A Walk on the Wild side
New York: Farrar Straus & Cudahy, (1956). First edition. 8vo, cloth-backed boards. A better than usual copy. More
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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
Twelve autograph and three typed letters signed, 1964-1970,; Paris, Ussy-sur-Marne, Alghero Sardinia, and Nabeul Tunisia, to Sidney Meyers and his wife Edna Ocko Meyers. Together with some related correspondence and a complete 16mm print of "Film", Beckett's 1965 motion picture featuing Buster Keaton. Five of the Beckett letters written on cards; the rest on plain paper.
Varied sizes and formats. The shooting and editing of “Film” brought Samuel Beckett to New York for several weeks in the summer of 1964. It was the only time he travelled to the United States, as well as his single venture into cinematic work. A rigorously conceived silent film, “Film”..... More
Crucifix in a Deathhand; New Poems 1963-65: A Loujon Press Award Book . . . with etchings by Noel Rockmore
New York: Lyle Stuart, (1965). First edition. 4to, 101pp; original wrappers. One of a stated 3100 copies in the edition, signed and dated by Bukowski at the colophon. As with all Loujon Press productions, the book is marked by a whimsical style using multi-colored papers of varying stocks and even..... More
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Metro-Goldwyn Presents; [cpver title] . . . The merger and the new season
[Culver City, California: Metro-Goldwyn Mayer, 1924]. First edition. 4to, 68pp unpaginated; pictorial endpapers; original paper-covered boards with printed label on front cover. Annual “Exhibitors Book” promoting the coming year’s releases to theatre owners. This edition followed immediately on the merger of Louis B. Mayer’s production company with Metro-Goldwyn forming MGM..... More
Ghetto Freedom Awards; . . .
Los Angeles: Greater Los Angeles Urban League, 1968. Broadside poster, on single leaf approx. 8-1/2 X 11 inches, printed on one side. Original graphic flyer advertising the event sponsored by the Urban League and held at the Hollywood Palladium, August 25, 1968. The event was conceived to honor people making..... More
Heavy Daughter Blues; Poems & Stories, 1968-1986
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1987. First edition. 8vo, 220pp; cloth-backed boards with printed spine label. One of 150 numbered copies signed by Coleman in the signed-limited issue. Additionally, Coleman has inscribed this copy to her husband, fellow poet and artist Austin Straus: "For Austin, my God of Love, Aug..... More
The Untold Story:; The Life of Isadora Duncan 1921-1927.
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. 8vo, 281pp, illustrated; gray cloth pictorially stamped in black and gilt. An attractive book, featuring fine jacket art by "Sugar." More
Mosquitoes
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1927 (i.e. 1933). Second edition. 8vo, 349pp; blue cloth stamped in orange, plain endpapers. An attractive copy of this key, early title. A4.3. More
The New Medical Follies; An Encyclopedia of Cultism and Quackery in These United States, with Essays on The Cult of Beauty, The Craze for Reduction, Rejuvenation, Eclecticism, Bread and Dietary Fads, Physical Therapy, and a Forecast as to the Physician of the Future.
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First edition. 8vo, 235pp;. More
Autograph letter signed; "Gustav Freytag, " to "Hochverehrte Frau," November 5, 1880
Wiesbaden. -. One page, written on recto of single bifolium of plain paper, approx. 5-1/2 X 8-1/2 in. Though unnamed, the recipient of Freytag's letter was Sophie Verena (pseud. Sophie Alberti), author of a number of well-received books in the mid-nineteenth century. Freytag politely declines to help her, pleading that..... More
Montaigne; An Essay in Two Parts
London/New York: The Blackamore Press / Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition thus. 8vo, 128pp; polished green linen, stamped in gilt. One 500 numbered copies for sale in the U.S. (another 300 were for sale in England), signed by Gide. The translation was done by Stephen Haden Guest and Trevor E...... More
Chansons de France; Dessin de Fernand Leger.
(New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1940). First edition. 8vo, printed wrappers, sewn. One of 700 numbered copies on Chippendale Offset paper, the entire edition. A Presentation copy, inscribed by Goll on the inside front wrapper to the American patron of poetry, Marie Bullock. Part of the series called Poet's Messages..... More
Autograph note signed, with a sketch; "Olaf Gulbransson," to the (unnamed) S. Fischer Verlag, no date
-. One page, on a single leaf of watermarked MK Papier. A charming note, with a sketched self-portrait of the artist hiding his face in his hands, beneath which the popular caricaturist writes: Geliebtes Verlag, JAWOHL! Aber las es sonst niemand (nicht) wissen, euer Olaf Gulbransson." More
The Scarlet Letter; A Romance
Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1850. Second edition. 8vo, 322pp, publisher's ads (May 1850) in front; brown cloth. Includes a new two-page preface by the author. With Metcalf on copyright page and ads dated May 1850. More
Henry James; A Critical Study
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1915. First American edition. 8vo, [192]pp, t.e.g; blue cloth stamped in gilt. More
Kibbutz Buchenwald; Selection from the Kibbutz Diary. Translated and Edited by Meyer Levin. With Illustrations by Ann Neumann.
Tel Aviv: Lion the Printer / Palestine Pioneer Library, (1946). First edition. 12mo, 120pp; wrappers. A little known work of Meyer Levin, the novelist who had been among the first reporters to enter the liberated camp at Buchenwald, this is an account of the kibbutz that was established by survivors..... More
The Singing Captives
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1922). First American edition. 8vo, [212]pp; cloth. Second novel by Jones, a modernist writer of note, mostly forgotten today. Uncommon in jacket. 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
They Did Not Die In Vain!; Commemorate "Bloody" Thursday - Meet at Labor Temple. . .
Los Angeles: Los Angeles and San Pedro Committees for the July 5th Memorial, 1935. Broadside, single leaf approx. 8-1/2 X 11 inches, printed on one side. Bulletin board poster announcing a mass meeting on July 5th, 1935, the first anniversary of "Bloody Thursday," when two striking San Francisco longshoremen were..... More
Trouble on the Waterfront; Who Caused It? The Maritime Unions? -Or- The Shipowners and Bankers?
Oakland: Alameda County Committee Communist Party USA, n.d. (1934). Broadside, printed oon one side only of a single leaf, approx.8-1/2 X 11 in. CPUSA message of support for striking martime workers. More