roving eye press (23 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: As New. Like New condition. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects.

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Includes dust jacket. Wear and tear to the jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Thin octavo. Very near fine without dust jackets. One of 1000 copies.

trade paperback. Zustand: acceptable; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED12mo; 462 pages; acceptable trade paperback; spine slanting; tanned cover; stain to cover; tips bumped; slight stain to edges; some tanning; otherwise clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. New York, 1961; green cloth covered boards; spine edges bumped; yellow jacket with edge wear in Bro-Dart like cover; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; Interior is clean and unmarked; 418 pages.

paperback. Zustand: Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very Good in green cloth with white titles. 1st Printing., 417pp 8vo.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Binding and pages are intact. All pages are free from any markings. Light scuffing and bumping visible to boards. Dust jacket is wrapped in mylar. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

First edition. 69 pp w/contents. Light tanning to spine, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Poems and drawings by Cabral.

First edition. 8vo. xiv, 417 pp. [text printed double-column]. Frontispiece from an old wood engraving. Describes 4447 American cookbooks. Very good. Green cloth, white-stamped spine title, printed dust jacket (some wear around the extremities). (11214).

First Edition. 8vo, 63pp; terracotta cloth. One of 1000 copies printed in Garamond type at the Advance Printing Company, Inc., New York City. Spine slightly faded, without dust jacket.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First, Limited Edition. Small octavo. Rust cloth (hardcover); 63pp. Limited to 1,000 copies. A clean and unmarked copy in a moderately dusted, spotted dustjacket, two tiny closed tears, else VG. Jacket illustration by Rockwell Kent. Lowenfels (1897-1976) was a key figure in the Paris avant-garde during the 1930s, where he was a close friend of Henry Miller and Anais Nin (and was in fact the model for the character Jabberwhorl Kronstadt in Miller's Tropic of Cancer ). Returning to the US, he became a central Communist Party organizer and an editor of the Philadelphia Daily Worker. He was arrested, tried and convicted under the Smith Act in 1953, but eventually exhonerated for lack of evidence.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. (cookbook, cooking, recipes).

22 x 28,5 cm, 23 Bl., mit Orig.-"Blockprints" von Refregier, ill. Orig.-Broschur, Einband angeschmutzt und mit kleineren Einrissen und Knickfalten, Schmutztitel etwas angestaubt, mit einer längeren Widmung des Herausgebers Lowenfels auf dem Schmutztitel, vom Einband abgesehen gut erhalten. Based on poems by eluard, Gillen, Horace, Lukenin, Mistral, Nezval, tu fu.

Zustand: Fair. SIGNED! New York: Roving Eye Press, 1959. 1st edition. 4to Hardcover. Unpaginated. B/W illustrations. Signed by Walter Lowenfels and Anton Refregier on half title page. Poor book and nu dust jacket. Reading copy only. Covers soiled, scuffed, slightly dampstained and detatched. Owner's name on front free endpaper. (peace, poetry ) Inquire if you need further information.

