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: R. Ackermann, 1816. First edition. Quarto, 14 x 11 inches. Title page (verso blank) 32 text pages, plus five colored engravings (1816 watermark), with the directions to the binder slip. Contemporary boards, hand lettered on the front, uncut, rebacked. Usual offset from the plates to facing pages, occasional spotting..... More
One page, written in blue ink on a sheet of unwatermarked paper. Some edge wear, small old tape repairs. A rare example from the hand of the 1977 Nobel laureate, published in his 1953 collection Nacimiento Ultima. Provenance: Given by Aleixandre to the Nicaraguan poet Ernesto Mejía-Sanchez (1923-1985)... 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
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
21st Editions, 2008. Baldridge, Jamie. First edition. 20-1/2 x 16-1/2 inches. Text and 12 richly colorful, surrealistic pigment ink prints, printed and signed by the artist. Designed by Michael Russem at Kat Ran Press, using handset Bell type, cast by Michael and Winifred Bixler. Bound in patinated metal over boards..... More
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..... More
London: Printed by T. Bensley for R. Bowyer and M. Parkes, 1828. Reprint. Folio, 20 x 15 inches. 10 leaves of text and 12 colored aquatint plates, exquisitely reproducing works by Samuel Prout, William Collins, John Smith, Francis Nicholson, and Robert Hills. Original boards, paper label, spine worn, plates and..... More
Paris: Gallimard, (1958). Third overall and first Gallimard edition of Camus's first book, originally published in 1937. Original wrappers, paper browned but an excellent copy. Cloth case with leather label. Inscribed by Camus to the sociologist and editor Roger Caillois. The book contains five essays: "L'Ironie," "Entre oui et non,"..... More
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
New York: Knopf, 1922. First edition, first printing, limited issue. Original white vellum, gilt, ribbon marker. Minor dust-soiling to spine, but a fine copy. Copy 10 of 35 copies printed on Imperial Japan Vellum, signed on the colophon by Cather, five of which were not for sale. One of the..... More
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New York: Knopf, 1925. First edition. Cloth backed boards, inner hinges expertly strengthened; a very good copy in a decent dust jacket, which has light edge wear, fading and damp marks on the spine. Half morocco case. Inscribed by Cather to Alice Roullier, daughter of an important art dealer in..... 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
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
Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1919. First edition, second state of page 13, with misprints corrected. One of fewer than 250 copies hand-printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Original marbled paper wrappers produced by Roger Fry at the Omega Workshops, with label printed in black (second issue). Detached from wrappers, which have..... More
Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1921. First edition. One of 150 copies, hand printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. [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; Hogarth Press list. Publisher's red marbled paper covers..... 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
Matted to 13-1/4 inches, x 8-3/4 inches. Archivally framed, signed, titled, and dated. Inscribed by the photographer to art historian and curator Peter Selz. Selz wrote the introduction to Nagler's 2010 book "Word on the Street," which would have been written by Ginsberg, had he not passed away. Fine condition..... More
1995. Stuart, Gordon. Water color portrait of the poet, executed in Swansea, Wales, in 1995, signed and dated in the upper right corner. 18-1/2 inches x 14-3/4 inches. Matted and framed. This is one of a series of portraits commissioned from Stuart as the official artist of the U.K. Year..... More
Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1850. First edition. Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Spine dull, frayed at the ends, slight wear to corners, hinges trifle loose; internally mostly fresh and clean. March 1850 catalogue. BAL 7600. More
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
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
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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. Original cloth backed boards, with printed spine label, expertly restored, using original materials, to near-fine condition. [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..... 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