Search Results: Authors starting with L from Dividing Line Books

NY: Vehicle Editions, 1978. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. NY: Vehicle Editions, 1978. Edition of 1,000. [92] pp. 8vo. Perfect-bound in printed blue wraps. Light wear and rubbing to corners and spine ends. Spine a trifle toned. Very good or better. Inscribed by Lally on the title page to Joe [Brainard]: "Joe - Love, Michael." Though unstated, this copy from the library of poet, librettist, and publisher Kenward Elmslie (1929-2022), Brainard's partner of three decades.

NY: Doubleday & Company, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. 95pp. Black vinyl boards, silver spine titles. 5th printing. Light bumping/wear at base of spine. Faint foxing to textblock edges. Moderate foxing to endpapers and prelims. Jacket moderately edgeworn, with several short closed tears, and moderate general toning/soiling. A very good (-) copy in like jacket.

Boston: Pressed Wafer, 2003. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Boston: Pressed Wafer, 2003. From an edition of 750. 173pp. 8vo. Perfect-bound in pictorial wraps. Near fine, with light soiling to wraps. This copy from the library of New York School poet, librettist, and publisher Kenward Elmslie (1929-2022); inscribed to him and signed by Lansing on title page: "For Kenward, w/love and happy memory in gelid Februar spring unseals itself (p. 12)." With a laid-in note from Pressed Wafer publisher Bill Corbett, in which he updates Elmslie on several publishing projects and reminds him about a Lansing birthday party to be held at the Pressed Wafer headquarters in Boston. An uncommon selection of Lansing's poetry and prose, with nice chain of association.

Seattle: Wave Books, 2007. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed limited edition of Lasky's first book- length collection of poems. First edition. No. 33 of 250 copies hand-numbered and signed on a limitation plate tipped onto rear endpaper. Octavo (6.25 x 9 in.); 70pp.; oatmeal cloth boards. A fine copy in like jacket. Wave Books 12.

NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Octavo; x, 301pp.; green and blue cloth boards, in dust jacket. Former owner's bookplate on front free endpaper, else fine in a very good (+) unclipped jacket with a few light stains to spine and rear panels. Prose translations from the Greek by the esteemed classicist Richmond Lattimore.

NY: Random House, 1958. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First book edition of the script for the beloved American musical play, a modern take on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, featuring lyrics by Stephen Sondheim (in his Broadway debut), music by Leonard Bernstein, and direction and choreography by Jerome Robbins. The musical was nominated for six Tony awards in 1958, winning for Best Scenic Design and Best Choreography, and formed the basis for film adaptations of 1961 (co-directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins) and 2021 (directed by Steven Spielberg). The jacket and front board reproduce an image used for the poster and program of the original 1957 Broadway production, featuring Larry Kert and Carol Lawrence as Tony and Maria, respectively. Four interior pages reproduce additional photographs from that same production. Though reprinted numerous times, first printings are scarce on the market. NY: Random House, 1958. First printing (stated). Octavo, 8-1/4 x 5-5/8 in.… Read More

NY: Mentallly Induced Highs, 1970. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. [NY]: M.I.H., Mentally Induced Highs, 1970. Small 8vo. Perfect-bound in printed yellow wraps. 126 leaves. Light soiling to wraps; very good or better. With a laid-in postcard addressed to M.I.H., requesting from the reader a "brief, publishable report on your achievements." A mysterious and unusual primer on inducing psychedelic states through mental training. The text, set in black rectangles on versos only (with blank rectangles on facing pages), slips between psychological jargon, period drug-speak, and pragmatic plain-talk, instructing readers on the steps necessary to "turn off a particular device, the Gestalt Depressor" and thus allow themselves to exist in a self-directed state of permanent high. We have been unable to turn up any information, whether bio- or bibliographical, about Laverne, and are inclined to believe that his absence from the historical record may indeed stand as proof of the… Read More

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Limited edition of the first complete unexpurgated text of this notable short fiction, presented with an appendix of 28 previously unpublished letters by Lawrence. Edited and with a commentary on the evolution of the text by Gerald M. Lacy. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. Number 5 of 126 numbered copies printed on blue paper (there were also 750 unnumbered hardcover copies). Octavo, 9-1/2 x 6-1/2 in. 170pp. Cream boards backed with gold cloth; front board with full-color reproduction of a watercolor painting by Lawrence; paper spine label; in dust jacket. Mild toning to fore-edge of textblock. Toning and some warping to paper spine label. Else fine in a very good (+) jacket with moderate toning to spine and panel/flap edges.

