Search Results: Titles starting with T from Blue Sky Rare Books

SEMIOTEXT(E) , 2015. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Fine copy. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Hotel Theory at REDCAT, 2015. In 1996 at Whiskey Pete’s Hotel & Casino, Chris Kraus organized the Chance Event: “a three-day philosophy rave in the Nevada desert.” It was a convergence of the art world with philosophers, poets, and musicians in what was meant to be the Burning Man of French theory.  Jean Baudrillard’s lecture for Chance is published in conjunction with the exhibition Hotel Theory at REDCAT, 2015. 48 pages. Color photographs.

Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Printer/publisher Hans Mardersteig's copy with his bookplate on the inside endpaper. Fine copy in leather-edged slipcase with marbled boards matching the endpapers. One of 125 copies on Rives. Lovely book.

New York: Disinformation, 2001. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine. Near fne paperback, one page corner clipped, presumably to remove previous owner's name, else fine. Very nice copy of ths classic, which often turns up very worn. US printing.

Boston: D.C. Heath & Company, 1920. True First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library/-1. True First Edition. Ex Lib. No DJ null Ex library, usual problems but binding is nice and tight.. True First Edition.

Oxford University Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Book and jacket fine. Nice book.

Yokohama: Shibundo, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. Shojiro Takata. Fine, very clean copy in a VG+ DJ with a little edgewear to the crown of the spine. Nice copy of a classic. Octavo in black buckram over boards, DJ yellow patterned paper with black text on spine. SIGNED by both authors on dedication page.

Tokyo: Hakuyusha Cp. Ltd., 1977. first edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/good +. Tokyo: Hakuyusha Cp. Ltd., 1977. Near Fine/good +. Tokyo: Hakuyusha Cp. Ltd., 1977. Near Fine/good +. Book is fine, lovely condition. Still in its original plain plastic wrapper (wrinkles) in the plain cardboard shipping sleeve (split with some tape). Nice book.

New York: Random House, 1969. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. New York: Random House, 1969. First Edition, Second Printing. Near Fine in VG++ jacket. On the front fly, Robert Penn Warren has written out in full one of his greatest poems: "Tell Me A Story." The poem is briefly inscribed at the bottom of the page and signed in full. "Tell Me A Story" is the concluding poem from Audubon and was reprinted in broadside in celebration of his being named America's first poet laureate.. First Edition, Second Printing. Hard Cover.

Los Angeles: Daniel M. Furuya. Paperback. Near Fine. Self-published, 28 pages with insert (edge wear). Reference work with 55 illustrations. In generic covers, near fine. Insert has a little edgewear from stick out from the covers. Very clean.

London: Chapman & Hall,, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good+. Binding is very nice -- tight and free of chips or split, solidly near fine. Full green cloth with gilt titling designs of porpoises on the cover and sea horses on the spine, TEG, illustrated with 17 mounted and tissue guarded color plates by Paul Woodroffe. Some spotting to the title page only, contents otherwise free of foxing or markings. Nice book.

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1915. First Edition, second-state binding. VG in VG- jacket. Exceptionally rare in dustjacket. DJ has a single shallow chip off the spine crown cutting off about 1/3 of the word Tennis. Period bookseller price tag ($2.50) on the spine. Minor soiling, and a few closed tears. These defects noted, the jacket is still attractive in the mylar sleeve. The book itself has a neat POS on the title page, otherwise completely free of markings, pages very clean and bright, no foxing. Endpapers foxing and some spotting to top edge and front paper edge, bottom edge clean. Cloth boards have virtually no wear and are bright and clean, sharp cloth corners. Preface by Richard Norris Williams. Illustrated from photographs. 9x6, gilt-lettered green cloth. Ghost-written by Sinclair Lewis when he was a struggling writer, about 5 years before Main Street was published. Lewis was working for George… Read More

Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed & Co / Stinehour Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Book and contents completely fine. Minor edge wear to the plain glassine wrapper, slipcase also fine. A lovely copy of one of the very best American leaf books. The is a particularly desirable New Testament leaf-- the last third of Mark Chapter 8 and most of Mark Chapter 9: " What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?" This is the very heart of the Puritan mission into (for them) the wilderness, printed in Cambridge in 1663. This is also the first bible printed in British North America. An exciting leaf on many levels, the accompanying book is one of 87 copies printed at the Stinehour Press. Disbound and Dispersed 167.5

Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd. And Serindia, 1980. first edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Book and DJ very near fine, DJ in portective mylar. Nice book.

Taylor and Francis, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Near fine, free of all markings. Hardcover, printed boards.

Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1965. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. A fresh copy in an unusally bright and crisp dustjacket, in mylar sleeve. The white in this jacket tends to soil, so clean copies are hard to find. Book and DJ solidly near fine, trivial wear only.

Duke University Press Books, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover with jacket (as issued) -- full green cloth. Book has a few pages of fairly neat penil marking, else fine.

Pickwick Publications, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Hardcover, printed covers, no jacket as issued. Book is free of all markings, either a tiny corner crease or a tiny bump. In any event, solidly near fine.

San Francisco: Arion, 2005. Paperback. Near Fine. Prospectus for the Arion Press edition. Single folio leaf folder with price sheet and invitation to a press party. Near fine.

Wipf and Stock, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine. Nice papeback with a couple of pencil markings.

Athens: Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Massive two-volume reference set on Greek editions, with thousands (!) of photos of title pages from the 1400s on. Volume I: i-xv, 1-600; Volume II: 601-1231. Both volumes near fine, small bottom corner bump. The work contains entries on 3200 Greek authors with biographical notes as well as references to the most important editions of their works until the beginning of the 20th century. This is a VERY heavy set and ships media in the U.S. only. ISBN: SET: 9786188142381, I: 9786188142398, II: 9786188301900.