Wesley Tanner (157 results)

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated by (cover design) Wesley B. Tanner / Passim Editions (illustrator). 1st printing. [nice as-new copy, but for slight fading along spine; no discernible wear, appears unread]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) "Here, in his own words, is Hammett the family man, distant but devoted, late with the check but never too late; Hammett the student of political affairs, scanning the headlines from a Marxist perspective; Hammett the lover of Lillian Hellman, delighting in her style, her humor, and her accomplishments, yet always maintaining his life apart from hers." The letters were gathered mostly from private collections, and most were previously unpublished.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. DJ by Wesley B. Tanner (illustrator). 1st Edition. 13810 shelf. Unread. Silver-stamped black spine w/ brick red bds. Remainder mk bottom edge. No names, clean text. Unblemished dust jacket. 159 p. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Wesley B. Tanner cover (illustrator). 1st thus. Unread trade paperback, pict. brown covers. Grant Wood cover art. No names, clean text. Copyright 1999, 1st Counterpoint ed: 2001. 37475. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Tanner, Wesley (illustrator). Clean, hand-sewn limited edition (200) wrappers in good plus condition; mild age-toned and rubbing.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. 200 copies printed at Arif Press by Wesley Tanner. [3] leaves; 12mo; sewn blue wrappers with paper title label front cover.

First edition. [4 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with pasted-on cover label. One of 200 copies. A single poem.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine. 4to, 96pp, printed wrappers. One of an unspecified number of copies of this elegant Bancroft Library keepsake designed and printed by Wesley Tanner at the Stinehour Press. Details a fascinating range of acquisitions overseen by this important figure. Clean and unmarked copy with very minor wear. Not Signed.

Paperback. 84p., comprising 116 separate entries and appended plates and References. Softbound, 11x7 inch light tan cardstock wraps, illustrated, clean sound presswork with just a hint of handling and age, very good condition.

[8p] 4.5x7.5 inches, decorative rubricated title page, short poem in sewn blue wraps with title label affixed front, handling wear and soil, one small and several faint tiny droplet stains, an otherwise good fine press exemplar limited to 200 copies. Early item from the press of Wesley B. Tanner (now creating fine books in Ann Arbor under the Passim Editions banner) Tanner's Arif Press published fine limited editions of works by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, HD, Joanne Kyger and Anne Waldman among others.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Tanner, Wesley B. (jacket design); ALexander, David (author photograph); Lange, Sgt. Kurt (jacket photograh) (illustrator). 1st Edition. As new condition olive boards, red cloth spine, and gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes Preliminary Page Quote by Paul Valery, Journals; and Acknowledgments. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings and a black-and-white double page map frontispiece. "An edgy, street-talking trip into the often inane realities of 'high-tech' contemporary warfare. Turnipseed gives us an invaluable tale of war as it is, reckless and semi-insane. Americans, in our perilous times, should be paying attention - reading this book, this vivid story about getting to the far side of triumph." - William Kittredge, author. "A deeply felt account of an exile's passage across the back office landscape of modern war. Turnipseed is a lucid, passionate, and oddball observer with an extraordinary ear for vernacular speech and a deft and understated prose style. His book is the best dispatch so far from the Middle Ease desert battleground." - Alex Wilkinson, author. "This is a wonderfully timely book. well-written, very up to date, and in many ways an amazing tour de force." - Robert Bly, author. "This is the rarest of war memoirs - an account of the unglamorous, written with laugh-out-loud dialogue, that also reminds us why philosophy matters. Turnipseed has rubbed the jewelry of our philosophic heritage across the touchstone of war and shown which proves true gold and which a shining fraud. He and his Marine comrades in Desert Storm, black and white, dererve our honor and thanks." - Jonathan Shay, author. "In early sumer of 1990, Joel Turnipseed was homeless - kicked out of his college's philosophy program, dumped by his girlfriend. He had been AWOL from his Marine Corps Reserve unit for more than three months, spending his days hanging out in coffee shops reading Plato and Thoreau. Then Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. Turnipseed's unit was activated for service in Operation Desert Shield. By January of 1991, he was in Saudi Arabia driving tractor-trailers for the Sixth Motor Transport Battalion - the legendary "Baghdad Express." The greatest logistical operation in Marine Corps history, the Baghdad Express hauled truckloads of explosives and ammunition across hundreds of miles of desert. Armed with an M-16 and a seabag full of philosophy books, he is a wise-ass misfit, an ironic observer with a keen eye for vivid detail, a rebellious Marine alive to the moral ambiguity of his life and his situation. This innovative memoir - simultaneously terrifying and hilarious, equal parts Catch-22 and Catcher in the Rye - explores both the absurdities of war and the necessity of accepting our flawed world of shadows. With expansive humanity and profane grace, Turnipseed finds the real-world answers to his philosophical questions and reaches the hardest peace for any young man to achieve - with himself." - from the inner front jacket flap.

