Beecher John Barbara (12 results)

Soft cover. Condition: VG+. Barbara Beecher (wood block prints) (illustrator). First Edition. White illus. stiff paper wraps. Lightly soiled, a bit of shelf/edge wear. 93 pp., illus. Inscribed by author on title page to Donna Smith, dated Newburyport, 2 Jan. 1968. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. Barbara Beecher (illustrator). First Thus. Clean unmarked copy, paper labels on front board and spine in good condition. First printing after the letterpress edition of 300 copies.

Original Wraps. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Beecher, Barbara (illustrator). First. Fine in original wraps. Inscribed by poet. Small press Alabama. Author photo by John Howard Griffin. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Inscribed. Condition: Good. Paperback Inscribed Good Red Mountain Editions, 1966 softcover Boldly INSCRIBED to Jim and Marie Youngdahl, Minneapolis Cover shows moderate wear Pages unmarked Binding sound.

Cloth Bound Boards. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Barbara Beecher (illustrator). Limited. Size 10¼" x 7", "Five Hundred copies hand-set & printed by John and Barbara Beecher" Brown paper with blue titles on front cover over cream cloth. Condition near fine, corners slightly rubbed, else fine. Collected poems by Henry Birnbaum, William Newberry, John R. Reed, Olga Cabral, Jerry M. Wheeler, Jack Anderson, Mo Tien Teng, Charles Shaw, John Beecher and Peter Jones. With woodcut by Barbara Beecher.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket [as issued]. Barbara Beecher (illustrator). Limited Edition. Inscribed by the editor and poet on front endpaper "For John & LaRee Caughey/John Beecher/Los Angeles/November 23, 1962." John Walton Caughey, an author and educator who was considered the dean of California historians and a leading intellectual civil libertarian. Also signed by Barbara Beecher at her illustration of "Our Press". Limited edition of 500 copies, does not specify how many were bound into hardcovers. Signed By Artist and Author.

Plastic Cover. Condition: good. Barbara Beecher (illustrator). Reprint Edition. 81 pages, illus., plastic cover This MR Press edition is a photo offset reproduction of the original first edition which was limited to three hundred copies. Beecher was a People's Poet, an advocate of the workers and the poor. One of the great American protest and radical poets, Beecher left his steel mill background to teach English and sociology at various universities; he worked various positions under the New Deal.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine. 4to, 24pp, sewn wrappers. 1 of 500 copies hand-set and nicely printed in 1959 Arizona. Nice unmarked copy, light outer wear. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, red & whiter wrappers, prob. by accident, scarce po mag out the west.bit soiled, small name.vvtvbk3.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Loose leaf within paper folder, 12-1/2" tall, 24 pp. Leaves are in near fine to fine condition, but the spine of the folder is obliterated, and there is chipping to edges of folder. Complete with colophon and limitation leaves. John Beecher, a descendant of Harriet Beecher Stowe, threw his life away on principle (at least, that's the gist of the final poem, "Reflections of a Man Who Once Stood Up for Freedom.") He had a long and varied career, went through three wives and produced this with the help of his fourth wife, Barbara Beecher, who did the illustrations. Their Morning Star Press would later become the Rampart Press. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Beecher, Barbara (illustrator). First Edition / First Printing. 32 pp, signed on designed page prior to the endpaper. by Barbara and Joseph Beecher. "This book, the fifth in the Morning Star Quarto series, was hand-set & printed by John & Barbara Beecher at the Rampart Press in Scottsdale." Edition limited to 400 copies.6.6" x 9.6" black and red cloth boards. Size: Thin 8vo. Signed by Author & Illustrator. Book.

Trade paperback. Beecher, Barbara (illustrator). Reprint. Third printing, 1971. 81, [2] pages. : ill.; 25 cm. This was apparently signed at the time John Beecher gave a lecture entitled "Reflections of a Man Who once Stood Up for Freedom, delivered on Saturday, June 28, 19975 at the Fourteenth Annucal General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association, in the Star of the North Hall of The Radisson Hotel in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota. Dr. Gwendolyn A. Thomas gave the welcon, Dr. Edwin H. Wilson gave the Introduction of John Beecher. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by author. Inscription dated 1975. Flyer on The Ware Lecture given in 1975 laid in.