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
Pencil on card, 5 inches x 3 inches. Card with adhesive marks, mounted on plain paper, with clippings and a souvenir photograph. More
Collection "Avant-Garde" (1966). Altmann, Roberto. First edition. 27 pp., 2 ll. 10-1/8 inches. Original wrappers, a few fox spots, endemic to the cover paper. One of five copies printed on japon impérial, (tirage de tête). Lettrist poetry, illustrated with three original etchings by Roberto Altmann. Signed by author and artist..... More
To the editor of "Story" magazine (where Mann had been frequently published, since its inception) and numous anthologies. "I was very interested to learn about your plan of a television series based upon the work and the authors in "The World's Best" and I am quite willing to cooperate in..... More
Palo Alto: 3 EP Ltd., 1981. First edition. A portfolio of six colored etchings and aquatints, drawn by the artist on copper and zinc plates, printed by Ikuru Kuwahara, signed, numbered, and dated by the artist. Overall size 22-1/2 inches x 27 inches, plate size 17-1/2 in x 22 in..... More
No place: Laurence Scott, (1984). First edition. Original marbled paper wrappers, with printed label, 13-1/4 inches x 10 inches. Slight rubbing to corners. Frontispiece by Laurence Scott, signed. One of 26 lettered copies, from a total edition of 126. Inscribed by Merrill "Not only to Frank & Bill & the..... More
Milan: The Future of Freedom, 1955. First edition. Original wrappers, corner stapled. 8 1/4 in. x 12 in. Cover title, 15 pp. Mimeographed on rectos only. Creased from folding, minor edge wear and discoloration, last leaf detached. Milosz's paper given at the Milan Conference on the Future of Freedom, sponsored..... More
Washington, DC: Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Co., 1934. First edition. Original black cloth, blocked in green; xvi, 437 pp., one ad leaf. 3 inch crack in rear endpaper, but a very good copy. Illustrations in black, red, blue, and green. There is an inscription on the front endpaper indicating..... More
Milano: Officina d'artegrafica A. Lucini, (1958). Munari,Bruno. First edition. Folio, 380 x 430 mm., Original printed wrappers, in lightly worn slipcase, case label chipped, else fine. Six colored serigraphs by Munari; these have left offsets on the facing blank pages, producing interesting ghost patterns. One of 200 copies, this unnumbered..... More
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Paris: Sovremennie Zapiski, 1932. First edition. Original wrappers, paper slightly toned, but a near-fine copy. Bookplate of Robert C. Stephenson, Russian literature scholar and translator. Juliar A13.1. More
Chemnitz: Schmeitzner, 1882. First edition, first issue. 8vo, 2 leaves, [5]-255 pp. Bound to period style in marbled boards, with red morocco spine and black leather labels. Fine condition. From the library of Viennese bibliographer Dr Moriz Grolig with his circular stamp on the title page verso. Of 1000 copies..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace, (1952). First edition. Yellow boards, with a 3/4 inch chip at top of spine,otherwise very good, without dust jacket. Presentation copy to Reynolds and Jean Allen, dated May 1952. On May 14,1942, almost exactly a decade prior to the book's publication, Reynolds Allen beat Flannery O'Connor out for..... More
San Francisco: Sierra Club, (1964). Porter, Eliot. First edition. One of 105 copies. 20 x 15 inches. Fine condition, in original folding linen case. The prints measure between 10 x 7-3/4 inches to 8 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches and are dry-mounted on Strathmore Illustration Board. A letterpress folio, with..... More
New York: Beech Tree Books/William Morrow, (1985). First edition. Original printed wrappers, slight fading, otherwise fine. Uncorrected proof copy of the author's first book. More
Paris: Gallimard, 1961. First edition. Original white cloth, clear plastic jacket. 9-1/2 in. x 11-1/14 in. First printing, May 1961, one of 3000 numbered copies (this is one of 250 hors-commerce). Design by Robert Massin. Fine condition. Presentation copy from Queneau to Anne and Georges-Emmanuel Clancier. Anne Clancier was a...... More
London: Studio Leigh, 2016. First edition. 16-7/8 x 12 inches, 44 leaves, all but two with the fore edges uncut. Card covers, hand-painted by the artist, in a flourescent tinted Perspex box as issued. One of an edition of 30 numbered copies, plus two artist proofs, signed by the artist..... More
London: Cassell, London. Cassell, 1893. Original blue-grey gilt decorated cloth, a very good bright copy. First London edition, the New York (Scribner's) edition precedes by six days, first issue, with ink price correction on p. [ii]. 16 page inserted publisher's catalogue, dated 3.93. More
[Cambridge, Mass.]: Printed in Harvard Yard by The Adams House and Lowell House Printers, 1965. First edition. Broadside, one of 100 numbered copies, signed by Updike. Fine. The first signed and limited edition of an Updike work. More
New York: William Faro, 1931. First edition. Green cloth with pink paper spine label. A fine copy in near-fine dust jacket (slight wear at ends, a little fading). This was an imaginative reconstruction, not actually written by Valentino. More
New York: Pellagrini and Cudahy, (1953). First edition. Boards, slight shelf wear on bottom edge, otherwise a fine copy, slight spotting on the inside of the (otherwise) fine, unworn dust jacket. Inscribed by Weegee "to George Sakal who sold me my first 35 m.m. camera, and showed me how to..... More
New York: HarperCollins, 2000. 30th Anniversary edition. Publisher's full leather, with inset cover illustration, fine. Copy 86 of 150, numbered and signed by Marcellino. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1946. First edition. Trimmed galley proofs, bound in plain blue wrappers with a white cover label, hinge split, otherwise a very good copy with a review slip. This begins at page [v], the first page of the preface, probably the preminary pages had not yet been set..... More
Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1919. Second edition and first separate edition, one of 1000 copies. Original printed wrappers, fine. Cloth case. The story had previously appeared in "Two Stories," 1917. Kirkpatrick A2b; Woolmer 8. More
London: Elkin Mathews, 1903. Fourth edition. This is the rare vellum-bound version of this book, bound by Elkin Mathews in 1903, using the redrawn designs by Althea Gyles made for this edition. Fine condition, preserved in a slipcase and chemise. Robert Gregory's copy (Lady Gregory's son) with his hand-colored bookplate..... More
