Search Results: Titles starting with K from Goodbar Books

Spine is square but has some creasing and a few leaves are beginning to loosen from the perfect binding at the middle of the text block. Due to a printing error, a few pages of front matter are missing and/or out of order. Some wear to covers, including areas of creasing and edge-wear. Includes monochrome photos and maps. Inside covers printed with vintage classified ads. 159 pp. History.

In beautiful shape. Tight, square, uncreased spine has some sunning. Clean, unmarked interior. Only very gentle wear to the covers. Lots of fantastic illustrations by Whipple and design by Giorgetta Bell McRee. 139 pp. Crafts/Skills/Trades.

Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. There is some extremely subtle tanning and a former owner label to the inside front cover. Includes glossary and B&W illustrations and diagrams. 42 pp. Natural History.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Moderate rubbing to the covers. Price to front is blacked out. Includes B&W illustrations. Really great Art Deco cover design by Jane Yamada. 96 pp. Esoterica.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some light shelf-wear. Stiff covers with turn-ins. 244 pp. Miscellaneous.

Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Only very gentle wear. Design by Jim Cook. Cover design by Francine Rudesill. Noel Young, a printer and designer for Black Sparrow Press who struck out on his own and founded Capra Press in 1969, adopted the following publishing philosophy: 'Approach writers you admired, acquire book rights to their shorter and offbeat works, and turn them into books.' This release, Volume V of Capra's Back-to-Back Series (two titles with their ends meeting in the middle) embodies that method as it features off-genre ventures into screenwriting by a trio of literary icons from the US's Pacific Northwest. Neither script—Le Guin's is based on the Mahabharata, while Carver and Gallagher's is a Dostoevsky biopic—ever made it to the big screen ('You are a courageous producer, a wonderful crew, and the best director in the world!' Le Guin tells readers in her intro).

German. No publication date noted, but appears to be the early 1990s. Saddle-stitched binding remains sound. Clean, unmarked interior. Some light to moderate wear to the covers, including a severely bumped corner and a small area of very light soiling. Clean, bright copy overall. Very scarce. Contributing graffiti artists include Blade, Cope Two, Seen, Zephyr, and many others. Art.

Tight, square spine has some very faint cosmetic creasing. Former owner name and stamp to the first blank leaf, but interior is else clean and unmarked. Some light edge-wear and moderate to heavy creasing to front cover. 287 pp. Fiction.

Clean, unmarked interior. Spine has some creases and a slight cosmetic skew, but remains tight. Some light shelf-wear, including a small dent to the back cover. Cocaine smuggler David Lee Henry lives the fast life, as evidenced by the cover of this scarce edition, which pairs a comically seamy illustration with some classy Futura Black type. Hill not only called this book's hero David Lee Henry, but also used the name as a pseudonym when penning screenplays like Road House, Harry Tracy, and 8 Million Ways to Die. After King of White Lady was optioned, Roger Corman–mentee Monte Hellman was hired to adapt it for the screen in 1979, with Francis Ford Coppola slated to direct and produce; Coppola abandoned the project when he became distracted by the agonizing experience of shooting Apocalypse Now. 239 pp.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some very minor edge-wear, but no other notable wear. Includes B&W illustrations. 294 pp. History.

Unmarked pages, tight spine. Fairly heavy shelf-wear to the cover, including a one-inch cosmetic area of the front cover where sizing and imagery have been torn away. There is some subtle buckling to the last twenty pages, probably due to water damage. Fascinating account of this influential and unforgettable historical figure. 243 pp. History.

No publication date listed, but looks to be mid-twentieth century. Saddle-stitched binding remains sound, although there is some rusting to the staples. Clean, unmarked interior. Former owner name in ink to the front cover. Some areas of light sunning, creasing, and edge-wear to the covers. Includes beautiful full-color plates. 32 pp. Natural History.

Spine is sound and square, but there is a heavy cosmetic crease. Former owner name to inside front cover, but interior is else clean and unmarked. Some light rubbing to areas of the covers, but no other notable shelf-wear. Beckett was 'discovered' by Grove's Barney Rosset in 1952 when the publisher read an essay called 'Samuel Beckett: An Introduction', written by a young translator named Richard Seaver, who in passing had seen copies of Molloy and Malone, yet to be published in English, displayed in the Paris window of Éditions de Minuit. 141 pp. Theater.