Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt
by Brautigan, Richard
New York: A Seymour Lawrence Book / Delacorte Press, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very good. 85pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Pictorial paper over boards with a matching dust jacket. Light rubbing at the spine ends and corners of the covers. Previous owner's name crossed out on front pastedown. The dust jacket has 4 small closed tears to... Read More
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Chytani Pstruhu V Americe (Trout Fishing in America)
by Brautigan, Richard; Olga Spilarova
Praha (Prague): Volvox Globator, 1993. First edition thus. Hardcover. 117pp. Octavo [21 cm] Tan cloth over boards, stamped in gilt on the spine and front cover. Very good. The spine ends and corners of the covers are gently bumped. In a very good dust jacket, with light surface and edge wear. A first Czech edition of Trout Fishing in... Read More
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Willard a jeho kuželká ské trofeje: Perverzní mystérium
by Brautigan, Richard
Argo, 1995. First Czech edition. Hardcover. Very good/fine. 149pp. Octavo [20.5cm]; black paper boards with title in white on spine. Some water damage to back board. The tale of a papier mache bird who occupies space with some stolen bowling trophies.
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The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western
by Brautigan, Richard
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Very good minus/Very good. SIGNED. 216pp. Octavo [21 cm] Brown cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover. The spine is rolled, there are a handful of small stains on the rear board, and the front hinge is weak. There is a remainder mark... Read More
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The Tokyo-Montana Express
by Brautigan, Richard
New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Good +/Very good. SIGNED. 258pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/4 blue cloth with cream-colored paper over boards, gilt lettering on the spine, and a gilt stamped train motif on the front board. Red endpapers. With a general layer of light soiling to the boards, moderate dust soiling to... Read More
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Strike!: 50th Anniversary Edition
by Brecher, Jeremy; Sara Nelson [Preface]; Kim Kelly [Forward]
Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2020. Reprint. Paperback. New. 640pp. Octavo [22.9 cm]. Illustrated wraps. From the publisher: "Jeremy Brecher’s Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in America. Involving nationwide general strikes, the seizure of vast industrial establishments, nonviolent direct action on a massive scale, and armed battles with... Read More
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Save the Humans?: Common Preservation in Action
by Brecher, Jeremy
Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2020. Reprint. Paperback. New. 272 pp. Octavo [22.8 cm]. Illustrative wraps. From the publisher: "We the people of the world are creating the conditions for our own self-extermination, whether through the bang of a nuclear holocaust or the whimper of an expiring ecosphere. Today our individual self-preservation depends on common preservation—cooperation to provide for... Read More
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Beatitude #24
by Breit, Luke (ed.) and Paul Wear (ed.)
San Francisco, CA: Beatitude, 1972. First Edition. Stapled. Very Good. 67pp. Quarto [28cm]. Printed wraps. Mild yellowing and creasing at edges. There is a moderate amount of rust on and around staples that bind the periodical. Very good. Twenty-fourth issue of a small press poetry magazine dedicated to the San Francisco Beat Poetry movement. Many local poets, who... Read More
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Beatitude #24
by Breit, Luke (ed.) and Paul Wear (ed.)
San Francisco, CA: Beatitude, 1972. First Edition. Stapled. Very Good. 67pp. Quarto [28cm]. Printed wraps. Mild yellowing and creasing at edges. There is a moderate amount of rust on and around staples that bind the periodical. Very good. Twenty-fourth issue of a small press poetry magazine dedicated to the San Francisco Beat Poetry movement. Many local poets, who... Read More
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St John of the Cross: His Life and Poetry
by Brenan, Gerald; Translation by Lynda Nicholson
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. Reprint. Leather Bound. Very Good. 232pp. Octavo [22 cm] Rebound in full light blue leather, with marbled endpapers, and new flyleaves. Silk ribbon page-marker. In gilt on the spine: "San Juan De La Cruz." Spine sunned; edges of boards negligibly sunned. The biography and examination of the poetry of the preeminent Spanish Roman... Read More
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Brigham Young: A Concise Biography of the Mormon Moses
by Breslin, Ed
Washington, DC: Regnery History, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. NEW/new. 242 pp. [24 cm]; mustard paper covered boards with gold stamped title on the spine. Pictorial dust jacket. A monumentl life. Religious leader. Bold pioneer. Flawed hero of the American West. Veteran author Ed Breslin tells this captivating adventure story in a biography that readers won't want to put... Read More
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Forty Years On: Richard Bresnahan and Artists of the Saint John's Pottery
by Bresnahan, Richard
Collegeville, MN: Saint John's University, 2019. Presumed first edition. Paperback. Near Fine. SIGNED. 64pp. Thin quarto [28 cm] Pictorial wraps. With a faint 3" long scratch to the front wrap. Published to accompany the exhibition "Forty Years On: Richard Bresnahan and Artists of the Saint John's Pottery" at Westminster Presbyterian Church Gallery, Minneapolis. Inscribed at length by Richard... Read More
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Rigor Vitae: Life Unyielding; The Art of Carel Pieter Brest Van Kempen
by Brest Van Kempen, Carel Pieter
Eagle Mountain, UT: Eagle Mountain Publishing, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. As NEW. Brest Van Kempen, Karel Pieter. Quarto, 290 pp. Hardbound in gray cloth with gold stamping. Pictorial dust jacket. Foreward by Carl Benders, introduction by David J. Wagner, edited by Laura White Schuett. Fully illustrated in color with Brest van Kempen's paintings, which along with his commentary... Read More
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The Irreconcilables
by Brett, Bernard
London: Methuen & Co, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 311 pp. plus 8 pages of ads at rear. Duodecimo [19 cm] in red cloth with gilt spine titles. Light chipping and wear to jacket spine, light edgewear to jacket; spine lightly cocked, boards toned at extremties, slight bump to rear board at top; foxing to textblock... Read More
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Ned Nimble Amongst the Indians; or, The Secret of the Phantom Cave
by Brett, Edwin J.
