Search Results: Titles starting with I from Better Read Than Dead

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1963. First edition. Hardcover, [octavo], blue cloth boards with gilt lettering in illustrated dust jacket, 192 pp. Near fine book in very good price-clipped dust jacket, spine ends lightly chipped, close tears to top and bottoms edges and seams, rear cover lightly soiled. Former copy of literary critic and translator, Roberto Marquez, whose owner inscription notes the first page along with underlinings and annotations in his pen throughout text block.

Hunter Museum, 2010. Soft cover. Very Good. Light wear and small scuffs to wrap and edges, otherwise this copy is in very good condition with tight binding and clean, bright foldout pages free of marking or spots. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

Union, NJ: Lawbook Exchange, 1998. 1998 Facsimile Reprint from the 1910 Edition. Hardcover [quartos] in red cloth with paneled, gilt lettered titling to spine. Third volume missing. All about Near Fine, with volume two still in original shrink. Few scattered turned-down corners to volume one. Others show mildest edge and shelf wear including minor soiling, one small dent to front joint on volume six.. Deluxe facsimile reprint set of Phelps Stokes' monumental reference compendium of visual representations of Manhattan from its first European settlements to the then-contemporary day. Extensively researched and with gorgeous plates throughout. Missing volume three.

Lahore, Pakistan: The Book House, [nd]. Hardcover with yellow cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket, 8vo, 470 pp. Good, some edge wear, dust jacket adhered to front and rear pastedown papers./Good jacket, chipped and worn along edges, lightly soiled, adhered to front and rear pastedown papers of book.

Finland: The 5th Columnist, 2001. Hardcover quarto photobook in illustrated boards, unpaginated [160]. Very good, lightly worn corners and edges to boards.

New York: 13th Moon, 1977. Signature-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 64 pp. Very good, wraps lightly worn, front end pages owner inscribed. Cover photos Fran Winant; Cover & Design Ellen Marie Bissert. Tipped in promotional material for 13th Moon for which author was the editor.

New York City, NY, 1964. First Edition, with original cover art (Second Edition had an alternate Brainard cover). Limited to 200 copies, all signed and numbered by Padgett, of which this is no. 98. Softcover quarto, side-stapled in illustrated paper wrappers, unpaginated [42]. Very good, light wear and rubbing to perimeter aspects of cover wrappers, some creasing to wrappers, text block is clean and unmarked but some of the ink for text was transferred to preceding blank pages during mimeo process. Cover and drawings by Joe Brainard. Ted Berrigan started "C" Press in 1963 with Lorenz Gude as publisher and published "C" Magazine from May 1963 to May 1966 for 2 volumes and 13 issues (No #12) and also published Joe Brainard's "C" Comics amongst several books by fellow New York School poets including In Advance of the Broken Arm, preceded by Literary Days by Tom Veitch, Homage to Arthur Rimbaud by Ted Berrigan.

New Delhi: Evelyn Publishers, 1987. First edition. Hardcover 6" x 8 5/8", blue vinyl boards in pictorial dust jacket, 309 pp. Near fine/Good dust jacket, faded and lightly soiled with crease marks, rubbed seams with chipped and tattered edges and corners.. Cover design by Arun Krumar and Anatoly Gussev. The story of Indian biochemist and pharmaceuticals technician who pioneered treatment of cancer in the 1930s and discovered the organic compounds used in energy production for different processes of living cells.

Castro Valley, CA: Black Bird Press, 2002. First edition. Perfect-bound, [octavo], in pictorial paper wraps, 204 pp. Very good, lightly worn and scraped wraps. Collection of essays by Marvin X. In the 60s, he co-founded Black Arts West Theater in San Francisco and in Harlem at the Lafayette Theater where he was an associate editor of Black Theatre magazine. He toured the country with his play, and videodrama, One Day in the Life to help people with addiction and recovery. These incisive essays represent black literary arts and history with a revolutionary voice. Introduction by Suzzette Celeste and Foreword by James W. Sweeney.

New York: New Directions, 1977. 8vo, blue boards with black lettering down spine in pictorial jacket, 113 pp. Very Good, corners at tail lightly pushed, slight cant to spine along with a slight cock./Very Good jacket, some toning on verso, light handling wear to edges and corners.. Jacket photograph by Eva Rubinstein; design by Getrude Huston. Ever the experimental master known best for his exploits in Alphabetical Africa and How German Is It, Abish here presents the other side of his work in short form.

New York/London: Longman, 1985. Signature-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 278 pp. Very good condition.

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.

Northwestern University African Studies Series No. 7. Hardcover octavo, quarter bound black cloth spine with gilt lettering and peach cloth boards in glossy pictorial jacket, 167 pp. Very good book, lightly rubbed cloth to perimeter aspects of boards, lightly soiled paste down papers/Very good jacket, lightly chipped spine ends along with rubbed and lightly soiled areas, lightly soiled covers and flaps, similar chipping and intermittent small tears to perimeter aspects.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First American Edition. 8vo. Blue quarter cloth over brown paper boards with gold gilt lettering to cover and spine. 244pp. Near Fine, signed and inscribed by previous owner on end page./Very Good jacket, light edge wear, lightly smudged.. Jacket illustration and design by Bascove.. First American Edition. At the wheel, a man tells his young passenger the story of his life while driving through the night.

Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2016. Hardcover in illustrated glossy boards, 8vo, 235 pp. Near fine.

Munich; New York: Hirmer Verlag; The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, 2022. Hardcovers, illustrated boards in brown cloth slip case with red lettering, 4to(s), 159 pp. (Vol. Art) and 127 pp. (Vol. Discouse). Near fine.

Lion Edition Publishing, 1950. Soft cover. Good. Some creasing and a small, 1 cm, tear between wrap and spine of the front cover. Tight binding, clean square text block and bright leaves free of soiling or creasing. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall.

Adyar, Madras, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1931. Adyar Pamphlets No. 146. Softcover octavo, saddle-stitched pamphlet in burnt orange paper wrappers with black lettering, 32 pp. Very good, wear to wrappers along stitched binding, covers and corners; ~6cm tear to bottom spine of wrappers and first, and last, page, light pencil markings to cover.

New York: United Artists, 1987. Perfect bound in pictorial wraps, 8 x 5-1/2 in. 93pp. With laid-in corrections slip. Near fine, with light bump to base of spine.. Inscribed by Warsh on the half-title: "For Kenward [Elmslie], with love Lewis 11/87

New York: Peter Lang, 1989. Hardcover, 6" x 8 3/4", in glossy pictorial boards, no dust jacket, 160 pp. Near fine. Literary criticism of Joan Didion, focusing on Run River, Play It as It Lays, A Book of Common Prayer, Democracy, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, Salvador, and Miami.