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

London: Andre Deutsch, 1961. First UK edition. Hardcover, [octavo], brown cloth boards, gilt spine titles, illustrated dust jacket, 307 pp. Very good book, top edge dust-soiled, fore and bottom edge foxed, end pages damp-stained; good dust jacket, spine soiled, spine ends nicked and chipped, covers creased and rubbed, edges torn and nicked, flap seams worn. Jacket design by Kenneth Breese.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1964. First printing. Hardcover octavo gray cloth boards with white and orange spine lettering in illustrated dust jacket, 222 pp. Very good, lightly toned cloth boards with light soiling to back/Very good jacket, lightly chipped and worn around edges and spine ends, tear to top of cover into front flap. Jacket design by Ben Feder.

New York: Free Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover octavo, brown boards with gilt spine lettering in glossy pictorial price-clipped dust jacket, 456 pp. Very good/Very good, lightly worn, back of dust jacket moderately soiled. Jacket design by W. Scot Carouge.

[np]: Angela Jimenez Photography, 2016. First edition. Hardcover, red cloth boards with gilt lettering in pictorial dust jacket, quarto, 123 pp. Very good/Very good dust jacket.

[Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover, large octavo, blue cloth boards, black spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 625 pp. Good book, spine lightly faded and soiled, text block bottom edge lightly soiled, front free endpaper rubber-stamped, introductory pages (1-57 pp.) with some underlined sections and margin notes; good dust jacket, spine chipped with open tears at ends, joints rubbed and an open tear to lower cover joint, edges chipped with 1/8" closed tears and 1/2" open tear to fore edge top corner, lower cover fore edge corners with 1/8" open tears, flap seams rubbed and chipped with some small tears, with all faults. A critical study of the improvisational method in North Indian musical practices and techniques, detailing the settings and performative environment in which the ragas are played.

New York City, NY: Grove Press, 1968. First Printing. Hardcover 8vo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine in an illustrated dust jacket, 256 pp. Near fine/Very good, lightest of wear around edges, very clean dust jacket. Jacket Design Kuhlman Associates.

Boston: The Gorham Press, 1910. Hardcover [octavo] red cloth boards with gilt lettering, no dust jacket, 64 pp. Good, frayed and rubbed spine ends with continued wear along the edges of boards to the torn corners, very lightly soiled deckled edges and scrapes to rear end papers. Well-known member of Boston and New York high society for yachting, racing and social exploits. This is the first book of verse she published when she was 22 years old.

New York: New Directions, 1982. Hardcover [quarto] in pictorial dust jacket. Maroon cloth with gilt stamped lettering to spine. 107 pp. Near Fine in a Very Good or better jacket with mildest toning, soiling, and edgewear..

Kingston, Jamaica: Ziaka Publications, 1983. Perfect-bound, octavo, illustrated paper wraps, 236 pp. Very good condition, spine creased, spine ends worn, covers lightly soiled, some edge and corner wear, text block edges lightly soiled, lower covers creased.

Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1966. Third edition. Signature-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 635 pp. Very good, spine creased, spine ends chipped and worn, edges and corners creased and worn, text block lightly marked. Early printing of Cortazar's masterpiece.

London: Onlywomen Press, 1984. Perfect-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 166 pp. Very good book, wraps worn and creased, end pages foxed, text block toned.

New York: REAL LIFE Magazine, 1980. Saddle-stapled, quarto, offset-printed, pictorial wraps, 24 pp. Very good condition, lightly soiled wraps, some bruising to edges, gently worn. Featuring articles and interviews: "Primary Transfers" by Richard Prince; "The Destroyed Room of Jeff Wall" by Dan Graham; "Fashion Moda" an interview by Real Life Magazine editor Thomas Lawson; "Trash Drugs and Male Bonding" by Kim Gordon; "Going Places" by Thomas Lawson; "Laurie Spiegel" by Steven Fraccaro; "Inserted Realities: Corner Insert" by Dara Birnbaum; "Michael Hurson" an interview by Susan Morgan.

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1959. 8vo, in blue cloth boards with silver lettering and blue decoration on spine, in illustrated jacket, 205 pp. Very Good, light fading along edges, slight cant to spine, previous owner's name and address on title page, bottom corners frayed./Very Good jacket, chipping to crown and tail of jacket spine, price clipped, general chipping and wear along edges, soiling on rear panel.. Jacket design by Ivan Chermayeff, jacket illustration by Michael Train..

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. First edition, ex-library. Hardcover, [octavo], black cloth boards, gilt spine titles and cover decoration, pictorial dust jacket, 377 pp. Very good book, ex-library copy with stamp to front free end paper, rear pastedown library association has been removed, slight cant to spine with soiled edges in very good dust jacket, some close tears and edge wear with light soiling. Jacket design by Joseph Low. Number five (of six) in the Jungle Novels sequence.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1968. Hardcover, octavo, black cloth boards, orange spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, yellow endpapers, 272 pp. Very good book, spine ends lightly bruised and rubbed, cloth edges lightly worn; very good dust jacket, lightly creased spine ends chipped and worn, covers lightly soiled, upper cover top edge with 1"4 section displaced, edges and corners lightly worn, lower cover bottom edge with close tears. Jacket design by Loretta Trezzo.

Alphawood Exhibitions, 2021. Hardcover Quarto, quarter maroon cloth over pictorial boards. New, in shrink wrap..

New York: The Olympia Press, Inc, 1971. Perfect-bound, [octavo], in pictorial wraps, 184 pp. Very Good, with edge wear to wraps, otherwise sound.

New York: Future Press, 1981. Second edition of 700 copies, one of 600 perfect-bound copies. Perfect-bound, octavo, pictorial wraps, [320]. Very good, spine creased, wraps lightly worn, text block edges minor soiling.

New York: Harry N Abrams, Inc, 2001. Hardcover, folio, lavender cloth boards with silver lettering in glossy pictorial dust jacket, 241 illustrations with 171 plates in full color, navy blue end papers, 320 pp. Very good/Very good dust jacket, lightly shelf worn with occasional nicks and short tears, 1" tear to head of spine, beginning stages of peeling to tail of spine. Red Grooms with photography by Bill Lafevor.

New York: Fiction Collective, 1975. First edition. Perfect-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 145 pp. Very good, spine worn and creased, edge wear, text block lightly marked. Cover design by Adalberto Ortiz.