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

New York: Harper Perennial, 2011. First edition. 382 pp. Publisher's printed wrappers. A son's memoir of his father, both of them great writers. Signed by Dan Fante on the half-title. Interior covers browned, else fine.

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1934. First edition. 273 pp. Full lavender cloth, lettered and decorated in black, with the dust jacket. Top edge spotted, head and tail of spine a bit discolored. The jacket has an inch chip on the top edge of the front panel, affecting the title lettering, and some minor chipping at the tail of the spine, front flap almost detached but holding. Fast's second book, which he later disowned as a "half-assed, hysterical novel." Inscribed on the front free endpaper, "to ---- / Merry Christmas / Happy New Year / 1944-1945 / Howard." Scarce in any format, especially in jacket and inscribed.

Chapel Hill: Contempo, 1932. Original wrappers. Very good. Single large sheet, folded once to form four pages. Folded horizontally, with old fold line vertically, edgewear, starting at horizontal fold line, very good. Poems and prose by Faulkner.

New York: Kermit Bloomgarden, 1975. Heavy brad-bound wrappers, title and author stamped in blind on the front cover. [97] leaves, printed on rectos only. An early version of Feiffer's Tony-nominated play, eventually produced in 1976 under the title Knock Knock. Bloomgarden, the legendary Broadway producer, was not involved with the final production, so this draft is likely an earlier one. The text appears similar to the final published version. Feiffer wrote several plays and screenplays (Carnal Knowledge, among others), along with his ongoing illustrations and cartoons.

Oxford: Sycamore Press, 1969. First edition. Fine. Single sheet folded twice. Fenton's second publication, containing two poems "One" and "Another One," printed by John Fuller at the Sycamore Press. The title is a misquotation from the Psalms, about which Fuller said, "This is the one I misprinted the title. He didn't seem to mind. I had some theological explanation for sticking with it, quite apart from the laziness in order to reprint the whole thing entirely, having done it. I think we could just draw a veil over that. No doubt if you don't say anything about it being an error it will become a sort of postmodernist twist on the biblical text by James himself whenever somebody writes up his work." (as quoted in Ryan Roberts' John Fuller and the Sycamore Press, Oak Knoll 2010). A fine copy.

London: Penguin Books, 2006. First edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. First edition of the first full selection of Fenton's poems to be published. 204 pp. A near fine copy in wrappers, as issued, with some minor handling wear and a very slight bump to the lower edge of the spine, overall clean and unread. Inscribed by Fenton on the title-page "best wishes" but not to anyone specific.

n.p.: Fantasy Records, 1969. LP record. Near Fine. LP recording of Ferlinghetti's reading of his original poems Assassination Raga; Big Sur Sun Sutra; Moscow In The Wilderness, Segovia In The Snow; Tyrannus Nix? Minor rubbing to edges of jacket sleeve, record shows one minor blemish but is otherwise clean.

San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, 1964. First edition. Single sheet, folded. Reproduces two letters originally published in Open Space, along with a poem by Spicer on the rear cover. Fine copy. Uncommon. Morgan H4. Johnston, White Rabbit, A18.

Prague: Ceskoslovenský spisovatel pro cleny Klubu prátel poezie (Zlatý fond poezie), 1984. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Original publisher's cloth, lettered in blue on the spine. 279 pp. A near fine copy in jacket, with a bit of wear to the head of the jacket spine and the top corners slightly bumped. A compilation of Ferlinghetti poems translated into Czech by Jan Zábrana, with illustrations, several in full color, by Roy Lichtenstein, along with an essay and photographs. Signed by Ferlinghetti on the title-page.

Liverpool and Gloucester: Heron Press, 1954. First edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. First edition. Stapled wrappers. Published as "Winds #2." Some slight surface wear to covers. An uncommon publication by the great poet of Gloucester.

