Chapelle-Réanville: The Hours Press, 1929. First edition. Original red printed boards, Aragon himself set the type, including display lettering made up from type ornaments, very good copy, slightly darkened and rubbed. One of 350 copies on Alfa paper, signed by Aragon. 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
Paris: Imprimerie Fact, [196-?]. Second edition. 38 pp., 21 cm. Photo-mechanically reproduced sheets. Cover-title, stapled into printed plastic wrapper, crease in back cover, else fine. The first edition was published by Mac McNair, New York in 1964, the title was mis-spelled ("Rythms"); there was a second printing of this edition..... 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..... 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
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
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1915. First edition, first issue. Original smooth blue cloth, gilt, a fine copy in a very good example of the rare pictorial dust jacket. Bookplate of Daniel G. Hastings. According to Rare Book Hub and ABPC, only one jacketed copy has been sold at auction for at..... 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
![Povesti i razskazy [Stories and tales]. Anton Chekhov](/pictures/thumb/23903.jpg?v=1440620044)
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
London: Pitman, 1926. First edition. First edition of the first book on television. Original red cloth, gilt on the front cover. This now uncommon book is more frequently found in printed wrappers, priced 2/- for popular distribution, bound copies cost 2/6, and probably only a very few were made. The..... More
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Privately printed, 1925. First edition. White boards, in salmon-colored dust jacket. Fine copy. One of 300 numbered and signed copies.From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate. 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
3-1/2 inches x 2 inches, four sets of staple holes in the card, but not touching the writing. Partially mounted to a piece of plain paper, with an autograph envelope addressed by Fleming (torn), and some clippings. Fleming won the 1945 Nobel Prize for medicine, for his discovery of penicillin..... 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
![Allen Ginsberg in his Studio, New York City, November 1996 [printed 2007]. Gelatin silver print....](/pictures/thumb/29545.jpg?v=1507252735)
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. Small area of wear at the base of the spine, corners slightly rubbed, otherwise a fine copy. The gilt is bright, hinges sound, text block clean and fresh. March 1850 catalogue at front, slightly..... More
![The Innocent Voyage [A High Wind in Jamaica]. Richard Hughes](/pictures/thumb/28518.jpg?v=1492209227)
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
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
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
Los Angeles: Marco Fine Arts, (1997). Indiana, Robert. First edition. Folio (17 in x 22 in.), 100 pp. Original black leather, as new, publisher's box. Copy TP 22/30 from a total edition of 395 copies, signed by the artist. Contains 30 original serigraphs by Robert Indiana, six of the images..... More
Vista, Calif. The author, [1967]. First edition. Publisher's wrappers, 160 pp., 18 cm., illustrated. Near fine. Jones's memoir of his travels around the U.S. for more than 30 years, preaching non-discrimination, promoting civil rights and peace. He was frequently arrested and imprisoned, at one time held two months for eating..... More
Munich: Kurt Wolff, 1926. First edition. 8vo, pp. [vi], 504. Original blue cloth, some mild fading, internally fine and fresh, with the rare original dust jacket (edges and folds minimally restored, slightly chipped at the ends of the spine), the jacket carries a quote from Hermann Hesse calling Kafka "König..... More
Berlin: Die Schmiede, 1924. First edition. Publisher's brown striped boards, printed cover and spine labels (design by Georg Salter). A fine copy in the rare and fragile dust jacket, with only minimal wear. Published shortly after Kafka's death in June 1924, it is the last book for which he corrected..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1929. First edition. Yellow cloth, fine copy in slightly edge-worn first printing dust jacket. Small name stamp on endpaper. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. More