Search Results: Authors starting with W from Dividing Line Books

London: Faber and Faber, 1961. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 232pp. First edition. Red cloth, gilt spine titles. Light shelfwear at spine ends and tips, light toning to edges of textblock, bookseller stamp on front pastedown, else very good (+). Unclipped very good (-) jacket shows moderate edgewear and soiling, several <1/2" closed tears, and weakening/rubbing along hinges. Includes stories in English translation by Ilse Aichinger, Heinrich Boll, Hermann Hesse, and roughly a dozen others. Edited with an introduction by H.M. Waidson.

NY: The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church In-The-Bowery, 1970. Soft cover. Very Good. NY: The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church In-The-Bowery, 1970. [63] leaves, printed recto only. Side-stapled in wraps, 14-1/8 x 8-5/8 in. Very good. Ashbery, Berkson, Berrigan, Coolidge, Creeley, Elmslie, Robert Gluck, Padgett, Reznikoff, Patti Smith, Gary Snyder, Towle, Warsh, et al. Cover by Tom Veitch. Though unstated, this copy from the library of New York School poet, librettist, and publisher Kenward Elmslie (1929-2022).

NY: The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church In-the-Bowery, 1969. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. NY: The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church In-The-Bowery, 1969. [49] leaves, printed recto only. Side-stapled in wraps, 14-1/8 x 8-5/8 in. Very good. Ashbery, Michael Bekedikt, Berrigan, Brainard, Fagin, Gallup, Giorno, Saroyan, Schuyler, Waldman, et al. Cover by Donna Dennis. Though unstated, this copy from the library of New York School poet, librettist, and publisher Kenward Elmslie (1929-2022).

NY: The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church In-The- Bowery, 1971. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. NY: The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church In-The- Bowery, 1971. [60] leaves, printed recto only. Side-stapled in wraps, 14-1/8 x 8-5/8 in. Very good. Berkson, Berrigan, Coolidge, Creeley, Elmslie, Guest, Padgett, Saroyan, Waldman, et al. Cover by John Giorno. Though unstated, this copy from the library of New York School poet, librettist, and publisher Kenward Elmslie (1929-2022).

NY: Adventures in Poetry, 1972. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. NY: Adventures in Poetry, 1972. Edition of 300. [17] leaves, printed recto only. 4to. Side-stapled in printed wraps. Near fine, with light and soiling to wraps. Cover and interior illustrations by Joe Brainard. Though unstated, this copy from the library of New York School poet, librettist, and publisher Kenward Elmslie (1929-2022).

NY: Boke Press, 1968. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. [NY]: Boke Press, 1968. From a total edition of 500 copies, this being No. 1 of 25 copies signed by Waldman, Warsh, and Joe Brainard, who supplied the covers. Additionally, this copy inscribed by Waldman and Warsh on the vellum endpapers of their respective contributions: "For Kenward "The Champ" May 23/1968 with much love, xxx" and "with LOVE from Lewis to Kenward 5/23/68." Two sections, side- stapled in tete-beche format. [11]/[11] leaves, with shared black leaf at center signed and numbered by Brainard on both sides. Moderate toning to wraps, with some light corner wear and creasing. Very good. This copy from the library of New York School poet, librettist, and publisher Kenward Elmslie (1929-2022). Poems by Waldman and Warsh, co-founders of notable small press Angel Hair, and close friends of Elmslie's. As published on Brainard's (and Elmslie's) Boke Press.

Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 2002. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Providence: Burning Deck, 2002. From an edition of 1,000. 93pp. 8vo. Signature- bound in photo-illustrated wraps. Near fine, with light wear and soiling to wraps. This copy from the library of New York School poet, librettist, and publisher Kenward Elmslie (1929-2022); inscribed to him and signed by both authors on the half-title: "For Kenward." Prose-poem biographies published on the Waldrops' own press, as originally commissioned for and printed in Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, ed. Joyce Nakamura, vol. 30.

Brooklyn: Litmus Press, 2002. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Brooklyn: Litmus Press, 2002. 230pp. 8vo. Perfect-bound in printed wraps. Light crease to top front corner. Mild toning to wraps. Very good. This copy from the library of New York School poet, librettist, and publisher Kenward Elmslie (1929-2022); inscribed to him and signed (a scribble) by Waldrop on the title page: "For Kenward.

NY: New Directions, 2016. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. NY: New Directions, 2016. 232pp. 8vo. Perfect-bound in printed wraps. Near fine. This copy from the library of New York School poet, librettist, and publisher Kenward Elmslie (1929-2022); inscribed to him and signed by Waldrop to the half-title: "For Kenward Rosemarie 4/2016.

Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1968. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1968. First edition. 8vo. Pattered green and white cloth boards; black and green spine titles; dust jacket. 56pp. Light shelfwear; mild bumping to top corner of textblock. Unclipped jacket lightly rubbed and soiled, with one short closed tear at head of rear panel. Very good or better in like jacket. First collection of poems by the American poet, publisher, and translator Keith Waldrop (1932-2023).

Detroit: Broadside Press, 1970. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Detroit: Broadside Press, 1970. First edition. 8vo. Saddle-stapled in photo-illustrated wraps. 32pp. Wraps mildly rubbed; some light creasing to bottom fore-edge; small circular sticker at base of rear cover. Very good or better; a nice copy. Second collection of verse, following For My People (1942), by American poet Margaret Walker (1915-1998), a vital participant in the Chicago Black Renaissance and later the Black Arts Movement; poems about the Civil Rights movement, many of which draw symbolic links between participants like Martin Luther King Jr. and Medgar Evers and biblical prophets.

