Search Results: Titles starting with F from Better Read Than Dead

London: F I R E., 1968. Unbound Folio in purple illustrated cardstock wraps with various colored cardstock leaves, 32 pp. Good only for its age and delicacy, with a split to top 1/3 of spine, edgeworn including chipping and closed tears, some fading and staining to cover, otherwise clean and readable within.. Cover by Jutta Werner, drawings by Dodo von Greiff, Harry Trevor, Hans Broeg, Jutta Werner, and Frances Horne.. Second issue of Berke's striking and storied FIRE journal, one of 3000 printed. This issue is a self-described "dialectic between direct revolutionary action and cultural guerilla warfare" and features contributors (amongst others) from the former (Che Guevara) to the more abstracted borderlands of the latter (Julian Beck, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Calvin Hernton).

New York: Basic Books, 1992. First printing. Hardcover, [octavo], quarterbound brown cloth spine and black boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 222 pp. Near fine book, front free endpaper gift inscription; very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson.

London: Secker and Warburg, 1953. Third Printing. Hardcover, [octavo], green-framed gilt spine titles, brown cloth boards, pictorial dust jacket, 339 pp. Very good book, spine slightly tilted; very good dust jacket, spine soiled, crown title section missing, covers soiled, owner inscribed cover, edge wear with close tears. Former copy of 1960s Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, J. Wayne Fredericks. With introduction by B. Malinowski.

Detroit: Bewick Editions, 1974. 8vo, 174 pp. Stiff illustrated wraps. Very good book, spine faded and creased, covers rubbed, text block marked. First published pseudonymously in 1958, reissued here under 2/3 of the authors' honest names once the coast was clear of McCarthy and his ilk.

Swiss Institute / Balkan Projects, 2019. Hardcover. Very Good. Book is in very good condition, sharp corners, square tight binding, some edgewear along extremities, some rubbing to front and rear boards, minor shelving and handling wear. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

New York: Scribner's, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover [octavo]. Black cloth with gilt title plates to front board and spine. 355 pp. Very Good, with light rubbing and soiling to text block and boards, some fray to crown of spine, cocked forward slightly but stands upright, suggests itself to open between gatherings at pp. 116, backstrip has vertical crease throughout at about the same, previous owner inscription to front free endpaper, foxing to end papers and trace finger soiling.. True First Edition of Hemingway's classic novel of the first World War, in which he served as an ambulance driver. Scribner's seal present to copyright page, no legal disclaimer to p. [x].

New York: Crown Publishers, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover octavo, gray cloth with orange stamped titling to boards, 248 pp. Near Fine, gentle push to bottom corners, light soiling to outer text block, else clean and sound./Very Good jacket, unclipped, some toning, general light rubbing, soiling, foxing, edgewear including a few small closed tears.. Jacket by Tom O'Sullivan. First Edition of Cooper's underground classic of prison life in a Lexington Federal Narcotics penitentiary ("The Farm"). Cooper, who had briefly enjoyed literary success with his autobiographical debut "The Scene", soon found his work languishing in pulp markets as he struggled with a heroin habit, publishing a few more novels under Harlan Ellison's editorship to little fanfare before completing this last novel while again serving time for narcotics. In a posthumous appraisal in The Guardian, Tony O'Neill writes, "After the critical success of The Scene, and the humiliation of his later works being relegated to pulp outfit… Read More

Sag Harbor, NY: The Permanent Press, 1994. First edition, limited to 4000 copies. Hardcover, [octavo], black cloth boards, red spine titles, purple end papers, pictorial dust jacket, 181 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

New York: Random House, 1973. First American edition. Hardcover, [octavo], cream cloth boards, red spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 175 pp. Very good book, top edge foxing, top edge dust-soiled; very good dust jacket, spine ends chipped, else light edge wear.

New York: Pathfinder, 1991. Perfect-bound, [octavo], illustrated wraps, 376 pp. Very good.

New York City, NY: Film Culture, 1962. Softcover quarto, perfect bound in illustrated paper wrappers, 93 pp. Very good, wear and rubbing to ends of spine exposing leaves, similar wear and rubbing to perimeter aspects of wrappers, small closed tear at tail of cover at binding, light soiling to wrappers. On the cover: François Truffaut shooting "Jules et Jim". Co-founder of Anthology Film Archives and The Film-Makers' Cooperative in New York City, Film Culture magazine was the print arm for the godfather of Avant-garde cinema, Jonas Mekas. The magazine ran for 80 issues from 1954 until 1996. This issue, #24, features a dedication essay "To Maya Deren" by Rudolf Arnheim; "Fourth Independent Film Award" presented to Stan Brakhage for his films The Dead and Prelude; "Notes on the New American Cinema" by Jonas Mekas; "The Deep Frozen Eye of God (Notes Towards a Social Surrealist Manifesto)" by Richard Preston; "Cinematic and Literary Stylistic Figures" by Pier Paolo Pasolini; "Making a Film is My Way of… Read More

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976. Uncorrected Proof. Perfect-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 292 pp. Very good condition.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. First Edition, stated. Hardcover 8vo, quarter black cloth over forest green boards, decorative graphic stamped to front board, publisher logo stamped to back, red lettering stamped to spine. Pictorial dust jacket. 246 pp. Very Good (+), light fray to edges of spine, sharp corners, brigh and clean save toning to top edge of boards./Good clipped jacket, heavy rubbing to parts resulting in exposure of unfinished paper below mostly near spine on panels, light soiling and edgewear otherwise. Jacket Design by Muni Leiblien. First American Edition of this groundbreaking novel depicting the psychological toll of war, drawn from the author's experiences in WWII and acknowledged as paving the way for later works on the matter in the Japanese literary canon.

Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1950. First edition. Hardcover, [octavo], blue cloth boards, stamped gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 306 pp. Good book, boards lightly soiled, cloth edges worn, 4 cut outs from old sci-fi mags pasted in various sections of text; fair dust jacket. Jacket design and illustrations A.J. Donnell.

New York: Anthology Film Archives, 1998. Perfect bound [octavo], printed pink wraps, 108 pp, [4] advert pp. Very Good, lightly soiled and creased wraps, with some wear at corners and spine ends. Essays on experimental filmmakers.

Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society Press, 2022. Softcover, quarto, in illustrated wraps, 513 pp. Near fine.

New York / London: The John Weber Gallery / The Jack Wendler Gallery, 1973. First edition. Perfect-bound, octavo, illustrated wraps, illustrated dust jacket, 64 pp. four pages of color illustrations (one roll-folded leaf of three pages). Very good book, text block corners gently creased; good dust jacket, spine creased and rubbed with wear at ends, joints worn, covers lightly soiled, edges and flap seams worns. Section two with pasted-down errata title, 'II. It Rains, It Snows, It Paints'.

Hardcover, [octavo], black cloth boards; red, white and purple spine and cover titles; pictorial dust jacket, red endpapers, 257 pp. Very good book; good dust jacket. Jacket design L. Kotkofsky.

New York: Empire Publishing, 1938. Signature-bound octavo in illustrated card wraps. 127pp, [17]pp advertisements. Lightly edge worn and soiled to wraps; toned leaves; in a sound binding; very good.. Scarce, beautifully illustrated dream interpretation book by the mysterious "Madame Vangine Hammda", any record of who has been seemingly lost to history. Only one copy recorded in OCLC at Yale as of April 2024.

New York: Melville House, 2023. First Melville House Printing. Softcover, octavo, in illustrated wraps, 227 pp. Designed by Patrice Sheridan.