Search Results: Authors starting with F from Dividing Line Books

London: Studio Vista Limited, 1970. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition of this biography and musicological analysis of the Mississippi guitarist Charley Patton (1891-1934), known as the "Father of the Delta Blues" for the enormous influence he exerted on succeeding generations of blues musicians. Fahey (1939-2001) was himself an enormously influential steel-string guitar player, generally recognized as the progenitor of the "American Primitive" fingerstyle genre, whose technical lexicon drew heavily on the country blues model. Charley Patton was originally written as Fahey's 1966 master's thesis in folklore at UCLA, and includes transcriptions and textual analyses of all of Patton's extant songs. The book is rooted in Fahey's deep appreciation for the Delta blues tradition, and stands as one of the more impressive examples of an American musician reflecting on the history and lore of their craft. Small octavo (5 x 8 in.); 112pp., with selected discography… Read More

Ilfracombe, England: Arthur H. Stockwell, 1974. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Small gluebound 8vo. 138pp. First edition. Red textured paper boards with gilt spine titles. Fine in a near fine, unclipped jacket with light wear at spine ends and some minor creasing to rear panel. From the front panel: "A tiny transparent bubble floats into John Weston's living-room and into his life floats three small human-like beings from the planet Tha. They lead him, his wife Jean and a party of others jack to Tha to mount an action-packed expedition against the Krales beings from another planet bent on total domination. A well-written 'must' for the avid, yet not-too-technical SF reader." Jacket design by J.B. Simon. Quite uncommon.

San Francisco: Alternatives Foundation, 1972. Soft cover. Very Good. San Francisco: Alternatives Foundation, 1972. 231pp.; illus. 4to. Perfect-bound in photo-illustrated wraps. Softened corners; some light creasing to front cover; mild toning and soiling to wraps. Very good indeed: internally clean and solidly bound. The final of five volumes in Richard Fairfield's iconic Modern Utopian series, which broke ground in surveying American and international communes of the hippie era. This issue with contributions from dozens of authors (Alan Watts and Nick Tosches among them), most reprinted from other sources, covering various angles of the commune experience under such headings as "The Religious Scenario," "Back-to-the-land," "Women's Liberation," "Kid's Liberation," etc. With a foreword by Walt Odets, and an introduction by Richard Fairfield. Like all entries in this series, scarce now in the trade.

San Francisco: Alternatives Foundation, 1971. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. San Francisco: Alternatives Foundation, 1971. First edition. 4to. Perfect-bound in photo-illustrated wraps. 195pp.; illus. Light soiling and toning to wraps; hinge and corner wear. Very good: clean and with no creasing to spine; binding strong and secure. One of five book-length volumes in Richard Fairfield's iconic Modern Utopian series, which broke ground in surveying American and international communes of the hippie era. This issue focused on various impetuses and goals of the (American) communal movement. Articles, many reprinted from other sources, including the Modern Utopian periodical, are organized in such categories as "The Vision," "The Love Revolution," "Cosmic Consciousness," Free Schools," etc. With also a section of book reviews, several bibliographies (including a Baba Ram Dass reading list), and an extensive list of free schools in America. Uncommon in the trade.

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1983. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition thus. One of 500 cloth trade copies. Octavo (9.25 x 6.5 in.); 265pp; printed paper boards backed with maroon cloth, in original acetate jacket (not pictured). Fine, with a few spots of nearly imperceptible foxing to textblock top. Near fine jacket lightly rubbed, with a short split at top front corner. A sharp copy of this reprint edition of Fante's first novel, originally published in 1938.

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1965. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. A nice copy of this study of the gradual "disintegration of form and content in Beckett's work," by the French-American writer known for his own experiments in novelistic form. Octavo (5.75 x 8.75 in.); 243pp., with index; green cloth boards, in dust jacket. One small spot of soiling to title page, else fine in a very good, price-clipped jacket with light edgewear and rubbing, and some tiny portions of loss at top tips.

