Search Results: Titles starting with U from Better Read Than Dead

Sunland, CA: California UFO, 1992. Saddle-stapled in publisher's pictorial wrappers. Very good, lightly worn with some sticker residue to cover wrap. Cover image of Mars from Dec. 13, 1990, observation.

Portland, OR: Floating World, 2022. Soft cover. Very Good. Book is in very good condition, tight square binding, general shelving and handling wear, clean and unmarked within. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

Tokyo: Nippon Geijutsu Shuppansha, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good. Book is very good. Light bumping to bottom corners of front and rear boards, square tight binding, shelving and handling wear, clean and unmarked within. Jacket is very good, bright and clean, some minor creasing toward tail of jacket spine, shelving and handling wear, some peeling along jacket edges,. Overall in very good condition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall.

New York: Eyecontact, 1981. First printing. Hardcover, octavo, cream cloth boards, red spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, red endpapers. Very good book, cloth edges worn; very good dust jacket, spine faded to joints, spine ends chipped and worn, covers lightly soiled, edges and corners lightly rubbed. Jacket design by Ruth Ross. The making of the 1979 historical pornographic film, Caligula, from the perspective of assistant director, PierNico Solinas. The film was based on an original screenplay by Gore Vidal, starred Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren, and was produced by Penthouse founder, Bob Guccione. This copy has a tipped-in publishers promotional letter from Eyecontact publicist Brenda Goodman addressed to New York magazine and TV Guide film critic Judith Crist; with accompanying stationery.

Milano Libri Edizioni, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good. Some wear to boards due to age and handling. Light fraying to the top of spine board. 1 1/2 black mark on end ppaper. Tight binding, clean text block, and bright leaves free of soiling or creasing. Text in Italian. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall.

New York: United Artists, 1983. 4to, side-stapled glossy paper wraps, yellow glassine front end paper, unpaginated paper leaves. Good, heavy creasing to wraps and to first few leaves, wear and soiling to wraps. Cover by Yvonne Jacquette. Penultimate issue of the journal published by Mayer and Warsh's United Artists press. Featuring Joe Brainard (Self-Portrait 1982), Kathy Acker (from "My Death, My Life" by Pier Paolo Pasolini), Anne Waldman in conversation with Edwin Denby (perhaps his last interview?), Bernadette Mayer, Lee Harwood, Rudy Burckhardt, Bill Berkson, and more.

Indianapolis, Indiana: Bobbs-Merrill, 1972. 8vo, black cloth boards with copper lettering on spine in pictorial jacket, 233 pp. Very Good, small residue mark on front boards, light shelving and handling wear./Very Good jacket, some chipping and wear along extremities, closed tears at crown and tail of spine where it meets front panel, original price marked down in pen on front flap, some creasing to front panel near jacket spine..

New York: Gagosian. Hardcover quarto, illustrated boards, [10] pp. text affixed to front board, unpaginated concertina of illustrated plates [10 plates to verso, extended detail plates to recto] affixed to rear board. Near Fine, light shelving and handling wear..

New York: N.P., 1978. $4.95" Edition (circled of two printed options: $4.95 or $100). Softcover [12mo] in black and white pictorial wraps, unpaginated [40 pp]. Very Good, some rubbing and creasing to wraps. Internally clean, binding sound.. Artist's book from Louise Lawler, a "screenplay with no film" one year before her first solo installation in which she played the audio of John Huston's "The Misfits" over a blank screen. Text is with Janelle Reiring. Each copy was printed with a price option to the inside cover: "The price of this books is $4.95 or $100. The price of this books is $4.95 or $100. The price of this copy is encircled:", of which this is circled $4.95 in red. Highly scarce.

San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1983. First edition. Perfect-bound, [octavo] in glossy pictorial wraps, 160 pp. Very good, lightly worn and rubbed wraps. Drawings by Tom of Finland.

New York City, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover 8vo quarter bound black leather spine with gilt lettering, orange boards with black lettering in an illustrated dust jacket, 174 pp. Very good, light rubbing to edges and corners of boards, 1/2" scrape to bottom right cover board, very nice copy./Very good, very light chipping, creasing, and small tears to perimeter aspects, small 1/4" piece missing from top of spine, strong jacket..

New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1996. Signature-bound (oblong) quarto in printed wraps. 67 pp. Very Good or better, light edge wear and some rubbing to covers. Lightly bumped at bottom fore corner..

San Francisco: Terrain, CA. Hand-editioned [53] of 175 to inside back wrap. Spiral-bound [8-1/2 in x 11 in]. Cardstock wrappers with toner printed front cover. Unpaginated [49 pp]. Very Good, some handling wear and soiling in a sound binding.. Exhibition catalog for Robert Nickas' group show at Terrain gallery from February 15 to March 12, 1994. Thirty-four artists represented include Larry Clark, Dan Graham, G.B. Jones, Mike Kelley, Jutta Koether, Raymond Pettibon, and more. Hand-numbered 53 of 175 to inside back wrap.

New York: United Artists, 1984. First Edition. Perfect-bound [octavo] in printed red wrappers, 131 pp, [18 pp] index. About Near Fine, mild soiling to text block, small stain to cover, softest crease to bottom corner of front wrap.. Scarce inscribed First Edition of Mayer's book-length poetic experiment in Utopian thought-forms, one of her many impressive and sustained controlled demolitions of language (immediately preceded by 1982's Midwinter Day, a book length poem that, High Noon-style, is written in real time throughout the day of the winter solstice). Desires and world leaders and other realities are all inventoried and gussied up for Mayer to trot out on the page as she pokes and challenges at the limits of the possible. This copy boldly inscribed by Mayer in black ink to second page, "For Francesca / Love, Bernadette / Utopia