Search Results: Authors starting with J from Better Read Than Dead

Crestline, CA: Core Group, 1973. Very good, wraps lightly soiled and worn. Equal parts spirituality, photographic interpretation of kinesthesia and speculative prose.

New York: Viking, 1968. FIrst Edition. Hardcover [octavo] in illustrated dust jacket. Gray boards backed with brown cloth, gilt lettering stamped to spine. 247 pp. Very Good in a Very Good jacket.. Jacket design by Abner Graboff. Debut novel from L.P. Davis about a young Boise transplant to the New York City of the late 60s, the previously-underknown author whose star has recently risen thanks to the critical attention of Jonathan Lethem and a reissue of his follow-up novel A Meaningful Life on New York Review of Books.

London: Aquarian Press, 1992. Softcover with full color tarot deck in plastic clamshell case. Perfect-bound in illustrated wraps. 155pp. Good or better book and clamshell; about Near Fine tarot deck.. Miranda Gray.

Hanover: Wesleyan University Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover octavo, black cloth with gilt stamped lettering to spine, 114 pp. Near Fine, trace soiling to edges of boards/Near Fine jacket, slight sunning to spine. The second installment of Jabes' Book of Resemblances. Translated by Rosmarie Waldrop.

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover octavo, green cloth with gilt stamped lettering to spine, 337 pp. Publisher's promotional material laid in. Near Fine, tight square binding, sharp corners, light soiling to top of text block, small stain to rear free endpaper, else fine./Fine unclipped jacket, trace edgewear.. Jacket Design by Joyce Kachergis Book Design & Production.. The last three books of Jabes' best-known work, the Book of Questions, collected in one volume and masterfully translated by poet Rosmarie Waldrop.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover octavo, dark gray cloth with gilt stamped lettering to spine, 100 pp. Review slip laid in. Near Fine, unblemished save light soiling to top of text block./Fine jacket, trace soiling.. First Edition of Jabes' Book of Shares, "a brief but particularly powerful statement of many of Jabes's lifelong preoccupations: the possibilities of writing and dialogue after the Holocaust, the repressed meaning of God, the limits of language, the status of the Book, and the exile of the Jew" (from the jacket).

New York City, NY: Random House, 1969. Hardcover 8vo green cloth boards with blue decoration and gilt lettering on spine in illustrated dust jacket, 168 pp. Very good, strong binding and clean boards, slightest soiling to top edge and mild cant to rear board./Very good, very mild scraping to ends of spine, gentle crease down center, publisher's sticker on back, otherwise formidable jacket.. The question of survival for cities was a true passion of Jane Jacobs, who possibly interrogated cracks in the sidewalk for answers to how and why some thrive and others rust. Some tried macro- and microeconomics theories are challenged in this analysis of the urban economy, it's offshoots and back again.

New York: Grove Press, 1969. First printing. Hardcover, [octavo], yellow cloth boards, black spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 301 pp. Very good book, front free endpaper owner-inscribed, about 40 pages of text block annotated and under-lined by literary critic and translator Roberto Marquez; dust jacket very good, spine ends worn, edges chipped and creased with close tears, flaps creased. Cover design by Kuhlman.

London: Allison & Busby, 1984. Hardcover, [octavo], black cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 303 pp. Near fine book; near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mick Keates; Photograph by Snowdon.

Detroit: Bewick Editions, 1974. 8vo, 174 pp. Stiff illustrated wraps. Very good book, spine faded and creased, covers rubbed, text block marked. First published pseudonymously in 1958, reissued here under 2/3 of the authors' honest names once the coast was clear of McCarthy and his ilk.

Bristol, England: Falling Wall Press, 1972. Third edition. Signature-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 79 pp. Very good, wraps lightly worn, front end pages owner-inscribed, edges foxed.

Nairobi: East African Publishing House, 1967. First Edition. Staplebound 16mo, pictorial glossy wraps, 56 pp. Very Good, some rubbing, soiling, edgewear to wraps. Illustrations by Adrienne Moore. East African Readers Library no. 6. The colloquial retellings of the respected elder Mzee Nyachote to a group of children of his youthful impish escapades, and how he grew into his position of local stature.

FotoEvidence. No Binding. Near Fine. Slight wear to the boards, otherwise this copy is in near fine condition with tight spine and clean, bright pages. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Brooklyn: Zonepress, 1977. Perfect-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 64 pp. Very good, wraps lightly soiled and worn. Design by Jonathan Seckofsky and Jay Heller. Contributions from Peter N. Cherches, Dan Georgakas, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, others. And, a very early graphic contributions from a young David Wojnarowicz on p. 54.

New York: Red Room Books, 1972. Stab-stapled quartos all in pictorial card (1-4) or glossy (5-6) wraps with illustrated versos. Mimeographed to rectos only. 29pp; 25pp; 29pp; 28pp; 49pp; 46pp. Good to Very Good (+); all in sound bindings and with at least light soiling and toning but clean within; mild dampstaining to edges of 3 and 5, issue 4 heavily dampstained to rear wrap and decreasingly through last few pages.. Near-complete run (missing issue 7) of the seminal flash-in-the-pan literary journal from Jeff Goldberg and "Bockris-Wylie", the sandwiched identity of Victor Bockris and Andrew Wylie. Published all within a period of two months, CONTACT serves as one of the more concentrated and stellar examples of the feverishly immediate and spontaneous production and publication so inherited by and from the "second generation" New York School and Warhol's Factory Scene. As noted in Steve Clay's bibliography From a Secret Location on the Lower East Side, "The attitudes and poses of the cover stars… Read More

New York: Hill and Wang, 1969. Second printing. Perfectbound [octavo] in pictorial wraps. 130 pp. Near Fine, mildest foxing to text block, mild edgewear and toning to wraps.. Cover photograph by Michael Asche. Kenneth Rexroth's copy of Joans' "Jazz Poems", bearing the beat luminary's ownership stamp to the half-title. Stamp is in black ink and reads: Kenneth Rexroth English Dept. UCSB Santa Barbara, Calif. 93106.

Steidl, 2019. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Slight bumping to the bottom edges and light bowing of boards. Tight binding and clean, bright leaves free of soiling and creasing. Full Page photographic illustrations. Very Good.

San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1985. First editon. Perfect-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 189 pp. Good condition, wraps worn and soiled, text block shows some signs of light damping. Cover design by Timothy Lewis with photos from Old Reliable & Force 1.

Alphawood Exhibitions, 2021. Hardcover Quarto, quarter maroon cloth over pictorial boards. New, in shrink wrap..

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First Edition, stated. Hardcover [octavo] in black boards backed with gilt-stamped black cloth spine. 181 pp. Very Good, trifle worn to bottom of boards, remainder mark to top of text block. Very Good jacket, mildly soiled, light edgewear.. Jacket design by R.D. Scudellari. Handsome First Edition of Denis Johnson's third novel.