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
Managua: Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua y Centroameríca, (2000). First edition. Wrappers, fine. One of 1200 copies printed. Inscribed by the photographers Alvarez and Gordillo, and the author Torres, to the Nicaraguan poet and activist Daisy Zamora. A documentary photobook of life and customs on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast. With the..... 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
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
Mt. Horeb, Wisc. The Perishable Press, 1970. First edition. Boards covered with marbled paper, leather spine and tips, pamphlet with notes in pocket on back endpaper. One of thirty copies for subscribers, printed on white Shadwell paper, from a total edition of 165. Fine condition. 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
(1983). Screenplay by Bradbury from his own novel. Cover title. 126 pages, brad-bound. Dated as "Revised 8/24/81". Title penned on spine edge. Inside rear cover notes this a the "prop shop copy" and there is a short handwitten "buy-list". Fine. 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
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
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
Metz: Chez Vodaine, 1976. First edition. Double leaves, title page, foreword, ten leaves of linocuts, each page numbered in pencil; colophon. Chaissac's linocuts from 1952 were printed by his old friend and collaborator Jean Vodaine. From a numbered edition of 100, this is one of a few hors commerce copies..... More
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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
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
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: Hogarth Press, 1925. First edition. One of 420 copies hand printed by the Woolfs, cover drawings by Eugene McCown. Original boards, not issued in dust jacket. Spine slightly rubbed, a near-fine copy. George Rylands's copy with his signature and pencilled note: "Printed when I was at the Hogarth Press..... More
Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1844. First American edition. Small 8vo, illustrated with 8 plates after the originals by John Leech, a hand-colored frontispiece, three There is a hand colored frontispiece of Mr. Fezziwig’s ball, three colored plates that are lithographed by P. S. Duval and four black-and-white, original brown cloth..... 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: 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
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
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[New York]: The Black Sun Press, 1943. Augmented edition. 44 p., 5 l. incl. front., 26 cm. Original printed boards, text paper browned as usual, ownership stamp on front endpaper, otherwise an unusually fine copy in the original pink unprinted dust jacket. English translation at top of page, French text..... 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
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
Paris: Europa Press, 1935. Hayter, Stanley William. First edition. Original black wrappers, with cover engraving by Stanley William Hayter. 2, leaves,30 pages,. 2 leaves. Fine copy. Copy III of 20 copies numbered and signed by Reavey and Hayter, printed on Japon impérial paper, illustrated with an engraved frontispiece by Hayter..... More
New Orleans: Privately printed [for Paul F. Veith], Christmas, 1941. First edition. Wrappers, fine. One of 150 numbered copies only. BAL 8046. 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