Search Results: Titles starting with P from DuBois Rare Books

Paris/New York: The Paris Review, 1962. First Edition, First Printing. Perfectbound Wraps. Very Good. 183 pp. illus. [+xiii pages ads] 22 cm. . Softcover. Perfectbound illustrated wraps. Book Condition: toning to spine and lower cover, assortment of dings, nics, and chips - the most egregious being bb sized chip at crown of spine and thumbnail length split at the tail...slightly cocked and a tiny bit fragile feeling. Please look at photos with listing to dispel all doubt that this Issue No. 27 Winter-Spring 1962 is more than respectable, desireable even. " "He put me in this little room. He didn't actually lock the door but he said, ‘Stay in there!' And I did. I just sat down, and it just came": Mary McCarthy on the Art of Fiction. Stories by Harry Mathews and Mauro Senesi. Poems by Denise Levertov, Adrienne Rich, and May Swenson." -From the publisher. *Editors: George A. Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen, Donald Hall, Robert B. Silvers, and Blair Fuller.

Paris/New York: The Paris Review, 1959. First Edition, First Printing. Perfectbound Wraps. Very Good+. 157 pp. illus. [+xvi pages ads] (pagination ceases altogether after page 142- these are our page counts). Softcover. Perfectbound illustrated wraps. Book Condition: light toning to covers, 3 or 4 v. small abraded nics but all in all a remarkably well preserved 64 year old literary magazine issue. Even more copiously illustrated than usual with a featured "Portfolio of Eastern Long Island Painters" "Obscurity comes when the poet is still at the stage of learning how to use the language": T.S. Eliot on the Art of Poetry. Ignoring the Golfers: a portfolio of the eastern Long Island painters, including Jackson Pollock, Willem De Kooning, and Lee Krasner. Stories by Terry Southern and Alexander Trocchi. Poems by Geoffrey Hill, Daryl Hine, and Ted Hughes." -From the publisher. *Editors: George A. Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen, Donald Hall, Robert B. Silvers, and Blair Fuller.

Westmorland, 1951. Hardcover. Near Fine. 11" x 12" squarish hardcover photo album, pebbled pressed brown cloth over boards, heavyweight cream colored pages. Album consists of 40 leaves (80 pages), of which only the first 21 leaves are used, each one with just one large (approx. 9" x 7") photograph per leaf, affixed to recto only. Photographs include some of the most spectacularly joyful and gigantic group photographs we've ever encountered! Massive choral group after massive choral group account for 8 of the 21 photographs with smaller group shots of various children's choral groups accounting for the remainder of the photographs. Condition of photo album and photographs is near fine with mild wear to covers and dulled lettering on front cover. A smashing example of photo albumery at its most exhuberant!

San Francisco: Adrian Wilson, 1984. First Edition. Loose_leaf. About Fine. Single sheet heavyweight, hand-made, laid paper, folded once to create 4 pages, of which the second page is blank. 36 cm. Tall Folio. Hand press printing in three colors, black, brown, and turquoise. Prospectus by publisher Adrian Wilson announcing the upcoming release and availability to order of William Everson's "In Media Res: Canto one of an Autobiographical Epic" in December of 1984; as a limited edition of 200 copies and selling for $300. Prospectus is designed by Adrian Wilson, with a fantastic woodcut by Tom Killion, (the roles of each of these contributors to the upcoming book-Adrian Wilson, designer and Tom Killion, illustrator). A gorgeous piece. Includes Publisher's Order Form laid-in (which also mentions 3 additional Adrian Wilson titles for sale). Condition: Folded once in middle else fine.

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1959. First Edition, First Printing. Wraps. Near Fine. 39 pages illustrations 26 cm. Staplebound photo-illustrated wraps. Book Condition: faint crease to front panel running vertical length of booklet, miniscule nicks in a few places else fine. A remarkably well perserved example of such an ephemeral piece. Duotones of 53 of the total 142 items included in the exhibition. Museum of Modern Art (New York) Bulletin v. 27, no. 1.

Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1946. Later printing. Near Fine/Very Good. xiv, 157 pp. illus. 27cm. 4to. Hardcover. Publisher's original cloth over boards, gold lettering to spine. Book Condition: faint signs of handling, else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very light wear to the extremities with grain of rice chippings at the spine ends and tips. A very sound copy.

Fort Worth, Tex.: The Amon Carter Museum, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. Very Good. VII-261 p. : ill. ; 30 cm. 4to. Glossy illustrated wraps. Book Condition: Very Good with small tear at tail of spine and superficial rubbing to panels. Whitney Museum George Bellows exhibition promotional brochure laid in. Published on occasion of exhibition shown in Los Angeles, New York, Columbus and Fort Worth, February 16, 1992-May 9, 1993. Includes index.In incisive essays complemented by 210 plates (75 in color) five noted scholars of American art examine the evolution of Bellows's exuberant realism, his experimental response to the New York scene, his simultaneous attraction to and fear of the sea and his portraiture as a repository for intangible values.

[San Antonio?]: si, 1961. Wraps. Near Fine. [16] pp. 24 cm. Softcover [Pamphlet]. Staplebound blue cardstock wraps lettered in copper. No date, publisher, or place published are specified but: "A critical paper read tl-o the annual dinner of the Coppini Academy of Fine Arts, San Antonio, Texas, January, 1961." appears on the title page. The final page has Carl Hertzog's colophon mark and he has signed it. Presumably the basis for the work with the same title published 2 years later. Book Condition: some toning around the cover edges along with superficial bits of edgewear, else fine. "A critical paper read to the annual dinner of the Coppini Academy of Fine Arts, San Antonio, Texas, January, 1961.

France: Chez H. Cousin, Charles Lemaire, 1865. Framed Fine Art Print. Very Good. FRAMED PRINT NUMBER 1: "Aristolochia Cuadata"; Plate 42 from the L'Horticulteur universel ; engraving on laid paper with hand coloring. FRAMED PRINT NUMBER 2: "Odontoglossum Reichenheimi". Hand colored lithograph from L'Illustration Horticole, the 19th century journal edited by Charles Antoine Lemaire, French botanist and botanical author. Frames measurements: 37 cm. x 30 cm., window mat opening measurements: 26 cm x 16 cm. Condition of prints is Very Good at least: print #1 shows some waviness in isolated places, with wrinkling most noticeable at the upper left corner of the image; faint intermittent foxing in spots. Print #2 shows intermittent foxing, strongest in the blank, uncolored fields of the image; the deep inky color palette has lost none of its jewel-like intensity however; both prints are scarce to the trade and gorgeous as all get-out. A lovely job of framing both images; prints not examined out of frame.… Read More

New York: Persea Books, 1987. First American Edition, First Printing so stated with no additional printings. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good +. 260pp. Octavo. Hardcover. Quarter bound black cloth and tan paper over boards with silver gilt spine lettering. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+ . Bright, new looking jacket mildly creased and crinkled at very top edge with two v. small closed tears. Author's first novel.

New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1978. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. About Fine/Fine. 175 p. ; 22 cm. Olive green cloth and paper over boards, silver spine lettering, green topstain. About fine in Fine dust jacket.

New York: Random House, 1995. First Edition, First Printing so stated with full number line. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +. 307pp. 8to.Hardcover. Quarter bound cloth and paper over boards. Book Condition: Very Good +. Spine ends pushed a bit. Otherwise, binding is tight and square, corners sharp, text unmarked and apparently unread, edges clean and white. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Colors bright and fresh, very slightly rubbed in the usual places, small scuff bottom right front panel, tips sharp, extremities book store keen.

