Search Results: Titles starting with D from Richard Bishop, Bookseller

New York: The Dial Press, 1957. No edition stated. Hardcover. 8vo. First half of book in English, second half in French (on different colored paper). 157pp. Black and white illustrations including 57 calligraphic devices by Dali. Rubbing and edgewear to boards. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has darkened spine, rear of jacket is rubbed and shows some scrapes and surface loss. Still a very good copy in like jacket. Nothing has ever aged more rapidly and more poorly than modern art." Dali holds nothing back here as he tells the reader what is wrong with modern art, its artists, and its critics. Nobody escapes. "The critics have been cuckolded by the ugly, the modern, the technical and the abstract." Dali shares critical evaluations of Picasso, Cezanne, Turner, Pollock and others. On Jackson Pollack's work: "The indigestion that goes with fish soup." Quite the entertaining read.

New castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books, 2008. Second Printing (with corrections). Hardcover. Short folio (9.5 x 12 inches). xiii, 378 pp. Signed on the title page by Kevin Johnson. Black cloth with gilt spine titles. Full page color images of books in dust jackets throughout. A near fine copy in like jacket. The literary origins of the American film noir cycle are more convoluted than a plot contrived by Raymond Chandler after a too-long night at Musso and Frank. Kevin Johnson has paired his obsessions with film and literature to illuminate even the murkiest connections. Identifying every 1940s American film noir with a published literary source, The Dark Page provides concise but fact-filled accounts of the authors, books and filmmakers that came together-often in unlikely combinations-to create a unique and cherished period in film history.Tapping the wells of film historians, cinemanistas, rare booksellers, collectors and librarians around the world, Johnson has compiled an unprecedented dossier of… Read More

Angora Press, No date (1990). Reprint. Softcover. Tall octavo. 112pp. A couple of light scrapes to front. A very good or better copy. Also known as Hollywood Drag and Let Me Die In Drag.The man on death row was prepared to die. When he faced the warden for the last time .. before his execution ... he was told that he had one last request. After all the years the warden had spent in penal institutions, this man's final request thoroughly shocked him. "What did you say?" he asked in disbelief. The prisoner looked at him calmly and repeated his request ... "I want to die as a woman!

Corinth , 1966. First Edition Thus. Terror Takles Book No. 2. CR147 (Holroyd page 211). Cover art by Robert Bonfils. Near fine. Title story by Hugh B. Cave.

New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2009. First Indian Edition. Hardcover in pictorial boards. Thick octavo. xxvii + 701pp. A near fine copy. Frederick M. Smith proposes that positive oracular or ecstatic possession is the most common form of spiritual expression in India, and that it has been linguistically distinguished from negative, disease-producing possession for thousands of years. In South Asia possession has always been broader and more diverse than in the West, where it has been almost entirely characterized as "demonic." At best, spirit possession has been regarded as a medically treatable psychological ailment and at worst, as a condition that requires exorcism or punishment. In South (and East) Asia, ecstatic or oracular possession has been widely practiced throughout history, occupying a position of respect in early and recent Hinduism and in certain forms of Buddhism. Smith analyzes Indic literature from all ages-the earliest Vedic texts; the Mahabharata; Buddhist, Jain, Yogic,… Read More

London: John Rodker, 1930. First English Language Edition. Printed by Richard Clay & Sons Ltd, Bungay Suffolk. Hardcover. Quarto (7 ½ x 10 inches). xliii + 188 pp. Limited edition of 1275 copies, this copy being unnumbered. Beautifully bound in full crimson morocco (by Trevor Hickman), with small decorations in gilt to corners of front and back panels. Spine with 5 raised bands, titled in gilt. Marbled endpapers, with top and bottom silk headbands. Housed in a dark red cloth covered slipcase. A fine copy in a near fine slipcase. This is Remy's most famous work which was originally written in Latin and first published in Lyon in 1595. It is considered one of the most important early works on demons and witches. The book was reprinted several times, translated into German, and eventually replaced the Malleus Maleficarum as the most recognized handbook of witch-hunters in parts of Europe. According to Remy, the Devil could appear before people in the shape of a black cat or man, and… Read More

London: Edwin Self, No date. First Edition. Digest size. Cover art most likely by Ron Turner. Some light wrinkles to spine, tiny chip to upper right front cover, otherwise a clean copy in very good or better condition. Full-length story concerning an epic trip to Mars. Duh.

London: Scion Limited , 1951. First Edition. A Scion Scientific Novel". Digest size. Cover art by R.T. (Ron Turner). Some wrinkles to spine. A very good or better copy. About a spaceship leaving the earth's atmosphere which eventually triggers a fiery holocaust resulting in only a handful of survivors. A real feel good story!

