New York: Macy-Masius, (1926-27). First editions. Two vols, 8vos, 223 + [191]pp; cloth-backed boards. Each volume is one of 100 copies, signed and numbered on an additional leaf by FPA. Contributors include Christopher Morley, Marc Connelly, Countee Cullen, Corey Ford, Dorothy Parker, and many others. More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. 8vo, 304pp; textured blue cloth stamped in green. Uncommon in dust jacket. 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
Santa Barbara, California: Helmut Bonheim and Raymond Federman, 1962. 8vo, 32pp; wrappers, stapled. Scarce mimeograph magazine featuring contributions from John Thomas, Carol Berge, George Hitchcock, Larry Eigner, and others, most notably Charles Bukowski whose long poem "WW2" appears here for the first time. An autobiographical text, and one of Bukowski's..... More
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. First edition. 8vo, 447pp; textured black cloth stamped in gilt. The author's first book, an epic novel tracing the rise and fall of a Chicago department store dynasty, Sweepings was adapted into two Hollywood films. Cohen himself was also a successful screenwriter, most notably..... More
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
Paris: Le Charivari, 13 Aout 1853. Tear-sheet approx. 10 X 14 in., with cartoon printed on one side, partial article text and advertisements on the other. Original publication of this Daumier lithographic cartoon, the fifth in his series of "Croquis Aquatiques." A delicate piece on newsprint, remarkably well maintained. (Hazard..... More
Londres: Chez L. Deconchy, 1813. First London edition. 8vo, 72pp; contemporary speckled calf tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers, Devonshire emblem in gilt above leather spine label. This London imprint appeared in the same year as the rare first edition published in Sweden. With eighteen blank leaves bound in at 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
London: Printed by R.E. for Jacob Tonson, 1694. 8vo, engraved frontispiece, [i-vi], 327pp; contemporary calf, rebacked; without 11pp table in rear. Contains works by Dryden, Joseph Addison, William Congreve, and others and includes numerous translations, among them Dryden's of Virgil. More
New York: Macmillan, (1971). First edition. 8vo, 312pp; cloth. Signed by Ellison on the title page. 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: Edward Arnold & Co., (1936). First edition. 8vo, 351pp; blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine. From the first issue, with "A Flood in the Office" on pages 278-281, which was excised from later copies. A notable association copy, signed by Forster on the title page. Glued to the..... 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: W. Griffin, 1765. First Edition. 12mo, [2], vii, 236pp, 2pp ads; full polished tan morocco gilt with five raised bands, finely tooled in gilt with quatrefoil emblems, with gilt tooling on both covers, a.e.g. There is dispute over which of two 1765 editions has priority. This copy was bound..... More
-. One page, written on verso of a single sheet of bond paper, approx. 11-1/2 X 9 in. Hauptmann writes to his editor at S. Fischer Verlag to announce the arrival of Senator Walter R. Rothenberg, who Hauptmann has asked to look into his business affairs in England and the..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1918. First edition. Small 8vo, 163pp; cloth-backed boards. Four stories and essays collected from various periodical appearances and issued here for the first time in book form. Includes an editorial preface by Albert Mordell. Exceedingly scarce in dust jacket. 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
Jerusalem: "Goren" 1947. First edition. 12mo, 60pp; wrappers. A charming book of cultural quizzes aimed at young readers - and based on a popular radio quiz show - to spark growing identification with the nascent Jewish state. A second edition appeared in 1951 adding a supplement on Israel. This pre-statehood..... More
-. Three pages on a small bifolium, approx. 3-1/2 X 5-1/4 in. A warm, emotional letter, thanking the recipient for her expression of concern, and discussing a loss. Amalie Joachim (1839-1899) was a popular singer as Amalie Weiss, before she married the composer and musician Joseph Joachim. Her performing career..... More
-. Written on one side of a picture postcard (with a picture of Lehmann on the other side) approx. 3-1/2 X 5-1/2 in. Lilli Lehmann (1848-1929) was one of the most celebrated operatic sopranos of her age, with a broad versatility and a long career. In five years with the..... 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
(London): Lisson Publications, 1974. First Edition. Square 4to; printed wrappers as issued. 23 variations laying out systematic placement of lines within a square, each captioned with explanatory text by the artist from "A line from the midpoint of the left side to the midpoint of the right side" to "A..... More
London: Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1762. Second Edition. 4to, frontispiece, [16], [i]-xvi, 1-270pp; later pebble-grain cloth and morocco with marbled endpapers and edges. The second edition adds the frontispiece portrait of MacPherson, engraved by William Bond after Joshua Reynolds. More