Search Results: Titles starting with M from Dividing Line Books

Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First English language edition of Breton's surrealist philosophy of love. Translated by Mary Ann Caws. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1987. First edition. Octavo, 7-3/4 x 5-5/8 in. xvii, 129pp. Purple cloth stamped in gilt on spine and front board; dust jacket. Former owner's name and date penned on ffep. Else fine in a near fine, price-clipped jacket with a diagonal crease and mild fading to spine panel. A particularly sharp copy.

NY: Pantheon Books, 1965. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Sharp first edition of the French philosopher's first book to appear in English translation: an abridged version of his 1961 doctoral thesis, which tracks the shifting conceptions of madness and reason from the Renaissance to the Modern Age. Informed by Foucault's own struggles with mental health, as well as the time he spent working in a psychiatric hospital in the 1950s, the book is widely seen as an attack on the medicalization of madness as mental illness. Rather than an inevitable humanist victory, Foucault reads that position as a mode of bourgeois social control, one supported by a selective historical narrative. Madness and Civilization seeks to upend that narrative by highlighting crucial discontinuities in the history of madness. Though Foucault himself falls prey to over-selectivity at times in his presentation of facts, his landmark work remains one of the most important texts in the post-structuralist history of… Read More

Tokyo: life goes on & TAXi / Heibonsha, 2009. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A collection of high-quality reproductions of street and documentary photographs by Shigeichi Nagano (1925-2019), originally published in Japanese photography magazines from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, and demonstrative of the "conflict of people in regards to the society that had dramatically changed amidst the backdrop of rapid economic growth," according to the introductory text (in both Japanese and English) by Manabu Torihara. With also an "interview" text, also in Japanese and English, in which Nagano recounts details about specific photos. Tokyo: life goes on & TAXi / Heibonsha, 2009. First edition. Quarto; gray paper stamped in silver to front board & spine; dust jacket. 88pp.; photo-illustrated in b&w & color. Fine in a near fine jacket, white portions a trifle toned & with crumpling along top edge.

Chapel Hill, NC: Lollipop Power Inc., 1973. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Chapel Hill, NC: Lollipop Power Inc., 1973. First edition. Perfect-bound in printed red wraps, 11 x 8-1/8 in. 45pp. Printed on orange paperstock, with b&w drawings throughout. Former owner's address stamp on front and rear covers and title page. Light fading and a small spot of damage to spine. Very good. Children's story about a girl who finds a magic hat at the dump and erases a fence that prevents girls from playing with boys' toys and vice-versa. Founded as a nonprofit in 1969, Lollipop Power was one of the first feminist presses to produce children's books that cast gender nonconformity in a positive light. These early titles decidedly uncommon in the trade.

NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Another of Michaux's peerless meditations on the drug experience, this one considering the types of illuminations one might glean through experimentation with psychoactive compounds, as well as the light that such experiences shed on the normal (and abnormal) processes of the human mind. In customary fashion, Michaux effortlessly interweaves passages of lucid reflection with more poetically charged descriptions of the mental and sensory states provoked by psychedelic substances. First edition. Octavo (5.75 x 8.25 in.); 170pp.; orange-brown cloth boards, black spine lettering, in dust jacket. A couple of minor bumps to base of rear board, else fine in a fine jacket with "$6.95" price still present on front flap.

NY: Pathfinder, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. NY: Pathfinder, 1989. Xi, 233pp.; index; 8 b&w plates at center. Octavo; gray vinyl boards; black spine titles; dust jacket. Very good or better in a very good jacket, unclipped, with moderate edge-wear & several closed tears. Reprint edition of this collection of fourteen speeches and statements by Malcolm X, first published in 1965. Edited with prefatory notes by George Breitman.

NY: Left Hand Books, 2000. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed copy of the second book by this Brooklyn-based poet and critic. Kingston, First edition. Signed, dated, and briefly inscribed by Sigler on the half-title. Octavo (5.5 x 8.25 in.); 71pp.; dark gray cloth boards. Light bump to the top front board corner. Else fine in a near fine jacket showing toning to the spine panel, light general rubbing and soiling. Rear jacket blurbs by John Ashbery, Albert Mobilio, and John Yau.

Madison: University of Wisconsin, 2005. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo, xv, 284pp. First printing. Fondly inscribed by Field to a former owner on the title page. Full brown cloth with tan spine titles. Mild forward cocking to spine, gift inscription on front free end paper, else fine in a fine jacket. An exhilarating and anecdote-packed memoir about the literary bohemia in postwar New York.

Chaville, France: Natives, 2003. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 4to. 117pp. First edition. Black cloth, gilt spine titles. Inscribed by Aull on front endpage. One dog-eared page corner, else fine in a very good (+) jacket with light wear and laminate curling at spine ends. Full color NYC photographs by Aull, along with accompanying text (in both French and English) by David McIlvaney. Includes a short screenplay entitled "Julian's Walk.

