London: Hogarth Press, 1926. First (trade) edition. Marbled paper over boards (predominantly red) paper spine label. Fine copy. One of 500 printed, 70 later pulped. With a typed card of presentation from the author. Woolmer 83B. More
London: Longman, 1859. First editions. Four volumes. Original cloth, gilt. Small tear at the head of the spine of the first series, its covers somewhat darkened, but a very good copy; Both volumes of the 1862 second series have old ink shelf numbers on the spine, and bumped corners, but..... More
Ghent: Ergo Pers, 2009. Schimansky, Hanns. First edition. Folio (14 1/2 x 12-3/4 inches), unbound in slipcase as issued. A beautiful new artist book. The Recital /Le Récital, a prose poem by John Ashbery, published in a bilingual edition with French translation by Franck André Jamme, in close collaboration with..... More
New York: Grove Press, (1954). First American edition. Black cloth, a fine copy in dust jacket, price-clipped and slightly darkened. First edition of Beckett's own translation into English. More
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
New York: Pantheon, (1945). First edition. Red and black cloth, clippings attached to endpapers, otherwise a fine copy, the scarce dust jacket is split along one fold. Broch's masterpiece, which he began writing while imprisoned and completed after his emigration to the United States, where an English translation was published..... More
New York: Random House, (1959). First American edition. Translated by Archibald Colquhoun. Brown cloth, a fine copy in lightly worn dust jacket (designed by Georg Salter). Inscribed and signed by Calvino, on his first visit to New York, "a Vera che ha afatto arrampicare il Barone sulle piante americane, con..... More
Paris: Gallimard, (1958). Third overall and first Gallimard edition of Camus's first book, originally published in 1937. Original wrappers, paper browned but an excellent copy. Cloth case with leather label. Inscribed by Camus to the sociologist and editor Roger Caillois. The book contains five essays: "L'Ironie," "Entre oui et non,"..... More
Monaco: Incidences, 1944. First edition. Wrappers, spine lightly creased, else fine. Cloth case with leather label. One of 2000 copies on vergé. Inscribed by Camus to the writer Max Delatte, "par procuration (abusive)"; the inscription is slightly smudged. More
Paris: Jacques Damase, (1977). Delaunay, Sonia. First edition. Original wrappers, 30 x 45 cm., usual slight tanning to wrapper, some offsetting from plates to the text pages, else fine. The book reproduces in 12 lithographs the models for theatre costumes created by Sonia Delaunay for Tzara's play in 1923. One..... More
London: Leonard Smithers, 1896. Beardsley, Aubrey. First edition. The rare Large Paper issue, copy number 3 of thirty, printed on Japanese vellum, numbered and initialed by the publisher. Dowson's first collection of poetry, containing his most famous lines: "They are not long, the days of wine and roses" from "Vitae..... More
London: J. Taylor, 1820. First edition. Folio, 16 x 12 1/2 inches (32 x 41 cm.). (2) pp., 16 text leaves, plus 26 colored aquatints. Original 1/4 roan over cloth, title git stamped in the center of the front cover, gilt edges. Binding extremities worn, but internally in excellent condition..... More
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[New York]: The Black Sun Press, 1943. Augmented edition. 44 p., 5 l. incl. front., 26 cm. Original printed boards, text paper browned as usual, ownership stamp on front endpaper, otherwise an unusually fine copy in the original pink unprinted dust jacket. English translation at top of page, French text..... More
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Prague: B.Koci, (1921). Cloth backed boards, 56 pp., excellent condition. Color-printed children's book. More
New York: Scribner's, 1934. First edition. Original green cloth, bookplate or ink inscription removed from front pastedown; a very good copy in restored dust jacket. Full morocco case. More
3-1/2 inches x 2 inches, four sets of staple holes in the card, but not touching the writing. Partially mounted to a piece of plain paper, with an autograph envelope addressed by Fleming (torn), and some clippings. Fleming won the 1945 Nobel Prize for medicine, for his discovery of penicillin..... More
Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1920. First edition. 500 copies were hand printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf, from type set by Virginia. Original blue wrappers, plain title label (third state). Edges faded but a very good copy. Woolmer 9. More
Foujita. The menu is also signed by Madeleine, Foujita's model and companion during this two-year journey in Latin America and by the Argentine artist Florencio Molina Campos, who added a small sketch of Foujita. Together with a group of two vintage silver gelatin photographs mounted on cardboard. The mounts measure..... More
London: Hogarth Press, 1923. First edition. 9 pp., 24 plates. Japan vellum boards, with design by Duncan Grant printed in black, paper spine label (slightly rubbed). First issue binding, one of 400 bound in 1923. A very good copy. Woolmer 31. More
1995. Stuart, Gordon. Water color portrait of the poet, executed in Swansea, Wales, in 1995, signed and dated in the upper right corner. 18-1/2 inches x 14-3/4 inches. Matted and framed. This is one of a series of portraits commissioned from Stuart as the official artist of the U.K. Year..... More
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[ca. 1947?]. Grandpierre, Victor. First edition. 60 original silver print photographs by Victor Grandpierre, mounted on bristol boards with rounded, gilt edges. 29 x 22 cm. The images depict somewhat surrealistic arrangements of decorative household objects, each illustrating a poem by Louise de Vilmorin, printed in facsimile of her manuscript..... More
London: Hogarth Press, 1939. First edition. Original blue cloth, spine with a light crease, otherwise a fine copy; the jacket by John Banting is lightly tanned on the spine. 1200 copies were printed. Woolmer 449. More
Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1850. First edition. Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Faintest wear to two corners, otherwise a fine, truly superior copy, with no wear to the covers, the gilt bright, hinges sound, text block clean and fresh, no restorations. Oct. 1849 catalogue at front..... More
Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1850. First edition. Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Small area of wear at the base of the spine, corners slightly rubbed, otherwise a fine copy. The gilt is bright, hinges sound, text block clean and fresh. March 1850 catalogue at front, slightly..... More
One of 300 copies. Matted and framed. Fine condition with minimal fading of the signatures. Sargent's portrait was commissioned in 1913, by a group of James's English friends, in honor of his seventieth birthday. James agreed to sit on condition that the portrait would be given to the National Portrait..... More