London: Pluto Press, 1984. Paperback. 64p., softbound first edition in 8x6 inch decorated color wraps. Very good copy; fine, even; perfectly sound, clean and unmarked. And almost comprehensible. Title refers rather indirectly to shoes, small electric heaters, and a sweaty crowded room where people listen to other people speaking. Jeez;..... More
Cat.No: 334278
Paris: Poulain-Le Fur, 2001. Paperback. 86p., 558 listings, scattered b&w illustrations; softbound in 11.5x8 inch decorated wraps. This copy is clean and unmarked but externally a bit worn from handling, with a large deep corner crease to front cover. Books and related items somewhat spiced with avant garde associations; item..... More
Cat.No: 262870
San Francisco: National Poetry Association, 1991. 28p., folded tabloid, photos and illustrations, ex-library with stamps. More
Cat.No: 121397
Northampton, MA: Big Tree Books, 2018. 647p., very good paperback. Overlong novel by a longtime SF State lecturer, set in NY and SF in the longlong 60s and 70s. More
Cat.No: 229141
New York: E. P. Dutton, Inc., 1984. Hardcover. xii, 467p., quarter cloth boards in slightly edgeworn dustjacket, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 277331
Paris: Les Editions Textuel, 2004. Paperback. 192p., profusely illustrated with rare photos, period imagery, and documents in facsimile, cheek by jowl in now-normal postmodern layout panache; presswork on alkaline matte cream paperstock. Softbound in 11x10 inch frenchfold wraps. The line of the back-cover joint bears two minute dings, and spine..... More
Cat.No: 250882
Paris: Larousse, 1993. 381p., massive production, nice alkaline paperstock on which, amidst a running text, are reproduced many period images of cafe interiors and patrons. Hardbound in 13x10 inch openweave brown cloth boards gilt, and decorated dust jacket. The book itself is virtually as new, while the dj spine panel..... More
Cat.No: 250983
Albuquerque: Kumquat Press, 1985. Paperback. xii, 124p., main text reproduced from typescript, illustrated with a few snapshots (portrait and site), softbound in 8x5.5 inch wraps, nice copy inscribed and signed by Bowen with, laid in, a facsimile letter repro'd from holograph by Bowen (as "Fran"), two sides, recto a message..... More
Cat.No: 284429
San Francisco: City Lights Foundation, 2004. Paperback. 276p., very good first edition in original pictorial wraps. Collection of two dozen essays "originating in the wake of the astonishing popular mobilization on behalf of a campaign to elect underdog Matt Gonzalez mayor of San Francisco..." The publisher, City Lights Foundation, "is..... More
Cat.No: 138509
New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996. Hardcover. xiii, 365p., illus., slight shelfwear to dj, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 36846
[New York]: Floyd Dell, 1926. Broadside, 17x11 inches, decorated with a nicely-done expresionist street-scene measuring 5.5x3 inches (uncredited); neatly creased horizontally and vertically folding to 5.5x8.5 inches else very good condition; signed in the plate with a reproduction of Dell's signature. Poem about life & loves while living on Christopher..... More
Cat.No: 211106
Santa Fe NM: Kapala Press [www.dpress.net], 2013. Paperback. 124, xxvi, 175p., softbound facsimile of an amateur artist's sketchbook, b&w with some reproductions in colors, softbound in 8.5x5.5 inch color wraps. A little crudely bound: wrapper is fractionally too small for textblock, a color section protrudes but seems not at risk..... More
Cat.No: 219432
Charleston: The History Press, 2014. Paperback. 127p. paperback, 6x9 inches, very good. Illustrated profusely with b&w photographs and neat reproductions of archival documents. From the back cover, "The people of Taos have always displayed a feisty-if not downright insurgent-spirit. Every uprising that toppled a New Mexican government started here, beginning..... More
Cat.No: 280534
London: Jonathan Cape, 1998. Hardcover. xii, 484p., black boards in slightly edgeworn and rubbed dustjacket, corners bumped, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 277053
Oakland: The Seven Seas Publishing Co., 1934. Single leaf of coated paperstock printed in blue ink and folded to make a 4p. newsletter "magazine," 8.5x5.5 inches, banner shows a three-masted clipper in silhouette. Ex library with accession and withdrawn stamps, bears some crimpings, a vertical fold, and some red-pencil emphases..... More
Cat.No: 184521
Oakland: The Seven Seas Publishing Co., 1934. Magazine. Single leaf of coated paperstock printed in blue ink and folded to make a 4p. newsletter "magazine," 8.5x5.5 inches, banner shows a three-masted clipper in silhouette. A very worn creased copy with what looks like a job-lot printer's notes in red pencil..... More
Cat.No: 184522
Nagoya: Shikosha 志考社, 2004. Paperback. 204 p., illustrated with scattered b&w snapshots (of rock singers, of self and others lounging with beer), softbound in 7x5 inch plain printed cover with a dust-wrapper in colors; text in Japanese. Author decided to leave for Jamaica while still in high school. Recollects how..... More
Cat.No: 172924
Zagreb: The Bridge, 1997. 132p., an elegant little paperbound in glossy 7.5x4 inch decorated wraps; mass-market size but trade-paper production qualities. Clean, sound and unmarked, a very good to fine copy. The Bridge Collection, classical and contemporary Croatian Writers 3/1997. "Most/The Bridge, A Journal of Croatian Literature ..is financially supported..... More
Cat.No: 229386
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Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2022. 212p., plus addenda that terminate in a vignette author photoportrait. Softbound first edition in 8x5 inch decorated wraps. Autographed and inscribed on titlepage in an interesting manner, datelined L.A. 2022. Fine copy: quite sound and clean, and otherwise unmarked. More
Cat.No: 335874
Prag: (Robert Gerche), 1913. xlvii, 240p., hardbound in utilitarian library binding, plain boards with hand-lettered cloth backstrip. Ex library, has a "Withdrawn" stamp and a pencilled note reading "576 pages on LC card," evidently there's some discrepancy with the Library of Congress record. Whatever the case, this item is sound..... More
Cat.No: 260313
New York: Monthly Review Press, 1993. Paperback. 223p., softbound in 8x5.5 inch stylishly decorated white wraps, first issue in MR's papercovered format, a nearly immaculate copy, only marred with the the shadow of a long gone label to the front cover. Absolutely sound, and otherwise entirely clean and unmarked. Blurb..... More
Cat.No: 335575
[Seattle]: Laocoon Books, 1988. Pamphlet. 60p., a variety of simple illustrations printed in blue amongst the b&w text, softbound in 8.5x6.5 inch stapled wraps. Both corner-tips faintly bumped, foredge of entire item bears a subtle bend from careless storage, a sound copy clean within, no ownership or institutional markings. Reasonably..... More
Cat.No: 218410
Berkeley: Bureau of Public Secrets, 1990. 88p., paperback; very good first edition in wraps. More
Cat.No: 59983
Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, 1900. Boards. 345, [7]p., boards. 7.75 x 5.5 in. Very Good. Novel about village life in the forests of Bohemia, by the wife of the Czech-American concert violinist Vaclav Kopta. More
Cat.No: 320453
Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1981. Pamphlet. 26p., illus., staplebound pamphlet, rubberstamp on publisher's imprint, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 273934
