A Walk on the Wild side
New York: Farrar Straus & Cudahy, (1956). First edition. 8vo, cloth-backed boards. A better than usual copy. More
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A Flash of Swallows
Anderson, S.C. Droke House Publishers, (1969). First edition. 8vo, 102pp; cloth. A collection of poems pseudonymously authored by the television personality Steve Alllen, posing as "one of Australia's best known poets." In addition to the poems themselves, the book includes an introduction on the poetry of William Christopher Stevens by..... More
All That Fall
New York: Grove Press, (1957). First edition. 8vo, 59pp; wrappers. The "holiday issue" of Beckett's radio play, with a greeting message from Grove Press printed on the front wrapper. 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
The Beardsley Period:; An Essay in Perspective.
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
A Tree of Night; and Other Stories.
New York: Random House, (1949). First edition. Cloth. 8vo, 209pp; black cloth. Capote's second book, inscribed and signed by Capote on the front flyleaf. More
Elections and the Maritime strike!; To All Friends of Labor . . .
San Francisco: San Francisco and Alameda County Committees, Communist Party, (1936). Broadside, on one side only of a single leaf, approx. 8 X 11 in. Bulletin board poster with a five-paragraph statement of support for striking shipyard workers and the larger project of building a farmer-labor party. More
Alexandria; A History and Guide
Alexandria: Whitehead Morris Limited, 1938. Second edition. 8vo, 218pp; photographic illustrations; three folding maps; printed boards. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Forster, the entire edition, extensively revised from the 1922 first edition, produced for the Royal Archaelogical Society of Alexandria. 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
Judge and Fool; Translated from the German by Cyrus Brooks.
New York: Horace Liveright, (1930). First American edition. 8vo, 348pp; black cloth. Principal novel by the war hero and Zionist leader who was also a prolific writer. Uncommon in the dust jacket, with its artwork by Irving Politzer. More
The Heritage My Father Left Me
N.P. (Los Angeles): N.p., n.d. (1950). 2 mimeograph pages, 8-1/2 X 11 inches. Impassioned statement by the blacklisted screenwriter on the heels of his refusal to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. He invokes his lawyer-father's protests in Czarist Russia, and argues for civil liberties in the U.S...... 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
Methodisches über Segeln
Wien/Leipzig: Anstalt "Secession" (A. Berger)/Verlag Karl Fromme, 1925. First edition. Wraps. Squarish 8vo, [18]pp, printed wrappers, saddle-stitched. One of 500 copies (of which fifty were printed on Edelpapier), lithographed from original calligraphy by Hertha Ramsauer, this copy has been briefly inscribed and signed by Larisch near the top of the..... More
Archive of photographs and postcards; with a reel of 16mm film
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
A Casual Commentary
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. First American edition. 8vo, 238pp; brown cloth with printed labels on spine and front cover. Essays on a range of topics by the popular novelist. More
At the Sign of the Sun
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
Postcard photograph signed; "Pietro Mascagni," to Siegfried Keiler, February 13, 1907
-. Photographic portrait postcard, approx. 3-1/2 X 5-1/2 in., signed and dated by Mascagni on the front for an autograph collector, who has addressed the card to himse,f on the other side. Signed and dated, "München 13 II 907" [sic]. Mascagni (1863-1945) was an Italian composer, known principally for his..... More
Autograph letter signed; "W.S. Maugham," to "Mr. Gay," Febraury 23, 1949
-. Single page of printed pale blue stationery, approx. 8 X 10 in. Maugham writes two short sentences to thank Mr. Gay for some photographs that he had sent. More
The Tower of Babel; / Woodcuts by Gerhard Marcks
[New York: New Directions, 1957]. First edition. Folio, [31]pp; vellum-backed boards. One of 250 numbered copies, printed on a handpress by Richard von Sichowsky. Hamburg, on handmade Zanders paper, with four woodcut illustrations and graphic woodcut title page, signed by both Merton and Marcks. An elegant, understated production and one..... More
Monk's Pond; No. 2
Trappist, KY: Summer 1968. 4to,[38]pp mimeograph in stiff wrappers, stapled. Second issue (of four) of Merton's magazine, produced by him at the Abbey of Gethsemani in small numbers and distributed privately. This issue features contributions from Louis Zukofsky, Jack Kerouac, Wendell Berry, Hayden Carruth and others, as well as photographs..... More
The Fairy Goose; And Two Other Stories.
New York: Crosby Gaige, 1927. First edition. Small 8vo, 58pp; linen-backed patterned boards with printed spine label; handmade paper dust jacket printed on spine only. One of 1190 numbered (319) copies in the edition, printed by William Edwin Rudge and signed by O'Flaherty on the half-title page. More
I Went to Russia
New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1931). First American edition. 8vo, 297pp; brown cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by O'Flaherty over most of the front flyleaf, gradually increasing the size of his words: "To Frances, with love from Liam. If she wants it larger I shall write it like this With Love from..... More
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The Travels of Marco Polo; [The Venetian]. Revised from Marsden's Translation and Edited with Introduction by Manuel Komroff.
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1926). First edition. 8vo, 369pp; map endpapers; black cloth. A journalist, playwright, and author of a dozen books, Manuel Komroff was the production manager at Boni & Liveright. It took a special effort for him to convince a reluctant Horace Liveright to publish his reworking..... More