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

New York: Just Another Asshole, 1987. Perfect-bound [oblong octavo] in pictorial multi-colored wraps. 142 pp. Near Fine, light shelving and edge wear.. Cover photo by Ted Serios. Seventh issue of seminal journal JUST ANOTHER ASSHOLE, edited by publisher Barbara Ess and musician / downtown luminary Glenn Branca. The Cool is Countless: 120 pages of photographs from Branca, Mitch Corber, Nan Goldin, Dan Graham, Gary Indiana, Jim Jarmusch, Barbara Kruger, Richard Prince, Arleen Schloss, Lynne Tillman, David Wojnarowicz, and many more followed by essays from Gary Indiana, Cookie Mueller, David Rattray, and more.

Tokyo, Japan: Daiwa Radiator Factory, 2006. Hardcover. Near Fine. Sharp corners, tight square binding, some shelving and handling wear, clean and unmarked within. Near Fine condition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

Essex Junction, VT: Essex Publishing Company, 197. Hardcover, [octavo] with blue cloth boards and gilt lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 137 pp. Very good with very good price-clipped dust jacket, close tears and lightly worn around edges, gently soiled and some rubbing to covers,.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1932. First edition. Hardcover with black and gray cloth; gilt spine titles; dark red topstain; dust jacket, 38pp. 8vo. Near fine in a very good, price-clipped jacket with small chips at head of front panel and base of spine, moderate rubbing./Good dust jacket, chipping to spine ends with moderate wear to edges: noted displaced sections (. Designed by Wener Helmer. Translated by M.D. Herter Norton. Inscribed on the front endpaper from John Latouche to Kenward Elmslie: "J to K Noel - 52.".

Rowley, MA: Newbury House Publishers, 1076. First Printing, November 1976. Perfectbound in illustrated card wraps. xiv, 102 pp. Very Good.

Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1976. Hardcover, [octavo], green cloth boards, gilt spine titles, gold end papers, illustrated dust jacket, 290 pp. Very good book, spine ends chipped, covers have close tears. Cover design by Al Schreiner.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981. Hardcover, octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering in glossy pictorial dust jacket, 267 pp. Very good/Very good jacket, lightly chipped and nicked around corners and edges, a couple small tears to covers. Jacket Photograph by Sarah Clayton.

Musée du Quai Branly/Actes Sud, 2014. Hardcover. Near Fine. Light scratches to the boards. Tight binding, clean text block and bright leaves free of soiling or creasing. Near Fine.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. First American edition. Hardcover, [octavo], red cloth boards, thatched black cover decoration, gilt spine and cover titles, top stain, pictorial dust jacket, 370 pp. Very good book, boards edge worn; very good dust jacket, spine faded and soiled, spine ends chipped, cover edges twice torn, else light wear. Jacket design by Herbert Bayer.

Seattle: Black Heron Press, 2006. Hardcover, octavo, black boards, silver spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 217 pp. Near fine book in a fine, unclipped dust jacket. From the library of New York School poet, publisher and librettist, Kenward Elmslie. Inscribed on the title page: "For my good friend - the great poet Kenward Elmslie, Kirby Olson." Laid in are a TLS from Olson, in which he solicits Elmslie's advice about how to raise grant money for an upcoming book and a five-page printed review of Temping from the California Literary Review. A novel.

New York: A.S. Barnes and Co, 1857. Fourth Edition. Hardcover 8vo, brown cloth with all over decorative stamping, some gilt. [24 plates], 163 pp, 106 pp, [48 plates]. Very Good, tight square binding, fraying and chipping to edges of spine and corners, some soiling, fading, small staining to boards, foxing throughout, some dampstaining and horizontal creasing running through front leaves. Fourth Edition of this scarce masonic text, quite scarce in any of its early editions, and bearing the bookplate of Lewis G. Lockward, the first mayor of Caldwell, NJ (birthplace of Grover Cleveland).

