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

San Francisco: Progressive Labor Party, 1965. Folded tabloid newsprint, 8pp. Near Fine, light edge and handling wear, light toning.. Editor (post-)proofing copy of the August 1965 issue of SPARK: Western Voice for Revolution, the periodical newspaper of the Progressive Labor Party out of San Francisco. Primarily edited by activist, reporter, and poet John Ross, this copy is riddled with blue inked corrections, suggestions, and downright reprimands; although it is unclear whose hand put them down. While the corrections range from purely formatting in nature (unneeded white space" "poorly done rule", etc) to journalistic (is this Really p.1 material?", "3 of 5 pp. taken from Challenge/Desafia -- don't we have enough local news --"), the Marxist spirit behind this technical dressing-down is revealed in an extended closing argument to the outer gutter of the final page: "this suffers from hastily done editorial and production work, lacking control and craftsmanship. Lateness in editorial prep. of copy… Read More

New York City, 1997. Single-sided xeroxed A4 flyer. Very Good, some soiling, creasing, small open tear to top affecting only the "H" in "THE" on the title.. Single-sided flyer which, like the best protest material, is graphically imbued with the urgency of its demands: STOP THE DEMOLITION OF THE 5TH STREET SQUAT! The 5th Street Squat stood at 537-9 5th Street in New York City's Lower East Side, and was one of many buildings reclaimed in the neighborhood (and citywide) in an attempt to access the inalienable right of housing and shelter through the city's glut of empty buildings. As the city and its mayor Rudy Giuliani dug deeper into the pockets of real estate developers, these homes and their homemakers were forcibly evicted, burned out, and run off en masse throughout the 90s (with a few notable exceptions). On February 8th, 1997 the building suffered a small electrical fire damaging only the inside of the building, and was deemed structurally safe by the Fire Marshal. The following day,… Read More

New York: Geronimo Books, 1972. Perfect-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 110 pp. Very good, wraps creased and worn. Erje Ayden's novel of espionage detailing his colleagues in spy work, 'a work of fiction'.

London, UK: First Third Books Ltd, 2014. Hardcover. Good. Book is in good condition, bumping to top corners of front and rear boards with resultant bump to top corner of text block, slight cant to spine, otherwise clean clothbound boards, unmarked within. edition of 2000 copies, stated promotional copy. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

San Francisco: The Trystero Company, 1968. October 30, 1968. Folded tabloid newsprint (11-1/2 x 16 in). Black ink. 16 pp. Very Good. Some toning, foxing, soiling and edgewear including shallow closed tears and chipping, but all material present.. Underground weekly which ran for 62 issues (before rebranding and flying under the masthead Good Times until 1972) from the Bay Area countercultural scene and Berkeley Free Speech Movement. Edited by Marvin Garson, the SFET became a hotbed of radical journalism, underground cartoonists, and even organic food justice (with Alice Waters frequently contributing recipes and columns). This issue contains a PSA on voting abstinence by CITIZENS FOR A GROOVY AMERICA, Wayne Collins on the Berkeley Movement, part two of Jeff Shero's interview with William S. Burroughs (see isssue 38), Dan McCauslin's account of a confrontation and reclamation of a NYC theater from Rock impresario Bill Graham with the Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers, Marvin Garson's review of… Read More

San Francisco: The Trystero Company, 1968. October 2, 1968. Folded tabloid newsprint (11-1/2 x 16 in). Black and blue ink. 16 pp. Very Good. Some toning, foxing, soiling and edgewear including shallow closed tears and chipping, but all material present.. Underground weekly which ran for 62 issues (before rebranding and flying under the masthead Good Times until 1972) from the Bay Area countercultural scene and Berkeley Free Speech Movement. Edited by Marvin Garson, the SFET became a hotbed of radical journalism, underground cartoonists, and even organic food justice (with Alice Waters frequently contributing recipes and columns). This issue contains a call to shut down Columbia University, a poem entitled "Up Against the Wall" by Peter Dale Scott, an illustrated poetry centerfold on the history and role of printmaking and its revolutionary potential by Frank Cieciorka and Ellen Estrin, a review of Brecht's "Baal", and more.

San Francisco: The Trystero Company, 1968. October 23, 1968. Folded tabloid newsprint (11-1/2 x 16 in). Blue ink. 16 pp. Very Good. Some toning, foxing, soiling and edgewear including shallow closed tears and chipping, but all material present.. Underground weekly which ran for 62 issues (before rebranding and flying under the masthead Good Times until 1972) from the Bay Area countercultural scene and Berkeley Free Speech Movement. Edited by Marvin Garson, the SFET became a hotbed of radical journalism, underground cartoonists, and even organic food justice (with Alice Waters frequently contributing recipes and columns). This issue contains articles on the death of Aristotle Onassis, the yucky and mucky fundraising overtures of RAMPARTS to less than revolutionary figures aboard yachts, the various fisticuffs and intimidation beatings by the Progressive Labor Party, investigative journalism on Indian affairs in Downeast Maine, "Theater as Brick not Theater as Banana" by Joan Holden and R.G.… Read More

