New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First edition. 8vo, 339pp with map inserted at rear; black cloth. Popular edition derived from earlier and more extensive publications of Musil's travels, highly uncommon in dust jacket. The author, a Czech-born theologian and explorer, was a cousin of the novelist Robert Musil. More about In the Arabian Desert.; Arranged for Publication by Katherine McGiffert Wright. Illustrated

New York: Boni and Liveright, (1926). First American edition. 8vo, 313pp; cloth-backed patterned boards. Following two pseudonymous novels, the author, British diplomat Frank Ashton-Gwatkin, followed with this this quasi-biographical account of a Japanese contemporary, depicting modern Japan in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake of 1923. More about Banzai; (Hurrah!

New York: Boni and Liveright, (1922). First edition. 8vo, 222pp; green cloth with printed spine label. With publisher's slip tipped in at the title page aimed at assuaging concerns of local censors: "IMPORTANT NOTICE: This work is supplied to the Bookseller on condition that all discretion shall be used in... More about The Natural Philosophy of Love.; Translated With a Postscript by Ezra Pound

New York: Random House, (1975). First edition. 8vo, 308pp; cloth-backed boards. Slater's acclaimed fourth novel, this copy signed by the author on the half-title page. More about Light Years

San Francisco: Auerhahn Society, 1962. First edition. Small 8vo, 109pp; wrappers. One of 750 copies in the wrappered issue. More about The Heads of the Town up to the Aether; Lithographs by Fran Herndon

Berkeley: Oyez, 1975. First edition. 8vo, unpag.; printed green wrappers. This copy has been boldly inscribed by Tranströmer on the first blank for fellow poet Christopher Middleton with the addition of an elaborately stylized letter "W" (which Tranströmer sometimes did in homage to his grandfather, whose name was Westerberg). He..... More about Baltics; Translated by Samuel Charters

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1926. First edition. 8vo, 89pp; patterned linen backed in black cloth gilt. Van Doren's second collection of poems, exceptionally uncommon, especially so in dust jacket. More about 7 P.M.; & Other Poems

New York: Liveright Publishing Company, (1933). First edition. 8vo, 374pp; pictorial endpapers; blue cloth. The British-born playwright, journalist, and traveling bon vivant turns his sights on the American dreamscape. More about Incredible Land; A Jaunty Baedeker to Hollywood and the Great Southwest. Illustrated by Wynn