NY: The Picture Newspaper, 1975. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. NY: The Picture Newspaper, 1975. Unbound newsprint tabloid, 22-3/4 x 14-3/4 in., folded horizontally as issued; two sections paginated continuously to 35pp.; offset printed in color and b&w. About very good, with some splitting/tattering at the head and tail of the spine fold. Light to moderate browning throughout, though colors remain bright and vibrant. The penultimate issue of this image-only art magazine founded in 1969 by Steve Lawrence and Peter Hujar (and originally titled just Newspaper). This later iteration of the magazine features art direction by Lawrence and Miguel Sanchez, with subversive and frequently queer sensibilities on display throughout. Includes images by Rip Colt, Bill Cunningham, Annie Leibovitz, Antonio Lopez, Annie Leibovitz, Christian Piper and others.

NY: The Dial Press, 1963. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Inscribed first edition of the debut novel by the late American cartoonist, best for his two long-running comic strips, Miss Peach and Momma; a comic tale about an art director at a low-brow publishing house whose boss instructs him to help bankrupt the company. Octavo (5.75 x 8.5 in.); 282pp.; red cloth boards, yellow spine lettering, in dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by Lazarus on the front free endpaper to a former owner, whom he has also caricatured with a doodle. Near fine, with light shelfwear to spine ends and tips, moderate toning to textblock edges. In a good (+) unclipped jacket with numerous tears and small chips around the perimeter, the largest portion of loss being at the head of the spine. An uncommon book, particularly signed.

NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 1993. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Octavo (9.25 x 6 in.); 869pp., indexed; burgundy cloth boards, in dust jacket. Signed at their contributions by 22 of the 67 collected authors, in order: Frederik Pohl, Samuel R. Delany, Robert Silverberg, Gene Wolfe, Joe Haldeman, John Varley, Edward Bryant, Gregory Benford, William Gibson, Greg Bear, Octavia E. Butler, Kim Stanley Robinson, Karen Joy Fowler (who has also signed the title page beneath her "consultant" credit), John Crowley, Pat Cadigan, Nancy Kress, James Patrick Kelly, Orson Scott Card, Connie Willis, Eileen Gunn, Lisa Goldstein, and John Kessel. Light shelfwear, a tiny bit of fraying to cloth at bottom tips, a few minor spots of soiling to textblock edges. Unclipped ("$27.50") jacket lightly crumpled at spine ends and along top of rear panel, with a 1/2" closed tear at the top of the rear flap hinge. A very good (+) copy in like jacket of this ambitious… Read More

San Francisco: ETC, 1965. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. San Francisco: ETC, 1965. 12mo; signature-bound in printed wraps. Pp. 389-528. Wear to corners and hinges; moderate spine twist; one crease to spine. A good to very good copy of this important issue dedicated to scholarly discussions of psychedelics, particularly with regard to linguistic concerns. Notable for including the only print appearance of Timothy Leary's "Languages: Energy Systems Sent and Received," where he introduces his theory of "re-imprinting." With contributions also from Robert E. Mogar, Richard P. Marsh, Humphry Osmond, Edward Dalton, et al.

London: Calder & Boyars, 1967. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. London: Calder and Boyars, 1967. First edition. 166pp; 8vo; blue textured-paper boards; gilt spine titles; dust jacket. Textblock edges lightly toned, with a few spots of light foxing to rear endpaper. Price-clipped jacket with foxing to fore-edge of rear flap, light rubbing to rear panel. Very good or better in a like jacket. A tidy copy of the fourth entry in this important anthology series. This volume dedicated entirely to plays and (experimental) performance pieces-notable among them "Five Happenings" by Allan Kaprow. With an introduction, "Happenings in the Theatre" by publisher John Calder, who later described New Writers as an effort to "combine different kinds of literature, experimental or not, occasionally poetry, short stories, work in progress of extracts from work we liked, but not enough to publish as a book on its own."

