Monk Matthew (50 results)

Condition: very_good. This book is in excellent condition. There may be minimal writing on the inside cover or cover page. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.

Condition: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Paperback. Condition: Used: Acceptable. Paperback in average condition, pages clean but slight lean to spine, cover some scuffs.

DVD. Condition: Used - Good.

Condition: New.

Softcover. Condition: NF. Quarto. Softcover. Illustrated cover with full french flaps. 175 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 31 cm. "To Say the Very Least is the first comprehensive publication on the print works and installations by Matthew Brannon. Everything takes place on the surface, or just under it in Brannon's work, just as everything there is public or takes place in public. The prints exploit their generic relation to advertising and posters, but the benign appearance of the illustrations, reminiscent of 1950s cookbooks and cocktail manuals, is undercut by the fine imprint of letterpress texts, which teeter towards inappropriate confessions and unpardonable acts. These texts, with their hint of literary genres tinged by noir, are little melodramatic scenarios of success and failure, careerism and alcoholism, substance abuse and sexual misadventure. Each set of prints stages Brannon's principal question, "Why are people their own worst enemies?"--Jacket.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. Reading copy only. Text whited out on page 13. (religion catholicism catholic).

Condition: Used: Very Good. Libro proveniente da collezione privata. Pagine ingiallite. La copertina riporta usuali segni del tempo. Consegna 24/48 ore 64 a3.

Softcover exhibition catalog, 64 pages very good condition; clean and crisp; no internal marks.

Paperback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days 155.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Qto., 160 pages, illustrated. Unused, a Fine copy.

26x21 cm. 160 pp. Richly illustrated. Soft cover.

Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Paris: Librairie Marcel Didier, 1960. First edition. 202pp. Original printed card wrappers rubbed at spine and with slight loss to edges, but sound. In other respects a very good copy, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. First edition. xxx,455,[1]pp. Original orange cloth, tan lettering-piece, gilt lettering and decoration. Ownership name to upper outer corner of front free endpaper. A very good copy.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near Fine In A Like Jacket Pp 164 Illustrated Throughout.

Illustr by Auguste Leroy, 9 x 6, 3/4 red leather, cloth, teg, 400pp, covers a bit worn, extremities bumped and fraying, outer hinges tender, small black spot near bottom of front hinge, spine slightly cocked, hinges loose, contents a bit toned else a nicely bound, handsome copy of this fairly scarce novel.

An interesting edition of M.G. Lewis's influential Gothic Novel of 1796, which had an infamous publishing history due to its verging-on pornographic content. The story was edited several times to remove content and/or settle on comprise with the original. This is one of several reprints which was based on the heavily expurgated fourth edition in dime novel format which targeted the juvenile audience: "Dreams, magic terrors, spells of mighty power. Witches and ghosts who rove at midnight hour." The title page also states "Now Published for the First Time in America," which according to publisher's weekly in 1891, was the Laird & Lee "Edition de Luxe" with illustrations by Auguste Leroy and introduction by Max Maury. Laird & Lee also printed 50 cent editions, this likely being one, in a cheap paperback format, without illustrations. In any event, a scarce edition of a very important horror story which continued to influence both English and American writers and readers a century after it was published. OCLC cites 1 holding, at BYU, of a paperback edition of the same pagination, bearing no date nor publisher info. . 19x13cm, 338pp. Blue and while illustrated wrappers. Pulp paper toned, wraps chipped at spine ends and rubbed. Very good.

Last few pages sl. stained in margin. Untrimmed in orig. purple moiré cloth with printed paper label on front board; sl. faded. Reprinting the poem written by Lewis in 1816 'on his last voyage to Jamaica', and privately printed there in 1827. No. 176 of 250 copies.

Untrimmed in orig. purple moiré cloth with printed paper label on front board. Later booklabel. v.g. Reprinting the poem written by Lewis in 1816 'on his last voyage to Jamaica', and privately printed there in 1827. No. 129 of 250 copies.

Last few pages sl. stained in margin. Untrimmed in orig. purple moiré cloth with printed paper label on front board; a little damp affected. Reprinting the poem written by Lewis in 1816 'on his last voyage to Jamaica', and privately printed there in 1827. No. 5 of 250 copies.

Bound into later marbled wrappers. This edition has 'undergone the ordeal of compression'. The version as acted at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden, with Macready in the lead role.

Softcover exhibition catalog, 160 pages; in English; very good conditon except some very light rubbing wear to white covers; no internal marks. Priority and foreign shipping may be extra for this book.

FIRST EDITION. Sl. spotted, fore-edge of final leaf repaired with archival tape. Bound into later marbled wrappers. Adapted from Lewis's own work, The Bravo of Venice, also 1805, itself a translation of Johann Zschokke's sensational romance Abällino, der grosse Bandit, first published in 1793.

Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Condition: Good. Condition Notes: Binding is faded at the margins and spine. The contents deeply age-toned. . Physically 7" x 4¾" (0.7 kg); (vi) 320pp; No publishing date stated, estimated from references. || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #194061 ||.

3 volumes, 12mo, bound in contemporary half red roan calf, spines gilt with raised bands, rubbed and worn with some short cracking of joints, chip to head of one spline, internally with an occasional spot or stain but generally clean, FIRST BENBOW EDITION; the exact status of this edition is not clear, as there were two distinct issues of the first ediiton of 1796; perhaps the disreputable Benbow, cashing in on the reputation of a book published long before, is drawing attention to its unrevised text, perhaps a text that its late author had sought to suppress. In any case this is a rare edition of this Gothic melodrama, not listed by Summers, but known to St Clair ['not pornographic but not fully respectable' - listed in Benbow publications]. Considering the rather poor printing characteristic of Benbow the somewhat rough condition of this copy is to be expected, this set being in original unsophisticated state, a leaf from a completely different book oddly inserted at the end of volume two.

Ad. on verso of final leaf; title a little browned. Disbound. ESTC T32397. Published the same year as the first edition. In his Preface Lewis states 'The plot of this comedy, as far as regards Rivers's visits to Modish and Mrs. Ormond, was taken from the Novel of Sidney Biddulph.' ESTC further observes, 'Based partly on A. F. von Kotzebue's Die Indianer in England'. The final four pages (pp73-76) of an altogether different work, identified as G.D. Harley's Biographical Sketch of the Life of. Young Roscius (1804), have been bound in after A4.

FIRST EDITION. Initial ad. leaf; the odd spot. Orig. purple fine-diaper cloth, paper spine label; spine faded to tan, but overall a v.g. clean copy. Sabin 40821. Although not published until 1834, Lewis's journal was written between November 1815 and May 1818. The last entry, dated May 2nd, was entered just two weeks before he succumbed to yellow fever while crossing the Atlantic en route to England. It covers two extended periods in Jamaica, where Lewis owned two estates. His observations cover all aspects of life on the plantation, from 'Plans for teaching the negroes', 'Happiness of the negro', and 'Capture of an alligator', to 'Impatience of the negro to be free', 'Insubordination' and 'Code of penalties'. The tone is certainly outdated from a modern perspective, but the author betrays a degree of enlightenment, referring to his 'negroes' and not his 'slaves', and it has latterly come to light that Lewis communicated with the abolitionist William Wilberforce in the months preceding his death, exploring the means by which emancipation might be achieved. In his last entry he states, 'What other negroes may be, I will not pretend to guess; but I'm certain that there cannot be more tractable or better disposed persons. than my negroes of Cornwall. I only wish, that in my future dealings with white persons, whether in Jamaica or out of it, I could not meet with half so much gratitude, affection, and good will'.

Half titles, final ad. leaf vol. I, errata leaf & 4pp ads vol. IV. Neatly bound in near contemp. drab boards, tan calf spines, ruled & with devices in blind, dark blue leather labels; light rubbing. With monogram booklabels on leading pastedown in all four vols, & the armorial bookplate of Methyr Guest in vol. I, & on following pastedown in vols II-IV. Additionally, each vol. is blind-stamped (most unusually) directly on to the front & back board with an armorial device, bearing the legend 'Honi soit qui mal y pense' (the motto of the chivalric Order of the Garter). A lovely copy. Summers pp 96 & 324. Copac lists Copies at the BL & Cambridge only. A very nice copy in contemporary binding of Lewis's free translation of Madame de Naubert's celebrated gothic novel, first published in German in 1789 as Elisabeth, Erbin von Toggenburg, oder Geschichte der Frauen von Sargans in der Schweiz. Lewis's rendition was not well received; the Critical Review (July 1807), in particular, singling it out for opprobrium: 'ghosts, bones, chains, dungeons, castles, forests, murders, and rapine pass before us in long order, till sated with horrors and habituated to their view we regard them all with as much composure as an undertaker contemplates the last melancholy rites of his mortal brethren'. But the public evidently had not grown weary of 'ghosts, bones and murders', a third edition being announced in the summer of 1807. A particularly scarce title.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Magazine. Edited by Vito Acconci and Bernadette Mayer. Quarto. About near fine with crease to rear corner, miniscule chip to front corner and a hint of toning. The seventh and final issue of Vito Acconci and Bernadette Mayer experimental and uncommon magazine. Contributors include Anne Waldman, John Giorno, Hannah Weiner, Lewis Warsh, Marjorie Strider, Adrian Piper, Lil Picard, Arakawa, Bobbi Gormley, Matthew Klein, Deborah Hollingworth, Keith Hollinger, Gregory Battcock, Scott Burton, James Lee Byars, Rosemarie Castoro, Eduardo Costa, Bill Creston, Stephen Kaltenbach, Les Levine, Lucy Lippard, Meridith Monk, Ben Patterson, and John Perreault.