Search Results: LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General from Barbara Bilson Books

1969. Very good (light foxing spots on front cover, see scan; otherwise clean throughout). The main article in this literary review is a long excerpt from Frederic Tuten's first novel, "The Long March," published in 1971 as "The Adventures of Mao on the Long March." The other major piece is titled "Chronological History of Mickey Mouse," an interesting piece by "Guy Creature and Jr. Person," the latter of whom is described, in the Contributor note, as living in Peiking, China with his son Junior Person, Jr. This is on the last page of the issue, just above the advertisement for the "Last Supper" restaurant on W. 57th St. So this should be a fair warning of how seriously to take any of the "contributions" to this "literary journal." 74 pages. . Soft Cover. Illus. by Photo of Junior Person, Sr.

New York: Pace Editions, 1973. An odd, really odd, "literary magazine". I'll go out on a limb and call it a SEND UP OF LIT MAGS. Not for the easily offended. A hint at its nature is provided by the last selection: "Bad Nipple," billed as an "excerpt from the novel by Jay Landesman." Landesman was an obscure---or famous--figure in the Beats. You can read his obituary--which reads like a send-up--at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/8353157/Jay-Landesman.html. I suspect that the entire magazine was his work. 60 pages including a really good photographic section titled "The Best of the Bad Guys, a Photo Essay," featuring terrific b&w photos from "special areas of villainy" such as Charles Middleton as Ming from the Flash Gordon serials. Very good condition with some light foxing flares on the back cover.. Soft Cover. Illus. by Photographs.

West Los Angeles: Papa Bach Paperbacks, 1979. Very good (spotted soft covers, clean pages). 152 pages. Contributions from artists who were not very well known at the time--Wanda Coleman, Deena Metzger, Peter Levitt, etal. Three wonderful black-and-white photography collections (R. Bradley, Hella Hammid, Avi Engel).. Soft Cover.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Co, 1950. Very good (slight wear at bottom cover edges and corners) in very good dust jacket (darkened spine and about 1" around front and back panel top and side; price-clipped; chipped at spine top and flaps' folds; 2 soil spots on back panel). SEE SCANS. Edited by Leonard Woolf, her husband. Pictorial dust jacket by Vanessa Bell, VW's sister.. 1st American edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Contemporary Reader, 1954. This edition of the Contemporary Reader features the full text of "The World of Sholom Aleichem," a dramatization by Arnold Perl, along with short stories, poetry, and more drama. 95 pages. Very good- (sunned edge of front cover, some insect damage to surface of back cover, clean interior). The two engravings by Tufinio are amazing; they are from his early work before he was widely recognized. . Soft Cover. Illus. by Raphael Tufinio.

Chicago: Pascal Covici, Publisher, 1927. Very good (faded covers--see scan; clean pages and firm binding). Contributors include Robert McAlmon, ("Truer Than Most Accoounts," 1920's Paris), Joe Gould (Wikipedia informs us that Mr. Gould was an "eccentric," and claimed to have created history's largest book, "An Oral History of the Contemporary World"; this issue of THE EXILE, includes "A Chapter" from that "work," titled "ART"), and Ezra Pound's own "interesting" take on American life and letters. Here, for example, is his "Notice to Contributors" from the last page: "Anyone attempting to contribute to this periodical ought to know at least two languages. If intending collaborators do not already know French, I suggest that they learn it first and submit manuscript after they have." 121 pages.. Soft Cover.

San Francisco: Hesperian, 1930. Very good (clean pages except for two pen marks by items on the contents page, and a little spotting on page edges; tattered edges and some sunning and soil on soft covers--rather unfortunate considering the quite beautiful woodcut on the front cover -- see scan). Soft covers, no dust jacket. A literary journal "issued occasionally" (per cover). This is the winter 1930 issue. About 40 unnumbered pages, including two black and white photos of sculptures by Peter Krasnow and Jacques Schnier. Other contributers include Theodore Dreiser (an essay on censorship and oppression in America and the indifferent public), Yvor Winters (translation of a poem), Oscar Lewis (an essay on Frank Norris), among others.. Soft Cover. Illus. by Ray Boynton.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966. Near fine in very good dust jacket (wear at top of spine--in both the book and the dust jacket--is the only major defect; dust jacket is sunned at the spine and price-clipped, with a few foxing spots on the inside of the jacket but not in the book). Selections of hitherto unpublished (in English) fiction, poetry, drama, and criticism by 21 writers, including A.R. Ammons, John Barth, Robert Lowell, Mordecai Richler.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Los Angeles: Momentum Press, 1974. The first four issues of "Momentum," a literary magazine from Los Angeles. Each issue is about 60 pages, each published in soft cover, and each in near fine condition except for Momentum 1 (Volume 1, No 1) which has a bit of sunning on the front cover and qualifies as very good+. All are in solid condition. List of contributors furnished on request, but such writers are featured as James Grabill, Garrett Kaoru Hongo, Dennis Ellman, James Krusoe, Sophia Castro-Leon, Gary Soto, Kate Ellen Braverman, Holly Prado, Wanda Coleman. Single copies of Momentum 2 and 3 are available at $7 each.. Soft Cover.

