N.P. N.p., (2001). First Edition. 8vo, unpag. pamphlet in printed card wrappers, stapled. Baraka's controversial poem written in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in 2001. Initialed by Baraka on the first page and dated "01." More
New York: Steppingstones Press, 1985. First Edition. 8vo, 189pp; printed wrappers. Anthology of texts for and about Baraka, edited by James B. Gwynne. This copy inscribed by Baraka: "For Max, the Master, Keep on pushin!! Amiri Baraka, 1985, and with a second inscription next to the list of contributors, which..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1918. First American edition. 8vo, 251pp; red cloth. The first, and significantly expurgated, translation of Barbusse's novel of voyeurism. An unexpurgated edition in Engish did not appear until 1966. Barbusse won great acclaim and received the Prix Goncourt for his WWI novel Le Feu (Under..... More
![Item #203317 A Letter in Praise of Verona [1489]; In the original Latin text with an English...](https://locussolusrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/203317.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1692834491)
Verona: (Officina Bodoni), 1974. First edition thus. Vellum-backed boards. Small 4to, 55pp; original vellum-backed boards, t.e.g. One of 150 numbered copies on handmade paper. More
Boston: David R. Godine, 1969. 8vo; unpag.; wrappers. #246 of 700 copies printed in Monotype Bembo on L Amatruda Amalfi, an all rag paper from Italy. More
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, (1930). First edition. 8vo, 466pp, illustrated; pictorial endpapers; blue cloth stamped in silver and light green. Correct first edition of this maritime autobiography. Barnes, born in 1850 to a seafaring family in Newfoundland, spent most of his life as a sailor in one capacity..... More
New York: Putnam, (1981). First edition. 8vo, cloth backed baords. An excellent association copy, inscribed by Barthelme on the front endpaper to fellow writer John Hawkes and his wife: "For Jack and Sophie with all best, Don, 16 March 1983." More
London: Printed by John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson, 1758. First editions thus. Two vols., uniform 8vos, [xxxii] 416pp & lxix, 390pp; contemporary calf, rebacked with elaborately gilt-tooled spines. The first Baskerville books in English (preceded by Virgil in Latin), with all cancels called for, p. 135 correctly numbered..... More
![Item #203244 Songs of the Revolution; [cover title] the first 35, part of a series i may have to...](https://locussolusrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/203244.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1692834485)
New York: Interim Books, 1963. First edition. Wraps. 8vo, [56]pp pamphlet; printed pictorial wrappers, stapled. More
New York: Grove Press, (1957). First edition. 8vo, 59pp; wrappers. The "holiday issue" of Beckett's radio play, with a greeting message from Grove Press printed on the front wrapper. More
London: Faber and Faber, (1958). First English edition. 8vo, 60pp; terracotta cloth stamped in light blue. More
(Paris): Les Amis des Editions de Minuit, (1951). First Edition. Small 8vo, 272pp; original printed wrappers, printed entirely in black. One of 500 numbered copies on Alfa de Navarre, done specially for friends of the publisher alongside the trade edition. On the trade copies, the title on the front cover..... More
Paris: The Olympia Press, (1955). First edition. Small 8vo, 241pp. Wrappers. The first volume of Beckett's trilogy. More
Vienna. -. One page, approx. 8-1/4 X 10-1/2 in. Friendly, welcoming note to the editor at S. Fischer Verlag, who would become a leading publisher of exiled German-language writers during the nazi-era. More
-. Written on the back of a printed invitation to a "Gesellschaftstee," in Berlin; bifolium , approx. 5-1/2 X 8-3/4 in. Lola Beeth (1861-1940), operatic soprano, performed in Berlin and Vienna, specializing in Wagnerian roles. More
London: John Lehmann, 1946. First English edition. Small 8vo, 191pp; yellow cloth. Bellow's first book. The jacket design was by Robert Medley. More
(London): Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1959). First English edition. 8vo, 341pp; red cloth. More
New York: Roger Stevens, n.d. (1964). Two vols; 4to, 145pp & 160pp, bolt bound in printed leatherette wrappers of the Hart Stenographic Bureau. Two distinct and textually variant versions of Bellow's only full-length play, upon which he labored relentlessly, drafting and re-drafting to the annoyance of his collaborators. The play..... More
New York: Saul Bellow, 1965. 4to, 19 mimeograph pages, bolt-bound in printed leatherette wrappers of the Hart Stenographic Bureau. Rehearsal script from only one of Bellow series of three one-act plays. The front wrapper has the title "3 One Act Plays" and a preliminary title leaf includes the two other..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1936). First edition. 8vo, black cloth. A nice presentation copy inscribed by Benet apparently to fellow-Pennsylvanian mary Roberts Rinehart: "To Mary, with the affectionate regards of S.V.B." Laid in as a bookmark is the publisher's advertising slip for Rinehart's bestselling 1936 novel The Doctor... More
Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1915. First edition. 12mo, original violet wrappers over boards. The poet's first book. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1924. First edition. 8vo, 324pp; blue cloth, stamped in gilt. Signed and dated (1924) by Bercovici on the front flyleaf. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First edition. 8vo, 285pp; textured green cloth stamped in gilt. Bercovici's first novel, a New York love story. More
(Santa Fe): Desert Review Press, (1969). First edition. 8vo, 22pp; pamphlet in printed wrappers. One of 500 copies (there were another 26 lettered and specially bound), this one warmly inscribed to another poet in 1970. More