Search Results: Titles starting with N from Goodbar Books

Spine is square and tight. There is some scattered highlighting throughout text. Small former seller label to the front cover. Covers are somewhat tanned and there is a cosmetic dent to the spine. 132 pp. Biography.

Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some areas of edge-wear to the book, but very little wear overall. Light edge-wear and rubbing to the jacket. Design by Diane Y. Chin. A significant work of 1990s celebrity trash. Frank Sanello, who has written about topics as wide-ranging as the Knights Templar, Steven Spielberg, and gay crystal-meth use, was sued for repeating borderline parodic tales of Sharon Stone's promiscuity in this unauthorized biography. 215 pp.

Interior is clean and unmarked. Spiral binding is still sound. There is some rubbing, soiling, and other light shelf-wear to the covers, as well as a small former owner label to the inside front cover. Includes bibliography. 76 pp. Natural History.

Tight, square spine. There are areas of highlighting and notes to some of the pages, as well as a former owner name and address to the front paste-down. Gilt to spine remains bright. Jacket has some areas of edge-wear, heavy chipping, and tearing that has been repaired with tape. Includes lots of beautiful B&W and full-color plates. Bibliography: p. 162–165. 168 pp. Natural History.

Square spine has a very subtle lean. Clean, unmarked interior. Only very light shelf-wear to the book. Jacket has several closed tears and chips, as well as a few small areas of light rubbing. 'I'm not a gay writer,' chronic contrarian Purdy once said. 'I'm a monster. Gay writers are too conservative.' Being published, he said, was like 'throwing a party for friends and all these coarse wicked people come instead, and break the furniture and vomit all over the house.' And: 'Critics would like to carry [my books] off to the shit-yard, [but] they can't, because they haunt people.' Often underappreciated by the American literary establishment, he was better received across the pond and by his request is interred next to the grave of Edith Sitwell, who helped him publish his early novella, 63: Dream Palace, in 1957. This first edition of Narrow Rooms, a book Derek Jarman attempted to adapt to film when he was in the process of dying, features a campily Michener-esque jacket design by Loretta Trezzo,… Read More

Spine is tight and uncreased. Interior is clean and unmarked. Corners are fairly sharp. Only some very minor edge-wear and a former owner label to the inside front cover. Lovely mid-century design to this one, with thoughtful title page and nice cover. 279 pp. Literary Biography.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. There are some areas of notes and underlining to the text, as well as a paperclip rust stain/indentation affecting pp. 335– 357. Some light wear to the covers, but in decent shape overall. Bibliography pp. 421– 452. 452 pp. Native American.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some light wear to the covers, but a nice copy overall. Cover design by Georgia George. Additional design work by Dick Schuettge, Karen Petersen, and Frederick Mitchell. From its embroidered title spread to its costume profiles of Cockette players Scrumbly and Pristine Condition/Prissy Andrews to its examples of Jacopetti's own embroidery work (the vision for one piece, she says, 'came to her at orgasm'), this book is a fascinating document of peak hippie modernist San Francisco. The author helped organize the psychedelically formative Trips Festival and resided at northern California communes Morning Star and Sunshine Camp, where she completed this book. Legend has it photographer Wainwright spent time at San Quentin for making LSD and helped record Johnny Cash's 1969 performance there; whether accurate or not, his Naked Hippie Tarot, as well as his work for street-fashion pioneer Rags magazine, made a cultural mark in their own right. 110 pp.

Inscribed by Moholy-Nagy to the front flyleaf: 'For Bertha Schaefer / with warm personal regards / Sibyl Moholy-Nagy / New York, Fall 1957'. Square spine. Former owner name and date to front flyleaf and underscoring throughout interior. Some sunning to boards. Some moderate to heavy chipping to the Mylar-protected jacket, which also has some underscoring to the flap copy. Beautifully designed book and jacket, with monochrome illustrations and plates throughout. 223 pp. Poetry/The Arts.

Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Light to moderate wear to the covers, including some light creasing and rubbing/soiling. Features lots of beautiful B&W botanical illustrations by Warthen. Includes foldout map tipped in to the inside back cover. 277 pp. Natural History.

Tight, square, uncreased spine has some sunning. Clean, unmarked interior. Some light wear to the covers, including lightly bumped corners and very gentle edge-wear. Author photo by Susan Carpendale. Coleman, who once described herself as a 'Usually Het Interracially Married Los Angeles-based African American Womonist Matrilinear Working Class Poor Pink/White Collar College Drop-out Baby Boomer Earth Mother and Closet Smoker Unmolested-by-her-father', was described by others as 'the L.A. Blueswoman' and 'the unofficial poet laureate of Los Angeles'. This collection includes a variety of her prose and is packaged in BSP's influential octavo format, with baby blue end-sheets and signature matte covers, courtesy of the press's untrained design virtuoso, Barbara Martin. 292 pp. Featured Rare & Collectible.

Saddle-stitched binding is sound. Interior is clean and unmarked. There is some shelf-wear to the cover, including a quarter-inch puncture that also affects the first leaf. Includes designs for a variety of birdhouses. 27 pp. Oversized.

Signed and dated (12/10/96) by Tolson to the dedication page. Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked in terror. Only very gentle wear. Includes illustrations by Tolson. Design by Linda Thweatt. 60 pp. Poetry.

Saddle-stitched binding remains sound. Former owner name to the title page and former owner bookplate to verso of title page, but interior is else clean and unmarked. Some toning and very gentle shelf-wear to the wraps. Lots of beautiful B&W illustrations by Shirley. 75 pp. Crafts/Skills/Trades.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some gentle toning to the pages and light edge-wear. Vanguard feminist publishing house Daughters, Inc. is best known for releasing the first edition of Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle in 1973, the same year it published this more obscure novel, an exploration of a fraught but darkly humorous mother-daughter relationship. Boyd, who was married to a man at the time and battling severe alcoholism, would eventually disavow the book, claiming that its writing process was an attempt to put the brakes on her emerging lesbianism (Years later, Brown told Boyd, 'You hit rock bottom and came up laughing'). When her urges didn't diminish after its publication, she left her husband, spent some time drying out, and reemerged in 1982 as a disheveled member of the Connecticut College writing faculty, wearing torn jeans, tinted glasses, and what the then–head of the English department called 'the dirtiest shoes he had ever seen,' before spending the next… Read More

Saddle-stitched binding remains sound. There are a few scattered notes to the text. Minor shelf-wear. 67 pp. History.

In lovely shape: Tight, square spine. Former owner name to the front flyleaf, but interior is else clean and unmarked. Only the gentlest of wear to the jacket. Fantastic jacket art by Jason Van Hollander. 257 pp. Fiction.

Saddle-stitched binding remains sound. Former owner blind-stamp to the title page, but interior is else clean and unmarked. Some areas of sunning and small instances of light soiling to the covers. Includes lots of B&W figures, photos, and illustrations. Earlier edition published in 1977 under title, The Witch's Tarot. Includes bibliographical references. 54 pp. Spirituality/Esoterica.

Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. There is heavy soiling to the exterior boards, as well as bumped corners and areas of edge-wear. Includes B&W illustrations and three fantastic foldout diagrams. 206 pp. Crafts/Skills/Trades.

Text in English and Swedish. Ex-library book with markings to covers, edges, and front and back matter. Interior is else clean and unmarked. Tight, square, uncreased spine. Light to moderate edge-wear and areas of light rubbing to the covers. Incredible design to this book with Duchamp-inspired cutouts to front and back covers and lots of full-color and monochrome plates. Art.