1970. Very good +. [n.d., circa 1970]. Double-sided handbill, 14 ½ x 11 inches. Recto lists various reviews of the underground film, which starred Taylor Mead, Sally Kirkland, Ultra Violet, Abbie Hoffman, Candy Darling, and the young Sam Shepard. The reviews include one by Jonas Mekas in the Village Voice, who says the film is "completely somewhere else." The verso is a large image by Gilbert Shelton of one of his infamous furry freak brothers, joint in hand. Folded once, with older fold lines and some minor handling wear.

n.p. [Rome]: n.d. [1944]. First edition thus. [27] pp.; [20] folded leaves of plates. Chemised in a slipcase. One of 298 numbered copies. Some foxing throughout. Chemise retains fragments of original glassine. Contains 22 drawings reproduced photolithographically, plus two culs-de-lampe. In Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement, Whitney Chadwick wrote that Fini's Juliette drawings are "the frank expression of women's sexual power and dominance. Wielding the whip, women become in these drawings an active, bestial presence. The lust that transforms their faces into masks of depravity is manifested in a nervous, charged line that flickers across the page like the tip of a lash." And Peter Webb, in Sphinx, noted that Fini makes Juliette "a vehicle for the expression of female dominance," the illustrations "not illustrative of specific incidents in the book but rather inspired by the atmosphere created by de Sade." The book was, to Fini's amusement, printed secretly on the Vatican presses at night.

n.p.: Tarasque Press, 1968. First edition. [20] pp. Stapled wrappers with printed dust jacket. Slight foxing to jacket, slight creasing to spine. Drawings by Robert Frame. Murray 3.27.

New York: Something Else Press, 1971. [18] leaves, printed on the recto only, interleaved with tissue. Bound with three metal rings. Some minor cover wear, slight rust marks at rings. Murray 3.40.

London: Fulcrum Press, 1969. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. First Fulcrum edition, adding poems not present in the earlier Migrant Press editions. 48 pp. Blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. The source of much controversy, as Finlay was displeased that Fulcrum presented the book as a first edition despite earlier editions having been published. He sued the publisher and won the case, the financial obligations leading to the dissolution of the press. Top edge a bit dusty, jacket scuffed with some creasing and a closed tear at the head of the spine. Ownership stamp on front free endpaper of Roy L. Walford, the noted gerontologist, UCLA professor, and Biosphere 2 physician.

London: Reaktion Books, 2008. First edition. 197 pp. Green cloth boards, spine lettered in white, with the dust jacket. Lavishly illustrated with photos by Emily Cooperman of Finlay's various landscape projects, including Little Sparta and others. Slight rubbing to head of jacket spine, else fine.

Los Angeles: Sherwood Press, 1983. First edition. [32] pp. Stapled wrappers (cover photos by Sheree Levin). Staples a little rusty, top edge a bit foxed. A collection of poems, published by the poet David Trinidad's Sherwood Press. Inscribed by Flanagan on the title-page, "these things are not metaphors." Laid in are the elaborate invitation to the book's publication party at Beyond Baroque, and two photocopied poems, both titled "Fuck Sonnet," though different poems, each inscribed by Flanagan and dated 2-6-84.

New York: Catchwords Press, 1986. First edition. Original wrappers. Fine. 28 pp. Stapled wrappers. One of 250 copies in wrappers, this copy unnumbered. An uncommon title. Fine copy.

First edition, one of 26 copies in boards, signed by the author and lettered N (250 copies in wrappers were also published). Blue cloth boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Fine copy. An uncommon title, the edition in boards is rare. Late haiku by an underrated poet, novelist and editor.

Fata Morgana, 1986. First edition thus. Original Wraps. Near Fine. First edition thus, one of 970 copies (out of 1000) printed on vergé teinté. Printed wraps. Originally published as the introduction to Brisset's La Grammaire logique in 1970, this is the first separate publication. Slight edgewear to wraps, lower corners slightly bumped, but overall a just about fine copy of an uncommon book.