London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1768. Second Edition. 8vo, xxii, 1, folding map, 384pp; modern light brown leather. Boswell's first major work, which made him famous and went quickly into multiple editions. This London edition followed shortly after the Glasgow first edition. A solid copy, albeit in a workmanlike binding..... 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
New York: The Trustees of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, 1883. Invitation engraved on cream-colored card, 9 x 6-1/2 in. Invitation issued in the name of Mr. James Ryan, with the name added by hand in ink. The invitation card includes a fine image of the span, then known..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1930. First Edition. 8vo, 320pp; green cloth. More
New York: Lyle Stuart, (1965). First edition. 4to, 101pp; original wrappers. One of 3100 copies in the edition, signed and dated by Bukowski at the colophon. Loosely inserted is a separately printed broadsheet, printed on both sides with blurbs about the book obtained from various friends and allies of Loujon..... More
New Orleans: Loujon Press, 1961-1969. All published. 5 vols. in 4; 8vos, 101, 112, 138, [198]pp; original wrappers. The complete run of this unique and important magazine, best known for publishing the early work of Charles Bukowski. Each issue was hand set and printed by letterpress and reflected publishers Jon..... More
Chicago: Institute of Design, 1953; 1957. Two vols, irregular 4tos. First volume is spiral bound in printed stiff wrappers; second volume is loose leaves in printed chemise. The first two numbers of this student publication from the Institute of Design, founded by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy as the Chicago Bauhaus and eventually..... More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1931. First Edition. 8vo, 313pp; brown cloth. Possibly the only novel by this elusive, English-born writer, based on his experience as a coal miner in western Britain before the World War. After the war, Carlisle emigrated to the U.S. His dust jacket bio reads in part..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. First Edition. 8vo, 303pp; original marbled boards with green cloth spine. One of 175 numbered (#131) copies signed by Cather and specially bound (There was another signed limited issue of fifty copies on Japan vellum). As in all copies, the fore- and bottom edges..... More
New York: Phoenix Book Shop, 1931. First Edition. Small 4to, 13pp; paper-covered boards with printed spine label. Copy number 10 of only 30 numbered copies that comprised the entire edition. This story first appeared in Cather's college yearbook in 1895. Although credited to Cather and Dororthy Canfield, it was written..... More
Florence: The Mask; Arena Goldoni, March 1908-October-November-December 1929. 87 numbers in 71 vols; 4tos, 8vos; various paginations; original printed wrappers. With additional ephemeral pieces. The complete set in original wrappers of Craig's longest-running and most influential periodical. The Mask was published at irregular intervals over some twenty years. It was..... More
London: Jacob Tonson, 1692. First Edition. Small 4to, [i-xvi], 28,72pp; unsigned binding of full red morocco in the manner or Riviere, titled in gilt on spine between two raised bands; marbled endpapers, a.e.g. The two leaves with prologue, epilogue, and dramatis personae are present but bound out of proper sequence..... More
San Francisco: City Lights Books, (1959). First Edition. 12mo, 80pp; printed wrappers. With the Villiers printing notice on the inside rear wrapper. One of 1500 copies published as number 10 in the Pocket Poets series. This copy belonged to poet Frank Samperi, who has made a few light pencil notes..... More
Chicago: n.d. (1930s). 8 X 10 inch black and white gelatin silver print on textured matte-surface paper, with photographer's studio insignia in lower left corner. An excellent publicity portrait of Ellington in his prime, inscribed and signed: "To the most charming Carine, loads o luck, Duke." The "Maurice" studio in..... More
New York: The Eakins Press, (1966). First Edition. Square 4to (14-1/2 x 14-1/2 in.); gray cloth with printed label. Reproduces a series of twelve photographs, each separated by a glassine overleaf, and with an afterword by John Szarkowski. This copy has been inscribed and signed by Evan on the title..... More
London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1927. First Edition. 8vo, 224pp; maroon cloth. A series of lectures delivered at Cambridge University. More
London: Printed for J. Johnson . . . 1798. First Edition. Small 8vo, half-title, two frontispiece portraits, 199pp, errata leaf with instruction to the binder in rear, indicating cancels (all present); later 3/4 blue calf and marbled boards, t.e.g. Distraught after the death Mary Wollstonecraft, following the birth of their..... 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
London: W. Griffin, 1770. Second Edition. 4to, [viii], 23pp; later calf; a.e.g. Bound with half-title. The second edition corrects the catchword "Thus" at the bottom of p. 9. Internally a clean and appealing, readable copy of Goldsmith's greatest poem, with a distinguished provenance. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First Edition. 8vo, 24pp; black cloth with printed gold-paper labels. Hanneman A12a. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1928). First edition. 8vo, 217pp; black cloth. Hoffenstein's most popular book, comprising light verses and parodies. More
Guilford, CT: Loon Books, (1980). First Edition. 4to, 83pp, side-stapled in printed card covers. One of 300 copies in the edition, produced with the mimeograph machine at the St. Marks Poetry Project in New York. More
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1924. First edition. 8vo, 293pp; green cloth stamped in gilt. Eighteen literary essays, including an early U.S. review in praise of Joyce's Ulysses, by the author of the 1927 A Key to the Ulysses of James Joyce, one of the first book length studies..... More
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1863. First Edition. Two vols., 8vos, vi, 331; iv, 353pp; full blue crushed morocco gilt by Pomey; t.e.g. Important work in the history of feminist literary scholarship, written as a companion work to Kavanagh's previous study of French women in literature. She provides not only biographical..... More
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1875. First edition, first issue. Small 8vo, terracotta cloth stamped in gilt. More