Search Results: Titles starting with L from Goodbar Books

Text in Italian. Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Fairly sharp corners. Only the gentlest of shelf-wear. Includes plenty of monochrome plates. 254 pp. Poetry/The Arts.

Text in French. Spine is tight and has a very subtle lean, as well as some sunning. Former owner name, address, and date to the inside front cover, but interior is else clean and unmarked. Only the gentlest of shelf-wear. 372 pp. Scholarly.

Interior is clean and unmarked. Text block is still square and tightly bound, although there is fairly heavy damage to the spine exterior, which has separated from the text block and been repaired with clear tape. There is also some fading to the wraps, as well as as some other minor shelf-wear. Former owner stamp to the first blank leaf. Features a B&W frontispiece depicting Bernhardt with the author. 316 pp. Journalism.

In lovely shape: tight, square, uncreased spine: clean, unmarked interior; fairly sharp corners and hardly any shelf-wear. Beautiful cover with stencil-inspired typeface and image of a bee echoing a grid of notched boards. 383 pp. Foreign Language.

Tight, square spine. Unmarked interior. Gilt to spine remains bright. Some very light toning to a few pages near the front and back. Heavy edge-wear to the jacket at the head. Includes monochrome plates. 323 pp. Jounralism.

Copyright page states 1953, but this is a later printing. Tight, square, uncreased spine. Unmarked interior. Corners are fairly sharp. Minor shelf-wear. Translated by Dorothy Bussy, who was a good friend of Gide and anonymously published her groundbreaking lesbian novel, Olivia, with Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press in 1949. Printmaker Antonio Frasconi, who incorporated expressionistic title lettering into the woodcuts that grace both the books' covers, often carved blocks from the driftwood found on the beach in front of his home. 'Sometimes the wood gives you a break," he said, "and matches your conception of the way it is grained. But often you must surrender to the grain, find the movement of the scene, the mood of the work, in the way the grain runs.' 242 pp.

Inscribed by van Dresser to verso of first blank leaf: 'Peter van Dresser/El Rito–/Summer 1974'. Tight, square, uncreased spine. A phone number written in ink to the last blank leaf. Interior else unmarked except for three very small areas of soiling. Moderate wear to the wraps, including a cosmetic chip to the spine and an area of adhesive remainder to the back cover. Includes B&W figures and illustrations. 128 pp. Scholarly.

Saddle-stitched binding remains sound. Former owner writing and stamp (Cottage Grove Genealogical Society) stamp to front cover, but interior is clean and unmarked. No other notable wear. Topics include 'Bohemia Toll Raod', 'Bohemia "Hotels"', 'Merle Moore's Bohemia Letters', 'I Remember When', and 'Map of Bohemia Area'. Includes B&W maps and photos. 56 pp. Regional History Ephemera.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Sharp corners. Some very light toning to the pages. A small area of adhesive remainder to the front cover, but no other notable shelf-wear. Cover illustration by Fieroza Doorsen. Cover design by Lucienne Roberts. 210 pp. Fiction.

Tight, square spine has some very faint cosmetic creasing. Clean, unmarked interior. Some very light shelf-wear. Cover illustration by Mike Mariano. Cover typography by Gun Larson. 270 pp. Fiction.

Inscribed by Baker to the title page: 'To Jim–/with best wishes/Dean Baker.' Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. There is a heavy two-inch crease affecting the front cover and front matter at the head. There is also a crease to the back cover at the fore-edge head. Very little other notable wear. Cover art by David Hausam. Includes B&W photos and illustrations and a hand-drawn map by Bill Bruckner. 198 pp. History.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Interior is clean and unmarked except for a former owner stamp to the dedication page. Light to moderate wear to the covers, including rubbing and light creasing. Includes B&W photos. Great cover design by Sue Allen. 'A selection and integration of excerpts and complete narratives from the Slave Narrative Collection of the Federal Writers' Project.' 298 pp. History.

Spine is tight, square, and uncreased. Interior is clean and unmarked. Very gentle shelf-wear. Printed on high-quality paper. 80 pp. Spirituality/Esoterica.

Clean, unmarked interior except for a small dent to the final two leaves. Spine is tight and square. Gilt still bright on spine and front-cover stamping. Corners are sharp. Printed end-papers, padded boards, lots of B&W photos. Jacket is in nice shape except for a couple half-inch chips and some other minor shelf-wear. 189 pp.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Light shelf-wear. In this first volume of her paradigm-shifting treatise, Beauvoir illustrates the patriarchal 'horror of female fertility' (as translated by Howard Parshley) that has dominated the age by citing an 1878 British Medical Journal article claiming, 'It is an indisputable fact that meat goes bad when touched by menstruating women.' Her argument is strengthened by the book's antipathetic reception by everyone from the Vatican to Francisco Franco to Alfred Kinsey, who dismissed it due to its lack of scientific data. This beautiful edition features a cover by Henry Cohen (after a photo by Louis-Yves Loirat), whose prolific film photography work for Gallimard's Idées nrf (the publisher's nonfictional answer to Le Livres de poche) often incorporated a variety of Man Ray–inspired filtering and distortive effects, and is described by Rick Poynor as 'possess[ing] the same "must have" factor as Penguin paperbacks of the era; the exquisite… Read More

French. Signed by the author to the reverse of the half-title. No copyright date stated, but appears to be late nineteenth/early twentieth century. There is fairly heavy scuffing and edge-wear to the cover, but the binding is sound and the interior is clean and unmarked. Includes B&W illustrations and tables. 167 pp. Crafts/Trades.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some areas of light to moderate edge-wear, but nice, clean copy overall. Scarce. 201 pp. Fiction.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some very gentle edge-wear and areas of light rubbing to the covers, but in lovely shape overall. Fantastic cover design by Hal Siegel. 190 pp.

No dust jacket. Very clean, unread copy. Some foxing to top and bottom edges and gently bumped corners at head of spine. Boards covered in blue buckram with title stamped in black to spine. 218 pp. Fiction.

Spine is tight, but has a very subtle lean. There are stains to the front and back end-sheets and jacket flaps, where the jacket was once taped and has now offset. Interior is else clean and unmarked. No other notable wear to the book. The back of the jacket has some very light soiling/rubbing, but is in nice shape overall. Jacket design by Lena Fong Lueg. Jacket illustration by Jack Gaughan. 218 pp. Fiction.