Selected Poems
New York: Oxford University Press, 1961. 1st edition. 12mo, off white cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Aiken on the front flyleaf to Marie Bullock, founder of the Academy of American Poets. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1961. 1st edition. 12mo, off white cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Aiken on the front flyleaf to Marie Bullock, founder of the Academy of American Poets. More
Los Angeles: So. Calif Chapter of the Nat'l Council of Arts, Sciences and Professions, n.d. (March 1951). 11 mimeographed leaves, 8-1/2 by 14 in., with cover leaf, stapled. An advance copy of the pamphlet that was issued by the council as "Can We Live with the Atom : An Answer..... More
Beverly Hills, California: March, April 1934. Two vols., 4tos, in original printed wrappers. Bishop's first professional publications (both had already appeared in a Vassar student magazine). More
San Francisco: Open Space, (1964). First edition. Wraps. 8vo, unpag; original wrappers. One of only 300 copies in the edition; the poet's first book. More
Washington, D.C. Howard University Press, n.d. (ca. 1923). First Edition. 8vo, unpag. chapbook in printed wrappers, stapled. The first and apparently only book by Bolton, a 1923 graduate of Howard University, comprising twelve poems. After graduating from Howard, Bolton went on to publish and edit a newspaper, The Florida Sentinel..... 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 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
London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. First Edition. 8vo, 83pp; original pictorial cream cloth, a.e.g., coated black endpapers. A presentable copy of Carroll's great nonsense poem, distinguished by the presence of the rare pamphlet "An Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves 'Alice'" tipped to the front endpaper. More
Paris: Le Charivari, 13 Aout 1853. Tear-sheet approx. 10 X 14 in., with cartoon printed on one side, partial article text and advertisements on the other. Original publication of this Daumier lithographic cartoon, the fifth in his series of "Croquis Aquatiques." A delicate piece on newsprint, remarkably well maintained. (Hazard..... More
-. Two pages, on a single bifolium of thick paper, approx. 5-1/4 X 7-1/2 in. Dehmel declines public involvement with the production of a play, referring to his difficulties with productions of his own plays and explaining that "ausserdem, wenn ein Dichter den andern empfieht, das wird immer als Klickenmache..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. First Edition in book form. 8vo, frontispiece portrait, engraved title page, 190pp, no ads; contemporary three-quarter morocco with marbled endpapers and edges. Dickens's final book, unfinished at his death leaving the mystery unsolved. More
Vienna. -. Secretarial letter, one page, on large bifolium, approx. 8-1/2 X 11 in., coated, laid paper with blindstamp of the Imperial Hofburgtheater. Franz von Dingelstedt (1814-1881) was a successful journalist and satirist, whose sympathies in his younger years were with the radical "Junges Deutschland" movement. He underwent a sort..... More
Chicago: n.d. (1930s). 8 X 10 inch black and white gelatin silver print on textured matte-surface paper, with photographer's studio insignia in lower left corner. An excellent publicity portrait of Ellington in his prime, inscribed and signed: "To the most charming Carine, loads o luck, Duke." The "Maurice" studio in..... More
-. 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
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, (1961). First Edition. 4to; unpag.; boards. Signed by Frasconi on the half title page. More
London: H. Hills, 1709. Pirated edition. 12mo, 16pp; later morocco-backed cloth. Gay's first work, printed in the year after its first publication. More
Berlin: Zentralrat, 1919. First edition. Cloth. 4to, 277pp; contemporary buckram. Original documentation from this dark moment in the history of modern Germany, the weeks of counter-revolution in Berlin that followed the murders of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg in January 1919. The councils that had been established by the 1918..... More
London: B. Crosby, 1794. First Edition. Three vols., small 8vo., 293, [1, errata]; 285; 304pp; modern three-quarter calf and brown cloth with gilt spines; (the binder erroneously stamped the date "1797" to the spines), t.e.g. A complete copy of Godwin's celebrated novel, with all half-titles. Appearing amid the intellectual ferment..... More
Tübingen: in der Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1804. First edition. 12mo, 224pp + ads; full contemporary leather, a.e.g. Published as "Taschenbuch auf das Jahr 1804," this copy from the library of writer and critic Karl von Reinhardstöttner (1847-1909). More
Breslau: Verlag von Josef Max, 1821. First edition. boards. 8vo, 310pp, errata and 4-page publisher's ads in rear; original printed boards, with paper spine label. Scarce first edition, with the fine engravings printed by Thiele in Berlin, with ample margins. More
New York: Samuel Campbell, 1793. First American edition of Imlay; Second edition of Filson. Two vols., 12mos, 260 [i.e. 250, mispaginated after p. 215], 204pp; contemporary calf. Important early work describing the region, with tipped in map of Kentucky, hand-colored. The map has been torn and is missing a piece..... 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: St. Martins Press, (1960). First American edition. 8vo, 45pp; red cloth. One of 1131 copies. Bloomfield A6b. More