Gold; A Play in Four Acts
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1920). First edition. 8vo, 120pp; cloth-backed boards. One of 1200 copies. Atkinson A16-1-1. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1920). First edition. 8vo, 120pp; cloth-backed boards. One of 1200 copies. Atkinson A16-1-1. 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
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2004. First edition. -. Original etching with chine collé, single leaf of Shikibu black Gampi paper, image size 6 X 6 in, housed in original cardboard chemise with prospectus. One of 200 copies, numbered and initialed by Orozco, printed at Edition Jacob Samuel, Santa..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1926). First American edition. 8vo, 313pp; cloth-backed patterned boards. After publishing two pseudonymous novels, the author, British diplomat Frank Ashton-Gwatkin, followed with this quasi-biographical account of a Japanese contemporary, depicting modern Japan in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake of 1923. More
London: B. Lintot [R. Dodsley, H. Lintot, L. Gilliver, J. Clarke] T. Cooper, 1736-1739. Six vols. in seven, crown 8vos, 198, 159, 168, 198 [2], 258 [i.e. 259], 240, 236pp; contemporary calf. Mixed edition of this early set of Pope's Works that appeared in piecemeal fashion under varying imprints owing..... More
Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, (1912). First edition. Boards. 8vo, 119pp; gray boards with imitation vellum spine and tips. One of an unknown number of copies, preceding the English edition, handsomely printed on laid paper. As with certain of Pound's other translations, this has been unjustly consigned to Gallup's "B"..... More
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
London: Jacob Tonson, 1718. First Edition. Folio, frontispiece, engraved title, [38], 506, [6] pp; full contemporary calf. Subscriber's edition, on fine paper with the Strasbourg Arms watermark. The preferred state of the best edition of Prior, published to supersede an unauthorized edition of his works. More
New York: Ballantine Books, (1992). 8vo, 228pp; printed wrappers. A writer and actress, Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor had a unique career that spanned downtown bohemian circles, the Black Arts movement, the Broadway stage, Sun Ra's Arkestra, and regular appearances on National Public Radio. She found her voice as writer about food and..... More
Marseille: Les Cahiers du Sud, 1927. First edition. Small 8vo, original printed wrappers. One of 475 numbered copies (there were another 63 copies divided between two limited issues) in the trade edition. Early study of the influential poet by one of the founders of French surrealism. More
New York: Albondocani Press, 1968. First edition. Square 12mo, unpag. chapbook in wrappers, saddle stitched. One of 150 numbered copies; there were also 26 lettered copies bound in boards. The play is here printed from Stein's original manuscript in the Beinecke Library at Yale University. An earlier 1939 publication in..... More
Berlin. -. Two pages on a bifolium, approx. 4-1/2 X 7 in. Julis Stettenheim (1831-1916), Berlin humorist and satirist. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1950. First edition. Cloth. 4to, 248pp; original cloth. Signed by Strand in blue ink on the dedication page, scarce thus. More
Washington DC: Office of the Administrator, Census of Partial Employment, and Occupations. 1937. Folding card, printed on both sides, approx. 8 X 9 inches unfolded. Official card to be filled out for the federal unemployment census, 1937. With spaces and check boxes for collection of data and a "Message from..... More
London: R. Dodsley, 1746. First Edition. Small 4to, 47pp; modern cloth. Includes Warton's "Advertisement," with its declaration of commitment to "Invention and Imagination" in poetry, described by Hayward as a key forerunner of the Romantic movement. Hayward 169. More