Search Results: Titles starting with C from Second Wind Books LLC

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine/Good. Plastic comb-bound stiff pictorial wrapper. Wrapper considerably tanned around perimeter, trace of filing label residue, internally fine. Uncorrected page proofs of the first edition. Foreword by Frans Lasson. Three of the tales were translated from the Danish by P. M. Mitchell and W. D. Paden, the remainder were written in English. Scarce.

Andes, NY: Woolmer/Brotherson Ltd., 1976. Purple cloth, spine gilt. Illustrated. Fine in faintly used dust jacket. First edition (of two) of this breakthrough in imprint bibliography/history. One of ca. 650 copies comprising the American issue, from a total of about 1000 copies. Addenda list with the number of copies printed and pulped laid in, along with the errata slip. An absolute must for the serious Hogarth Press collector. .

New York: Rizzoli, 2013. As new.. By the author/artist:. Large octavo. Decorated boards. New and updated edition, first published in 1981, both this and the present publication are out of print. An extraordinary and surreal artist's book, this edition has been redesigned by the author and includes new illustrations. As new, still encased in shrink wrap. Due to the book's interior being inaccessible I am not able to provide additional images. Extra shipping required for this remarkable book measuring 9 x 13-3/8," 396 pages, please choose Priority Mail.   "This visual encyclopedia of an unknown world written in an unknown language has fueled much debate over its meaning. Written for the information age and addressing the import of coding and decoding in genetics, literary criticism, and computer science, the Codex confused, fascinated, and enchanted a generation. While its message may be unclear, its appeal is obvious: it is a most exquisite artifact. Blurring the distinction between art book and… Read More

New York: Macmillan, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Gilt cloth. First U.S. edition, second impression. Light foxing to top and fore-edge, else near very good in a good dust jacket with sunning to the spine panel. ABBOTT A10.b2. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. First edition. Fine./Near fine.. Red cloth. Typography, binding, and dust jacket designed by Vincent Torre. Fine, in near fine dust jacket.  First edition. This volume includes seventeen new poems, a selection of poems written in the 1920s and 30s, and an excerpt from her long wartime poem "American Citizen.

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. First edition, hardbound trade issue, of the first volume of the author's autobiography. Cover design by Barbara Martin. Lightly shelf rubbed at bottom edge, else fine in clear acetate dust jacket, as issued. Black Sparrow Press was a small independent publishing house focused on avant-garde literature. Established by John and Barbara Martin in 1966, in Los Angeles, and shuttered in 2002, in Santa Rosa. With the help of typographer and printer Graham Mackintosh, the Press was responsible for drawing attention to Charles Bukowski and his literary work.

Princeton, NJ: Francis P. Harper, 1913. First edition. Very good.. Small octavo. Burgundy cloth, gilt spine. viii,215,[1]pp. Introduction by the author. Laid in to the book is a rare prospectus, and a letter from the collector James Osborne Wright to a Mr. Tapley stating the book "does not altogether please me. It is too much and too little ...." Crown of spine lightly frayed, else very good or better.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. First American Edition. Fine / Very good. Octavo. Green cloth boards bright and fresh, front panel embossed. Top edge red; 83,[7] pp. Brief gift inscription on front free endpaper. A fine copy, in very good, later issue dust jacket whose typography, binding, and design is by Vincent Torre. The price remained the same at $4.00, and in every other regard is identical, but the text refers to Ms. Plath in the past tense. First American edition, as stated. Sylvia Plath was born in Boston in 1932, and lived in England with her husband, the English poet Ted Hughes, and her two children until her death at thirty. This book was published in England in a somewhat different form by William H. Heinemann Ltd. in 1960. There was a second impression of the American first edition in 1967. An absolutely stunning poet of enormous talent, this is the only collection of her poetry published in her lifetime. .

London: Cassell & Company, Ltd, 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Cloth, gilt spine. First UK edition, preceded by the US Anchor Books paperbound edition and an academic reprint packaging. About fine in dust jacket. HIGGINSON & WILLIAMS A98c.

