Search Results: Titles starting with B from Better Read Than Dead

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1995. First printing. Hardcover, [octavo], quarterbound red cloth spine and red boards, black spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 171 pp. Near fine book' very good dust jacket, cover tear and crease. Jacket design David Blankenship.

Distributed by Random House, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Light wear to boards, and slight bumping to the corner of spine. Tight binding, clean square text block, and bright leaves free of soiling or creasing. Signed and inscribed with drawing in colored markers by author to Roger Irvine Richards. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Leonia, NJ: Badaboom Gramophone, 1997. Perfect-bound, [octavo] in paper pictorial wraps, 127 pp. Very good. Missing CD.

Leonia, NJ: Badaboom Gramophone, 1998. Perfect-bound, [octavo] in paper pictorial wraps, 224 pp. Very good. Missing CD.

Buffalo, NY: Leave Books, 1991. Saddle-stitched with white thread in tall oblong wraps, 11 x 4-1/8 in. 21pp. Very good, with irregular toning and light soiling to wraps..

Cambridge: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd, 1937. First edition. Hardcover [16mo]. Beige paper boards backed with blue cloth, title panel pasted to spine. 4" x 6 1/8", 130 pp. Very good, fading to pasted-down spine title, lightly worn boards with some rubbing to corners and edges. Boards lightly bowed inwards towards fore edge.. Otto Neurath was a pioneer in infographics and inventor, with artist Gerd Arntz, of the pictorial method of representing social-scientific data known as ISOTYPE (International System of Typographic Picture Education). Originally known as the Vienna Method of Pictorial Statistics, developed at the Social and Economic Museum of Vienna between 1925 and 1934, the language recognized the principal importance of pictograms and their utility in transforming complex source data into charts. ISOTYPE communicated multifaceted scientific data into easily understood symbols that became almost universally known. This text describes the the studies that lead to the language's… Read More

San Francisco, CA: Harold Norse, 1972. Softcover quarto, side-stapled in illustrated paper wrappers, 50 pp. [52]. Very good, lightest of wear and soiling to cover wrappers.. The first issue of Harold Norse's journal of poetry, prose and art, claiming "an emphasis on the experimental and non-conformist" from the fields of literature in the early 1970s. This issue features contributions from Rolla Rieder, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Bob Kaufman, Allen Ginsberg, Diane Di Prima, more.

Washington, D.C.: Black Orpheus, 1972. Hardcover, [octavo], brown cloth boards, gilt spine titles, cartographic end papers, pictorial dust jacket, 149 pp. Very good book; very good dust jacket, spine ends chipped, edges and flap seams creased and rubbed. Jacket design by Diana Munson.

Munich, Germany: Prestel, 2015. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Book is in very good condition, sharp corners, tight square binding, minor shelving and handling wear, clean and unmarked within. Jacket is in very good condition, some edgewear, general handling and shelving wear, small closed tear to head corner of front panel. Overall in very good condition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall.

Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2009. Soft cover. Very Good. Tight square binding, general handling and shelving wear, clean and unmarked within. Very good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Minneapolis, MN: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2004. Softcover quarto, in illustrated glossy wrappers, 143 pp. Very good, very lightly worn corners and edges.

Boston: Stone Soup Poetry, 1974. Perfect-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 47 pp. Very good condition, wraps soiled and toned, edges foxing. Cover and other drawings by Valerie Jayne.

New York: New York University Press, 2009. Perfect-bound octavo in pictorial wraps. xx, 266 pp. About Near Fine.

New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover 8vo, blue cloth with gilt stamped lettering to front board and spine, 336 pp. Good, forward leaning spine, fading to spine lettering, some soiling and rubbing to boards, fray and push to corners and extremities of spine, some soiling to top of text block, a few dog eared pages, small open tear (1") to outer edge of page 331, only affecting the margin.. True First Edition of Tully's classic of early 20th century tramping and hobo life -- up there with Jack Black's You Can't Win in the genre's Valhalla.

John Knox press, 1968. Hardcover. Very Good, clean boards, tight binding with slight lean, mark to top of text block/Good only jacket, heavy edge chipping to top and joints, most material present. Dust jacket chipped along the top, up to 1 cm down, at tail of spine, in corners, and along fore edge. 8vo, black cloth with gilt lettering stamped to spine, 380 pp.

Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society Press. Near fine. Cover design by Ellen B. Zanolle.

New York: Harper & Row, 1962. Hardcover octavo in black and white lettered dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. 589 pp. Very Good, mild edge wear and soiling to text block. About Very Good unclipped jacket shows shallow edge wear and chipping, some scuffing and soiling throughout.. Early printing (1975; 15th) of the first American Edition of Heidegger's most impactful and enduring book. A translation of SEIN UND ZEIT by John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson.

New York: Adventures in Poetry, 1973. From an edition of 500. Side-stapled in wraps photo-illustrated on front cover only, 11 x 8-1/2 in. [10] leaves, printed recto only. Very Good or better. Reprints a single long letter from O'Hara to Joe LeSueur. Although not physically marked as such, this copy from the personal library of noted librettist, artist, and New York School poet Kenward Elmslie.

Nai010 Publishers, 2019. Soft cover. Very Good. Light edge wear. Tight binding and Cbright leavbes free of soiling. Stapled. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Archive Books, 2014. Soft cover. Very Good. Light scuffing to spine and slight edge wear to wrap. Tight binding, clean text block, and bright leaves free of soiling or creasing. Bilingual parallel text, German/English. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.