New York: EC / Educational Comics, (1952-1959). Wraps. Uniform 8vos, 7-1/4 X 10-1/4 in. (numbers 1-23); uniform 4tos, 10-3/4 X 8 in. (numbers 24-51); original printed wrappers. A consecutive run of the first 51 numbers of the iconic periodical of irreverent satire that has entertained several generations of postwar youth..... More
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
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[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
Cape Town: Students' Representative Council, University of Cape Town, 1959. First edition. 8vo, 72pp; pictorial wrappers. This student publication features two of the earliest printed works by Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee, then just eighteen years old: the three-page poem "Truth Lies Sunken" and a four-page exceprt from a verse-drama "The..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1922). First edition. 8vo, 271pp; cloth. The poet's autobiographical novel based on his experience in a French prison camp in the First World War. This is from the second issue, with the word "shit" censored on p. 219. More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. 8vo, 281pp, illustrated; gray cloth pictorially stamped in black and gilt. An attractive book, featuring fine jacket art by "Sugar." More
-. One page, approx. 8-1/2 X 11 in. Herbert Eulenberg (1876-1949) successful theater manager and playwright. Mentions Balzac. Frankfurter, an attorney and a left-liberal politican, was acting as an advocate in a case invovling a publication of Balzac's "Contes Drolatiques." More
[Waltham St. Lawrence]: Golden Cockerell Press, 1928. First edition. Cloth. Small 8vo; two intaglio illustrations by Gill; 18pp; original orange buckram stamped in gilt on spine. One of 500 numbered copies in the edition, printed by Robert Gibbings. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1920). First edition. 12mo, unpag. [30pp]; pages secured with linen tape at spine and mounted to central board of tri-fold boards, with a mirror mounted to inside of the right-most board. Among the rare children's books published by Boni & Liveright, most all of which..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First edition. 8vo, 383pp; cloth. An exceptional copy of the author's first novel. Known as a journalist and cultural critic, Hackett was at work on his long-awaited biography of Henry VIII, which publisher Horace Liveright was counting on as a much-needed money-maker for his..... More
San Francisco: San Francisco Bay Area District Council No. 2, Maritime Federation of the Pacific Coast, (1937). First edition. 4to, unpag., pictorial wrappers. Hagel's first book, a documentation of the great San Francisco maritime strike that defined the labor movement in the west in the early years of FDR's administration..... More
(Birmingham): Migrant Press, (1965). First edition. 8vo, 49pp; wrappers. Inscribed with an invocation of Zukofsky on the first leaf: "For Christopher - "le style Apollinaire"? from Anselm, 24-XI-65." The recipient was the poet and translator Christopher Middleton. Cover and text illustrations are by John Furnival. More
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, (1946). First American edition. 8vo, 294pp; cloth. With a later inscription signed by Isherwood ("Chris") on the front flyleaf. More
Tel Aviv: Lion the Printer / Palestine Pioneer Library, (1946). First edition. 12mo, 120pp; wrappers. A little known work of Meyer Levin, the novelist who had been among the first reporters to enter the liberated camp at Buchenwald, this is an account of the kibbutz that was established by survivors..... More
Tel Aviv: Women's International Zionist Organisation, January 1949. First edition. 8vo, [30]pp pamphlet in printed blue wrappers, stapled. An argument for equal rights for women under the law in the new state, written and published in the midst of the first Arab-Israeli war. Scarce. More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. First edition. 8vo, 160pp; cloth-backed boards. One of 1900 copies in the edition. Alberts 55. More
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
N.P. N.p., n.d. (ca. 1937). Mimeograph broadside, on one side only of a single leaf, approx. 8-1/2 X 11 in. Bulletin board poster chiding workers with a list of no-nos including: "1. Don't attend meetings -- but if you do, plan to arrive late. 2. Be sure to leave before..... More
N.P. (Los Angeles): Mine, Mill and Smelt Workers, (1941). Two legal sized mimeograph pages, approx. 8-1/2 X 14 in., stapled in upper left hand corner. Two page document detailing the stakes and worker grievances in the Trona strike against American Potash and Chemical Company. It was an especially bitter episode..... More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First American edition. 8vo, [349]pp; gray cloth with a striking graphic design in black and red. Dust jacket design by Irving Politzer. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1924. First edition. 8vo, 187pp; boards. Inscribed and signed by Langner, dated 1930, on front endpaper. 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
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1925. First edition. 8vo, 248pp; green cloth stamped in yellow. The author's second novel, an odd tale set in an imaginary pre-modern society. More
