poltroon press berkeley ca (53 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine+. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine+. First Edition/First Printing. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. SIGNED by author on title page (signature and date only). 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Slight soiling to dust jacket, smudges on sides of pageblock. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 295 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. By the author of 'The Immortal Game' and 'The Big Wake-Up'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a protective mylar sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed/dated 'To Susan' 'by author on title page. 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Essentially as new. Remainder dot. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 295 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. By the author of 'The Immortal Game' and 'The Big Wake-Up'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. Both the book & the dust jacket are clean, bright & unmarked. Like new. Flat-signed & dated, 2/7/00, on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

Etat : FINE. First printing. Second mystery featuring private detective August Riordan, and set in Silicon Valley, where he is hired to find the missing CTO (chief technical officer) at a biotechnology startup. From the blurbs on the back cover: 'Fast cars, nymphomaniac rich kids, billionaires with short attention spans and long money: a truer picture of Silicon Valley can't be found.' (-Cory Johnson, CNBC. ) Illustrated. 295 pp. SIGNED on the title page. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

Etat : FINE. First printing. Second mystery featuring private detective August Riordan, and set in Silicon Valley, where he is hired to find the missing CTO (chief technical officer) at a biotechnology startup. From the blurbs on the back cover: 'Fast cars, nymphomaniac rich kids, billionaires with short attention spans and long money: a truer picture of Silicon Valley can't be found.' (-Cory Johnson, CNBC. ) Illustrated. 295 pp. SIGNED on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.).

Etat : FINE. First printing. First novel featuring private detective August Riordan, and set in Silicon Valley, where he is hired by a multi-millionaire entrepreneur to find the stolen software for an advanced chess program. SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated with photographs. 309 pp. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.).

Hardcover. Etat : As New. Etat de la jaquette : As New. First edition. First printing 10-1. HC w/DJ.

Trade paperback. Presumed first edition/first printing. Glued binding. [8], 309, [1] p. Illustrations. From Wikipedia: "Mark Coggins is the American author of a series of novels featuring private eye protagonist August Riordan. While at Stanford, Coggins took creative writing classes with Tobias Wolff and Ron Hansen and wrote the first short story featuring August Riordan in a class for Hansen. This was published in 1986 in The New Black Mask. His first book, The Immortal Game, dealt with the theft of chess-playing software similar to that run on Deep Blue and was nominated for the Shamus Award and the Barry Award." Good in fair dust jacket. Signed by author. Cover has some wear and soiling, with small tears to top of spine. Sticker residue on back cover.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. First edition. Signed by the Author on the title page, no inscription. Debut novel. Presumed first printing, no other printings stated. HC w/DJ. Signed.

Paperback. Orange stapled wraps with blue lettering; 36 pp.; richly illustrated. "We are conditioned to look at typography only when it's presented in a recognizable critical context, such as a fine book. But typography plays an important role in everyday life . This book will explore marginal typography which has significant environmental and social impact. I will discuss the work of graffitists and signwriters who, through innovation, ultimately affect the shape of layout and the design of letterforms." -- Preface. VG (Wraps have light edgewear/scuffing/smudging.).

