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 A posthumous collection of early and unpublished poems.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

(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

Santa Barbara, California: Helmut Bonheim and Raymond Federman, 1962. 8vo, 32pp; wrappers, stapled. Scarce mimeograph magazine featuring contributions from John Thomas, Carol Berge, George Hitchcock, Larry Eigner, and others, most notably Charles Bukowski whose long poem "WW2" appears here for the first time. An autobiographical text, and one of Bukowski's..... More

Berlin: 1927. Approx. 4 X 6-inch card with a nice painting of the Hotel by Richard Friese on the front; on the signature side, a small clipping has been neatly pasted on the area where the address and stamp would have been placed, above the two signatures. The Hotel Adlon..... More

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First Edition. 8vo, 357pp; textured black cloth. The author's second book, a novel set in the milieu of Chicago's mercantile exchange. Inscribed on the front endpaper: "To Lydia Grant Fraser, in appreciation her charm, Lester Cohen, Oct. 16, 1927x." An uncommon early in its..... 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

Paris: Librairie Nouvelle, 1860. 8vo, frontispiece, 175pp; half-morocco and marbled boards. First edition of the poet's first book, published at the age of 20, in a handsome 19th-century binding. A presentation copy, inscribed in pencil on the half-title: "à Monsieur de Morny, respecteux hommage Albert Glatigny." In addition, the poet..... 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

Edinburgh / London: Hamilton, Balfour, and Neill / A. Millar, 1754, 1757. First Editions. 2 vols, 4tos, vi,473, [1,"Published by the Same Author"]; v, [1], 459 [1, publisher's ad]; contemporary polished calf gilt with marbled endpapers and edges. Handsome set of the first two published volumes of Hume's monumental history..... More

New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. 8vo, 310pp; polished black cloth with gilt stamping and leather spine label, black coated endpapers. Limited edition of 1250 numbered (1145) copies, the second of Liveright's re-issues of Huneker's only novel. The illustrator, known publicly as Madame Majeska, was the Philadephia-born designer Henriette Stern who..... More

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First edition. 8vo, 254pp; light tan cloth. A love story set in Arizona and involving a breakaway religious sect. More

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. First American edition. 8vo, 319pp; green cloth. With a separately inserted "Regarding Denham Dobie, the Heroine of Crewe Train" printed on blue paper. More