Praha: Svaz ceských klubu fotografu amateru a nakladatelstuim. "Politiky" 1941. First edition. Small 4to, 64pp + ads; boards. Photographs by the leading Czech photographers of the time, including Funke, Lauschmann, Sudek, Wikovsky, and others.
New York: Grove Press, (1957). First edition. 8vo, 59pp; wrappers. The "holiday issue" of Beckett's radio play, with a greeting message from Grove Press printed on the front wrapper.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1954). First English edition. 8vo, 536pp; cloth. A better copy than it sounds.
London: John Lehmann, 1946. First English edition. Small 8vo, 191pp; yellow cloth. Bellow's first book. The jacket design was by Robert Medley.
[Hollywood: Fox Film Corporation, 1928]. First edition. 4to, 30 unpaginated leaves, with printed endpapers; original boards, with silver and gold printed onlay on front panel. One of the most desireable of the annual "Exhibitors Books", the studio spared no expense in the production of this twenty-fifth anniversary volume, featuring spectacular...
[Culver City, California: Metro-Goldwyn Mayer, 1924]. First edition. 4to, 68pp unpaginated; pictorial endpapers; original paper-covered boards with printed label on front cover. Annual “Exhibitors Book” promoting the coming year’s releases to theatre owners. This edition followed immediately on the merger of Louis B. Mayer’s production company with Metro-Goldwyn forming MGM.....
Venezia: Biennale di Venezia, 1959. 4to, 96pp + 56pp advertising section; original wrappers. Fully illustrated and graphically electric officlal 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...
Los Angeles: CORE, (1961). First edition. Broadside poster on single leaf, approx. 8-1/2 X 11 inches, printed on one side. Small poster announcing a rally at LA's Second Baptist Church, Feb. 26, (1961), with photos of Tennessee families. The event was held in the early days of the Kennedy presidency...
Los Angeles: State Defense Committee for Wesley Robert Wells, (1953). Broadsheet, printed on both sides of a single leaf, approx. 8-1/2 X 11 inches. Two-sided leaflet reproducing two articles from prominent African-American newspapers in defense of Wells, an inmate at San Quentin facing execution after a lifelong series of encounters...
Vienna. -. Secretarial letter, one page, on large bifolium, approx. 8-1/2 X 11 in., coated, laid paper with blindstamp of the Imperial Hofburgtheater. Franz von Dingelstedt (1814-1881) was a successful journalist and satirist, whose sympathies in his younger years were with the radical "Junges Deutschland" movement. He underwent a sort...
New York: Random House, (1957). First edition. 8vo, 371pp; cloth. Second volume of the Snopes trilogy.
Wiesbaden. -. One page, written on recto of single bifolium of plain paper, approx. 5-1/2 X 8-1/2 in. Though unnamed, the recipient of Freytag's letter was Sophie Verena (pseud. Sophie Alberti), author of a number of well-received books in the mid-nineteenth century. Freytag politely declines to help her, pleading that...
West Chester (PA): Aralia Press, 1991. First edition. Wraps. 4to, unpag., handmade flax wrappers. One of 200 unnumbered copies printed on Johannot (there were an additional 50 press-numbered and 7 presentation copies on Umbria), this one inscribed by the printer Michael Peich to James L. Weil, poet and longtime publisher...
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. First edition. 8vo, 256pp; cloth-backed patterned boards. An excellent copy of the author's first book; she later had a couple of comic screenplay credits in the 1930s under her married name Ethel Borden. Highly uncommon in a satisfactory jacket.
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1923. First American edition. 8vo, 215pp; original decorative cloth. Attractive copy of the first of Hesse's novels to appear in English, here in an uncredited translation.
London: Andre Deutsch, (1959). First edition. 8vo, 57pp; printed boards. The poet's first regularly published book, preceded by a Fantasy Press pamphlet.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1964. First edition. 8vo, 186pp; cloth.
Tel Aviv: Women's International Zionist Organisation, January 1949. First edition. 8vo, [30]pp pamphlet in printed blue wrappers, stapled. An argument for equal rights for women under the law in the new state, written and published in the midst of the first Arab-Israeli war. Scarce.
New York: Something Else Press, 1968. First edition. Squarish 8vo, unpag.; cloth. Inscribed on the front endpaper: "For Russell & Frances - All good things for 1969, on Ruth." A collection of poems and avant-garde texts performed at Greenwich Village venues such as Judson Poets Theatre, Cafe La Mama and...
N.P. N.p., n.d. (ca. 1937). Mimeograph broadside, on one side only of a single leaf, approx. 8-1/2 X 11 in. Bulletin board poster chiding workers with a list of no-nos including: "1. Don't attend meetings -- but if you do, plan to arrive late. 2. Be sure to leave before...
-. 2 pages, written on one leaf of personal printed stationery, approx 7-1/4 X 7-1/2 in. Lewis writes to announce his plans for sailing to Europe and travel itinerary together with his recently retired brother, who has never been out of the country. Lewis received the Nobel Prize for Literature...
-. Single page of printed pale blue stationery, approx. 8 X 10 in. Maugham writes two short sentences to thank Mr. Gay for some photographs that he had sent.
New York: Ecco/Harper Collins, (2002). First edition. Boards. 8vo, 97pp; boards. Nice presentation copy, inscribed by McGrath on the half-title - incorporating the printed text - to his fellow poet and former teacher Quincy Troupe; additionally signed and dated on the title page.
Los Angeles: International Labor Defense, n.d (1941). Mimeograph broadside, approx. 8-1/2 X 14 inches, printed on one side. Poster announcing event at the Embassy Auditorium memorializing JB McNamara, who in 1911 was convicted in the bombing of the Los Angeles Times building, a case that became a flashpoint for the...
Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag, (1929). First edition. 8vo, illustrated boards. An inventor of Berlin Dada, Mehring was a fixture in the cabaret scene of Berlin. This collection of his emblematic songs is appealingly presented in a colorful design, unsigned, but executed by Mehring himself in a manner reminiscent of Paul...
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