Bring! Bring!; and Other Stories
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First edition. 8vo, 240pp;. Poet's short fiction. More
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Il y A; Préface de Ramon Gomez de la Serna.
Paris: Albert Messein, 1925. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers. One of 1500 numbered copies in the regular edition (there were also 30 copies on Chine and 100 on Vergé d'Arches). A posthumous collection of early and unpublished poems. More
Gli ultimi anni di Clelia Trotti
Firenze: Sansoni, (1953). First edition. 8vo. Printed wrappers. The true first edition, published as an offprint from the magazine "Paragone." This is a presentation copy, with a warm inscription signed "Giorgio B." to William Weaver, the noted American writer and translator, dated 1954. More
Seize the Day; with three short stories and a one-act play.
New York: The Viking Press, 1956. First edition. 8vo, 211pp; cloth-backed boards. 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 White Oxen; and Other Stories.
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1924. First edition. 8vo, 297pp; brown cloth with printed spine label. The first book by Burke, one of the high priests of literary modernism, was this collection of short stories. He became one of the most influential literary critics and theorists of his generation..... More
Evelina,; Or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World . . .
London: T. Lowndes, 1779. Third Edition. Three vols. 12mos, xv, 235, [1]; 263, [1]; 263, [1]; full contemporary polished tree calf with finely gilt spine with starburst motifs, red and green leather labels. An appealing set of Burney's most widely read work, an epistolary novel. More
Mitsou; or How Girls Grow Wise. Translated by Jane Terry
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1930. First American edition. 8vo, [162]pp; cloth. More
Young Lady of Paris; By Colette and Willy. Translated by James Whitall.
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, (1931). First American edition. 8vo, [292]pp; cloth. Not at all common in any amount of the jacket. More
The Enormous Room
New York: Boni & Liveright, (1922). First printing. 8vo, tan cloth. The poet's first book, a novel based upon his experience in a French prison during the Frist World War. The second issue, with the censored word on page 219. More
The Hand of the Potter; A Tragedy in Four Acts
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1918. First edition. 8vo, 209pp; cloth-backed boards. An excellent copy, from the second issue with the last word on p. 191 being "it" More
Planting a Sequoia; Drawing by Fulvio Testa
West Chester (PA): Aralia Press, 1991. First edition. Wraps. 4to, unpag., handmade flax wrappers. One of 200 unnumbered copies printed on Johannot (there were an additional 50 press-numbered and 7 presentation copies on Umbria), this one inscribed by the printer Michael Peich to James L. Weil, poet and longtime publisher..... More
The Vicar of Wakefield:; A Tale. Supposed to be Written by Himself. The Second Edition.
London: F. Newbery, 1766. Second Edition. Two vols., 12mos; half titles not called for; lacks final blank of Vol. 1; [viii], 214pp; [vi], 223pp; contemporary calf with gilt-tooled spines, red and green spine labels. Goldsmith made significant revisions for this edition, which includes his signed advertisement and tables of contents..... More
The Utter Zoo
New York: Meredith Press, (1967). First edition. Oblong 8vo, unpag. illus.; pictorial boards. An alphabet book. More
My University Days
New York: No, 1923. First American edition. 8vo, 327pp; light blue cloth. A partial autobiography in an uncredited translation. Not at all common, especially in dust jacket. More
I Went to the Soviet Arctic
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1939. First Edition. 8vo, 333pp; blue cloth with printed spine label. The first commercially published book in Gruber's extraordinary long career. In 1932 she published her dissertation -- the first feminist study of Virginia Woolf -- before turning to journalism, where she made her lasting..... More
Survival Dancing
Boulder, Colorado: Rodent Press, (1995). First edition. 12mo, unpag.; small label correcting the name of the frontispiece artist affixed to copyright; wrappers, saddle-stitched. One of 25 numbered and signed copies in hand-stitched wrappers (out of a total edition of 150), this one nicely inscribed by Hollo on the title page..... More
Down There on a Visit
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1962. First edition. 8vo, 318pp; cloth-backed boards. Warmly inscribed and signed ("Chris") on the first leaf. More
Historical Memoranda:; I. The Number and Density of the Population of Ancient Palestine. II.The Jewish Population in Palestine from the Fall of the Jewish State to the Beginning of Zionist Pioneering. III. The Waves of Jewish Immigration into Palestine (640-1882)
Jerusalem: General Council (Vaad Leumi) of the Jewish Community of Palestine, 1947. First edition. 8vo, 104pp; five folding maps; wrappers. With tipped-in slip noting that the report has been submitted to the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine. More
The Poetical Register:; Or, The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets. With an Account of their Writings.
London: E. Curll, 1719, 1720. First Edition. Two vols., 8vos, frontispiece, [2] vii, [15], 334, [22]; frontispiece, xxvi, [4], 328, [9]; contemporary panelled calf, recased and rebacked; gilt dentelles, marbled edges. Large paper copy, with engraved portraits and index in each volume. 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 Strike at Trona!!; The Last Round in a Five Year Struggle, for Organization and Economic Security is Being Fought in the Heart of Mojave Desert by 1000 Strikers and Their Families. . .
N.P. (Los Angeles): Mine, Mill and Smelt Workers, (1941). Two legal sized mimeograph pages, approx. 8-1/2 X 14 in., stapled in upper left hand corner. Two page document detailing the stakes and worker grievances in the Trona strike against American Potash and Chemical Company. It was an especially bitter episode..... 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