NY: Random House, 1981. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Attractive signed first edition of Lebowitz's second collection of humorous essays. First printing, as designated by number line to 2 + first edition statement. Signed by Lebowitz on the front free endpaper. Octavo (5.75 x 8.5 in.); 147pp.; red papered boards backed with orange quarter-cloth; gold spine lettering; in dust jacket. Fine in a near fine, unclipped jacket with a tiny chip at the base of the spine and mild toning to the flaps.

London: Peter Owen, 1965. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Early English-language printing of the French writer's autobiography, an immediate best-seller praised by the likes of Genet and Camus, which details her numerous affairs with men and women, among them several members of the French literary elite. Translated by Derek Coltman, with a preface by Simone de Beauvoir. London: Peter Owen, 1965. Second printing, issued one month after the first. Octavo, 8-3/4 x 5-5/8 in. 469pp. Gray textured-paper boards; bronze spine lettering; dust jacket. Some minor outward bowing to boards. Light dust soiling to textblock top. Former owner's name penned neatly on the ffep, which shows some light foxing/offsetting. About near fine in a near fine, price-clipped jacket with a sticker ghost on front panel and some rubbing/creasing along front spine hinge.

Zug, Switzerland: Swan Productions, 1982. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Zug, Switzerland: Swan Productions, 1982. First edition. 4to. Signature-bound in photo-illustrated wraps. [112]pp. Moderate bump to bottom fore-corner; edge and corner wear. Very good. First edition of this iconic photobook, a landmark of bold and super-saturated 1980s style, featuring photographs by Cheyco Leidmann and design by Ypsitylla von Nazareth; the scarcest of their numerous collaborations. A French edition was published in 1982 by Love Me Tender. OCLC locates a dozen holdings of either edition, and only copy one in the United States (the French, held by the Library of Congress).

NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Translated from the Polish by Michael Kandel. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979. First edition. Octavo, 8-5/8 x 5-3/4 in. Orange vinyl boards; black spine titles; dust jacket. 228pp. Slight forward cocking to spine. Foxing to textblock edges, fairly dense but quite light in color. Very good (+) in a fine, unclipped jacket.

NY: The Seabury Press, 1973. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First English-language edition of this 1964 novel by the Polish science-fiction writer. Translated (from the 1967 German edition) by Wendayne Ackerman. NY: The Seabury Press, 1973. First edition. Octavo, 8-1/2 x 5-5/8 in. 183pp. Blue cloth boards, black spine lettering; in dust jacket. Some very light spotting to textblock top, faint off-setting to endpapers. Else fine in a very good (+) jacket, price-clipped, showing light wear to spine ends, a few scratches to front panel.

NY: United Artists Books, 1983. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 76pp. Black and white printed wraps. First edition. Signed and dated by Lehman on the title page. Light edgewear, some creasing at base of rear cover. Binding strong. A very good (+) copy. Cover by Louise Hamlin.

[El Cerrito, CA], [Ray Nelson], 1985-1999. Hardcover. Very Good. [El Cerrito, CA], [Ray Nelson], 1985-1999. 2" black vinyl commercial folder with three-clasp metal binding; 73 clear plastic sleeves filled to display on both sides with various clippings and ephemera. Very good, with minimal wear to binder, occasional toning and offsetting to contents. An obsessively compiled fan scrapbook containing hundreds of materials pertaining to the Eurythmics, the British pop duo consisting of vocalist Annie Lennox and musician Dave Stewart. Contents consist of various magazine and newspaper clippings (most labeled with the name and date of the publication), four flexi disc 45s containing "Dave and Annie's Christmas Message" for the years 1985-1988, promotional photos, newsletters, etc. Most materials from the mid-to-late 1980s, though the last leaf contains a print-out of a 1999 photograph. From the collection of American cartoonist and science fiction writer Ray Nelson (1931-2022), with… Read More