London: March 1925. 8vo, 88pp; original printed wrappers. A successful and well-subsidized monthly edited by Edgell Rickward and Douglas Garman, this inaugural number includes contributions by them, as well as the first part of D.H. Lawrence's "The Princess," poems by Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon, a new translation of a...... More

Berkeley: Berkeley Women's Liberation, Jan 15 (1970). 8pp tabloid newspaper, approx. 17-1/4 X 8-1/2 in. Inaugural issue of a radical, feminist newspaper comprised of mostly unsigned contributions on such topics as self-defense, male backlash, day care, and contraception. Includes the poem "A Black Woman Speaks" by Beulah Richardson filling the..... More

New York: Creative Age Press, September 1941. Single bifolium, approx. 8-1/4 X 11-1/4 in., printed on all sides. Folding prospectus/announcement of the inaugural issue of this cultural magazine edited by Elieen J. Garrett. The front page reproduces the cover of the first issue, with an extensive written introduction to the..... More

Hollywood, California: American Russian Institute, January, 1947. 8vo, eight unnumbered mimeograph pages in printed wrappers. Scarce little cultural propaganda publication issued by the American Russian Institute of Southern California, whose board of directors included the soon-to-be blacklisted screenwriter Alvah Bessie and Russian-born director Lewis Milestone. Although Milestone, like Bessie, refused..... More

Ryton, Dymock, Gloucester (England): February-December 1914. Four numbers, small 4tos, 5-59, 61-108, 109-152, 153-203 (6); original printed wrappers. The complete run of this short-lived journal dedicated to the work of its editors, the "Dymock Poets" Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Rupert Brooke, Lascelles Abercrombie, and John Drinkwater. An abrasion beneath the date..... More

New York: ca. 1942. Printed card, approx. 3-1/4 X 5-3/8 in., printed by intaglio on one side only. Luther Greene (1910-1987) was a theatrical producer turned landscape designer. A flamboyant figure, he operated his 'exterior design' business out of his basement apartment on New York's East 58th St., near Sutton..... More

Vineburg, California: Engdahl Typography, (1990). First Edition. 10 loose folio leaves, with title and colophon pages, housed in original cloth covered chemise. Edition limited to fifty numbered copies and twenty lettered copies; this is one of the author's copies, specifically designated as Russell Edson's copy and lettered E. The other..... More

1970. Gelatin-silver print on gold paper, 4 X 5 in. A delightful example of one of Uelsmann's more lighthearted and humorous darkroom manipulations, showing a leafless tree growing of of a massive hamburger (on a bun, with tomato). On the verso, Uelsmann has signed, titled, and dated the picture, with..... More

London: W.H. Carpenter, 1820. First Edition. 4to, frontispiece, xxxix, 501 [1, errata]; contemporary three-quarter red leather and marbled boards. A contemporary and friend of Pope, Spence was a respected schoalr. His best known work is this posthumously published collection literary anecdotes that informed much subsequent scholarship on eighteenth-century literature. More

Andernach: Burn Again Press, 1990. First Edition. 8vo, unpag.; light green boards with printed labels on front cover and spine. One of fifty numbered copies signed by Bukowski, the entire edition, published ostensibly in the town of his birth in Germany and marking his seventieth birthday. One of Bukowski's scarcer..... More

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1998. First Edition. 8vo, 144pp; cloth-backed pictorial boards. One of 400 numbered copies handbound in boards, signed by Bukowski, and with an original signed color serigraph portrait of Bukowski by R. Crumb bound in at the front. More

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. First Edition. 8vo, 283pp; cloth-backed pictorial boards. One of 750 hardcover trade copies (there were also 350 numbered and signed hardcover copies), this one has been signed by Bukowski on the title page. More

Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1989, 1991, 1992. First English-language editions. Three vols., uniform 8vos, 498, 422, 308pp; cloth-backed boards. These are the correct first editions in English, published in Egypt in the wake of Mahfouz's award of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988. Loosely inserted in..... More