Search Results: Titles starting with D from Goodbar Books

Binding is sound. Interior is clean and unmarked. Gilt to spine and front board remains bright. Front fore-edge corner is heavily bumped at the foot, and there is some other minor shelf-wear. Small former seller stamp to the back paste-down. Very light foxing to the top edge. 154 pp. Natural History.

Tight, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior except a bookseller stamp to the title page. Minor shelf-wear to the cover, including creases to the front cover at the fore-edge corners. The Praeger Film Library put out a number of mid-century titles for movie buffs, including monographs on auteurs like Fritz Lang, Ingmar Bergman, and Robert Bresson, as well as two surveys of character actors by series editor and designer Cameron and his wife, Elisabeth: The Heavies, 'a gallery of cinematic villains' and its female counterpart, Dames, a compendium of shady ladies (known as Broads in the UK, as published by Movie Paperbacks). Dynamically designed with a blocky, impractical table of contents, an eye-catching 1800s-via-1960s cover, and lots of high-camp B&W stills. 144 pp.

Inscribed by Le Guin to influential feminist scholar Cheris Kramarae to the title page. Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. No notable wear to the book. A few areas of very light soiling to the jacket. 306 pp. Scholarly/Journalism.

Inscribed by Nancy Thomas to the title page: 'Dear Andrew and Alicia, God bless you as you help your children heal. [heart]! Nancy T.' Tight, square, uncreased spine. Unmarked interior. There is a subtle 2" x 4" dampstain affecting the back cover and roughly last 80 pages at the head. Some light edge-wear and adhesive remainder affecting the back cover. 291 pp. Biography/Memoir.

No copyright date noted, but appears to be late 19th/early 20th century. Spine is square and tight. Clean, unmarked interior. Light shelf-wear. Quarto format, with gilt and black stamping to front board. Chock-full of incredible etchings by Dore. 162 pp.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Gently bumped corners and other very minor shelf-wear. Cover design by Anne Galperin. 'Truth' writes Drucker, 'of course, was nowhere to be found and never had been, unlocked from the girdles of form and exhausted from the effort to maintain some kind of definition.' The book artist and cultural critic wrote this experimental novella during the 1980s, but didn't publish it until the 1990s, yet even several decades later, its apocalyptic themes grow increasingly relevant. Legend has it L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine editor Bruce Andrews wrote a never-published preface for the book using lines from As the World Turns scripts he found in the the street. Illustrated with lots of B&W reproductions of lively paintings by Drucker. 122 pp.

Really lovely edition of this tragic document. Includes several B&W plates. Pages unmarked besides a former owner inscription in English to title page. Back cover has a 1/2" clip at the foot. 231 pp. History.

Includes letter from the author to 'Cheris', dated 1-8-83 and discussing ideas for a book collaboration. Saddle-stitched binding remains sound. Clean, unmarked interior. Only very gentle shelf-wear. Miscellaneous.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Former owner name in ink to inside front cover, nut interior is else clean and unmarked. Only very light shelf-wear. Cover photo by Leroy McLucas. 'We don't know if he ever died,' Baraka, née Jones, once cracked when asked what he would write for his own epitaph. He cofounded the Black Arts Movement, was a member of the Umbra Poets Workshop alongside Ishmael Reed and Lorenzo Thomas, once threw a party where Allen Ginsberg was introduced to Langston Hughes while Ornette Coleman played saxophone, and due to what Naila Keleta-Mae calls his legacy of 'saying the unsayable', spent much of his decades-long career mired in controversy. 79 pp. Poetry.

Inscribed by Davis to front paste-down: '"God Bless" to Janet from Jinni'. Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some rubbing, very light chipping and a small area of adhesive remainder to the jacket. Full-cloth tan buckram case binding. Scarce. 64 pp. Poetry.

Pamphlet-stitched binding remains sound. Clean, unmarked interior. The wraps are heavily toned and there is moderate edge-wear appropriate to the book's age. The front cover is missing around 1/4 inch of its fore-edge corner at the head and there is a very small area of soiling to the back. 'Done into a brochure by the Roycrofters, at their printshop, which is in East Aurora, New York State'. Roycroft printer's device to the back cover. 23 pp. Consignment: HP.

