Search Results: Authors starting with O from Dividing Line Books

NY: Angel Hair Books, [1969]. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. NY: Angel Hair Books, [1969]. Second edition, following the 1953 first published by Tibor de Nagy. Edition of 200. [10] leaves, printed recto only. 4to. Side-stapled in wraps. Toning to front cover. Also toning to rear two leaves from contact with acidic orange construction paper rear cover. Front cover by George Schneeman. Though unstated, this copy from the library of New York School poet, librettist, and publisher Kenward Elmslie (1929-2022). Smith A2b.

NY: Macmillan, 1963. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 198pp. Green cloth, dark red topstain. Presumed early reprint (no statement of printing). Light shelfwear, red remainder mark to bottom of textblock, else near fine in an unclipped "$3.95" jacket with a 1" closed tear and related creases at head of front panel, light wear and small chips at spine ends. The second Cock Robin Mystery, following 1960's "Sleeping Dogs Lying.

NY/London: Samuel Weiser/The Aquarian Press, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. NY/London: Samuel Weiser/The Aquarian Press, 1970. Reprint edition. 8vo. Gray textured-paper boards; brown spine titles; dust jacket. 90pp. A few streaks of dark gray soiling to front board, evidently a production flaw; front board corners mildly tapped. Very good or better in a like jacket, price-clipped and moderately rubbed. A work of astrology which "demonstrates that there is a language of the heavens which can be learned and understood" (front flap), written under his Sepharial pen-name by the English astrologer Walter Gorn Old (1864-1929).

Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1971. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to. 135pp. First edition. Grey/green cloth with yellow titles. Spine ends and top edge of boards very lightly discolored, former owner's name inked on front free end paper, else near fine. Unclipped "$8.95" jacket shows rubbing and wear at spine ends and tips, with a few very short closed tears. Writings and images, some in color, pertaining to Oldenburg's monuments and monument proposals.

1997. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. [Paris]: [Gare du Nord], 1997. 40pp. 4to. Side- stapled in wraps. Erratum slip laid in. Near fine. First issue of this journal of experimental prose and poetry, with contributions from Andrew Duncan, Joe Brainard (posthumously), Anselm Hollo, Alice Notley, Rudy Burckhardt (self-portrait), et al. Though unstated, this copy from the library of New York School poet, librettist, and publisher Kenward Elmslie (1929-2022).

London: Faber and Faber, 1964. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First British edition of Olsen's debut collection of short stories. Octavo (8 x 5.5 in.); 127pp.; red cloth boards, in dust jacket. Light shelfwear at spine ends and tips; front interior gutter shows some cracking to the hinge, which nonetheless remains tight and strong. Unclipped ("15s net") jacket lightly edgeworn and soiled, with small surface abrasions to lower spine and abse of rear panel. Sme rubbing to the red vertical stripe along the rear spine hinge. Very good (+) in like jacket.

NY: Association Press, 1975. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition of this uncommon collection of essays on evil, with contributions from Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Radu R. Florescu, Carter Lindberg, Ann B. Ulanov, and others. Foreword by J. Robert Nelson. NY: Association Press, 1975. First edition. Octavo, 8-1/4 x 5-5/8 in. 159pp. Red papered boards; black spine titles; dust jacket. Light shelf wear. Unclipped ("$6.95") jacket with faint damp-staining, rubbing and some moisture-rippling to rear panel. Old price sticker on front panel. Near fine in a very good jacket.

San Francisco: The White Rabbit Press, 1958. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. San Francisco: The White Rabbit Press, 1958. First edition. One of 300 copies. [16]pp. Saddle-stitched in printed wraps. Very good, with toning and rubbing to wraps, mild corner creases. Cover drawing by Jess Collins. Not to be confused with the second edition of 1965. Though unstated, this copy from the library of New York School poet, librettist, and publisher Kenward Elmslie (1929-2022).

NY: Totem Press, 1959. Soft cover. Very Good. First edition of one of the most impactful poetic manifestos of the 20th century, which elucidated Olson's theory of "composition by field," an open poetic structure based not on meter but on "certain laws and possibilities of the breath." NY: Totem Press, 1959. First edition, with errata slip tipped onto title page verso. Saddle-stapled in red-and-black-printed wraps, 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 in. 14pp. Cover design by Matsumi Kanemitsu. Very good, with moderate soiling and toning to wraps. Former owner has penciled in margin corrections to the four errors corrected on errata slip. Laid in is a disbound copy of the same essay from the Donald Allen anthology, The New American Poetry 1945-1960.

NY: A.A. Wyn, 1952. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 224pp. Grey cloth, red spine titles. First edition. Moderate shelfwear, with some fraying to the cloth at spine ends and along board edges (book board just exposed at bottom rear corner). Light toning/flecking to textblock. Unclipped "$2.75" jacket show some soiling along spine panel, with small chips out at spine ends and a few short closed tears. A very good minus copy in like jacket. A manhunt thriller about a man desperate to prove himself not a member of the Communist party.

London: John Murray, 1970. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. xi+278pp, indexed. First edition, first printing. Teal cloth with gilt spine titles. Light wear at spine ends and tips, a handful of minorly crimped top page corners, else near fine. Very good plus unclipped "£3 net" jacket shows light perimeter wear and creasing, mostly along top edge. A collectible copy of Origo's classic autobiography.

Providence, RI: Paradigm Press, 1990. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. Second publication by an American poet noted for her formally and thematically innovative approach. One of 400 copies. Saddle-stapled in printed lavender wraps; 7 x 8.5 in.; unpaginated (~17pp.). With a line drawing by Ray Jordan on the cover and subsequently repeated on each verso. Former owner's name stamped on front endpaper, a touch of soiling to wraps, else fine.

NY: Masjid Al-Farah, 1985. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. NY: Masjid Al-Farah, 1985. 8vo. Saddle-stapled in pictorial wraps. 70pp. Very good or better, with irregular toning to wraps. Translated by Muhtar Holland. A selection of colorful short stories and parables drawn from three of the principal works by Turkish Muslim spiritual leader Muzaffer Ozak (1916-1985), here credited under the honorific title Shaikh Muzaffer Efendi. Translator Muhtar Holland (1935-2010) was an American-born, Oxford-educated translator noted for his extensive renderings of works from the Islamic canon. Though at least one volume of his translations of Ozak's work preceded this publication, we suspect that many of these selections may be appearing here for the first time. Moreover, an interesting imprint, having been published by a New York City mosque. Scarce, and unrecorded in OCLC.