London: Privately Published, 1894. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (12.5 x 9.5 inches). 1894 facsimile of the 1865 edition. Bound in contemporary quarter leather over brown buckram boards. Spine titled in gilt. This edition limited to 500 numbered copies, printed from type, twenty-five of which are large paper copies. This volume is one of the large paper copies and is numbered "Twenty Five." Marbled endpapers. 254 pages plus 40 pages of black and white erotic plates presented throughout the text (some copies of this edition had all the plates bound at the end). Printed on thick paper. Some wear to the leather on spine and along spine edges. Edge and corner wear. Small catalog listing of this title affixed to front pastedown. Front hinge cracked but does not affect the binding. A very good of this large paper edition. This work, which was Knight’s first book (first published in 1786) sought to recover the importance of ancient phallic cults. Knight's apparent preference… Read More

London: Privately Published, 1894. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (12.5 x 9.5 inches). 1894 facsimile of the 1865 edition. Bound in early 20th century half calf over boards. Gilt rules along leather. Spine with 5 raised bands with titles and decorations in compartments. This edition limited to 500 numbered copies, printed from type, twenty-five of which are large paper copies. This volume is one of the large paper copies though it is not numbered. Marbled endpapers. 254 pages plus 40 pages of black and white erotic plates at end of volume. Printed on thick paper. Some rubbing to boards and along edges of leather, slight indentation to lower front right edge. A very good or better copy of this large paper edition. This work, which was Knight’s first book (first published in 1786) sought to recover the importance of ancient phallic cults. Knight's apparent preference for ancient sacred eroticism over Judeo-Christian puritanism led to many attacks on him as an infidel and as a… Read More

[UK]: I-H-O Books (specially bound by Hell Fire Club Books), 1999. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. 68 pp. Bound in full black leather with gilt stampint to front, spine titled in gilt. Though not stated, this edition is limited to only 11 copies. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece, title page printed in red and black. With b&w illustrations. A fine copy, issued without dust jacket. This work contains Matthew Hopkin’s treatise on witchcraft from 1647 and an essay about Hopkins by Montague Summers. Hopkins was England’s self-proclaimed Witchfinder General. From 1644 until 1647, he travelled from village to village, trying and torturing those unfortunates accused of witchcraft. England was going through a civil war, and the state of political turmoil made it possible for Hopkins to assume authority and roam about as he pleased, burning witches and torturing as he went. It is believed that he was responsible for the deaths of 300 people. (This equates to more than half of the total… Read More

Unique Book, 1968. First Edition. PBO. UB 152 (Holroyd page 530). Cover by Eric Stanton. A fine copy.

Port Townsend: Feral House, 2008. First Printing. Paperback with French flaps. Quarto. 220pp. Color illustrations throughout. A fine copy. Dope Menace collects together hundreds of fabulously lurid and collectible covers in color, from xenophobic turn-of-the century tomes about the opium trade to the beatnik glories of reefer smoking and William S. Burroughs’ Junkie to the spaced-out psychedelic ’60s.

New York: Louis Tannen, No date [1955]. Stapled wrappers. 30 pp. Printed on glossy paper. Illustrated with photographs. Very Good. Here are 17 tricks and effects using doves. Tony Kardyro began his career performing as "Tony London", changing it to "Tony Kardyro" around 1933. He also performed as "Senor Torino, the Continental Deceptionist" when presenting his dove act. He once explained his working under so many names by saying that he had worked all the venues and a new name was needed for new bookings. He was the originator of the Dove Bag.

Portland: Wrigley-Cross Books, 1995. First Edition. Introductions by Lionel and Patricia Fanthorpe and David Langford. Paperback. Octavo. 163pp. Signed on the title page by Lionel Fanthorpe. Near fine. A bibliography of all the Fanthorpe titles published by John Spencer under the Badger imprint, plus many humorous excerpts from the books which often were padded and ended abruptly to meet strict work counts. Included is one complete story "Curse of the Khan".Fanthorpe began working for Badger Books in the early 1950s, and over the period of the next 15 years produced many books under different pseudonyms, some of which were pen-names shared with other of Badger Books' writers. These included: Victor La Salle, John E. Muller, and Karl Zeigfreid. Pseudonyms exclusive to Fanthorpe's short story output include Neil Balfort, Othello Baron, Noel Bertram, Oben Leterth, Elton T. Neef, Peter O'Flinn, René Rolant, Robin Tate and Deutero Spartacus. Names he used for novels… Read More

Kearny, NJ: Attis Publishing, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. x + 110pp. Black cloth with white spine titles. Black endpapers. Illustrated throughout with full-page photos in b&w (some with hints of color). A fine copy in like dust jacket. A fantastic collection of macabre and erotic photographs by Santerieross. At first glance it appears that Joel-Peter Witkin may have been an influence, and that may be the case but the works presented here have a certain type of beauty that Witkin lacks. These photographs are alive. This is a sequel to his previous work, "Fruit of the Secret God".