In beautiful shape: Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Corners are fairly sharp. Very little shelf-wear. Pages 219– 226 are bumped at the head of the fore-edge. Includes B&W illustrations and figures. 334 pp. Esoterica.

Spine is tight, square, and uncreased. Clean, unmarked interior, except for a small sketch in ink to the verso of the final blank leaf. There is some soiling and water damage to the wraps, which does not affect the soundness or operability of the book. There is a faint musty smell. Includes photos and illustrations. 221 pp. Natural History.

Saddle-stitched binding remains sound. Clean, unmarked interior. A few small areas of heavy rubbing and very subtle creasing to the covers, but nice clean copy overall. 28 pp. Scholarly.

Tight, square, uncreased spine has some light sunning. Clean, unmarked interior. Gently bumped corners and a remainder mark to the bottom edge, but very little wear overall. Marketed as a Thomas Pynchon–meets–Graham Greene debut, this often overlooked novel satirizes the rise of the religious right and is a historical—and uniquely hyperreal—lens into the movement's influence on US politics of the 1980s (A contemporary LA Times review quipped that it's 'safe to say that this latently angry novel will not be required reading at Falwell's Liberty University'). A rare fiction offering from Simon & Schuster's normally self-help–focused Fireside Books imprint, the design features some heavenly drop caps and chapter headings featuring calligraphic type, as well as an MTV-worthy cover design by Janet Perr, who won a Grammy for her art direction and design of Cyndi Lauper's She's So Unusual. 286 pp.

Text in German. Square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. There is some sunning to the spine and boards, which has faded the gilt stamping, but very little shelf-wear otherwise. Includes B&W plates. End-papers printed with maps in two colors. 455 pp. Spirituality.

Inscribed by Wheeler to the half-title : 'To Roy Lear–/With best regards–/Buck Wheeler 11/3/70''. Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some rbumped corners, as well as rubbing and gentle edge-wear to the covers, but in lovely shape over all. Map=printed end-papers. Includes lots of B&W photos, as well as a bibliography: pp. 129–133. 133 pp. History.

Tight, square spine. Unmarked interior. Metallic stamping to spine remains bright. Some areas of light edge-wear and sunning to the exterior of the boards. A few small areas of light soiling to several pages at the book's end. Jacket has some areas of edge-wear and creasing. While known for his work in urban planning, McHarg also drew inspiration from the more private spaces of residential gardens, as seen in this skillfully designed and inventively illustrated book, which became an influential text for early permaculturists (McHarg critiques French Baroque gardening design as he commends the English picturesque style for working with nature rather than subjugating it). Features numerous hand-drafted two- and three-color overlay maps, as well as a variety of ingenious photographic juxtapositions. Includes bibliographical footnotes. 197 pp. Featured Rare & Collectible.

Inscribed by McHarg to title page : 'Beverly Ettinger/Ian McHarg/April 1996.' Spine is uncreased and square. The first few leafs are in the very early stages of coming loose from the perfect binding, but binding is sound overall. Former owner name to half-title but interior is else clean and unmarked. There is moderate shelf-wear, including edge-wear, a few small areas of creasing, and a one-inch area of adhesive remainder to front cover. While known for his work in urban planning, McHarg drew inspiration from the more private spaces of residential gardens. This skillfully designed and inventively illustrated book (the hand-drawn overlay maps are stunning) became an influential text for early permaculturists: McHarg critiques French Baroque gardening design as he commends the English picturesque style for working with nature rather than subjugating it. 197 pp.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Only very light shelf-wear. A charming UK edition of one of Kerouac's heftier novels (clocking in at 366 pages), featuring an uncredited cover depicting an Elton John–esque cherub wielding Old Glory and fountain pen. In Seymour Krim's intro, we first see an argument for the stream-of-consciousness innovator's canonization, and Kerouac's pseudonymous documentation of the nascent Beat era in this book is a delight: Allen Ginsberg is thinly disguised as Irwin Garden, author of 'Howling', and William S. Burroughs takes on the persona of Bull Hubbard, whose most notable work is Nude Breakfast. 366 pp. Mass-Market Paperbacks.