Paris: Albert Messein, 1925. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers. One of 1500 numbered copies in the regular edition (there were also 30 copies on Chine and 100 on Vergé d'Arches). A posthumous collection of early and unpublished poems. More about Il y A; Préface de Ramon Gomez de la Serna
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 about Twelve autograph and three typed letters signed, 1964-1970,; Paris, Ussy-sur-Marne, Alghero...
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First American edition. 8vo, 302pp; blue-green cloth stamped in gilt and blind after a Beardsley design. Uncommon U.S. edition made of sheets from the London first edition. More about The Beardsley Period:; An Essay in Perspective
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1924. First edition. 8vo, 297pp; brown cloth with printed spine label. The first book by Burke, one of the high priests of literary modernism, was this collection of short stories. He became one of the most influential literary critics and theorists of his generation. More about The White Oxen; and Other Stories
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First edition. 8vo, 284pp; cloth-backed decorative boards. A radical critic and founder of the "Modern Quarterly", V.F. Calverton was the pseudonym of George Goetz. This was his first book. More about The Newer Spirit; A Sociological Criticism of Literature. . . Introduction by Ernest Boyd
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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 about Metro-Goldwyn Presents; [cpver title] . . . The merger and the new season
Northampton, Mass. Gehenna Press, 1958. First edition. Small 4to, unpag. chapbook in wrappers, stapled, printed title label. One of 100 numbered copies, signed at the colophon by the artist. Leyda is best known as a filmmaker and scholar of cinema, but he was also a specialist on Herman Melville and... More about A House to Be Born In.; Wood Engraving by George Lockwood
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First edition. 8vo, 359pp; polished green cloth with decorative stamping in blue and gilt. Trade edition of Duncan's autobiography, completed just before her death. Exceedingly scarce in jacket. More about My Life
New York: Harper & Row, (1973). First edition. 8vo, 96pp; wrappers. Inscribed on the front flyleaf: "For Christopher Middleton, this book of silly descriptions and moments . . . . . .with best of wishes, Russell Edson, December 10, 1973." More about The Childhood of an Equestrian
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1927 (i.e. 1933). Second edition. 8vo, 349pp; blue cloth stamped in orange, plain endpapers. An attractive copy of this key, early title. A4.3. More about Mosquitoes
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1924. First edition. 8vo, 297pp; cloth. The author's first book, and a key work of the Harlem Renaissance, here in the first issue, with errata slip tipped in at the dedication page. More about There Is Confusion
New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, (1974). First edition. 8vo, 305pp; cloth. Inscribed by Gill on the front flyleaf: "For Therese and Joe, with love (If you read "Last Things" you'll find some thinly disguised glimpses of North Carolina), Brendan, May 20 /74." The recipients were longtime New Yorker -- and... More about Ways of Loving
[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 about Art & Prudence; An Essay
-. One page, on a single leaf of watermarked MK Papier. A charming note, with a sketched self-portrait of the artist hiding his face in his hands, beneath which the popular caricaturist writes: Geliebtes Verlag, JAWOHL! Aber las es sonst niemand (nicht) wissen, euer Olaf Gulbransson." More about Autograph note signed, with a sketch; "Olaf Gulbransson," to the (unnamed) S. Fischer...
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1923. First American edition. 8vo, 215pp; original decorative cloth. Attractive copy of the first of Hesse's novels to appear in English, here in an uncredited translation. More about Demian
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. First edition. 8vo, 141pp; textured purple cloth with printed spine label. More about Bride of the Lamb; Introduction by Arthur Pollock
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 about Typed letter signed, as president,; "John Kennedy", December 6, 1962, on White House...
Washington DC: 78th Congress, 1st Session, February 1, 1943. 8vo, 13pp pamphlet in self-wrappers, stapled. Draft of the bill co-sponsored by the Senators from West Virginia and Florida, calling for the establishment of a federal Office of War Mobilization, aimed at preventing the kind of corporate profiteering that had occured... More about S. 607 In the Senate of the United States. . .; A Bill
London: Faber & Faber, (1964). First edition. 8vo, 46pp; plum cloth. One of 3910 copies printed. Bloomfield A7a. More about The Whitsun Weddings
Vienna. -. One page, approx. 9 X 11-1/2 in. Secretarial letter signed by Laube, as director of the Vienna Stadttheater, returning two plays the Karpeles had submitted for consideration. Laube adds a lengthy postscript offering encouragment to Karpeles and praising his dramatic efforts. Karpeles would become well-known as a critic... More about Autograph letter signed; "Laube" to Gustav Karpeles, April 21, 1879
N.P. International Workers Order, n.d. (1941). Mimeograph broadside, one side of a single leaf, approx. 8-1/2 X 11 inches. Delicate bulletin board poster in opposition to Roosevelt's Lend-Lease Act, which would be passed by Congress in March of 1941, allowing the U.S. to supply arms to Britain and any other... More about Attention all Lodges; All Members - All Friends of the I.W.O. Peace and Democracy are in Danger!...
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 about Archive of photographs and postcards; with a reel of 16mm film
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1923). First American edition. 8vo, 238pp; cloth. Humorous sketches by the Italian satirist and journalist. This was Morris Bishop's first book, the outset of a long and distinguished career in American letters. He was longtime professor of literature at Cornell University, where he notably hired... More about Teodoro the Sage; Translated by Morris Bishop
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. 8vo, 232pp; three-quarter cloth and boards. This play enjoyed a three-month run on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre in 1930. Mayer gained his broadest reputation in Hollywood, where he was prolific screenwriter, collaborating most notably with Ernst Lubitsch on "To Be or Not... More about Children of Darkness; An Original Tragi-Comedy . . . Suggested by Henry Fielding's 'The History...
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1935. First edition. 8vo, 257pp; illustrated endpapers; cloth-backed boards with printed spine label. A not exactly impartial biography of Louis K. Liggett, the drugstore magnate who founded the Liggett and Rexall chains. More about Rise and Fight Againe:; The Story of a Lifelong Friend