Search Results: Authors starting with B from Triolet Rare Books, ABAA

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First English language edition. 213 pp. Smooth deep orange cloth, lettered and decorated in black. Some rubbing to edges and corners, interior clean. The rare dust jacket is not present. The first appearance in English of Babel's legendary stories, based on his experiences with the 1st Cavalry Army during the Polish-Soviet War of 1920. Translated by Nadia Helstein. This translation (an identical translation published by Knopf in London in 1929 is attributed to John Harland) was later described as "abounding in errors" and "generally an inadequate rendering." It is, however, the first and one of the only collections of Babel's work to be published in English in his lifetime.

Cambridge: The University Press, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. One of 350 copies printed for Christmas. ix, [46] pp. Brown buckram titled in gilt on the spine. Collotype facsimiles printed at the Chiswick Press, London. A couple of stray marks to the cloth, spine a bit sunned. Interior clean and tight.

Hanover: Granite Publications, 1974. First edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. First edition. [27] pp. Printed stapled wrappers. Very mild age-toning to the edge, else a fine copy. Banks' second book, a five-part poem. Briefly inscribed by the author ("Russ") and dated in 1975.

Merion, PA: Albert C. Barnes, 1945. First edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. Single sheet, folded to make [4] pages. A typically Barnesian rant regarding the local newspapers' response to Barnes's pamphlet, "Sabotage of Public Education in Philadelphia." Small nick to fore-edge, else fine. WorldCat locates two copies, at Temple and the Barnes Foundation.

New York: Peter Freeman, Inc, 2011. First edition. [96] pp. Printed paper boards. A book of drawings by Swiss artist Silvia Bächli with text by Jamaica Kincaid. Of a total edition of 1000 copies, this is one of 50 numbered copies, signed by Bächli and Kincaid. Fine copy.

New York: Peter Freeman, Inc, 2011. First edition. [96] pp. Printed paper boards, housed in a custom clamshell case with special insert for original drawing. A book of drawings by Swiss artist Silvia Bächli, with text by Jamaica Kincaid. Of a total edition of 1000 copies, this is one of 26 lettered copies, signed by Bächli and Kincaid, and accompanied by an original Bächli drawing. Fine copy.

London: Faber and Faber, 1964. First edition. 48 pp. Red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to top edge of jacket and spine creases, near fine. Collects Beckett's pieces Play, Words and Music, and Cascando. Federman & Fletcher 42.

London: Faber and Faber, 1958. First separate edition. 22 pp. Sewn wrappers with dust jacket. Slight rubbing to top edge of rear panel with a couple of short closed tears, else fine. Originally conceived as a "meditation for radio" and broadcast on the BBC in 1957, now generally considered as one of Beckett's short prose fictions. Federman & Fletcher 33.2.

New York: Grove Press, 1954. First English language edition. 61 pp. Black cloth boards, lettered in blind, silver and copper, with the dust jacket. Jacket spine a bit browned, as usually seen, with some very slight edgewear to the top edge and lower spine edge; book is close to fine. An excellent copy, far better than usual. The original French language edition was published two years prior; the Faber edition was published two years later.

New York: Boosey & Hawkes, 1966. First edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. Stapled wrappers. 86 pp. Libretto by Elmslie, music by Jack Beeson (only the libretto is printed). Cover by Joe Brainard. Slight wear to spine, minor shelf rubbing to bottom edge, overall about near fine.

Iowa City: The Stone Wall Press, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Light gray cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt. 77 pp. The first full-length collection by a noted poet, printed in a typically elegant production by Kim Merker in an edition of 270 copies. Some minor soiling to front cover, spine slightly faded and gilt dulled. Inscribed from "The Saul Bell Family" (the name of Bell's father) on the rear endpaper upside down, dated February 1967. Berger 20.

Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2000. First edition. xxii, 310 pp. Full brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Some minor rubbing to lower jacket at spine, else a fine copy. Profusely illustrated.

New York: Tibor de Nagy Editions, 1961. First edition. Original wrappers. Near fine. First edition of the first book by this important poet, one of 300 copies printed. Original perfect-bound printed wrappers. 35 pp. Minor toning to covers and spine, near fine or better. Not to be confused with the more common Sand Dollar reprint of 1975.

Bolinas: Big Sky Books, 1971. First edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. First edition, one of 200 copies printed. Stapled wraps, with cover by Joe Brainard. Some rubbing and toning to covers, but still a near fine copy.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2018. First edition. xvi, 309, [3] pp. Original perfect-bound printed wrappers. An excellent memoir by Wallace Berman's son, signed by him on the title-page. Fine copy.

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1997. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First edition in English of Bernhard's collection of 104 aphoristic stories, none more than a page in length. A fine copy in a fine jacket.

Berkeley: Tuumba Press, 1979. First edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. Printed stapled wrappers. Slight edgewear, spine head and tail slightly bumped. One of 450 numbered copies. Tuumba 20.

New York: Lorenz Gude/Ted Berrigan, 1966. First edition. 31 pp. Side-stapled tall (legal-sized) mimeographed wrappers. Slight toning to extremities, last leaf detached from two of three staples. Much better than usually seen. One of the most important mimeo magazines of the 1960s, and a crucial link between the first and second generations of the New York School poets. Richard Hell called C "the greatest literary magazine of the twentieth century... you could extrapolate everything worthwhile in the universe from its thirteen issues, and you'd have a great time, giggling." Originally a vehicle for the Tulsa core of Berrigan, Ron Padgett, Dick Gallup and Joe Brainard, this issue includes contributions by Stephane Mallarme, Pierre Reverdy, William Saroyan, Harry Mathews, Kenward Elmslie and others. Cover by Joe Brainard. Clay & Phillips, pp. 160-65.

New York: Angel Hair Books, 1977. First edition. Original Wraps. Very Good +. One of 1000 copies printed. Printed perfect-bound wrappers. Some soiling and handling wear to covers. Nicely inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Keith Abbott.

London: Cape Goliard Press, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, the hardcover trade edition. Glossy illustrated boards, no jacket as issued. Cover art and drawings by George Schneeman. Corners bumped, some rubbing to the head and foot of the spine with a small closed tear at the lower crease of the front board at the spine. Fischer, p. 41.