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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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, very good condition. Samuel Powell (of Hammerton Hall) bookplate. The grandest edition of Duncan's popular translation of..... More
Paris: Gallimard, (1959). First edition. Copy 7 of 21 on Hollande van Gelder (tirage de tête). Bound by Antonio Perez Noriega utilizing articulated strips of wood, with a black box calf spine, lettered in red, ultrasuede doublures, wrappers and spine preserved. Matching box with sliding opening. Fine condition. Provenance: Fred..... More
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
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
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
Paris: Jacques Damase, (1977). Delaunay, Sonia. First edition. Original wrappers, 30 x 45 cm., usual slight tanning to wrapper, some offsetting from plates to the text pages, else fine. The book reproduces in 12 lithographs the models for theatre costumes created by Sonia Delaunay for Tzara's play in 1923. One..... More
Self published, 1987. Pierre Della Giustina. 40 X 62 cm. 10 unnumbered leaves, french-folded. Binding is cardboard with exposed red thread. Copy no. 2 of ten copies numbered and signed by the artist. Fine condition. Woodblock and aquatint prints on papier de chine, incorporating the lyrics of Queneau's song... More
London: Hogarth Press, 1926. First edition. Marbled boards with cover label, fine. Woolmer 88. 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
New York: Scribner's, 1934. First edition. Original green cloth, bookplate or ink inscription removed from front pastedown; a very good copy in restored dust jacket. Full morocco case. 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, 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
Paris: Gallimard, (1929). First edition. First combined edition of Gide's belated discovery and denunciations of colonialism. Contemporary calf, gilt, by Millioud, original wrappers and spine preserved. 13 inches x 10 inches. Slight wear to extremities, endpapers foxed, otherwise excellent condition. One of 1571 copies on Arches paper, this not numbered..... 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
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