New York: Boni and Liveright, 1923. First edition. 8vo, 304pp; black cloth with printed spine label. Three plays by the eventual Pulitzer Prize-winner. Déclassée would be made into a film in 1925 starring Corrinne Griffith and directed by Robert Vignola. More
New York: Contact II Publications, (1983). Second Printing. 8vo, pamphlet in stapled wrappers. Inscribed and signed by Baraka on the title page. More
Friedenau. -. One page on a bifolium, approx. 5-1/2 X 8-1/2 in. Aron Bernstein (1812-1884), political journalist and advocate of Jewish emancipation, edited "Die Volkszeitung" in Berlin. More
Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, n.d. (1961). First Edition. Small 8vo, 86pp; illustrated boards. The poet's first book, inscribed -- though not signed -- by Bobrowski: "zum bleibenden Gedächtnis" beneath an ink drawing of a standing figure that occupies the entire upper left quadrant of the title page. The unnamed recipient was..... 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
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First American edition. 8vo, 302pp; blue-green cloth stamped in gilt and blind after a Beardsley design. Uncommon U.S. edition made of sheet from the London first edition. More
New York: Kelly-Winterton Press, 1989. 4to; unpag.; cloth backed marbled boards. #55 of 60 copies in the edition, bound by George and Cathy Wieck of Moroquain, Inc. More
New York: Whittlesey House, (1948). First edition. 8vo, 224pp; red cloth. An unremarkable copy of the Yankee Clipper's instructional guide to the game of baseball, yet distinguished by the presence, loosely inserted, of a small slip of paper to which is affixed a rare example of DiMaggio's autograph from the..... More
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1983. First edition. Half leather. 8vo, 99pp; original half-leather and paste-paper boards. One of 325 numbered copies (25 hors commerce) signed by Duncan. Original prospectus laid in. More
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1926. First American edition. 8vo, 445pp; pictorial endpapers; cloth. Eddison's first book, a fantasy classic, with a brief prefatory letter by James Branch Cabell. Scarce, especially in jacket. 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
Paris: Editions de la Sirene, 1921. First edition. Small 8vo, 118pp; original printed wrappers. Classic work in early literature of film, most especially noted for its innovative, DaDa influenced graphic design and striking full-page illustrations. A delicate book of irresistible charm. More
London: J. Watts, 1737. Third Edition. 8vo, frontispiece, [viii], 54pp; modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards with silk ribbon marker. First printed and performed in 1731, there was no stated "second edition," though there were at least three impressions of the first (Cross III/292). The frontispiece engraving is by Hogarth..... More
London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1777-1788. Third edition of Vol. 1, First editions of Vols. 2-6. Six volumes, uniform 4tos; frontispiece portrait of Gibbon from a painting by Joshua Reynolds, I: [3], vi-vi, [18], (1)-704; II: [10], (1)-640, with folding map between pp. 22-23..... 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
Stuttgard [sic] und Tübingen: In der Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1821. First edition. Wraps. 8vo, half-title [i-vi] 550pp; contemporary marbled wrappers. First edition of the first version of Goethe's novel, a sequel to the highly successful Bildungsroman Wilhlem Meisters Lehrjahre. He would revise the text for a new edition that appeared in..... More
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1924. 8vo, 317pp; plain black wrappers with printed spine label. Rare proof copy of the U.S. edition, of which only a small number can have been produced. More
London: Methuen & Co., (1946). First English edition. Small 8vo,[103]pp; violet cloth. More
New York: Random House, (1945). First edition. Small 8vo, [128]pp; cloth. Autobiographical novella about making the film "Little Friend" with director Berthold Viertel. More
Madrid - Palma de Mallorca: 1961-1963. Limited editions of fifty numbered copies each, three being inscribed and signed by Kerrigan. Clipping inserted into one from a Spanish paper about Kerrigan's Bollingen award. More
New York: Editions of the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1953. First Edition. 4to, 20pp; four original color block prints tipped in with an additional five prints and five initials integrally printed with text; original stiff wrappers, printed in three colors, stapled. One of 300 numbered (292) copies, the entire edition..... More
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1917. First edition. Small 8vo, frontispiece, 121pp; blue cloth stamped in gilt. First book, a collection of modernist poems, by the woman who would become a pioneer and longtime promoter of the Canadian film industry as a writer, theater manager, and longtime editor of..... More
New York: 1961. Hand-painted maquette artwork for a poster, approx. 18 X 25 in., painted in black with "Liljan Espenak in red with a pair of ochre accents. Signed by the artist, Boris Lurie. The Norwegian-born dancer was a pioneer in dance therapy, working with physically and mentally disabled hospital..... More
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