Search Results: Titles starting with U from Dividing Line Books

London: Fortean Times/John Brown Publishing Ltd., 1997. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A collection of essays covering the historical development of the UFO phenomenon. This copy from the collection of Timothy Green Beckley (1952-2021), author, publisher of the Global Communications and Inner Light imprints, and noted ufology and paranormal expert. London: Fortean Times/John Brown Publishing Ltd., 1997. 272pp.; index; illus. 8vo. Black textured-paper boards; silver spine titles; dust jacket. Signed by an unknown hand and inscribed on the half-title: '6/1/97 Best wishes to Tim Beckley-"Mr. UFO"-in his relentless pursuit of ufological Truth!' Slight spine twist; mild bumping to corners. Very good or better in a like jacket, with a touch of damp staining at base of spine. The inscriber does not appear to be one of the contributors; we speculate they may have been a peer of Beckley's at Fortean Times, the British magazine of unidentified phenomena who organized this… Read More

NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First book by the late American social psychologist, a widely reviewed and reprinted survey of alienated youth on the cusp of the hippie-era. A readable blend of theory and detailed case histories, the first half of the book focuses on various types of alienated youth, particularly young college-age men, while the second half investigates the societal factors and attendant psychological states responsible for the posited lack of "social commitment" among the young. First edition. Octavo, 8.75 x 6 in. viii, 500pp., with appendix, reference notes, and bibliography. Blue cloth boards, silver spine titles, light blue topstain; in dust jacket. Light shelfwear, a few scattered spots of soiling to the half-title page and to the upper fore-edge of textblock. Unclipped ("$8.50") jacket with a small triangular chip at base of spine, several short closed tears at head of spine, mild rubbing to front panel.… Read More

Abindgon, VA: Dracon Press, 1995. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. Abingdon, VA: Dracon Press, 1995. First edition. Review copy, with twice-folded review sheet laid in. 142pp.; index; illus. 8vo. Perfect-bound in glossy illustrated wraps. Two faint spots of soiling to fore-edge, else very fine. A report on underground government structures, principally military. Though Sauder positions himself as a "student of UFOlogy," he cautions readers in his foreword that he will not draw any conclusions about whether aliens are living or working in the bases in question, and instead restricts himself to strictly the facts.

NY: Macmillan, 1963. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 198pp. Green cloth, dark red topstain. Presumed early reprint (no statement of printing). Light shelfwear, red remainder mark to bottom of textblock, else near fine in an unclipped "$3.95" jacket with a 1" closed tear and related creases at head of front panel, light wear and small chips at spine ends. The second Cock Robin Mystery, following 1960's "Sleeping Dogs Lying.

Providence, RI: Paradigm Press, 1990. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. Second publication by an American poet noted for her formally and thematically innovative approach. One of 400 copies. Saddle-stapled in printed lavender wraps; 7 x 8.5 in.; unpaginated (~17pp.). With a line drawing by Ray Jordan on the cover and subsequently repeated on each verso. Former owner's name stamped on front endpaper, a touch of soiling to wraps, else fine.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company / Atlantic Monthly Press, 1966. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Attractive copy of this spiritual memoir, by the American writer best known for her 1956 novel The Nun's Story, about Hulme's life-changing years as a student of the Armenian-born mystic George Gurdjieff. Boston: Little, Brown and Company / Atlantic Monthy Press, 1966. First edition. 306pp. 8vo. Brown textured paper blindstamped on front board; black and gilt spine titles; dust jacket. Edges of titles a little rubbed, with some transfer onto jacket interior. Minor bump to top front corner. Else near fine in a near fine, unclipped ("$6.50") jacket with rubbing to spine ends, toning to spine and flap perimeters. Jacket design by Jerry Pinkney.

NY: James Pott & Company, 1906. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition of this important collection of autobiographies by working-class and mostly immigrant Americans at the turn of the twentieth century. Exploitation, cruelty, and prejudice (including often the authors' own) are common themes: a French dressmaker is swindled out of her money at Ellis island; a Greek peddler must pay large bribes to the police; a farmer's wife's literary ambitions are stifled by her autocratic husband and small-minded friends. Yet the stories as a whole are recounted with striking equanimity, and are remarkable both in candor and lack of sentimentality. As explained by Edwin E. Slosson in his introduction, two methods were used in gathering the accounts: "first and preferably, to have the life written upon his own initiative by the person who lived it; second . . . to have the story written from interviews, and then read to and approved by the person telling it." The volume's… Read More

Weston, CT: Living Hand, 1974. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Inscribed copy of the first original book, a collection of poems, by the author of The New York Trilogy, etc. Weston, CT: Living Hand, 1974. First edition. 24pp. 8vo. Saddle-stitched in wraps. Moderate sunning to spine and covers; an area of light soiling to front cover at fore-edge; toning to edges of leaves; inscribee's ownership seal blind-embossed to title page. About very good, with a penciled correction, presumably in Auster's hand, to the eleventh poem. Signed and inscribed by Auster to the half-title: "For John- In friendship. Paul." The third publication of Living Hand, the imprint Auster ran with his then-wife Lydia Davis.

Berne: Swiss Federal Office of Culture, 2004. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo, perfect-bound in printed wraps. 77pp. First edition. Light wear to corners, slight toning to edges of textblock, else near fine. Several leaves of glossy full color illustrations from the Moser / Schwinger film Unexpected Rules. Collects two essays regarding the work by Alessio Moretti and Stefan Schoettke, both in their original Italian and German, respectively, as well as in English translation. Published for the 26th Bienal de Sao Paulo 2004, at which Unexpected Rules represented Switzerland.

Lenox, MA: Bernadette Mayer and Lewis Warsh, 1978. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Lenox, MA: Bernadette Mayer and Lewis Warsh, 1978. [64]pp. 4to. Side-stapled wraps. Moderate soiling and toning to covers, crease to top front cover (and vellum endpaper). Else very good. Second issue (of 18 total) of Mayer and Warsh's little magazine, with contributions from Alice Notley, Bill Berkson & Barrett Watten, Lewis Warsh, Clark Coolidge, Ted Berrigan, and Bernadette Mayer. Though unstated, this copy from the library of poet, librettist, and publisher Kenward Elmslie (1929-2022).

California, PA: The Unspeakable Visions of the Individual / TUVOTI, 1971. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. Quarto; first three issues side-stapled, subsequently saddle-stapled; printed black-and-white wraps; various paginations. A contiguous set comprising the first three volumes (eight total issues published from 1971 to 1973) of this literary journal, which anthologized the later output of Beat-era writers. Published and edited by the husband-and-wife duo of Arthur and Kit "Glee" Knight, who took the journal's title from Jack Kerouac's "Belief & Techniques for Modern Prose," a methodological "list of essentials" composed at the prompting of Allen Ginsberg. All eight issues in fine condition, with only slight occasional wear at corners. Additional bibliographic and contributor notes gladly provided on request.

Glenn Dale, MD: Mars Research, 1988. Fourth edition. 135pp.; b&w and color illus. Quarto; saddle-stapled in photo-illustrated wraps. Soiling to rear cover; some splitting at spine ends; very good. Signed & inscribed ("God Bless") to title-page by co-author Brandenburg. With illustrations and artwork by Grace DiPietro, and Viking Art by Jim Butcher.
A heavily illustrated guide to such surface features of the planet Mars as would suggest some sentient and perhaps even artistic landscape intervention; a veritable case study in pareidolia. Co-author and inscriber Brandenburg is a theoretical plasma physicist (and science fiction writer) who in 2012 earned some notoriety for declaring that he detected evidence of thermonuclear war on Mars.