Ayahuasca Visions : The Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman
Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, (1991). First edition. Cloth, fine in lightly used dust jacket. More
New Arrivals
Von Stroheim.
Angus & Robertson (1981). Cloth, fine in dust jacket. FIrst U.K. edition. More
L'année dernière à Marienbad. Réalisation d'Alain Resnais
Paris: Cocinor-Marceau, [1961]. Advertising leaflet, featuring the Golden Lion award at the Venice Biennale. More
Moms Moms Moms.
Illustrated boards. Cartoons about motherhood. Fine. First edition. Review copy, with publisher's press release laid in. More
The Ladies, God Bless Them.
New York: Dutton (1950). Hokinson, Helen E. First edition. Boards, very good in dust jacket lacking a chip from the back panel. First edition. More
When Monsters Roamed the Skies. The Saga of the Dirigible Airship.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap (1968). Cloth, fine copy in fine dust jacket. First edition. More
The Young Man from Stratford. A juryman's view of the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy.
London: Reeves, 1911. Orig. cloth, very good. More
Minor Relaxations. Further Pictures from Punch.
London: Collins (1945). Sillince. First edition. Very nice copy, dust jacket chipped at spine ends. Neat gift inscription on front pastedown. First edition. More
Baba of Karo :a Woman of the Moslem Hausa.
London: Faber and Faber, 1954. Fine in a very good dust jacket. More
Afterimages.
New York: Knopf, 1977. Black cloth, fine in price-clipped dust jacket. First edition, Croce's first collection of dance criticism. More
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Illustrated by John Tenniel; With fifty illustrations by John Tenniel
London: Macmillan, 1872. First edition. Original red cloth, gilt, gilt edges. Extremities rubbed, splits to outer hinges, volume cocked, but endpapers intact, not cracked, internally very good. More
The Californian.; Vol. 1, No. 1.
San Francisco, CA: The A. Roman Publishing Company, January 1880. Wrappers, ends of spine chipped. The first issue of the distinguished literary weekly, it was a sucessor to the Overland Weekly, and later re-adopted that name. Alexander Thomas Leonard Jr.’s ownership stamp appears on the front cover. Includes Dawson's "The..... More
Cahiers du Sud.; Issues: Vol. 32, No. 271. Vol. 37, No. 303. Vol. 42, No. 334. Vol. 43, No. 338. Vol. 46, No. 351. Vol. 51, No. 377.
Marseille: Cahiers du Sud, 1945, 1950, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1964. Six issues, 377 (Kazantzakis); 271 spine chipped. More
Cahiers des Quatre Saisons.; Issues: Nos. 1, 3, 12.
Paris: Juilliard, August 1955, December 1955, October 1957. Wrappers. The front and back covers of No. 3 have split from the spine. More
Man Ray : [mostra] Galleria Il Fauno, 5-28 maggio/1971
Torino: Galleria Il Fauno, 1971. [8] p. (Gallery)/ [tèsto per Hans Richter ; traduzione di Janus].; col., ill. ; 21 cm.; Exhibition catalog. Wrappers, fine. With invitation to the vernissage. More
Wifredo Lam. Collection dirigée par Alex Grall
Paris: Denoel, (1970). Cloth, fine, dust jacket with light wear and fading. 112 pp. More
Alexanderplatz, Berlin. The story of Franz Biberkopf; Translated into the American by Eugene Jolas
New York: Viking, (1931). First American edition. Two volumes, grey cloth, spines darkened, leaning and lightly worn. Signed and dated by Döblin on the front endpapers of each volume. More
Cahier des charges de La vie, mode d'emploi
Paris: CNRS Editions, 1993. First edition. Stiff wrappers, illustrated (some color). 31 cm. Fine copy. More
Georges Perec : dialogue avec Bernard Noël
Marseille: A. Dimanche : INA, 1997. (France)/ Dialogue avec Bernard Noël; 26 cm. + 4 sound discs (4 hr., 21 min. : digital ; 4 3/4 in.) Title from case and disc labels. [1] Souvenir de Perec. Dialogue avec Georges Perec / Bernard Noël. -- [2] Poésie ininterrompue. Inventaire /..... More
Wifredo Lam
New York: Rizzoli, 1976. 266 p. Max-Pol Fouchet. ill. (some col.), ports. ; 30 cm. Includes index. Signed by artist and author. DJ with some tears along upper edges. Text fine. Additional shipping required. More
The shape of content
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957. SHAHN, BEN. First edition. Cloth in jacket. 131 p. illus. 24 cm. The Charles Eliot Norton lectures, 1956-1957; 1st edition; DJ with light wear and tears. More
The Bridge. With three photographs by Walker Evans
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930. Evans, Walker. First edition. One of 50 copies on Japanese Vellum, signed by Crane. Quarto, original white printed wrappers, with original glassine cover and gilt paper covered slipcase (sliocase slightly rubbed, 1-inch piece missing from bottom edge). A beautiful copy of one of the..... More
A collection of offprints of historic experimental papers in 20th century biological sciences: biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, molecular biology. More than half of the items included are from winners of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, or Chemistry and other prominent scientists are included. Approximately 125 items.
Highlights include: Seymour Benzer's revolutionary genetic mapping paper, “Fine Structure of a Genetic Region in Bacteriophage” (1955)'; Albert Claude, “Fractionation of Mammalian Liver Cells by Differential Centrifugation,” (1949);' Max Delbrück's seminal talk, “A Physicist Looks at Biology,” (1949); Alexander L. Dounce, “Duplicating Mechanism for Peptide Chain and Nucleic Acid Synthesis,”..... More
Eight items, including a plaster portrait plaque of Joaquin Miller. 13 in. x 6-3/4 in. Ca. 1925
1. Plaster portrait plaque of Joaquin Miller. 13 in. x 6-3/4 in. 2. “Great Naturalists I have Modeled”. 8-page original typescript, with pencil edits. 3. The Memorial Exhibition of Portrait Busts, Plaques, Figurines, Drawings and Watercolors by Gertrude Boyle Kanno. The San Francisco Museum of Art 1937. Cover title, 8 pp. Program..... More