Search Results: Titles starting with S from Goodbar Books

Inscribed by MacCormack to the half-title: 'for [?] / Lessons that have come with our watering. / Love, Harry'. Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some very gentle shelf-wear. 518 pp. Spirituality.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Only the gentlest of shelf-wear. Jam-packed with beautiful full-color and B&W reproductions of Hasegawa's homoerotic illustrations. 77 pp. Oversized.

Tight, square spine. Former owner stamp to the front flyleaf, but interior is else clean and unmarked. Some light edge-wear to the book. Mylar-protected jacket has some chipping, edge-wear, and sunning. Scarce. 270 pp. Scholarly.

Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Metallic stamping remains bright. A few small areas of sunning to the exterior. Jacket has several one-inch or smaller tears, but else is in lovely shape. A typographic feast here with jacket treatment by the great Lawrence Ratzkin, featuring tight spacing, a dynamic display face with distinctive abbreviated 'J', and elegant use of an italicized Garamond. A rare venture by Didion into international political reportage (she called the two-week trip 'terrifying'), Salvador details the dark tragedy of the Salvadoran Civil War, the US government's support of its far-right death squads, and the impact of the country's 1982 earthquake. 108 pp. New Journalism.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Very light shelf-wear. A typographic feast here with matching 1980s cover treatments by the great Lawrence Ratzkin, featuring tight spacing, a dynamic display face with distinctive abbreviated 'J', and elegant use of an italicized Garamond. A rare venture by Didion into international political reportage (she called the two-week trip 'terrifying'), Salvador details the dark tragedy of the Salvadoran Civil War, the US government's support of its far-right death squads, and the impact of the country's 1982 earthquake. 108 pp. New Journalism.

Saddle-stitched binding remains sound. Clean, unmarked interior. A few small, subtle areas of soiling to exterior of the wraps. includes full-color plates. 19 pp. Esoterica.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some areas of gentle soiling to the covers, as well as some other light shelf-wear. Contributors include Vitoba, K. G. Mashruwala, Kaka Kalelkar, and others. 68 pp. Miscellaneous.

Spine is tight and square, but has some creasing. Former owner stamps to the top edge, first (promotional) leaf, and title page, but interior is else clean and unmarked. Inside covers are heavily toned. Some areas of light creasing and edge-wear to the covers. The rare first paperback edition of this foundational text of LaVeyan Satanism, which according to the diabolic showman's estranged daughter, Zeena Schreck, was written at the urging of Avon Editor in Chief Peter Mayer after LaVey's appearance in Rosemary's Baby (Mayer would again court controversy two decades later when he published another devilish title for Penguin: Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses). LaVey drew from—some say plagiarized—a variety of sources when piecing together the book, including Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, John Dee's Enochian keys, Ragnar Redbeard's 1890 social Darwinist screed, Might Is Right, and the philosophy of P. T. Barnum. Features the Sigil of Baphomet to the front, a violet-filtered portrait of the author to… Read More

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some areas of rubbing, edge-wear, and light creasing to the covers. Includes B&W photos and illustrations. 89 pp. Crafts/Skills/Trades.

Stated copyright date is 1950, but probably a later printing. Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some rubbing, gentle edge-wear, and a few very light creases to the covers. An early cover design by the legendary Milton Glaser on this mass-market paperback edition of a heretical diatribe against expert opinions by chemist and noted insect-hater Standen. Once praised by Einstein (the book actually shows a soft spot for physicists), Standen uses hyperbole and cutting humor to puncture the materialist enterprise's 'fabulous collective ego, as inflated as a skillfully blown piece of bubble gum.' 221 pp.

Spine is tight, but has a slight lean. Clean, unmarked interior. Gilt to spine remains bright. Only very light wear to the book. Some light edge-wear and areas of rubbing to the jacket. Jacket design by Arthur Littlewood. Mariner's compass card included. Includes B&W figures and illustrations. Includes index. 148 pp. Crafts/Skills/Trades.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some areas of light rubbing and gentle creasing tot he covers, but book is in lovely shape overall. First Printing 1930 as Beyond the Light Rays. Includes B&W figures and illustrations, as well as bibliographical references. Frontispiece features a portrait of Moray. 275 pp. Esoterica.

Saddle-stitched binding remains sound. There are a couple turned corners, but interior is clean and unmarked. A former seller price to the front cover. Some light foxing, toning, and other general wear to the covers. Includes B&W figures and illustrations. 32 pp. Craft Ephemera.

Spine is tight, but a bit cocked. Interior is clean and unmarked. One small area of front board is heavily bumped at the foot, but no other notable wear to the book. Jacket has some areas of toning and subtle soiling. Fantastic jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. Back jacket photo by Alex Gotfryd. 309 pp. Esoterica.

Tight, square, uncreased spine has some heavy sunning. Clean, unmarked interior. Price to back cover has been blacked out. Very little shelf-wear otherwise. 'The Poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense and reasoned deranging of all his senses,' wrote Rimbaud in his famous 'Lettre du voyant' to Paul Demeny. 'All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.' The original French appears on each verso of this omnibus containing two of Rimbaud's trailblazing works, along with their English translations by Enid Rhodes Peschel on the facing rectos. Includes a generously illustrated foreword by Henri Peyre, featuring renderings of the young poet by Picasso, Paul Verlaine, his sister Isabelle, and his friend Ernest Delahaye (who was given one of the seven original privately printed copies of A Season in Hell, although Rimbaud later asked for its return so that he could give it to someone else), as… Read More

Hard-to-find first American edition. Tight, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked text block. Very minor shelf-wear. Design by Peter McKenzie. Cover design by Blanche Nonoo. 'A Season in Paradise, ' writes Andrei Codrescu, 'is a journey unlike anything in literature unless one digs back to Dante's travelog through the nine circles or Homer's mist-wrapped Odyssey. A spiritual journey, an earthly travelog, a poet's chronicle of his soul, the mythic biography of a country, an exotic picture album, a revolutionary treatise, a wrenching lament for a dying species, the book is all of these.' 291 pp. Biography.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some light edge-wear, but book is in great shape over all. Book and cover design by Mark Plummer. 176 pp. Esoterica.

Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Gilt to spine and front board remains bright. Publisher sticker to back of Mylar-protected jacket. Only the gentlest of wear to book and jacket. First published as Mikkai in 1977 in Tokyo by Shinchosha Company. Translated by Juliet W. Carpenter. 'Lost with him in the labyrinth,' reads the flap copy of this hard-to-find edition of Abe's Kafka-esque satire of bureaucracy, 'we come to sense with him the seductiveness of the hospital and of its philosophy: that to be truly civilized is to embrace disease.' The signature dark humor of the great Tadanori Yokoo's jacket design portends the novel's missing wife narrative as the reader is beckoned into the back of a clown-colored ambulance before being jolted by a murky photo of a mysterious woman lying just beyond its cheerfully drawn curtains. Yokoo has cited influences varying from Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast of Push Pin Studios to filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, and has collaborated with artists ranging from… Read More

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. There is some edge-wear and the spine is moderately sunned. With an Essay on The Work of a Modern Occult Fraternity by Gareth Knight. Vivid cover illustration by Hannes Bok. Includes lots of B&W illustrations by Bruno and Sandland. 276 pp. Spirituality/Esoterica.

Facsimile of the original 1927 edition. Spiral binding remains sound. Title written in permanent marker to the the spiral binding. Areas of soiling and other general wear to the covers, edges, and a few small areas of the pages. There are notes to one page, but the rest of the interior is unmarked. Includes B&W illustrations. 408 pp. Spirituality/Esoterica.