Search Results: Titles starting with E from 20 Ants Fine Books, IOBA

Redondo Beach, CA: 2.13.61. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1985. Second Printing. Softcover. Light crease at the spine, from head to tail. Very slightly thumbed.; Quasi-beat, brief musings and blurtings out, taken from the author's notes and journals. Henry Rollins, lead singer of innovative punk bands Black Flag and Rollins Band, writes off-center, dramatic, drastic, profane, and often extreme thoughts that are hopefully fiction. Written in all capitals, because that's just how he is. One of the tamer examples: "THE WORLD CAN BE SUCH A COLD AND LONELY / PLACE. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT EVERYBODY / KNOWS. SO COLD AND DARK THAT SOMETIMES I / THINK I'M GOING TO DISAPPEAR AND GO / SPINNING DOWN THE DRAIN. DOWN TO SOME / COLD SEWER. SELF-DESTRUCTION BECOMES A / STRAIGHT LINE. STRIKING BACK AT A WORLD / THAT DOES NOT EVEN KNOW YOUR NAME. YOU / CAN'T HURT IT, IT CAN ONLY HURT YOU BACK." / "1-85 OAKVILLE, CANADA" Rollin's own book and record publishing… Read More

Rosendale, NY: Hunger Press. Near Fine. 2000. Limited Edition. Softcover. Seventy-eight short poems, some as short as a single line and thus begging the question 'what is poetry?' Some surreal, some straightforward, all juxtaposed and unrelated, and all representative of Clayton Eshleman's free verse style. Written in 1986-2000 when the poet was Professor Emeritus at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Clayton Eshleman (1935-2021) was a widely acclaimed poet, literary translator, and editor, garnering numerous international awards, fellowships, grants, and residencies. Grouped in 4 chapters, these 48 poems demonstrate Eshleman's fluid, prose-like, free verse style that that has been variously termed surrealist, Postmodernist, and 'American grotesque.' One of a limited edition of 500. First printing. Book design and layout by J. J. Blickstein. Set in Times New Roman. Printed by Gray Matter Publishing and Design. Perfect bound softcover with the front cover photograph showing boulders in… Read More

Anchorage, Alaska.: National Park Service. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. Light wrinkling to front and rear covers at the spine.; A highly-detailed assessment of an archeological excavation of this saloon in Skagway, Alaska. Converted from a hardware store to a saloon in 1898, the site assessment and cataloging of artifacts occurred during excavations in 1987, 1995, and 1996. At the time of this book's publishing, The Pantheon Saloon was being restored to its appearance of 1905-1907. Lists of 110 figures and 13 tables. The Appendices catalog found artifacts and examples are bottles, doll heads, dog collar tags, table china, cans, vials, suspender supports, toilet tank parts, lamp chimneys, toothbrush, whistles, and hundreds of items. The book covers the history of the saloon, the surrounding town, mining in the area, and gives a view of life in an Alaskan mining town at the turn of the century. Text contributions by Catherine Holder Spude, Thomas Wake, Ph.D., Linda… Read More