Search Results: Titles starting with F from Dividing Line Books

NY: A.A. Wyn, 1952. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 224pp. Grey cloth, red spine titles. First edition. Moderate shelfwear, with some fraying to the cloth at spine ends and along board edges (book board just exposed at bottom rear corner). Light toning/flecking to textblock. Unclipped "$2.75" jacket show some soiling along spine panel, with small chips out at spine ends and a few short closed tears. A very good minus copy in like jacket. A manhunt thriller about a man desperate to prove himself not a member of the Communist party.

NY: Charles Reznikoff, 1963. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 311pp. First edition. Full blue cloth. Very light bumping to spine ends and board corners. Minor forward cocking to spine. Former owner's name inked on front free end paper. The uncommon first edition self-published by Reznikoff in 1963, thus preceding the English and American trade editions by six and eight years, respectively.

NY: The Dial Press, 1971. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 214pp. First printing. Red textured paper boards. VG+/VG+. Spine slightly twisted. Edges of textblock lightly toned. Unclipped "$6.95" jacket shows light edgewear at spine ends and tips, with a few short closed tears. The author's only book, a biography of Frantz Fanon.

NY: Harper & Row Publishers, 1968. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. NY: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1968. First edition. 385pp. Octavo; orange boards backed with purple cloth; black topstain; dust jacket. Possibly a minimally marked ex-library copy: ffep with a stamp erasure, rear endpaper with adhesive stain; tape-ghosts to boards where jacket was once taped down. Else attractive and clean, with a former owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Unclipped jacket ("$6.95") shows light wear at spine ends, a short closed tear and related crease to head of front panel. Very good in a very good (+) jacket, which presents quite well.

Boston: Pressed Wafer, 2003. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Boston: Pressed Wafer, 2003. From an edition of 750. 173pp. 8vo. Perfect-bound in pictorial wraps. Near fine, with light soiling to wraps. This copy from the library of New York School poet, librettist, and publisher Kenward Elmslie (1929-2022); inscribed to him and signed by Lansing on title page: "For Kenward, w/love and happy memory in gelid Februar spring unseals itself (p. 12)." With a laid-in note from Pressed Wafer publisher Bill Corbett, in which he updates Elmslie on several publishing projects and reminds him about a Lansing birthday party to be held at the Pressed Wafer headquarters in Boston. An uncommon selection of Lansing's poetry and prose, with nice chain of association.

Berkeley, CA: West Coast Print Center, 1979. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. A collection of short prose vignettes interspersed with poems and comprising a sort of pan-occult feminist history, with much treatment of sexual liberation and women's inborn facility for matters magical. Berkeley, CA: West Coast Print Center, 1979. [40]pp.; illus. 8vo. Perfect-bound in illustrated wraps. Very good or better, with mild soiling to wraps, old bookseller price and inventory number penned on title page. Scarce in the trade; OCLC locates eight holdings.

NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1963. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First printing of this monumental work, which nearly single-handedly ushered in second-wave feminism. Friedan argued that the dissatisfaction rampant among post-war American women was the direct result of the "feminine mystique," a limiting trope of passivity then prevalent in mainstream culture. Written in a persuasive and easily relatable manner, the book resonated with readers and quickly became a runaway hit, selling more than one million copies during its first year in print. Though not without its blind spots--Friedan concerns herself almost exclusively with the plight of white, middle-class women--the book's importance as a catalyst of social upheaval in the 1960s and 1970s cannot be overstated. As such, it remains widely regarded as one of the 20th century's most influential works of nonfiction. First edition, first printing, with full number line present on copyright page. Octavo, 8.5 x 6… Read More

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. 8vo. ix + 359pp, indexed. Full purple cloth, no jacket, presumably as issued. Some faint yellowish discolorations near base of rear board, splash mark to base of textblock, with some related (fairly minor) moisture-wavering to a handful of leaves at rear of volume. Else near fine: tight, clean, and unmarked. Front flyleaf inscribed with love by "Judith"presumably Judith Roof, one of the volume's two editors. Collects 16 essays engaged in the "complex negotiation between feminist theory and psychoanalysis." Please see photos for list of contributors/texts.

New Paltz, NY: Redstockings, 1975. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. New Paltz, NY: Redstockings, 1975. First edition. 4to. Saddle-stapled in illustrated yellow wraps. 200pp.; illus. Wraps lightly worn, and pulling a bit at staples; leaves somewhat toned; stamps to interior: "Quest - a feminist quarterly" on covers and several endpages, "Not added by University of Michigan Library" on title page. Altogether very good. Review copy, with laid-in typed letter presenting the book. First edition of this landmark collection of radical feminist essays, with contributions from Judy Gram, Edith Schloss, Patricia Mainardi, Carol Hanish, Ellen Willis, et al. Not to be confused with the "abridged edition with additional writings" published by Random House in 1978.

NY: Grove Press, 1998. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition of this collection of verse by the Portuguese poet written under various of his pseudonyms. Translated, edited, and with an introduction by Richard Zenith. Octavo, 8 1/2 x 5 7/8 in.; xiv, 290pp., with bibliography. Gray and black textured-paper boards; silver spine titles; in dust jacket. Moderate toning to textblock. A couple minor spots of soiling to front free endpaper. Else fine in near fine, unclipped jacket, mildly rubbed and soiled.

Olympia, WA: Wentletrap Press. Soft cover. Fine. Small 8vo. 3-hole pamphlet bound with off-white thread. Undated, unpaginated (8pp.). A brief collection of poems on natural themes, privately printed by the author, who was the wife of long-time Washington Supreme Court justice James M. Dolliver.

