Search Results: Authors starting with K from Better Read Than Dead

London: The African Publication Society, 1971. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Signature-bound, octavo, pictorial wraps, 68 pp. Very good book, edges and corners of wraps gently worn and rubbed. G.K. Osei title-page inscription.

Cuba: Ediciones Casa de las Americas, 1976. Signature-bound in illustrated orange dust jacket. Orange illustrated wraps. 4-3/4 x 7-1/2 in. 91 pp. Near Fine, trifle edge worn. Very Good or better jacket, edge worn and faded to spine.. Scarce First Edition of this stunning collection of Brathwaite's short poetry, published as the prize-winning entry in the 1975 Casa de las Americas poetry competition in Cuba in July, 1976.

[Chicago, IL]: Stone Wind Press, 1975. First printing. Softcover quarto, side-stapled in paper illustrated wrappers, 88 pp. Very good, light wear and rubbing to perimeter, overall a very nice copy. Cover by George Schneeman. Chicago poet Henry Kanbus was adjacent, if not a part of, second generation New York School poetry. He was published in journals Big Sky, Brilliant Corners, The (Chicago) Reader, Mati, Here It Is. Flood Lights is his first collection of poetry and had poems that were previously published in Buffalo Stamps, Chicago, 15 Chicago Poets (Milk Quarterly), Out There, Stone Wind, Telephone, The World.

Loveland, Ohio: Dos Madres Press, 2023. Softcover, oblong duodecimo, in illustrated wraps 184 pp. Near fine. Book design by Kathleen Canavan.

Privately Printed, 2017. Hardcover. Very Good. Linda Karshan. Book is in very good condition, slight bumping to front board at head and tail where it meets spine resulting in mild creasing, slight cant to spine, otherwise corners are sharp, book is clean and unmarked within, cover is bright and clean. Privately printed edition of 500 copies. Rare. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

Redfem Gallery, 2014. Soft cover. Very Good. Book is in very good condition, very light shelfwear along tail of textblock, otherwise binding is square and tight, clean and unmarked within. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Berlin, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2018. Hardcover. Very Good. Book is in very good condition, square tight binding, small tear to crown of spine where it meets front board, minor bump to heel of spine where it meets front board, some shelving and handling wear, clean and unmarked within. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

New York: White Bones Press, 1971. Saddle-stapled in illustrated glossy wraps, 7" x 8 1/2", 84 pp. Very good, creasing along spine and edges, wear and light soiling to wraps. Cover by Martha Diamond. Small and scarce literary journal based in New York City, whose scope certainly extended beyond the contemporary "New York School" but still included some of its heavies, with poetry from Peter Schjeldahl and Gerard Malanga as well as an excerpt from Ted Berrigan's experimental Western novel "Clear the Range.

Cambridge. MA: The MIT Press, 2002. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE: EXPERIMENT IN ART. Ed. Vincent Katz. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2002. Folio, 328 pp. Hardcover. Book is in very good condition, sharp corners, tight binding, clean and unmarked within. Jacket is in very good condition, bright, with no tears or noticeable wear. Book is in overall good condition. A large format book on the legendary Black Mountain College, including color reproductions of art work created by students and staff, as well as essays and black and white photographs of the college in session. Well curated with broad representation showing a cross-section of this most important of educational institutions for the making of the twentieth century American art scene. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall.

[Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover, large octavo, blue cloth boards, black spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 625 pp. Good book, spine lightly faded and soiled, text block bottom edge lightly soiled, front free endpaper rubber-stamped, introductory pages (1-57 pp.) with some underlined sections and margin notes; good dust jacket, spine chipped with open tears at ends, joints rubbed and an open tear to lower cover joint, edges chipped with 1/8" closed tears and 1/2" open tear to fore edge top corner, lower cover fore edge corners with 1/8" open tears, flap seams rubbed and chipped with some small tears, with all faults. A critical study of the improvisational method in North Indian musical practices and techniques, detailing the settings and performative environment in which the ragas are played.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. First American edition. Hardcover, [octavo], yellow cloth boards, gilt spine titles, illustrated dust jacket, 187 pp. Very good book, cover board soiled; Very good dust jacket, front flap creased, rear cover soiled. Jacket design by Joseph del Gaudio. Translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969. First edition. Hardcover, [octavo], white cloth boards, black spine titles, black end papers, pictorial dust jacket, 337 pp. Near fine book in near fine dust jacket. Jacket drawing Charles Mikolaycak.

Duke University Press Books, 2017. Soft cover. New. New in shrink plastic.

New York: Gagosian, 2009. Hardcover quarto in illustrated printed boards. 140 pp. New in shrink.

London: Gagosian, 2007. Hardcover quarto in purple boards with lettering stamped in gilt to boards and spine. 88 pp. As New in shrink.

Jefferson, North Carolina & London: McFarland & Company, 1993. Hardcover blue cloth boards with white lettering, no dust jacket, 6 1/8" x 9 1/4", 782 pp. Near fine. History and discography of the Liberty record label founded by Simon Waronker in 1955.

London, England: Collins and Harvill Press, 1961. First edition, second printing. Hardcover octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine in an illustrated dust jacket. Very good, cloth lightly worn down at edges and corners of boards/Very good, very light wear and creasing to perimeter aspects, 1/4" tear to top of cover, discolored 1/8" strip across top of flaps, very mild soiling to entirety of otherwise clean, sound and nicely colored jacket. Jacket design Sheila Stratton.

New York: Boosey and Hawkes, 1968. Signature-bound in blue wraps, 4to., 224 pp. Very good or better. Mild rubbing and toning to wraps,with soft crease to front cover.. Vocal score for the opera by Rorem, for which Elmslie wrote the libretto. Based on the play by August Strindberg.

Hardomondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1973. Perfect-bound, octavo, green paper wraps, 215 pp. Very good, upper cover moisture rippling to fore edge and first few leaves, soiling to textblock edges, spine lightly creased.. From the collections of New York School poet, publisher and librettist, Kenward Elmslie. Elmslie's proof copy, with his name penned on front cover, of the 24th installment in the Penguin Modern Poets series, as guest edited by John Ashbery.

New York: Boosey and Hawkes, 1968. Signature-bound in blue wraps, 4to., 224 pp. Very good or better. Mild rubbing and toning to wraps,with soft crease to front cover.. Vocal score for the opera by Rorem, for which Elmslie wrote the libretto. Based on the play by August Strindberg.