Paris: 1937. 4to, [127]pp; original wrappers. The inaugural issue of the great French arts magazine, here in its English language issue for export. Features lithographs -- printed by Mourlot -- by Fernand Leger, Joan Miro, Abraham Rattner, and Francisco Bores; photographs bvy Man Ray; text contributions by André Gide, Georges..... More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. First edition. 8vo, 452pp; black cloth. An excellent copy. More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. First Edition. Two vols., 8vo, 344, 470pp; modern marbled pattern cloth with paper spine labels. A blank leaf after the title page bear an inscription signed "C. Aikin," presuambly the editor's brother Charles. Lucy Aikin was the niece of Anna Laetitia..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1956. First edition. 8vo, 211pp; cloth-backed boards. 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: 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, 1961-65. All published. Five volumes in four, 8vos, 101, 112, 138, [198]pp; wrappers; with a second copy of the final double number in cloth. The complete run of this unique and important magazine, best known for publishing the early work of Charles Bukowski. Each issue was..... 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
Los Angeles: Civil Rights Congress, n.d. (1949). Two legal-sized mimeograph pages, approx. 8-1/2 X 14 inches, stapled in one corner. Detailed recounting of events in this now nearly-forgotten civil rights case from New Jersey. The six defendants had been held for four days without counsel and signed coerced confessions that..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First edition. 8vo, 425pp; cloth-backed batik boards with printed spine label. One of 440 numbered copies signed by Dreiser. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1922). First American edition. 8vo, 431pp; red cloth. The third volume of a trilogy by Cournos, a neglected modernist who was a friend and peer to his better known contemporaries James Joyce, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot et al. This edition is exceedingly scarce in the..... More
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1926. First American edition. 8vo, 347pp; brown cloth stamped in green. The third volume in Ford's Tietjens trilogy. More
London: Edward Arnold & Co., (1936). First edition. 8vo, 351pp; blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine. From the first issue, with "A Flood in the Office" on pages 278-281, which was excised from later copies. A notable association copy, signed by Forster on the title page. Glued to the..... More
London: Printed for the Author, 1729. First Edition. Small 4to, 72pp + 31pp of engraved musical scores; speckled calf gilt with gilt dentelles, gilt tooled spine with raised bands and red labels, by Riviere, a.e.g. A handsome, appealing copy. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1924. First edition. 8vo, 383pp; yellow cloth stamped in red and black. Versatile and prolific, Ben Hecht was a journalist, novelist, short stories writer, playwright, social critic, activist, and finally a virtually ubiquitous screenwriter -- he won two Academy Awards and was nominated for four..... More
Somerville, Mass. Abyss Publications, 1970. First edition. Wrappers. 8vo, wrappers. A performance-collaboration between Higgins and Porter, originally realized in 1966. Although not called for, this copy has been signed by Dick Higgins on the half title page. More
(New York): New Directions, (1958). First American edition. 8vo, 255pp; red cloth. This was Isherwood's first novel, a notable flop upon its original publication in 1928. For this edition, Isherwood wrote a new foreword. Inscribed and signed by Isherwood on the front flyleaf for Frances and Howard Warshaw... More
London: Faber & Faber, (1932). First English edition. Small 8vo, 45pp; pale green boards. First generally available edition of this selection including "Mookse and the Gripes" and "The Ondt and the Gracehoper," original published in a limited Paris edition by Black Sun Press. Slocum & Cahoon A37. More
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
San Francisco: International Longshoreman's Association, November 21, 1936. Mimeographed broadsheet, on two sides of a single legal-sized leaf, approx. 8-1/2 X 11 in. Two page report from the ILA's Local 36-79 committee looking at the multi-union effort to establish a national Labor Party. Includes parageaphs on the particular trade unions..... 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
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
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1927). First edition. 8vo, 110pp; black cloth. First book by the younger sister of Edna St. Vincent Millay. An uncommon book in the dust jacket (illustrated by Hans Flato). More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1928. First edition. 8vo, frontispiece, 277pp, illustrated; green cloth stamped in gilt. A social and psychological history of hair by the inventor of the "permanent wave." The unsigned dust jacket design features a wonderful streamlined-moderne image of a head of long, flowing blonde locks. More
