The Flagrant Years:; A Novel of the Beauty Market.
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. 8vo, 304pp; textured blue cloth stamped in green. Uncommon in dust jacket. More
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On the King's Couch.; Translated by Evelyn Johnson.
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1927). First American edition. 8vo, 250pp; mauve cloth stamped in gilt and with pictorial medallion on front board. An exceptionally nice copy, scarce in jacket. More
Original painting
(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
Mitsou; or How Girls Grow Wise. Translated by Jane Terry
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1930. First American edition. 8vo, [162]pp; cloth. More
The Poetical Works of William Collins.; With Memoirs of the Author; and Observations on his Genius and Writings. By J. Langhorne.
London: T. Becket and P.A. Dehondt, 1765. First collected edition. 12mo, [4], xv, [2] 19-184, [2]; full crushed green morocco gilt by Riviere, a.e.g. With one-line erratum at the base of the last page of text, two-page list of works by Langhorne at the end and with the final blank..... More
Help Wanted - Male; Wanted at Once, 10,000,000 Men Between 18 and 45 . . .
Los Angeles: Communist Party of Los Angeles, n.d. (ca. 1939). Broadside, single leaf of approx. 5-1/2 X 8-1/2 inches, printed on one side. Satirical handbill in opposition to the developing war. The text continues: ". . . Employees Will Be Given Complete Training in Handling High Explosives, Bayonet Stabbing, Hand..... More
The Eleventh Virgin
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1924. First edition. 8vo, [313]pp; blue cloth stamped in gilt on the spine. Autobiographical novel, written ten years before Day's conversion to Catholicism, while she was immersed in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village, and based on her ill-fated love affair that ended with..... More
The Grand Inquisitor
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
The Boundry
Stamford, Connecticut: Thing Press, 1964. First edition. 12mo, 16pp; wrappers, stapled. One of 200 copies, designed, illustrated, hand-set and printed by the author/poet/artist. Inscribed by Edson in 1974 for Christopher Middleton. More
English Traits
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1856. First edition. 8vo, 312pp; brown cloth. First issue, with damaged type in the first word of the last line on p. 230 and "(1)" on the half-title. A presentable copy. More
The Tragedy of Tragedies; Or the Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great; As it is Acted at the Theatre in the Hay-Market. With the Annotations of H. Scriblerus Secundus
London: J. Watts, 1737. Third Edition. 8vo, frontispiece, [viii], 54pp; modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards with silk ribbon marker. First printed and performed in 1731, there was no stated "second edition," though there were at least three impressions of the first (Cross III/292). The frontispiece engraving is by Hogarth..... More
An Economic Program for a Living Democracy:; A Capitalistic Approach to a Semisocialist Democratic Society in which Laws will be Molded, Not to Repress, but to Conform to, Natural Human Motivations; a Society in Which Both Public and Private Enterprise Will Survive, Each Operating in Those Areas Where it is Most Efficient, Free from Hampering Coercive Controls.
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, (1942). First edition. 8vo, 342pp; green cloth. A capitalist approach to a planned economy. This copy has been inscribed by the author to Glen H. Taylor, the liberal democratic senator from Idaho who would run for Vice President in 1948 on the Progressive Party ticket..... More
Rock-Flower
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1923). First edition. 8vo, 118pp; blue cloth stamped in gilt. Inscribed by the poet in 1959 to a close friend, and with a touching typed letter signed by Foster (using her given name "Julie") laid in along with an original typescript of her poem "Boris..... More
The Mental Side of Golf.; With a Foreword by Gene Sarazen.
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. 8vo, 167pp; cloth-backed plush green boards mimicking the manicured texture of a putting green. A psychological study of the game. Gene Sarazen was a dominant golfer of his generation, winner of seven major tournaments and a career grand slam. Bookplate of H.E. McFaddin..... More
Queerful Widget.; Illustrated by J. Flora Ta'Bois.
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1920). First edition. 8vo, 137pp; cloth-backed pictorial boards. One of the very small number of children's books produced by Boni and Liveright, and a characteristically odd one. This copy has been inscribed and signed by the author on the front flyleaf, dated 1924. Scarce, and..... More
Let Freedom Ring
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1928. First edition. 8vo, 341pp; blue cloth, stamped in gilt. Major work by Hays, a prominent civil liberties attorney. An associate of Clarence Darrow (co-dedicatee of this book), Hays was involved in some of the major civil liberties cases of the era, including the Scopes..... More
Painted Veils
New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. Limited edition. 8vo, 310pp; cream cloth stamped in gilt. Originally published in 1920, shortly before Huneker's death, this was the influential critic's only novel. This edition, limited to 2300 stamp-numbered copies, was produced by Liveright in response to an expurgated, pirated edition that had recently..... More
Down There; (La Bas). Translated by Keene Wallis.
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1924. 8vo, 317pp; plain black wrappers with printed spine label. Rare proof copy of the U.S. edition, of which only a small number can have been produced. More
Lions and Shadows; An Education in the Twenties
London: Hogarth Press, 1938. First edition. 8vo, 312pp; blue cloth stamped in black. First issue; one of 3580 copies, an unknown number of which were issued later as part of Hogarth Crown Library series. Woolmer 431. More
Weber and Fields:; Their Tribulations, Triumphs, and Their Associates
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1924. First edition. 8vo, 345pp, illustrated, photographic endpapers; green cloth stamped in gilt. Double biography of the Vaudeville comedy duo, featuring an appendix of musical scores for some of their songs. Weber & Fields enjoyed great popularity at the turn of the century, and reunited..... More
Saint Peter Relates an Incident; Selected Poems
New York: The Viking Press, 1935. First printing. -. 8vo, 105pp; black cloth. More
Anna Livia Plurabelle; Fragment of Work in Progress
London: Faber & Faber, (1930). First English edition. 16mo, 32pp; brown cloth stamped in gilt. Clothbound issue of the trade edition, preceded by Crosby Gaige's signed-limited edition in 1928. Issued as Number 15 in the Criterion Miscellany series, with a one-page ad for the series loosely inserted. More
Typed letter signed, as president,; "John Kennedy", December 6, 1962, on White House letterhead, with original mailing envelope and other related documents.
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
The Lincoln Relics
Port Townsend, Washington: Graywolf Press, 1978. First edition. -. 12mo, unpag. pamphletin wrappers, saddle-stitched. One of 325 copies, the entire edition, this one being briefly inscribed and signed "Stanley" on the half-title page. More