San Francisco. -. Printed invitation card for a luncheon in honor of Adenauer, hosted by the Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, and signed by Adenauer at the event. Approx. 4 X 5 in. Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967), nicknamed "Der Alte," the... More about Signature; "Adenauer, 11.4.53," on a card
New York: Grove Press, (1963). First edition. Cloth. 8vo, 61pp; green cloth. The portrait photograph of Beckett on the rear jacket flap is by Brassai. More about Poems in English
Varied sizes and formats. The shooting and editing of “Film” brought Samuel Beckett to New York for several weeks in the summer of 1964. It was the only time he travelled to the United States, as well as his single venture into cinematic work. A rigorously conceived silent film, “Film”..... More about Twelve autograph and three typed letters signed, 1964-1970,; Paris, Ussy-sur-Marne, Alghero...
Vienna. -. One page, approx. 8-1/4 X 10-1/2 in. Friendly, welcoming note to the editor at S. Fischer Verlag, who would become a leading publisher of exiled German-language writers during the nazi-era. More about Autograph letter signed; "Richard Beer-Hofmann," to Gottfried Bermann-Fischer...
Friedenau. -. One page on a bifolium, approx. 5-1/2 X 8-1/2 in. Aron Bernstein (1812-1884), political journalist and advocate of Jewish emancipation, edited "Die Volkszeitung" in Berlin. More about Autograph note signed; "A. Bernstein," October 28, 1877
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1977. First edition. 8vo, unpag.; cloth, with printed label. Collected publication of the then most recent dozen of the publisher's occasional pamphlets, issued here in a limited, autographed edition, nearly every individual pamphlet signed by its author, with the exceptions of Charles Reznikoff and Paul... More about Sparrow 49-60
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. 8vo, 80pp; black cloth. First book by the Philadelphia poet, a collection of verses celebrating the urban landscape and the machine age. Black would die two years later after an appendix operation, cutting short a promising career. More about Machinery
New York: Robert Whitehead, n.d. (1963?). 4to, 147 mimeograph pages, bolt bound in printed leatherette wrappers. Rehearsal script from the smash hit play, subsequently adapted into the Academy Award-winning film. A loosely inserted typescript page, with a handwritten cast list, suggests that this script must date from late in the... More about A Man for All Seasons; (A Play in Two Acts
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New York & Hollywood: Fox Film Corporation, (1926). First edition. 4to, 58 unpaginated leaves, with printed endpapers; original cloth-backed boards. Annual "exhibitors book" produced by the Fox studio to promote their productions to theatre owners, filled with color illustrations from posters and ad campaigns for movies currently in release or... More about Fox:; A Standard of Business in the Realm of Entertainment [cover label title
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[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..... More about Metro-Goldwyn Presents; [cpver title] . . . The merger and the new season
New York: Boni & Liveright, (1922). First printing. 8vo, tan cloth. The poet's first book, a novel based upon his experience in a French prison during the Frist World War. The second issue, with the censored word on page 219. More about The Enormous Room
-. Two pages, on a single bifolium of thick paper, approx. 5-1/4 X 7-1/2 in. Dehmel declines public involvement with the production of a play, referring to his difficulties with productions of his own plays and explaining that "ausserdem, wenn ein Dichter den andern empfieht, das wird immer als Klickenmache... More about Autograph letter signed; "Dehmel" to an unnamed "Herr Kapellmeister," March...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1921. First edition. 8vo, 425pp; cloth. Nicely inscribed on the first leaf: "To Ruth Gruber from Floyd Dell, with much admiration for her true and beautifully told tales of life in the Soviet Arctic -- April 1945, Washington D.C." Gruber, prolific journalist, photographer, and humanitarian... More about The Briary-Bush; A Novel
New York: Harper & Row, (1973). First edition. 8vo, 96pp; wrappers. Inscribed on the front flyleaf: "For Christopher Middleton, this book of silly descriptions and moments . . . . . .with best of wishes, Russell Edson, December 10, 1973." More about The Childhood of an Equestrian
Los Angeles: First Unitarian Church, 1951. Mimeograph broadsheet, single leaf, 8-1/2 X 11 inches, printed on both sides. Full text of Rev. Fritchman's remarks concerning the House Committee on Un-American Activities and his testimony before it. He states his impassioned objection to the treatment of the "Hollywood Ten" and defends... More about Statement of Rev. Stephen H. Fritchman,; Given Following Service at First Unitarian Church of Los...
New York: No, 1923. First American edition. 8vo, 327pp; light blue cloth. A partial autobiography in an uncredited translation. Not at all common, especially in dust jacket. More about My University Days
San Francisco: San Francisco Bay Area District Council No. 2, Maritime Federation of the Pacific Coast, (1937). First edition. 4to, unpag., pictorial wrappers. Hagel's first book, a documentation of the great San Francisco maritime strike that defined the labor movement in the west in the early years of FDR's administration... More about "Men and Ships"; Maritime Strike Pictorial 1936-1937
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. More about Demian
Tel Aviv: Lion the Printer / Palestine Pioneer Library, (1946). First edition. 12mo, 120pp; wrappers. A little known work of Meyer Levin, the novelist who had been among the first reporters to enter the liberated camp at Buchenwald, this is an account of the kibbutz that was established by survivors... More about Kibbutz Buchenwald; Selection from the Kibbutz Diary. Translated and Edited by Meyer Levin. With...
Washington DC: 1962. Single leaf, folded once; loosely inserted together with other items in spiral bound album. Kennedy writes to express his personal thanks to a federal Border Patrol officer pressed into service at the University of Mississippi to provide protection when James Meredith was registered as the first African... More about Typed letter signed, as president,; "John Kennedy", December 6, 1962, on White House...
Oakland: Alameda County Committee Communist Party USA, n.d. (1934). Broadside, printed oon one side only of a single leaf, approx.8-1/2 X 11 in. CPUSA message of support for striking martime workers. More about Trouble on the Waterfront; Who Caused It? The Maritime Unions? -Or- The Shipowners and Bankers?
London: Faber & Faber, (1964). First edition. 8vo, 46pp; plum cloth. One of 3910 copies printed. Bloomfield A7a. More about The Whitsun Weddings
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 about Archive of photographs and postcards; with a reel of 16mm film
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1930. First American edition. 8vo, [238]pp; lavender cloth. Marienhoff was a poet and close friend of fellow "Imaginist" Sergei Yesenin. He ran afoul of Soviet censors with this novel, an account of two Russian intellectuals during the revolution and its aftermath. It was not... More about Cynics:; A Novel. Translated from the Russian by Valdemar D. Bell and Louis Coleman
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First American edition. 8vo, 407pp; black and red cloth stamped in gilt. The author's first book, a fictionalized account of his experiences as a prisoner-of-war in Russia during the First World War and afterward, as the Bolshevik revolution took hold. The book was an international... More about Siberian Garrison.; Translated from the Hungarian by George Halasz