Search Results: Titles starting with A from Triolet Rare Books, ABAA

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1987. First edition. Fine/near fine. First edition of the first book by the well-regarded author of The Liars' Club. The jacket is price-clipped, else fine. The hardcover edition is uncommon.

Madrid: Afrodisio Aguado, S.A., 1964. First edition. Original Wraps. Very Good +. First edition of this later collection by the esteemed Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27, which also included Federico García Lorca and Vicente Aleixandre. 112 pp. Original printed wraps, with a cover illustration by the author. Slight edgewear and a bit of surface rubbing, but overall a very clean copy of a fragile production.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1959. First edition. Near fine. Single sheet, folded into sixths, with front cover serving as title-page. Small old mark on upper corner of front cover, else about fine. The first book by the enigmatic African-American Beat affiliate, published September 1959 in an edition of 1000 copies, predating his second publication Second April by one month, according to Cook. Cook 17.

New York: The Academy of American Poets, 1974. First edition. Original Wraps. Fine. Printed perfect-bound wrappers. 95 pp. Anthology of poetry prize winners includes Stephen Dunn, Tess Gallagher, Larry Levis, and Gregory Orr, among others. Inscribed by Hoffman on the title-page to Carter Burden. Fine copy.

Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1967. First edition. Original wrappers. Very good +. 86 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Some minor rubbing to the extremities. Inscribed, "for Madeline [Gleason] / with best wishes / Brother Antoninus." Bartlett and Campo, p. 96.

Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1967. First edition. Original wrappers. Very good +. 86 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Some minor rubbing to the extremities. Inscribed by Everson to Don Allen, dated 1971. Bartlett and Campo, p. 96.

London: Cassell and Company, 1885. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +. 442, [10] pp. Original brown publisher's cloth, lettered and ruled in black, gilt, and blind. Spine gilt rubbed, some edgewear. An early post-apocalyptic novel, the book describes the ecological repercussions of an unspecified catastrophe. Jefferies was one of the great nature writers of his day, and his The Story of My Heart (1883) is a classic of spiritual examination and introspection.

1964. Original Wraps. Very Good +. Whole number 1, December 1964, apparently the only issue published. Side-stapled wrappers. Includes a reprint of Aleister Crowley's essay "The Soldier and the Hunchback," an excerpt from Robert Duncan's "The H.D. Book" and others.

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.

Sudbury, MA: Water Row Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. First edition, one of 3000 copies printed. 111 pp. Original printed boards, no jacket as issued. Thurston Moore's first major collection of poems, song lyrics, memoirs, observations, old photographs, &c. Very slight spotting to page edges, and extremely minor handling wear to white boards, but still a just about fine copy. Inscribed by the author on the half-title.

San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Cream boards, blue paper label stamped in gold on front board. [7] pp. Opening initial and printer's device printed in blue and gold. A eulogy for the noted San Francisco philanthropist and arts patron. One of 300 copies privately printed for Rosalie M. Stern. Some handling wear to boards, slight foxing to fore-edge. Heller & Magee 348.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1962. 884 pp. Beveled marbled paper boards over deep blue cloth backstrip, lettered and ruled in gilt, in publisher's slipcase. Spine slightly sunned, boards slightly rubbed at bevel, slipcase shows handling wear but is solid. One of 199 signed copies for distribution in the United States; the British edition published by Faber was 500 copies. A beautiful copy of Durrell's magnum opus and a high spot of twentieth century literature.

New York: The Olympia Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. First edition of the first novel by this important African-American poet. 203 pp. Blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, with dust jacket. The jacket is somewhat rubbed with some wear at the head and foot of the spine. The hardcover edition is uncommon.

San Mateo: The Greenwood Press, 1942. First edition thus. Original wrappers. Near fine. [14] pp. String-sewn wrappers with glassine jacket. Minor browning to glassine and lower edge, near fine. A short poetical passage from Wolfe's great novel Of Time and the River. One of 150 numbered copies printed by Jack Stauffacher. An early and uncommon Greenwood Press publication. Johnston D2.

Paris: Olympia Press, 1953. 110, [10] pp. Plain white wrappers with printed dust jacket folded on, as issued. Jacket extremities rubbed, small nick to fore-edge of last three leaves. An uncommon early Olympia Press publication, published June 1953. Kearney notes, "A translation, reportedly by Richard Seaver, of Les Exploits d'un Jeune Don Juan, an erotic novel that was first published at Paris in 1905 or 1906 by Elias Gaucher. Although generally credited as an original work by Guillaume Apollinaire, it is actually a word-for-word translation by the poet of Kinder-Geilheit, Geständnisse eines Knaben (Berlin: 1891)." Kearney 1.4.1.

[n.p.]: Transitions, 1982. First edition. 96 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Spine slightly faded, near fine. Contains 63 of Zürn's anagrammatic poems, with the original German and French translations, along with illustrations and reproductions of her original texts. Preface by Françoise Buisson; commentary and medical documents assembled by J.F. Reverzy; translated into the French by Marc Payen. Published as a supplement to "Transitions" numbers 11 and 12, 1983.

Prairie City, IL: The Press of James A. Decker, 1946. First edition. Original light-brown cloth, lettered in black on the front board and spine, with the dust jacket. 69, [3] pp. Some soiling to jacket, spine panel tips chipped, fold corners with tears, edges toned. Inscribed by Zukofsky on the front free endpaper and dated 1946. An early book by this perennially underrated poet, the fourth listing in Celia Zukofsky's 1969 bibliography.

Delaware Water Gap, PA: Shawnee Press, 1976. First edition. Original Wraps. Fine. Stapled wraps. 36 pp. Libretto by Oakley Hall and music by Andrew Imbrie. Some minor wear to the covers, top corner slightly bumped, else a fine copy of this uncommon Stegner item.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2000. First edition. 311 pp. Black boards, lettered and decorated in silver, with the dust jacket. Fine copy, signed and dated (30.5.00) by Ondaatje on the title-page.

New York: New Directions, 2011. First edition thus. 40 pp. Printed stapled wrappers. Text block a little warped with a bit of a bend to the top half. Full color illustrations by Max Neumann.