London: R. Ackermann, 1816. First edition. Quarto, 14 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches. Original boards with printed title information on the front board, roan back. Title-page, 34 text pages and five colored engravings. Excellent, clean copy, with mild offset from the plates to facing pages. See Tooley 3. More
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
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
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
Buffalo: The Courier Co., 1882. Author's Edition, Revised, Enlarged, Newly Illustrated and Written up to December, 1881. Original half sheep, with marbled boards, nicely rebacked, boards rubbed, old Chester, Conn. public library stamps in three places. Inscribed "To Wilbur A. Brothwell with good wishes. P.T. Barnum, Xmas 1881". Tipped in..... 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
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
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: 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: 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
London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, et al. 1753. First edition. Folio, (10 1/2 inches x 9 3/4 inches). Contemporary calf, expertly rebacked to style, spine richly gilt, some few paper repairs, (the Buffalo plate washed, repaired with tissue and remounted); very good condition. Samuel Powell (of Hammerton Hall)..... More
Monaco: Incidences, 1944. First edition. Wrappers, spine lightly creased, else fine. Cloth case with leather label. One of 2000 copies on vergé. Inscribed by Camus to the writer Max Delatte, "par procuration (abusive)"; the inscription is slightly smudged. More
London: John Heywood, 1885. Second edition enlarged. Original dark green cloth, blocked in black and gilt. Cover with a light stain, else very good. Inscribed "William M. Ashmore from his friend E.C., April /86" Carpenter in “My Days and Dreams” wrote: ”I could stand [Sheffield] no longer - and I...... 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
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: 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
New York: A. Iolas Gallery, [1962]. Original wrappers, faded. Folder issued in connection with the exhibition "Max Ernst--recent paintings, sculptures" at the Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York, April 3-28, 1962. We have the folder and the accompanying broadside poem (34 x 28 cm) by Ernst in French and English, but not..... 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
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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, (1920). First edition. First edition of Fitzgerald's first novel and greatest success.The first printing consisted of 3000 copies; two reprints were called for within a month. Inscribed to a member of the Princeton class of 1920: "For Jerry English -- (Remember now its a solemn promise about..... 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
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