.B. Copies of this title in the trade are more often than not mistakenly identified as inscribed by the author; the holograph text on p.[3] ("I don't want this book ever to be assigned as required reading to anyone. Elaine") is in fact mechanically reproduced.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1912. Hardcover. Very Good. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1912. Second printing. 347pp. Octavo; gray-blue cloth; gilt title to front board and spine; decorative blind-stamping to boards; lacking a jacket. Light shelfwear; spine titles somewhat dulled; toning to endlaves and textblock edge. Very good. Fourth novel by the prolific English writer of weird fiction, Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951), who identified this as one of his personal favorite works. Though unstated, this copy from the library of New York School poet, librettist, and publisher Kenward Elmslie (1929-2022).

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1953. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 399pp. First edition. Blue textured paper boards, silver spine titles. Light bumping to spine ends, a few very minor spots of soiling to textblock top, former owner's name penciled on front free endpaper, else about near fine. Unclipped very good (+) dust jacket lightly worn at spine ends, with moderate general browning and a few spots of light foxing to rear panel. Quite an attractive copy of Renault's first novel to prominently feature male homosexuality, important both as a landmark work of gay literature and as a novel of World War II.

London: Studio Vista Limited, 1970. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition of this biography and musicological analysis of the Mississippi guitarist Charley Patton (1891-1934), known as the "Father of the Delta Blues" for the enormous influence he exerted on succeeding generations of blues musicians. Fahey (1939-2001) was himself an enormously influential steel-string guitar player, generally recognized as the progenitor of the "American Primitive" fingerstyle genre, whose technical lexicon drew heavily on the country blues model. Charley Patton was originally written as Fahey's 1966 master's thesis in folklore at UCLA, and includes transcriptions and textual analyses of all of Patton's extant songs. The book is rooted in Fahey's deep appreciation for the Delta blues tradition, and stands as one of the more impressive examples of an American musician reflecting on the history and lore of their craft. Small octavo (5 x 8 in.); 112pp., with selected discography… Read More

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. 4to. xii + 135pp. Black cloth, silver spine titles. A fine copy in a very near fine jacket showing minor edgewear and scuffing. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs by Starke Jett V.

Grand Rapids, MI: Minit Print of Grand Rapids, 1969. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Grand Rapids, MI: Minit Print of Grand Rapids, 1969. 40pp.; illus. Octavo; saddle-stapled in illustrated card wraps. Rubbing and wear to spine and corners. Very good or better. Signed, dated (1969), and inscribed by the author to front cover recto. An account of the author's investigations into Daisy Dryden (1854-1864), a California girl who for three days before her premature death described visions of life after death. Heffernan recounts aspects of Dryden's life as purportedly communicated to him via "spirit-thought-transmission," before reprinting a sketch of Dryden's life as written by her father thirty years after her death. The "first venture in writing" by a Grand Rapids native and self-described "enthusiastic student of the Occult and Parapsychology." Scarce; OCLC locates only a single holding.

NY: Ballantine Books, 1953. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. First paperback printing, issued simultaneously with the hardcover. Signed by Clarke in his customary blue ballpoint pen on the title page. Mass-market paperback (7 x 4.25 in.), 214pp. Very good condition, with no serious structural issues, but with the following minor cosmetic imperfections (all visible in photos): light crease to front hinge, several soft creases to covers, wear and surface flaking along rear hinge. Textblock somewhat toned. Spine slightly scalloped with a couple of very light creases; binding remains strong and secure. A reasonably presentable copy of this first issue version of Clarke's fifth novel, one of the landmark works of modern science fiction. Covert art by Richard Powers.