Search Results: Titles starting with S from Second Wind Books LLC

London: Chatto & Windus, 1974. Fine./Fine.. Octavo. Spring green gilt cloth. First edition, first impression. Fine, in fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket designed by John Sutcliffe.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. Hardcover. Very Good. Hatherell, William, J. Bernard Partridge, et al.. [Salesman Sample]: Octavo. Medium olive green cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt. T.e.g. Author's edition, limited to one hundred and fifty signed copies. Frontispiece portrait. Thistle edition from new plates by De Vinne. Drawings and photographs with printed tissue guards. Binding slightly rubbed with a few smudges, spine cloth has minor split at toe, shadow of bookplate on the pastedown, front inner hinge shows a bit of strain, else very good. A salesman's sample book, or dummy, for this projected set of eight volumes. Two page prospectus, sample pages of text, fifteen samples of the plates of drawings and photographs that liberally illustrate the complete set, printed on Japan paper with three near fine representative gilt decorated and lettered spine examples affixed to rear pastedown. Scarce. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Ann Arbor, MI: Schoolstoppers Textbook, 1973. Folio. Red decorated and printed wrappers, all varied color folio leaves laid in, no binding (we will not be restrained!). The fourth book of "The Blacklisted News." Fifth edition (yes, it was that popular!) Tiny spot on lower edge, else about fine.  A Guide To Disruptive Revolutionary Tactics for High-Schoolers.  Liberate your life -- smash your school! The public schools are slowly killing every kid in them, stifling their creativity and individuality making them into non-persons. If you are a victim of this, one of the things you can do is fight back.  Extremely handy step-by-step guide to lockpicking, worth the price of admission. .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. First edition. Very good./Good.. Yellow cloth. First edition. Slight foxing to endsheets at gutters, else a very good copy in edgeworn dust jacket. Dust jacket designed by Harry Ford.

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. First edition, limited issue. Number 109 of one hundred twenty-five copies, signed and numbered by the author, of the fifth installment of his autobiography. Cover design by Barbara Martin. Fine, in clear acetate dust jacket, as issued. Black Sparrow Press was a small independent publishing house focused on avant-garde literature. Established by John and Barbara Martin in 1966, in Los Angeles, and shuttered in 2002, in Santa Rosa. With the help of typographer and printer Graham Mackintosh, the Press was responsible for drawing attention to Charles Bukowski and his literary work.

London: John Murray, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good. Red cloth, printed paper spine label. First edition. Chosen, and with a preface by John Sparrow. Neat contemporary ink inscription on front free flyleaf, else fine in dust jacket with chipping along top edge. Contains old favorites newly revised and several new poems published for the first time in book form. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1971. First editions. Black boards, gilt spine. xi,432 pp.; xxiv,359 pp.; xxiii,451 pp. First editions, first impressions.   Edited and with a preface by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Volumes II & III with frontispiece photographs. Dust jacket design by Gary Gore for the complete series which ran to five volumes. All near fine in near fine dust jackets.  . JOSHI Eighty Years of Arkham House 80, 97, & 118.

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1971. First edition. Near fine / near fine.. Black cloth, gilt spine. xx,403 pp. First edition, edition limited to 2118 copies. Small bump at lower fore-tip, else near fine, in bright, near fine Gary Gore designed dust jacket with only slight use at tips.  Introductory appreciation essay by Benjamin DeCasseres entitled, "Clark Ashton Smith: Emperor of Shadows." This omnibus collection of the poems of  Smith, containing over five hundred selections, reproduces  entire volumes of verse long out of print as well as complete cycles of poems never before published. "Smith prepared this volume between 1944 and 1949 but never saw it published; instead, it was delayed until eight years after his death. It is the only Arkham House poetry volume published up to this time to receive a 'normal,' rather than a limited print run -- and justly so, for Smith is far and away the leading weird poet in English and would have been recognized as a major American poet of the… Read More

New York: Random House, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Gilt cloth. First edition of this selection; edited, with an introduction by Robert Penn Warren. Edges slightly dusty, but a very good copy in a lightly used, price-clipped dust jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell and Company, 1896. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Rich blue cloth over beveled boards, spine lettered in gilt. T.e.g. Glorious dove gray endsheets with the Cassell "La Belle Sauvage" medallion as motif. First edition, with a four page "Important Works ...," and the first state of the terminal catalogue, dated "6G - 8.96." Spine a bit faded, but a good copy overall with the bookplate of the Grolier Bibliophile and bookplate collector, Dorothy Furman.

