SENLIN: A BIOGRAPHY
London: Hogarth Press, 1925. First edition, first issue binding. Patterned mauve and pink paper boards, with yellow title label. Spine tanned, slightly rubbed. Very good. Bonnell A12; Woolmer 55. More
London: Hogarth Press, 1925. First edition, first issue binding. Patterned mauve and pink paper boards, with yellow title label. Spine tanned, slightly rubbed. Very good. Bonnell A12; Woolmer 55. More
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
New York: Kaldeway Press, (1987). LASKER, JONATHAN. First edition. 18 pages, 17 inches x 11-1/2 inches, 30 x 45 cm. Printed in blue on "Poestenkill Leaves" paper made for this edition at the Kaldewey mill, bound by Christian Zwang, black paper over board, with relief impressions after Lasker's design on..... 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: 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: 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
Salem: S.E. Cassino, 1879. First American edition. Original brown cloth, blocked in black and gilt. A fine, unopened copy of this very uncommon issue, from English sheets. 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
Boston: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, 1903. First edition of Cather's first book. Original boards, cover and spine labels. Boards darkened and marked, spine label chipped, nevertheless an attractive copy, preserved in a cloth case. Inscribed twice by Cather: On the front cover "For Albert Donovan from his friend..... 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
Unidentified photographer. Full-length standing portrait of the young Hart Crane, 4 X 3 inches, vintage black and white print, undated but probably early 1920s. Crane is shown standing in a clearing before what appear to be fruit bushes, smoking a cigar. The photograph is inscribed by Hart Crane in 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: 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
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
Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1920. First edition. 500 copies were hand printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf, from type set by Virginia. Original blue wrappers, title label surrounded by a gold border (state 1). Spine slightly faded, but a near-fine copy, unopened. Bookplate of New Directions publisher James Laughlin. Kirkpatrick A6;..... More
[ca. 1947?]. Grandpierre, Victor. First edition. 60 original silver print photographs by Victor Grandpierre, mounted on bristol boards with rounded, gilt edges. 29 x 22 cm. The images depict somewhat surrealistic arrangements of decorative household objects, each illustrating a poem by Louise de Vilmorin, printed in facsimile of her manuscript..... More
London: 1924. Grigoriev, Boris. Special edition by order of Morris Gest. Folio, 37 x 28 cm. Publisher's gilt boards, vellum spine and corners. 100, [3] pages, 2 leaves. With 29 brilliant color and black and white illustrations, tipped to mats and separated with tissue guards, one final full page plate..... 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
2 pages (verso and recto), folio, ruled paper with St Winifred watermark, unsigned. “Aunts and Nieces” comprises 52 lines of manuscript verse to both sides, the text differing in minor ways from the published version: there is one correction to line 34 [“need not” changed to “will not”], and Housman’s..... More
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
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
New York: Published for the Booksellers, 1841. First edition. Cloth backed boards, with printed spine label, expertly restored. [2], 152 pages. Pencil notes on the rear endpaper may identify a few character names with real-life models. Signature of J.L. Hale, dated 1841. One of the first American books on the..... 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