Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1914. First Edition. 8vo, 231pp; printed wrappers. Walser's first substantial collection of short fiction, with thirty illustrations to the text as well as the title vignette (which is repeated on the front wrapper) by the author's brother. More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1990. First Edition. 8vo, 328pp; cloth-backed boards. From the regular trade editon of 300 hardbound copies (there was also an issue in wrappers, as well as two signed/limited issues), this one is an intimate presentation copy, inscribed by Coleman at the time of publication to..... More
Brooklyn, NY: November 16, 1948. Single leaf of watermarked bond paper, approx. 7 X 10-1/4 in., folded twice for mailing, with original envelope. A nice, early letter written just six months after the publication of Mailer's first book, The Naked and the Dead, to the French biographer and critic Antonina..... More
Paris: 1946-1949. Over 100 printed items, most mounted on card pages in a folio-sized four-ring binder, covered in khaki cloth with marbled endpapers; about a dozen items loosely inserted. Private "ciné-clubs" arose almost simultaneously with the earliest cinematic productions in France. In the postwar era, the cine-clubs flourished, providing a...... More
New York: Paul David Press / Rizzoli, 1977. First Edition. Square 4to; printed wrappers, as issued (no clothbound issue). Series of "found" grids in 414 color photographs taken by Lewitt with a Rollei 110 camera and arranged in nine-by-nine grids on forty-six pages. More
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(Lausanne, Switzerland: Editions des Massons), 1974. First Edition. Square 4to, unpag.; printed wrappers as issued. Systematic artists' book presenting a total of 190 combinations of arcs and lines. More
(London): Lisson Publications, 1974. First Edition. Square 4to; printed wrappers as issued. 23 variations laying out systematic placement of lines within a square, each captioned with explanatory text by the artist from "A line from the midpoint of the left side to the midpoint of the right side" to "A..... More
London: J. and R. Tonson, et al. 1765. Second Edition. 8 vols., 8vos; frontispiece portrait in Vol. 1; clv, 488; [2] 557; [2] 504; [2] 589; [2] 493; [2] 627; [2] 547; [2] 473, [53]; half-titles in Vols. 2-8 (not called for in Vol. 1); contemporary polished calf with gilt..... More
(Shanghai): Hwa Kuo Printing Co., n.d. (ca. 1945). First Edition. Oblong 8vo, unpag.; sewn with red cord in printed card wrappers. A lighthearted examination from a postwar vantage, illustrated with cartoon drawings, of the life of refugees in Shanghai during the war years. Thousands of European refugees, many of them..... More
New York: Brewer and Warren, Inc / Payson & Clarke, Ltd., 1930. First Edition. 8vo, 198pp; peach cloth stamped in violet on spine. The author's first book, a satirical look at the relation between the sexes. Hahn went on to a prolific career producing dozens of books and hundreds of..... More
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Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1918. First Edition. Folio, (approx. 11 X 14 in / 27.5 X 35 cm.), 25 unpaginated leaves, printed on rectos only; original illustrated boards with cloth spine. Kubin's sequence of 24 lithographic images depicts death in a variety of contexts and including the title page and final..... More
London: E. Curll, 1726. First collected edition. Two vols., 16mos, frontispiece, [8], 129, [3]; [6], 144, 77, [5]; full straight-grained red morocco gilt by Stikeman, with marbled endpapers; t.e.g. With portrait frontispiece and the engraved epitaph leaf in Volume 1. More
London: T. Becket and P.A. Dehondt, 1765. First collected edition. 12mo, [4], xv, [2] 19-184, [2]; full crushed green morocco gilt by Riviere, a.e.g. With one-line erratum at the base of the last page of text, two-page list of works by Langhorne at the end and with the final blank..... More
London: N.p., 1763. First Edition. 12mo, 30pp; ssomehat later pebble grain cloth and marbled boards. Apparent first edition, complete with half-title, of Churchill's satirical response to a Hogarth caricature of John Wilkes. This copy belonged to the publisher, collector, and Bloomsbury figure Roger Senhouse, with his small bookplate, signature, and..... More
London: N.p., 1710. Later edition. 12mo, 107 [1]pp; later three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Buckinghma's popular satire was originally published in 1671, taking aim at the genre of heroic tragedy exemplified by Dryden and others. More
London: T. Johnson, 1753. Pirated edition. Two vols, 8vos; vii [1], 268; 324; full contemporary calf. Unauthorized edition of Smollett's third novel. More
London: J. Osborn, 1748. First Edition. Two vols., 12mos; xxii [1], 324; xii, 366; full red morocco gilt (by Scroll Club, NY) with gilt spines and panels, dentelles, doublures and endleaves of blue moire; t.e.g. The first edition of Smollett's first novel was a popular success, and a second was..... More
London: G. Kearsley, 1786. Second Edition. 4to, frontispiece, 54, [1]pp; later three-quarter mottled calf by Riviere. Second edition of the popular satire about Boswell and Mrs. Thrale, key figures among Dr. Johnson's circle of friends. With the caricature frontispiece engraving by Thomas Rowlandson. This copy derived from the stock of..... More
Edinburgh: J. Dickson and C. Elliot, 1773. Three vols., 8vos; xx, 390, 319, 288, [36]pp; contemporary calf. Early English-language edition of Rousseau's theory of education, the first having appeared in 1763. 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
London: John Murray, 1824. First Edition. 8vo, [viii], 208, with frontispiece and folding plate; full crushed morocco gilt with gilt dentrelles, spine in six compartments separated by raised bands; t.e.g. A lovely copy of this compendium by the noted Scottish antiquarian, with a distinguished provenance. The frontispiece is a full-length..... More
London: R. Hunter (Vols. 1-3), J. Johnson (Vols. 4-6), 1815,1814. Mixed edition. Six vols, 8vos; viii, 416, 390, 368,460, 392, 452pp, all half-titles present; contemporary calf and marbled boards. Uniformly bound set of Edgeworth's popular stories, with the last three volumes being from the fourth edition and the first three..... More
London: A. Millar, et al, 1754. First English edition. 8vo, [xii],368, [20], includes index and errata in rear; contemporary mottled calf with gilt borders and spine rules, red leather label. Originally published in French, this was the first proper biography of Grotius, the great Dutch-born philosopher and legal scholar whose..... More
London: T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1798. Second Edition. Three vols., 8vos, frontispiece, [2] cxxiv, 287, 427, 370pp; contemporary mottled calf, gilt-tooled spines with olive leather labels. Corrected and expanded from its first publication in 1797. The frontispiece portrait was engraved by Caroline Watson after the artist's own self..... More
London: Printed by Biggs and Cottle, for T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1803. First collected edition. Three vols., 8vos, frontispieces; [16] clx, 361, 536, 528pp with engraved illustrations; contemporary diced calf, recased and rebacked, marbled edges. This set was bound by the Comte de Caumont, an emigre French nobleman who..... More