London: Longman's, Green and Co, 1943. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Gilt burgundy cloth. Ink inscription to the front free endpaper, else very good in a good dust jacket with a darkened spine panel and very shallow loss to spine ends. First trade edition, preceded by the Cuala Press edition.Bowen was an Anglo-Irish writer who, although she lived primarily in England, maintained a large family estate, Bowen's Court, in County Cork, Ireland. She mixed with the Bloomsbury Group, becoming good friends with Rose Macaulay and welcomed the aforesaid Virginia Woolf, among others, to Bowen's Court. In the finest Bloomsbury tradition, Bowen had several extra-marital relationships including one with the American poet May Sarton.

New York: Henry Harrison, 1927. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Henry E. Fouts:. Large octavo. Silver on blue cloth. Printed in blue. Six silver and blue tipped-in art deco plates. Endsheets slightly tanned, else near fine in very good, lightly chipped silver foil and navy blue pictorial dust jacket by Fouts.   First edition. A first book of verse by the author - and she really shouldn't have bothered - but the six tipped-in art deco plates by Fouts, printed in blue on metallic silver finish paper and the occasional vignettes in deep blue scattered throughout, and a full page image at the conclusion of the text make this effort more than worth the bother. Uncommon in dust jacket, and the poetry is really hilarious.

Mount Vernon: The Peter Pauper Press, N.d.. Good.. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. Eight page publication Supplement entitled "Fragment of a Greek Tragedy A Parody," laid in. Lightly rubbed at tips, else a good, bright copy, without a dust jacket.

New York: Crown, 1995. First American Edition. Fine / fine.. Octavo. Cloth and boards,  silver spine. 327,[1] pp. Fine, in fine dust jacket.  Rendell's seventeenth Chief Inspector Reg Wexford mystery blends his heretofore unacknowledged racial bias with changes in his small town of Kingsmarkham in Suffolk. Wexford is asked to look for the missing daughter of his physician, Dr. Raymond Akande, who is a black man and with whom he also socializes. When two women are found dead, and a third found beaten and unconscious, Wexford jumps to the conclusion that one of them is the missing daughter - it isn't.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Cloth and boards. First U.S. edition. Photographs, including an intriguing 1960 photo of de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Fidel Castro in a powerboat. Translated from the French by Lisa Nesselson. A review copy with the publisher's publicity sheet laid in. Fine in fine dust jacket.

[St. Albans, UK: Panther Books Ltd., 1976. First UK trade edition. Fine.. Glossy pictorial wrappers. First UK trade editions. Clean, unread editions with tight binding and uncreased spines. All three volumes are fine.   "H. P. Lovecraft described [Robert E.] Howard as a master of 'description of vast megalithic cities of the elder world, around whose dark towers and labyrinthine nether vaults lingers an aura of pre-human fear and necromancy which not other writer could duplicate.'" -- wrapper description. .

Sun & Moon Press, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Author.. Black cloth, gilt spine. First edition. Edited, with an introduction by Douglas Messerli. First published in periodicals and newspapers from 1914-1916, these fourteen tales have never before appeared in book form. Illustrations by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1935. Tall, slender octavo. Red blind-stamped leatherette, gilt spine. Illustrated endpapers. Liberally illustrated throughout, "The book is designed and decorated, and the initials illuminated with pure gold by hand entirely, for the Heritage Press by Valenti Angelo" -- from the colophon. Toe of spine frayed, the red board slipcase chipped and rubbed with the lower edge missing one inch closest to the spine of the book. Internally near fine, externally as listed above. A beautiful book.

[London: Riccardi Press for the Medici Society, Ltd., 1914. Limited edition. Slim octavo. Publisher's linen-backed paper boards, lettered in gilt. T.e.g. First edition, thus. Edition limited to 1000 copies printed on handmade Riccardi paper; the copies were numbered yet this copy is unnumbered (writer's fatigue?). Initial page of the sonnets is printed within a highly decorative border, ribbon place marker at Sonnet XLIII, "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." Neat ink name and date on front free endpaper, some little offsetting to endpapers, light sunning to edges, else internally about fine, without dust wrapper. This limited edition from the Riccardi Press Booklets series reprints forty-four of Barrett Browning's most beloved, and oft-quoted sonnets originally published in 1850. This particular copy belonged to the poet Franklin McDuffee, a 1921 graduate of Dartmouth College who wrote the verses for "Dartmouth Undying" and who won poetic renown when his Michelangelo took the Newdigate… Read More

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. First edition, limited issue. Number 86 of 100 copies, signed and numbered by the author. Design by Barbara Martin. Fine, in clear acetate dust jacket, as issued. Black Sparrow Press was a small, independent publishing house focused on avant-garde literature. Established by John and Barbara Martin in 1966, in Los Angeles, and shuttered in 2002, in Santa Rosa. With the help of typographer and printer Graham Mackintosh, the Press was responsible for drawing attention to Charles Bukowski and his literary work. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.