The Jealous Gods:; A Processional Novel of the Fifth Centuury, B.C. (Concerning One Alcibiades)
New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. First edition. 8vo, 452pp; black cloth. An excellent copy. More
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Crystallizing Public Opinion
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1926). Second printing. 8vo, 218pp; blue cloth stamped in gilt. First book solely authored by Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud who was one of most influential political thinkers of the twentieth century. This was his first effort at defining and developing the notion of... More
Original photograph; of 11-piece band posed on the stage of Savoy Ballroom beneath the sign "Bennie Carter and his Savoy Playboys"
New York: Vithana Photo Studio, (1928). Vintage gelatin silver print, approx. 8-1/2 X 13 in., with Vithana Photo Studio stamp on rear. Formal group shot of Carter's first band as a leader - another image from the session appears on the cover of his autobiography - formed from what had... More
Fête des arbres et du chasseur
Paris: G.L.M., 1948. First edition. Wrappers. 8vo, unpag.; printed cream wrappers. One of 630 numbered copies on vélin du Renage in the regular edition, of which 25 were signed and 30 were hors commerce. Another twenty copies on Elzévir Caslon were also printed and included an original lithograph by Joan..... More
Documentary News Letter; Number One-No. 12, January-December 1940
London: Film Centre Ltd., (1940). First edition. 12 vols. in one; 4to, wrappers bound into publisher's two-toned cloth. The complete first year of this wartime journal produced by the British Film Centre in association with American Film Center, New York. This copy bears the signature of Thomas Baird, who was... 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
Michael Scarlett:; A History
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1925. First edition. 8vo, 318pp; black cloth. A handsome copy of Cozzens's second book. More
Epitaph; A Poem. Decorations by Robert Fawcett
New York: Heron Press Incorporated, n.d. (1929). First edition. 4to, unpag.; cloth. One of 700 numbered copies (out of the total edition of 1100) on handmade Keijyo Kami paper, signed by Dreiser at the colophon, More
The Thibaults; Translated from the French by Madeleine Boyd. Volume One I. The Gray Notebook, II. The Penitentiary; Volume Two I. The Springtime of Life.
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. First American edition. Two vols., 8vos, 319 + 312pp; cloth. An excellent set of the first part of Du Gard's long, multi-part novel to appear in English. He would receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1937. 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 letter signed; "Rudolf Gottschall," to Prof. Philippsohn, November 15, 1883
Leipzig. -. One page, approx. 5-1/2 X 8-3/4 in. Rudolf von Gottschall (1823-1909) an outspoken liberal activist, was a prolific writer of plays and novels, as well as literary criticism. More
Let Freedom Ring
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1928. First edition. 8vo, 341pp; blue cloth, stamped in gilt. Major work by Hays, a prominent civil liberties attorney. An associate of Clarence Darrow (co-dedicatee of this book), Hays was involved in some of the major civil liberties cases of the era, including the Scopes... 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
Sports and Divertissments
(Edinburgh): Wild Hawthorn Press, 1965. First edition. 8vo, unpag., comb-bound in illustrated wrappers. A presentation copy, warmly inscribed by Johnson on the inside from wrapper for fellow poet Christopher Middleton and his wife. Poems based on Satie's notes in French to piano pieces of the same title. More
Two autograph letters signed; "F. Körnicke," to Christian August Friedrich Garcke, November 18, 1856 and April 30, 1858.
St. Petersburg. -. Five and half pages, on one bifolium and one single leaf, each approx. 5-1/2 X 8-1/2 in. Long, content rich letters in a small, condensed hand, discussing plants, readings, colleagues, etc. Friedrich Köornicke (1828-1908) was a leading botanist who made substantial contributions, particularly in his studies of..... More
Litany of Thomas Jefferson's Violin; A Fantasy
N.P. N.p, n.d. (ca. 1928). First edition. 8vo, 9pp pamphlet in self-wrappers, stapled. One of 55 numbered copies, signed by Lindsay, printed for private distribution. The text is an essay that would be included in the 1929 book The Litany of Washington Street. More
Mutterrechtliche Familie und Ödipuskomplex; Eine psychoanalytische Studie.
Leipzig: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1924. First edition. Boards. 8vo, 58pp; original boards. An offprint from "Imago," the psychoanalytical journal edited by Freud, in which Malinowski, drawing on his anthropological work in the Trobriand Islands, argues against Freud's notion of a universal Oedipus complex and calling for more careful examination of... More
Autograph letter signed and autograph postcard signed; "Mauthner" & "F. Mauthner," to Ulla Frankfurter ("Ulrich Frank"), August 12, 1909 & June 14, 1917.
Meersburg. -. Picture postcard, approx. 3-1/2 X 5-1/2; one and a half page letter on a bifolium , approx. 5-1/2 X 8-1/2 in. Fritz Mauthner (1849-1923) was a journalist, a novelist, a social critic, and an influential philologist, whose "Beiträge zu einer Kritik der Sprache" had a direct impact on..... More
Mrs. Condover
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1928. First American edition. 8vo, 319pp; brown cloth. Published in England as "Spring Darkness", the third book by the noted writer of science fiction and horror. Quite uncommon, especially so in dust jacket. More
Original ink drawing; on card, inscribed and signed on verso
-. Small card, approx. 2-3/4 X 4-1/2 in. Drawing depicts the silhouette of a woman carrying a tray with a candle and two glasses in one hand, a pitcher in the other. On the verso, Miethe has inscribed "Seiner Goennerin, Adolf Miethe." Miethe (1862-1927) was a pioneering photochemical engineer who... More
Time of Year; a first book of poems introduced by Wallace Stevens
[Cummington, Mass.]: Cummington Press, 1943. First edition. Boards. 8vo, [53]pp; printed boards. One of 275 copies, the entire edition. Edelstein B34. More
Sticks and Stones:; A Study of American Architecture and Civilization.
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1924). First edition. 8vo, 247pp; cloth-backed boards. An excellent copy of Mumford's second book. More