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

New York: George Braziller, 1963. First English language edition. 252 pp. Yellow cloth, spine printed in black and white, with the dust jacket. Some toning to jacket, small chip at lower edge of front panel at spine. An early work by the Nobel Prize winner, translated by Richard Howard.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good +. 212 pp. Red boards over black cloth backstrip, spine lettered in red and silver, with the dust jacket. Minor rubbing to head and tail of spine and corners; the jacket shows heavier rubbing with a couple of small chips and tears and an inch chip at the top edge of the front panel, affecting "The" in the title. The book was the basis for the 1971 film which was Al Pacino's first starring feature film role, with a screenplay by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne. Scarce, especially the first edition.

New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1930. First trade edition. xvii, [1], 358 pp. Full brown polished buckram, red leather spine label lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, with the dust jacket. Top edge of jacket rubbed with some general light wear. Volume partially unopened. Folding frontispiece and over 200 illustrations throughout. Still the classic work on papermaking.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. First American edition. 274 pp. Black cloth, spine lettered in copper, with the dust jacket. Some slight edgewear to the jacket, head and tail of spine a little rubbed. An early novel by Dyer, signed by him on the title-page. The British first edition published a year earlier was a paperback original.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First edition. 182, [2] pp. Blue cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, front board decorated in blind, with the dust jacket. Some rubbing to head and tail of the spine, corners a little bumped; jacket shows some edgewear with minor chipping at the head and tail of the spine and a bit of soiling, but overall a clean copy, nicer than usually seen. Ownership signature of poet and editor William Abrahams, dated 1942, on the front free endpaper. Edelstein A5.a.1, noting 1000 copies were printed.

Big Sur: Jonathan Williams, Publisher, 1956. First edition. [12] pp. String-tied printed wrappers. One of 200 copies printed. Some foxing, primarily first and last leaves. McClure's first book. Printed by the Windhover Press and published as Jargon 20. With original prospectus laid in, which contains the full text of the poem "For the Death of 100 Whales," along with an excerpt of a letter from William Carlos Williams to publisher Jonathan Williams, who deems it "an astonishing composition." McClure read the poem at the famous Six Gallery reading the previous year, where Ginsberg publicly debuted "Howl." This prospectus must constitute its first publication, preceding the book. Clements A1. Not in Wallace.

San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 1968. First edition. no binding. Near Fine. Four printed leaves laid in to a folder with rear flap serving as title-page, covers illustrated by Jess. Contains Duncan's "Structure of Rime XXVII," its first appearance. Published to coincide with a show at the San Francisco Museum of Art held May 31 to June 30, 1968. Minor wear to spine, else a fine copy. Bertholf B23. Quite scarce.

New York: Joyce Memorial Fund Committee, distributed by the Gotham Book Mart, 1941. First edition. Original wrappers. Stapled printed wrappers. One of 700 numbered copies, of a total edition of 800. Facsimiles of Joyce manuscripts, with commentary by Maria Jolas and Padraic Colum. Frontispiece portrait of Joyce by Jo Davidson. Very minor sunning to spine and rubbing to lower edge. Slocum & Cahoon A50.

New York: New Directions, 1958. First edition. Five volumes. Original light gray cloth, lettered in gilt and blocked in various colors, with the dust jackets. All volumes show some mild even toning to the jackets. Book 1 shows some browning to the endpapers, the jacket is slightly chipped at the head of the spine; Book Two has some toning to the jacket but is otherwise near fine; Book Three has a tiny nick to the head of the jacket spine and a very short closed tear to the top edge of the front jacket panel; Book Four has a very short closed tear to the head of the jacket spine; Book Five has some minor rubbing to the jacket. Williams' epic masterpiece, a song of Paterson, New Jersey, a companion to his friend Ezra Pound's Cantos. Volumes 1-4 were published in editions of 1000 copies each, stated; volume 5 was published in an edition of 3000 copies. Wallace A24, A25, A30, A34, A44.

