New York: EC / Educational Comics, (1952-1959). Wraps. Uniform 8vos, 7-1/4 X 10-1/4 in. (numbers 1-23); uniform 4tos, 10-3/4 X 8 in. (numbers 24-51); original printed wrappers. Together with an original ink drawing by Al Jaffee. A consecutive run of the first 51 numbers of the iconic periodical of irreverent..... More
Berlin. -. Two pages on a bifolium of Auerbach's personal stationery blindstamped "B.A." Berthold Auerbach (1812-1882), born Moyses Baruch, though little known today, was one of the most successful German writers of the nineteenth century. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1924. First edition. 8vo, 324pp; blue cloth, stamped in gilt. Signed and dated (1924) by Bercovici on the front flyleaf. 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
Paris: (1950). 4to, unpag.; boards. This issue is devoted to Chagall's lithographic illustrations to Boccaccio's Decameron, with additional tipped-in plates from an early Burgundian manuscript of the same, and texts by Jacques Prévert and Frantz Calot. 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
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1990. First Edition. 8vo, 328pp; cloth-backed boards. From the regular trade editon of 300 hardbound copies (there was also an issue in wrappers, as well as two signed/limited issues), this one is an intimate presentation copy, inscribed by Coleman at the time of publication to..... More
London: Printed for J. Brotherton at the Black Bull . . . 1720. First Edition. 8vo, [i-ii] 344pp; trimmed, edges stained red; contemporary calf with gilt spine with five raised bands, black leather label. Rare first edition of Defoe's anonymously published adventure, appearing in the year after Robinson Crusoe and..... More
New York: Random House, (1985). First edition. Cloth. 8vo, 288pp; blue cloth. A nice presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to a fellow writer: "To my colleague Harvey Shapiro, whoses idea it was to fly the Hindenburg again over New York City on Oct. 20..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1920). First trade edition. 8vo, 172pp; cloth. Tipped to the front pastedown is a small slip signed by Dreiser. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First edition thus. 8vo, 503pp; blue cloth stamped in gilt. Dreiser, dissatisfied with the 1912 text, completely rewrote the novel for this edition. From the library of noted collector Frederick W. Skiff, with his bookplate. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First edition. 8vo, 349pp; cloth. A serviceable copy of Faulkner's second book. More
St-Cyr-sur-Loire. -. One page on single leaf of approx. 7 X 5-1/4 in. stationery. France writes about a mutual friend, his stay at La Bechellerie at St-Cyr, and the recent Presdential election. France received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921. More
London: F. Newbery, 1766. Second Edition. Two vols., 12mos; half titles not called for; lacks final blank of Vol. 1; [viii], 214pp; [vi], 223pp; contemporary calf with gilt-tooled spines, red and green spine labels. Goldsmith made significant revisions for this edition, which includes his signed advertisement and tables of contents..... More
Boston: hHoughton Mifflin, 1952. First edition. 8vo, 114pp; cloth. The author's second book, an excellent association copy, inscribed by Hamburger to longtime New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell and his wife: "For Joe & Therese from their friend Phil Hamburger, Sept. 1952." More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919. First edition. 8vo, 201pp; blue cloth. Anonymously authored by Hapgood, one of the founders of the Provincetown Players and a fixture in the Greenwich Village Bohemian scene, this book turned into one of Liveright's first notable legal battles with censors who deemed it obscene..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1928. First edition. 8vo, 341pp; blue cloth, stamped in gilt. Major work by Hays, a prominent civil liberties attorney. An associate of Clarence Darrow (co-dedicatee of this book), Hays was involved in some of the major civil liberties cases of the era, including the Scopes..... More
London: Poetmeat and Strangers Press, (1965). First edition. 4to, 38 mimeo pages in printed card wrappers, stapled. A presentation copy , inscribed by Hollo for the poet and translator Christopher Middleton, with scattered holograph corrections to the text, and a loosely inserted note providing a mailing address for the Russian..... More
New York: Samuel Campbell, 1793. First American edition of Imlay; Second edition of Filson. Two vols., 12mos, 260 [i.e. 250, mispaginated after p. 215], 204pp; contemporary calf. Important early work describing the region, with tipped in map of Kentucky, hand-colored. The map has been torn and is missing a piece..... More
London: Hogarth Press, 1938. First edition. 8vo, 312pp; blue cloth stamped in black. First issue; one of 3580 copies, an unknown number of which were issued later as part of Hogarth Crown Library series. Woolmer 431. More
Tel Aviv: Lion the Printer, (1947). First edition. 12mo, 92pp + 2pp glossary; printed wrappers. Short stories of life in Jerusalem under the British mandate. Ari Ibn-Sahav -- more often written Zahav -- was the penname of Leo Goldstein, Polish-born poet and writer, an early Zionist, and co-founder of the..... More
Toronto: Coach House Press, (1978). First edition. 8vo, 60pp; wrappers, no clothbound issue. Presentation copy of the poet's third book, and first commercially published one, inscribed on the half title "For Mr. Middleton. From a long time admirer, August Kleinzahler." The recipient was the poet, writer, translator Christopher Middleton, who..... More
(New York): Aperture, (1988). First edition. Cloth. Oblong 4to, unpag.; cloth. Fine monograph published to coincide with Koudelka's exhibition at the Centre National de la Photographie in Paris, and the International Center of Photography in New York. More
