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
Paris: Georges Visat, 1968. Arikha, Avigdor (1929-2010). First edition. Wrappers, in publisher's chemise and slipcase. One of 154 copies on Rives (total edition). Illustrated with six colored etchings by Avigdor Arikha, each signed. Fine. "The colored etchings for L'Issue reveal the subtle and intuitive feeling with which Arikha approaches Beckett's..... 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: Hogarth Press, 1925. First edition. Marbled paper over boards, white cover label. Slight fading of spine; very good. Works in English by a Hungarian poet who was killed in action in 1915. While the edition size is unknown, Leonard Woolf's ledger shows only 76 copies sold, and 90 pulped..... More
Paris: Imprimerie Fact, [196-?]. Second edition. 38 pp., 21 cm. Photo-mechanically reproduced sheets. Cover-title, stapled into printed plastic wrapper, crease in back cover, else fine. The first edition was published by Mac McNair, New York in 1964, the title was mis-spelled ("Rythms"); there was a second printing of this edition..... 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
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New York: Knopf, 1925. First edition. Cloth backed boards, inner hinges expertly strengthened; a very good copy in a decent dust jacket, which has light edge wear, fading and damp marks on the spine. Half morocco case. Inscribed by Cather to Alice Roullier, daughter of an important art dealer in..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1915. First edition, first issue. Original smooth blue cloth, gilt, a fine copy in a very good example of the rare pictorial dust jacket. Bookplate of Daniel G. Hastings. According to Rare Book Hub and ABPC, only one jacketed copy has been sold at auction for at..... More
Boston: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, 1903. First edition. Original boards, cover and spine labels. Boards darkened and marked, spine label chipped. Inscribed twice by Cather: On the front cover "For Albert Donovan from his friend Willa Siebert Cather," similarly on the front endpaper, with the addition of the..... More
London: Heinemann, 1924. First English edition (American sheets of A2.b.ii). Original light blue-grey cloth, very good. From the 390 sets of sheets of the American trade second printing, supplied to Heinemann with their imprint on the title page, and bound in England. Book label of the English art historian John..... More
Lincoln: Junior Class of the University of Nebraska, 1894. First edition. Original decorated cloth, lightly marked and soiled, hinges cracked but cords sound. Cather was on the editorial staff, and the yearbook includes a poem "Anacreon," and a short story, "The Fear that Walks by Noonday," by her. More
Los Angeles: C.C. Parker, 1912. Coburn, Alvin Langdon. First edition. Quarto, 9 1/2 x 13 inches. [31] p. (on double leaves), [6] leaves of plates. Number 21 of a planned but never completed edition of 60 copies, signed by Coburn. The book contains six tipped-in original 7 x 5 inch..... More
1969. Screenplay by Coppola, based on the Harry Segall play (previously filmed as Here Comes Mr. Jordan, 1941, and then in 1978 under this its original title).115 pages. Mimeographed, brad-fastened, covers with light edge wear, title and date inked on spine. Unproduced. This script was written for Bill Cosby, and..... More
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930. Evans, Walker. First edition. One of 50 copies on Japanese Vellum, signed by Crane. Quarto, original white printed wrappers, with original glassine cover and gilt paper covered slipcase (sliocase slightly rubbed, 1-inch piece missing from bottom edge). A beautiful copy of one of the..... More
1963. One page, with two fine color drawings of fantastic creatures. Washington, 13 August 1963. Fine condition. Accompanied by a special leather-bound copy of Piazza's book "Los hombres y las cosas sólo querían jugar", Mexico, 1963, which Cuevas illustrated. The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns a large collection of Cuevas's..... More
London: Wishart & Company, 1934. First edition. First edition, extensively illustrated. The most important and encyclopedic compilation of African and African-American history and culture. Its compilation took Cunard more than three years of intense labor. 1000 copies were printed, but a considerable number were destroyed in a warehouse fire and..... More
Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1844. First American edition. Small 8vo, illustrated with 8 plates after the originals by John Leech, a hand-colored frontispiece, three There is a hand colored frontispiece of Mr. Fezziwig’s ball, three colored plates that are lithographed by P. S. Duval and four black-and-white, original brown cloth..... 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
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..... More
Paris / Florence: Pedrone Lauiel / A. Bettini, 1868. First edition. Original printed wrappers, xi, 118 pp., 1 leaf, rebacked, hinge splitting minor wear to covers. An important source on the work of the master-forger and sculptor Giovanni Bastianini (1830-1868). His terra cotta bust of the poet Benivieni was sold..... 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
Jan., Feb. 1967. Both letters are signed "Morgan" by E.M.F., in a shaky hand. The longer of the two letters, mentioning the Aldeburgh Festival and a Golders Green production of "Howard's End", is in the hand of his secretary J.R. Ackerley. 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
Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1921. First edition. One of an edition of 150 copies, hand printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. 6 inches x 8-1/2 inches. [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;..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1983. First edition. A new translation of Grosz's autobiography, with an epilogue. Publisher's paste-paper boards with red morocco spine and gilt-stamped cover. One of 150 copies, specially printed and bound, in publisher's clamshell case with folder, accompanied by an original estate stamped pencil sketch, by Grosz. Fine..... More