New York: Added Enterprises, 1949. Of interest for Flannery O'Connor readers, among others: "The Heart of the Park" -- her contribution to this issue -- is actually a chapter from her work in progress, "Wise Blood," starring Enoch Emery, he of the wise blood! See scan for main contents and for an indication of external condition. While the cover is badly soiled, the interior is Very Good+, with no detected readers' markings. . Soft Cover.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000. Fine in near fine dust jacket (some thinning on one fold). New condition, clean, no marks. 470 pages including index and notes on the contributors. A terrific anthology of new Black writers, global in its coverage. Sections include "Hip-Hop Journalism," "Essays," "Criticism," "Fiction," "Poetry," and "Dialogues." See our scan of the back of the dust jacket for brief reviews. Don't be fooled into buying a cheap copy from a dealer who has never even looked at the book; this book is clean, no maybe. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1966. Collected "Talk of the Town" pieces from The New Yorker magazine. See scans for contents. Near fine (evidence of erasure on ffep; minor edgewear; small ink initials on rear endpaper) in very good dust jacket (light edgewear and lightly soiled on rear panel ).. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Paris: Transition, 1928. TRANSITION was a literary journal featuring experimental writing and art work, published in Paris from 1927 to 1938 and distributed primarily through Shakespeare and Company. This is the tenth issue, from January 1928. Very good-- condition: covers are missing, pages firmly bound but edgeworn and browned. Definitely a delicate item. The two-sheet (4 pages) black-and-white illustration section shows evidence of water-wrinkling at the top. 152 pages with contributions from William Carlos Williams ("Theessentialroar"), Gertrude Stein ("If He Thinks, A Novelette of Desertion"), Kay Boyle, (an essay on Hart Crane's poety, none too flattering), an essay by Laura Riding, also on Crane, and poetry from the afore-mentioned Kay Boyle, Malcolm Cowley, and others.. Soft Cover.

Paris: Transition, 1927. TRANSITION was a literary journal featuring experimental writing and art work, published in Paris from 1927 to 1938 and distributed primarily through Shakespeare and Company. This is the second issue, from May 1927. It is in very fragile condition with detached and flaking brown paper covers. Interior is intact with all pages attached although paper is browned and the binding is breaking at a couple of places. Pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. 185 pages with contributions from Kay Boyle (poem "Complaint"), William Carlos Williams (poem "The Dead Baby"), James Joyce (from a work in progress), and Rainier Maria Rilke ("Against the Age" translated by editor Jolas).. Soft Cover.

Paris: Transition, 1927. TRANSITION was a literary journal featuring experimental writing and art work, published in Paris from 1927 to 1938 and distributed primarily through Shakespeare and Company. This is the ninth issue, from December 1927. Very good-- condition: front cover is loose but present, firm binding although the top 1 1/4" of the backstrip is loose and partially gone from the spine. Covers browned and sunned with 2 1/2" chip missing from edge of back cover, somewhat brittle; pages lightly browned but clean and firmly attached, with little brittleness. The two-sheet (4 pages) black-and-white illustration section (of Joan Miro, Max Ernst, and de Kermadec) shows evidence of water-wrinkling at the top. The first two thirds of the pages have a light vertical crease (showing up as a faint vertical shadow on the front cover in the scan). 208 pages with contributions from William Carlos Williams ("Winter"), Djuna Barnes ("Rape and Repining"), poetry also from Hart Crane, Laura Riding and… Read More

Paris: Transition, 1927. TRANSITION was a literary journal featuring experimental writing and art work, published in Paris from 1927 to 1938 and distributed primarily through Shakespeare and Company. This is the seventh issue, from October 1927. Very good condition with firm binding--one small closed tear at top corner next to spine, browned and sunned covers, pages lightly browned but clean and firmly attached, with no brittleness that you could expect from a paperback publication of this age. 176 pages (some uncut--care necessary to cut this "elderly" paper safely) with contributions from William Carlos Williams (extracts from "A Voyage to Pagany"), James Joyce (the 7th excerpt from a work in progress), poetry by Yvor Winters, Alllen Tate, Hart Crane, Robert Graves and others.. Soft Cover.

Chicago: A.C. McClung & Co., 1901. Previously published in 1894 and 1898. The title of this book describes its contents exactly: pithy sayings about women culled mainly from European and American literature. 239 pages including indexes of authors and subjects. Wouldn't you like to know what Ben Franklin had to say about women? A sample: "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards." Very good (silverfish damage, especially on front cover; front hinge slightly starting, slight wear at spine top and bottom, and at corners; bright gilt on front cover and spine; see scan). No dust jacket. . Hard Cover.

New York: Knopf, 2002. Near fine (a few small marks on page edges) in very good + dust jacket (price-clipped, light edgewear and light foxing along the inside edges). From the 2001 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, a collection of his essays growing out of his travels outside of his native Trinidad. Especially striking with respect to his experiences in his ancestral home, India. 524 pages including index. introduced and edited by Pankaj Mishra.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Los Angeles: Zero Press, 1980. Very good (some edgewear on covers, first page has been slightly clipped at the top edge without obscuring text or image) in soft covers. About 225 pages. As one of the reviews excerpted on page 1 describes this journal, it is "a bridging of two worlds--the centuries-old world of Eastern spiritual dedication and the recently evolved technological world of Western culture." Thus, this issue contains, among many others, a fascinating article by a physicist, Fritjof Capra, titled "Zen in the Art of Subatomic Physics." The best known of contributors is probably Paul Bowles in an interview. . Soft Cover. Illus. by Photographs.