Stuttgart: Dr. Ernst Hauswedell & Co., 1990. First edition. Thick 4to, 611pp; cloth. Catalogue raisonne of the printed oeuvre of the prolific Bauhaus alumnus. More
Trappist, KY: Summer 1968. 4to,[38]pp mimeograph in stiff wrappers, stapled. Second issue (of four) of Merton's magazine, produced by him at the Abbey of Gethsemani in small numbers and distributed privately. This issue features contributions from Louis Zukofsky, Jack Kerouac, Wendell Berry, Hayden Carruth and others, as well as photographs..... More
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1935. First edition. 8vo, 257pp; illustrated endpapers; cloth-backed boards with printed spine label. A not exactly impartial biography of Louis K. Liggett, the drugstore magnate who founded the Liggett and Rexall chains. More
Albuquerque, New Mexico: Loujon Press, 1970. First edition. 4to, unpag.; comb-bound with stiff backing board and loosely inserted into decorative metallic wrappers, printed with an abstract floral design in orange, yellow, and black on gold. With loose set of twelve large prints reproducing Miller's paintings done for the publication; the..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1924. First American edition. 8vo, 264pp; blue boards stamped in gilt. Jacket art by Breck. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1930. First American edition. 8vo, 198pp; apricot cloth stamped in black. A nice copy of O'Flaherty's WWI novel. He served on the western front in an Irish regiment and was wounded in combat. More
New York: Jack Brussel, 1962. First edition thus. 3 vols, squat 8vos; 542, 587 & 593pp; original cream buckram; slipcase with printed cloth label. One of 1000 copies in the "deluxe" edition, as indicated on the slipcase label. Major bibliography on Victorian erotica, originally published in 1877, here with a...... More
London: Faber & Faber, (1957). First English edition. 8vo, 107pp; black cloth. One of 2000 copies in the edition. Gallup A70c. More
Naples: Christmas 1952. First printing. 12mo, unpag. shapbook in marbled wrappers with printed label on front, saddle-stitched; extra label tipped in at rear. One of Prokosch's rare "Butterfly books" that he printed himself on a handpress. This is copy e out of a total edition of forty-four copies, with those..... More
(Shanghai): Hwa Kuo Printing Co., n.d. (ca. 1945). First Edition. Oblong 8vo, unpag.; sewn with red cord in printed card wrappers. A lighthearted examination from a postwar vantage, illustrated with cartoon drawings, of the life of refugees in Shanghai during the war years. Thousands of European refugees, many of them..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First edition. 8vo, 234pp; cloth. A science-fiction cult classic by the German emigre, and younger brother of the director Robert Siodmak, Dononvan's Brain was adapted for the screen three times. Its principal device of a disembodied brain kept alive and functioning has served in..... More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. First edition. 8vo, 260pp; black cloth. Humorous sketches, mostly published in the New York World. More
New York: Aperture/Museum of Modern Art, (1976). Callahan, Harry. First edition. Cloth. 4to, [203]pp; black cloth. Extensive monograph coinciding with Callahan's MOMA retrospective exhibition in 1976. This copy has been inscribed and signed by Callahan on the half title. More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First edition. SMall 8vo, 122pp; cloth. The poet's second book in the uncommon jacket featuring an impressive , albeit unsigned and uncredited, woodcut illustration in an expressionist vein. A promising talent whose work appeared in the pages of Harriet Monroe's "Poetry" magazine, Talbott died shortly..... More
Berlin. -. One page, approx. 5-1/2 X 8-3/4 in. Hans Wachenhusen (1823-1898) author of novels and travel literature. More