Leroi David (43 results)

Condition: Good. First edition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. DJ with some edge wear and tears.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 120 pages, w/photo illustrations. A title in the Science Simplified Series. Unmarked, tight and clean.

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Good in original wrappers. Mild sunning along the spine and light rubbing.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

First edition As new and bright glossy stiff wraps with excellent square spine and crisp bright text throughout. Glossy all around. Gift quality.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 120pp, photographs. Science Simplified Series. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paperback. 80p., texts in Norwegian & English, poetry, criticism, essays, parodies, letters to the editor, contributors, very good paperback literary journal in pictorial wraps. The excerpt from Jones/Baraka's statement about being beaten and arrested by White cops is sadly still relevant.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good condition with corners bumped, rear cover and spine slightly darkened. Free from any writing. Contains poetry by Barbara Howes, Galway Kinnell, Richard Howard, David Ignatow, Lisel Mueller, Josephine Jacobsen, Thomas Merton. Other contributors: Clayton Eshleman, Jerome Rothenberg, C.K. Williams (a few years before his first book), John Pym, John Ratti, Frederick Nicklaus, Louis Untermeyer, Bruce Cutler and LeRoi Jones [Amiri Baraka].

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Interviews with modern American poets Kenneth Rexroth, Paul Carroll, Paul Blackburn, Jerome Rothenberg, Robert Kelly, Robert Bly, John Logan, Gilbert Sorrentino, Robert Creeley, W.S. Merwin, Denise Levertov, LeRoi Jones, Edward Dorn, and Allen Ginsberg. Out of print. Binding is stiff wraps.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 64pp, printed wrappers. First issue of this literary magazine co-edited by Diane di Prima and featuring Frank O'Hara, LeRoi Jones, Gerrit Lansing, John Wieners, Hart Crane (The Moth That Made God Blind), other informal Parnassians. One Clive Matson poem has two lines corrected in ink by an unknown hand; else an unmarked copy with light outer wear. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 756pp, printed wrappers. This famous and massive issue comprises important firsthand accounts of many important periodicals, including Big Table, Black Mountain Review, El Corno Emplumado, Evergreen Review, Furioso, Kulchur, Origin, Paris Review, Poor. Old. Tired. Horse., Yugen, and many others. Unmarked copy, reading wear to spine and covers. Not Signed.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original light blue cloth covers, black lettering to the spine. 8vo 8½" x 5¼" 120 pages. ISBN 901255084. Monochrome photographic illustrations on glossy silk art paper, futuristic artist impression drawings showing 'Walking' dredging platform at sea, immersed tube method, and tunnel terminal above and below. Light foxing to end papers. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with two short closed tears to top of upper panel, shallow rubs to upper corners, not price clipped 25s. Dust wrapper supplied in archival acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. BRIDGES & TUNNELS.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original light blue cloth covers, black lettering to the spine. 8vo 8½'' x 5¼'' 120 printed pages of text. ISBN 901255084. Monochrome photographic illustrations on glossy silk art paper, futuristic artist impression drawings showing 'Walking' dredging platform at sea, immersed tube method, and tunnel terminal above and below. Fine condition book in very near Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped 25s. Dust wrapper supplied in archival acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 901255084 BRIDGES & TUNNELS.

