The Mother; Translated by Nathan Ausubel. Preface by Ludwig Lewisohn.
New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First English language edition. 8vo, [351]pp; terracotta cloth stamped in gilt and black. Quite a scarce book in dust jacket. More
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Plan of a Novel; According to Hints from Various Quarters. With Opinions on Mansfield Park and Emma Collected and Transcribed by Her. And Other Documents Printed from the Originals.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926. First Edition. 4to, 35pp, with tipped-in facsimiles; cloth-backed marbled boards with printed label. One of 350 copies. More
Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain,; Who Have Been Celebrated for their Writings or Skill in the Learned Languages Arts and Sciences.
Oxford: Printed by W. Jackson for the Author, 1752. First Edition. 4to, xvii, [1], 472, 2pp of "Corrections and Additions"; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards. At a time when the art of biography was flourishing, Ballard offered this, his only published work, stating: ". . . I know not how it..... More
The Adventures of Augie March
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1954). First English edition. 8vo, 536pp; cloth. A better copy than it sounds. 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
Pseudodoxia Epidemica:; Or, Enquiries Into Very many Received Tenents, And commonly Presumed Truths . . . Together With some Marginall Observations, and a Table Alphabeticall at the end.
London: Printed by A. Miller, for Edw. Dod and Nath. Ekins, 1650. Second Edition. Small 4to, [i-xvi] 329 + [10]pp; modern three-quarter brown morocco and cloth. Revised and expanded from its 1646 first edition, this is Browne's exploration of a wide range of erroneous beliefs, mistaken common wisdom, and various..... More
Jure Divino:; A Satyr. In Twelve Books. . .
London: 1706. First Edition. 8vo, xlii, [2], i-ii, i-v, 23, [1], 24, 19, 68-93, 26, 15, 135-278; contemporary calf. Moore 115. More
The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas; Now First Collected together, and Corrected from the Originals. In Two Volumes.
London: Jacob Tonson, 1701. First edition thus. Two vols., folios, [vi], 618; [ii], 558 pp; full contemporary panelled calf with gilt spines and six raised bands. A handomse set of the first folio edition, although without the frontispiece portrait. Macdonald 107ai. More
Autograph letter signed; "Herbert Eulenberg," to Richard Frankfurter (unnamed), June 14 (1914)
-. One page, approx. 8-1/2 X 11 in. Herbert Eulenberg (1876-1949) successful theater manager and playwright. Mentions Balzac. Frankfurter, an attorney and a left-liberal politican, was acting as an advocate in a case invovling a publication of Balzac's "Contes Drolatiques." More
The History of Tom Jones,; A Foundling. In Six Volumes.
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
Gay's Chair; Poems Never Before Printed . . . With A Sketch of his Life from the MSS. of the Rev. Joseph Baller, His Nephew. Edited by Henry Lee . . . To Which are Added, Two New Tales, The World, and Gossip, by the Editor.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820. First Edition. 12mo, 147pp + errata; original boards, rebacked with pebble-grained cloth, printed leather spine label; endpapers renewed. More
Counting the Children
(New York): Hudson Review, 1990. First separate edition. 6-page pamphlet in self-wrappers, stapled. Offprint from the Hudson Review, Vol. XLIII, No. 2, Summer 1990, inscribed discreetly on the cover page by Gioia for fellow poet and small press publisher James L. Weil. More
Social Insurance in Palestine and its Reconstruction
Tel-Aviv: The Social Insurance Committee, General Federation of Jewish Labor in Palestine, (1946). First edition. 8vo, 85pp; wrappers. Illustrated with charts, graphs, and photographs. Scarce. More
Diary of a Journey into North Wales,; In the Year 1774; Edited, with Illustrative Notes, by R. Duppa, LL. B.
London: Robert Jennings, 1816. First Edition. 8vo, xvi, [4], 226pp., includes two leaves of facsimiles of Johnson's handwriting in front; lacks advertisement and errata in rear; contemporary calf. Second state, according to Fleeman, without the advertisement and errata leaf; these copies were meant to have the errata loosely inserted, but..... More
The Rambler.; In Four Volumes Embellished with Elegant Frontispieces . . .
Montrose: D. Buchanan et al, 1800. Four vols., 12mos, iv, 344; iv, 326; iv, 336; iv, 280; contemporary calf. First Montrose edition. Fleeman 50.3R/36. More
A Voyage to Abyssinia.; By Father Jerome Lobo, A Portugese Jesuit. . . With a Continuation of the History of Abyssinia . . . By Mr. Legrand. From the French.
London: Printed for A. Bettesworth, and C. Hitch, 1735. First Edition. 8vo, xii, 396, [8, contents]pp; contemporary calf, rebacked. First edition, first issue (with title page in red and black) of Johnson's first book publication, an uncredited translation. Fleeman 35.2LV/1a. Courtney pp. 2-4. 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 Sausage Master of Minsk; Poems
Montreal: Villeneuve, 1977. First edition. 8vo, unpag. chapbook in wrappers, stapled. The poet's first book, one of 500 numbered copies signed by Kleinzahler, the entire edition. Laid in is a brief TLS from Kleinzahler, alas typed on poor-quality and highly acidic paper, presenting the book to the poet, writer, and..... More
There's a little ambiguity over there among the bluebells; and other theater poems. graphics by Marilyn Harris
New York: Something Else Press, 1968. First edition. Squarish 8vo, unpag.; cloth. Inscribed on the front endpaper: "For Russell & Frances - All good things for 1969, on Ruth." A collection of poems and avant-garde texts performed at Greenwich Village venues such as Judson Poets Theatre, Cafe La Mama and..... More
Archive of photographs and postcards
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
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Arcs and Lines; [Cover title]: All combinations of arcs from four corners, arcs from four sides, straight lines, not-straight lines, and broken lines.
(Lausanne, Switzerland: Editions des Massons), 1974. First Edition. Square 4to, unpag.; printed wrappers as issued. Systematic artists' book presenting a total of 190 combinations of arcs and lines. More
Staying With Relations
New York: Horace Liveright, (1930). First American edition. 8vo, 352pp; yellow cloth. Dust jacket design by Irving Politzer. More
The Theatre of Tomorrow
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1921). First edition. Large 8vo, 302pp;illus.; black cloth. Important early book by Macgowan, who along with Eugene O'Neill directed the Provincetown Players and was a key theatre critic in the 1920s before going to Hollywood and becoming a film producer and UCLA professor. Very scarce..... More