Kerpen, Germany: Beginner Press, 1985. First edition. 244pp. 4to; perfect-bound in wraps illustrated with a Philip Guston painting. Very good or better, with moderate toning to wraps and textblock edges. Essays, in German and English, by the American composer Morton Feldman (1926-1987), some but not all of which later included in Give My Regards to Eighth Street (Exact Change, 2004).

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. 8vo. ix + 359pp, indexed. Full purple cloth, no jacket, presumably as issued. Some faint yellowish discolorations near base of rear board, splash mark to base of textblock, with some related (fairly minor) moisture-wavering to a handful of leaves at rear of volume. Else near fine: tight, clean, and unmarked. Front flyleaf inscribed with love by "Judith"presumably Judith Roof, one of the volume's two editors. Collects 16 essays engaged in the "complex negotiation between feminist theory and psychoanalysis." Please see photos for list of contributors/texts.

NY: Fordham University Press, 2008. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition. Square 8vo. xiv + 216pp. Green papered boards with burgundy cloth backing, gilt spine titles. Light bumping to top corners, ink underling and a couple of margin notes on ~6 leaves, else very good (+) in a near fine jacket with light wear and a tiny chip out at front bottom tip. Edited by Haun Saussy, Jonathan Stalling, and Lucas Klein.

Chicago: The Cosmic Circle of Fellowship, 1954. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. Chicago: The Cosmic Circle of Fellowship, 1954. First edition. 8vo. Saddle-stapled in pink wraps printed in green. 13pp.; text printed in green and orange ink. About fine; a remarkably well-preserved copy. The author recounts his 1947 teleportation to Mars, where he met a "celestial being who indicated the Martians are ready to help mankind pass through a great crisis." Curiously, this first edition unrecorded in Rasmussen, The UFO Literature, which notes only the Saucerian Publications reprint (Rasmussen 362).

NY: St. Martin's Press, 1977. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Reprint edition of Fermor's second book and only novel, first published in 1953. NY: St. Martin's Press, 1977. Octavo, 8-5/8 x 5-5/8 in. 139pp. Green textured-paper boards; gilt spine lettering; pictorial map endpapers; in dust jacket. Fine in a fine jacket.

NY: Ives Washburn, 1929. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. First edition of this work of visionary architecture by American draftsman Hugh Ferriss (1889-1962), an iconic work that exerted a lasting effect both on the worlds of urban planning and architecture, and on the popular imagination (cf. Batman's Gotham City, science fiction depictions of future cities, etc). NY: Ives Washburn, 1929. First edition. 140, [4]pp; illus. 4to; black cloth stamped in silver to front board and spine; lacking the jacket. Spine titles moderately rubbed; cloth frayed at tips; textblock toned. Good, with clean interior. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white reproductions of Ferriss's charcoal-drawn buildings, both real and imaginary. A solid reference/reading copy, fitted now with a custom-cut clear archival jacket.

London: NLB [New Left Books], 1975. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. A nice first printing of the 20th century philosopher's best-known work, an incendiary attack on the scientific method. Using as his principal case study Galileo's theory of heliocentrism, Feyerabend argues that few scientific advances can be ascribed purely to empiricist methodology, and that instead an opportunistic "epistemological anarchism" governs much, if not all, of scientific development. The book was originally conceived as one half of a debate volume, "For and Against Method," with Hungarian philosopher Imre Lakatos, but was published alone following Lakatos' death in 1974. In his 1994 autobiography, "Killing Time," Feyerabend refers to "Against Method" not as a book but as a "collage" of ideas and arguments he'd been exploring in various forms over the preceding years: "I arranged them in a suitable order, added transitions, replaced… Read More

Madison: University of Wisconsin, 2005. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo, xv, 284pp. First printing. Fondly inscribed by Field to a former owner on the title page. Full brown cloth with tan spine titles. Mild forward cocking to spine, gift inscription on front free end paper, else fine in a fine jacket. An exhilarating and anecdote-packed memoir about the literary bohemia in postwar New York.

Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1966. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 114pp. First edition. Signed by Finley beneath a headmaster's gift plate on the front free end paper. NF/VG+. Bound in full tan cloth. Some offsetting to the pastedowns, light foxing to top of textblock. Price-clipped jacket has a slightly dulled spine panel, a few spots of soiling, and two short closed tears.

San Francisco: The Central City Target Area Action Board of Directors, 1967. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. A report on youth drug abuse in the Tenderloin and Central City areas of San Francisco, as prepared by the staff of Central City Target Area, a progressive anti-poverty program established in 1966 with federal money from Lyndon Johnson's Office of Economic Opportunity. Contents consist of statistics, quotations, and profiles drawn from a series of questionnaires, as evaluated (apparently for veracity) by a "panel of 3 addicts." Foreword also states: "[The report's] authenticity is not based on the professional standing of the authors. Its value lies in the fact that it is a statement from "inside-out" rather than "outside-in"." San Francisco: The Central City Target Area Action Board of Directors, 1967. Saddle-stapled in photo-illustrated wraps with text printed blue, 10 x 8 in. pp. [2], 44, [8]; illus. Soft crease to top leading corner.… Read More

NY: Hastings House, 1946. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition of this lavishly illustrated book of American skiing locales, as photographed by Helene Fischer. Featuring text by New Directions founder James Laughlin and book design by legendary American designer Alvin Lustig. Quarto, 12-1/2 x 9-5/8 in. [108] pp. Brown textured-paper boards, black lettering on spine and front panel; in dust jacket. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photo reproductions. Light wear and bumping to board corners and spine ends. Some splitting to front gutter; no effect on structural stability. Unclipped ("$5.00") jacket with multiple short edge tears, some with small chips and creases. Rubbing and some loss along hinges. Front panel with 5" vertical slit in the middle, tape repaired to interior. A very good copy in a good (+) jacket.

NY: Arno Press & The New York Times, 1971. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Reprint of the second and final novel, a murder mystery originally published in 1932, by a key participant in the Harlem Renaissance literary movement. NY: Arno Press & The New York Times, 1971. 316pp. 8vo. Tan cloth; black spine titles; dust jacket. Offsetting, apparently adhesive-related, to gutters. Mild dust soiling to textblock top. Unclipped jacket with shallow chipping at spine ends, wear and creasing to hinges, rubbing and toning to rear. Very good (+) in a good to very good jacket featuring design by Lajos Szalay.

NY: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1956. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. 8vo. 232pp. Salmon cloth, gilt spine titles, dark green topstain. Very minor bumping to spine ends, former owner's name written in sharpie on front free endpaper and topstain (some downward bleeding), else near fine. Full color frontis appears to be upside down. Unclipped "$2.75" jacket near fine, with light soiling. Young adult mystery written under one of several pseudonyms of Kathleen Freeman, a noted British classicist. Illustrated by Peggy Fortnum.

Los Angeles: Sherwood Press, 1983. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Los Angeles: Sherwood Press, 1983. One of 500 total copies. [36]pp. Saddle-stapled pictorial wraps. Incidental edge wear, else about fine. This copy from the library of New York School poet, librettist, and publisher Kenward Elmslie (1929-2022), and inscribed to him by Flanagan on title page: "For Kenward Here's looking at you, and looking toward spring, when next we meet. Bob February 3, 1983." Scarce second collection of poems by a writer perhaps better known as a performance artist specializing in extreme acts of masochism. With his wife and artistic collaborator Sheree Rose, Flanagan's decidedly uncomfortable performances included various forms of body mutilation, and explored the links between BDSM and chronic illness; he suffered from cystic fibrosis, succumbing to the disorder at age 43. Flanagan starred in several 1990s music videos, including for songs by Nine Inch Nails and Danzig, and was the subject… Read More