New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. 8vo, [259]pp; cloth-backed boards. A nice copy of the revised edition of A Book. The striking graphic jacket was by Lucinda Goldsborough, who would go on to a long and successful career as costume designer on Broadway under her married name Lucinda Ballard..... 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

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. First edition. Wraps. 8vo, 89pp; original wrappers, with printed white label on front to correct misprint in the title. One of only 800 copies in wrappers; there were also 75 hardbound copies with an original Bukowski drawing. This was Bukowski's first book with the..... More

New York: Film Culture, Fall 1963. 4to, unpag; stapled in textured carbaord wrppaers with printed wraparound label. Among the more desirable issues in the long run of Film Culture's existence, this issue was devoted to the pre-eminent experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage with his essy "Metaphors on Vision" making up nearly..... More

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

London/Paris: Chez Rollin, 1770. Four vols., small 8vos, xvi, 240; iv, 245; iv, 203; iv, 248pp; full contemporary mottled calf, gilt spines. A later edition in French of Fielding's masterpiece; the first French edition was in 1750. More

(New York): Horace Liveright / Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 1928. First American edition. 8vo, 98pp; cloth. Produced from sheets of the U.K. edition published by the Hogarth Press (Woolmer 105) in an edition of just over 1500 copies. More

London: B. Crosby, 1794. First Edition. Three vols., small 8vo., 293, [1, errata]; 285; 304pp; modern three-quarter calf and brown cloth with gilt spines; (the binder erroneously stamped the date "1797" to the spines), t.e.g. A complete copy of Godwin's celebrated novel, with all half-titles. Appearing amid the intellectual ferment..... More

Los Angeles: Jewish People's Committee of Los Angeles, n.d (1941). Broadsheet, printed on both sides of single leaf, 9-1/4 X 12-1/4 inches. Rare bilingual broadsheet appeal to the Jewish community, printed in English and Yiddish, and quoting the statement from the Vilna Rabbinical Council, sent to the world August 26..... More

Bern. -. Three pages, on three leaves of thin laid paper, approx. 8 X 10-1/4 in. Annette Kolb (1870-1967) German novelist and biographer, a central figure in the exile community of writers and artists during the nazi period. A warm letter to the prominent Jewish banker and patron of the..... More

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1918. First American edition. 8vo, 264pp; green cloth. Latzko's first novel, a forgotten classic of WWI literature. The translation is not credited, but was likely done by Ludwig Lewisohn who also translated Latzko's second novel , Judgment of Peace, for Boni & Liveright. More

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