Search Results: Titles starting with D from Philip Smith, Bookseller

Salt Lake City, UT: Rainbow Resin / Karl Kempton, 1974. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 4to, 10pp, stapled self-cover. INSCRIBED to Bill Berkson by Jack Hirschman in the month of publication. This work bears a dedication to Robert [Dean] Stockwell. Clean copy, all pages show evidence of folds.

Flushing, NY: Queens College Press, 1977. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. VG+. 8vo, 132pp, printed wrappers. Issue devoted to "The Poetics of Chance," with discussion of Michel Leiris, Satanism and the Black Mass in Huysmans, Jean Vigo, Jean Arp, Rene Magritte, et al. Light outer wear, no markings.

Iowa City, IA: Association for the Study of Dada and Surrealism (University of Iowa), 1988. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, [vi]+154pp, printed wrappers. INSCRIBED to Wallace Fowlie (as "Wallace") by editor Anna Balakian. Special Andre Breton issue. Balakian has underlined her name on the masthead page (no other markings), light wear.

Allentown, PA: Damascus Road, 1967. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 60pp, printed wrappers. Publisher's flyer, address card, and subscription card laid in. Tight Near Fine copy; inserted flyer has a bit of edgewear.

Allentown, PA: Damascus Road, 1965. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 64pp, printed wrappers. Second issue of this interesting mix of Beat and other significant writers (including Julio Cortazar). Unmarked copy with minor wear and soil to lap wrappers.

Allentown, PA: Damascus Road, 1961. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 84pp (including Kenneth Patchen plates), printed wrappers. An interesting mix of Beat and other significant writers. Clean, unmarked copy with typical edgewear to lap wrappers and slight bump to one corner.

Berkeley: The Mariposa Press, 1979. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 48pp, stapled wrappers. INSCRIBED by contributor Abigail Tigresslily (and signed by original owner in year of publication). Includes work by Dodie Bellamy preceding her first collection. Faint paperclip mark to first page, nice overall.

London: Strange Faeces Press, 1972. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 10 leaves (printed one side), stapled wrappers. 1 of 200 stated copies of this uncommon 1972 work. Unmarked copy (aside from penciled original price to cover) from the collection of puiblishers Opal and Ellen Nations, light wear.

Montreal: Davinci, 1975. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 60pp, printed wrappers. INSCRIBED by Marshalore (as "M") to contributor Opal Louis Nations (as "the man who claims understanding") on the inside front cover. This avant-garde magazine from 1974 Montreal includes concrete poetry and collage work as well as other experimental writing and drawing. From the collection of Opal Louis Nations. A bit of reading wear, no markings.

Basel: Michael Isingrin (Oakland: Octavo), 1542; 2003. 1st edition. Other Binding. New/No Jacket (as issued). New digital facsimile (in electronic PDF format on CD-ROM disc; this is not a printed book) of the 1542 first edition of the first printed herbal to accurately depict botanical detail in plants. Fuchs's herbal is one of the foundational works of western medicine, pharmacy, and botany, and is here presented in unprecedented detail and fidelity from an uncolored original copy. This Octavo Edition contains detailed digital images (may be magnified up to 200% of original size) as well as a new introduction by botany historian Karen Reeds, indexes of currently accepted botanical and English common names of the plants and detailed bibliographical information. "This herbal is a beautiful, scholarly, and scientific piece of botanical and medical history. The CD-ROM offers several tools and options that make this more than just an inexpensive substitute for the 'real book.'"--Economic Botany

Nuremberg: Joh. Petreium (Oakland: Octavo), 1543; 1999. 1st edition. Other Binding. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Fine copy (just about as new with minor wear to jewel case). Digital facsimile (in electronic PDF format on CD-ROM disc) of the 1543 first edition of one of the most important works in the history of astronomy. Modern astronomy traces its origin to Nicolaus Copernicus: by placing the sun at the center of the solar system, he launched a revolution in man's understanding of the physical universe. This Octavo Edition provides an unprecedented glimpse of this momentous discovery through detailed digital images of a copy of the rare first edition (may be magnified at up to 400% of original size) as well as a full English translation by Edward Rosen, a new introduction by Owen Gingerich, and detailed bibliographical information. "Everything worked on the first try. The whole package is very well designed. Excellent value for the money."--Journal for the History of Astronomy.

Nuremberg (Oakland: Octavo), 1532; 1538; 2003. 1st edition. Other Binding. New/No Jacket (as issued). Digital facsimile (in electronic PDF format on CD-ROM disc; not a printed book) of two important works on art theory and instruction by Albrecht Durer. This addition to the celebrated Octavo Digital Editions series reproduces a sammelband volume containing the first two books of Durer's Von menschlicher Proportion in the Latin translation of 1532, as well as the second, expanded edition of his Underweysung der Messung (1538). It includes images of both works, cover-to-cover in unprecedented resolution (may be magnified at up to 300% of original size), full searchable English translations of the text (by Silvio Levy and Walter L. Strauss), an introductory commentary by David Price, bibliographical information, and a detailed provenance (the binding of this copy bears the arms of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II). Unsold original stock, minor storage wear.

London: John Calder in Association with Olympia Press, 1963. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. VG in Good+ dw. 8vo, 220pp, grey cloth with spine stamped in gold, printed dustwrapper. The first edition of this Burroughs work published in England only (Schottlaender v4.A7, Shoaf I-7). This copy from poet, artist, and experimental impresario Opal Louis Nations includes pencil notes by Nations (dated June 1964) to the front endpaper. Else an unmarked copy with a little soil; dustwrapper has edgewear and signs of removed tape reinforcement.

San Francisco: The Nova Broadcast Press, 1969. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, one large leaf accordion-folded into stapled wrappers. The first separate publication of a piece that first appeared in My Own Mag in 1965. (Schottlaender v4.A21, Shoaf I-16.) Unmarked copy with some wear and soil to wrappers.

San Francisco: Black Stone Press, 1980. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 44pp, printed wrappers. 1 of 250 copies (corrected from 500 on a laid-in printed errata slip). An early, elegantly designed review from fine printer Peter Koch. Unmarked copy, light spotting to covers and page edges, small path of abrasion to back cover.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG hardcover, no dustwrapper. 8vo, [xii]+272pp, grey cloth stamped in blue-green and black. Presumed first printing, elegantly designed and printed by Knopf. Unmarked copy with a vintage lending library label to front pastedown and the original jacket flap copy pasted to the front free endpaper. Front hinge cracked, else a sound copy of this hardboiled masterpiece.

San Francisco: e.g, 1983. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 40pp, stapled wrappers. Lewis Ellingham's copy, with his ownership stamp to the inside front cover (no other markings). A rare early self-produced photocopied work by Dodie Bellamy. Unspecified printing in white wrappers, light cover soil and toning.

Cardiff, Wales: Decal Press, 1972. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, [vi]+126pp, printed wrappers. First issue of this scarce poetry magazine from 1972 Wales. Unmarked copy, light outer wear.

San Francisco: THIS, 1977. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 64pp, stapled wrappers. Unmarked copy (from the collection of Opal Louis Nations) of this collection of experimental works. Light outer toning.

Western Springs, IL: December, 1966. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 224pp, printed wrappers. This issue includes the first appearance of the major story Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver (later the title work of Carver's first major-press story collection), as well as a section of poems by exponents of the New American Cinema and work from many others. Unmarked copy, some general wear/bending and outer spotting.