London: Hogarth Press, 1926. First edition. Marbled paper over boards (predominantly green) paper spine label. Slight wear, very good. With a 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 about Chosen Poems; With a preface by G.K. Chesterton
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 about Chosen Poems; With a preface by G.K. Chesterton
New York: V.G. Audubon and Roe Lockwood & Son, 1859. Third edition. Seven volumes, royal 8vo (11 inches by 7 inches) bound in publisher's full brown morocco, stamped in gilt and blind, gilt edges. 500 hand colored lithographs printed by J.T. Bowen. Usual scattered foxing, otherwise in fine condition. "Although... More about The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories
1972. Bassouls, Sophie. 12 x 16 inch silver print, signed by the photographer. Sophie Bassouls, photographer with the Corbis-Sygma Agency, she has produced more than 3000 literary portraits. Her work has been widely exhibited, in France, and in the United States. More about Original portrait photograph of James Baldwin
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 about Struggles and Triumphs; or Forty Years Recollections
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 about Waiting for Godot
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. Woolmer 56. More about Adriatica and Other Poems. With a preface by F.L. Lucas
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 about Naked Lunch
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Los Angeles: Artists' (Floating, Invisible) Museum, 1997-2004. First edition. Thirty-one folders, (13-1/4 x 10-1/8 inches) one containing text about the project, each of the others containing an original art work, housed in a clamshell box, designed by Carolee Campbell and handmade by Judi Conant; folders printed letterpress by Carolee Campbell... More about The Book of Lies Project. Volume III. [Conceptualized, organized and produced by Eugenia Butler
Paris: Gallimard, (1957). First edition. Copy "B" of five, lettered,hors commerce, from the issue of 45 copies on Hollande Van Gelder (tirage de tête). Bound by Micheline de Bellefroid, Jansenist style, red goatskin, olive box doublures and gardes,painted paper flyleaves, matching slipcase. Perfect condition. Provenance: Georges Donckier de Donceel (bookplate)..... More about L'Exil et le royaume. Nouvelles
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 about Maximes et Anecdotes. Avec une biographie par Ginguené et une introduction par Albert Camus
Paris: Gallimard, (1954). First edition, on ordinary paper. A service de presse copy of this collection of essays, containing among others "Le Minotaure ou L'Halte d'Oran". Presentation copy, inscribed by Camus to the naval historian Léonce Peillard. Original printed wrappers, fine and unopened, with the errata slip, and the publisher's..... More about L'Été
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 about La leçon de gravure en douze linos originales
London: Hogarth Press, 1926. First edition. Marbled boards with cover label, fine. Woolmer 88. More about Time and Chance. Poems; Preface by Prof. Gilbert Murray
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 about Max Ernst
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Prague: B.Koci, (1921). Cloth backed boards, 56 pp., excellent condition. Color-printed children's book. More about Nasim Detem [Our Children
Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1921. First edition. One of an edition ofm 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 about Twelve Original Woodcuts
New York: Knopf, 1934. First edition. Brown cloth, very good. Hellman's first play. Inscribed to the Gershwins, "For Master Ira and Mistress Leonore with love / Lillian" More about The Children's Hour
Berlin: Propyläen-Verlag, (1931). First published edition. Original printed wrappers, fine, one corner slightly creased. 144 pages, 2 leaves. W / G 4. More about Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald. Volksstück in drei Teilen
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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 about The Innocent Voyage [A High Wind in Jamaica
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 about 1961. Illustré de quatre photomontages
New York: Pynson Printers, 1939. First edition. Decorated paper sides, black calf spine, slipcase. Slight wear at bottom of the spine, otherwise fine. One of 370 copies, signed by Hunter and the printer Elmer Adler, with the prospectus. More about Paper Making by Hand in India
London and New York: Macmillan, 1886. Second edition, following the three-volume first edition by three months. Original dark blue cloth, blocked in gilt and blind. Slight cracking to endpapers, otherwise a fine, and very bright copy. Ownership inscription on half title. This copy without the extra leaf of dollar advertisements... More about The Bostonians
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 about Original silver bromide photograph of John Singer Sargent's celebrated portrait of Henry James,...
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 about 100 x Paris