Search Results: Authors starting with S from Dividing Line Books

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1970. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Octavo; 298pp., indexed; blue cloth, gilt spine titles, in dust jacket. Migraine is the first book by the celebrated physician, neurologist and author. After finishing his neurology residency in California, Sacks moved to the Bronx in order to work at the first headache clinic in the United States. Having suffered from migraines himself, he was particularly interested in the affliction's relation to the effects of psychedelic drugs. He conceived of Migraine after reading a Victorian headache treatise while high on amphetamines, and went on to write the first draft in nine days. The book ultimately cost him his job--his superior at the clinic was furious at what he perceived as an effort to undercut him--but launched the career of one of the most beloved science writers of the century. This copy is in near fine condition, with light shelfwear that has whitened the cloth at… Read More

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed, dated ("3/10/97"), and inscribed by Sacks on front flyleaf. Second printing, in the same format and dust jacket as the first edition of 1970. Blue cloth, in dust jacket. Octavo, 8.75 x 5.75 in. 298pp. The celebrated neurologist's first book, written while working at a headache clinic in the Bronx. Sacks undertook the work after an amphetamine-fueled reading of a rare 19th century migraine treatise by Edward Liveing--an experience so transportive that, decades later in The New Yorker, Sacks would write, "At times, I was unsure whether I was reading the book or writing it." Inspired, he determined to become the "Liveing of our time," and completed the first draft of Migraine in a mere nine days--only to swear off amphetamines once and for all. Moderate shelf-wear and soiling to the bookcloth, particularly the spine panel. Former owner's name and address penned… Read More

1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. An early book of verse by American poet and activist Kalamu Ya Salaam (b. 1947) exploring the social and political dimensions of Black identity. New Orleans: Ahidiana, 1974. 24pp. 8vo. Saddle-stapled in glossy pictorial wraps. Mild corner bumping; light toning and soiling to wraps; area of sticker-lift scuffing to front cover. Very good. In his five-page foreward [sic] titled "These Are Some Political Poems," Salaam impugns the legacy of the Black Arts movement ("pathetically weak and ineffective") and laments the ongoing struggle to establish a network of viable Black presses, before defining his poems as "political in that they attempt to examine the forces at work in world and they urge us to throw the weight of our actions, our lives into the struggles presently being waged by our people." This title presumably issued by the publishing arm of the Ahidiana Collective, a New Orleans grassroots activist organization which also ran a… Read More

Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1972. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. xxxiv+114pp. Stated second printing. Grey cloth boards with gilt spine titles. Near fine in a near fine jacket with light rubbing along rear spine hinge and some very faint dampstaining along top of rear panel.

Ottawa: Government Printing Bureau, 1916. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. First edition. 8vo. ii+87pp+vii. Burgundy publisher's cloth, gilt titles. A good (+) copy, with moderate shelfwear (small portion of boards exposed at bottom tips), former owner's name and date inked on front free end paper, two related ink stains to textblock fore-edge, 1" closed tear at head of contents page. Binding strong; leaves clean and unmarked. Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 90; No. 13, Anthropological Series. An uncommon work by the important anthropologist-linguist Edward Sapir.

NY: Personal Injury Magazine, 1975. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Sharp copy of the first of four total issues of this little magazine of experimental poetry and prose, notable for the inclusion of a 14 page excerpt from Kathy Acker's second novel, I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac! : Imagining, which she had privately published in six volumes the previous year. Other contributors include Andrei Codrescu, Tina Darragh, Lynne Dreyer, Judith Ghinger, Charles North, Bob Rosenthal, et al. NY: Personal Injury Magazine, 1975. Side-stapled in printed wraps featuring a cover image of American boxer Sonny Liston, 8-3/8 x 5-1/2 in. 49pp. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white. Very near fine, with mild corner wear, a touch of rubbing to rear cover.

Abindgon, VA: Dracon Press, 1995. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. Abingdon, VA: Dracon Press, 1995. First edition. Review copy, with twice-folded review sheet laid in. 142pp.; index; illus. 8vo. Perfect-bound in glossy illustrated wraps. Two faint spots of soiling to fore-edge, else very fine. A report on underground government structures, principally military. Though Sauder positions himself as a "student of UFOlogy," he cautions readers in his foreword that he will not draw any conclusions about whether aliens are living or working in the bases in question, and instead restricts himself to strictly the facts.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. xvi+166pp, indexed. First edition. Gray cloth boards with black spine titles. Fine in a like jacket. Translated by Javier Ibanez-Noe.

Berkeley, CA: Shambala Publications, 1970. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Berkeley, CA: Shambala Publications, 1970. Translated by Dinah Livingstone. Foreword by Nobel Prize-winner Miguel Ángel Asturias. First American edition (preceded by the 1969 UK edition, and the German-language edition of 1968). 4to. Glossy pictorial boards, as issued without jacket. 36pp.; illus. Sunning to front board, as usual; chipping and loss to material at spine ends and head of front board. Good or better; internally bright and clean. Dated (1972), inscribed, and signed by both authors to the title page. A colorful reimagining (by way of Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince) of a Central American Indian legend about a boy who "longs to get behind the appearance of things" and discover an unmediated version of reality. A statement at the rear of the volume places explicit emphasis on the story's relationship to psychedelic drugs, calling it the same "kind of journey described by Aldous Huxley… Read More

London: Ferry Press, 1971. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. One of 300 total copies. 42pp. 8vo. Signature-bound in wraps, with dust jacket featuring front and rear cover art by Joe Brainard. Signed by Schjeldahl to title page. Very good, with toning and soiling to wraps, some rubbing to spine titles. Though unstated, this copy from the library of New York School poet, librettist, and publisher Kenward Elmslie (1929-2022).

