Search Results: Authors starting with T from Dividing Line Books

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Second printing, inscribed by the translator, Howard Hibbett. Small octavo (8.25 x 5.25 in.); 183pp.; black boards backed with orange cloth, in dust jacket. Signed, dated, and inscribed by Hibbett to the previous owner, on the front free endpaper: "With gratitude for some very helpful suggestions." Light crushing and fading at spine ends, moderate bumps to bottom board corners. Unclipped jacket moderately toned and edgeworn, with chipping at spine ends and tips. A very good copy in agood (+) jacket.

Portland, ME: Litho Ltd., [circa 1971]. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Portland, ME: Litho Ltd., [circa 1971]. [20]pp.; illus. Octavo; saddle-stapled in printed card wraps. Very good or better, with rubbing along spine. Signed and inscribed to front cover: "Best wishes, Alex." A collection of writings by and about Alexander Tanous (1926-1990), a Maine-born psychic and parapsychologist who earned some notoriety as an expert in ESP and out-of-body states. With three texts attesting to Tanous's psychic and predictive abilities ("He Is Able to Predict the Future," by Carol Morrisey, "A Prophet, He Can't See His Own Future," by Lyn Liljeholm, and "'Meet a Man Who Lives the Gospel, Dr. Al Tanous'," by Mark Gaylen) and two texts by Tanous ("Three Days of Darkness" and "The Desexualization of the American Male"). Scarce; no copies in the trade, and apparently unrecorded in OCLC.

London / NY: Marion Boyars, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo (8.75 x 5.5 in.); 170pp. + 6pp. advertisements at rear; black textured paper boards, in dust jacket. Light bumping to spine ends and rear board corners, else fine in a near fine jacket with some fading to spine and perimeters of flaps. The prolific Congolese writer's 1983 satirical novel about socio-political dysfunction, winner of the Grand Prix Littéraire d'Afrique Noire. Translated from the French by J. A. Underwood.

NY: Delacorte Press/Eleanor Friede, 1977. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. [NY]: Delacorte Press/Eleanor Friede, 1977. First edition (stated first printing). xxv, 230pp.; index. 8vo. Gray boards, black quarter-cloth; silver spine titles; dust jacket. Light bumping to bottom corners, moderate toning to textblock edges. Unclipped "$8.95" jacket with tiny chip to base of worn spine, moderate toning to flaps and interior. Very good (+) in like jacket. Details a series of purportedly successful experiments proving the existence of the psychic ability known as remote viewing. With a foreword by Richard Bach, and an introduction by Margaret Mead, who evidently found the book's claims credible.

Palo Alto, CA: Science and Behavior Books, 1971. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Palo Alto, CA: Science and Behavior Books, 1971. First edition. 8vo; green cloth; black spine titles; dust jacket. xvii, 333pp., with index. Light scattered foxing to textblock top, else near fine in a very good jacket, unclipped ("$7.95"), with shallow chipping at head of spine. Front jacket flap: "This book describes what people actually feel when they smoke marijuana-the effects on vision and hearing, social interaction and sexuality, perception of time and space, thinking processes and memory, spiritual experiences and ESP, and many other effects." Written by a psychologist, and based on a federally funded study involving "150 experienced marijuana users"; a scholarly study, but with much of interest and entertainment in it.

Valhalla Music: San Francisco, 1967. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. San Francisco: Valhalla Music, 1967. [4]pp.; illus. Single sheet folded to form four 8-3/4 x 6-1/2 in panels. Silk-screened, in color to front and rear, the former featuring a graphic of a marijuana plant growing out of an army helmet. Very good or better, with light handling wear, soiling to rear. The four-verse lyrics and melody to a song, here titled "Now" but ultimately recorded as "G.I. Joe" by short-lived Bay Area psychedelic rock band Salvation and included on their self-titled first LP of 1968. Tate was the founding guitar player of the group, who called themselves New Salvation Army Banned until a legal challenge from The Salvation Army charitable organization forced them to shorten it to Salvation.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 184pp. First edition. Black textured paper boards with gilt spine titles. Minor bumping to spine ends and bottom front corner, else fine in a near fine jacket with light crumpling at spine ends & a 3/4" closed tear at head of rear panel. Spine unfaded.

[NY], [Self-published], 2000. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. [NY]: [Self-published], 2000. [28]pp. 8vo. Saddle-stapled in yellow wraps. Near fine, with some soiling to wraps. Presentation copy from the library of New York School poet Kenward Elmslie (1929-2022), and inscribed to him on the first page: "1 of 5 for KGE & CWS Love Steven." A collection of poems, apparently self- published in an edition of just five copies, by a friend and collaborator, who wrote the music for Elmslie's musical plays Palais Bimbo Lounge Show (1985) and Postcards on Parade (1993). Includes a poem "Poets' Corner" dedicated to Elmslie, and named after his Vermont summer residence. The "CWS" referred to by Taylor was C. W. Swets, a companion and assistant of Elmslie's for several years beginning in the late 1990s.

NY: Frederick Fell, 1957. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. NY: Frederick Fell, 1957. First edition (presumed). 224pp. Octavo; blue/gray textured paper boards; silver spine titles; dust jacket. Bump to bottom corner of boards & textblock; light sunning to board perimeters, toning to textblock edges. Price-clipped jacket with chip at heel of spine, light edge-wear. Very good in very good jacket. A pseudonymous prison novel with strong gay overtones, and several explicitly gay characters. The sole novel by Frank Earl Fleck (1904-1970), who was born in Pittsburgh and spent most of his adult life in and out of prisons for counterfeiting, armed robbery, and other crimes. Gunn, Gay American Novels, 1870-1970, pp.86-87. Young 3761.

