San Francisco: AFL-CIO, 1942. Four-page pamphlet printed on a single bifolium of newsprint. Reproduces a speech by Monroe E. Deutsch, vice president and provost of the University of California, delivered to a meeting at San Francisco's Civic Auditorium sponsored by the Citizen for Victory Committee, with additional excerpt from remarks..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First edition. 8vo, 240pp;. Poet's short fiction. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First edition. 8vo, tan cloth. Aiken's follow-up volume after his 1929 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, this copy has been singed by the poet on the front flyleaf. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First edition. 8vo, 151pp; cloth. With the 1953 ownership signature of poet and translator Lysander Kemp on the front flyleaf. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1961. 1st edition. 12mo, off white cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Aiken on the front flyleaf to Marie Bullock, founder of the Academy of American Poets. More
London: R. Dodsley, 1744, 1757. First editions. 4to, 125; [iv], 156 pp; contemporary calf, rebacked, with spine laid down. First issue of Akenside, with the footnote on p. 9 and p. 20 misnumbered as 22. All half titles present. Nice engraved vignettes to each title page. Akenside's poem was his..... More
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
New York: Artists Equity Association, 1950. First Edition. 4to, unpag.; 4 prefatory leaves, 51 leaves of different colored papers, comb bound. The first volume in the associations long-running annual series conceived by member Julio de Diego. Local advertisers were paired with artist-members to produce original advertisements. he artists were given..... 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
Paris: Chez Laurent d'Houry, 1688. First Edition. 12mo, [iv], 202, [2]pp; contemporary calf gilt with armorial stamping; gilt-stamped burgundy label. Nicolas Andry de Boisrgard (1658-1742) was a noted physician and writer, who coined the term "orthopedics." This book, an earlier literary work, derives from the collection of Philippe Lefebvre de..... 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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New York: Something Else Press, 1966. First Edition. 8vo, 29pp pamphlet in slef-wrappers, stapled. Number 8 in the publisher's series of Great Bear [amphlets, this one including manifestoes by Oyyvind Fahlstrom, Robert Filliou, John Giorno, Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Nam June Paik, Diter Rot, Wolf Vostell, Emmet Williams..... 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