Todd Walker, 1974. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Walker (1917-1998) was an American photographer and book artist. In the mid-1960s, after receiving an offset press as a gift from his wife, he began publishing his own works, which show an increasing mastery of the various aspects of book production, from typesetting to binding to photolithography. He is particularly known for his iconic nude photographs produced using Sabbatier solarization--a technique on striking display in three of the five works in this grouping. 1) Twentyseven Photographs. Self-published, 1974. Prints of Walkers solarized photographs of nude women, printed on the recto only. Signed by Walker in pencil and numbered 13/166. Perfect-bound in printed wraps; 8 x 6 in.; unpaginated. Some light foxing to the wraps, internally fine. 2) A Few Notes Selected from Lesson A of Wilsons Photographics. Self-published, 1976. A selection of quotations originally given in Edward L. Wilson's "Photographics" (1881), each one… Read More

Grosse Ile, MI: Baird Wallace, 1972. Revised second edition (stated; issued in same year as first). [64]pp (articles individually paginated). 4to; illustrated wraps with black plastic comb binding. Toning & wear to wraps; very good. A self-published work containing nine articles on various aspects of UFOlogy, with an emphasis on cosmic-spiritual matters, and references throughout to many of the principal figures, books, and reported incidents in the UFO field to date. OCLC locates only a single holding, at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Rasmussen 1048.

NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1960. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. 8vo. 192pp. First edition. VG+/G+. Hardcover book bound in red cloth softened at spine ends, with very light bumps to top corners. Unclipped $3.75 jacket crease down the middle of the heavily sunned to spine panel, such that title is hard to read. Otherwise very good, with 1/2" closed tear along spine at base of front panel and general edgewear. Wallant's first novel, preceding his more successful "The Pawnbroker.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1938. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. First edition of this scholarly survey of the "hashish vice," published a year after the passage of the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, which restricted the sale of cannabis in the United States. Thoroughly researched (albeit slanted) chapters on the use of marijuana throughout history, its botanical and chemical make-up, etc., are counterbalanced by a continued insistence on the (bogus) link between marijuana and crime. Thus a significant early salvo in America's decades-long marijuana-vilification campaign, whose underlying racial and economic prejudices are only finally being acknowledged today. With a foreword by E. M. K. Geiling, and a chapter by Frank R. Gomila and M. C. Gomila Lambou. First edition. Octavo, 9.25 x 6.5 in. Paginated ix, 223pp., eight leaves of photo illustrations; with bibliography, author and subject indexes. Black cloth boards, silver spine lettering; lacking the jacket. Scattered… Read More

Toronto: The Coach House Press, 1972. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Toronto: The Coach House Press, 1972. Edition of 1,000. [168] pp. Perfect-bound in pictorial wraps, 6 x 6 in. Printed in blue on light blue paperstock, with several photo reproductions throughout. Near fine, light rubbing along hinges, spot of discoloration to rear. Presentation copy from the library of New York School poet, librettist, and publisher Kenward Elmslie (1929-2022), as inscribed to him by Warsh on the front endpaper: "The copy for Kenward with Love, Lewis," with an illegible date. Cover design by Joe Brainard.

[Eugene, OR]: Toad Press, 1967. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. [Eugene, OR]: Toad Press, 1967. [5], 10, [5]pp. 8vo. Saddle-stapled in printed wraps featuring etching by Martha Rockwell. Small spot of soiling to top front corner, some horizontal light creasing along spine. Very good or better. Presentation copy from the library of New York School poet, librettist, and publisher Kenward Elmslie (1929-2022), as inscribed to him by Warsh on front flyleaf: "To Kenward Best, Lewis Warsh 1967." Warsh's first book, a long poem written in 1963 when he was studying with Kenneth Koch at the New School (The Angel Hair Anthology, p. 606).

London: Valis books, 1990. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. London: Valis Books, 1990. First edition. Signed and inscribed by Watson on the ffep: "To Timothy, Make sure the MIB don't get you! Nigel." 189pp.; index; illus. 8vo. Green vinyl boards; gilt spine titles; dust jacket. A few light shallow indentations to boards, light toning to edges of textblock. Near fine in a near fine unclipped jacket with a short closed tear at head of spine. Profiles of UFO witnesses in Britain, with focus on the psychological ramifications of their encounters. This copy from the collection of Timothy Green Beckley (1952-2021), author, publisher of the Global Communications and Inner Light imprints, and noted ufology and paranormal expert.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1959. First edition. 25pp. 8vo; saddle-stapled in printed wraps. Irregular toning to wraps; vertical creasing to rear cover; former owner's name stamp on front. Good to very good. An essay by the English writing and religious philosopher Alan W. Watts (1915-1973), originally published in the Summer 1958 issue of Chicago Review, and here reprinted with "certain additions."

NY: Corinth Books, 1970. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. First book by the Black American poet, founder in 1968 of the Natural Process Workshop in East Harlem which in the early 70s merged with the St. Marks Poetry Project, where Weatherly subsequently taught, while also working at the Strand Book Store. NY: Corinth Books, 1970. Perfect-bound in printed card wraps, 7-7/8 x 6 in. 47pp. With a black-and-white frontispiece portrait of the poet by Carolyn Weatherly. Near fine.