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
Managua: Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua y Centroameríca, (2000). First edition. Wrappers, fine. One of 1200 copies printed. Inscribed by the photographers Alvarez and Gordillo, and the author Torres, to the Nicaraguan poet and activist Daisy Zamora. A documentary photobook of life and customs on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast. With the... More
![Autograph letter signed ("(Satchmo) Louis Armstrong)") to Erich Kauffmann, [Corona, N.Y.] April 5,1970. Louis Armstrong.](/pictures/thumb/27943 3.jpeg?v=1482540672)
1970. Five pages, in ink. Erich Kauffmann was the partner of trombonist Franz Schuritz who formulated the lip salve that Armstrong discovered in the 1930s and grew to depend on. By 1950 : "Dear Mr. Kauffmann: My dear friend I always be very happy when I get a letter from... More
1972. Bassouls, Sophie. 12 x 16 inch silver print, signed by the photographer. Sophie Bassouls, photographer with the Corbis-Sygma Agency, she has produced more than 3000 literary portraits. Her work has been widely exhibited, in France, and in the United States. 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
Black and white, 7 in. x 4-3/4 in. Corner bent, very good. Borges seated, receives the medal from Jean d'Ormesson. Very good. Signed shakily but clearly, in black ink. More
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
New York: Grove Press, [1962]. First American edition. Black cloth backed boards, light spotting on the top edge, a fine copy in lightly used first issue dust jacket. Inscribed by Burroughs on the title page. 3500 copies were printed of this edition, fewer than of the Olympia Press first edition... More
Paris: Gallimard, (1947). First edition. First edition. Copy XXV of 35 copies on vélin de Hollande (second paper, after 15 on Japon Impérial). Binding by Semet and Plumelle, olive green goatskin, blind-tooled with an all-over pattern of diagonals, gilt edges, red goatskin doublures and watered silk endsheets, wrappers and spine... More
Paris: Gallimard, (1945). First edition. Original wrappers, paper browned. Service de presse copy. Nine essays by various hands including Camus. Inscribed by Camus incorporating the half-title "á Max Delatte Quelle [EXISTENCE] ! en sympathie, Albert Camus". With Delatte's bookplate. This was the first entry in Gallimard's "La Métaphysique" line, edited... More
New York: Knopf, 1920. First edition. The rare limited issue, one of 35 unnumbered copies issued with all edges untrimmed, signed in full "Willa Sibert Cather" on the front free endpaper. Original green cloth. As these copies are taller than the trade issue, and special binding cases had to be... More
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Boston: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, 1903. First edition. Original boards, cover and spine labels. A little bit of darkening to the spine, and discoloration of the endpapers, but a fine copy. with what may be the original glassine wrapper. Crane A1.a. First edition of Cather's first book, published... More
Hartford: The American Publishing Co. 1897. First edition. Original blue cloth, a very good, bright copy, with minor wear to the covers, inner paper hinges cracking, in a cloth covered folding case. The Doheny copy, with Estelle Doheny's red leather label. Inscribed "Mr James H. Scott with the compliments &... More
![A Rolling Stone [with] Pierre Qui Roulle.; Graphics by Sheila Crombie. John Crombie.](/pictures/thumb/23300.jpg?v=1493317980)
Paris: Kickshaws, 1989. Crombie, Sheila. First editions. One of 95 and 90 copies respectively, hand printed by the artist, signed by the author and artist. Bound dos-a-dos by Jill Oriane Tarlau in silver and bronze patterned leathers with onlays, with a matching traycase. More
Self published, 1987. Pierre Della Giustina. 40 X 62 cm. 10 unnumbered leaves, french-folded. Binding is cardboard with exposed red thread. Copy no. 2 of ten copies numbered and signed by the artist. Fine condition. Woodblock and aquatint prints on papier de chine, incorporating the lyrics of Queneau's song. More
1910. Inscribed "To Carlo Wedekind inventor gas turbine. Thomas A Edison, Orange, July 10, 1910." 5 in. x 3-1/2 in. Silver print, mounted on card. A group photo in the door of Edison's laboratory, (now the Edison Museum). Very good condition, matted and framed. Carlo Wedekind patented a gas turbine in 1906. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922. First edition. Copy 391 of 1000. Original flexible black cloth, one of 500 copies so bound (the first binding issue). "Mountain" is correctly spelled on p. 41. Covers and margins mildly damp stained. Gallup A6a; Woolmer 28. More
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Paris: Éditions de l'intermédiaire du bibliophile, 1926. Brissaud,Pierre. 235, [1] p., [9] col. leaves of plates One of 625 on Arches paper (total edition of 705). With aquarelles (water colors) by Pierre Brissaud reproduced by the pochoir process. Half morocco with decorated paper sides, top edge gilt, others uncut; binding... 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. 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
Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1921. First edition. One of 150 copies, hand printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. [26] leaves, printed on rectos only, consisting of: Title page, 12 woodcut illustrations printed in black, each preceded by a title leaf printed in red; Hogarth Press list. Publisher's red marbled paper covers... More
Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1922. Third impression. Like the first two printings, this was hand printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Publisher's buff printed wrappers carrying a Fry woodcut. Edges creased, light soiling, very good. The coated paper used for printing this third and the second impressions stayed white, unlike the... More
Paris: Mornay, 1929. Barbier, George. Original printed wrappers, ownership blindstamp on half title, otherwise a fine copy. One of 834 numbered copies on Rives (from an edition of 1031). More
Oakland, California: Archer Press, 1977. First edition. Broadside poem with drawings by Ginsberg reproduced in red and musical notation. 17 inches x 22 inches. Pencil signed by Allen Ginsberg beneath his lithographed signature. Numbered on the verso "T[rial] P[roof] 3/3" and initialed by the printer Charles Gill. One of an... More