Dangling Man
London: John Lehmann, 1946. First English edition. Small 8vo, 191pp; yellow cloth. Bellow's first book. The jacket design was by Robert Medley. More
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Henderson the Rain King; A Novel.
(London): Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1959). First English edition. 8vo, 341pp; red cloth. More
The Upper Depths
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
A Wen; A Play in Two Scenes
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
Burning City; New Poems. Decorations by Charles Child.
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
Five Men and Pompey; A Series of Dramatic Portraits
Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1915. First edition. 12mo, original violet wrappers over boards. The poet's first book. More
Iliana:; Stories of a Wandering Race
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
The Marriage Guest:; A Novel.
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
Circles, As In The Eye
(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
Rituals & Gargoyles; Black Book Number 2
(Bowling Green, Ohio): Black Book, Winter 1976. First edition. 8vo, 40pp; wrappers. Collection of poems by Bergé comprising the entire issue of this poetry magazine. Inscribed by Bergé on the title page for a fellow poet. More
American Vanguard Nineteen Hundred and Fifty; A Collection of Short Stories. . .
New York: The New School for Social Research / Cambridge Publishing Company, 1950. First edition. 8vo, 314pp; green cloth. Anthology of stories by mostly now-forgotten writers who participated in the New School's writing workshop, but including early work of three notable alumni: William Styron ("The Enormous Window"), Thomas Berger ("April..... More
"The Man Who Knew Best the Heart of Married Women"
N.P. n.p., n.d. (1959). Six mimeographed leaves, 8-1/2 X 11 in., stapled in one corner. English translation of an interview conducted with the great Swedish director Ingmar Bergman by journalists Georges Menant and Philippe Letellier in 1958 for Paris Match. We are unaware of who did the translation or for..... More
The Works; of George Berkeley, D.D. Late Bishop of Cloyne in Ireland. To Which is Added An Account of His Life, and Several Letters to Thomas Prior, Esq. Dean Gervais, and Mr. Pope, &c. &c. . .
Dublin: John Exshaw, 1784. Two vols., 4tos, frontispiece, [4], [i]-ci, [1]-646; [iv], [1]-663; contemporary calf. A decent copy of this uncommon set. The second volume includes the folding plate illustrating an essay on plantation churches in Bermuda. Alongside John Locke, Berkeley was the pre-eminent English-language philosopher of his era and..... More
Siris:; A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water, And divers other Subjects connected together and arising one from another. . . . A New Edition, With Additions and Emendations.
Dublin/London: W. Innys, and C. Hitch, in Pater-noster-row, and C. Davis in Holbourn, 1747. 8vo, 174, [2]pp; later morocco and marbled boards. De-accessioned from the American Antiquarian Society, with the AAS stamp on the title page and initials on the spine.. Among Bishop Berkeley's last works, this series of "reflexions"..... More
Invitation
Paris: Francinex, n.d. (1946?). Invitation card printed on four sides of a bifolium, approx. 4-1/4 X 5-1/2 in. Invitation to what appears to be an advance screening of Bernard's film "Un Ami Viendra Ce Soir" (A Friend Will Come Tonight), an ambitious drama involving a group of French resistance fighters..... More
Autograph letter and autograph postcard signed; "Bernhard," to Oscar Meyer, August 10, 1936 & no date (1936)
Geneva & St. Cyr. -. One page letter on single leaf, approx. 8-1/4 X 11-1/4 in.; small black-edged mourning card, approx. 3 X 4-1/2 in. Georg Bernhard (1875-1944) German-Jewish liberal journalist, editor of the "Vossische Zeitung" and later founder of the exile newspaper "Pariser Tageblatt." Bernhard, along with his correspondent..... More
Ruth Bernhard; The Collection of Ginny Williams
(Denver: Denver Art Museum / Tallgrass Press, 1993). First edition. 4to, unpag.; black cloth. Signed by Bernhard on the title page. More
Autograph note signed; "A. Bernstein," October 28, 1877
Friedenau. -. One page on a bifolium, approx. 5-1/2 X 8-1/2 in. Aron Bernstein (1812-1884), political journalist and advocate of Jewish emancipation, edited "Die Volkszeitung" in Berlin. More
Poetic Justice
Baltimore: Pod Books, (1979). First edition. Wraps. 8vo, 48pp; printed wrappers. One of 500 copies, this one inscribed by Bernstein on the title page. More
Many Happy Returns
New York: Corinth Books, 1969. First edition. Wraps. 8vo, 47pp; original printed wrappers. One of 1500 copies. The cover design is from a collage by Joe Brainard. More
The Long-Legged House
New York: Harcourt, Brace, & World, Inc., (1969). First Edition. 8vo, 213pp; green cloth. A nice copy of the first book of essays by the poet and novelist, an urtext of the modern sustainability movement -- "The moving testament of a young American citizen--poet, teacher, farmer--in a time of desctruction..... More
Homage to Mistress Bradstreet; With Pictures by Ben Shahn
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, (1956). First edition. 8vo, illustrated boards. More
Homage to Mistress Bradstreet; With Pictures by Ben Shahn
New York: Farrar Straus & Cudahy, (1956). First edition. Boards. 8vo, 57pp; original boards. More
Stephen Crane; The American Men of Letters Series
(New York): William Sloane Associates, (1950). First edition. 8vo, cloth. More