New York: Stage 73, n.d. (1965). Broadsheet, approx. 8-1/2 X 11 in., printed on both sides by mimeograph. An extraordinary statement in support of Lionel Abel's play, based on Sophocles' "The Trachiniae" which played off-Broadway at Stage 73. The recto prints an impassioned statement lauding Abel's play - and criticizing..... More
London: R. Dodsley, 1744, 1757. First editions. 4to, 125; [iv], 156 pp; contemporary calf, rebacked, with spine laid down. First issue of Akenside, with the footnote on p. 9 and p. 20 misnumbered as 22. All half titles present. Nice engraved vignettes to each title page. Akenside's poem was his..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1923. First edition. 8vo, 304pp; black cloth with printed spine label. Three plays by the eventual Pulitzer Prize-winner. Déclassée would be made into a film in 1925 starring Corrinne Griffith and directed by Robert Vignola. More
Paris: The Olympia Press, (1955). First edition. Small 8vo, 241pp. Wrappers. The first volume of Beckett's trilogy. More
N.P. n.p., n.d. (1959). Six mimeographed leaves, 8-1/2 X 11 in., stapled in one corner. English translation of an interview conducted with the great Swedish director Ingmar Bergman by journalists Georges Menant and Philippe Letellier in 1958 for Paris Match. We are unaware of who did the translation or for..... More
New York: Corinth Books, 1969. First edition. Wraps. 8vo, 47pp; original printed wrappers. One of 1500 copies. The cover design is from a collage by Joe Brainard. 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 York: Lyle Stuart, (1965). First edition. 4to, 101pp; original wrappers. One of 3100 copies in the edition, signed and dated by Bukowski at the colophon. Loosely inserted is a separately printed broadsheet, printed on both sides with blurbs about the book obtained from various friends and allies of Loujon..... 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: Boni and Liveright, (1922). First edition. 8vo, 278pp; gray cloth stamped in white. Author's first book. More
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Washington DC: National Committee to Win the Peace, n.d. (ca. 1947). Four-page leaflet printed on a single bifolium, approx. 8-1/2 X 11 inches. Appeal for post-war negotiations in the newly nuclear world, with portraits on the front panel of co-chairs Col. Evans Carlson and artist/activist Paul Robeson. The National Committee..... More
London: T. Becket, 1778. 8vo, [i-viii], 90, [vi]pp; three-quarter morocco and marbled boards. Colman and Garrick's comedy was based on a series of Hogarth's engravings. First performed at Drury-Lane in 1766, it was made into a film as recently as 1999. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1924. First edition. 8vo, 120pp; blue cloth with printed spine label. An early Cowley publication, indeed his first in the U.S., preceded by the Paris publication of his "Racine". Although no physical evidence or marking supports the assertion, a laid-in slip identifies this copy of..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1925). First edition. 8vo, [319]pp, patterned endpapers; black cloth with decorative purple stamping on spine. A once well-regarded and now forgotten book by a once well-regarded and now forgotten writer. A contemporary reviewer compared Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby, published in the same year, to this book..... 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: Fulcrum Press, (1969). First edition. 8vo, 80pp. One of 100 numbered, specially bound copies signed by Fisher. This special issue, printed on fawn Glastonbury antique laid paper, includes an extra poem "The Flight Orator." 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: R. Dodsley, 1737. First Edition. 4to, xi, 335, [1, errata]pp; calf-backed marbled baords of the period. A nice copy with geneous margins of Glover's epic poem. It was semi-anonymous, with his name appearing only at the end of the preface, and it proved highly popular in its time. It..... 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: William Griffin, 1767. First Edition. Two vols, small 8vos, iv, 169pp; [iv], 262pp, with half titles; full 19th century crushed red morocco gilt by Stikeman, with gilt spines, raised bands, dentelles, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. The bookplates are those of Samuel F. Barger, New York lawyer, collector, and director of..... More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. First edition. 8vo, 251pp; cloth. A death-house memoir written by Gray while awaiting execution for his part in the murder of his lover's husband. "The publishers issue this book only after confirming its authenticity beyond the shadow of a doubt. It was composed in the..... More
Noordwijk, Netherlands. -. Postcard approx. 3-1/2 X 5-1/2 in. Maximilian Harden (1861-1927) influential cultural critic writes to a left-liberal politican, lawyer and writer. More
Boulder, Colorado: Rodent Press, (1995). First edition. 12mo, unpag.; small label correcting the name of the frontispiece artist affixed to copyright; wrappers, saddle-stitched. One of 25 numbered and signed copies in hand-stitched wrappers (out of a total edition of 150), this one nicely inscribed by Hollo on the title page..... More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. 8vo, 129pp; cloth-backed boards. One of 3000 copies in the edition. Alberts 60. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1924). First American edition. 8vo, 414pp, illustrated; maroon cloth. Kammerer's controversial work, offering proof of Lamarck's notion that acquired physical characteristics could be genetically inherited, won the Austrian biologist instant fame as the 'new Darwin.' When confronted with evidence that he had faked his results..... More