N.P. Rockbook, 1978. First edition. Wraps. 8vo, unpag.; pamphlet in wrappers, stapled. Inscribed by the poet and signed on the inside front wrapper. This was Baca's first book, written in prison, containing eight poems and the essay "Thoughts On Leaving Prison." Abandoned at two, consigned to an orphange as a...... More
Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, (1962). First edition. 8vo, 60pp; wrappers. The poet's first collection of poems, inscribed to a fellow poet on the half-title: "For Christopher Middleton, With much admiration - and silence in railway stations - Robert Bly." Loosely inserted is a copy of Bly's 1961 "A Broadsheet..... More
New York: Noonday Press, (1954). First edition. Cloth. 8vo, yellow cloth. Inscribed by Bogan on the title page for Lee Anderson, dated 1 February 1960. In addition, Bogan has made holograph corrections to two pages, changing a letter in one instance and a word in the other. More
(Los Angeles): 1949. Tempera on cardstock paper, approx. 10 X 14 in. Nighttime cityscape depicting images of Los Angeles, with the central image of a streetcar filled with passengers and all around lighted signs (Bond Pants, Follies, Tivoli Theatre, Beer, Parking, Wine, Ice) a lamppost, a telephone booth, and a...... More
New Orleans: Loujon Press, 1961-1969. All published. 5 vols. in 4; 8vos, 101, 112, 138, [198]pp; original wrappers. The complete run of this unique and important magazine, best known for publishing the early work of Charles Bukowski. Each issue was hand set and printed by letterpress and reflected publishers Jon..... More
Hollywood: The Screen Writers' Guild, Inc., 1946. First edition. 8vo, 18pp pamphlet in printed self-wrappers, stapled. An offprint from the July 1946 issue of "The Screen Writer," this is Cain's presentation of his proposal for an organization to aid screenwriters in negotiating with producers and studios. The "Cain Plan", as..... More
London: Film Centre Ltd., (1940). First edition. 12 vols. in one; 4to, wrappers bound into publisher's two-toned cloth. The complete first year of this wartime journal produced by the British Film Centre in association with American Film Center, New York. This copy bears the signature of Thomas Baird, who was..... More
Venezia: Biennale di Venezia, 1959. 4to, 96pp + 56pp advertising section; original wrappers. Fully illustrated and graphically electric official program of the 1959 Venice Film Festival, which included such notable features as Billy Wilder's "Some Like It Hot" and Otto Preminger's "Anatomy of a Murder" alongside films by Claude Chabrol..... More
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. First American edition. 8vo, 261pp; black cloth. A timely American publication, as Claudel - as noted on the front jacket flap - had just been named French Ambassador to the U.S. Uncommon in jacket. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1923). First American edition. 8vo, [276]pp; black cloth. Henry Clews Jr., something of a ne'er-do-well scion of a prominent American family, after failing to complete his education at three colleges, expatriated himself to France, studied sculpture with Rodin, and decamped to a chateau on the..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1923. Two vols., 8vos, 623 & 690pp; black cloth, stamped in gilt; linen-backed folding map in pocket affixed to rear pastedown of first volume. An excellent set of this U.S. publication, printed in England, exceedingly scarce in jackets. More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. 2 vols., 823pp; cloth. Attractive set of the trade edition, which preceded the signed-limited edition. More
London: A. Millar, 1749. First Edition. Six vols., 8vos, lxii, [2], 214; 324; 370; 312; 294; 304pp; full polished calf gilt. A decent set of Fielding's masterpiece, with all cancels, and errata leaf in Vol. 1. One of only 2000 copies in the first printing, which was almost immediately sold..... More
London: B. Crosby, 1794. First Edition. Three vols., small 8vo., 293, [1, errata]; 285; 304pp; modern three-quarter calf and brown cloth with gilt spines; (the binder erroneously stamped the date "1797" to the spines), t.e.g. A complete copy of Godwin's celebrated novel, with all half-titles. Appearing amid the intellectual ferment..... More
New York: Horace Liveright, (1929). First American edition. 8vo, 245pp; gray cloth. Hauser's major novel, which received the Gerhart Hauptmann Prize in Germany, uncommon in jacket. More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. First edition. Two vols., 8vos, 283, 284pp + publisher's ads at end of first volume; brown cloth. Second state of publisher's ads, dated March 1860. More
New York: Random House, 1939. First American edition. 8vo, 317pp; black cloth. Scarce American edition, using sheets printed in England for one of the Hogarth Press editions. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1918. First edition. Small 8vo, 153pp; cloth-backed boards. Edel & Laurence A80. More
London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand, 1775. Second Edition. 8vo, [iv], 384pp; nineteenth-century morocco and marbled boards. Fleeman notes this as the second edition, first issue, with six-line errata and the noted catchwords, correcting Courtney's identification of it is as the second issue of the..... More
(Los Angeles): Centinela Youth Club / Democratic Youth Federation of California, n.d. (1941). Two mimeographed broadsides, each a single leaf approx. 8-1/2 X 11 inches, printed on one side. Two states of a bulletin board announcement of a party and dance scheduled to raise funds in support of striking workers..... More
New York. 23 original gelatin silver prints, with four autograph postcards singed (one is also a Levitt photograph) and an inscribed publication of the Museum of Modern Art (1985); various sizes and formats. An excellent collection of photos, five of them signed by Levitt on their versos, and others with..... More
N.P. N.p, n.d. (ca. 1928). First edition. 8vo, 9pp pamphlet in self-wrappers, stapled. One of 55 numbered copies, signed by Lindsay, printed for private distribution. The text is an essay that would be included in the 1929 book The Litany of Washington Street. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1921). First edition. Large 8vo, 302pp;illus.; black cloth. Important early book by Macgowan, who along with Eugene O'Neill directed the Provincetown Players and was a key theatre critic in the 1920s before going to Hollywood and becoming a film producer and UCLA professor. Very scarce..... More
