Search Results: Authors starting with F from Goodbar Books

French. Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior except for a former owner inscription to the half-title. Some light toning to the wraps, very gentle edge-wear, and a faint former owner stamps to the top edge. Founded in 1935, Le Seuil is notable for publishing the first edition of Fanon's seminal first book in 1952; this chic little edition was issued nearly two decades later as part of the house's Points series. Fanon drafted the work as his dissertation, which was rejected while he was a student at Lyon, where he attended lectures by Merleau-Ponty and endured ongoing racism. The book, which discusses the sinister effects colonialism and racism have on language, is known for its resounding challenge to Descartes: 'O my body, make of me a man who always questions!' 188 pp.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Very little shelf-wear. Black Sparrow Press began posthumously publishing Fante's then out-of-print works in the late 1970s, at the suggestion of house favorite Charles Bukowski ('Fante was my god,' he said), who had happened upon the writer's work in the LA Public Library. The Road to Los Angeles, Fante's first novel and chronologically the second in the Arturo Bandini saga, went unpublished until 1985. Signature BSP matte cover and industry-reshaping format; designed by the press's untrained virtuoso Barbara Martin. 164 pp.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Very little shelf-wear. Black Sparrow Press began posthumously publishing Fante's then out-of-print works in the late 1970s, at the suggestion of house favorite Charles Bukowski ('Fante was my god,' he said), who had happened upon the writer's work in the LA Public Library. West of Rome includes two novellas, The Orgy and My Dog Stupid, which Yvan Attal adapted into a 2019 film, Mon chien Stupide. Signature BSP matte cover and industry-reshaping format; designed by the press's untrained virtuoso Barbara Martin. 188 pp.

Tight, square spine. Former owner inscription to the first blank leaf, reading: 'April 17, 1970/Davy,/You are nineteen. The age brings a lot of things to mind. A few happy, some tragic. "Would you move", he often said. Move, Stoney Dave, Up and Up and Up. To move, to try is to make it./We are one—the three of us'/Lynn'. Interior is otherwise unmarked. There is one very small area of heavy rubbing to the front cover and some gentle rubbing and general shelf-wear to the cover as a whole. Essential read for understanding the zeitgeist that gripped the 1960s student counterculture. 188 pp. Scholarly/Journalism.

Spine is tight, but has a slight lean, as well as some sunning and creasing. Clean, unmarked interior. Areas of light edge-wear and light to moderate soiling to the covers. Incredible cover to this mass-market edition, featuring art by a young Ron Chereskin before he switched careers to menswear design, gaining recognition for his ties and cotton sweaters, as well as the infamous 'disco shirt'. During his brief life, Fariña associated with Bob Dylan and Thomas Pynchon and formed a folk duo with Joan Baez's younger sister, Mimi, before dying tragically as a passenger in a motorcycle accident in Monterey County, California, when the driver tore through a barbwire fence at 90 miles per hour. 269 pp. Featured Rare & Collectible.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. A few rare instances of notes to the interior and some areas of toning to the covers, but nice clean copy overall. Design by Richard Hollis. Bibliography: p. 62. 64 pp. Scholarly.

Text in German. A portfolio of 24 full-color and monochrome reproductions of Grundig's paintings, housed in a folder with attached 19-page booklet. The set of prints is complete and in excellent condition, as is the booklet. The folder has some areas of light creasing and soiling, as well as a two-inch tear. Oversized.

Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some sunning to the cover, and two light, cosmetic chips to the spine exterior. Very gentle shelf-wear otherwise. Includes full-color and B&W photos, as well as B&W illustrations. 334 pp. Oversized.

Tight, square spine. Unmarked interior except for a former owner label to the inside front cover. Minor shelf-wear. Includes full-color and B&W photos, as well as an annotated checklist of birds in the Great Basin region of Oregon and northern Nevada. 178 pp. Natural History.