London: The Parton Press, 1936. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Small 8vo. 43pp. White paper boards, black titles. Some chipping at spine ends and at bottom corner of rear board, light exterior soiling, slight bump to top corner of textblock. Else a very good, unmarked copy of the English poet's second volume of verse--the first in which he explicitly associated himself with the surrealist movement--published when Gascoyne was just 20 years of age. Uncommon, especially in such presentable condition.

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Presumed first American edition. 8vo. viii + 308pp. Blue publisher's cloth, gilt spine titles. Crushing and some short closed splits to cloth at spine ends, moderate general shelfwear (boards just peeking through at bottom tips), toning to deckled fore-edge. Else very good (+), clean and tightly bound. Collects five essays ("Man's Place in the Cosmos," "The Present Position of the Philosophical Sciences," "The 'New' Psychology and Automatism," "A New Theory of the Absolute," and "Mr. Balfour and his Critics") by the Scottish philosopher whose views of personal idealism and critical stance towards the Hegelian Absolute proved influential to subsequent thinkers from Bertrand Russell to William James.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1938. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. First edition of this scholarly survey of the "hashish vice," published a year after the passage of the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, which restricted the sale of cannabis in the United States. Thoroughly researched (albeit slanted) chapters on the use of marijuana throughout history, its botanical and chemical make-up, etc., are counterbalanced by a continued insistence on the (bogus) link between marijuana and crime. Thus a significant early salvo in America's decades-long marijuana-vilification campaign, whose underlying racial and economic prejudices are only finally being acknowledged today. With a foreword by E. M. K. Geiling, and a chapter by Frank R. Gomila and M. C. Gomila Lambou. First edition. Octavo, 9.25 x 6.5 in. Paginated ix, 223pp., eight leaves of photo illustrations; with bibliography, author and subject indexes. Black cloth boards, silver spine lettering; lacking the jacket. Scattered… Read More

Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Narcotics & Dangerous Drugs, 1972. Soft cover. Very Good. Octavo. 47pp. Saddle-stapled in printed green wraps. A very good (+) copy with light wear at tips and along spine hinge, a few minor spots of soiling. "This book was conceived as a document which would present the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs' view of the problem, based on what we know--and do not know--about the harmful effects of cannabis abuse." Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs.

London: Croom Helm, 1986. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. 201pp., indexed. Blue textured paper boards, gilt spine titles. Sticker residue on front pastedown, light toning to textblock, else fine in a fine, unclipped jacket. An attempt to synthesize the seemingly incompatible philosophical frameworks of dialectical materialism and subjective idealism.

London: Little, Brown and Company, 2000. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Octavo. Glued binding. 406pp. First printing. Inscribed "With best wishes" and signed by Gregory on the title page. Black textured paper boards and gilt spine titles. Light toning to textblock, a couple spots of soiling to top edge, else fine. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. The sixth book in th Matthew Bartholomew series of mystery novels.

Montreal: Drawn and Quarterly, 2010. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to. 65pp. Fourth printing. Signed and dated 2017 by Sikoryak on the front free end paper, along with a doodle of the character "Little Pearl." Printed paper boards without dust jacket, as issued. Light wear at spine ends and tips, else near fine.

NY: Arbor House, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Octavo (8.5 x 5.75 in.); xvii + 300pp.; two-tone grey and blue papered boards, in dust jacket. A touch of pushing at base of spine, else very fine in a fine, unclipped ("$18.95") jacket with moderate browning to the rear panel and flaps. A collection of math-themed science fiction stories by Isaac Asimov, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Martin Gardner, Douglas Hofstadter, Norman Kagen, Larry Niven, Frederik Pohl, Robert Sheckley, Ruth Berman, and others. Jacket illustration by Richard Powers.

Chicago: The Priory Press, 1966. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. viii+197pp, indexed. Presumed first (no statement of printing). Rust-colored cloth, gilt spine titles. Light bumping to spine ends, some waterspotting to top of textblock, else very near fine. Very good (+) unclipped "$5.00" jacket lightly edgeworn & browned. Scarce philosophical essay on natural science, a defense of Aristotelian concepts of matter.

Woodstock, NY: Aesopus Press, 1979. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Woodstock, NY: Aesopus Press, 1979. 8vo. Saddle-stapled in printed blue wraps. [28]pp., with photo of author at rear. Very good or better, with light soiling to wraps. Signed, dated, and inscribed by Gottlieb on first page. A collection of poems reimagining through a feminist lens the inner lives of women from history and mythology, including Heloise, Dido, Cleopatra, Guinevere. Thus echoes of H.D., Angela Carter, etc. Worthy of discovery.

NY: Corinth Books, 1970. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. First book by the Black American poet, founder in 1968 of the Natural Process Workshop in East Harlem which in the early 70s merged with the St. Marks Poetry Project, where Weatherly subsequently taught, while also working at the Strand Book Store. NY: Corinth Books, 1970. Perfect-bound in printed card wraps, 7-7/8 x 6 in. 47pp. With a black-and-white frontispiece portrait of the poet by Carolyn Weatherly. Near fine.