Etat : Good. 8vo. [ca. 50] pp. Coptic Binding: String Bound Art Paper Wraps With Deckled Edges. Letterpress on Laid Paper with Deckled Edges. Mylar Dust Jacket. Very Good+. Text in Latin facing English translation."The Latin poet Luxorius was literally lost for a thousand years. If he existed ? and there is often some question about this ? he lived in North Africa in the 6th Century CE, at the time of the decline of the Roman Empire. We were thrilled by Art's adaptations of the Latin poetry into vibrant bawdy contemporary English and also excited by the possibility of using a Coptic binding (the first Western-style binding, it too originated in North Africa, around the 4th century) that would be appropriate to the text. To evoke Vandal-ruled North Africa in the fourth century I used a sand-colored cover and spray painted it with Vandalic motifs. The title page has a reduction linoleum block also intended to suggest the world of Luxorius." -Poltroon Press.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. First Edition; First Printing. A handsome first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket. Slight crease on top corner of title page. Signed by author Mark Coggins directly on the title page; In the year 2036, the world is a very different place. A new form of energy has been discovered and is quickly becoming the world's dominant source of power. The only problem is that this new energy is incredibly dangerous and unstable. In order to keep the world safe, the governments of the world have created the Immortal Game. The object of the game is to find and capture the first person to use the new energy to travel to the past.Mark Coggins's The Immortal Game is a fast-paced, exciting novel that follows the journey of two young people as they attempt to win the game. Adam and Eve are best friends who have been chosen to compete in the game. Adam is a gifted hacker and Eve is a talented scientist. They are determined to win the game and save the world.The Immortal Game is a fantastic novel that will keep you on the edge of your seat. It is full of action and suspense, and will leave you wondering; 8vo; Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Paperback variant. 8vo. Wrappers. x, 54pp. Travels through North-east Africa with Alastair Johnston, the book's publisher. The endpapers and pastedowns show a map by Sebastian Munster from 'Cosmographia' (Basel, 1545); affixing this to the inside of the wrappers has (perhaps inevitably) given the book a slight waviness, and there is some separation at the front (though secure), but this is a typically attractive production from the press. That aside, spotted to the head edge, the wrappers moderately rubbed and marked. Very Good all in all.

FIRST EDITION, first (only) printing, now out of print. Octavo (8 x 5 in.). 134 pp.,16 b&w line drawings by the author. B&W photo-illustrated wrappers. Bookseller Herr's rollicking memoir of his time working for legendary Eli Goodman of Cosmopolitan Books. A NEW copy.

Poltroon Press (illustrateur). cards (approx. 5.5 x 3.875 in. / 14 x 9.8 cm.) in a folder with flaps. First Series. Revised and expanded. Eleven "typost" cards (like postcards) with a text on the reverse side describing a typeface and printed in that face.

Etat : Good. 4to. 8 pp., Illustrated Soft Cover With Decorative Binding, Very Good+. Illustrated. Binding includes stylized white cloth bandage. One of 50 copies.

Etat : Good. 8vo. 8 pp., Illustrated Soft Cover With Decorative Binding, Very Good+. Illustrated. Binding includes stylized white cloth bandage. One of 50 copies.

Etat : Good. BOOK CATALOGUE. 18mo. Folded Sheet, Very Good with some staining, minor creasing. Illustrated.

No Binding. Etat : Very Good. Single white sheet (35.5 x 21.5cm) folded horizontally into quarters, printed in black on one side only (while some copies have duplicate reject printings on the reverse). Small bump at the head edge and corner-creasing on the right-hand side (in production).

No Binding. Etat : Fine. Single white sheet (23.9 x 16cm) with (printed in black) calligraphy by Arne Wolf on the glossy front as part of a drawing not used in the book, and (printed letterpress by Alastair Johnston in purple) text on the matte reverse.

Etat : NEAR FINE. First printing. Broadside consisting of a single poem from "Heaven: Collected Poems 1956-1990," measuring 9.5 12.75 inches, printed in black and silver on heavy sky blue stock. Small Illustration by Grace T. Gomez. Issued in an edition limited to 150 copies. Although not called for, this has been SIGNED by Young. Very near fine (slightly curling at one end).

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. French wrappers. Unpaginated (56pp.). His first book. Slightly spotted to the edges, a little rubbed with a couple of small chips at the flap folds, the wrappers somewhat grubby on their underside (probably in production). This copy has been signed by the author ('RG') and inscribed to T.R. (Tom Raworth). Signed by Author(s).

Softcover/Paperback. Etat : Fine. 2nd Edition. A memoir of Peter Howard, forewarned by Ian Jackson, photographs; first published in 2010 in an edition of 100 copies. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. book.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. First Edition Thus. Squarish 16mo. French wrappers. Unpaginated (32pp.). Originally published in 'A Hundred Posters'. Outwardly somewhat rubbed and marked, the wrappers a touch faded at the spine and spotted on their reverse, two facing pages with a small area of scuffing/soiling (not affecting the text), but towards Very Good all in all, the contents generally clean.

