The Seraglio
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. First edition. 8vo, 312pp; cloth-backed boards. The poet's first novel, here inscribed by Merrill on the title page for the librarian and bibliophile Lee Milazzo. More
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The Thousand and Second Night
Athens: The Christos Christou Press, 1963. First Edition. Squarish [17]pp chapbook in gray wrappers with printed label, stapled. One of only fifty copies, the entire edition, this being one of those without the hand-colored vignettes Merrill added to twenty copies. One of Merrill's scarcest books, this copy bears a presentation..... More
Vocations
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1922). First American edition. 8vo, 334pp; cloth. A very nice copy of the priest-turned-novelist's book about the lives of young women in Catholic Ireland. The rare dust jacket reproduces a letter to the publisher from George Moore as a blurb in the front panel; the..... More
The Assassin
London: Jonathan Cape, (1928). First edition. 8vo, 286pp; cloth. Jacket design by J. L. Carstairs. More
The Martyr
London: Victor Gollancz, (1933). First edition. 8vo, 286pp; cloth. More
Grapefruit
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 far fewer -- in the first edition of Ono's first book, a compendium of concept pieces in the form..... More
Section: Rock-Drill; 85-95 de los cantares
London: Faber & Faber, (1957). First English edition. 8vo, 107pp; black cloth. One of 2000 copies in the edition. Gallup A70c. More
Public Invited! Mass Meeting: Atomic Energy - Slave or Master . . .
Los Angeles: Hollywood Independent Citizens Committee of Arts, Science and Professions, n.d. (1945). Broadside, single leaf 8-1/2 X 11 inches, printed on two sides. Announcement of a meeting on the topic of "Atomic Power and Foreign Policy" held at Hollywood Legion Stadium four months after the world learned of atomic..... More
Social Anthropology:; A Psycho-Analytic Study in Anthropology and a History of Australian Totemism. With an Introduction by M.D. Eder.
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. First American edition. Large 8vo, 487pp illus; complete with eleven folding maps; green cloth. U.S. edition done up from sheets of the London edition published by George Allen & Unwin, with a cancel title page. Roheim was on the forefront of using psychoanalytical methods..... More
Burning the Days; Recollection
New York: Random House, (1997). First edition. 8vo, 365pp; smooth ivory boards. Signed by Salter on the first blank leaf. More
The Monastery.; A Romance. By the Author of "Waverley."
Edinburgh: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820. First Edition. Three vols., 8vos; with all half-titles, and further half-titles in Vols. 2 and 3;, 331, 333, 351pp, with imprints at the bottom of the last page in each volume; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards. With "attentoin" in the last line of..... More
Spain is the Conscience of the World
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
Autograph letter signed; "Otto," to Berta Kamm (his sister), December 2, 1947
-. Two pages, on a single leaf of Hotel Windermere (Chicago) stationery, approx. 5-1/2 X 6-3/4 in.; together with a small calling card, signed in full by Stern. Otto Stern (1888-1969) received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1943, the first time the award had been given since 1939. His..... More
Travels into several Remote Nations of World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, first a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships.
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
Now the Sky; & Other Poems
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1928. First edition. Small 8vo, 113pp; original boards with cloth spine and tips. Scarce volume of poetry by a Pulitzer Prize winner and longtime Columbia University professor. This is a presentation copy, inscribed by Van Doren on the front endpaper to his brother and..... More
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