NY: Doubleday & Company, 1983. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Early reprint of this late science fiction novel by the author of The Huster, The Queen's Gambit, and others. NY: Doubleday & Company, 1983. Presumed second printing (no "First Edition" statement on copyright page, printing code "Y45" in gutter of p. 251: first edition has "Y37" code. 8-1/2 x 5-5/8 in. 251pp. Gray boards backed with black cloth; silver spine titles; dust jacket. Spine titles a little rubbed. Else fine in a near fine, unclipped jacket with light rubbing and wear at spine ends.

San Francisco: The Black Tarantula, 1974. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. San Francisco: The Black Tarantula, 1974. Paginated continuous with previous volumes, pp. 167-192. 8vo. Saddle-stapled in self-wrappers. Toning to tops and along spine of wraps, with light rubbing and soiling. Internally clean with sound binding, very good. The sixth volume (of six total) of Acker's serially self-published second novel, issues of which were mailed to subscribers. Republished in a single- volume trade edition by Traveler's Digest in 1980. Though unstated, this copy from the library of New York School poet, librettist, and publisher Kenward Elmslie (1929-2022).

Tigard, OR: The Fold, 1970. Soft cover. Fine. First (and only?) issue of this newsletter and informational pamphlet published by The Fold, a Portland, Oregon-area drug awareness program for youth. Contents include overviews of the program's meeting structure and organizational bylaws, summae of various illicit substances, success stories from participants (the highlight being one young man's tale of his brief and unsatisfactory dalliance with drugs following a screening of "Easy Rider"), and an "unpolished account" of the program's history, told principally through a series of letters between Lloyd Doss and Katherine Lutes. Doss was the program's founder, a former addict who decided to go straight after his "36th trip to jail," and for whom the program was acronymically named: The Friends of Lloyd Doss. Lutes, a local high-school teacher, was the program's director, and presumably also acted as editor of the present publication. Altogether an… Read More

London/Nairobi/Portsmouth, N.H.: James Currey/Heinemann Kenya/Heinemann, 1989. Soft cover. Fine. London/Nairobi/Portsmouth, N.H.: James Currey/Heinemann Kenya/Heinemann, 1989. Third printing. 8vo. Perfect-bound in illustrated glossy wraps. Xiv, 114pp.; index. About fine, with mild toning to wraps, a touch of corner wear. Dated (1990), signed, and inscribed, "in solidarity," to a former owner by Thiong'o on the half-title. An important collection of essays by the celebrated Kenyan novelist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong'o (b. 1938), in which he argues persuasively in favor of linguistic decolonization. Thiong'o wrote his early novels in English, a practice he abandoned following the publication of his 1977 novel Petals of Blood, choosing instead to write in the Gikuyu language.

1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. A portfolio of sixteen full-color reproductions of graphite-and-colored-pencil sketches by the French-born artist Alice Thévin (1862-1937), who from 1909 until her death lived in Boston (and abroad) with her partner, the arts patron Fanny Peabody Mason, founder of the long running Peabody Mason concert series. Includes renderings of Washington Square, the Brooklyn Bridge, Mott Street in Chinatown, and other locales described in the introductory text as portraying the city "not only in its grandiose, modern aspect but also in that of the old New York of which the few remaining vestiges appealed to Alice Thévin's sense of color." [No Place]: Privately printed, [no date, but accompanying text makes reference to Thévin's death in 1937; thus circa late 1930s or early 1940s]. 16 offset lithography prints in color, 12-1/2 x 9-1/2 in., numbered on rectos. With [4] pp. introductory text including list of plate titles. Housed in… Read More

NY: Tor, 1986. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 250pp. First printing. NF/VG. Blue boards lightly shelfworn, with minor bumping at spine ends, otherwise fine. Unclipped $14.95 jacket has a 1/2" closed tear with slight laminate separation at head of rear panel, and a bit of crumpling at spine ends.

NY: Ballantine Books, 1975. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. First edition of the American science fiction writer's second book, a collection of short stories. With an introduction by Robert Silverberg, who opines at length as to Tiptree's identity, never suspecting that it was in fact the pen-name of a woman writer. First edition. Perfect-bound mass-market paperback, 6 7/8 x 4 1/8 in. xviii, 222pp. Mild edge wear. Rubbing to rear panel and along hinge joints. A very good or better copy.

Oberlin, OH: The Local Paper, 1982. Soft cover. Near Fine. An artist's book exploring the threat of nuclear war through a simple yet compelling conceit: pairing text from the N.Y. State Civil Defense Warden's Manual (ca. 1952) with photographs from the 1981 Michigan State Fair. Saddle-stapled; 11 x 7.5 in.; unpaginated (20pp., including covers). About near fine. Uncommon, with only five holdings located in OCLC, including MoMA and the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago.

Tokyo: Keibunsha, 1988. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Tokyo: Keibunsha, 1988. First edition. Small 4to. Signature-bound in wraps; dust jacket. [78]pp.; illus. Mild edgewear; light soiling to edges of wraps. Very good or better, lacking the original obi. Photobook featuring stylized portraits in black-and-white and color of influential Japanese avant-pop musician Jun Togawa (b. 1961). Text in Japanese. Reprinted in Japan in 2005 under the title Jun Togawa as Only a Lump of Meat.

Oakland / Berkeley: Kolourmeim Press / Pantograph Press, 1999. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. 39pp. Staple-bound softcover in printed wraps. First edition. Near fine with light soiling to front cover. An uncommon later work by the avant-garde American poet associated variously with Surrealism, the New York School, and other poetry movements.

Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1996. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Uncommon collection of essays by the polymathic video artist and theorist. First edition. Perfect-bound in printed wraps, 7 1/2 x 5 in. 303pp. Near fine, with mild toning and wear to wraps.