Search Results: Authors starting with D from Triolet Rare Books, ABAA

New York: Wittenborn, Schultz, Inc, 1951. First edition. xxxxii, 390 pp. Blue decorated boards, reproducing Paul Rand's jacket design; with the dust jacket. Top edge a little browned, jacket spine sunned as usually seen, some edgewear to jacket. With both the Huelsenbeck and Tzara leaflets laid in. Scarce in good condition. Prepared by Motherwell with the collaboration of some of the major Dada figures, still the most comprehensive and important anthology of Dada writings in any language. It contains every major text on the Dada movement, including retrospective studies, personal memoirs, and prime examples.

Paris: Editions du Regard, 2007. Paperback. New. Catalogue of Kiefer's Monumenta exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris, in 2007. A new copy in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Oxford: H. Daniel, 1894. First edition thus, one of 250 numbered copies. Original printed wrappers, glassine and slipcase. 61 pp. Spine slightly darkened, else a fine copy. Madan 33. "First printed in Macmillan's Magazine, vol. 38 (1878), p. 313, it is here for the first time reprinted with loving care.

Berlin: Berliner Festspiele, 2012. First edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. Edition no. 2 published by the Berliner Festspiele 2012. Staple-bound wraps. 52 pp. Includes facsimile images from Danielewski's journals for his National Book Award-nominated novel, with text transcriptions in English and German. Also includes a fold-out drawing by Jorinde Voigt, Symphonic Area (2009). Slightly bumped at the head of the spine, else a fine copy. Signed by Danielewski with his trademark Z on the title-page.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First edition. 82 pp. Decorated printed paper boards, with the dust jacket. Jacket slightly darkened on the spine with slight chipping at the head of the spine, else a just about fine copy. The first book by one of the founding members of the Fugitives, and author of the two-volume The Tennessee, published in the Rivers of America series.

London: Ferry Press, 1964. First edition. Original wrappers. Very good +. First edition, one of 600 copies printed. 20 pp. Stapled wrappers with collage by Dawson on the front cover, blurb by Creeley on the back. A short prose piece. Covers a bit rubbed, creasing at spine.

New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2004. First edition. 136 pp. Black cloth boards, lettered in blind on the front board and spine, with the dust jacket. Curated by David Whitney. Texts by Richard Schiff, Edy De Wilde & Tom Ferrara. Interviews with de Kooning from various years by Storm de Hirsch, Selden Rodman, David Sylvester, Harold Rosenberg and Gaby Rodgers. Lavishly illustrated with color plates and black and white photographs. The exhibition was held April 24-June 19, 2004. Slight shelfwear to jacket, about fine.

Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1977. First edition. Original wrappers. Very good +. 54 pp. Unprinted paper wrappers with attached dust jacket. Fading to spine, two small check marks on contents page next to poem titles. The second collection by an acclaimed Irish poet, perhaps best known for his 1996 novel Reading in the Dark.

Iowa City: The Prairie Press, 1969. First edition. 50 pp. Decorated paper boards over dark gray cloth backstrip, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Some rubbing and smudging to uncoated jacket, book about fine. Wood engravings by Frank Utpatel, printed from the original blocks. Signed by Derleth and Utpatel on the front free endpaper. An attractively produced book, a late collection of love poems by the bard of Sauk City.

Brooklyn: Terry Carr, ed, 1966. Original wrappers. Very good +. Terry Carr, ed., for the Fantasy Amateur Press Association. Side-stapled mimeo, printed on recto and verso. 89 pp. Also includes work by Thomas Disch, Gina Clarke, and others. Cover illustration by Jack Gaughan. Spine edges a bit chipped with one short closed tear, some minor browning and surface wear to covers. Dick's essay was later included in the 1996 collection The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings.

