Drafts & Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII
(New York): New Directions, (1969). First printing. 8vo, 32pp; black cloth. One of 3000 copies in the edition. Gallup A91a. More
(New York): New Directions, (1969). First printing. 8vo, 32pp; black cloth. One of 3000 copies in the edition. Gallup A91a. 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
London: G.G. and J. Robinson, 1794. First Edition. 4 vols; 8vos, 428, 478, 463, 428pp; contemporary calf gilt with red leather spine labels. A nice, compete set of the first edition with all half title pages present. Housed in an unusual four-compartment felt-lined wooden slipcase. A classic of Gothic fiction..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916. First edition. 8vo, 335pp; pebble-grained cloth stamped in black and red. Prior to his history-making Ten Days That Shook the World, about the Russian revolution, Reed was a war correspondent for Metropolitan Magazine, reporting from the eastern front. More
-. Card approx. 3-1/2 X 2 in. Bold signature of the noted operatic baritone (1880-1926). More
Athènes: Institut Français d'Athènes, 1953. First edition. Small 4to, 48pp + photos; wrappers. Prose account of the poet's visit to the famous Cappadocian monasteries, with an appendix of 50 black and white photographs. Seferis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963. More
-. Written on one side of a plain postcard, approx. 4 X 6 in. with one perforated edge. SIlone writes to a liberal political activist and scholar, who was also an autograph collector, to congratulate him on an article he'd written about a Charles Dickens letter in his collection. More
Oakland, CA: Alameda County Committee, Communist Party, n.d (1937). Broadside, single leaf approx. 8-1/2 X 11 inches. Flyer announcing protest events and summoning supporters for Spanish republicans just after the nazi bombings of Guernica and Almeria. More
-. Postcard approx. 3-1/2 X 5-1/2 in., with a porttait of Stinde. Julius Stinde (1841-1905), trained as a chemist, he became a writer and was best known for humorous books about middle-class Berlin society. Ulla Frankfurter, also known by her married name Ulla Wolff-Frank, wrote under the pseudonym "Ulrich Frank."..... More
London: Printed for Benj. Motte. . . 1726. Two vols., uniform 8vos, frontispiece, 310 + 353pp, with all title pages and maps; contemporary sprinkled calf with gilt-tooled spines and leather labels; edges trimmed and stained yellow; marbled endpapers. Teerink's edition B, the last of the three editions that all appeared..... More
(Los Angeles): California A.F. of L. Labor Unions, n.d. (1942). First edition. Small 8vo, 7pp pamphlet in printed wrappers. Delicate pamphlet in which Trumbo makes the argument for opening a second front in the war against Hitler. Very uncommon. More
New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, (1973). First edition. 8vo, 295pp; orange cloth. Among Vonnegut's most raucous works. More
Berlin. -. One page, on bifolium of Berliner Tageblatt lettterhead, approx. 6 X 7-3/4 in. Theodor Wolff (1868-1943) Major cultural critic and journalist, editor of the Berliner Tageblatt and co-founded of the liberal Deutsche Demokratische Partei. Another co-founder of the party was the recipient's son Richard Otto Frankfurter. More
Los Angeles: AIM/United People for Wounded Knee, (1973). Broadsheet, single leaf 8-1/2 X 11 inches, printed on both sides. Bilingual (English and Spanish) flyer announcing a public protest supporting AIM leaders during the siege at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. More
New York: Corinth Books, 1971. First Edition. 8vo, 95pp; terracotta cloth. The poet's first book, and one of the signal intersections between the Black Arts movement and the second-generation New York School. One of 500 clothbound copies and substantially less common than the issue of 1500 in wrappers. More