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. More
Paris: January-February, 1931. Small 4to, 69pp; original printed wrappers. Inaugural issue of Putnam's expatriate quarterly devoted to serious criticism, aided by associate editors Ezra Pound, Maxwell Bodenheim, Richard Thoma and with contributions by each of them, as well as others from Jean Cocteau, George Reavey, Richard Eberhart, V.F. Calverton, George..... More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. 8vo, 339pp; cloth. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1927). First American edition. 8vo, 250pp; mauve cloth stamped in gilt and with pictorial medallion on front board. An exceptionally nice copy, scarce in jacket. More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926. First edition thus. Small 8vo, facsimile tipped in at half title; vi, 39pp + unpag. notes; cloth-backed boards with printed spine label. One of 250 copies on handmade paper, the entire edition. More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, (1956). First edition. 8vo, illustrated boards. More
Berlin: Union Verlag, (1963). First East German edition. Small 8vo, 92pp; white linen stamped in blue. Nicely inscribed on the front flyleaf: "Für Christopher Middleton mit herzlichen Wünschen, Johannes Bobrowski , am Tag seines* [*ersten] Besuches in Friesdrichshagen." A nice copy of Bobrowski's second substantial collection. 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
(San Francisco): Scrimshaw Press, 1971. First edition. Cloth. 4to, unpag.; gray cloth stamped in black, with mounted photograph on front board. The first substantial monograph on Bullock, this copy has been inscribed and signed by the photographer on the first blank leaf. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. First edition. 8vo, 336pp; cloth. Loosely inserted is a small broadsheet advertisement for new books about Napoleon (Emil Ludwig) and George Washington (W.E. Woodward). More
San Francisco: People's World, n.d. (1958). Four-page leaflet, printed on a single bifolium, approx. 8-1/2 X 11-1/4 inches. Lengthy editorial calling out continued school segregation in the South under Dixiecrat governors, especially Orville Faubus of Arkansas; illustrated with cartoons and quoting from the 1954 Brown V. Board of Education ruling..... 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
London: Chapman & Hall, 1843-1848. First editions. Five vols., uniform small 8vos; frontispieces; 166, 175, 174, 175 &188pp; original cloth; a.e.g. The complete set of Dickens's Christmas Books. A Christmas Carol here is in brown cloth, with "Stave One" on the first page and an intact "D" in the author's..... More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. 8vo, 306pp; blue cloth stamped in gilt and red. Incan-themed novel by the author of "The Clansman (Birth of a Nation)" More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First edition. 8vo, 425pp; cloth-backed batik boards with printed spine label. One of 440 numbered copies signed by Dreiser. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1936). First American edition. 8vo, 220pp; blue cloth. The first issue, with the dust jacket being gray (later copies were brown); one of 4700 copies in the edition. Loosely inserted in this copy is a 1937 postcard invitation to a lecture about Eliot by Charles David..... 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
London: Printed for J. Buckland, et al, 1788. Small 8vo, 230pp; contemporary calf, recased and rebacked; title page trimmed and mounted. Illustrated throughout with woodcut vignettes. 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
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First edition. 8vo, 203pp; cloth-backed violet boards. English translation of the French symbolist's 1899 epistolary novel "Le Songe d'une Femme", this copy with the bookplate of music and art critic Warren Wilmer Brown. Seldom encountered in its lovely Hans Flato dust jacket. 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
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1924. First edition. 8vo, 383pp; yellow cloth stamped in red and black. Versatile and prolific, Ben Hecht was a journalist, novelist, short stories writer, playwright, social critic, activist, and finally a virtually ubiquitous screenwriter -- he won two Academy Awards and was nominated for four..... More