Condition: Good. Bound in printed wraps. Cover portrait of William Carlos Williams by Ben Shahn. 8vo. 6 x 9 inches. Paginated 221-443. Writing by Edward Dahlberg, Robert Frost, Rainer Maria Rilke, William Dickey, David Wagoner, Lincoln Kirstein, John Hollander, William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, Denise Levertov, LeRoi Jones, and others. Clean and tight copy, in Fine condition.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original light blue cloth covers, black lettering to the spine. 8vo 8½'' x 5¼'' 120 printed pages of text. ISBN 901255084. Monochrome photographic illustrations on glossy silk art paper, futuristic artist impression drawings showing 'Walking' dredging platform at sea, immersed tube method, and tunnel terminal above and below. Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with two short closed tears to top of upper panel, shallow rubs to upper corners, not price clipped 25s. Dust wrapper supplied in archival acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 901255084 BRIDGES & TUNNELS.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 52pp, stapled wrappers. Seminal Beat-era little magazine edited by LeRoi Jones. Includes the first publication of Rimbaud by Jack Kerouac, plus Gary Snyder (Sherlock v2.D52). Period ownership signature of the enigmatic "R Rose" to contents page, else unmarked with light wear and soil to covers. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. Tall 8vo, 72pp, printed wrappers. An important collection of experimental poetry at the time, includes an interesting introductory essay interpreting developments in the light of Olson's Projective Verse. (The Ed Dorn contribution is Streeter C54; Duncan is Bertholf C130; Snyder is Sherlock v2.D70.) Unmarked copy, a bit of soil and toning to covers. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st edition. Good+. 8vo, 104pp, printed wrappers. Poet Bill Berkson's copy (though unmarked aside from an enigmatic note to back cover in what is presumably Berkson's hand). Includes writing by Joe Brainard, book reviews by Ted Berrigan, John Sinclair and Ron Padgett, an interview with Morton Feldman by Robert Ashley, much else. Spine reinforced with tape by Berkson, general wear and soil. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 4to, 84pp, printed wrappers. Includes "Dreams of Hippolyte" by Susan Sontag (Poague & Parsons G23), comprising material from a draft of "The Benefactor." Issue also includes Beat writers and Abstract Expressionist artists. Tight, unmarked copy, typical rubbing to covers, light bump to one corner. Not Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Nonny Hogrogian (illustrator). First Edition. ADVANCE REVIEW COPY with publisher's slip laid in. Also laid in is a publicity flyer describing the book's significance. What distinguishes this book is the fact that most of the poets are from the Beats Movement, their poetry now considered unsuitable for children, yet it includes revolutionary (for children) selections by Kherdian of LeRoi Jones's "Imamu Ameer Baraka" (he would change his name to Baraka soon after) and an original prologue by Jack Kerouac on how mid-Century American poets speak out to today's youth. With the '1' in a number line. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Magazine. Cover by Basil King. 52pp. Stapled wrappers. Wrappers lightly age-toned, else fine. One of the most influential of all the "little magazines" published during the mimeograph revolution. This issue features the first appearance of Jack Kerouac's poem "Rimbaud." Other contributors include Charles Olson, Hubert Selby, Jr., Robert Creeley, Tristan Tzara, Gary Snyder, Frank O'Hara, Michael McClure, Ron Loewinsohn, Philip Lamantia, Paul Blackburn, Robin Blaser, David Meltzer, Ray Bremser, Ed Dorn, Rochelle Owens, Paul Carroll, Edward Marshall, David Wang, Kenneth Koch, and Edward Dahlberg.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Magazine. Cove by David King. Small quarto. 48pp. Stapled wrappers. Fine. A literary anthology based in New York City with contributions from Robert Kelly, Amiri Baraka [LeRoi Jones] Gary Lenhart, Vincente Aleixandre, Roland Legiardi-Laura, Skye Vermont, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Thomas D'Adamo, Anne Waldman, Stephen Spera, Roque Dalton, Linda Lerner, Jeff Wright, Tom Savage, David Taylor, and Patti Landi.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st edition. Good. 8vo, 20pp, stapled wrappers. Rare issue from the Beat-era first series of this important underground magazine edited by E.V. Griffith. Includes writing by Ginsberg, Jones, Bremser, et al., and ads for Diane Di Prima's first book, Kerouac's Dharma Bums, and period mags such as Big Table. Unmarked copy with moderate reading wear, cover soil and tears to edges of lap wrappers; 3/4" split to base of spine. Not Signed.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Magazine. Cover by Michael Bowen. (28)pp. Single sheets printed both sides and secured with two staples. Front cover detached at staples, with slight chipping along spine and stamp, mailing label and handwritten address (of Frontier Press publisher Harvey Brown) rear wrap, else a very good copy. An influential mimeograph created by di Prima and LeRoi Jones featuring some of the most important poets of the 20th Century. Unlike other magazines, this so-called "newsletter" was distributed via a mailing list, many of which were noted poets, journalists, critics, publishers and artists. For this reason, most copies were hand addressed or affixed with a mailing label and stamp, and folded for mailing. This issue contains the first appearance of "Hitchhiker" and "How To Meditate" by Jack Kerouac [Charters C110 and C109] and "Newark Black Survival Committee" by LeRoi Jones [Amiri Baraka], along with contributions from Jack Spicer, Keith Wilson, Gary Synder, Stuart Perkoff, Rajkamal Chowdhury, Lorenzo Thomas, George Stanley, Frank O'Hara, Johannes Koenig, Yukio Matsuda, Yu Suwa, Atsushi Sekiguchi, Philip Lamantia, and David W. McKain.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Magazine. Octavo. 95pp. Pictorial wrappers. Wraps slightly toned with a few faint creases, near fine. A celebration of Ken Kesey with an excerpt from *Sometimes a Great Notion*. The issue also includes interviews, poems, stories, art and photography from Alan Marcus, Irving Marcus, Donald Barthelme, David R. Bunch, LeRoi Jones [Amiri Baraka], Thomas McAfree, Jack Gilbert, Charles Blackburn, Theodore Holmes, John Knoepfle, Jamie Reid, Ralph Robin, Leon Weiner, Philip Whalen, and Jose Angel Calderon.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Magazine. Octavo. 95pp. Some tanning to the paper wrappers and some wear to the spine, near fine. Subscription card laid in. A celebration of Ken Kesey with an excerpt from *Sometimes a Great Notion*. The issue also includes interviews, poems, stories, art and photography from Alan Marcus, Irving Marcus, Donald Barthelme, David R. Bunch, LeRoi Jones [Amiri Baraka], Thomas McAfree, Jack Gilbert, Charles Blackburn, Theodore Holmes, John Knoepfle, Jamie Reid, Ralph Robin, Leon Weiner, Philip Whalen, and Jose Angel Calderon.