Search Results: Titles starting with A from Better Read Than Dead

New York: Urizen Books, 1977. Hardcover in pictorial dust jacket. Black cloth stamped in gilt to spine, red end papers. 211 pp. Review slip pasted to front FFEP. About Near Fine, with review slip pasted to front free endpaper and Ron Whyte ownership inscription to front pastedown. Light marginalia marking to pp 73-76 only. Very Good jacket with light edge wear and mild scuffing.. Kristeva's study of the changing role of women in China, bearing ownership inscription of playwright and disability activist Ron Whyte to front pastedown.

New York: New Directions, 1961. First edition. Hardcover, [octavo], quarterbound black cloth spine with red lettering and red boards in pictorial dust jacket, 159 pp. Very good in good price-clipped dust jacket with wear to edges and corners and interior water damage to spine. Jacket design by Andy Warhol. Early cover art of Andy Warhol.

Chicago: Third World Press, 1971. First edition first printing. Softcover saddle-stappled in glossy wraps, 24 pp. Very good, lightly worn around edges and corners with minor peeling to wraps, lightly creased wraps at spine, back wrap shows a frame of sun-damage/No dust jacket. Menkiti's first collection of poetry published by Haki R. Madhubuti's Third World Press in 1971 in Chicago. Inscribed on half-title page at top right corner.

Oakland: Black Family Institute, 1986. Perfect-bound, octavo, paper wraps, 149 pp. Very good condition, spine ends lightly worn, joints creased, edges to wraps worn, text block edges lightly soiled.

Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1971. First edition. Hardcover, [octavo], black cloth boards, stamped gilt spine titles, yellow end papers, illustrated dust jacket, 222 pp. Very good book; very good dust jacket, spine creased, spine ends chipped, edges with close tears. Jacket design by Roy Wallace.

London: The African Publication Society, 1971. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Signature-bound, octavo, pictorial wraps, 68 pp. Very good book, edges and corners of wraps gently worn and rubbed. G.K. Osei title-page inscription.

New York and London: Routledge, 1998. Softcover octavo in illustrated wraps, 358 pp. Very good, lightly worn with minimal hi-lighting observed (/No dust jacket.

Johannesburg: Ravan Press (Pty) Ltd, 1984. Softcover in glossy illustrated wraps, 260 pp. Very good condition, lightly worn around edges, author signature on half-title page/No dust jacket. Cover painting by Eli Kyeyune; cover design by The Graphic Equalizer.

New York: Afro American Philosophy Association c/o Dasein Literary Society, 1983. Signature-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 168 pp. About Very Good; wraps soiled, stained, foxed, with some wrinkling to spine. Cover design by Harrison Cruse.

New York: Afro American Philosophy Association c/o Dasein Literary Society, 1983. Signature-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 168 pp. Good condition, spine cracked, spine creased, wraps worn. Cover design by Harrison Cruse.

Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1988. First printing. Hardcover, [octavo], navy cloth boards, blue spine titles, blue endpapers, pictorial dust jacket, 201 pp. Very good book; very good dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Palmer Hayden.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. First American Edition, stated. Hardcover octavo in illustrated dust jacket. Blue paper-covered boards decoratively stamped in red backed with black cloth, lettering and decorative stamping in gilt and red to spine. Publisher's red topstain. 271pp. Trace edge soiling, spine ends gently pushed and spine cocked slightly forward, else bright and about Near Fine. Jacket is unclipped but missing most of the rear panel in a large open tear, rest of jacket present but with a few short closed tears about edges and a toned spine; Good only.. Jacket by Fumi Komatsu. Translated from the Japanese by Donald Keene.

London: Tate, 2018. Softcover large octavo (9.75"), stiff illustrated wraps, 128 pp. Very Good, slight edgewear, bumped bottom corner to front wrap.

New York/Providence: Tender Buttons, 1992. Perfect-bound in pictorial wraps, 9-1/4 x 6-1/8 in. [74]pp. Near fine.. From an edition of 350. Inscribed on the dedication page by publisher Lee Ann Brown: '"Eat any meal at the Chateau Frontenac." from "Things I'd Like To Do Again" To Kenward Elmslie, Love Lee Ann 1-28-93'. Prose memoirs of the author's life and family, illustrated throughout in black-and-white.

Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami, 1973. Perfect-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 66 pp. Very good condition, wraps worn, text block corner creased. Cover design Arnold W. Frutkin.

Norwich, VT: WAND, 1980. Third printing. Perfect-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 90 pp. Very good book, spine ends soiled, cover corners curling, front end pages owner-inscribed.

Tokyo: Kodansha Comics, 2011. Perfect-bounds in glossy pictorial wraps, 4to, Volume 1: 363 pp.; Volume 2: 301 pp.; Volume 3: 282 pp.; Volume 4: 394 pp.; Volume 5: 413 pp.; Volume 6: 434 pp. Very good.

Chicago: The Yellow Press, 1976. Perfect-bound, [octavo] in glossy pictorial wraps, 63 pp. Very good. Photo by Rudy Burckhardt and jacket design by George Mattingly. Alice Notley's 6th collection of poetry.

New York / Sante Fe: Grossman Publishers / Goliard, 1972. Hardcover, [quarto], blue cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 347 pp. Near fine book; very good dust jacket, spine ends chipped and worn, covers rubbed, edges and corners lightly worn. Jacket design by Grabhorn-Hoyem. In 1972, Paris Review poetry editor Tom Clark asked 13 poets to contribute new work to a 'monster magazine.' The result is All Stars which contained 13 unpublished pamphlets and other writings from Ted Berrigan, Tom Clark, Clark Coolidge, Robert Creeley, Ed Dorn, Dick Gallup, Michael McClure, Alice Notley, Ron Padgett, Ed Sanders, Aram Saroyan, James Schuyler, and Philip Whalen.

Howell Soskin, 1946. First Edition. 8vo, red cloth boards with blue lettering in pictorial jacket, 295 pp. Very Good (+), light foxing to edges of text block, age toning to front and rear pastedowns, some fading at crown and tail of spine, small speckled damping stains to front and rear boards./Very Good jacket, 1" chip from crown of jacket spine, 1/4" chip at tail of jacket spine, 2" closed tear between front panel and front flap, two closed tears along spine, otherwise bright and clean jacket..