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
London: John and Paul Knapton, 1748. First Edition. Thick 4to, 417pp, complete with all plates, subscriber's list, and leaf of Directions to the Bookbinder for Placing the Copper-Plates. Later 3/4 morocco and boards. Anson commanded a squadron of eight ships on a mission against Spain's possession in the Pacific. The..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1939. First Edition. 8vo, 333pp; blue cloth with printed spine label. The first commercially published book in Gruber's extraordinary long career. In 1932 she published her dissertation -- the first feminist study of Virginia Woolf -- before turning to journalism, where she made her lasting..... More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1931. First Edition. 8vo, 313pp; brown cloth. Possibly the only novel by this elusive, English-born writer, based on his experience as a coal miner in western Britain before the World War. After the war, Carlisle emigrated to the U.S. His dust jacket bio reads in part..... More
New York: Audio Fidelity, 1960. AFLP 1930. 12 inch LP recording in printed sleeve. Armstrong's tribute record to his mentor, recorded in September and October 1959. The cover of this copy has been signed by Armstrong along with several of his bandmates who appear on this recording: Billy Kyle (piano)..... More
New York: Hawk's Well Press (first two numbers); David Antin & Jerome Rothenberg, Spring 1965-Summer 1968. Five volumes in four; 8vos, 64pp, 68pp, unpag., 119pp; original wrappers. The complete set of this short-lived periodical linking experimental poetry and avant-garde art. Contributors include, in addition to the editors, Allen Ginsberg, Diane..... More
(Los Angeles): 1949. Tempera on cardstock paper, approx. 10 X 14 in. Nighttime cityscape depicting images of Los Angeles, with the central image of a streetcar filled with passengers and all around lighted signs (Bond Pants, Follies, Tivoli Theatre, Beer, Parking, Wine, Ice) a lamppost, a telephone booth, and a...... More
(Los Angeles: circa 1949). Tempera on paper, mounted with glue onto cardboard, approx. 12 X 9 in. Figure of a masked Harlequin, standing in front of a doorway and strumming a small triangular guitar-like instrument under a full moon. On the reverse, on the back of the cardboard, Bradbury has..... More
Zürich: Atlantis, (1980). First German edition. 8vo, 635pp; blue cloth. The author's own copy of his definitive work on the great composer, originally published in a shorter English language version in 1963. Inscribed on the first leaf: "(Nr. 1), Eric Werner, Zürich, 1. July 1980." In addition, Werner has taped..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First Edition. 4to, 263pp; patterned blue cloth with tan cloth spine. Compendium of music and lyrics, illustrated with stereopticon photographs. Laid in is the publisher's promotional flyer. More
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1928. 4to, 180pp; green cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Essay by the scholar from the Imperial Household Museum, Tokyo, illustrated with photographs. More
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1930. 4to, 165pp; blue cloth. Special autumn number of the periodical Creative Art devoted entirely to this richly illustrated essay by the venerable art dealer. More
New York: Liveright, Inc. Publishers, (1932). First Edition. Large 8vo, 421pp; black cloth. Colorful memoir by a scion of one of New York's storied families, recounting the New York City of the latter nineteenth century, its characters and locations. More
(Berlin): Rembrandt Verlag, (1967). First Edition. 4to, unpag.; gray cloth. One of 3000 numbered copies in the edition. Grieshaber's series of colored woodblock prints illustrate Wyszynski's Polish texts on the Stations of the Cross, with an appendix of translations into English and German. More
Paris: 1937. 4to, [127]pp; original wrappers. The inaugural issue of the great French arts magazine, here in its English language issue for export. Features lithographs -- printed by Mourlot -- by Fernand Leger, Joan Miro, Abraham Rattner, and Francisco Bores; photographs bvy Man Ray; text contributions by André Gide, Georges..... More
Paris: (1951). 4to, unpag.' boards. Double number of the great arts quarterly, entirely devoted to recent work by Picasso, paintings, sculptures, and ceramics. The cover and frontispiece are prints executed specially for this publication. More
Paris: 1939. 4to, 140pp; original lithographic wrappers. Featuring Matisse's double-page color lithograph of "The Dance," illustrating Henri Michaux's text of the same title. Also with André Derain's lithographic suite "Le Jardin d'Allah" and texts by Paul Valéry, Pierre Reverdy, Georges Bataille, Jean-Paul Sartre, and others. The cover is by Georges..... More
Paris: (1950). 4to, unpag.; boards. This issue is devoted to Chagall's lithographic illustrations to Boccaccio's Decameron, with additional tipped-in plates from an early Burgundian manuscript of the same, and texts by Jacques Prévert and Frantz Calot. More
New York: George Braziller, (1977). First American edition, first trade edition. 4to, 222pp; original natural linen. Faithful reproduction of the original 1961 publication by Verve. More
Paris: Editions Cahiers d'Art, n.d. (1958). 4to, unpag.; original blue cloth stamped in white. Tipped-on reproductions of Léger's studies for a portrait, including 17 in color. An exceptionally fresh copy. More
(Paris): Aux Editions Cercle d'Art, (1962). Second Edition. 4to, unpag.; original printed linen. Among Picasso's more enduringly popular books, filled with his images of bullfighting With text in French and Spanish. More
Hackbridge, Carshalton, Surrey, England: At the Sign of the Rose, 1899. 8vo, unpag.; original printed wrappers. One of an unknown, though certainly small, number of copies of this special number. The Page was the first of Craig's notably idiosyncratic and adventurous, self-produced periodicals. Issues of it are delicate and very..... More
New York: Horace Liveright, (1930). First Edition. 8vo, 329pp; original terracotta cloth stamped in black and with the printed paper radio-dial affixed to the front board by means of a metal grommet. This vivid first person account of virtual world-travel by young Palmer stands as a key work in the..... More
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (1949). First Edition. 8vo, 245pp; black cloth stamped in yellow. Designed and conceived by Armitage, this was one of several collections on which he collaborated with Corle. For this symposium, they assembled essays about Stravinsky from contributors including Erik Satie, Eugene Goossens, Jean Cocteau..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1971). First Edition. 8vo, 204pp; red cloth. A presentation copy inscribed by Thomson on the front flyleaf: "For Sylvia Marlowe, love & everything, Virgil, ever, 1971." The recipient was a prominent and eclectic harpsichordist who was as committed to playing the works of contemporary..... More