New York: Morrow, 1970. First Printing of First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good -/Good +. xi, 434 pages : map ; 25 cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original half-cloth over boards. Book Condition: darkening to spine and beyond into paper portion of covers, small splash to top edge, spine ends pushed; text-block, including spectacular red map end papers, unmarked; binding sound. Dust Jacket Condition: unclipped jacket shows toning, finger soiling, frazzled corners & spine ends, closed tears (some repair with cello tape, creasing; reinforced along top and bottom edges with cello tape to verso. Basis for the wildly successful (box-office-wise) 1973 Film starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman. Introduction by Jean-Pierre Castelnau. Translated by June P Wilson and Walter B. Michaels. somewhat of a cello-tape-a-looza, with tape repairs, tape reinforcements, and tape in general.

New York: Random House, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 306pp. 24cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original 1/4 black cloth over boards, copper lettering to spine. Book Condition: faint signs of handling, else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: A little crinkling at the spine ends, panel edges show very faint toning just at the edge, clipped. Winner of National Book Award for Fiction 1988.

Köln: Taschen, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 339, [1] p. : ill. (mostly col.) ; 32 cm. Blue paper over boards, white lettering to spine and front cover. Book Condition: Gently pushed spine ends else Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Top edge curling a bit with salt and pepper wear to tips, faint rubbing to panels. In English, French and German. From the publisher: "This book shows us around 50 imaginatively conceived apartments and houses, the homes of prominent people, chosen purely for their individuality.

Boston: Beacon Press, 1958. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good -. 200pp. Quarter blue cloth and paper over boards with navy blue spine lettering. Book condition: Fine. Spine lettering brand new looking, boards are unmarked, edges clean, tips sharp, binding tight and square. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Rubbed at the extremities, with salt and pepper chipping to spine ends, some dustiness to the lighter areas from handliing.

New York: Knopf, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 300 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm. Folio. Wheat colored cloth over boards, black spine lettering. Lavishly produced, landmark achievement in color and b&w photo reproduction. Career-spanning retrospective of the master Irving Penn. Fine in a Fine dust jacket; still in original shrinkwrap! From the publisher. "Covering all aspects of Penn's work, this is a visual autobiography. His range of subjects varies from portraits of writers, artists and theatrical figures to ethnographic studies in West Africa, Nepal, Peru and New Guinea."

New York: Doubleday, 2008. First Edition, First Printing with full number line. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. 304 pages. Red and grey paper over boards stamped on spine with black gilt. Correct price of $24.95 intact on DJ. SIGNED by author A pristine copy of author's well received second novel, sequel to his thriller debut, "Errors and Omissions". A sharp copy.

London: Printed for C.J.G. and F. Rivington, q., 1828. 18th Edition. 3/4 Calf Leather. Very Good. pp. 6, *6, [7]-715. Appendix 1-44. Hardcover. Contemporary 3/4 Calf over marbled boards, title in gilt on black morocco spine label. Book Condition: Prior owners name label and Sutro Library Bookplate to front pastedown though there are no other library markings anywhere. Spine ends chipped with loss, covers cracked and worn, but very robust, no sign of starting hinges or the like. Lacking the large general map called for in front but complete with all others [as specified in Directions to the Binder page [6]]: The Holyhead Road Plate, to face page 179; The Other Plates to be Placed at the End of the Book in the Following Order: 1st. The Isle of Thanet, Plate I. 2nd: Route from Deal to Hythe, and from Hythe to Rye, Plates II and III. 3d. Route from Rye to Eastbourne, and from Eastbourne to Shoreham, Plates IV and V. 4th .Route from New Shoreham to Chichester, and from Chichester to Fareham. Plates VI… Read More

New York: Knopf, 1935. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Lacking. xiv, 437, xxiv pages, 48 pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original rose colored cloth over boards, spine and upper cover stamped in gilt, wine colored top stain. Book Condition: light wear to spine ends, salt and pepper size bit of wear to corners & the usual extremities, but overall wear is very limited ; endpapers show some offsetting yet interior is bright and unmared, pristine even; with a solid binding. A nice copy. Dust jacket largely missing; front flap only piece still extant, laid in. Flap is price clipped and yapped at the edges, else fine.