London: Hogarth Press, 1926. First edition. Marbled paper over boards (predominantly green) paper spine label. Slight wear, very good. Full page inscription from the author to his "old Eton pal" Percy Ashton Jonson, whose bookplate is on the front pastedown. One of 500 printed. Woolmer 83B. More
(1945). Mimeographed, brad-fastened. Cover-title, 71 pages, on eye-rest green paper, dated 9/9/44. The first script written by Leigh Brackett, although she had been publishing science-fiction stories for several years, and collaborated with William Faulkner on The Big Sleep (released in 1946), for Howard Hawks, which she began on Aug. 28... 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, 1927. First edition. One of fifty numbered and signed copies printed on Japan vellum. Original full cream vellum paper, gilt-stamped, top edge gilt. Slight mottling to the spine, but a bright and fine copy, in the publisher's green paper slipcase with label. This most limited issue of... 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
Metz: Chez Vodaine, 1976. First edition. One of 100 copies, Double leaves, title page, foreword, ten leaves of linocuts, each page numbered in pencil; colophon. One of a few HC copies designated for Madame Chaissac, signed by Jean Vodaine. Chaissac's linocuts from 1952 were printed by his old friend and... More
![[Panorama of Machu Picchu]. Martín Chambi.](/pictures/thumb/28075.jpeg?v=1507253406)
Peru: ca. 1930-1938. Two joined views, printed on albumen paper, measuring 47 x 17 1/3 cm (18 x 7 inches). In excellent condition, matted and framed. More
Paris: Lapina, 1922. Hémard, Joseph. 4°, XXIV + 407 p., Illustrated with 19 hors-texte color plates and 120 illustrations in the text, colored by the pochoir (stencil) process. Copy number 126 signed by Hemard, from a total edition of 521. Parchment covers, top edge gilt, others uncut, in fine condition... 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: Harcourt Brace, (1943). First edition. Black cloth, a fine copy in fine dust jacket, with only a small blemish on the edge. First edition, first printing, with the words "first American edition" on the copyright page. Only 788 copies of this printing survived the publisher's recall for poor... 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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[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
![Nasim Detem [Our Children]. Maria Fischerová-Kvechová.](/pictures/thumb/23120 (1 of 1).jpg?v=1469561270)
Prague: B.Koci, (1921). Cloth backed boards, 56 pp., excellent condition. Color-printed children's book. 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
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
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
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
Liverpool: Kressley Photography, ca. 1968. 6 x 8.5 inch portrait of Henri outside his home in Huskisson Street, Liverpool. The artist is standing at the foot of his basement stairs; various paintings and signs are displayed behind and beside him. More
Ve Stare Risi na Morave: Dobre Dilo, 1920. First edition. Portfolio, 30 x 24 cm., (4) pp, 9 leaves, 4 pp. Title-page, tailpiece, contents, colophon, and nine full-page linoleum cuts, inspired by the illustrations in Ethiopian manuscripts. One of 120 copies, this one of a few in which the prints... More
![The Innocent Voyage [A High Wind in Jamaica]. Richard Hughes.](/pictures/thumb/28518.jpg?v=1492209227)
New York: Harper, 1929. First edition, published in the US in February 1929 and in Britain as A High Wind in Jamaica, in late September. Full red goatskin, top edge gilt, decorated turn-ins, marbled endpapers; a presentation binding. Inscribed by Hughes "To Isabel Paterson / With the warmest gratitude and... More
Paris: Chez l'auteur, 1961. Hugnet, Georges. First edition. 60, [7] p. 24 cm. Original white wrappers and gray dust jacket. Fine copy. Illustrated with four photomontages, hand colored by Hugnet, a suite in black, and an original signed collage. Copy X of ten copies printed on hand made Auvergne paper... More