London: Tetrad Press, 1973. First edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. Single sheet, folded, housing a mounted folded sheet with three lithograph illustrations on each panel. Part of the Tetrad Pamphlets Vol. II series. One of 125 copies (of which 25 were signed, this copy unsigned). Tiny crease to lower corner of fold-out, else a fine copy.

New York: Tibor de Nagy Editions, 1961. First edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. First edition of Elmslie's first book, published in an edition of 300 copies. 34 pp. Staple-bound wraps with dust jacket. The jacket was originally glued under the flaps to the front and rear covers; the glue has come undone on the front flap. Small ink mark on rear cover, else a fine copy. Signed by Elmslie on the title-page and dated 1963 and additionally inscribed across the front flap, inside front cover, and front flyleaf, "for Rosalinde / with love / from KSE." The debut publication of a major figure in the New York School scene, known for his stewardship of Z Press and collaborations with Joe Brainard.

Dublin, Ireland/Old Deerfield, MA: The Deerfield Press/The Gallery Press, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First edition, one of 300 copies printed. Hand-colored woodcut by Timothy Engelland. Printed by Harold McGrath at the Hampshire Typothetae, in Hatfield, Massachusetts, and bound by hand at Antiquarian Bookcrafts, Ltd., in Dublin. Signed by Merrill on the colophon page. Fine in a fine jacket.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. First edition. Fine. First edition, wrappers issue, of the first book by this acclaimed poet, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2006. 58 pp. Printed glossy wrappers. A fine copy.

Hartford: James Thrall Soby, 1934. First edition. Publisher's plastic comb binding, stiff wrappers. Minor vertical crease to front cover, light chipping to outer edge. Upper and lower portions of the front cover coming loose from the binding, but the cover is still held firmly. Internally clean and bright. Now housed in a custom clamshell box. The very rare first issue. As Roth describes, the publisher "attempted to generate demand where none existed by suggesting the edition had sold out. After replacing the title pages of these copies- presumably a healthy percentage of the run whose sales had in fact, been slow to none- with one stating 'deuxième edition,' second edition, he returned them for sale. Copies with the original title page are exceedingly rare." Man Ray's first monograph, with texts in English and French by Duchamp, Tzara, Eluard, Breton, and Man Ray himself. Frontispiece portrait of Man Ray by Picasso. Contains 104 heliogravure images. "Part art, part illustration, [the book] was… Read More

Clinton, NY: Alexander Hamilton Press, Hamilton College, 1972. First edition thus. Original wrappers. Fine. [12] pp. Printed blue wrappers tied with cord. A keepsake to mark the opening of the New Library of Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges, Sept. 10, 1972, printed by Mark Holmes Walpole, Class of '74, Spring, 1972. One of 350 numbered copies. Very slight sunning at spine, fine copy. Gallup E2z.

Providence: Burning Deck, 1974. First edition. Original Wraps. Fine. First edition, one of 350 numbered copies printed. Original stapled wraps with dust jacket. [24] pp. A fine copy of an uncommon Mathews title.

San Francisco: The Tenth Muse, 1969. Second edition. Original Wraps. Fine. Expanded second edition, with a new preface by the author. Stapled wrappers. [24] pp. Originally published in an edition of 35 copies by Diane di Prima and Alan Marlowe as a part of their Poets Press series. A couple of extremely minor blemishes to covers, overall about fine. Bertholf A33b.

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.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1994. First edition. 72 pp. Tan cloth, lettered in purple on the spine and decorated in blind on the front board, with the dust jacket. Photographs of Wood interspersed with quotations by her reflecting the wisdom of decades. Signed by Wood on the title-page and dated Ojai 1994. Fine copy.

Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1942. First edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. First edition of Berryman's first separate publication, one of 1500 copies issued in wrappers. 28 pp. Some very slight sunning to the spine and extremely minor rubbing to the top edge, else a fine copy.