London: Ferry Press, 1971. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. London: Ferry Press, 1971. First edition. 8vo. Blue cloth; dust jacket. From a total edition of 300, this being letter "V" of 26 case-bound copies signed and inscribed by Schjeldahl to front flyleaf: "HYSTERIA is a beautiful word In the dictionary, it's like a flower among the other words Peter Schjeldahl Oct. '71." A touch of dust soiling to textblock top; mild bump to fore-edge of front board. Else near fine in a near fine jacket with toning to spine, a few small spots of soiling. Second book of verse by the New York School poet-turned-art critic Peter Schjeldahl (1942-2022). Cover by Joe Brainard.

Kyoto: Kyoto Shoin, 1990. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Kyoto: Kyoto Shoin, 1990. First edition. 4to. Glossy illustrated boards, as issued without jacket. [52]pp. About fine, with laid-in publisher's postcard advertising other books in this series. Color reproductions of collaborative artworks between American painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel (b. 1951) and his daughter Lola (b. 1981). ArT Random No. 27.

NY: Tibor de Nagy Editions, 1966. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. NY: Tibor de Nagy Editions, 1966. First edition. One of 300 copies. 27pp. Square 8vo. Signature-bound in wraps. Wraps toned, irregularly to rear. Bump with attendant cover creases to bottom leading corner. Some hinge wear. Very good. Inscribed by Schuyler on the title page: "for KGE - more from The Black Trunk - love, Jimmy." From the library of New York School poet, librettist, and publisher Kenward Elmslie (1929-2022), as inscribed to him. Schuyler's third book of poems, published by Tibor de Nagy, the art gallery whose publishing wing was of vital support to the first generation of New York School poets. Schuyler and Elmslie enjoyed a long and at times tempestuous friendship. In 1964, the two collaborated on a one-act play, Unpacking the Black Trunk, to which Schuyler's inscription here makes reference. Schuyler was a frequent visitor to Elmslie's Calais, Vermont summer home, Poet's Corner, and set… Read More

NY: Harper & Row, 1977. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 117pp. First printing, full number line. Fine in red boards with black cloth backing and white spine titles. In an unclipped, near fine jacket with a 1/2" closed tear and related creases at top of front panel, a touch of rubbing and creasing at the spine ends. Translated from the Italian by Adrienne Foulke. Drawings by Kathy Jacobi. A review copy, with original publisher's slip laid in.

Manchester: Carcanet, 1985. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 142pp. First edition. Translated from the Italian by Avril Bardoni. NF/VG. Bound in black papered boards with gilt spine titles. Leaves very lightly tanned. Price-clipped jacket shows tanning to front and spine panels, with minor edge wear and a few light scratches to the rear panel.

Merrick, MY: Cross-Cultural Communications, 1993. First edition, wrappered issue. 48pp. 8vo; signature-bound in matte illustrated wraps. Very good or better, with light creasing/curling to top corners. A selection of poems by Swedish-Russian poet Edith Södergran (1892-1923), as translated by Daisy Aldan and Leif Sjöberg, with the original Swedish on facing pages. Two-page foreword by Aldan.

Harvill, 1996. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. 237pp. First edtion. Translated from the German by Michael Hulse. Blue textured paper boards with gilt spine titles. A very fine copy in like jacket, unclipped. A pristine, collectible copy of Sebald's second novel, and his first to appear in English translation.

Los Angeles: Astro Artz, 1981. Soft cover. Near Fine. An artist's book, profusely illustrated in black-and-white, presenting the "documentation, notes, and shooting script" for Seemayer's film of the same name, which was screened once in 1981 and then not again until its restoration in 2013, and which captured the principal figures of the incipient downtown scene at a pivotal moment in Los Angeles arts history. This copy from the collection of California artist Sabato Fiorello (d. 2017). Signed and inscribed to him, at various points throughout the book, by Seemayer and at least eight of the profiled artists, including publisher Linda Burnham,Andy Wilf and The Dark Bob, Marc Kreisel,Woods Davy, Monique Safford (?), John Schroeder, and Edie Ellis. Perfect-bound in wraps; 186pp.; 10 x 8 in. Illustrated with 400 photographs from the film and additional records. Condition: about near fine, with some minor rubbing along the spine hinges and a crease to the bottom corner of the rear… Read More

NY: Melville House, 2013. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Segal on the title page. First edition. Octavo (8.75 x 6 in.); 167pp.; off-white papered boards, in dust jacket. Lightly bumped to top rear corner, else fine in a fine, unclipped jacket, just lightly scuffed at base of spine. The most recent novel by the celebrated American writer, a dark comedy about an inexplicable Alzheimer's epidemic at a hospital.

NY: Macmillan, 1986. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 194pp. Full grey cloth, gilt spine titles. First edition. Light wear to spine ends and tips, else near fine in a near fine unclipped jacket. A selection of the Nobel Prize winner's verse, as translated from the Czech by Ewald Osers. Edited and with additional translations by George Gibian.