Search Results: Authors starting with D from Dividing Line Books

NY: Pantheon, 1972. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. 151pp. First edition. Black cloth with gilt spine titles and green front panel embossing. VG/G+. Softened spine ends, light sun bleaching to top of spine and interior top of front board, textblock edges lightly tanned, former owner's name erased from front free end paper, else very good. In a good plus jacket with "$4.95" price present. Moderate edgewear, some chipping at head of spine & rear panel, browning to flaps. A decent copy of this Sufi-inspired novel set in a vaguely dystopian future, with rear jacket blurbs from R D. Laing and Alan Watts.

Buffalo, NY: M Press, 1994. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. 95pp. Softcover wraps. Near fine, with a couple of stray marks to the wraps and a tiny spot of soiling to fore-edge of textblock. Commentary/critical readings of two poems: Howe's "The Nonconformist's Memorial" and Taggart's "The Rotko Chapel Poem.

NY: The Macmillan Company, 1967. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Octavo (8.5 x 5.75 in.); 250pp., indexed; teal cloth boards, in dust jacket. Light shelfwear, toning to fore-edge of textblock, light fading/dust soiling to pink topstain. A touch of foxing to pastedowns. A very good (+) copy in a like jacket, unclipped, with light scuffing and toning to the rear panel and flaps. The second book by the philosopher best known for his art criticism, a "long-overdue, immensely valuable reassessment" of Nietzsche's work as a philosopher.

NY: New Directions, 1996. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. NY: New Directions, 1996. First edition. 168pp; 8vo; red cloth boards; dust jacket. Fine in a fine, unclipped jacket. With a laid-in bookplate signed by Davenport. A collection of short stories by the polymathic American writer and artist Guy Davenport (1927-2005).

Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo. 20pp. Staple-bound pamphlet. Moderate soiling and browning to wraps, with curling at corners and a small chip out at head of front cover. Contents clean and unmarked. Collects a series of Gainesville Sun editorials in support of the peaceful desegregation of Florida's schools, written by the long-time University of Florida journalism professor H.G. Davis, Jr., for which he was awarded the 1971 Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing. OCLC only locates two copies of this publication, presumably issued circa 1971, with no publisher or place of publication stated.

NY: Living Hand, 1976. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. NY: Living Hand, 1976. No. 156 of 500 hand- numbered copies. 81pp. 8vo. Signature-bound in French flap wraps. Very good or better, with toning to spine, a few spots of light soiling to wraps. Signed and inscribed by Davis on front flyleaf: "For John -Lydia." Debut collection by the American writer noted for her minimalist short stories, including these. The fifth publication of Living Hand, the imprint Davis ran with her then-husband Paul Auster.

NY: Verso, 1990. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition of Davis' heralded postmodern analysis of Los Angeles urbanism. Photographs by Robert Morrow. London/New York: Verso, 1990. First printing (no additional printings noted on copyright page). Octavo, 9-1/2 x 6-3/8 in.ix, 462pp., with index. Black textured-paper boards; silver spine titles; dust jacket. Light bumping to spine ends and corners. Some small splits to the paper; board just showing through at bottom front tip. Unclipped (unpriced) jacket with mild crumpling to spine ends and tips. Very good in a near fine jacket.

Abbingdon-on-Thames: Abbey Press, 1970. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Octavo (8.5" x 5.5"); 23pp.; saddle-stapled in printed blue wraps. Some light discolorations to perimeters of wraps, else about fine. A lecture by the then-Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom on the art and challenges of translation. "A translation cannot be poetry in its own right unless it has been subdued to the imaginative process of its original; nor can it be a faithful translation unless it is in some sense an original poem. Such paradoxes begin to reveal the mystique of translating.

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1984. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First English-language edition of this early novel by the Brazilian writer, originally published in 1876. Translated with an introduction by Helen Caldwell. First edition. Octavo, 8-1/2 x 5-3/4 in. ix, 197pp. Black cloth boards, red spine lettering; in dust jacket. Fine in a near fine jacket, price-clipped, with a couple of very short closed edge tears.

Beacon Press: Boston, 1970. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First publication in book form of the American abolitionist and journalist's only novel, a story of radical Black insurrection originally published serially in The Weekly Anglo-African from November 1961 to May 1962. Introduction by Floyd J. Miller. Boston: Beacon Press, 1970. Olive boards backed with brown cloth; dark brown spine lettering; decorative motif blind-embossed on front panel; in dust jacket. Fine in a fine, unclipped ("$8.50") jacket, with a short closed tear at base of spine panel.

