Two Years Beside the Strait. Tangier Journal 1987-1989
London: Peter Owen, (1990). First edition. Cloth, fine in dust jacket. Çopy 61/75 hardbound, signed. More
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Without Stopping
New York: Putnam, (1972). First edition. Cloth. Dust jacket flaps glued to endpapers, date 1972 written in felt-tip on jacket. Inscribed by Bowles for Mary Robbins, friend of his biographer Virginia Spencer Carr. More
She Woke Me Up So I Killed Her. Translations by Paul Bowles
San Francisco: Cadmus Editions, 1989. First edition. Cloth with labels, plastic jacket, fine. Copy "K" of 26 lettered and signed. More
" Wreckage," in Frank. Vol. 1, No. 4.
Paris: 1985. First edition. Wrappers, near-fine. Inscribed by Bowles to his biographer Virginia Spencer Carr. More
Paul Bowles. A Descriptive Bibliography
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1986. `. First edition. Cloth and boards, acetate jacket, near fine. 122/200 numbered and signed copies. More
The Pelcari Project. Cárcel de árbolas. Translated by Paul Bowles.
San Francisco: Cadmus Editions, 1997. First edition. Cloth, plastic jacket, fine. Copy 47 of 150 numbered and signed. More
The Time of Friendship
New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, (1967). White cloth, fine, near-fine dust jacket slightly darkened. More
The Campaign of Waterloo, Illustrated with Engravings of Les Quatre Bras, La Belle Alliance, Hougoumont, La Haye Sainte, and Other principal Scenes of Action: including A Correct Military Plan, together with A Grand View of the Battle on a large scale.
Printed by T. Bensley and Son: Robert Bowyer, 1816. First edition. Folio, 19 1/2 x 13 1/4 inches. Six hand-colored aquatints, one folding, on four plates, 34 pages of text with map plus ten pages of biographical appendices and two uncolored engravings. Contemporary quarter calf. Watermarks dated 1814, 1816. Short..... More
A Selection of Facsimiles of Water-colour Drawings from the Works of Distinguished British Artists
London: Printed by T. Bensley for R. Bowyer and M. Parkes, 1828. Reprint. Folio, 20 x 15 inches. 10 leaves of text and 12 colored aquatint plates, exquisitely reproducing works by Samuel Prout, William Collins, John Smith, Francis Nicholson, and Robert Hills. Original boards, paper label, spine worn, plates and..... More
Something Wicked This Way Comes. Screenplay
(1983). Screenplay by Bradbury from his own novel. Cover title. 126 pages, brad-bound. Dated as "Revised 8/24/81". Title penned on spine edge. Inside rear cover notes this a the "prop shop copy" and there is a short handwitten "buy-list". Fine. More
Through Persia from the Gulf to the Caspian
London: John Murray, 1909. First edition. 8vo., 331 pp. 31 illustrations, folding map. Original brown cloth, gilt. Fine copy. Inscribed "To Peter with all good wishes from the writer on a great occasion. November 1939." Neat 1971 signature on endpaper. More
Signed photograph: montage of three portrait photographs clipped from concert programs.
The whole measures 9 3/4 by 7 3/4 inches. Two of the portraits are inscribed: "To G.H.R. Gardener in remembrance of A. Brailowsky. London" and dated November 1938 and April 1943. Tipped to a leaf of sturdier paper (with a truly frightening portrait of Beethoven on the verso). Noted French..... More
Life at the Top.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962. 1962. Boards, a fine copy in dust jacket. First edition. More
Photographies de Bill Brandt: Ombre de Lumière
Paris: Chêne, 1977. Brandt, Bill. Black cloth, a little dusty, otherwise fine, in edge worn dust jacket. More
Dreaming of Babylon
New York: Delacorte, (1977). First edition. Black cloth, fine copy in dust jacket, fold of jacket nibbled. More
The Galilee Hitch-Hiker
San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, (1958). First edition. Original printed wrappers, an inner, red typographic cover, and an outer wrapper of light translucent vellum, with a reproduced drawing by Kenn Davis. One of 200 copies, printed by Joe Dunn. Brautigan's first book, preceded by a rare leaflet. A fine copy..... More
The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1974). First edition. Cloth, slight spotting to edges, otherwise fine, in dust jacket. More
[Collected Works]. Stücke [with] Gedichte
Berlin: Suhrkamp, 1953-1965. 21 volumes. Original boards, or original cloth. Very good and fine copies. First editions (except vol. I of Stücke, which is a later printing) of Brecht's collected works, The first 12 of 14 eventually published volumes of plays and the first 9 (of 10) of poems. W.-G..... More
Les manifestes du surréalisme, suivis de Prolégomènes à un troisième manifeste du surréalisme ou non du surréalisme en ses oeuvres vives et d'éphéméides surréalistes
[Paris]: Le Sagittaire, 1955. Cloth, labels, 121 p. 21 cm. Slight fading. Extensively illustrated, complete with the loupe on a ribbon. More
Letter to Pierre Mabille, 1939.
2 pages, 42 lines, written in green ink. More
Ode à Charles Fourier
[Paris: Fontaine, 1947. Kiesler,Frederick J. First edition. 41 p. illus. 28 cm. Collection "L'Age d'or." Original wrappers, tanning at the edges, but a fine copy. Copy 223 of 750 numbered copies on vélin paper. Designed and illustrated by Frederick Kiesler, the Romanian emigre, whose architectural projects, including the "Endless House"..... More
Poèmes
Paris: Gallimard, 1948. First edition. 271 p. 21 cm.; Boards, copy number 97 of 540 on Alfa paper, cover design by Mario Prassinos. Faint wear to extremities. Contents: Mont de piété.--Les champs magnétiques.--Clair de terre.--Poisson soluble.--L'union libre.--Le revolver à cheveux blancs.--Violette Nozières.--L'air de l'eau.--1935-1940.--Pleine marge.--Fata morgana.--1940-1948.--Les états généraux.--Xénophiles.--Ode à Charles..... More
Réflexions sur André Breton.
[Paris]: Lettrisme, 1970. New edition. 23 p. 20 cm. Wrappers, fine. First published in 1948 (50 copies only). Issue 14, nouvelle série of the review Lettrisme. More
Farouche à quatre feuilles
[Paris]: Grasset, 1954. First edition. 139, [4] p. 20 cm. Original pink wrappers, fine copy. One of 1500 numbered copies on velin de Lana. Les trois premiers textes de ce volume ont été composés en vue d'une émission radiophonique organisée par Lise Deharme. Le quatrième a été spécialement écrit, sur..... More
Entretiens, 1913-1952 avec André Parinaud [et al.]
[Paris]: N.R.F., 1952. First edition, on ordinary paper. Original wrappers. 317 p. 19 cm. Some yellowing, a very nice copy. S.p. copy. Publication announcement inserted. "Ces entretiens d'André Breton avec André Parinaud ont fait l'objet de seize émissions de la Radiodiffusion française"--. More