(San Francisco): City Lights Books, (1970). First edition. 12mo, 22pp; wrappers. Signed by Bly, with a doodle, in 1971. Number 26 in the Pocket Poets series. More

Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, n.d. (1961). First Edition. Small 8vo, 86pp; illustrated boards. The poet's first book, inscribed -- though not signed -- by Bobrowski: "zum bleibenden Gedächtnis" beneath an ink drawing of a standing figure that occupies the entire upper left quadrant of the title page. The unnamed recipient was..... More

Berlin: Union Verlag, (1963). First East German edition. Small 8vo, 92pp; white linen stamped in blue. Nicely inscribed on the front flyleaf: "Für Christopher Middleton mit herzlichen Wünschen, Johannes Bobrowski , am Tag seines* [*ersten] Besuches in Friesdrichshagen." A nice copy of Bobrowski's second substantial collection. More

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922. First edition. 8vo, 101pp; parchment-backed boards stamped in gilt. Third book by the notorious, hard-drinking Greenwich Village bohemian. More

New York: Boni and Liveright, (1925). First edition. 8vo, 272pp; orange cloth with printed spine label. Though rather tame by today's standards, Bodenheim's novel about a sexually promiscuous young woman was a scandal at the time of publication, bringing obscenity charges against his publisher Horace Liveright in a much publicized..... More

New York: Horace Liveright, (1929). First edition. 8vo, 280pp; blue cloth stamped in gilt and red. A presentable copy of Bodenheim's novel of the last minute before the execution of a condemned murderer. Dust jacket by "Jacks." More

-. Three pages on a small bifolium, approx. 3-1/2 X 4-1/2 in. Friedrich von Bodenstedt (1819-1892) was a writer and translator, who traveled to Russia and the Caucasus, learning Slavonic languages and Persian. His most successful and enduringly poplular book was "Lieder des Mirza Schaffy," once believed to be translated..... More

New York: Robert McBride, 1923. First edition. 8vo, cloth-backed boards. The poet's scarce first book. More

New York: Noonday Press, (1954). First edition. Cloth. 8vo, yellow cloth. Inscribed by Bogan on the title page for Lee Anderson, dated 1 February 1960. In addition, Bogan has made holograph corrections to two pages, changing a letter in one instance and a word in the other. More

Munich: Oficyna Warszawska, 1945. First edition. 8vo, 36pp; original boards. One of 3000 numbered copies, the entire edition. Poems written by Borowski during his incarceration at Dachau and published shortly after his liberation. This was his first commercially published book, preceded by a pair of anonymously issued mimeograph collections of..... More

Amsterdam: Estienne Roger, 1709. First edition. Full Calf. 12mo, frontispiece engraving; 259pp; new full brown calf. With 11 integral engraved illustrations; t.e.g. Charming collection of tales, the last book by the noted author of fairy tales. Only 3 copies in OCLC. More

London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1785. First Edition. 8vo, [viii] 524pp + leaf of errata and advertisement for Life of Johnson; later three-quarter morocco and cloth; t.e.g. Second state, with typographic errors corrected, all cancels present. Pottle 57. More

Paris: Caisse Nationale des Monuments Historiques, (1950). First edition. Wrappers. Small 8vo, folding map in rear. Nice guide book, richly illustrated with black and white photographs by Bovis. More