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

New York: NO, 1977. First edition. [28] pp. Stapled wrappers. Second issue (of four) of the infamous punk zine; this issue is credited with giving the no wave movement its name. Fine copy, scarce thus.

Nördlingen: Verlegt bei Franz Greno, 1988. First edition. 98, [6] pp. Dark green cloth, lettered and ruled in black on the front board and the spine, with the dust jacket. Slightest of rubbing to the jacket corners, near fine or better. Photographs by Thomas Becker. Sebald's first non-academic publication, three long prose-poems. An elegant and beautifully printed book.

Bretenoux, France: Braad Press, 1977. First edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. First edition, one of 300 copies. Perfect-bound wrappers with printed dust jacket. Four woodcut illustrations laid in, as issued.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. 49 pp. Black paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. 49 pp. Slight bump to head of spine, else fine. Trethewey's third collection of poems, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Later reissued with a different cover design, Pulitzer seal, and CD, this is the first issue. Trethewey served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 2012 to 2014.

London: Reaktion Books, 2008. First edition. 197 pp. Green cloth boards, spine lettered in white, with the dust jacket. Lavishly illustrated with photos by Emily Cooperman of Finlay's various landscape projects, including Little Sparta and others. Slight rubbing to head of jacket spine, else fine.

Tuscaloosa: INK-A! Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, one of 50 copies printed, signed by the author. Bound signatures sewn into cloth boards, printed label on spine, cassette (!) laid in integral traycase. An early production of the press, nicely printed on hand-dyed paper, with several illustrations and fold-outs, and cassette of the author reading. Fine copy.

New York: Shorecrest, Inc, 1966. First edition. 180, [4] pp. Gray cloth boards, spine lettered in green, with the dust jacket. Some edgewear and toning to jacket. A classic look at the East Village, with photographs by the legendary chronicler of the downtown scene.

New York: Adventures in Poetry, 1970. First edition. Side-stapled wrappers, photographically illustrated front cover. One of 65 copies printed, called to be numbered and signed, this copy neither signed nor numbered. Fine copy. Kermani A18.

Key West: Sand Paper Press, 2010. First edition. Original Wraps. Fine. First edition. 56 pp. Original printed wrappers. A collection of poems by the enigmatic and important avant-garde writer, the first American member of the Oulipo. A fine copy, signed by Mathews on the half-title.

Key West: Sand Paper Press, 2010. First edition. Original Wraps. Fine. First edition. 56 pp. Original printed wrappers. A collection of poems by the enigmatic and important avant-garde writer, the first American member of the Oulipo. A fine copy.

Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2000. Second edition. Full tan cloth, spine lettered in black, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to head and tail of jacket spine, slight yellowing to lower edge, else fine. The second edition of this classic photobook, first published in 1974. Texts in German by Heinz Liesbrock, John Szarkowski, Thomas Weski, and Robert Adams. Roth pp. 226-227. Parr & Badger II, p. 25.

New York: Totem Press, 1961. First edition. Original wrappers. Very good +. 31 pp. Stapled wrappers. Cover drawing by Fielding Dawson. Minor age toning to the wrappers, small burn mark on front cover. Thom Gunn's copy with his ownership signature: "Thom Gunn / San Francisco.

London: The James Press, 1939. Second edition, revised. xxxii, 89 pp. Original gray cloth, decorated with an arrangement of stars in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Decorations by Rex Whistler. Some minor handling wear, rear pastedown protruding slightly. Title-page, head and tail-pieces, illustrations throughout. One of 412 numbered copies of this revised edition, which includes a new appendix. First printed in 1932, 525 copies were planned, but only about a sixth were bound before it was suppressed by James and the sheets used for this expanded second edition.

New York/London: The American-Scandinavian Foundation/Oxford University Press, 1919. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. First American edition, and first edition in English, of Jacobsen's great novel, his second. xi, 284, [3, ads, 1, blank]. Maroon cloth with gilt seal on front board, lettered in gilt on the spine. Top edge gilt. Spine a bit darkened, small nick on top edge of rear board, but overall, a clean tight copy of an uncommon book. In "Letters to a Young Poet" Rilke wrote to his young correspondent Franz Xaver Kappus, "Now Niels Lyhne will open to you, a book of splendors and depths; the more often one reads it, the more everything seems to be contained within it, from life's most imperceptible fragrances to the full, enormous taste of its heaviest fruits. In it there is nothing that does not seem to have been understood, held, lived, and known in memory's wavering echo.... You will experience the great happiness of reading this book for the first time, and will move through… Read More

London: Chatto and Windus/The Hogarth Press, 1966. First U.K. edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. 48 pp. Orange cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on the front board and the spine, with the dust jacket. Slight edgewear to top jacket edge, else fine. This edition contains a different selection of poems than the American edition, which won the National Book Award the previous year. 500 copies were printed. Hagstrom & Morgan A20b.

[New York]: [Henrik Drescher], 1986. First edition. [52] pp. Sewn wrappers, with a roughly trimmed translucent outer wrapper and gray paper inner wrapper, with a gold leaf rectangle hand painted on the inner wrapper. Some minor wear, near fine. Inscribed by Drescher on the title-page and dated 1986. In the Design Observer, Steven Heller wrote of Drescher's small handmade books, "like a kind of automatic writing, the books are not always intentional but rather 'a nervous habit... packaged Tourette's blabber.' He adds they are 'they are books not paintings or sculptures because they are necessary and function as file cabinets of the imagination.'" Two copies in OCLC.

[Los Angeles]: Edward Ruscha, 1969. First edition. [64] pp. Printed wrappers with original glassine. Glassine a little toned with small chip at the head of the spine; book fine. 2400 copies were printed of this first edition, a second edition was published in 1976. Phillpot notes, "Nine Swimming Pools is one of Ruscha's strangest in terms of one's expectations of a book. Most of the pages are blank. And then there is the punch line, the broken drinking glass. This surprising non sequitur drags one into the depths of these true blue pools, which were mostly photographed around Las Vegas, to question the apparently idyllic scenes." Engberg & Phillpot B8.

New York: October House, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. Gray paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Slight mark from paper-clip to top edge of jacket front panel, slight rubbing to jacket lower corners, else fine. 88 pp. Menashe's first book to be published in the United States.

Somerville: Firefly Press, 1985. First edition thus. Near fine. Bilingual edition, translated by Nicholas Fersen. First edition of these translations. [32] pp. String-sewn printed wrappers. One of 250 copies printed. Some sunning to spine, near fine. An uncommon edition, OCLC locates three copies (West Point, Lilly, Williams).

[New York]: Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, 1964. [82] pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers, with Duchamp's doorway image extending slightly beyond the rest of the wrapper, and reproduced in blind on the rear panel. Some tanning and soiling to covers, some surface wear, especially to edges, as almost always seen due to the extension of the doorway image. Foreword and texts by Richard Hamilton. Extensive black and white illustrations, three tipped-in color plates. Three thousand copies were printed at the Ram Press in New York, this copy for the exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Center later in 1965. "... the first and the most inclusive Duchamp retrospective to be held by a private gallery in the United States." (Schwarz).