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. None (illustrator). A pleasing first edition of this culinary reference work, detailing American cookbooks published between 1860-1960. First edition.With the original clipped dust wrapper.A comprehensive reference detailing one hundred years of American cookbooks (1860-1960), shedding a fascinating light on the history of American cuisine over the century.Compiled by Eleanor and Bob Brown. With a foreword by Clifton Fadiman.Bob Brown was an American writer and publisher who, together with his second wife Rose, became central figures in the Greenwich Village bohemian arts and culture scene. In the mid-1950s, after Rose died, Bob married his old friend Eleanor Parker. They restarted Roving Eye Press as well as publishing cookbooks, selling rare and unusual books, and publishing works with the Beat poets. In the original cloth binding. With the original clipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart, with a couple white marks to the spine and minimal shelf wear. Dust wrapper is sunned to the spine, with a couple chips to the spine and minor loss to the head and tail. With a closed tear to the front cover and along the edge of the spine. Handling marks to the wrap. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Ownership bookplate tipped-in to the verso of the front free endpaper. Near Fine. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: vg. Limited edition. 1 of 125 numbered copies of a limited edition of 1000 printed in Vogue type. Folio. [8],10,26pp. Tan cloth with illustrated paste-down on front and back cover. Signed by W. Lowenfels and A. Refregier on half-title page. Inscribed by previous owner next to the signatures. Work is based on poems by Paul Eluard, Nicolas Guillen, Horace, M. Lukenin, Gabriela Mistral, Vitêzlav Nezval, Tu Fu. Illustrated with 9 original full-page blockprints by Anton Refregier. The blockprints were produced over a period of ten years - 1950 to 1959. They were originally designed for use as New Year's greetings to friends. Staining, scuffing and some age wear on binding. Head and tail of spine slightly chipped. Tight copy with binding in fair, interior in very good condition. Translated, adapted and arranged by Walter Lowenfels. The title "Song of Peace" and the verses which form the refrain of Section 1 are from a poem by Vitêzlav Nezval. The originals of the other poems are as follows: 1) From the Sioux. 2) Don't let Clouds Kill Others, Nazim Hikmet. 3) Prologue from an Unfinished Elegy, Nicolas Guillen. 4) A Soldier's Love Letters, from poems by Tu Fu, Li Ling, and Su Wu. 5) The African Lion, Horace - Book III, Ode II. 6) Our Divine Mother, Gabriela Mistral. 7) My Friends, M. Lukenin. 8) Lechayim, Itzik Fefer (Some poems adapted from translations). "Peace" (Section 3) by Paul Eluard. "Coda" (Section 1) is an original sonnet by Walter Lowenfels. Anton Refregier (1905-1979) was a Russian immigrant painter in the United States. Walter Lowenfels (1897-1976) was an American poet and journalist. He also was the editor of the communist newspaper "The Daily Worker.".

Softcover. First Edition. Octavo, 111 pages. In Good condition. Bound in publisher's tan wraps with black lettering to spine. Chipping along spine with material loss at head and tail. Front cover detached. Tearing along rear hinge at top edge. Heavy age toning to wraps. Stain at top edge of front wrap present throughout textblock to page 27. Heavy age toning throughout. Inscribed by Brown on front free endpaper: "For B. B. from b. b. Cagnes 1931." SH consignment. Shelved in Case 0. Bill Bird was an American publisher best known for running the Three Mountains Press, a small press that published many prominent modernists in the 1920s including Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams and Robert McAlmon, with Ezra Pound serving as editor. Over a period of two and a half years he published 9 works. Concurrently he founded Consolidated Press Service and worked there as a journalist from 1920-1933, when he joined the New York Sun as chief foreign correspondent. Forced to flee France after the Nazi invasion, he wrote articles warning of war. After WWII he moved to Tangier and was the editor of the Tangier Gazette. This title was among Bird's private collection, having been carted by him from Paris (where he stayed until 1940), to Spain, Tangiers, and finally back to Paris and by descent to the US. 1403260. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Softcover. Zustand: Good. First edition. Printed green wrappers. Advertising leaf for the book laid in. Age-toning, crease on front wrap, modest erosion and professional repair at the spine and front joint, a good or better copy. An important anthology with contributions by many expatriates including Paul Bowles, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Kay Boyle, Nancy Cunard, and others. One of 300 copies. Paul Bowles' first book appearance. *Miller* B1.

First Edition. Limited to 1000 copies. Quarto (32cm.); publisher's cloth, pictorial plates printed in blue mounted to both covers; unpaged; blockprint illus., many full-page, throughout. Boards rubbed and quite soiled with upper cover plate starting to bubble from binding. Good to Very Good only. Signed by Lowenfels and Refregier on half title. Signed.

Bob Brown, ed, Readies for Bob Brown's Machine (1931). Roving Eye Press, 1931. A very scarce anthology or collection, printed in France, with contributions (often brief) from the likes of Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Kay Boyle, James T Farrell, Gertrude Stein, et al. Condition: Good, with chipping and splitting to paper at spine ends, droplet spotting and discoloration on front wrap.