Search Results: Authors starting with G from Crow Hop Rare Books

[La Jolla, CA]: Lingua Press, 1976. Six (6) volumes, each 17 x 17cm. in stapled wraps, together VG+ (sunning to covers). The six volumes are: The Beauty of Irrelevant Music, C,….Is, Murmur, Extraction, A Non-Scatological Set of Preliminary Remarks for NMCE IV, The Music in Samuel Beckett’s Play. Each volume is a separate lecture or commentary on “various aesthetic, philosophical, theoretical performance issues.” Gaburo founded Lingua Press in 1975 and is best known for his experimental musical compositions. None found in commerce and about 25 complete sets located in OCLC.

Woodland, CA: Majestic Press, 1968. First Printing. VG+ pictorial wraps (5.5” x 7.5”), with light edgewear and rubbing. SIGNED on the inside of both covers: “Charles H. Gardner The roving dance the dance! 1969” (front) and “Charles H. Gardner” along with his permanent NYC address (rear). In his Foreword, Paul Mapes describes Gardner as a “journeyman poet, prospective saint, and madman” who at the time lived in Allensworth, “an all black settlement of shacks in an alkali plain along the Southern Pacific tracks just barely into Kern county California from the north. The water contains arsenic. Nothing grows.” Five sections include The Roving Wino, The Beatnik Fish, The House of Nuts, Death of a President, and Death of a Cemetery. Poems address racism, the American landscape (numerous rich meditations on place), politics, and the assassinations of JFK and MLK Jr. No copies in commerce, with only five holdings in OCLC (Emory, NYU, NYPL, Harvard, UC Davis).

[Charlotte]: Palaemon Press, 1978. Illustrated by Edward Richter. VG+ hardcover in blue papered boards, with title pastedown on front cover (sunning and soiling to spine, small bump to upper corner, white mark on back panel). First Edition, issued without dustwrapper. Stamped “Review Copy” (not one of the 330 copies mentioned on the limitation page) and SIGNED by Garrett and INSCRIBED by publisher and Garrett bibliographer Stuart Wright in the year of publication. Uncommon thus.

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1958. First Edition. With Drawings by Jo Alys Downs. Near Fine in VG unclipped dustjacket (sunning to flaps, stain to rear, soiling, and chipping to spine). INSCRIBED in 1959 by Rozanne Epps, later a contributing editor at Style Magazine, to noted art critic and personality Aline Saarinan, “To Aline Saarinan with thanks for her wonderful part in our program Rozanne Epps Richmond—1959.” Garrett's third book.

New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1948. Woodcuts by Harry Kernoff. First Edition. 209 [1] pp. Near Fine/Near Fine. INSCRIBED on ffep by the Editor Garrity. Includes eight pages of photos and drawings of the poets, including Eileen Brennan, Rhoda Coghill, Leslie Daiken, Monk Gibbon, Sean Jennett, Freda Laughton, Patrick MacDonogh, Roy McFadden, D.J. O’Sullivan, W.B. Stanford, Geoffrey Taylor, and Denis Wrafter. A beautiful presentation copy of this uncommon book.

Wroclaw: Muzeum Slaskie, 1968. First Edition. 60 pp., with an Introduction and catalogue notes (in Polish) by Stanislaw Pasternak. 67 illustrations by Gielniak, including one fold out. Presumably in a printing of 500 copies. Pictorial softcover, with Gielniak’s last name written on spine. Overall about VG, with soiling and discoloration and a crease on front cover, with light musty odor.INSCRIBED on the ffep in French by the author and artist Gielniak. Gielniak (1932-1972) was a famed Polish graphic artist known for his linocuts, whose style is similar to that of Escher. He was active from 1956 until his death, making only 68 works (15 of which were bookplates). Born in France to Polish immigrants, Gielniak studied briefly at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts after World War II, and in 1959, he won first prize at the National Exhibition of Graphic Art and Drawing in Warsaw. From 1953 until his death, Gielniak was treated for tuberculosis at the Bukowiec Sanatorium in Poland, which figured significantly in… Read More

New York: Bonanza Books, 1961. First Edition. Near Fine in a VG dustjacket with shelfwear and soiling. Contains complete and detailed instructions on every step from selecting the wood to the painted and mounted bird by Gilley, who had carved over 5,000 different bird models. Illustrations and photographs throughout by this Maine author. With nautical bookplate of one Matthew C. Perry (of Newport, RI), most likely a relative of the famous Commodore Perry.