Spine is tight, square, and uncreased. Clean, unmarked interior. Some tanning to the cover, as well as very light shelf-wear. Features Sumi brush drawings by Ferlinghetti, 'after Hokusai and Ben Shahn'. From the copyright page: 'Ecolog: based upon Allen Ginsburg's coinage of "ecologue" (in The Fall of America), a fusion of the Greek eclogue and ecology'. 43 pp. Poetry.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Former owner name and address in permanent marker to the half-title, as well as a few instances of notes in pen to the interior. Some light toning to the covers and heavy edge-wear to the front cover at the fore-edge. Cover design by James McMullan, 192 pp. Scholarly/Journalism.

Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Very little shelf-wear to the book. Some edge-wear and very subtle rubbing to the jacket. Jacket design by John Sposato. Theatre photos by Gerry Goodstein. The famously 'double-voiced' Fierstein made his acting debut in Andy Warhol's Pork in 1971 at Ellen Stewart's La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club; seven years later the same venue produced the actor/playwright's International Stud, the first act of what would eventually become Torch Song Trilogy, the play the New York Times went on to call a 'sincere but sentimentalized view of transvestite extremes.' This edition was designed by Fierstein, who studied painting at Pratt, and his author photo is by camp portraitist Kenn Duncan, who also took memorable shots of Baryshnikov, Eartha Kitt, Joe Dallesandro, Joan Rivers, Lily Tomlin, and many others. 149 pp.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Only very gentle shelf-wear. Includes B&W photos and a bibliography. 113 pp. Oversized.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior except for a former owner stamp to the inside front cover. Areas of rubbing to the covers, but no other notable wear. Hard to find in such nice shape. Agel (producer) and Fiore (designer) are the same creative team behind The Medium Is the Massage, and this unique presentation of Fuller's techno-utopian ideals is in some ways even more adventurous than the better-known McLuhan book. Although Fiore was trained in traditional bookmaking techniques, including papermaking and hand lettering, he later began engaging in design experiments that presaged the relentless but often choppy information flow of the internet. This book is a great example an aphoristic barrage, accessed at any point, expressing Fuller's concept of dymaxion (a portmanteau of the words dynamic, maximum, and tension): 'I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process an integral function of the universe. ' Two fragmentary texts, one printed in black and the other in green, run counter… Read More

Includes a typewritten letter addressed to feminist scholar Cheris Karamerae and signed by Sharon Lebell requesting a blurb for the book, Naming Ourselves. Saddle-stitched binding remains sound. Clean, unmarked interior. Some toning to the covers, but else only light shelf-wear. Contributors include Gerry Sachs, Marge Piercy, Kaethe Kollwitz, Kate Millet, and many others. Wonderful design by Gilda Kuhlman, who was art director at New Directions during the 1960s. 72 pp. Poetry/The Arts.

Saddle-stitched binding remains sound. A few minor instances of notes/underlining in pen. Due to a production error, pages 25 to 48 are printed upside down and out of order. Some areas of rubbing/light soiling to the covers. Contributos include Kate Chopin, Louise Bourgeois, Nancy Spero, and many others. 72 pp. Poetry/The Arts.

Spine is tight, but has a slight lean. Interior is clean and unmarked. There is heavy shelf-wear to the cover, including creasing, chipping, and a small amount of former owner writing to the front cover. Includes lots of B&W photos. History.

Inscribed by Florin to the half-title. Book is in lovely shape: tight, square spine; clean, unmarked interior; stamping to spine and front board remains bright. Former owner bookplate to front paste-down. Jacket has some light wear. As with all Western Ghost Town Series books, lovely mid-century design with illustrated end-papers and lots of fascinating monochrome plates. 192 pp. History.

Inscribed by Foley to the title page: 'Love and Light/Dr. Marchy Foley'. Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some areas of cosmetic wear to the spine exterior, as well as some light edge-wear and bumped corners, but in nice shape overall. 306 pp. Crafts/Skills/Trades.

Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Very light shelf-wear and some sunning and very subtle creasing to the spine. 205 pp. Philosophy & Politics.