Northridge: California State University Northridge Libraries, Santa Susana Press, 1984. First edition thus. xxxv, 44 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on the front board and the spine, in slipcase, as issued. Edited with an introduction and notes by Harry Stone. Illustrated by Irving Block. The "first book edition and first illustrated edition" of George Silverman's Explanation (1868), the last work of fiction completed by Charles Dickens. Designed and printed by Bonnie Thompson Norman and Patrick Reagh. Letterpress printed in Baskerville on Mohawk Superfine. Some rubbing to spine gilt, else fine. One of 26 lettered copies, of a total edition of 326 copies. Signed by Block and Stone at the colophon, as issued, with an additional inscription from Patrick Reagh, the printer. Further inscribed by Stone on a preliminary leaf. Prospectus laid in.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. 206 pp. Black cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt and green, with the dust jacket. Minor darkening to spine, corners slightly rubbed. Dickey's true first book, a collection issued together with work by Paris Leary and Jon Swan. Review copy with slip laid in.

New York: Asylum's Press, 1977. First edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. First edition, one of 200 numbered copies signed by the author. Side-stapled glossy printed wrappers, text printed on rectos only. Slight handling wear to covers, else fine.

Paris: The Olympia Press, 1960. 323 pp. Perfect-bound publisher's printed wrappers. Spine creased, lower front corner bumped. Kearney describes this "original and complete unabridged" edition as a "cheaply produced 'popular' edition." The butterfly mosiac cover design is exclusive to this edition. Kearney 5.7.3.

Chicago: Third World Press, 1968. First edition. 32 pp. Glossy printed stapled wrappers. Cover by Jef Donaldson, author photo on rear cover by Robert Sengstacke. Minor shelfwear, slight sticker ghost to rear panel. Ebon Dooley, born Leo Thomas Hale, was a poet and community activist and for many years owned a bookstore in Atlanta, Timbuktu Market of New Africa. This copy bears the bookstore's stamp on the final leaf.

Poughkeepsie: Vassar College Art Gallery, 1987. First edition. 60 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Head and tail of spine a little nicked, slight handling wear. Texts by Jan E. Adlmann and Monika Faber. Includes exhibition chronology, bibliography and list of works exhibited. Fully illustrated. 3000 copies were printed. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Vassar College Art Gallery.

New York: Totem Press, 1961. First edition. Original wrappers. Very good +. 31 pp. Stapled wrappers. Cover drawing by Fielding Dawson. Minor age toning to the wrappers, small burn mark on front cover. Thom Gunn's copy with his ownership signature: "Thom Gunn / San Francisco.

Lexington: University of Kentucky, 1985. First edition. 71 pp. Perfect-bound illustrated wrappers. Minor surface wear, else fine. Dove's first collection of short fiction. Vol. 1 in the Callaloo Fiction Series. Inscribed by the author on the title-page.

[New York]: Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, 1964. [82] pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers, with Duchamp's doorway image extending slightly beyond the rest of the wrapper, and reproduced in blind on the rear panel. Some tanning and soiling to covers, some surface wear, especially to edges, as almost always seen due to the extension of the doorway image. Foreword and texts by Richard Hamilton. Extensive black and white illustrations, three tipped-in color plates. Three thousand copies were printed at the Ram Press in New York, this copy for the exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Center later in 1965. "... the first and the most inclusive Duchamp retrospective to be held by a private gallery in the United States." (Schwarz).

Genève: Editions d'Art Albert Skira, 1981. Three volumes. Full brown buckram, stamped in blind, with the dust jackets and card slipcases. Some wear and small tears to jackets at spine head and tails, slipcases a little rubbed at extremities and splitting slightly at opening. Contents fine. A facsimile edition reproducing the original issues in full, of the lavish journal of art, literature, culture, ethnography, psychiatry, &c. One of the most important serial publications of the twentieth century. In 1933 the Swiss publisher Albert Skira approached Andre Breton about editing a new journal. Breton had previously published two journals dedicated to surrealism and explicitly political: Le Surréalisme au service de la revolution, and earlier La Révolution surréaliste. Skira was adamant that Minotaure remain outside the realm of politics. His manifesto for the journal was laid out in 1933: "Minotaure will endeavor, of set purpose, to single out, bring together and sum up the elements which have… Read More