Search Results: Authors starting with B from Dividing Line Books

San Francisco: Sufism Reoriented, 1966. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Uncommon pamphlet collecting various statements advising against the use of hallucinogens by the Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba (1894-1969), an important figure in the 1960s counterculture. Baba warns that LSD and related drugs cannot provide a shortcut to true spiritual awakening, and indeed may only lead one further from such a goal. An interesting counterargument to the view, then prevalent among advocates of psychedelic experimentation, that such substances possess the de facto power of entheogenic revelation. San Francisco: Sufism Reoriented, 1966. First edition. Saddle-stapled in light pink printed self-wrappers, 8-1/4 x 5-1/2 in. 11pp. Light toning and soiling to wraps, a few minor spots of interior soiling. Very good. This copy lacking the cancel slip frequently seen mounted at base of p.6; thus possibly an earlier state.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1955. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. London: Victor Gollancz, 1955. First edition. Small 8vo. Blue textured-paper boards; gilt spine titles; dust jacket. 272pp; index. Board corners very lightly tapped; toning to textblock; offsetting to endpapers. Very good in a very good jacket, unclipped, with small chips to ends of the toned and splash-marked spine. First edition of this collection of discourses by Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba (1894-1969), who was to become an important figure in the 1960s counterculture. As edited and with an introduction by C. B. Purdom.

Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to. 205pp. First printing. Purple cloth boards show light bumping at bottom corners. Faint dust soiling to top of textblock, some light sunning to rear board. Unclipped (unpriced) jacket shows rubbing to the front panel, light edgewear, and some browning to the rear panel. Consists of six lectures delivered as part of the Madison Lectures series, as editited by Stephen Dembski and Joseph N. Straus.

NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1982. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Octavo; 216pp.; Orange boards, black quarter-cloth, in dust jacket. Signed by Babbitt on the title page. Herbert Rowbarge details the successful but unhappy life of the titular character through the lens of his adult twin daughters. Having been separated from his own twin brother at birth, Rowbarge spends most of his life struggling under the burden of his unknown loss. Babbitt identified Herbert Rowbarge as her personal favorite among her books. Light shelfwear, minor waterspotting to textblock top, and a couple of minor spots of soiling to front endpaper. In a price-clipped jacket showing moderate rubbing. A very good plus copy in like jacket of this elegantly written short novel, something of an outlier in the oeuvre of a writer best known for Tuck Everlasting and her other young-adult novels. An exemplary work of prose, uncommon signed.

NY: Carlton, 1995. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. viii+94pp. First edition. Inscribed by the author to former owners' on the front free end paper. Grey cloth boards. Near fine in a very good unclipped jacket that shows Light wear at the spine ends and a few short closed tears. A stirringly written memoir about the author's boyhood in a Lithuanian shtetl. Rear jacket blurbs by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Anna Freud, and others.

London: Haslewood Books, 1924. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 16mo. Essays individually paginated. First this, being an "exact reprint, page for page and line for line, of the first edition of Bacon's Essayes." Hand-numbered copy 348 of a limited edition of 975. Faux-vellum boards show a touch of bowing. Former owner has neatly added a gift inscription to his daughter on the limitation page. Jacket shows light toning to spine and ofre-edges, with an interior repair at base of spine, and a few small chips out at head of spine and tips.

NY: Pantheon, 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 208pp. First edition, first printing. Signed and affectionately inscribed to former owners on the front free end paper. Tan/purple boards with light blue cloth backing and silver spine titles. F/VG+. Light toning to edges of textblock, light off-setting to pastedowns, else fine. Unclipped "$8.95" jacket has four <1/4" closed tears and light wear at head of spine, with light toning to flaps. A young adult novel, subtitled "A Girlhood on the Eve of the Third Reich," praised as a patient and detailed evocation of a Jewish family's experiences in the waning moments of the Weimar Republic.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1931. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. ix+340pp., indexed. Blue cloth, gilt spine titles. Moderate bumping to board corners, former owner's stamp on title page, occasional pencil underlining and margin notes, some bumping/creasing to bottom corner of textblock. No jacket. A very good (-) copy.

Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition of 2,000 copies. Quarto; 129pp., unpaginated "Biographie" and "Bibliographie" sections at rear; decorative papered boards with glassine jacket printed in red. Four-page "Errata et Addenda" tipped onto rear pastedown. Text in French. Though not called for, this copy has been signed, dated, and inscribed by Kowalski on the half-title. In very good condition, with light shelfwear, bumping to spine ends (short tear to paper at head of spine), and light foxing to textblock top. Jacket yellowed to spine panel, the head of which shows some minor crumpling/chipping. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white and color. A monograph covering the output of the polymathic Polish artist, Piotr Kowalski (1927-2004), whose study of forms encompassed everything from neon to large-scale earthworks to electronics and sound equipment, as in his ambitious "Time Machine" projects. Though… Read More

NY: Harper & Row, 1967. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A sharp copy first edition review copy of Baker's meticulous and consuming study of the peregrine falcon. NY: Harper & Row, 1967. First American edition; review copy, with publisher's slip and glossy photo laid in. 8vo. Black textured-paper boards; gilt spine titles; dust jacket. 191pp.Bumping to spine ends and, lightly, top corners. Else near fine in a near fine, unclipped jacket with some minor laminate bubbling along spine hinges.

