Sandwich Island Notes. By a Haole
New York: Harper, 1854. First edition. 8vo, 493 pp. Original blind-stamped brown cloth, slight fading, extremities lightly rubbed. Vineyard Haven Public Library bookplate. Forbes 1996. More
New York: Harper, 1854. First edition. 8vo, 493 pp. Original blind-stamped brown cloth, slight fading, extremities lightly rubbed. Vineyard Haven Public Library bookplate. Forbes 1996. More
London: Hogarth Press, 1949. First edition. Original mauve cloth, gilt. Slight lean, else a fine copy in lightly worn dust jacket designed by Duncan Grant. The only novel by the sister of James and Lytton Strachey, based on her experience while a student at the Marie Souvestre girls' school, as..... More
Venezia: Centro internazionale delle arti e del costume, 1964. First edition. Original wrappers, 21 x 21 cm, lightly worn wrappers. Unpaginated; Illustrations on versos. Tipped in portrait frontispiece. Inscribed to Raymond Queneau from both Farfa and Marinotti, dated 3/3/64. Farfa was the pseudonym of the Futurist poet, painter, photographer, and..... More
Erfurt: Hennings, 1797. First edition. Early half dark brown calf with marbled boards, sprinkled edges, joints rubbed, else a fine copy. First edition, with twelve woodcuts in the text. W. / G. 10. More
Paris: Calmann Levy, 1898. First edition. Number 25 of 50 numbered copies on Hollande. Inscribed and signed by Loti. Original wrappers, light wear to edges, but a very good copy, with the bookplate of John Quinn. Half morocco slipcase and chemise. More
Genéve: Imprimerie Soullier, [1942]. First edition. Original wrappers, cover title, printed on rectos only, unpaginated [60 ll.]. One illustration as tailpiece. Pinget's rare first book, published pseudonymously by the author in an edition thought to be fewer than 100 copies, preceding his first novel by nine years. Slight browning, but..... More
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1965. First edition. 24 x 30 cm.; Graphic novel, with text in French, English, and German. One die-cut page, one printed on gold paper. Spine a little darkened. More
[France]: Ceux de la Resistance, 1944. First edition. Color printed boards, cloth back, edges a little rubbed. 60 unnumbered pages : 12 full-pagebbcolor illustrations ; 32 cm. The authorship is (perhaps not surprisingly) a little obscure. The authors' full names as above are listed in the 1946 Catalog of Copyright..... More
New York: Pellagrini and Cudahy, (1953). First edition. Boards, slight shelf wear on bottom edge, otherwise a fine copy, slight spotting on the inside of the (otherwise) fine, unworn dust jacket. Inscribed by Weegee "to George Sakal who sold me my first 35 m.m. camera, and showed me how to..... More