Washington DC: National Federation for Constitutional Liberties, 1941. Broadside, single leaf, approx. 12 X 17 inches, printed on one side. Proof printing of this statement, with typed and handwritten marginal notations indicating that it was meant to be published as a two-page magazine ad. Includes a preamble recalling the founding..... More

New York: National Emergency Conference for Democratic Rights, (1940). First edition. Four page leaflet printed on a single bifolium, approx. 8-1/2 X 11 inches. Statement of alarm based on the actions of the Dies committee in Congress, with its moves toward registration of aliens, and other infringements on civil liberties..... More

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

[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

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1924. First edition. 8vo, 120pp; blue cloth with printed spine label. An early Cowley publication, indeed his first in the U.S., preceded by the Paris publication of his "Racine". Although no physical evidence or marking supports the assertion, a laid-in slip identifies this copy of..... 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

New York: Pantheon Books, (1986). First American edition. Cloth-backed boards. 8vo, 246pp; cloth-backed boards. Inscribed and signed by Farah on the front flyleaf to poet, writer, anthologist, biographer, and literary whirling dervish Quincy Troupe. A nice association. More

-. One page and two pages (on bifolium) respectively, approx. 5 X 8 in. each. Cordial, letters about writing from the critic to a novelist. Eduard Hanslick (1825-1904) was a prominent and influential music critic, savaged by Wagner (whose music he had once praised, then turned against) in "Das Judentum..... More

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1923. First American edition. 8vo, 215pp; original decorative cloth. Attractive copy of the first of Hesse's novels to appear in English, here in an uncredited translation. More

(London): MacGibbon & Kee, (1967). First edition. 8vo, 287pp; cloth. An elusive title, especially in such excellent condition, collecting the Irish poet's prose writing over twenty-five years under the peculiar heading of his own coinage. 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, 1924. First edition. 8vo, 346pp; cloth. A disciple of Franz Boas, Lowie made a lasting mark on the fields of anthropology and comparative religion. This was one of his major works derived from extensive field work among the Plains Indians of North America. More

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1930. First American edition. 8vo, [238]pp; lavender cloth. Marienhoff was a poet and close friend of fellow "Imaginist" Sergei Yesenin. He ran afoul of Soviet censors with this novel, an account of two Russian intellectuals during the revolution and its aftermath. It was not..... More