The Teeth Mother Naked at Last
(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
(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
Madison, Minnesota: The Sixties Press, 1962. First edition. 8vo, 45pp; blue cloth. Uncommon clothbound issue of the early collection that appeared at about the same time as Bly's first solo collection, Silence in the Snowy Fields. This copy nicely inscribed and signed by Bly on the front flyleaf: "For David..... 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
Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, (1962). First Edition. Small 8vo, 90pp; illustrated boards. Inscribed by Boborowski on the front flyleaf to the poet and translator Christopher Middleton, signed "J.B." Loosely inserted are the publisher's promotional flyer and two pages of Middleton's handwritten notes for a review, apparently for the Times Literary Supplement..... 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: Horace Liveright, 1930. First edition. 8vo, [70]pp; cloth-backed pictorial boards. Poems meant to be set to music by the dissolute denizen of the Greenwich Village scene. 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, 1926. First edition. 8vo, 267pp; bright orange cloth. A decent copy of Bodenheim's novel; jacket art by Harold Harvey. 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: Boni and Liveright, (1927). First edition. 8vo, 69pp; cloth-backed boards. This copy withdrawn from the collection of the University of California's Bancroft Library, with their stamped bookplate on the front pastedown. 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
New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First edition. 8vo, 260pp; terracotta cloth stamped in yellow and black. An exceptionally sharp copy. 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
Paris: Masson et Cie. 1926. First edition. 8vo, rebound in full textured red buckram. An early critique of Freudian psychoanalysis. More
New York: Robert McBride, 1923. First edition. 8vo, cloth-backed boards. The poet's scarce first book. More
New York: Robert McBride, 1923. First edition. 8vo, cloth-backed bale blue boards, printed spine label. 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
Washington, D.C. Howard University Press, n.d. (ca. 1923). First Edition. 8vo, unpag. chapbook in printed wrappers, stapled. The first and apparently only book by Bolton, a 1923 graduate of Howard University, comprising twelve poems. After graduating from Howard, Bolton went on to publish and edit a newspaper, The Florida Sentinel..... 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
[Krakow]: Czytelnik, 1948. First Edition. Small 8vo, 143; original printed wrappers. One of two collections of stories that Borowski based upon his experiences in Nazi concentration camps. The works, collected in English translation as "This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen," are some of the most powerful and harrowing..... 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: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1768. Second Edition. 8vo, xxii, 1, folding map, 384pp; modern light brown leather. Boswell's first major work, which made him famous and went quickly into multiple editions. This London edition followed shortly after the Glasgow first edition. A solid copy, albeit in a workmanlike binding..... 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
London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1791. First Edition. Two vols., 4tos; 516 & 588pp; contemporay mottled calf, recased with spine label; inner hinges reinforced. First state of the classic work that founded the modern notion of biography, with "gve" on p. 135, all cancels, the fronispiece portrait..... 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