Condition: Good. BROADSIDE. 6.25" X 13.25". Letterpress on Laid Paper, Deckled Edge, Very Good. Snyder's signature embossed below poems.

Condition: Good. 12mo. 16 pp., Stapled Wraps, Very Good. Letterpress.

Condition: Good. BROADSIDE. 6.25" X 13.25". Letterpress on Laid Paper, Deckled Edge, Very Good. Snyder's signature embossed below poems.

Condition: Good. 12mo. 16 pp., Stapled Wraps, Very Good, with minor shelf wear. Letterpress.

Condition: Good. 12mo. 16 pp., Stapled Wraps, Very Good, with minor shelf wear. Letterpress.

First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 60 numbered copies. A collage poem.

Broadside. 12.5x9.5 inch broadside; in very good condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. ARIF, Berkeley, Stapled wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. 1971, sewn wraps, 200 copies printed Dec. 1970, Very Good, oversized cover has bent edges, small mark on front cover. Handsewn, unpaginated, unmarked. POETRY ; H0603 D Poe; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Unpaginated pages, color illustrations.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 4to, 40pp (printed letterpress on handmade paper), sewn wrappers. 1 of 125 stated copies of this beautifully printed poetic work. Unmarked copy, small edge loss to front cover. Not Signed.

Softcover. Condition: Very good. Excellent condition. Upper corners are gently creased. Inside is clean and unmarked.

Condition: Good. Folio. [4 pp.], Folded Page In Folded Wraps, Very Good, some creasing. Finely printed on laid paper.

Condition: Good. 11" x 8.5" Letterpress on Beige wove. Very Good. Scarce.

Condition: Good. 32mo., Illustrated Postcard, Very Good, some rubbing. Unused Promotional Post Card, announcing Serendipity's new (& final) address on 1201 University in Berkeley, CA.

Condition: Good. 4to. Broadside, Letterpress, Very Good, minor creasing, pinholes. An Arif Press free poem.

Condition: Good. Prospectus, 6.5" x 4.5", Letterpress On Laid Paper with Deckled Edge, Very Good+. "The Arif Press is pleased to announce as the first in a series of Printer's Chapbooks." This is the Prospectus for a book, not the book itself.

Condition: Good. 16mo. Printed Card, Very Good with minor edge wear. Illustrated.

Condition: Good. Party Invitation & Post Card, 6" x 4.5", Letterpress, Illustrated with a Decorative Border, Very Good+.

Condition: Good. 8vo. Folded Sheet, Very Good. Letterpress on wove, Illustrated.

Condition: Good. Post Card. 10 x 15 cm. Letterpress on Card Stock, Very Good+.

Condition: Good. 12mo. Letterpress On Laid Paper With Deckled Edge. Pieces by Beethoven, Mario Davidovsky, Liszt, Schoenberg, Chopin. February 26, 1983 at the First Unitarian Church.