Search Results: Authors starting with R from Goodbar Books

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. A few turned corners and some edge-wear, but only light wear overall. Design by Dennis J. Grastorf. Cover design by Philip Pascuzzo. The title page credits Kiyoshi Kuromiya as 'adjuvant', and indeed the renowned activist went on to tour with Fuller post-publication. Kuromiya, born in Wyoming in a World War II–era internment camp, has a biography that spans twentieth-century political movements to an almost superhuman extent: he was an aide to and close friend of Martin Luther King Jr., cofounder of Gay Liberation Front Philadelphia, and the instigator of the largest antiwar demonstration in the history of the University of Pennsylvania. Kuromiya drew thousands to the protest when he printed up flyers, credited to a fictional group called the Americong, claiming a dog would be publicly burned in front of the Van Pelt Library in protest of the American use of napalm in Vietnam; on the day of the rally, outraged attendants were given another… Read More

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Gently bumped corners. Areas of very light creasing and rubbing to the covers, but no other notable wear. Hard to find in such nice shape. Agel (producer) and Fiore (designer) are the same creative team behind The Medium Is the Massage, and this unique presentation of Fuller's techno-utopian ideals is in some ways even more adventurous than the better-known McLuhan book. Although Fiore was trained in traditional bookmaking techniques, including papermaking and hand lettering, he later began engaging in design experiments that presaged the relentless but often choppy information flow of the internet. This book is a great example—an aphoristic barrage, accessed at any point, expressing Fuller's concept of dymaxion (a portmanteau of the words dynamic, maximum, and tension): 'I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process—an integral function of the universe.' Two fragmentary texts, one printed in black and the other in green, run counter to one… Read More

Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Metallic stamping to spine and front board remain bright. Some very subtle sunning to areas of the exterior. Price-clipped jacket has some light edge-wear and chipping. Beautiful edition featuring a tipped-in, two-color map of Beleriand and jacket drawing by Tolkien. Jacket design by Louise Noble. 365 pp. Fiction.

Clean, unmarked interior. Spine is square and tight. There is some general shelf-wear to the cover, including light edge-wear and a subtle crease to the upper fore-edge corner of the front cover. Cover design by Jim Fleming. In the preface to this innovative collection of translations, Rabinowitz defines his method as 'historical' (as opposed to 'free' or 'academic') by calling attention to the idiom, 'by the skin of my teeth'. The phrase, he asserts, as spoken by a beleaguered Job, really means, 'I escaped with nothing but the teeth in my head'; translators made uncomfortable by the idea of an unjust God have obscured this intent. The cover collage by James Koehnline perfectly captures the 'erotic, pagan, aristocratic, impious and elegant' nature of Rabinowitz's take on Kingdom-period Hebrew literature. 156 pp.

Tight, square, uncreased spine has some sunning. Clean, unmarked interior. A dampstain to the fore-edge, bumped corners, and areas of edge-wear and rubbing to the covers. Includes B&W plates. 272 pp. Spirituality.

Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some light to moderate soiling to the covers, but nice copy overall. Beautiful mid-century government publication with lots of B&W and full-color maps, figures, and illustrations. Includes pocket tipped in to inside back cover containing five folded one- and two-color maps. Bibliography: pp. 325-331. 337 pp. Crafts/Skills/Trades.

Text in Italian. Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Fairly sharp corners. Only the gentlest of shelf-wear. Includes plenty of monochrome plates. 254 pp. Poetry/The Arts.

Spine is tight. Interior is clean and unmarked. There is some creasing to spine and some light shelf-wear. Includes lots of B&W and full-color plates. 216 pp. Spirituality/Esoterica.

Interior is clean and unmarked. Spiral binding is still sound. There is some rubbing, soiling, and other light shelf-wear to the covers, as well as a small former owner label to the inside front cover. Includes bibliography. 76 pp. Natural History.

