Speech Delivered by Bernard Burton; At People's World Conference, Dec. 17, 1955
N.P. N.p., 1955. 4 mimeographed pages, 8-1/2 x 14 in., stapled. Full text of the speech by People's World journalist and abortion rights activist Burton. More
N.P. N.p., 1955. 4 mimeographed pages, 8-1/2 x 14 in., stapled. Full text of the speech by People's World journalist and abortion rights activist Burton. More
London: J. Murray, 1814. First Edition. Small 8vo, [i-viii] + 128pp; plain wrappers, trimmed, with marbled edges. Includes the advertisement leaf in front describing the two texts, both published here anonymously, and explaining Byron's wish to include the Rogers text as well as his unsatisfied wish that it be placed..... More
London: John Murray, 1814. First Edition. Small 8vo, xi + 100pp, plain wrappers, agressively trimmed with marbled edges. First issue -- the second was expanded to 108 pages by the addition of more poems. Trimmed to a significantly smaller size than issued, with the resultant loss of the imprint at..... More
London: John Murray, 1821. First Edition. 8vo, viii, 439pp; original cloth-backed boards with publisher's paper spine label. An untrimmed copy in publisher's boards, half title present, with armorial Rycroft bookplate on the front pastedown and, above it, the small leather label of writer and dramatist Alfred Sutro (the leather has..... More
Hollywood: The Screen Writers' Guild, Inc., 1946. First edition. 8vo, 18pp pamphlet in printed self-wrappers, stapled. An offprint from the July 1946 issue of "The Screen Writer," this is Cain's presentation of his proposal for an organization to aid screenwriters in negotiating with producers and studios. The "Cain Plan", as..... More
N.P. N.p., (1944). Small broadside, approx. 5-1/2 X 8-1/2 in., printed on one side. Graphic campaign leaflet for Styles's primary campaign against the Democratic incumbent, John Costello, declaring "Reject Costello 'The Democrat who votes like a Republican.' (L.A. Daily News)" A popular radio host, Styles won the primary handily and..... More
Los Angeles: Southern California Campaign Headquarters, (1946). Bifolium approx. 4 X 9 in., printed on four sides. Campaign flyer for Patterson's unsuccessful run for an open seat after the death of Sen. Hiram Johnson. Patterson, a former Republican, became a Democrat and a converted New-Dealer, but managed to get less..... More
N.P. (Sacramento): N.p., n.d. (ca. 1942). 2-sided handbill, 6 x 9 in. Text of a draft resolution by California State Senators Robert W. Kenny, John F. Shelley, and John Phillips. More
Chicago: Institute of Design, 1953; 1957. Two vols, irregular 4tos. First volume is spiral bound in printed stiff wrappers; second volume is loose leaves in printed chemise. The first two numbers of this student publication from the Institute of Design, founded by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy as the Chicago Bauhaus and eventually..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First edition. 8vo, 284pp; cloth-backed decorative boards. A radical critic and founder of the "Modern Quarterly", V.F. Calverton was the pseudonym of George Goetz. This was his first book. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. First edition. 8vo, 336pp; cloth. Loosely inserted is a small broadsheet advertisement for new books about Napoleon (Emil Ludwig) and George Washington (W.E. Woodward). More
London: Edward Moxon, 1837. First Edition. 8vo, frontispiece, [x], 306pp; crushed morocco gilt, with elaborative decorative spine-tooling by L. Brock; a.e.g. A most handsome copy, embellished with two signed documents tipped in: a handwritten ticket admitting the bearer to a reading by Campbell (1818) and an autograph letter signed by..... More
Paris: Elysees-Cinema, 1938. Bifolium, approx. 5-1/2 X 6-1/2 in., printed in all four sides. Folding program from a Paris screening of the Eddie Cantor feature, with a photo still inside. Also on the program: two Disney animations "Le Cousin de Campagne" (The Country Cousin) and "Mickey Chez les Géants" (Giantland)..... More
New York: Random House, (1965). First edition. 8vo, 343pp; wrappers. Advance review copy of Capote's classic "non-fiction novel" More
New York: Random House, (1949). First edition. Cloth. 8vo, 209pp; black cloth. Capote's second book, inscribed and signed by Capote on the front flyleaf. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. First American edition. Cloth-backed boards. 8vo, 349pp; original cloth-backed boards. Inscribed on the title page: "For Quincy Troupe from another Miles fan, Peter Carey." The recipient, a prolific poet, is well-known for having co-written the autobiography of Miles Davis. 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
London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. First Edition. 8vo, 83pp; original pictorial cream cloth, a.e.g., coated black endpapers. A presentable copy of Carroll's great nonsense poem, distinguished by the presence of the rare pamphlet "An Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves 'Alice'" tipped to the front endpaper. More
New York: Harper & Row, (1982). 1st edition. 8vo, gray cloth. Signed by Carruth on the title page. More
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., (1971). First Edition. 8vo, 128pp; black cloth. This copy has been inscribed and signed ("Elliott") on the front flyleaf for the harpsichordist Sylvia Marlowe and her husband, artist Leonid Berman. As founder of the Harpsichord Music Society, Marlowe commissioned, performed, and recorded original pieces..... More
Melbourne, Australia: McLaren & Co. Pty. Ltd., 1963. 8vo, (19)pp in printed wrappers. The first two books of poems by Casey, the Australian baroness, aviatrix, and writer, with illustrations by Burke who was known primarily as a textile artist. Copy number 252 of an unspecified limited edition, this copy warmly..... More
New York: Birk & Co. Publishers, 1955. First edition. 8vo, 12pp pamphlet in wrappers, stapled; illustrated. Historical context of famous phrases, from "we must all hang together, or assuredly we will all hang separately" to "Kilroy was here." More
Tübingen: Verlag von J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Sibeck), 1932. First Edition. 8vo, 491pp; original printed wrappers. Solid but delicate copy of this intellectual history of the Enlightenment written as its ideas were under severe strain during the rise of Nazism in Germany. More