London: Collins, 1969. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 159pp. First edition. Blue textured paper boards with gilt spine titles. Light bumping at spine heel, three tiny spots of soiling to textblock top, else very near fine. In an unclipped very good (+) jacket with 3 1/3" closed tears along top edge, light soiling top perimeter, and a diagonal crease to front flap. The first British edition of Baker's elusive second book, following 1967's "The Peregrine.

London: FUEL Publishing, 2006. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Small 8vo. 399pp. First edition. Blue cloth, titles and decorations stamped in black. Very faint semi-circular dampstain to bottom corner of rear board. Jacket shows light rubbing/soiling and a smaller, even fainter corresponding dampstain at bottom corner of rear panel. Drawings by Danzig Baldaev. Photography by Sergei Vasiliev. Essay by Alexei Plutser-Sarno. Translated by Andrew Bromfield. Introduction by Anne Applebaum.

London: Michael Joseph, 1972. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition of the sole screenplay by American writer James Baldwin (1924-1987), an adaptation of Malcolm X and Alex Haley's The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) that began as a passion project but was ultimately quashed by the studios and led to Baldwin's lasting embitterment with the film industry. London: Michael Joseph, 1972. First UK edition, preceding the American edition of 1973. 166pp. Octavo; blue textured-paper boards; silver spine titles; dust jacket. Light spotting/soiling to top of textblock; light bumping to spine ends. Very good or better in a near fine jacket, price-clipped. Baldwin first began work on a play version of the Autobiography in 1967; after the rights to the book were sold to Columbia Pictures in 1968, they approached him about adapting a screenplay instead. He accepted, only to find himself soon embroiled in creative conflicts with the studio, who demanded a highly sanitized treatment… Read More

NY: Dell Books, 1963. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. First mass-market printing of Baldwin's second collection of essays. First edition thus (stated "First Dell printing-August, 1963"). Perfect-bound in printed wraps, 6-3/8 x 4-1/4 in. All textblock edges stained green. 190pp. Light edgewear. One dog-eared page corner. Light scuffing to rear cover. Very near fine; a nice copy.

NY: Doubleday, 1975. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo. 278pp. First edition. Signed by Ballantyne on the front free end paper. Speckled tan boards with black cloth backing. VG+/NF. Purple remainder spray to bottom of textblock. Light shelfwear at spine ends. In an unclipped "$7.95" jacket with light rubbing at spine ends and tips, a touch of browning to flaps.

NY: Carroll & Graf, 1988. Soft cover. Near Fine. Mass market paperback. 173pp. Bookstore stamp to bottom textblock, minor crease at bottom corner of first page, else very near fine, with sharp corners and an uncreased spine. Appears unread. Signed by Ballard to the title page.

NY: Grossman Publishers, 1972. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. 4to. 128pp. Brown cloth, white spine titles. About fine in a very good, unclipped "$8.95" jacket with two 1" closed tears at head of rear panel, light general rubbing. A photographic portrait of life in early 1970s New Haven, CT, with accompanying text based on conversations with Fred Harris, a black community organizer and leader of the Hill Parents Association.

Calcutta: Anthropological Survey of India, 1969. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Presumed first edition. 8vo. 113pp., indexed. Red cloth, black titles, in dust jacket. Some soiling to boards (manufacturing adhesive, perhaps), light bumping to board corners and edges, offsetting to pastedowns. Binding secure; contents clean and unmarked. Very good (-) jacket shows moderate edgewear, with a couple of chips along the base of the front panel. "Memoir No. 24" in a series of ethnographic studies of native Indian tribes.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. An attractive first edition copy of the second collection of short stories by American writer Russell Banks (1940-2023); one of his scarcest titles in the trade. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978. First edition. 136pp. Octavo; black textured-paper boards; silver spine titles; dust jacket. Light bump to heel of spine; faint foxing to textblock edges (quite innocuous). Else near fine in a near fine jacket with a three short closed tears to head of front panel, a touch of rubbing to rear.

Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. First edition. 8vo. xxii + 266pp, indexed. Gluebound in black textured paper boards. Lacking the jacket, if issued with one. Light shelfwear, minor bumping at base of spine, else a fine copy of this work by the prolific post-human theorist.