New York: Boni and Liveright, 1923. First edition. 8vo, 304pp; black cloth with printed spine label. Three plays by the eventual Pulitzer Prize-winner. Déclassée would be made into a film in 1925 starring Corrinne Griffith and directed by Robert Vignola. More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1993). First edition. Cloth. 8vo, blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Alexie on the title page to poet, writer, editor, biographer, and literary impresario Quincy Troupe. A nice association copy. More
New York: Farrar Straus & Cudahy, (1956). First edition. 8vo, cloth-backed boards. A better than usual copy. More
Anderson, S.C. Droke House Publishers, (1969). First edition. 8vo, 102pp; cloth. A collection of poems pseudonymously authored by the television personality Steve Alllen, posing as "one of Australia's best known poets." In addition to the poems themselves, the book includes an introduction on the poetry of William Christopher Stevens by..... 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
New York: Norton, (1975). First edition. 8vo, black cloth. Signed by Ammons on the title page. The poet received the Bollingen Prize for this volume. More
San Francisco: San Francsico Symphony Orchestra, 1947. -. 4to; single leaf, folded to make four pages, printed on all sides in black and red. Boldly signed "Marian Anderson" on the front cover. The program featured Anderson singing arias from Verdi's "Don Carlos" and Tchaikowsky's "Jeanne d'Arc" as well as "Negro..... More
Edinburgh: Mundell & Son, 1803. Fourth Edition. 8vo, 242pp; contemporary diced calf. The first three editions of Anderson's Life of Smollett were published as prefaces to collected editions of Smollett's works. Anderson continued to expand and revise his book until this edition when it first appeared independently as a separate..... More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. 8vo, 339pp; cloth. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First edition. 12mo, 118pp; blue cloth. Not common in jacket. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. First edition. 8vo, 230pp; cloth-backed boards. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. First edition. 8vo, 346pp; cloth. More
New York: G. Howard Watt, 1931. First Edition. 8vo, 256pp; orange moire-cloth stamped in blue. A novel of adultery and debauchery in old Hollywood. The anonymous author was Anabel Lane, a sometime contributor to Film Mercury, a trade magazine edited by her screenwriter sister Tamar, with whom she also co-authored..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. First edition. 8vo, 145pp + 2pp musical score; blue cloth, printed spine label. Quite scarce, especially in dust jacket. More
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Nevada: Tattoo Press, (1969). First edition. Wraps. 4to; contents loose, house in printed pocket-folder; two items tipped to verso of cover. One of 5500 copies of this unorthodox anthology, produced as a tribute to Jon Webb, publisher of the alternative magazine "Outsider" and proprietor of the Loujon Press. Contributors include..... More
New York: Horace Liveright, (1928). First edition. 8vo, 410pp; cloth-backed boards. Contributors include Sherwood Anderson, Robert Benchley, Colette, Rube Goldberg, Arthur Schnitzler, Andre Maurois, Ferenc Molnar, Jim Tully, others. More
Los Angeles: American League Against War and Fascism, n.d. (1939). Narrow broadside, approx. 4-1/2 X 12 inches. Litany of the costs of war in death and destruction, the profits from it for corporations and investors, and tasks for those who would join the League in resistance. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First edition. 8vo, 301pp; dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. Memoir of a New York State Senator and longtime fixture in the state's Democratic party. A presentation copy, inscribed on the front flyleaf: "To Hon. Harry B. Chambers, In token of friendship and esteem..... More
New York: Something Else Press, 1967. First printing. Wraps. 8vo, 13pp; pamphlet in printed wrappers, stapled. Published in the Great Bear Pamphlet series; inscribed briefly and signed by Antin on the inside front wrapper. More
Los Angeles: American Peace Mobilization, (1940). Broadsheet, printed on both sides of a single leaf, approx. 8-1/2 X 12 inches. Announcement of an anti-war rally at LA's Embassy Auditorium, featuring speakers Herbert Biberman (who would be among the Hollywood Ten of blacklisted screenwriters after the war), Philip M. Connelly, and..... More
Paris: Gallimard, 1944. Small 8vo, 169pp; decorated boards. An unusually fine wartime edition, one of 1000 stamp-numbered copies out of a total edition of 1040. The three-color binding is after a design by Paul Bonet. A handsome edition of Apollinaire's first major collection that first appeared in 1913. More
Paris: Albert Messein, 1925. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers. One of 1500 numbered copies in the regular edition (there were also 30 copies on Chine and 100 on Vergé d'Arches). A posthumous collection of early and unpublished poems. More
München: Verlaganstalt F. Bruckmann, 1899. First edition. Large 8vo, 278pp + plates; later three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, preserving original front wrapper (restored); t.e.g. The major theoretical work by Appia, the great Swiss innovator of stage design and lighting, translated from the French but published in German. Appia is best..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First American edition. 8vo, 303pp; black textured cloth stamped in green. Apparently the only novel by this Armenian-born British writer, who also had a couple of plays to his credit but who leaves otherwise virtually no trace. Attractive dust jacket art signed "Darcy" More
Eton, Windsor: Shakespeare Head Press, 1966. First edition. 8vo, red cloth, A presentation copy, inscribed b the poet to the American poetry partron Marie Bullock, with a nice two-page ALS from Armstrong to Bullock laid in, along with the original four-page prospectus. More