San Francisco: The Trystero Company, 1968. October 9, 1968. Folded tabloid newsprint (11-1/2 x 16 in). Black and brown ink. 16 pp. Very Good. Some toning, foxing, soiling and edgewear including shallow closed tears and chipping, but all material present.. Underground weekly which ran for 62 issues (before rebranding and flying under the masthead Good Times until 1972) from the Bay Area countercultural scene and Berkeley Free Speech Movement. Edited by Marvin Garson, the SFET became a hotbed of radical journalism, underground cartoonists, and even organic food justice (with Alice Waters frequently contributing recipes and columns). This issue contains articles on solidarity with Mexican students and activists after the military occupation of the National University, part one of a Jeff Shero interview with William S. Burroughs, a long feature on El Teatro Campesino's "The Shrunken Head of Pancho Villa", a pictorial centerfold on the Godard Festival entitled "The Three Lives of Jean-Luc Godard", a… Read More

Gottingen, Germany: Steidl, 2018. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Sharp corners, square tight binding, bright printed cloth boards, clean and unmarked within. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

Los Angeles: Little Caesar Press, 1982. About Near Fine, mildest edgewear, sunning to spine extends 1/2 inch onto front wrap.. Fourth collection of poems from Myles, issued on her friend Dennis Cooper's Little Caesar Press.

Barcelona, Spain: RM Verlag, 2018. Hardcover. Very Good. Book is in very good condition, minor bumping to tail of front board, bump to head of back board where it meets spine, slight cant to spine, otherwise cover is bright and clean, unmarked within. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall.

Brooklyn: Autonomedia, 1988. Perfect-bound, octavo, pictorial wraps, 224 pp. Very good, spine ends chipped, edges and corners lightly worn, lower cover top edge surface closed tear, lower cover top corner creased.

New York: Doubleday, 1974. First edition. Hardcover with copper cloth boards and black lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 8vo, 293 pp. Very good, remainder spray to bottom paper edge, former owner's name on back endpaper, lightly worn cloth edges/Very good jacket, lightly worn and chipped edges, couple small tears, and mild soiling. Jacket design by David November; jacket woodcut by Barbara Bascove. Following contributions to journals and periodicals in the early 1960s, his social criticism was compiled and edited into the landmark Sex and Racism in America in 1965, followed by White Paper for White Americans in 1966 and Coming Together: Black Power, White Hatred, and Sexual Hang-ups in 1971---all published by Doubleday. As a co-founder of Umbra, Hernton was also part of a foundational group of New York City black poets and playwrights. As a poet, he worked closely with Aldo Tambellini, Henry Grimes and Ben Morea in experimental performance art. A work of fiction that took eight years to craft,… Read More

New York: Self-published, 1991. 3 vols., all side-stapled in printed self-wrappers with red candle stamps at tops of front covers, 11 x 8-3/8 in. [24]; [24]; [24]pp. No. 1 with erratum slip laid in. Nos. 2 and 3 addressed to Kenward Elmslie on rear cover. All volumes very good or better, with light toning to spines. Some rubbing to cover of no. 2.. The first three of five total issues of this little magazine published out Notley and Oliver's East Village Apartment from 1990-1991. Contributors in these issues include Kathy Acker, Amiri Barka, Joe Brainard, Ed Dorn, Barbara Guest, Anselm Hollo, Fanny Howe, Yvonne Jacquette, Eileen Myles, Ron Padgett, Ed Sanders, Anne Waldman, Philip Whalen, et al.

Trinidad, West Indies: [Self-published], 1972. First edition. Staple-bound, [octavo], in illustrated wraps, 81 pp. Very good, lightly soiled wraps.

Eindhoven: Kim's Comforter Press, 2000. Edition of 100. Saddle-stapled (8-1/2 x 5-3/4 in) in pictorial yellow wraps over blue paper, toner printed. [28 pp]. Near Fine. Scarce photocopied zine by legendary skateboarder Mark Gonzalez and visual artist Cameron Jamie of typed poetry, art, handstyles, and more, all originally committed to Holiday Inn stationary. Centerfold by Kim Gordon.

New York, NY: Mnuchin Gallery, 2018. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. light soiling to front board, slight fraying to cloth at corners, boards slightly bowed.

New York: Grove Press, 1969. First Evergreen printing. Signature-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 104 pp. Very good condition, front free end page owner-inscribed, additional light markings throughout text block.

Berlin, Germany: Revolver, 2011. Soft cover. Very Good. Book is in very good condition, light bumping to bottom right corner with concurrent peeling, slight bumping to top right corner, bumping to tail of spine with resultant minor creasing, slight peeling along edges, otherwise clean and bright, unmarked throughout, binding is tight and square. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall.

New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1973. Third Printing. Hardcover, octavo, oatmeal cloth stamped in bronze on front board and spine, pictorial dust jacket; xiv, 402 pp. Near fine, with light toning to boards and textblock edges. In a near fine, unclipped ("$8.95") jacket with a small closed tear at head of spine, diagonal creases to flaps. From the library of New York School poet, publisher and librettist Kenward Elmslie. Inscribed on the half-title by Michael [Lally, presumably] and Anne Waldman: "Happy Birthday Ken Michael & love Anne April 27.74.".