Iowa City, IA / Shallotte, NC: Making Waves Press, 2021. First edition. Fine.. Oblong. Perfect bound, pictorial wrappers in the colors violet, white, & green in homage to the Suffragist Movement. Fully illustrated in pictorial assemblages by the author. Fine, as new. First edition. Centenary cinematic edition. "Virginia Woolf's comic 'counterblast' takes on male privilege," -- from the cover. The "take" refers to a "public debate about the limits of women's intelligence and creativity ... between Woolf and Desmond McCarthy (and Arnold Bennett) in the New Statesman 'Letters to the Editor' pages in October 1920" -- page [4-5]. "A Society" was published in MONDAY OR TUESDAY  in 1921 by the Hogarth Press. Leslie Kathleen Hankins is a professor at Cornell College, Iowa, and a book artist. She is a former president of the International Virginia Woolf Society and has been presenting and publishing on Virginia Woolf and the cinema for several decades. In 2012, Hankins founded a press of her own, Making… Read More

San Francisco: The Enlightener, Publishers & Printers, 1916. Folio. One sheet 11.5 x 9.5 in., folded to form four pages. Printed and decorated in black. Three "poems" presented as religious/ideological  tracts, "The Four Dimensions of the Sex," "Put the Blame on Woman," and, simply, "Woman." Very good.  Lucille "Mother" Riker was the wife of the famous conman, polygamist, religious cult leader, white supremacist, four-time unsuccessful candidate for governor of California, and founder of both "Perfect Christian Divine Way (PCDW), and Holy City, California, once referred to as a Utopian Community, now a ghost town.   During the time of the printing of this tract the Rikers were living and conducting a "Healing Institute" at three addresses on Hayes Street in San Francisco. William Riker was a White Supremacist who actively warned in his political tracts, The Emancipator: "keep your polluting hands off our White Race Women; they also belong only to the White Race Man. This is the true law of… Read More

Tavistock Square, London: by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Original teal cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Crown and toe of spine sunned, else a tight, bright near fine copy in a good printed dust jacket with wear and sunning confined to the spine and the top right fore-tip. Scarce.   First edition, thus; designated as a "New Edition" in the publisher's Uniform Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf, the title was first published in 1932. Hogarth's Autumn 1929 catalog announced five new publications from its most prominent author, the first four Uniform Editions (THE VOYAGE OUT, JACOB'S ROOM, MRS DALLOWAY, and THE COMMON READER) and the first regular publication of A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN. Surprisingly, the catalog lists the reprint series first. The Uniform Edition appeared with this statement (possibly written by Woolf herself): "The Hogarth Press begins this autumn the publication of a cheap uniform edition, of small and convenient size,… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1930. Very good or better. Octavo. Red cloth boards, blind-stamped, gilt spine. [iii],334pp. 8¾ x5¾ in. Cream pictorial dust jacket printed brown and green, designed by Vanessa Bell. Boards bright and clean, ink ownership signature and date on front free endpaper, edges dusty, otherwise very good or better, in an unclipped dusty, dust jacket with a few chips at extremities and a small loss at the at the upper spine and upper fore-tip. From the collection of R. O. Blechman, an American animator, illustrator, children's-book author, graphic novelist and editorial cartoonist whose work has been the subject of retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art and other institutions. Scarce in dust jacket. First American edition, third impression. Published 14 May 1925; 2000 copies printed at $3.50. There was a second impression of 535 copies in November 1927, and a third of 500 in December of 1930, of which this edition is a copy. There were additional impressions in… Read More

New York: Viking / Macmillan, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Gilt cloth. First edition. Slightly dusty at fore-edge, otherwise near fine in dust jacket. ABBOTT A32.a1. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

London: Faber and Faber, 1971. First edition. Fine. Slim octavo. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine. 64 pp. A truly fine copy in a dust jacket printed in black and deep blue on white with a small closed nick at the top edge and a stray mark to the lower panel, else near fine.  First UK edition. "In this volume Ted Hughes has collected a number of poems written by Sylvia Plath in the transitional period between The Colossus (1960) and Ariel (1965)" -- from the publisher's note. An absolutely stunning collection.

London: Cassell & Company, Ltd, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Gilt cloth. First edition. A very good or better copy in lightly soiled dust jacket with one small nick on rear top edge. HIGGINSON & WILLIAMS A75a.

London: Jonathan Cape, 2003. Fine / fine. Octavo. Black cloth, gilt spine. 272 pp. Fine, in fine dust jacket with the "Shortlisted for the 2003 Whitbread Novel Award," label, which the novel won, affixed to front panel.  This is the edition published for an adult audience.  First edition. A murder mystery whose detective, and narrator, is fifteen-year-old Christopher Boone. Christopher has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism that presents in his knowing a great deal about math but little about human beings. Christopher's journey that takes him out of his comfort zone begins when he finds a neighbor's dog murdered with a garden fork sticking out of its side.