Search Results: popular culture from Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB

Little Rock: Sibling Rivalry Press, 2016. Paperback. 234p., illustrated with drawings, very good first edition trade paperback original in white pictorial wraps.

Clearwater, FL: [publisher not identified], 1950. Paperback. 70, [2]pp., wraps. 7.5 x 4.75 in. Covers stained; corner of rear cover creased. The author states that he took a post as a surgeon for a company operating a platinum mine in Chocó. Includes numerous stories about travelers (one who claims to be the brother of the bestselling author Marie Corelli), dangers encountered on the journey, and meetings with local Afro-Colombian and indigenous peoples. Part of a series of adventure stories advertised that take place in U.S. national parks, Florida, and the Congo. Date of publication from latest date mentioned in the text. WorldCat lists only one location as of May 2023.

Hanover: Nord/LB, 2002. Hardcover. 72 pages, illustrations, boards. 11.25 x 8.75 in. Edition of 1,500. Minor scuffs to boards. Catalog of an exhibition held at NORD/LB (Hanover), September 25. - November 11, 2002. Wood, steel, and bronze sculptures by British pop artist Jones, many accompanied by sketches and prototypes. Includes photographs of commissioned words of public art. Essay by Andrew Lambirth. Text in German. Lacking the accompanying booklet with English translations of texts.

Tampa, FL: American Studies Press, 1979. Pamphlet. iv, 17, [1]p., wraps. 8.5 x 5.25 in. The author parodies famous American poetry (Whitman, Bradstreet, Eliot, Sandburg, etc.) to describe the disciplinary norms of academic American Studies.

Riyadh: Daroussalam Pour Diffusion et Distribution, 2000. Pamphlet. 32p., 4.5x6.5 inches, text in French and Arabic, very good pamphlet in stapled decorative wraps. Doctrine doctrine doctrine, in largish print; Arabic phrases rendered in French-language translation and amplified by a page or two of commentary.

Hong Kong: Ban lü za zhi she 伴侶雜誌社, 1969. Four issues of the staplebound magazine. Issues present are 15, 25, 161 and 167. Issue 15 has a stain on the lower left corner of all pages, otherwise good with minimal handling wear. The magazine is about matters such as romance literature, marital advice, romantic stories of celebrities, and household healthcare tips.

London: National Book League, 1966. Hardcover. 109p., illustrated with a color frontis facsimile and numerous in-text figures, also a 3/4 standing photoportrait of a youngish BP. Presswork on glazed alkaline paperstock and softbound in 8.5x5.5 inch aqua-green wraps. Covers worn with handling, corner-tips turned with some creasing, and spine panel abraded; within, find numerous bracket-marks in red ballpoint. As is, but a better-than-"reading copy

Caracas: Gobierno Bolivariano de Venezuela / Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Cultura, 2008. Pamphlet. 16p., softbound, small pamphlet in 8x5.5 inch stapled wraps, nice design qualities: alkaline paper, complex color touches to each and every text-leaf, fine condition. Features mini-interviews with Bolivians from several different classes, Chavez-friendly. Boletin No 5.

London: Verso, 2000. Hardcover. viii, 181p., no illustrations beside the author portrait on dust jacket, hardbound first edition in grey papered boards with black cloth backstrip lettered in silverfoil. Faintest signs of handling, a very good clean copy.

Garden City: Anchor / Doubleday, 1974. Hardcover. xix, 243p., illustrated with a fullpage dust jacket photoportrait of the author and of course with the Gorey front cover drawing in blue on peasoup green. Hardbound in blue papered boards with a fabrikoid backstrip titled gilt, casing a bit handled and edgeworn, with the same plus some abrasion to the dust jacket. A good to very good copy: sound, square, unmarked and otherwise clean.

Harrisburg, PA: Crysco Company. Pamphlet. 35, [1]p., illustrations, wraps. 7.25 x 4.75 in. Covers chipped, with no loss to cover illustration. Very Good. Full page illustrations depicting scenes from this popular story of religious redemption. Appended is the author's account of his conversion from Judaism to Christianity.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2000. Paperback. xxxiii, 330p., illustrations, photos, bumped corner and crease, otherwise a very good first edition trade papeback in pictorial wraps.

New York: Avon, 1960. Mass Market Paperback. Multiple copies for antiphonal readings: 224p., all edges tinted, extremely toned paperstock that is fragile, these two in good to very good condition with minor drawbacks: one bears an inkpenned ownership on front cover plus a small old dampstain to fore-edge, the other a ballpoint ownership at the foot of the title page. No damage to text leaves, either one.

Oakland: PM Press, 2022. Hardcover. 240 pages, 7.5x10 inches, illustrated boards, like new,

London: Verso, 1990. Paperback. 378p., wraps, in very good condition.

Brooklyn: A Little Press, 1990. Staplebound. [26p.], staplebound, wraps, 6x9.5 inches. Staples slightly rusted, small stain on front wrap, else very good. Poetry about Mickey and Minnie's romantic woes, and life in New York City. Author's first book.

[Nairobi]: Kenya Literature Bureau, 1970. Paperback. 172p., scattered line maps, 9.5x6.5 inch plain printed green wraps. Mild edgewear and toning, a very good copy. KLB (CPS)-569-3m-11/80.

Santa Monica: World Tribune Press / George M. Williams, Publisher, 1984. Paperback. 118p., numerous in-house journalistic photographs on inserted glazed stock, soft bound in 8.5x6 inch photo-decorated wraps. A little edgeworn with faint pressure marks, a very good copy: sound, clean and unmarked. Publisher Williams, and author McCarty, belong part and parcel to Nichiren Shoshu. Ikeda has run into trouble since this idolatrous account; see for instance "Priests Speak Out: Why They Are Leaving Nichiren Shoshu

New York: Bantam / Warner Paperback Library, 1974. Mass Market Paperback. Multiple copies for antiphonal readings: two Bantams @150p., and a singleton Warner @ 174p. All edges are tinted yellow, pagination difference due to Bantam's space-saving layout. Both are mass-market softbound productions. Mildly toned paperstock that is not yet fragile, these three in good to very good condition, with the Warner as new, the Bantams with mildly smudged covers and reader-creased spines. No damage to text leaves, either format. The three as a package deal.

New York: F.B. Warner, 1920. Pamphlet. 68p., wraps. 7 x 5 in. Top half inch of front cover and first page neatly cut away to remove a previous owner's signature. Covers worn. Spine splitting at foot. Good. Not found in OCLC as of March 2024. Dime novel. With a lengthy profile of the author and portrait on the rear wrapper. Phillips also published stories in the Chicago Ledger earlier in the 20th century.