Search Results: Titles starting with P from Goodbar Books

Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some light rubbing and soiling to the covers, but nice solid copy overall. Includes lots of B&W photos. 182 pp. History.

Tight, square spine. Former owner name and stamp to front flyleaf, but interior is else clean and unmarked. Gilt to spine remains bright. Mylar-protected jacket is price-clipped, but has only very gentle wear. Includes B&W figures, illustrations, and maps. Bibliography: pp. 149–159. 214 pp. History.

No publication date stated, but appears to early/mid-twentieth century. There is some rusting to the staples and the wraps are beginning to tear away from one of them, but book remains sound and readable overall. Clean, unmarked interior. All designs remain intact. Some foxing and a small area of label residue to the wraps. Upper fore-edge corner is bumped, but little wear otherwise. Scarce book featuring lots of beautiful and ingenious full-color designs by Kelly. 30 pp. Natural History.

Spine is tight, but has a lean. Former owner name to the first blank leaf (feminist scholar Cheris Kramerae) and a few instances of notes/underlining in pencil to the interior. No other notable shelf-wear. 196 pp. Scholarly.

Tight, square spine has some cosmetic creasing. Else only very gentle shelf-wear. A few instances of very minimal ink notation in the margins. Pages are very lightly toned. Cover design by Don Puckey. Cover illustration by John Jude Palencar. 'First Warner Books Printing: February, 1995'. 295 pp. Fiction.

Former library book, with markings to title, half-title, and edges. Covers have been laminated. Interior is else clean and unmarked. Tight, square spine. Some light to moderate soiling to the covers, as well as other signs of light wear. Includes erratum slip glued to verso of last leaf. 324 pp. History.

Ex-library book with markings to wraps and front matter. Clean, unmarked interior. Spine is square and uncreased. Minor shelf-wear. Articles written by students in Mary Slayter's writing classes. Concept and design inspired by the Foxfire series, but applied to the Rogue Valley. Lettering by Betsy Sealy. 62 pp.

Interior is clean and unmarked except for a former owner name to the first (promotional) leaf. Spine has some creasing. Light to moderate wear to the covers, including some edge-wear and a one-inch crease to the back cover. Includes B&W photos. 245 pp. Arts.

Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some light shelf-wear to the covers. Jam-packed with full-color and B&W reproductions of Cadmus's work. 144 pp. Art.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Faint scent of tobacco. A few gently turned corners. Light to moderate wear to the covers, including some areas of soiling and creasing. Beautifully designed book with lots of color and B&W plates. 346 pp. Art.

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 has some sunning. Clean, unmarked interior. Soem light to moderate shelf-wear, but nice solid copy overall. Translated by Myra Bergman Ramos. Foreword by Richard Shaull. A classic of radical lit, with a powerful protest sign–inspired cover design. 'Radicalization,' writes Freire in this founding manifesto of critical pedagogy, 'nourished by a critical spirit, is always creative.' 186 pp. Philosophy & Politics.

Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior except for a former owner name and address to the last leaf (a Penguin promotional age). Pages are toned. Small former seller sticker to the front cover. Some light to moderate shelf-wear. Translated by Robert Baldick. Fantastic cover design and photo by Denise York. 556 pp. Fiction.

Saddle-stitched binding is sound. Interior is clean and unmarked. Very minor wear to the cover, including a one-inch crease to the front cover at the head of the fore-edge. 22 pp.

Saddle-stitched binding is still sound. Interior is clean and unmarked. There is some wear to the cover, including light fading and very faint scuffing, as well as some minor edge-wear. 22 pp.

Tight, square spine. There is a former owner name and seller label to the half-title, as well as some areas of notes and underlining to the text. Some light shelf-wear. 263 pp. Spirituality/Esoterica.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some bumped corners and very light edge-wear, but nice solid copy overall. In 1956, funded by the CIA, Wasson traveled to Oaxaca to participate in a Mazatec mushroom ritual, deceiving the curandera, Maria Sabina, in order to bring psilocybin to the American public and help instigate the psychedelic revolution via the notorious Life magazine article, 'Seeking the Magic Mushroom'. This generously illustrated book, which was published after Wasson's death, includes his writings along with those of his Road to Eleusis collaborator Ruck, Indian art specialist Kramrisch, and entheogen proponent Ott. 257 pp. Myth.

No copyright date is stated, but there is a letter enclosed from Alan Manford to Dale Kramer, Professor of English at the University of Illinois, and dated Jan. 5, 1978. Inscribed, also to Dale Kramer, to the inside front cover by Alan Manford. Saddle-stitched binding remains sound. Clean, unmarked interior. Only very light shelf-wear. Poetry.

Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some light edge-wear. Lamination is beginning to separate from covers in some areas, causing wrinkling. Some small areas of very subtle soiling to the fore-edge. Includes over 100 monochrome illustrations. Cover design by Matt Sams. 253 pp. Scholarly/Journalism.

Saddle-stitched binding remains sound. Clean, unmarked interior. Some toning/sunning and light soiling to areas of the covers. Includes B&W illustrations. 80 pp. Spirituality.