NY: Ace Books, 1967. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. First edition. Signed, dated, and inscribed by Delany on the title page. Mass-market paperback (6.5 x 4.25 in.), 142pp. A very good (+) copy, with a slight spine twist and a few light creases to the spine and front cover hinge (binding remains strong and secure). A retelling of sorts of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, in which a member of an alien race now residing on Earth searches for lost love while attempting to parse the cultural legacy of the long-extinct human beings. Winner of the 1967 Nebula Award for Best Novel and a finalist for the 1968 Hugo Award. Cover art by Jack Gaughan.

NY: Herder and Herder, 1963. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. NY: Herder and Herder, 1963. First American edition. 8vo. Mauve cloth; gilt spine titles; dust jacket. Xxx, 193pp. Near fine in a very good jacket, unclipped, with moderate rubbing and soiling. Collection of posthumous writings from a Nazi prison by a Catholic priest killed for his invoicement in a plot to overthrow Adolph Hitler. With an introduction by Thomas Merton.

NY: Staempfli Gallery, 1959. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Oblong softcover (7.75" x 9"); unpaginated; saddle-stapled in black-and-white wraps. Catalog for an exhibition at the Staempfli Gallery, October 20 - November 7, 1959. One color, twenty-six black-and-white illustrations. A very good copy, with light bumping to bottom fore-corner, oxidation to staples.

Pittsburgh, PA: Air and Nothingness Press, 2006. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 12mo. 93pp. First edition. One of 200 total copies. Although not called for, this copy has been signed by the illustrator to the title page. Tan cloth boards with blind-stamped titles to spine and front panel. Numerous black-and-white tipped-in photo prints throughout. Gift inscription on front free end paper, else fine in a near fine wrap-around band that shows rubbing at the hinges. French text with English translation on facing pages.

Brooklyn: Pierogi 2000, 1998. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 4to. 12pp. Staple-bound softcover, with color image tipped onto title page. Printed on the occasion of an exhibition at Pierogi 2000 in Brooklyn, NY from April 24 - May 25, 1998. With an essay by Gregory Volk. Light oxidation to staples, else fine.

NY: Philosophical Library, 1946. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. 311pp, indexed. Green textured paper boards, black titles. Light bumping to base of spine, else very fine in a fine, unclipped "$5.00" jacket. Although this volume meets first edition criteria (no additional printings stated, per McBride), it would seem to be a later printing, as the rear flap advertises Einstein's "Out of My Later Years," which was not published until 1950. Nonetheless, a superior copy, apparently unread, with no fading whatsoever to jacket spine panel. A collection of Dewey's essays, "reprinted from periodicals in which they originally appeared.

NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 176pp. Sixth printing. Maroon cloth, gilt spine titles, dark grey topstain. Very light shelfwear to base of boards, else fine in a near fine jacket, lightly rubbed to front and spine panels, and with a short closed tear at base of front panel. A nice copy of Dewey's analytical defense of democracy.

USA: Prime Books, 2009. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. 408pp. [vol. 1]; 287pp [vol.2]. Presumed first editions (no statement of printing). Bound in matching red cloth with gilt spine titles. Edited and introduced by Gregg Rickman. Volume 1 bears a small dent to the top of the textblock, and about six leaves have small crimps/creases at the bottom corner. Otherwise both volumes fine in fine, unclipped jackets. A handsome and well-bound collectible quality set.

NY: The Drawing Center, 2013. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Perfect-bound in printed wraps, 9 x 6 in., 127pp. Very near fine, with a bump to the textblock fore-edge affecting about ten leaves. Published in conjunction with an exhibit at The Drawing Center, November 15, 2013 January 12, 2014. Handsomely illustrated throughout with full color plates of Dickinson and Walser's handwritten manuscripts, drawing an interesting parallel between the otherwise unrelated writers' "text objects." With a foreword by curator Claire Gilman and an essay by Josiah McElheny. Number 109 in the Drawing Papers series. Out of print and uncommon.

London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., 1958. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., 1958. First edition. 8vo. Red cloth; gilt spine titles; dust jacket. 111pp.; index; 8 b&w plates at center. Light bumping/softening to board corners; bookseller stamp (Samuel Weiser) to front pastedown. Very good or better in a very good jacket, price-clipped and moderately rubbed, with chips to bottom tips and base of spine. An elucidation of the "pitfalls which have to be avoided" when conducting psychical research, using as its examples of proper investigation four recent examples of poltergeist phenomena.