New York: Ecco/Harper Collins, (2002). First edition. Boards. 8vo, 97pp; boards. Nice presentation copy, inscribed by McGrath on the half-title - incorporating the printed text - to his fellow poet and former teacher Quincy Troupe; additionally signed and dated on the title page. More
-. One page on single leaf on monogrammed stationery, approx. 5-1/2 X 8-1/2 in. Victor Meyer (1848-1897) an important German chemist, known especially for his work on vapor densities, writes home as a student. A former owner's note quotes a letter from Meyer's son-in-law, in sending the letter as a...... More
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Tokyo: Shinchosa, 1954. First Edition. 8vo, 240pp; original yellow cloth with attractive suminagashi endpapers. Scarce first edition of one of Mishima's most celebrated novels -- a shorter version was published later in the same year. This volume appeared as the fourth in the publisher's series of featured novels by contemporary..... More
New York: Crosby Gaige, 1927. First edition. Small 8vo, 58pp; linen-backed patterned boards with printed spine label; handmade paper dust jacket printed on spine only. One of 1190 numbered (319) copies in the edition, printed by William Edwin Rudge and signed by O'Flaherty on the half-title page. More
London: Victor Gollancz, (1933). First edition. 8vo, 286pp; cloth. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. Uniform edition. 8vo, 254pp; polished green cloth. More
Meran. -. One page, approx. 8-1/2 X 11 in. Georg von Ompteda (1863-1931) realist novelist, sending a statement about Balzac's "Contes Drolatiques" for a case in which Frankfurter, a left-liberal politician and lawyer, was actively involved. More
Tokyo: Wunternaum Press, 1964. First Edition. Square 12mo, unpag.; original wrappers, titled on the front; with additional ephemera on five legal-sized leaves. One of a stated 500 copies -- and likely fewer -- in the first edition of Ono's first book, a compendium of concept pieces in the form of..... More
London: B. Lintot, 1722. First Edition. 8vo, [viii],221, errata, 2pp Index & publisher's ad; engraved head- and tailpieces; contemporary calf. Posthumous collection of works by the Irish poet who published little during his lifetime. This edition was arranged by his friend Alexander Pope, who wrote the dedication. Hayward 150. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First edition. 8vo, 254pp; yellow cloth stamped in gilt and with printed black spine label; black endpapers printed with cover device in gilt. A historical novel of imperial China. More
London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1715. First Edition. 8vo, 52pp (lacks the "Proposals..." at the end); red morocco gilt. Griffith 36. More
London: Richard Phillips, 1804. First Edition. Six vols., 12mos; ccxii, 192, 340, 332, 379, 348, 317, [1]pp; frontispiece engravings in Vols. 1,2,3, and 6, including hand-colored folding plates in Vols. 2 and 3; nineteenth-century three-quarter polished calf gilt and marbled boards by Henry Young & Sons, Liverpool; a.e.g. A lovely..... More
Los Angeles: Win the Peace Division of the Mobilization for Democracy, and the Action Committee to Free Spain Now, nd. (circa 1946). Broadside, single leaf, approx. 8-1/2 X 11 inches, printed on one side. Printed petition to Secretary of State James F. Byrnes (1945-47) seeking action from the U.S. government..... More
Ann Arbor: Civil Rights Federation, n.d. (1940). First edition. Two-sided broadsheet, approx. 8-1/2 X 11 inches, printed on both sides. Announcement of the "Open Hearing" held on behalf of thirteen expelled students, with a graphic image of a judge on the recto, and a length text along with lists of..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, n.d. (1924). First American edition. 8vo, 223pp; coarse linen-backed boards with printed spine label. Published in London as "English Country," this edition was made from sheets of that printing with a specially printed title page. A collection of notes and observations on the English countryside..... More