Authors starting with L from Derringer Books, Member A.B.A.A.

No Place: Self Published, 1961. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Original collage art by beat artist LaVigne. Photo, paper and paint. 16" x 10". Framed under glass. Signed by the artist. This piece was featured in the Art As A Muscular Principle show in San Francisco in 1975 which featured San Francisco artsists such as Wallace Berman, Jay De Feo, Jess, Bruce Conner and others. Signed by Author ... more information

8vo. 664 pp. Beautiful fine clothbound copy. Original dustwrapper is present but with huge chips and loss of paper. This copy INSCRIBED by Hurwitz and dated in 1939. ... more information

Troy: Whitson Publishing Company, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, one of 500 copies issued in green cloth without dustwrapper. Bookplate to inside front board. This copy has been SIGNED by Baraka and quite scarce thus. Signed by Author ... more information

4to. 238 pp. Beautiful fine monograph on this avant-garde dress designer. Text in French. ... more information

New York: Random House, 1951. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. First US edition. First printing stated.Translated by Alan Blair with a preface by Lucien Maury and a letter by Andre Gide. A classic of world literature. Two tape or sticker remnants to front endpaper. Otherwise a superb near fine copy. Clipped dustwrapper has a tear at top of spine. ... more information

Zurich: Parkett Verlag, 1994. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Issue number 39 of this art magazine with text in German and English. This issue has features on Laib, Gonzalez-Torres and more. A clean very good copy. ... more information

4to. A very good copy in bound printed wrappers. Edited by James Sherry. Poetry journal. ... more information

Paperbound quarto. 177 pp. First edition of this poetry collection. INSCRIBED by Lally to fellow poet Tim Dlugos. Also, laid in to this copy is a dense one page T.L.S. from Lally to Dlugos and a postcard announcing a reading by Lally in Los Angeles. Book in very good condition in thick photo-illustrated bound wrappers. ... more information

No Place: Oyez, 1966. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Fine first edition in wrappers with photo of a young Lamantia on cover. One of fifteen hundred copies. Beautiful copy. ... more information

First edition of the poet's scarcest work. One of only 50 SIGNED copies handbound in black Bavaria cloth by the Schuberth Bindery. Book designed and printed by David Haselwood and Andrew Hoyem. Cloth lightly scuffed else fine. Frontispiece by Bruce Conner. ... more information

Eighth issue of this consumate hippie newspaper publication edited by Allen Cohen. The Native American issue. Folded at middle else a very good copy. Summer of Love. Haight Ashbury. ... more information

New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Very nice copy of this Edward Gorey illustrated collection of verse, parodies and drawings. A near fine copy in lightly tanned unclipped dust jacket. First edition. ... more information

Boston: Branden Press, 1972. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. First edition of this collection of poems by this Minnesota native. SIGNED by the poet. Very good copy in thick decorated bound wrappers. Signed by Author ... more information

New York: Gabija, 1951. First edition. Paperback. Fine/near fine. Small 8vo. First edition of this collection of prose pieces written in Estonian. The first book appearance of poet and film critic Jonas Mekas. A fine copy in near fine paper wrapper. 128 pp. ... more information

New York: Rizzoli, 1990. Later Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1990 edition of this illustrated book on ceramic form and pottery. Near fine clothbound book in near fine unclipped dustwrapper. 221 pp. ... more information

Budapest: Corvina Kiado, 1972. First edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. First edition. Large quarto in dustwrapper. 37 pp of text folowed by 103 full page color plates. Text in Hungarian. A fine clothbound copy in near fine dustwrapper. Comes in a plain cardboard slipcase. ... more information

New York: Harper & Row, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition of the author's uncommon second crime novel. Fine in fine price intact dustwrapper. Cape Cod setting. A collector's copy. ... more information

Sarasota: Pineapple Press, 1995. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Advance proof copy of Lanier's first book, an Anthony Award Winner. Uncommon book in any format, this is a particularly scarce format for a first book from a small press. About near fine in plain red wraps. Scarce. ... more information

New York: The Century Company, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. Near fine condition in green cloth binding with raised gold design to front cover. Beautifully illustrated by Guerin. 363 pp. ... more information

New York: Adventures in Poetry, 1973. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. First edition in tall decorated stapled wrappers. Translation by Ron Padgett. One of 250 copies. Very good condition. Scarce. ... more information