London, 1890. First edition. Hardcover. 179pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Blue grained paper over boards with a red and black printed paper title label on the backstrip. Good only. The extremities are rubbed, and the underlying boards are exposed in numerous areas along the edges of the covers. There is a contemporary owner's name in ink on the front pastedown.... Read More
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Small Scenes
by Brewer, Kenneth W. (Poetry) and Royden Card (Woodcuts)
Boise, ID: Limberlost Press, 2006. Limited Edition. Hardcover. As NEW. SIGNED - Small Scenes was letterpress printed during the winter of 2006 in a limited edition of 350 copies. This volume is one of only 50 copies that have been specially bound by hand into cloth and boards, numbered and signed by both the poet and the artist... Read More
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Collected Poems of Mongrel
by Brewer, Kenneth
Salt Lake City, UT: Compost Press, 1981. Paperback. 43 pp. Octavo. Gray stapled wraps. Near fine. Signed by the author on the title page, signed and inscribed by author to poet and dedicatee Keith Wilson on dedication page.
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To Remember What is Lost
by Brewer, Kenneth
Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1982. #82/500. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 55pp. Octavo. Blue cloth. Light bumping to head of jacket. Warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet. Holograph letter from the author to the inscribee (Keith Wilson) laid in. Short resume of the author laid in. Ex-libris poet Keith Wilson.
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Lake's Edge: Poems
by Brewer, Kenneth W.
First Haven, ID: Silver Moon, 2002. Trade edition. Paperback. SIGNED. 38pp. Thin quarto [28 cm] Illustrated wraps. Very good. The wraps are very lightly soiled. There are a couple of small light moisture stains on the top edge of the front wrap. Signed by Brewer on the title page. Kenneth W. Brewer was the Utah Poet Laureate, and a... Read More
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Chiaroscuro: A Mystery
by Brewer, K[enneth]. W[ayne]
Salt Lake City, UT: Elik Press, 2005. First Edition, #32/150. Paperback. 35 pp. Octavo. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. SIGNED by the author on the title page. A collection of poems by Utah's former poet laurate Ken W. Brewer. Elik Poetry Series Number Six.
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The Place In Between
by Brewer, Kenneth
Boise, ID: Limberlost Press, 1998. First edition. Softcover. As NEW. Letter press edition. Utah 2003 Poet Laureate. Handmade string bound wraps with decorative end sheets. Limberlost press is a fine press and bindery out of Idaho. Since 1986 they have issued many completely handmade letterpress editions.
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Sum of Accidents
by Brewer, Kenneth W. (Ken Brewer) (K.W. Brewer)
Salt Lake City, UT: City Art, 2003. First edition. Paperback. As NEW. 179 pp. By Utah's acclaimed Poet Laureate. A compilation of the late poet's work over the past three decades. Ken Brewer, 1941-2006, has selected the poems from early works such as Collected Poems of Mongrel, Remember What Is Lost, The Place In Between and other compilations.... Read More
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Small Scenes
by Brewer, Kenneth W.
Boise, ID: Limberlost Press, 2006. First edition, 1/300. Paperback. Royden Card. 20 pp. Octavo. Red handmade string bound wrappers with decorative end sheets. Letter press edition. 20 poems by former Utah poet laureate, Ken Brewer, who died in the spring of 2006 after a lengthy battle with cancer in his Cache Valley home. With 20 woodcut prints by noted... Read More
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Sum of Accidents
by Brewer, Ken
Salt Lake City, UT: City Art, 2003. First edition. Softcover. As NEW. 179 pp. By Utah's acclaimed Poet Laureate, the late Ken Brewer, 1941-2006. A selection of the author's poems gathered from all of his earlier work., selected by the poet himself.
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Whale Song: A Poet's Journey Into Cancer
by Brewer, Kenneth W.
Salt Lake City, UT: Dream Garden Press, 2007. First Trade Paperback Edition. Paperback. New. [104pp.] Octavo [21.5 cm.] White illustrated wrappers with titles printed in black on front panel and backstrip. This collection of poems was penned as the author was battling cancer in his Cache Valley home. A poet of the first order, and an incredible individual,... Read More
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