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
21st Editions, 2008. Baldridge, Jamie. First edition. 20-1/2 x 16-1/2 inches. Text and 12 richly colorful, surrealistic pigment ink prints, printed and signed by the artist. Designed by Michael Russem at Kat Ran Press, using handset Bell type, cast by Michael and Winifred Bixler. Bound in patinated metal over boards..... More
Madison, Wis. The Perishable Press, 1967. First edition. Boards, fine. One of 40 hardbound copies printed on Chauke Heavy paper, from a total edition of 143. Fine. 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
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
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
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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: McClure, Phillips, 1905. First edition. Original red cloth, a bright and fine copy in the rare dust jacket, slightly worn and darkened. First edition, second issue, with "Doubleday, Page & Co." at the foot of the spine. Cather's second book, and first collection of stories. Inscribed by Cather..... 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
![Item #23903 Povesti i razskazy [Stories and tales]. Anton Chekhov](/pictures/thumb/23903.jpg?v=1440620044)
Moscow: I. D. Sytin, 1894. First edition. 284 pp., 2 leaves. Contemporary Russian half calf with pebbled black cloth sides, spine and corners worn, hinges neatly repaired. The spine is lettered in gilt with the title only. The rare original front and back printed wrappers are preserved. An abrasion on..... 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
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
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
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
![Item #32146 Petite histoire un peu sainte. [Issued as O 58]. Robert Filliou](/pictures/thumb/32146.JPG?v=1624919343)
Forcalquier: Robert Morel, 1969. First edition. Each page is a disc of paper 60 mm. in diameter. The pages are punched and held together with a ring. Mostly printed on one side only. The title is continued over several pages. "A remarkable work of poetry from Robert Filliou; "half-sacred," with..... 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
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
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
Portland, Ore. Reed College, 1966. First edition. Red leather, gilt, by The Oregon Bookbinding Co., with their ticket. Fine condition. One of a few specially bound copies for contributors. This was Richard Hugo's copy; it contains his poem "Tiberio's Cliff" along with works by William Stafford, Carolyn Kizer, John Logan..... More
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London: Longmans, 1847. Humphreys, Noel. 8vo, 6 1/4 x 4 1/2 in. Chromolithographed title page and 31 chromolithographed pages, with text, symbolic borders, miniatures and initials printed in gold, black, and colors, 2 page printed explanation and advertising leaf. Publisher's papier-maché boards, covered with black plaster, molded to appear like..... More
London: Macmillan, 1890. First English edition. Three volumes, original blue cloth, lightly rubbed, covers spotted, and traces of removed labels removed on front covers, two endpapers cracking slightly, but all hinges sound. A very good copy of the scarce triple-decker, one of 500 copies printed, issued shortly after the two-volume..... More
Pleasant Hill, Oregon: 1981. The photo shows Kesey's hands unfolding his wallet of family pictures, while he's standing on the Great Wall of China. Inscribed by Kesey and signed (as "Ken, Faye, Shannon, Zane, Jed & Sunshine". With original envelope hand addressed by Kesey to relatives. More
Wien: A. Bauer, 1897. First edition. Original pictorial wrappers, printing a caricature of the Viennese critic Hermann Bahr. Covers washed and laid down onto heavier paper, with small restorations. The satirist's scarce first book. More
Berlin-Westend: Verlag der Reihe, 1929. First edition. xxxi, 100 p. 26 cm. Original wrappers, in lightly worn dust jacket, offsetting from wrapper on half title, otherwise fine. Text in English, French, and German. More
San Francisco: James Linden, 1989. Mundy, Michael. First separate edition. Original cloth, labels, 9 x 11 inches. One of ten de luxe hardbound copies, from a total edition of 87 printed by Julie Holcomb on Rives Heavyweight paper. Text is "Where It Is" from "Always Coming Home," by Ursula K...... More