A Walk on the Wild side
New York: Farrar Straus & Cudahy, (1956). First edition. 8vo, cloth-backed boards. A better than usual copy. More about A Walk on the Wild side
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Short Stories from Vanity Fair 1926-1927; With a Foreword by Frank Crowninshield.
New York: Horace Liveright, (1928). First edition. 8vo, 410pp; cloth-backed boards. Contributors include Sherwood Anderson, Robert Benchley, Colette, Rube Goldberg, Arthur Schnitzler, Andre Maurois, Ferenc Molnar, Jim Tully, others. More about Short Stories from Vanity Fair 1926-1927; With a Foreword by Frank Crowninshield
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 about Twelve autograph and three typed letters signed, 1964-1970,; Paris, Ussy-sur-Marne, Alghero...
Duke Herring
New York: Horace Liveright, (1931). First edition. 8vo, 242pp; blue cloth. "Character study of an inventive sadist." Despite stated flaws, not an unattractive copy. More about Duke Herring
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 about Crucifix in a Deathhand; New Poems 1963-65: A Loujon Press Award Book . . . with etchings by Noel...
Wynn Bullock; Text by Barbara Bullock, with notes by the Photographer.
(San Francisco): Scrimshaw Press, 1971. First edition. Cloth. 4to, unpag.; gray cloth stamped in black, with mounted photograph on front board. The first substantial monograph on Bullock, this copy has been inscribed and signed by the photographer on the first blank leaf. More about Wynn Bullock; Text by Barbara Bullock, with notes by the Photographer
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 about Original photograph; of 11-piece band posed on the stage of Savoy Ballroom beneath the sign...
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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 about Metro-Goldwyn Presents; [cpver title] . . . The merger and the new season
New Documentary Films: New Methods; Films About Paratroopers, Beachheads, Peru, Why We Fight, The Nazis . . .
New York: Museum of Modern Art Film Library, 1944. Broadside, approx. 7 X 21-1/2 in., printed on one side only. Slim bulletin board poster advertising MoMA's presentation of propaganda films from the Office of War Information, the Office of Strategic Services, the War Department, the U.S. Navy, and the Office... More about New Documentary Films: New Methods; Films About Paratroopers, Beachheads, Peru, Why We Fight, The...
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RKO Radio Pictures:; 1940-1941 [cover title]
(Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1940). First edition. 4to, 27 unpaginated leaves, comb-bound in faux-alligator boards. Illustrated annual "Exhibitor's Book" filled with promotional display ads for forthcoming RKO releases. Most importantly, this book contains the first advertisment for Orson Welles's "Citizen Kane", still under its working title "John Citizen, U.S.A." Also... More about RKO Radio Pictures:; 1940-1941 [cover title
Claudine at School; By Colette and Willy. Illustrated by H. Mirande.
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1930. First American edition. 8vo, 297pp; cloth. An unusually nice copy. More about Claudine at School; By Colette and Willy. Illustrated by H. Mirande
Fig Tree John
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, (1935). First edition. 8vo, 318pp; black cloth with saffron endpapers. Corle's most successful novel, set among the Apache in the Colorado desert. The bold graphic dust jacket, printed in blue, black, and metallic copper, was designed by Samuel Bernard Schaeffer. More about Fig Tree John
North Pole News; Yesterday -- for the second time -- Soviet flyers z-o-o-m-e-d over the North Pole. What Is the Secret of Their Success? . . .
Oakland: Alameda County Committee, Communist Party, n.d. (1937). Broadside, single leaf, 8-1/2 X 11 inches, printed on one side. Delicate poster lauding the Soviet flight of their ANT-25 long-range aircraft from Moscow to San Jacinto, California, three weeks after the previous flight to Vancouver. A gloating poster celebrating the technical... More about North Pole News; Yesterday -- for the second time -- Soviet flyers z-o-o-m-e-d over the North...
The Eleventh Virgin
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1924. First edition. 8vo, [313]pp; blue cloth stamped in gilt on the spine. Autobiographical novel, written ten years before Day's conversion to Catholicism, while she was immersed in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village and based on her ill-fated love affair that ended with... More about The Eleventh Virgin
World's Fair
New York: Random House, (1985). First edition. Cloth. 8vo, 288pp; blue cloth. A nice presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to a fellow writer: "To my colleague Harvey Shapiro, whoses idea it was to fly the Hindenburg again over New York City on Oct. 20... More about World's Fair
Chains:; Lesser Novels and Stories
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First edition. 8vo, 425pp; cloth-backed batik boards with printed spine label. One of 440 numbered copies signed by Dreiser. More about Chains:; Lesser Novels and Stories
The Great Gatsby
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First edition. 8vo, 218pp; green cloth stamped in gilt and blind. With all first issue textual variants. Bruccoli A11.1.a. More about The Great Gatsby
Verso la Certosa; con un Disegno di Leonetta Cecchi Peraccini
Milano: Riccardo Ricciardi, (1961). First edition. 8vo, 164pp; wrappers. An excellent presentation copy, inscribed and signed by Gadda on the half title page to the German writer and publisher Hans Magnus Enzensberger, dated 1963, when Enzensberger was instrumental in bringing out a German translation of Gadda's La Cognizione del Dolore... More about Verso la Certosa; con un Disegno di Leonetta Cecchi Peraccini
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 about Chansons de France; Dessin de Fernand Leger
Autograph postcard signed; "Harden," to Richard Otto Frankfurter, October 22, 1913.
Noordwijk, Netherlands. -. Postcard approx. 3-1/2 X 5-1/2 in. Maximilian Harden (1861-1927) influential cultural critic writes to a left-liberal politican, lawyer and writer. More about Autograph postcard signed; "Harden," to Richard Otto Frankfurter, October 22, 1913
Demian
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 about Demian
Die Fabelhafte Geträume von Taifun Willi; Sections in Crazy German, also by Dick Higgins, Decor by Bern Porter
Somerville, Mass. Abyss Publications, 1970. First edition. Wrappers. 8vo, wrappers. A performance-collaboration between Higgins and Porter, originally realized in 1966. Although not called for, this copy has been signed by Dick Higgins on the half title page. More about Die Fabelhafte Geträume von Taifun Willi; Sections in Crazy German, also by Dick Higgins, Decor...
For the Unfallen; Poems 1952-1958
London: Andre Deutsch, (1959). First edition. 8vo, 57pp; printed boards. The poet's first regularly published book, preceded by a Fantasy Press pamphlet. More about For the Unfallen; Poems 1952-1958
Lover Man
(New York): The Dead Language, n.d. (1962). First edition. Twelve accordion-fold pages with cover by Rene Magritte, taped at joints as issued. Inscribed by Hollo in 1965 for poet Christopher Middleton, and with a one-page autograph letter signed laid in. About this book, Hollo explains ". . . "Loverman" --... More about Lover Man
The Machine; as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age.
New York: Museum of Modern Art, (1968). First edition. Pressed steel. Small 4to, [218]pp; original pressed steel covers, printed in colors. Historic exhibition catalog from MOMA's second major overview machine-age art, extensively annotated by the late Pontus Hulten. The catalog is notable for its striking design and unusal fabrication from... More about The Machine; as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age