Chicago: Third World Press, 1992. First Edition. Near Fine pictorial softcover, 78[8] pp. INSCRIBED to surrealist poet Tom Lux on ffep: “To Tom Lux Thank you for your support—The Best Brian Gilmore April 1996.” Poetry collection in two sections: “bo didley’s guitar reminds me of” and “richard wright is the consummate alien.”

Brockport, NY: BOA Editions, 1979. Foreword by John Logan. Near Fine wraps. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Gioseffi to poet and translator Ruth Feldman in 1983. Also SIGNED by Logan at the conclusion of his Foreword, along with a correction in pen. Includes numerous annotations by Gioseffi. Folded BOA promotional flyer included.

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1983. First Edition. Softcover, 62 pp. VG+. Review Copy slip laid in, stamped "Feb 16 1984." Poems about John Lennon, Billie Jean King, MLK Jr., and Robert Kennedy, among others, "people who have tried to make changes, people who have gone against the tide, people who were unafraid to test their wings."

New York: William Morrow, 2002. First Edition. Near Fine in a VG+ unclipped dustjacket (rubbing, edgewear). INSCRIBED by Giovanni on half-title page: "For Andrea--Nikki Giovanni." A "meditation on humanity and soul," including poems reflecting on 9/11, Africa, and James Baldwin.

Takoma Park, MD: Dryad Press, 1990. First Edition. Softcover. 85 pp. Near Fine. A collection of poems and winner of the Camden Poetry Award. Praise from Howard Nemerov and Lucille Clifton.

[New York]: [Workman Publishing], 1978. 11" x 8.5”, toning to upper edge due to previous owner folder storage, otherwise VG+. SIGNED by Gorey in lower right corner. An uncommon advertisement for Gorey’s illustrated calendar.

Richmond, VA: Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government, 1965. 16 pp. with some discoloration to illustrated stapled wraps, VG+. Discusses Woodrow Wilson’s cerebral thrombosis and Dwight Eisenhower’s heart attack and the necessity of a clarification of the presidential succession clause.

New York: Knopf, 1958. First Edition. Near Fine in VG+ price-clipped dustjacket. Jacket design by George Salter. Grau's first novel, which is set on the Isle aux Chiens off the coast of Louisiana.

Bellevue, WA: Jawbone Press, 1973. 40 pp. Near Fine with a touch of rubbing to covers. Cover artwork in pen and ink by Gerrie Blake. A strong contingent of female contributors in this issue, including Elizabeth Bartlett, Betty Healy, Pattiann Rogers, Jeanne Murray Walker, and Lyn Lifshin.

Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1949. VG+. Stringbound, brown stock covers. 150 pp., including supplements (A Brief List of Buddhist Terms and List of Chinese and Japanese Characters and Equivalents) and numerous illustrations.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. First Printing. Jacket design by William Barrs. VG (toning to boards, spine starting) in a VG+ price-clipped dustjacket (edgewear and rubbing).

New York: William Sloane Associates, 1949. First Printing. VG+ in a VG price-clipped dustjacket (chipping to spine extremities, edgewear). Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1950.

New York: William Sloane Associates, 1947. First Printing. VG (slight wave to pages, wrinkling to opening pages) in a Good+ price-clipped dustjacket (dampstain to rear and bottom half, toning, edgewear). Jacket design by Alan Haemer. A high spot of midcentury Western American fiction, and Guthrie's first book.