San Quentin, Signed (14 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing, signed by author! Cover has edge wear, minor creases, minor scratches, small bent/rubbed cover/page corners, rubbed spine. A couple pages with minor creases. No writing in text. Very good. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: FINE. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. Tannenbaum spent four years teaching poetry to maximum security prison inmates at San Quentin, just north of San Francisco. In this book she details the challenges, rewards and paradoxes of this work - of first giving those who have been silenced the feeling that their voice is worth hearing. A very personal book - one in which she recounts what she has learned herself and about herself during those years - but also one in which the inmates emerge, not as beasts or heroes, but as human beings with expressive voices, thoughts and feelings. INSCRIBED on the title page. Notes. 217 pp.Cover praise from Hettie Jones, Luis Rodriguez and others. Fine (a new copy).

Condition: FINE. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. Tannenbaum spent four years teaching poetry to maximum security prison inmates at San Quentin, just north of San Francisco. In this book she details the challenges, rewards and paradoxes of this work - of first giving those who have been silenced the feeling that their voice is worth hearing. A very personal book - one in which she recounts what she has learned herself and about herself during those years - but also one in which the inmates emerge, not as beasts or heroes, but as human beings with expressive voices, thoughts and feelings. SIGNED on the title page. Notes. Cover praise from Hettie Jones, Luis Rodriguez and others. 217 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers (as new.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Very Good in Good Plus jacket. Inscribed by Duffy on first endpaper. Photo of Duffy and Charles Evans glued to front pastedown. 304pp 8vo. Fiction. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hard cover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Spine is tight. Cover is worn, particularly along edges. Front flyleaf has inscription from both author and previous owner. Inside is clean and unmarked.

Condition: Good. 1965. First Edition. 223 pages. Signed by the author. Black pictorial dust jacket black and brown cloth. Front endpaper has been signed by the Author and dedicated. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed with light tanning. The unclipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends.

Hardcover. Condition: VG-. 1st Edition. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED: "Greetings from San Quentin, Warden Clinton Duffy." Stated First edition, Doubleday & Company 1950. Very good minus black cloth hardcover. Spine lettering faded. Duffy was the warden at San Quentin between 1940 and 1952, and was a prominent opponent of capital punishment. He was the focus of a 1954 film Duffy of San Quentin. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Nice book, tight and square with bright covers and spine, clean unmarked interior. Sturdy binding. Inscribed and signed by both authors on the front fly leaf. The unclipped jacket has bright panels, faded spine, edge wear and chipping. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Brown Hardcover, Signed By Author on Title Page. Book Condition: book is in fine Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Spine ends lightly rubbed, else fine. Plastic cover has light wear to spine with slight loss. Essay by Mark Haworth-Booth in English, French and German. 58 black and white photographic plates. Perhaps the most challenging and uncompromising work of the New Topographics movement. Signed by Author(s).

First edition. Stated first edition of Warden Clinton Duffy's memoirs of his decade at the high-security San Quentin State Prison north of San Francisco. Duffy was instrumental in reforming the prison to be more humane during his time there, 1940-1952. Nice signed copy. 8vo, 253pp. Signed by Duffy and Jennings on the front endpaper. Boards lightly bumped, jacket with toning, light chipping at spine ends and corners. very good.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. "The San Quentin Story" looks at the history of San Quentin prison in California until 1950. It focuses on the tenure of the author who was a warden of the prison. It explains some of his reforms and why he thinks they were important. This copy is clean and solid with the dust jacket in mylar. It is INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHORS to Lillian Kinkela. Kinkela, better known as Liilian Keil, was a highly decorated nurse during World War II and the Korean War earning 19 medals and ribbons. She helped an estimated 10,000 soldiers during her service in the U.S. Air Force and flew on 425 evacuation missions. A 1954 movie named "Flight Nurse" was based in part on Keil. She was born in Northern California Nov. 17, 1916, and died June 30, 2005, in Covina, California. Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Cover by Peter Olds. Introduction by Len Fulton. Printed wrappers. Modest wear, lower wrap lightly foxed, two leaves bound in slightly askew and a couple of small areas where the glue has darkened in the gutter, very good. The dedication copy, Inscribed on the half-title: "for Walter, like it is p.9. Love, Bill 1/74." The dedication on page nine reads: "Hang on in Walter Lowenfels. What are we gonna do when you're gone? How we gonna handle that mess?".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Essay by Mark Haworth-Booth. Oblong quarto. Boards trifle bowed else fine in an about fine pictorial dust jacket with a tiny bit of wear, and modestly rubbed, near fine printed acetate jacket with a small scratch on the lower panel. Inscribed to Gus Blaisdell and Janet Lewis on the title page: "For Janet + Gus - Lewis Baltz." Additionally with a 6" x 4" sheet of corner-punched black paper with a note in silver ink: "I think you're nifty, too. LB," presumably in Baltz's hand. Blaisdell provided the essay for the previous book in Baltz's trilogy, *Park City*, and Janet Lewis was the former wife of Yvor Winters. One of 1200 copies printed. The concluding work of Baltz's "immensely influential" trilogy that defined the New Topography movement, with a nice association (Parr & Badger).

Condition: Sehr gut. Editions de La Difference. 1986. First french edition, first printing. Signed by Lewis Baltz! Scarce first printing with both dustjackets in fantastic condition! Hardback in linen with two jacket in paper and plastic. 295 x 250 mm. 285 x 275 mm (11,22 x 10,82 inches). 58 photos in black and white. Essay: Mark Haworth-Booth. Text: french. Condition: Book and dustjackets in wonderful fresh condition with only slightest trace of use, but with no tears of other defects. Overall near mint, like new condition! With both complete dustjackets! Signed by the artist! Collector`s copy!***************Editions de La Difference. 1986. Französische Erstausgabe. Signiert von Lewis Baltz! Seltene Erstausgabe mit beiden Schutzumschlägen in fantastischer Erhaltung! Hardback in Leinen und zwei Schutzumschlägen in Papier und Plastik. 285 x 275 mm. 58 schwarz-weiss Fotos. Essay: Mark Haworth-Booth. Text: französisch. Zustand: Das Buch und die beiden Schutzumschläge in frischem Zustand ohne Mängel und mit nur leichten Gebrauchsspuren. Insgesamt von neuwertiger Erhaltung! Komplett mit beiden Schutzumschlägen! Signiert vom Künstler! Sammler-Exemplar! Sprache: Französisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1600.