Tight, square spine has some cosmetic creasing. Clean, unmarked interior. Some very minor shelf-wear and toning to the pages. 'Outside, the rain is coming furiously,' Rechy writes in this classic hustling chronicle that a contemporary New York Times review said ''show[s] the grubby, lonely, nearly psychotic underside of such a life.' The unnamed narrator 'stand[s] under the marquee wondering where to go. . . . reacting instinctively to this world, studying the stances of other obviously drifting youngmen.' The book, which would go on to inspire My Own Private Idaho, gets a Ballantine mass-market treatment here with a cover that's a colorized, only slightly more sexy riff on the Grove Press first edition. Texas-born Rechy, who was influenced by sources ranging from comic books to Dostoevsky to Margaret Mitchell, retired from cruising at the ripe age of 60 and now lives in domestic bliss with raunchy-comedy producer Michael Ewing, watched over in their Encino home by outsize lithographs of Joan Crawford… Read More

Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. No notable shelf-wear to the book. Some light edge-wear to the jacket. Jacket photo by Mark Gibson. 'Through those shadowy alcoves,' reads the jacket copy of this quantity-focused tale of sexual conquest, 'as a gallery of sexhunters emerges, [Johnny Rio] sets out to discover whether he is really still handsome and desirable.' To avoid the legal troubles still common for publishers in the late 1960s, Grove Press encouraged simple, non-incendiary designs for potentially controversial titles, as seen here in designer Roy Kuhlman's stark tempering of a staticky come-hither portrait of Rechy by tricolored all-business type (the publisher would soon buck the trend with its Evergreen Black Cat edition of the novel, featuring a nude male model photographed by Jean-François Bauret). Another depiction of Rechy graces the back flap, this one by longtime Christopher Isherwood companion, artist Don Bachardy, who met the Goodbye to Berlin author on Valentine's Day in… Read More

Saddle-stitched binding remains sound. Former owner inscription to the title page, but interior is else clean and unmarked. Some toning to the covers, but very light shelf-wear over all. Lovely three-color cover by Bob Perry. B&W maps by Perry and photos by Reed throughout. Edited by Bill Thomas. 53 pp. Oversized.

Spine is tight and uncreased, but has a lean. Clean, unmarked interior. Some moderate edge-wear and areas of light soiling to the covers. Fantastic movie tie-in with portraits of cast on back cover. 212 pp. Mass-Market Paperbacks.

Spine is tight, but has some cosmetic creasing. Clean, unmarked interior. A few areas of light soiling to the edges and some toning to the covers. An essential title by the discoverer of orgone, whose work was famously banned by opposing governments. Leading up to WWII, German newspapers decried him as a communist, Jew, and advocate of free love, and the Nazi Party prohibited distribution of his publications in 1933, causing him to emigrate to the US; more than two decades later, following an FDA injunction, six tons of Reich's books, journals, and papers were burned by officials at New York's Gansevoort incinerator. 'He was a nineteenth-century mind who came crashing into twentieth-century America,' said Reich's son, Peter, of his father. 'And boom!' 545 pp. Comparative Religion.

World Institute Creative Finding/Interface Books. Former library book with markings to the front matter, back matter, and top edge, and a Mylar-protected jacket which has been permanently affixed. Clean, unmarked interior, although there some toning to the pages. Light shelf-wear overall. 274 pp. Spirituality.

Saddle-stitched binding remains sound. Clean, unmarked interior. Some light shelf-wear. Includes B&W photos and maps. 46 pp. History.

Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some sunning to the spine, as well as some light shelf-wear. Gilt stamping to front and back covers remains bright. Innovative Japanese binding and nicely designed two-color printing throughout. Book design and typography by Keiko Chiba. 59 pp. Poetry/Art.

Clean, unmarked interior. Spiral binding is still sound. There is some minor edge-wear and fading to the covers, and a small former owner label to the inside front cover. Includes B&W maps, tables, and illustrations, as well as a bibliography. 76 pp. Natural History.

Signed and dated (1999) by Rice to the half-title. Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Very light tanning to the covers, as well as a small area of soiling and some gentle edge-wear. Beautiful B&W illustrations by Beebee, as well as full-color photos by Sandra Metzler-Smith and Marlene Nordstrom Dassett. 154 pp. Crafts/Skills/Trades.

Saddle-stitched binding remains sound. Unmarked interior. Former owner bookplate to inside front cover. Some very light foxing to the first and last leaves. Only very light shelf-wear. Includes a foldout chart and numerous B&W plates. 135 pp. History.