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

New York: Aperture, 1986. First edition. 144 pp. Oblong quarto. Blue cloth backstrip over blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt and blind, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to lower board edges, else fine. Parr & Badger note the book, "like most of the great photobooks, is an honest, troubling, passionate, deeply poetic mirror held up to our times," and Roth calls it perhaps the most influential photography book since Diane Arbus' 1972 monograph. Parr/Badger v2, p. 39. Roth pp. 252-253.

Portland/Denver/Omaha: Octopus Books, 2012. First edition. 87 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Slight handling wear to covers and lower edge, near fine or better. The first book by an acclaimed young poet and memoirist, author of "Rape Joke" and Priestdaddy.

Los Angeles: The Dragon Press of George William Shaw/Wagon & Star Publishers, 1962. First edition. Original wrappers. Near fine. 35 pp, printed on rectos only. String-tied textured paper wrappers, printed in black and red. One of one hundred copies, set into type and printed by George William Shaw at Lennox High School, under the supervision of Eugene Earll. Very minor toning to spine and foxing to fore-edge. An attractive student production; no copies in OCLC.

Northampton, MA: Hampshire Typothetae, 1979. Single sheet, folded, with printed leaf laid in. Wood engraving by Moser, printed by Harold McGrath. A keepsake issued on the occasion of Moser's address to the Typophiles Luncheon, March 21, 1979. Fine copy.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1970. First edition. 245 pp. Yellow paper boards over red cloth backstrip, spine lettered and decorated in silver, with the dust jacket. Board edges slightly rubbed at the spine, jacket shows some toning, slight edgewear, and a couple of tiny chips at the top edge of the rear panel. Hazzard's uncommon second novel.

New Rochelle: Elizabeth Press, 1972. First edition. Original Wraps. Fine. One of 300 copies printed, signed by Corman on the front free endpaper. Printed in Kyoto and bound Japanese-style. A fine copy.

[San Francisco]: [Zephyrus Image], 1972. First edition. [8] pp. Folded sheets, bible paper issue. Folded twice; fine copy. Johnston notes, "While it looks like a newspaper, Bean News is full of in-jokes that are hard to decipher..." The Zephyrus Image archives at the University of Delaware: Bean News is "an unconventional newspaper that combined letters, articles, poems, puns, and rebuses while experimenting in art, typography, and layout. Poets Ed Dorn, Tom Raworth, Tom Clark, Jeremy Prynne, Michael McClure, Luis Garcia, and others submitted copy, and Bean News became an item of intrigue in the San Francisco small press community." Johnston, Zephyrus Image, pp. 76, 177. Streeter, Ed Dorn, B22.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. First edition of Rukeyser's fourth book of verse. Near fine in a near fine jacket, slightly chipped at the head and foot of spine, else clean and bright. Review copy, with slip laid in.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. First edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. Advance proof copy in yellow wrappers with the Cape logo, text label pasted on front cover. Cohen's classic novel was published in the US and Canada in 1966 but this is its first publication in the UK. Some slight rubbing and handling, marks on fore-edge, but overall a near fine copy of a very scarce edition.

New York: Grove Press, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First edition of Gilb's first collection to be published since suffering a stroke in 2009. 194 pp. A fine copy in a jacket with a tiny crease on the lower corner of the front flap, else fine. Signed by Gilb on the title-page with his initials.

[Easthampton]: Pennyroyal Press, 1975. First edition. [36] leaves, unbound as issued, laid into a chemise housed in a clamshell box. A couple of small minor scuffs to box, contents fine. One of forty copies printed. Six wood engravings by Anne O'Connor with texts "freely edited from the 1871 edition of Johnson's Natural History." With an additional suite of the wood engravings printed on Moriki, as issued. Composition, printing, and wood engravings by Anne O'Connor. This copy signed by O'Connor and inscribed "for Gray," likely Gray Parrot. Pennyroyal 10. Moser notes, "Annie O'Connor was so precocious at printing, I allowed her to use the Pennyroyal imprint on this handsome little book she did as a senior project at Williston Academy." O'Connor also composed the text for the Pennyroyal books Eve, Singing and Carnal Lent. Although assigned an OCLC number (4675563), no copies located.

Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, 2002. First edition. Original wrappers. Near fine. 48 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Minor surface wear, near fine. The second collection by the former Poet Laureate.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000. First American edition, and first bilingual edition, of Heaney's translation. Black cloth backstrip lettered in silver over black silver-speckled boards. 220 pp. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

New York: Pantheon, 1993. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Blue cloth, lettered and decorated in silver, with the original glassine dust jacket. 74 pp. Originally published in 1955 as a signed limited edition, this is the first trade edition. Slight rubbing to head of fragile jacket spine, else fine. Signed by Wilbur on the title-page.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1953. First edition. 195 pp. Orange-red cloth, lettered in black on the spine, with the dust jacket. Jacket a bit darkened with slight edgewear to top edge, book about fine. The standard reference on Joyce.

Hong Kong: Liu Publishers, 1960. First edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. Japanese-style string-tied wrappers with printed cover label. Wrappers foxed, edges a bit chipped. A collection of poetical works by the author of Zen Flesh, Zen Bones.

Stinson Beach, CA: Enkidu Surrogate, 1959. First edition. [16] pp. Printed stapled wrappers. One of 750 copies. Illustrated by Jess, one of a handful of titles issued by him and Robert Duncan under their Enkidu Surrogate imprint, distributed by White Rabbit. Slight sticker ghost to inside front cover, else fine.

New York: Mother Press, 1966. First edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. Printed stapled wrappers. 100 pp. One of 500 copies printed. Minor toning to covers and slight rubbing to head and tail of spine. Cover design and illustrations by Joe Brainard.

New York: Penguin Press, 2013. First edition. Advance uncorrected proof of Pynchon's eighth novel. 479 pp. Printed wrappers. All Pynchon proofs are scarce. Corners slightly bumped, else a fine copy, unread and unused.

London: Bloomsbury, 2000. First U.K. edition. 525 pp. Black boards, spine lettered in silver, with the dust jacket. Mild rubbing to head and tail of spine, slight wear to jacket corners and extremities. Signed and dated 28.9.2000 by Atwood on the title-page. Winner of the Booker Prize.