Memoirs and Anecdotes of Early Days in Calistoga
[Calistoga]: Privately printed, 1946. First edition. Original blue cloth, mimeographed. Very good. 54, (11) pp., text on rectos only. Inscribed by the author. Rocq 5854. More
[Calistoga]: Privately printed, 1946. First edition. Original blue cloth, mimeographed. Very good. 54, (11) pp., text on rectos only. Inscribed by the author. Rocq 5854. More
San Francisco: American trust Company, 1954. Adams,Ansel. First edition. Wrappers, 36x28 cm with plastic spiral binding. Two cracks in plastic, but an excellent copy. More
Lagos: African Universities Press, (1962). Wrappers, fine. First edition, includes works by Achebe, Ekwensi, Tutuola, Soyinka, et al., some previously unpublished. More
Mt. Vernon, New York: Printed at the Press of A. Colish for The Limited Editions Club, 1961. Ayrton, Michael. Fine, boxed. One of 1500 numbered copies, signed by the artist. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941. Evans, Walker. First edition. Original black cloth, blocked in silver. Rear endpaper stained from a newsprint enclosure, else a near-fine copy in dust jacket, slightly faded on the spine and with a few small closed tears. Inscribed by Evans in pencil on the front free endpaper..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1960). Evans, Walker. Revised edition. Originally published in 1941, this revised edition includes a new foreword by Evans plus additional photographs. First printing of the reissue, inscribed by Evans, perhaps or probably to the novelist: “Tom Berger | with pleasure | Walker Evans.” Fine in a near..... More
Helsinki: Pieraccini Foundation, 2010. Limited edition. Cloth, new in dust jacket. One of 440 copies, numbered and signed. Text in English, Finnish, Swedish, and Italian. 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, 1925. First edition, first issue binding. Patterned mauve and pink paper boards, with yellow title label. Spine tanned, slightly rubbed. Very good. The poem is revised from its earlier appearance. Bonnell A12; Woolmer 55. 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
London: Cape, (1962). First English edition. Blue boards, a couple of pages with little underlining, very good bright copy in lightly soiled dust jacket. Signed by Albee on the title page. This is a new edition, containing "The American Dream, as well as the three plays included in the U.S...... More
Fair copy of this 12-line poem. 15 cm x 11 cm, blue ink, on the reverse of an invitation to the publication of Alberti's "Degli Angeli," Rome, 1966, inscribed on both sides. More
1. To [Mary Mapes] Dodge. 1 page, partially discolored, small tears. He has nothing he can send for her publication. "The work I have in hand -- a long poem for the Xmas number of Harper's Magazine -- will occupy all the time I can give to matters outside of..... More
La Louvière: Daily-Bul, 1967. First edition. Boards, fine. One of 500 copies on offset paper, 16 original lithographs. 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
Honolulu: Privately printed, 1934. First edition. 8vo. Cloth backed boards, fine. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: American Book Co., 1891. First edition, with frontispiece portrait of Queen Liliuokalani. 8vo, 341 pp. Original olive-green cloth, blocked in gold and black. Bookplate of Pacific ethnologist James Edge-Partington. Forbes 4240. More
Honolulu: 1891. Third revised edition of Alexander's grammar (Forbes 4141), with the two scarce early issues of the Papers of the Hawaiian Historical Society, and the rare offprint of Lyons's translation of the Mele no Kualii (Forbes 4484). Contemporary black cloth, from the library of the Argentine scholar and statesman..... 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
Austin: University of Texas Press, (1966). Alvarez Bravo, Manuel. First edition. Cloth. Fine copy in dust jacket (a few small nicks). More
Managua: Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua y Centroameríca, (2000). First edition. Wrappers, fine. One of 1200 copies printed. Inscribed by the photographers Alvarez and Gordillo, and the author Torres, to the Nicaraguan poet and activist Daisy Zamora. A documentary photobook of life and customs on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast. With the..... More
Helskini: Eurographica, 1986. First edition. Wrappers, as new. One of 350 copies, signed and dated by Ambler. More
Boston: Crocker and Brewster, 1823. First edition. Stitched, unbound. 24 pp. Nice condition. Instructions to the "second company" of missionaries, who sailed from New Haven in November, 1822. Forbes 561. More