Frances Jaffer (12 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed to Bay Area poet Jim LeCuyer: "To Jim--'Yes, and if grasses seem green'--love--Frances Jan. 27, '91." Light foxing to inner wraps. One stain to outer text block edge. Faded spine. Very good overall.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed to poet Jim LeCuyer: "To Jim--from Frances, with love, 10/28/91." Light staining/foxing to inside of wraps. Some wear and fading to spine. Else near fine.

Condition: NEAR FINE. First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition. INSCRIBED on the title page, and dated 8/2/81, with a correction to the title in the author's hand. Kathleen Fraser described these "deeply intelligent" poems as "made out of the continuous tension .between wanting to enter the world.and fearing its assaults and prohibitions." Square format. 39 pp. Near fine in illustrated white wrappers.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. Pink stapled wrappers. Near fine with sunning. One of 500 copies.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Bonnie Carpenter (designed by) (illustrator). limited to 500 copies. printed by Bonnie Carpenter at Effie's Press. ; Limited Edition; 6 x 8 3/4 ".

[14p] 6x8.5 inches, handbound limited edition of 500 copies in sewn pink Frenchfold wraps, mild staining and fading, otherwise very good condition. Inscribed to avant-garde lesbian poet Lynn Lonidier. The poems deal with cancer.

8vo. Signed presentation to the American poet Adrienne Rich :" To Adrienne with gratitude and affection - Frances. 8/14/85." VG copy - slightly creased at corners. Very good. First Edition. Wraps.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Presentation to Robert [Bly] signed Frances. By Author.

Paperback. 39p., 7x8.5 inches, very good first edition in pictorial wraps. Personally inscribed and signed by the poet with a correction of the title-page in her hand (printer got the cover right but rendered title-page as "women," poet corrects to the singular) and two more such emendations will be found in the text.

Condition: Near fine. First Edition. First edition, limited to 500 copies; 8 1/2 x 6; pp. [16]; pink, Frenchfold wraps, printed in green; very minor wear - in near fine condition.A beautiful collection, dealing with the difficult subject of cancer.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. English text; Paperback.; 21 x 28 cm; 0.6 Kg; 16 pages (Members of the Council, Transactions and Obituaries) plus 103 pages with various colour and black-and-white illustrations; ISSN 0306-0926.; Used with minor signs of wear on the exterior and interior. Very good condition overall.; Includes the following articles: Ceramic Achievement in China over the Last Thirty Years by Rose Kerr.; The Excavation and Preliminary Study of the Zhanggonxiang Kilnsite in Ruzho by Sun Xinmin; The Ancient Chinese Ceramics Research Society (The China Society of Ancient Ceramics) by Wang Liying.; Potters, Painters and Patrons: Documentary Inscriptions and Iconography in PreMongol Iranian Ceramics by Yves Porter.; 'My Kylins': The Blanc de Chine Lions at Preston Manor, Brighton by Sarah Cheang.; Collecting Art in North Korea by Jane Portal.; Chinese 16th and 17th century Porcelain - Kraak, 'Swatow' and 'Transitional' Styles by Jean Martin.; The Forbidden City by Frances Wood.; Chinese Tea Drinking Customs and the Changes over the Centuries and the Effect of such Changes on the Ceramics Used in China by Brian McElney.; Collectors and Collecting: Song Dynasty Ceramics at the V&A by Rose Kerr.; Encounters: The Meetings of Asia and Europe, 1500-1800 by Anna Jackson and Amin Jaffer.; Mr P. H. D. S. Wikramaratna's Gifts of Chinese Ceramics to British Museum by Mr P. H. D. S. Wikramaratna's.; Visit to Boughton House by Phillip Allen and The Oriental Ceramic Society Tour to the Silk Road by Jean Martin and Phillip Allen.

First edition of Alternate Endings by Frances Jaffer, published in 1985 as the inaugural title in the influential HOW(ever) Book Series-a San Francisco feminist and experimental poetry imprint emerging from the HOW(ever) journal co-founded by Kathleen Fraser, Beverly Dahlen, and Jaffer herself. This early HOW(ever) publication helped shape feminist poetics in the 1980s, emphasizing women''s formal innovation and self-determined literary history. Typography and production by West Coast Print Center, with design by Mary Ann Hayden. Distributed by Small Press Distribution and sold through iconic feminist bookstores Small Press Traffic and Old Wives' Tales, both based in San Francisco. Author: Frances Jaffer Publisher: HOW(ever) Book Series, San Francisco Year: 1985 Special attributes: First edition, number one in the HOW(ever) series, printed at West Coast Print Center, design by Mary Ann Hayden Topic: Feminist poetics, experimental writing, San Francisco small press Subject: Poetry, women writers, feminist publishing history Keywords: Frances Jaffer, HOW(ever), feminist poetry, Kathleen Fraser, Beverly Dahlen, West Coast Print Center, Small Press Distribution, 1980s feminist literature Condition: Very good, clean and tight, light wear to wraps, crisp interior.