Gillian McCain and James Marshall, 2010. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. 111pp, indexed. First edition. Gluebound in plain black cloth boards. Fine in a fine jacket with a couple of short closed tears at top rear tip. Collects fifty found photos from the collection of McCain, a poet and co-author of "Please Kill Me: The Uncensored History of Punk." Presented with accompanying text by the WFMU DJ James Marshall and, on the verso leaves, original comments from The Hound Blog, where the photos were first published.

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1971. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Complete two-volume set of this anthology, featuring a "highly personal and qualitative selection from both the "golden period" of Russian prose immediately following the 1917 revolution and the period from Stalin's death to the present." Translated by various hands, with "about half" of the included stories being original translations. 2 vols. Octavo, 9 1/4 x 6 1/4. Vol. 1: xvi, 278pp. Vol. 2: 354pp. Maroon cloth and blue cloth, respectively; in dust jackets. Both volumes with former owner's name neatly inked on ffep, light thumb-soiling to textblock fore-edge. Else fine in very good (+), unclipped jackets showing some shallow chipping at head of spine panels.

Berkeley, CA: Turtle Island, 1977. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Uncommon hardcover issue of this collection of essays on various filmmakers (Melies, Eisenstein, Chaplin, Lang, Murnau, etc.). Presented in three sections, "The First Book," "Comedy Tragi/Comedy" and "Narrative as Religion," introduced respectively by Robert Creeley, Edward Dorn, and Guy Davenport. Berkeley: Turtle Island, 1977. First edition. Octavo, 9-1/4 x 6-1/4 in. 295pp. Black cloth boards, silver lettering on spine and front board. Lacking a jacket, as issued. Mild bumping/rubbing to bottom rear board corner and spine ends. Else fine.

NY: Sonnabend Gallery, 1974. Off-white card, 5-3/4 x 4-7/8 in., printed recto only. About near fine, with light toning and a touch of corner wear. Announcement card published in conjunction with this group show at Sonnabend Gallery January 8-12, 1974; an impressive line-up, and Haxton's first group show, at which he showed the installation film "Three Changes."

NY: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1941. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 394pp. First edition (no subsequent printings noted; 1941 date on both copyright and title pages). Full brown cloth with matching brown topstain, and black spine titles & front panel motif. NF/VG. Light bumping at spine ends, very faint spotting to fore-edge of textblock and endpapers, else near fine. In an unpriced jacket shallowly chipped at all four corners, with several short closed tears and associated creases at base of front and rear panels and at the ends of the lightly rubbed spine panel. Young adult novel following a Jewish boy, Adam Levy, as he matures from a street fighter in an anti-Semitic neighborhood of Philadelphia circa 1910 to a high school football star and ultimately a WWI war hero in France. Uncommon first edition, especially in such a well-preserved example of the photo-montage jacket.

Dayton, OH: Fine Arts Gallery, Inc., 1978. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. An artist's book consisting of jigsaw-like permutations on two photographs of a building in New Jersey. Published in conjunction with Abish's 1978 sculptural installation at Wright State University. First edition. Saddle- stapled in printed black-and-white wraps. Square octavo (8 x 8 in.); unpaginated (~40pp.). This copy inscribed on the title page by William Spurlock, then-director of the Fine Arts Gallery at Wright State University, who also contributed a brief introduction.With an essay by Abish's husband Walter.

NY: Columbia University Press, 1925. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"); 276pp., indexed; full blue cloth, in dust jacket. A tiny nick to cloth at head of spine, neat pencil underlining to a handful of pages, else about fine. In a very good (+) jacket with a vertical crease to spine panel, light toning. Second edition. First American edition thus: a revised and expanded version of 1912's "The Four Stages of Greek Religion." Traces the development of Greek religion from the pre-Socratics through the early rise of Christianity. A landmark work, reprinted countless times and still relevant today, by one of the 20th century's most influential classicists.

Soft cover. Fine. A pamphlet (7"x4.75") consisting of a single tri-fold sheet of five poems by Chinas Comidas, the pen name of Cynthia Genser (later Cynthia Kraman), who was the lyricist and lead singer for the late-70s Seattle punk band of the same name. All five of these poems served double duty as lyrics for Chinas Comidas songs, none of which made it onto the band's two official EPs, but were eventually included on the 2006 compilation "Chinas Comidas: Live and Studio Recordings 1977-1980." This undated chapbook was presumably produced at some point during the band's tenure, though we can find no record of its existence online. Genser used the "Chinas Comidas" pen name for at least a couple of years, self-publishing a chapbook, "Cowboys," under that name in 1978, before reverting to Cynthia Genser as the band gained recognition. This publication uses the band logo which, according to a useful if somewhat disjointed history of the band on the Jive… Read More

Todd Walker, 1974. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Walker (1917-1998) was an American photographer and book artist. In the mid-1960s, after receiving an offset press as a gift from his wife, he began publishing his own works, which show an increasing mastery of the various aspects of book production, from typesetting to binding to photolithography. He is particularly known for his iconic nude photographs produced using Sabbatier solarization--a technique on striking display in three of the five works in this grouping. 1) Twentyseven Photographs. Self-published, 1974. Prints of Walkers solarized photographs of nude women, printed on the recto only. Signed by Walker in pencil and numbered 13/166. Perfect-bound in printed wraps; 8 x 6 in.; unpaginated. Some light foxing to the wraps, internally fine. 2) A Few Notes Selected from Lesson A of Wilsons Photographics. Self-published, 1976. A selection of quotations originally given in Edward L. Wilson's "Photographics" (1881), each one… Read More