(Buttermarket, Ipswich): Emanuel for Pendragon Press, 1968. First Edition. 8vo, 21pp; natural linen with green cloth spine; issued without dust jacket. One of 2000 numbered copies in the entire edition, this is from the second thousand, designated for sale in the United States. Although uncalled for, this copy has been..... More
New York: South Street Seaport Museum, 1990s. Varying sizes and formats. A nice group of letterpress poem cards and press keepsakes produced by Bowne & Co. for the South Street Seaport Museum, comprising: Emily Dickinson, "There is no Frigate like a book..."; "Rules," an arrangement of printer's rules on a...... More
New York: Oliphant Press, 1977-1983. Five pieces, varying sizes and formats. A nice gathering of finely printed ephemera, comprising: "The Oliphant Press" a brief history printed as a four-page bifolium with a woodcut illustration (1977); "The Oliphant Press" printed card advertisement with the same illustration, produced to invite commissions (no..... More
New York: Buxton Hill Music Corporation, 1953. 7ppp, approx. 9 X 12 in. with bifolium loosely inserted into illustrated self-wrappers. Music and lyrics to Porter's song from his hit Broadway show "Can-Can," for which a young Gwen Verdon won her first Tony Award. More
New York: T.B. Harms Company, 1948. 5pp, approx. 9 X 12 in., with single leaf loosely inserted into printed self-wrappers. Music and lyrics by Porter from his hit play "Kiss Me, Kate." More
New York: Famous Music Corp. 1943. 5pp, approx. 9 X 12 in., with single leaf loosely inserted into illustrated wrapper. Loesser's western song, first recorded by Tex Ritter and subsequently covered by many country singers including the Louvin Brothers, Charlie Rich, Glen Campbell, and Willie Nelson. More
New York: M. Witmark & Sons, 1935. 5pp, approx. 9 X 12 in., with single leaf inserted into illustrated self-wrappers with the last page of the music printed on the inside rear wrapper. Lyrics by Dubin and music by Warren for this song featured in the Busby Berkeley film "Gold..... More
New York: Melrose Music Corp. 1948. Single bifolium, approx. 9 X 12 in., printed on all sides. Music and lyrics for Loesser's pop standard, first recorded by Kay Kyser. More
New York: July 1916. 8vo, 32pp in printed wrappers, stapled. This issue of Kreymborg's influential magazine was edited by William Carlos Williams and contains poems by Carl Sandburg, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Mina Loy, Ezra Pound, and many others, including of course Williams himself. The front cover has a three-line..... More
New York: November, 1918. 8vo, 64pp; original wrappers, stapled. This issue of Margaret Anderson's great magazine was, as announced on the front cover, "Devoted chiefly to Ezra Pound..." Pound, who was the magazine's London editor at the time, contributes nine poems, a portion of "Imaginary Letters," and four essays, along..... More
N.P. (New York): N.p. (Smyrna Press), n.d. (1969). First Edition. Broadside, approx. 14 X 17 in., printed on one side only, folded twice. Uncommon broadside with the text of Georgakas letter to Ezra Pound, along with Nicholas Sperakis's illustration of Pound surrounded by ghostly figures. Poet, educator, and radical activist..... More
Paris: Chez Pancoucke, 1785. 11 vols, 12mos; original self-wrappers. Eleven consecutive numbers of the venerable French periodical, whose history stretches from the mid-17th century to the present, shifting eventually from a literary magazine into a publishing house. More
Brooklyn, NY: Release Press, 1973. First Edition. 12 printed pieces, roughly 6 X 9 in., loosely housed in printed paper sleeve. "One Shot Deal was printed in a limited edition of 400, on varying grades & brands of paper. No two are exactly the same." (from the copyright page). A...... More
Berlin: Preussische Druckerei und Verlags-Aktiensgesellschaft, 1931. 8vo, 168pp, with folding map in rear; original printed wrappers. Course catalogue from the university in the final year before its usurpation by the Nazi regime. A tipped-in corregienda slip names the great pacifist theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer as a lecturer. The faculty at this..... More
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New York: The Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, n.d. (1940). First Edition. 12mo, 24pp pamphlet in wrappers, stapled. Published as "Reconstructionist Pamphlet No. 1," this essay by the movement's founder appeared in the foundation's periodical The Reconstructionist in February, 1940. The Reconstructionist movement developed in the United States, advocating a practical, historical..... More
Beverly Hills, California: March, April 1934. Two vols., 4tos, in original printed wrappers. Bishop's first professional publications (both had already appeared in a Vassar student magazine). More
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1960). First Edition. 4to, 183pp; cream white cloth. Penn's first book, collecting portraits and photographs originally published in Vogue. More
Chicago: P.F. Volland & Co., 1915. First Edition. 8vo, unpag.; original pictorial brown cloth, t.e.g. A lovely copy of Lardner's first solely authored book, with a small slip of paper bearing his inked signature tipped to the front endpaper. Bruccoli & Layman A3. More
London: Macmillan, 1927. First Edition. 8vo, 182pp; decorated blue cloth gilt. The first combined edition of the two titles -- issued separately in small editions by the Dun Emer Press in Ireland -- and including the first trade publication of one of Yeats's best-known poems, "Sailing to Byzantium." An excellent..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1936). First American edition. 8vo, 220pp; blue cloth. The first issue, with the dust jacket being gray (later copies were brown); one of 4700 copies in the edition. Loosely inserted in this copy is a 1937 postcard invitation to a lecture about Eliot by Charles David..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First Edition. 8vo, 431pp; green cloth. An attractive copy of a book often found in less than optimal condition. More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1930. First Edition. 8vo, 320pp; green cloth. More
London: William Heinemann, (1930). First Edition. 8vo, 270pp; blue cloth. First issue -- with the letter "t" missing from the word "won't" on p. 147. More
New York: Random House, (1952). First American edition. 8vo, 311pp; half gray-cloth with photographic label and ribbed paper-covered boards. Bowles's third book, and second novel, in its handsome E. McKnight-Kauffer dust jacket. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1955). First Edition. 8vo, 956pp; black cloth. An excellent copy of Gaddis's landmark first book, an inimitable novel of art, forgery, and the depredations of the New York art world at mid-century. The dust jacket in the first issue, with the publisher's address 383 Madison Avenue..... More