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
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
Paris: Europa Press, 1935. First edition. [36] p. 23 cm. Original printed wrappers, fine copy. Copy number 46 of 327 copies, one of 250 on Alfa paper. Specially signed by Beckett on the title page. Folding case. Davis 35A1. More
Peterburg: Alkonost, 1921. First edition. Original wrappers, 69 pp. A very good copy, hinges split. Contemporary inscription on title page. One of an edition of 3000 copies; a Berlin edition appeared the following year. "Of all this great writer's works, it remains the one whose artistic merit and value are..... 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
Paris: Collection Charef, 1975. Benanteur, Abdallah. First edition. One of 20 copies, signed by author and artist; with a long inscription from the author. 5 x 5 3/4 in. (127 x 140 cm). 58 decorated text pages and 35 etchings. Bound by Jill Oriane Tarlau in dark olive morocco, with..... 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: 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
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
Lincoln: Junior Class of the University of Nebraska, 1894. First edition. Original decorated cloth, a very fine copy, rare in this condition. 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
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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. [Offered with Harper's Books]. 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
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: 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
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: Pitman, 1926. First edition. First edition of the first book on television. Original red cloth, gilt on the front cover. This now uncommon book is more frequently found in printed wrappers, priced 2/- for popular distribution, bound copies cost 2/6, and probably only a very few were made. The..... 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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Bussum: C.A.J. van Dishoeck, 1932. Escher, M.C. Woodcut, 7 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches (180 x 140 mm.), fine condition, matted and framed under plexiglass. Example 193 from an intended edition of 300, printed on Van Gelder simili Japon by. 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
New York: Charles Francis Press, (1903). First edition. Grey's scarce first book, published at his own expense. This is a contemporary presentation copy, inscribed and signed by the author on a sheet pasted to the front endpaper, within his hand-drawn border: "To Miss Myra Emmons A Merry Christmas and a...... 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
Berlin: Propyläen-Verlag, (1931). First published edition. Original printed wrappers, fine, one corner slightly creased. 144 pages, 2 leaves. W / G 4. 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
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