Search Results: Titles starting with B from Passages Bookshop

Athens: Eleftheros Typos, 1989. First printing. 48 pp., 5.5 x 8 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Light rubbing to covers and age-toning to page edges, otherwise very good. CorsoÂ’s early collection, translated into Greek by Giorgos Mplanas. Scarce; no copies noted in WorldCat.

Aspen, CO: Valley Kilns, n.d.. Original work. 11.5 inches (diameter). Very good condition, with no chips or other flaws. Garth Williams, the illustrator of Stuart Little, CharlotteÂ’s Web, the Little House series, and many more beloved books for children, began his career as a fine artist. Though he was born in New York, and spent his early childhood in New Jersey and Canada, his English parents moved the family to London when he was ten years old. After initial studies in architecture, he attended the Royal College of Art in London, where he won a British Prix de Rome for sculpture. Returning to the United States after World War II, he found major success as an illustrator through his work on the books of E.B. White, Margaret Wise Brown, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Russell Hoban, and dozens of others, including many books in the Little Golden Book series. Animals in general, and baby animals in particular, appear throughout his illustrations. This undated ceramic plate, with an original drawing of a… Read More

Sacramento, CA: Runcible Spoon, 1969. First printing. Pamphlet. Very Good. (32) pp. 8vo, one signature stapled in wrappers. Wrappers darkened at extremities; internally fine.

New York: The Leonard Press, 1922. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 48 pp., small 8vo. With an introduction by Scott Nearing. Poems of the well-known Wobbly (the first poem, "Mourn Not the Dead," was set to music and recorded in the 1990s by Steven Taylor, poet and member of the revived Fugs). Front hinge of binding partially cracked, otherwise very good, in a near very good jacket with small edge chips and closed tears. This copy inscribed by Evelyn Preston to Spencer Miller, Jr., in November of 1922, with the question: "Tell me how long we are to keep Christ writhing on the Cross?" Preston was a philanthropist, reformer, and labor activist, friend of the Roosevelts, who married Roger Baldwin, also a Wobbly and the founder of the ACLU. She helped Fannia Cohn and others to establish the Workers' Education Bureau in 1921, of which Spencer Miller was a director. A nice association.

n.p.: Rebis Press, 1975. First printing. Very Good. (22) pp., small square 8vo. Illustrated by John Wehrle. An illustrated fantasy, in the manner of children's books, in which a bathtub takes off for various adventures on land and sea. Light soiling and edgewear to wrappers; internally fine.

San Francisco: Kosmos, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 55 pp. 8vo, cloth. Inscribed by the translator. Covers and text fine; binding very slightly pulled at pp. 30-31. Dustjacket slightly worn, with a few small creases.

Tokyo: International Foundation for the Promotion of Languages and Culture, 1998. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. (32) pp., square 8vo. Kenji Miyazawa Picture Book Series 5. Translated by Karen Colligan-Taylor, with illustrations by Masao Idou. Laid in is a twelve-page pamphlet with the original Japanese text. Light soiling to jacket, otherwise as new.

London: Trigram Books, 1972. First Edition. Cloth. With ten photographs by Pip Benveniste. 1/100 numbered copies signed by the poet and the photographer, of a total edition of 300. About fine in dustjacket. 4to.

New York: Bench Press, 1987. First printing. Paperback. Very Good. 44 pp. 8vo, single signature stapled into printed card covers. Part of a series of "Interviews with Contemporary Writers and Artists," edited by Madeline Keller. Staples slightly rusted, resulting in some staining to extreme gutter of text; otherwise internally fine. Covers slightly darkened.

Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1965. First Edition. Cloth. 69 pp. 1/500 numbered copies. Drawings by Leonard Baskin. Inscribed by the author. Minor bumps to crown and foot of spine, otherwise just about fine in darkened dustjacket with a couple of tiny tears at folds. 8vo.

San Francisco: Open Space/Dariel Press, 1968. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. Designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh at the White Rabbit Press (Johnston A42). Wrappers lightly rubbed, otherwise near fine. 8vo.

