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

Karlsruhe / Baden / Highlands: Jonathan Williams, 1953. First edition. 131 pp. Unprinted perfect-bound wrappers with dust jacket. Jacket spine browned with some toning and minor chipping to head and tail, some browning to endpapers offset from jacket. Jargon 6. Morgan A21a.

The Old Marble Press, 1975. Broadside. Near Fine. Broadside. 14 x 8 1/2 inches. One of an unspecified number of unsigned, unnumbered copies (50 were issued numbered and signed). Slight soft crease to lower corner. Krumhansl 52.

Paris: Editions GLM, 1935. First edition. Unbound folded gatherings laid into publisher's photographically illustrated wrapper, as issued. Some creasing to the front cover at the spine, as often seen, slight rubbing to head and tail of spine. Interior clean and bright. Housed in a custom chemise and slipcase, with title printed on front cover of chemise and displayed through cut-outs on the slipcase. Binder's signature within the chemise, dated 1988.Of a total edition of 1225 copies, this is one of 200 roman-numeraled hors commerce copies. Signed on the half-title by both Eluard and Man Ray, and inscribed to Leon Pierre-Quint, the literary director and editor of the major surrealist publishing house Editions du Sagittaire, and friend and biographer to Proust and Gide. Although not an uncommon book, the hors commerce copies are less seen, and it is very rare to find it signed by both authors.Facile is one of the most beautiful and influential books of the twentieth century, the very definition of a… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. First edition. 71 pp. Gray paper boards, spine lettered in white, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to head and tail of spine, else a fine copy. Winner of the National Book Award, and the last book Glück published prior to winning the Nobel Prize in 2020.

n.p. [Highlands]: The Jargon Society, 1974. First edition. 84 pp. Oatmeal cloth, lettered in black on the front board and the spine, with the dust jacket. A few stray white marks to the cloth, slight tideline mark to upper edge of boards and last few leaves; jacket crisp and clean. Texts by Jonathan Greene, Ronald Johnson, Meatyard, Guy Mendes, Thomas Meyer, and Jonathan Williams; seventy images. Published as Jargon 76.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. First English language edition. Five volumes. Gray cloth boards, spines lettered in silver, with the dust jackets. 627; 433; 643; 357; 621 pp. Translated by Carol Cosman. Volume 1 has a bit of sunning and wear to the top edge, jacket shows some wear and browning and mild staining. Volumes 2-5 are near fine or better, with occasional creasing to the jacket flaps. Volume 2 has some minor foxing to the top edge, volume 5 has some minor shelfwear on the bottom edge. An excellent set. Sartre's monumental study of Flaubert, on which he spent the last ten years of his life. Quite rare to find the full set, published over the course of twelve years.

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: United Artists Books, 1982. First edition. Original Wraps. Fine. First edition. 43 pp. Printed perfect-bound wrappers. Fine copy. Journals originally written in 1970 by a poet who was an important associate of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E movement. Charles Bernstein wrote of her, "Weiner is one of the great American linguistic inventors of the last thirty years of the 20th century. She created an alchemical poetry that transforms the materials of everyday life into a dimension beyond sensory perception.

New York: New American Library, 1974. Very good +. Glossy folder with "Erica Jong" sticker on front cover. Minor browning to folder, a few acidic sheets within. Contains the following materials: stapled pamphlet, "Free Preview Chapter of Fear of Flying," signed by Jong on the front cover; glossy 5x7 photograph of the author; two-page biography of Jong, typed on NAL letterhead; seven-page collection of reviews, typed on NAL letterhead; copies of reviews from New York magazine, the New York Post, the Voice Literary Supplement (by Molly Haskell), and the New Yorker (by John Updike). An interesting contemporary collection of materials related to Jong's classic first novel, which has sold over 20 million copies.

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.

Seattle: Mill Mountain Press, 1975. First edition. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. 28, [4] pp. Two illustrations by Ginny Crouch Stanford. The fourth book by the great doomed poet. Always scarce, Stanford's Mill Mountain books have become quite rare and dear in the wake of the publication of his collected poems What About This in 2015. Extremely slight sunning to spine, else fine.

New Rochelle: James L. Weil, Publisher, 2002. First edition. Original wrappers. Fine. [12] pp. String-sewn printed wrappers. One of 50 copies, printed at the Kelly-Winterton Press to celebrate the poet's 84th birthday in memoriam. Fine copy.

Lexington: University of Kentucky, 1985. First edition. 71 pp. Perfect-bound illustrated wrappers. Minor surface wear, else fine. Dove's first collection of short fiction. Vol. 1 in the Callaloo Fiction Series. Inscribed by the author on the title-page.

New York: Hawk's Well Press, 1958. First American edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. 46 pp. First American edition, first state, of Gunn's second book, which was extensively revised for the U.S. edition. 1500 copies were printed. Slight scuffing to spine edges, near fine. Hagstrom & Bixby A2c.

New York: Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies, 1942. First edition. [49] pp. Stapled wrappers designed by Duchamp, cover punched with five holes, as issued. Corners a bit rubbed, abrasion to lower edge of front cover and first several leaves, minor edgewear. Catalog of an exhibition held at 451 Madison Avenue, the Whitelaw Reid Mansion, in New York, October 14 to November 7, 1942. It was the first major show of Surrealist art in America and included work by Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Yves Tanguy, Rene Magritte, Hans Arp, Marc Chagall, Alberto Giacometti, Frida Kahlo, Joan Miro, Meret Oppenheim, Leonora Carrington, Andre Masson, Pablo Picasso, Kay Sage, and many others. Many of the artists, including Breton, Ernst, Carrington, and others, had fled to New York due to the war, and their presence there energized the Surrealist scene.

London: Cecil Palmer, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. First edition. 56 pp. Stiff boards with black paper jacket affixed, as issued, printed label on front board. Front board slightly bowed, spine slightly sunned, minor foxing to preliminaries. The first book by this undersung British poet (1897-1992), who wrote in traditional meter and rhyme. She was a friend to C.S. Lewis, and her work was admired by Larkin and Yeats. Uncommon.

Northampton, MA: Printed by the Kraushar Press, for the Association of Friends of the Cummington School, 1939. First edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. Stapled printed wrappers. Slight rubbing to cover, else about fine. A publication preceding the founding of the Cummington Press. One of 300 copies printed, of which 100 were for sale. Contains two poems by William Bronk, along with one poem each by Samuel French Morse, Harry Duncan and Jane Ward.

Providence: Copper Beech Press, 1994. First edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. First edition of Ryan's third book. 64 pp. Glossy printed wraps, a paperback original. Slight surface wear to covers, else a fine copy. Kay Ryan was U.S. Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2010, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for her new and selected poems The Best of It, and in September 2011 was named a MacArthur Fellow.

Providence: Copper Beech Press, 1994. First edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. First edition of Ryan's third book. 64 pp. Glossy printed wraps, a paperback original. Some evidence of pencil erasures throughout, slight smudge over price on rear cover, else a fine copy. Kay Ryan was U.S. Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2010, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for her new and selected poems The Best of It, and in September 2011 was named a MacArthur Fellow. Inscribed by the author on the title-page.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First edition. 76 pp. Full black cloth, lettered in copper on the spine and blind on the front board, with the dust jacket. Includes "The Presumptions of Death" with illustrations by Leonard Baskin, first published in a limited edition by the Gehenna Press. A fine copy in a fine jacket, signed by Hecht on the title-page.