Operation Crossroads was an atmospheric nuclear weapon test series conducted in the summer of 1946 at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The series consisted of two detonations, a low altitude test and a shallow water test. The devices, each with a yield of 21 kilotons, were named shots Able..... More
Zurich: Privately published, 1946. Boner, Gorgette. First edition. White wrapper with green cover label, fine, plain tissue jacket lightly soiled. 30 pp. One of approximately 400 copies printed, but not, it seems, widely or publicly distributed. This is an original story by Waley, one of very few original works by..... More
2 pages (verso and recto), folio, ruled paper with St Winifred watermark, unsigned. “Aunts and Nieces” comprises 52 lines of manuscript verse to both sides, the text differing in minor ways from the published version: there is one correction to line 34 [“need not” changed to “will not”], and Housman’s dividing the sections..... More
Collection "Avant-Garde" (1966). First edition. 27 pp., 2 ll. 10-1/8 inches. Original wrappers, a few fox spots, endemic to the cover paper. One of 5 copies printed on japon impérial, (tirage de tête) containing three etchings by Roberto Altmann. Signed by author and artist. More
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Forcalquier: Robert Morel, 1969. First edition. Each page is a disc of paper 60 mm. in diameter. The pages are punched and held together with a ring. Mostly printed on one side only. The title is continued over several pages. "A remarkable work of poetry from Robert Filliou; "half-sacred," with..... More
London: Fifield, 1899. First edition, later issue with cancel title. Original green cloth, gilt. Very good. More
London: Cape, (1929). First edition. Black cloth, fine in lightly worn jacket. More
London: Cape, (1928). New edition. Original black cloth, spine label. Near-fine. More
London: Fifield, 1914. Original purple cloth. Spine faded, very good. More
New York: Fifield, 1908. Re-issue. Original green cloth, slightly faded, very good. More
New York: Kennerley, 1914. Original red cloth. Near-fine. More
London: Fifield, 1913. Original blue cloth. Near-fine. More
London: Fifield, 1910. Original brown cloth, blocked in red. Near-fine. More
New York: Dutton, (n.d.) ca. 1920. Black cloth, labels, Fine in lightly worn dust jacket. More
London: Fifield, 1909. First edition. Original blue cloth, later issue without ads. Near-fine. More
London: Trübner, 1887. First edition. Original brown cloth, blocked in black and gold; very good. More
Salem: S.E. Cassino, 1879. First American edition. Original brown cloth, blocked in black and gilt. A fine, unopened copy of this very uncommon issue, from English sheets. More
London: Longmans, Green, 1899. First edition. Original crimsion cloth, gilt. Faded, usual light browning, a very good copy. Signed on the front endpaper by Butler's friend Jessie Bovill, and with her bookplate (as Jessie A. Grosvenor). See Festing Jones's "Samuel Butler: Author of Erewhon, (1835-1902), a Memoir," for comments on..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1966. 20 cm. Boxed set of 3 volumes Cloth with dust jackets. 1 originally published 1957 ; re-issued with corrections 1966. ... ed. by Stuart Gilbert ; Vol. 2-3 ed. by Ellmann. In slipcase, edge cracked. Very good, More
New York: Knopf, 1984. Cloth backed boards. Fine in dust jacket. First American edition. More
Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, (1991). First edition. Cloth, fine in lightly used dust jacket. More
Angus & Robertson (1981). Cloth, fine in dust jacket. FIrst U.K. edition. More
Paris: Cocinor-Marceau, [1961]. Advertising leaflet, featuring the Golden Lion award at the Venice Biennale. More