Soft cover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. Yellow pictorial covers. A fine copy. This book collectes two dozen tales of tramp printers that were recorded in the trade periodicals of the end of the nineteenth century, as well as notes on some of the tramps who learned the craft in small-town print shops.

8vo, (230mm.), 178p. numerous ornamental headpieces mainly drawn from 'Artistic printing' examples of the late 19th century. A fine copy in original paperback. An interesting, and occasionally amusing, collection of recollections of tramp printing, mainly in the United States between the end of their civil war and the introduction of the Linotype, but including a number of British examples of journeymen printers 'on the tramp.'.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to. Wrappers with dust jacket affixed. Unpaginated (60pp.). With silkscreened covers by Frances Butler and, inside, masks found by Alastair Johnston at the annual fumpon sale at UC Berkeley, by unknown ancient Japanese artists. Although not stated, one of 190 copies (of 200). Rather bumped to the corners and somewhat rubbed in general, an occasion spot, but towards Very Good overall.

10x12.75 inch broadside, fine condition; star map pressed into the blank field at right. "150 copies printed by Alistair Johnston at Poltroon Press for the Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival, Berkeley, 18 August 2007." At the time of publication, Alcosser had just completed her term as the first state poet laureate of Montana.

Hardcover. Etat : Very good. Etat de la jaquette : Very good. Mark Coggins (Photographer) (illustrateur). Presumed First Edition, First printing. The format is approximately 5.25 inches by 7,.75 inches. [8], 309, [3] pages. Signed by the author on the title page. Mark Coggins (born 1957) is the Choctaw and American author of a series of novels featuring private eye protagonist August Riordan. He is also a photographer. Coggins' first book, The Immortal Game, dealt with the theft of chess-playing software similar to that run on Deep Blue and was nominated for the Shamus Award and the Barry Award. Runoff described a fictional mayoral election in San Francisco where the results were altered by individuals who hacked the city's electronic voting machines. The Big Wake-Up envisioned an altered version of the bizarre history of the peripatetic remains of Argentina's most famous first lady, Eva Perón, and won the Gold Medal in the Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Mystery/Suspense/Thriller category. Prom Night and Other Man-made Disasters was somewhat of a departure. A collection of humorous essays describing episodes in his life from school, career, and relationships, it features a number of anecdotes from his childhood in Phoenix, Arizona, including the title essay, "Prom Night," the improbable story of how shy and socially-awkward Coggins brought the homecoming queen of Central High School to the senior prom. His books have been nominated for the Shamus and the Barry crime fiction awards and have been selected for best of the year lists compiled by the San Francisco Chronicle, the Detroit Free Press and Amazon, among others. Meet Edwin Bishop: a multi-millionaire entrepreneur who has founded and taken public several very successful software game companies. Highly intelligent, arrogant, yet unschooled in social graces, Bishop lives an eccentric life in his Silicon Valley mansion with several paid female companions. Bishop has developed a software program to play chess against human opponents that he claims is the most advanced ever written, but before it is released, he finds that the software has been stolen when he stumbles across a vendor demonstrating the game at a trade show. Enter August Riordan: a jazz bass-playing private eye who is cynical, irreverent and given to speaking his mind with unreconstructed candor. Although Bishop wants to hire a discreet private detective with a strong sense of professional ethics, as Riordan says, It was his tough luck he happened to pick me. Riordan careens through the very modern milieu of Silicon Valley in his quest for the chess program, enmeshing himself in more than just high technology. Jazz music, the underground world of S&M and an unlikely partnership with Chris Duckworth, a smart aleck gay man whom he meets at a bar called The Stigmata, are all part of the intriguing adventure. Full of well-drawn, idiosyncratic characters, fast dialogue and compelling and realistic portrayals of many San Francisco Bay Area locales, The Immortal Game is a very fresh and entertaining mystery in the tradition of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. This special edition from Poltroon Press is illustrated with 30 photographs and incorporates many of the design elements of the famous Borzoi Books first edition of The Big Sleep published by Knopf in 1939.