San Francisco, CA: Imprinting Press, 1974. Softcover octavo, saddle-stapled in glossy yellow pictorial wrappers with black lettering and silver photos on covers, x, 59 pp., [44] pages of appendices (A - F) and last page is a letter-sized folded sheet with 'analytical summary' of interstate and international cases. Very good, wear, rubbing & fading to cover wrappers along saddle-stapled spine and additionally worn corners and edges, fading and soiling to color and prints on wrappers also to be considered. Printed for Joanna Leary and filed at the California Court of Appeals while Dr. Timothy Leary was in jail in 1974 with a bail set at $5,000,000 implicating Leary in the drug trafficking conspiracy referred to as "The Brotherhood of Eternal Love." Prior to the trial the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs were heavily spying on Leary with several government agents informing on Leary's activity. This publication was used in the trial in Leary's defense with 8 pages of printed sources of… Read More

Mexico, D.F.: Ediciones Estela, 1946. First Mexican Edition. Octavo, illustrated French-fold cardstock wrappers, 289 pp. Good, dampstaining to covers, cocked spine, soiling and toning, 3" tear to top of rear wrap. First Mexican Edition of Traven's most enduring work, and its first North American publication. A bard of the dispossessed, Traven came to Mexico first from Europe and settled in for the long haul as it became his home base and the setting for much of his written work (including this one, although it stands alone from his multi-volume epic the Jungle Novels).

New York: Harry N Abrams, Inc, 2001. Hardcover, quarto, with illustrated boards in pictorial dust jacket, yellow end papers, 171 illustrations with 101 plates in full color, 192 pp. Very good/Very good dust jacket with wear, nicks and chipping at ends of spine, and overall gently worn around edges and corners. Jacket front art by Mose Tolliver and jacket back by Thornton Dial Jr.. The Ronald and June Shelp Collection. Printed in association with Exhibitions International and The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

London: Thames & Hudson, 2009. Hardcover octavo with colophon-embossed maroon boards and silver lettering on spine in pictorial dust jacket, 599 pp. Very good, lightly worn book with 1/4" scrape to cloth at bottom corner revealing board/Very good, moderate creasing to ends of spine with fairly worn edges and corners with some creasing and small tears, worn and torn seam to rear flap at bottom. Jacket cover photo by Peter Dibke.

Port of Spain, Trinidad: Scope Publishing Caribbean, 1977. Saddle-stapled 16mo in stiff pictorials wraps. 35 pp. Near Fine. Scarce collection from this little-known Trinidadian poet.

New York: The Dial Press, 1968. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, octavo, red cloth boards, pictorial dust jacket, orange endpapers, 311 pp. Very good book, top edge of cloth boards lightly soiled, rubbed and worn; good dust jacket, spine lightly soiled, spine ends chipped and worn with surface peeling, upper cover top edge 1/4" tear, lower cover bottom edge section missing and two top edge 1/4" tears, jacket edges worn with chips and light peeling.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. First American edition, second printing. Hardcover, [octavo], red cloth boards with gilt lettering and orange cover decoration in illustrated dust jacket, 238 pp. Very good with some underlinings from literary critic and translator Roberto Marquez, in very good dust jacket, top edge lightly worn with a few close tears. Cover illustration by David Holzman and flaps adapted and uncredited from Brazilian edition.

London: Calder & Boyars, 1968. First edition. Hardcover, [octavo], red cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 117 pp. Very good book, front free endpaper owner-inscribed; very good dust jacket, spine ends lightly chipped, covers soiled, cover top edge rubbed. Jacket design by Brian Catchpole. Second published novel of Guyanese painter and author Denis Williams.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1969. First printing. Hardcover black and beige two tone cloth boards with embossed and gold lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 8vo, 276 pp. Very good/Very good jacket, seam and spine ends lightly worn with minor edge wear. Doris Innis's, CORE organizer, copy---owner inscription on front free end paper, 'D Innis 10/31/69...'.