Bois le Roi, France: Editeurs Evidant, 1990. First printing. Paperback. Very Good. (250) pp., square 8vo. The original edition of this collection of more than two hundred concrete/conceptual poems (which was reprinted in 2011) by the founder and longtime editor of the very important international journal Doc(k)s. Each poem (and page) consists of two words, separated by a horizontal double rule, with extensive typographic and graphic play and intervention in the format throughout. This copy unmasks the man behind the pseudonym; inscribed as a New Year's gift "from Julien and Christian: the same man!" and with his business card, as Christian Poitevin, cultural delegate for the city of Marseille, laid in. Top corner bumped, and faint creasing and slight curl to covers; still a very good (and revealing) copy.

Highlands, NC: The Jargon Society, 1978. First printing. 45 pp., 8.5 x 8.5 inches. Perfect bound in printed wrappers. Jargon 85. Introduction by Gilbert Sorrentino. Slight toning and soiling to covers, otherwise a very good, tight copy. A book of drawings, with texts by the artist.

New York: Telephone Books, 1974. Side-stapled in card covers. First Edition (of 300 copies). 24 pp. Light edgewear to covers, corners lightly bumped, still a bright and internally fine copy, essentially as new. 4to.

São Paulo: Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, 1994. First Edition. 512 pp., oblong 4to. Printed paper over boards in illustrated dust-jacket. Bilingual text, Portuguese and English. Slight wear and mild bumps to covers, otherwise very good in lightly edgeworn jacket. Uncommon catalogue of the 1994 São Paulo Biennial exhibition of twentieth-century Brazilian art. With an introduction by general curator Nelson Aguilar, more than 250 full-page biographies of artists, excellent color reproductions of works by each, and historical/critical essays by Jose Roberto Teixera Leite, Annateresa Fabris, Tadeu Chiarelli, Maria Alice Milliet, Walter Zanini, and Agnaldo Farias.

Espanola, NM: Tres Chicas, 2006. First printing. Paperback. As New. 87 pp., 8vo. Signed by the author.

Osaka, Japan: Acetate, 2005. First printing. (106) pp., 4.5 x 5.5 inches. Wire-comb binding, with printed card covers. Trilingual (English, Swedish, & Japanese). Published in a limited edition as acetate005. Preface by Kenjiro Okazaki and introduction by the author; translated, with an afterword, by Takumi Taguchi. Illustrated by Mimi Gross. One of ten numbered copies, hand-colored and signed by the illustrator. Light scuffing and edge-wear to cover, otherwise fine. Billy Klüver (1927–2004) was a Swedish engineer and inventor who came to the United States in the mid 1950s and worked with artists; while at Bell Labs in New Jersey in the early 1960s, he assisted Jean Tingueley with his self-destructing sculpture Homage to New York, and subsequently collaborated on projects with Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage and Merce Cunningham, Yvonne Rainer, Jasper Johns, and Andy Warhol. He was the driving force behind (and longtime president of) Experiments in Art and Technology; in addition, his research (with… Read More

Santa Fe, NM: Radius Books, 2009. First printing. (48) pp., 10.5 x 16.5 inches. Limited first printing of 1,500 copies. Printed paper over boards, without dust-jacket, as issued. Two photographic series, printed duotone, with an essay by Trevor Paglen. New. The first volume in Michael LightÂ’s ambitious series of books with Radius, Some Dry Space: An Inhabited West. For the last fifteen years, Light has aerially photographed over settled and unsettled areas of American space, pursuing themes of mapping, vertigo, human impact on the land, and various aspects of geologic time and the sublime. The Bingham Canyon copper mine is the largest man-made excavation on the planet. It has produced more copper than any mine in history. The mineÂ’s Garfield smelter stack, situated at the edge of the Great Salt Lake about 10 miles away, is the tallest free-standing structure west of the Mississippi River, and is only 35 feet shorter than the Empire State Building.

Hartford: Bartholomew's Cobble, 1976. Second edition (of 200 copies). Staplebound. Near Fine. Wide 8vo, pp. unnumbered. Exterior just a bit sunned.

Toronto: Coach House Press, 1973. First printing. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo, 107 pp. Mild corner bumps and edgewear, otherwise very good.