Love in Chartres
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. First edition. 8vo, 240pp; three-quarter black cloth and red boards. The author's second book, very scarce, especially in its Mac Harshberger-illustrated dust jacket. More
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The Crystal Cup
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First edition. 8vo, 315pp, marbled edges; green cloth stamped in gilt. Laid in is the "With the Compliments of Boni and Liveright" slip which further invites the reader to: "Read the book at once. If you find a typographical error notify us immediately. We..... More
Twelve autograph and three typed letters signed, 1964-1970,; Paris, Ussy-sur-Marne, Alghero Sardinia, and Nabeul Tunisia, to Sidney Meyers and his wife Edna Ocko Meyers. Together with some related correspondence and a complete 16mm print of "Film", Beckett's 1965 motion picture featuing Buster Keaton. Five of the Beckett letters written on cards; the rest on plain paper.
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
In Cold Blood; A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
New York: Random House, (1965). First edition. 8vo, 343pp; wrappers. Advance review copy of Capote's classic "non-fiction novel" More
Death Comes for the Archbishop
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. First edition. 8vo, 303pp; green cloth with printed labels, With the first issues points: no topstain; "happned" on p. 20 and "suppper" on p. 57. More
Fête des arbres et du chasseur
Paris: G.L.M., 1948. First edition. Wrappers. 8vo, unpag.; printed cream wrappers. One of 630 numbered copies on vélin du Renage in the regular edition, of which 25 were signed and 30 were hors commerce. Another twenty copies on Elzévir Caslon were also printed and included an original lithograph by Joan..... More
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Metro-Goldwyn Presents; [cpver title] . . . The merger and the new season
[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
A Hoosier Holiday; With Illustrations by Franklin Booth
New York: John Lane, (1916). First edition, second issue. Large 8vo, 513pp; blue cloth. One of 699 sets of the orginal John Lane sheets, bound in a Boni and Liveright binding for the re-issue in 1925 and using the second-issue sheets with p. 173-174 a cancel. Despite noted flaws, an..... More
Appearances; Fables & Drawings
(Stamford, Connecticut): Russell Edson / Thing Press, (1961). First edition. 8vo,32pp; wrappers, stapled. The poet, fabulist, and artist's first published book, inscribed on the dedication page to fellow poet and polymath Christopher Middleton, dated 1974. More
Alone Against Tomorrow; Stories of Alienation in Speculative Fiction
New York: Macmillan, (1971). First edition. 8vo, 312pp; cloth. Signed by Ellison on the title page. More
Young Americans Are Voting For Roosevelt; . . .
N.P. Young Americans for Roosevelt/Young Democratic Clubs of America, n.d. (1944). Broadside, single leaf of approx. 6 X 9 inches, printed on one side. Handbill aimed at young voters in support of Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt's campaign for his fourth term in office, with portrait photos of the two main..... More
The New Medical Follies; An Encyclopedia of Cultism and Quackery in These United States, with Essays on The Cult of Beauty, The Craze for Reduction, Rejuvenation, Eclecticism, Bread and Dietary Fads, Physical Therapy, and a Forecast as to the Physician of the Future.
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First edition. 8vo, 235pp;. More
Autograph letter signed; "Anatole France," undated, to "Mon cher Leopold"
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
Tall Tales from Hollywood
New York: Liveright, Inc., 1932. First edition. Small 8vo, 96pp; salmon cloth stamped in black. Lighthearted anecdotes by one of the movie industry's most versatile figures. Garnett's career as a screenwriter started in the earliest days of American cinema with Mack Sennett, Hal Roach, and Laurel & Hardy. He went..... More
Two autograph letters signed; "Dr. Eduard Hanslick," to Sophie Verena (Alberti), November 8, 1876 & April 12, 1887
-. One page and two pages (on bifolium) respectively, approx. 5 X 8 in. each. Cordial, letters about writing from the critic to a novelist. Eduard Hanslick (1825-1904) was a prominent and influential music critic, savaged by Wagner (whose music he had once praised, then turned against) in "Das Judentum..... More
The Good Soldier Schweik.; Translated by Paul Selver
New York: Charles Boni, 1930. First American edition. 8vo, [448]pp, illustrated; black cloth stamped in red on spine only. The classic of satirical war fiction. More
Year In, You're Out
New York: Horace Liveright, (1930). First edition. 8vo, 222pp; parchment-backed cloth, spine stamped in a geometric deco pattern of contrasting lozenges, leather title label. One of 275 numbered (199) copies signed by Hoffenstein and specially bound. More
Quiz Book; on Judaism, Zionism and Palestine.
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
Typed letter signed, as president,; "John Kennedy", December 6, 1962, on White House letterhead, with original mailing envelope and other related documents.
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
The Incredible Borgias; Translated from the German by Louise Brink
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First American edition. 8vo, 256pp; two-tone, orange and yellow cloth stamped in black. More
Archive of photographs and postcards; with a reel of 16mm film
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
Israel
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First edition. 8vo, [280]pp; two-tone cloth. A child of assimilated German Jews who emigrated to the United States when he was a child, Lewisohn faced unrelenting anti-semitism nonetheless as he pursued an academic career and ultimately returned to Judaism, rejecting assimilation as a failure..... More
Primitive Society
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920. First edition. 8vo, 463pp; cloth. Early work from the prominent anthropologist and protege of Franz Boas, from the library of George W. Maxey, Justice of the State Supreme Court in Pennsylvania, with his private bookplate. A scarce book, especially in dust jacket. More