Paris: 1937. 4to, [127]pp; original wrappers. The inaugural issue of the great French arts magazine, here in its English language issue for export. Features lithographs -- printed by Mourlot -- by Fernand Leger, Joan Miro, Abraham Rattner, and Francisco Bores; photographs by Man Ray; text contributions by André Gide, Georges..... More
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Paris: Anglo-American Cinema/Salle Berlioz, n.d. (1914). Printed bifolium, approx. 7-1/2 X 9 in., printed on all sides; with tipped-in handbill announcement of film. Announcement of this screening of a film by the Belgian adventurer Walter de Marney, documenting a hunting trip across the African continent from Congo to Zanzibar. Illustrated..... More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. 8vo, 339pp; cloth. More
New York: Random House, (1951). First edition. 8vo, 81pp; cloth. One of 4000 copies in the first printing (Bloomfield & Mendelson A32a).This is an affectionate presentation copy, inscribed by Auden to the writer and translator William Weaver: "Bill Weaver with love from Wystan, June 1951" and with small corrections by..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. First edition. 8vo, 267pp; bright orange cloth. A decent copy of Bodenheim's novel; jacket art by Harold Harvey. More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First edition. 8vo, 260pp; terracotta cloth stamped in yellow and black. An exceptionally sharp copy. 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
Andernach: Burn Again Press, 1990. First Edition. 8vo, unpag.; light green boards with printed labels on front cover and spine. One of fifty numbered copies signed by Bukowski, the entire edition, published ostensibly in the town of his birth in Germany and marking his seventieth birthday. One of Bukowski's scarcer..... 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
New York: Random House, (1949). First edition. Cloth. 8vo, 209pp; black cloth. Capote's second book, inscribed and signed by Capote on the front flyleaf. More
London: T. Payne, 1777. First Edition. 8vo, xxvii, [1], 307pp; engraved plate inserted facing p. 288; nineteenth century three-quarter crushed morocco gilt, t.e.g; custom slipcase. Second state, with the "Advertisement" leaf in front cancelled. Chatterton committed suicide before his eighteenth birthday, having published but one of these poems, ostensibly by..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1922). First edition. 8vo, 278pp; gray cloth stamped in white. Author's first book. More
Paris: "Au Sans Pareil" 12 Janvier 1921. Broadsheet, approx. 8-1/4 X 10-3/4 in. (22 X 27.5 cm), printed on both sides. Bold, graphic international statement promoting Dada -- and pronouncing the death of Futurism. Features the repeated catch-phrase "Oui=Non" and the repeated rhetorical question "Que fait DADA?" Signatories include Edgard..... More
Chicago: n.d. (1930s). 8 X 10 inch black and white gelatin silver print on textured matte-surface paper, with photographer's studio insignia in lower left corner. An excellent publicity portrait of Ellington in his prime, inscribed and signed: "To the most charming Carine, loads o luck, Duke." The "Maurice" studio in..... More
Alexandria: Whitehead Morris Limited, 1938. Second edition. 8vo, 218pp; photographic illustrations; three folding maps; printed boards. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Forster, the entire edition, extensively revised from the 1922 first edition, produced for the Royal Archaeological Society of Alexandria. More
St. Moritz. -. Written on one side of a plain postcard, addressed in another hand on the other side, approx. 4 X 6 in. A warm note from the great conductor, hoping for a meeting in Berlin, once he returns to Germany. Maria Proelss (1892-1962) was a pianist and painter..... 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
London: Grant Richards, 1922. First Edition. Crown 8vo, 78 (1)pp; handsomely rebound in full green deerskin by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; t.e.g. First state, without punctuation marks at the ends of the first two lines of p. 52. An appealingly bound copy, with lovely oak leaf-patterned endpapers. Laid in is an..... More
New York: Random House, (1945). First edition. Small 8vo, [128]pp; cloth. Autobiographical novella about making the film "Little Friend" with director Berthold Viertel. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1918. First edition. Small 8vo, 153pp; cloth-backed boards. Edel & Laurence A80. More
London: Robert Jennings, 1816. First Edition. 8vo, xvi, [4], 226pp., includes two leaves of facsimiles of Johnson's handwriting in front; lacks advertisement and errata in rear; contemporary calf. Second state, according to Fleeman, without the advertisement and errata leaf; these copies were meant to have the errata loosely inserted, but..... More
San Francisco: International Longshoreman's Association, November 21, 1936. Mimeographed broadsheet, on two sides of a single legal-sized leaf, approx. 8-1/2 X 11 in. Two page report from the ILA's Local 36-79 committee looking at the multi-union effort to establish a national Labor Party. Includes parageaphs on the particular trade unions..... More
London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1932. First Edition. 8vo, 191(1)pp; green cloth. A decent copy. More
