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

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997. Signature-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 199 pp. Near fine condition. Cover photo by Lance Watson. Aldon Lynn Nielsen was a student of C.L.R. James's in American universities. This text is recognized as a critical literary criticism as opposed to a theoretical analysis of C.L.R. James's works.

London: Race Today Publications, 1984. Perfect-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 72 pp. Near fine. Cover design by Tom Joseph; cover drawing by Richard Wilson.

Kerber, 2019. Hardcover. Near Fine. Tight binding, clean text block, and bright leaves free of soiling or creasing. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

Junta de Castilla y León, 2005. Soft cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Light edgewear and light scratches on rear cover, else a near fine copy with tight binding and crisp interior. Bilingual with English on recto, Spanish on Verso. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

New York: Red Room Books, 1972. Stab-stapled quartos all in pictorial card (1-4) or glossy (5-6) wraps with illustrated versos. Mimeographed to rectos only. 29pp; 25pp; 29pp; 28pp; 49pp; 46pp. Good to Very Good (+); all in sound bindings and with at least light soiling and toning but clean within; mild dampstaining to edges of 3 and 5, issue 4 heavily dampstained to rear wrap and decreasingly through last few pages.. Near-complete run (missing issue 7) of the seminal flash-in-the-pan literary journal from Jeff Goldberg and "Bockris-Wylie", the sandwiched identity of Victor Bockris and Andrew Wylie. Published all within a period of two months, CONTACT serves as one of the more concentrated and stellar examples of the feverishly immediate and spontaneous production and publication so inherited by and from the "second generation" New York School and Warhol's Factory Scene. As noted in Steve Clay's bibliography From a Secret Location on the Lower East Side, "The attitudes and poses of the cover stars… Read More

New York: The Third Press, 1973. First edition. Perfect-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 141 pp. Very good condition. Designed by Bennie Arrington.

New York: Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, 2011. Hardcover quarto quarter bound gray cloth spine with gold corrugated boards and die-cut title. Very good, lightly bumped spine and corrugated sections/No dust jacket.

San Francisco, CA: Cage Productions Company, 1970. First Edition. Softcover octavo, side-stapled with pictorial B&W paper wrappers, 63 pp. Very good, light wear, creasing and rubbing to perimeter aspects of cover wrappers, light soiling and discoloration around edges of cover wrappers and on back wrappers along side-stapled spine, 'Doylestown peace force' blue ink stamp on top right corner of title page. Inspired by The Actor's Workshop visit to San Quentin in 1958 with a performance of "Waiting for Godot", Cluchey and fellow inmates founded The San Quentin Drama Workshop and Theater within the prison. His dedication to drama generated authorship and in 1964-5 he penned The Cage (originally titled 'Le Cage' and set in France), which premiered in 1965 without the author in attendance. When he was released from San Quentin, he continued staging productions of the play, mainly as fundraisers for The Seventh Step Foundation, a self-help organization for which he was the National Director. And through… Read More

Inst Francais D'Archeologie orienta, 2021. Hardcover. Very Good. Book is in very good condition, bump to bottom left corner of front board, bump to top left corner of front board, minor shelfwear along edges, binding is tight and square, clean and unmarked within. Overall in very good condition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall.

Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Signature-bound, quarto, pictorial wraps, [5], 500-817, [13] pp. Very good, spine and covers lightly soiled, edges lightly worn, corners beginning to peel with some wear, text block edges lightly soiled. A special issue dedicated to and including the works of Nathaniel Mackey.

New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2018. Soft cover. Very Good. Book is in very good condition, corners are sharp, binding square and tight, clean and unmarked throughout. Overall condition is very good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover octavo in dust jacket. Purple paper-covered boards backed with red cloth and lettering stamped in silver to front and spine. 101pp. Near Fine in about Near Fine unclipped jacket, soft vertical crease along edge of front flap.. Signed by Hannah to half-title page.

Nairobi: East African Publishing House, 1969. Staplebound 16mo, pictorial glossy wraps, 89 pp. Very Good, some rubbing, soiling, edgewear to wraps. Scarce first staplebound edition, printed on letterpress by afropress in Nairobi and published on the prolific East African Publishing House. Recently reprinted.

Vancouver, B.C.: New Star Books, 1978. Signature-bound, [octavo], in pictorial wraps, 95 pp. Very good. Cover photo by Sylvia de Swaan Ames.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1965. First printing stated. Hardcover octavo halfbound in black cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on spine, red boards with printed black lettering and decoration, in pictorial dust jacket. Very good, lightly worn edges, publisher's red top edge stain/Good unclipped dust jacket, lightly chipped and worn around edges, small 1" tear to joint of spine, lightly spotted covers, small black grease marker price, 2" x 2" piece displaced from top back cover. Jacket Design by Irwin Rosenhouse; Jacket Photo by Fabio Coen.

London: Readers International, 1982. Design by Jan Brychta; cover art Haitian mural. Perfect-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 159 pp. Near fine book.

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1969. First Edition. 8vo, green cloth boards with black lettering on spine, 355 pp. Very Good, toning to front and rear endpapers, foxing to edges of textblock, slight cant to spine, some rubbing to spine, former owner's name on front free endpaper./Very Good jacket, some handling and shelving wear, some soiling, light chipping and wear to edges..

Sacred Bones Books, 2018. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover. This copy has clean boards and an undamaged dust jacket. Tight binding, clean text bloxk, and bright leaves free of soiling or creasing. Near fine. Signed by artist in 2022. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

University Press of Mississippi, 2019. Hardcover. Near Fine. There is light wear to the boards from handling, otherwise this copy is in near fine condition with tight binding and clean, bright pages. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall.

Amsterdam: Schilt Publishing, 2016. Hardcover, illustrated boards, no dust jacket, 4to, 272 pp. Very good. Essays by scholars and environment sciences addressing the relationship between mixed media and photography that addresses the rapidly changing ecosystems of the world under the duress of climate change. Writings by Steven Evans, Wendy Watriss, Thomas E. Lovejoy and Geof Rayner.