Search Results: Titles starting with V from Passages Bookshop

Paris: Hachette, 1973. First printing. Wrappers. Very good. 206 pp., narrow 8vo. A biography of Edgard Varese by the wife of composer Andre Jolivet (who was Varese's student in Paris), illustrated with fifteen photographs. French text. Light age-toning and edge wear, otherwise about fine.

Greenwich, CT: Crest/Fawcett, 1965. First Thus. 175 pp. Mass market paperback. About fine with very light handling and edgewear to wrappers, bright and unread.

Jersey City, NJ: Jensen/Daniels, 1999. First printing. Paperback. Very Good. 22 pp., 8vo. Translated by Eleni Sikelianos, with the author. An early (second?) chapbook in English by this Chinese-American poet. Mild corner bumps, otherwise as new.

Edinburgh: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1963. First Edition. Stapled wrappers in dustjacket. [18] pp. Linocuts by Alexander McNeish. Published by Ian Hamilton Finlay. A fine copy. Oblong 8vo.

Denver: Alan Swallow, 1963. First printing. 63 pp., small square 8vo. Cover design by Lynn Meiners. Slight tanning to edges, barely noticeable splay at front edge of boards, and invisible repair to crown of spine; still very good in decorated paper over boards, in a near very good jacket, darkened at spine and edges and with a very small loss at crown of spine. The uncommon second book of poems by this important and widely published sociologist and expert on urban renewal, whose first book of poems, The Landscape Has Voices, was published by Judson Crews at the Motive Book Shop in 1947.

(San Francisco): (Cranium Press), 1970. First Edition. Sewn in wrappers. (7) pp. Designed and printed by Clifford Burke. Of an edition of 250, this is one of 50 copies on Tovil mouldmade paper, numbered and signed by the author. About fine. Tall 8vo.

Best Cellar Press, 1978. Wrappers. Pebble #17. 168 pp. Light handling, edgewear and dustsoiling to wrappers. 8vo.

Port Charlotte, FL: Runaway Spoon, 1990. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. Twenty edited selected pages created by Malok in Wisconsin and Bern Porter in Maine as the second stage of Vibrations." Unpaginated, illustrated. Slightest touch of sunning and edgewear to wrappers, othewise very good; collaged element on cover is in very fine condition. An uncommon Porter item. 24mo.

London: Marion Boyars, 1979. First Edition. Wrappers. An advance copy of this novel describing travels in Mexico, arranged alphabetically in the format of a dictionary. With a typed letter (c. 150 words), signed, discussing the nature of the novel, the distribution, and brunches at Bradleys in New York, where the author was working at the time (with a nice anecdote regarding Nat Hentoff's working habits). 8vo.

Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1960. First edition. 51 pp., 4.75 x 7.5 inches. Printed paper over boards in unprinted glassine dust-jacket. Light wear to corners of boards, otherwise very good. The text of Arendt's 1959 acceptance speech for the City of Hamburg's Lessing Prize, translated as "On Humanity in Dark Times: Thoughts about Lessing."