(Washington, DC): Office of Program Coordination, Office of War Information, and War Food Administration, in cooperation with Office of Price Administration, (1943). 8vo, 43pp pamphlet in wrappers. Wartime propaganda pamphlet detailing issues and proposed plans of action concerning food and nutrition in the service of the war effort, outlining a.... More

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

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

N.p. (Lisboa): Delfos, (1961). First edition. 8vo, 147pp; wrappers. The poet's second book, and his first published entirely in his native Portugese - preceded by the bilingual edition 77 Poems. Inscribed on the first leaf for fellow poet Christopher Middleton. More

Paris: The Dead Language Press, (1959). First edition. Square 8vo; unpag. pamphlet in stiff wrappers, stapled. Heliczer's first book, self-published under his Dead Language imprint, with an "avant-propos" by Robert Graves. Includes the tipped-in photograph of the poet by Harold Chapman in the rear. More

Milano: Riccardo Ricciardi, (1961). First edition. 8vo, 164pp; wrappers. An excellent presentation copy, inscribed and signed by Gadda on the half title page to the German writer and publisher Hans Magnus Enzensberger, dated 1963, when Enzensberger was instrumental in bringing out a German translation of Gadda's La Cognizione del Dolore... More

Gmünden, Oberösterreich. -. One page, on front recto of a bifoium, approx. 5-1/2 X 7 in. Karl Goldmark (1830-1915) was a highly popular composer in Vienna, known for his operas and works for violin. More

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1987. First edition. -. 8vo, 237pp; cloth. Ecelctic, wide-ranging essays that originally appeared in The New Yorker, to which Hamburger was a longtime contributor. This is a fine presentation copy, inscribed by Hamburger to another longtime New Yorker contributor, and his closest friend and mentor... More

London: Poetmeat and Strangers Press, (1965). First edition. 4to, 38 mimeo pages in printed card wrappers, stapled. A presentation copy , inscribed by Hollo for the poet and translator Christopher Middleton, with scattered holograph corrections to the text, and a loosely inserted note providing a mailing address for the Russian poet Andrei Voznesensky. More

Collingswood, NJ: 20th Century Reformation Hour, 1963. Four leaves, 8-1/2 X 11 inches, each printed on both sides, illustrated with cartoons by Vic Lockman. Leaflets produced by the right-wing Christian broadcaster Carl McIntire, each bearing a public letter from McIntire, and calling for an anti-Kennedy, anti-NCC (National Council of Churches)... More

-. Written on two sides of a card, approx. 4 X 6 in. Melanie Kurt (1880-1941) was a versatile operatic soprano. She joined the Metropolitan Opera in 1914, specializing in Wagner, but his works were banned when the United States joined the war against Germany in 1917. She returned to... More

Vienna. -. One page, approx. 4-1/2 X 7 in. Hieronymus Lorm, pseudonym of Heinrich Landesmann (1821-1902) a successful social critic and author of many books, despite being deaf and virtually blind. More

-. Written on one side of a picture postcard from Prague, approx. 3-1/2 X 5-1/2 in. Friendly note of thanks to an unidentified admirer. Jarmila Novotna (1907-1994) was a popular Czech soprano, who appeared at the Metropolitan Opera for many years. More