New York: Grove Press, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes, octavo. Both: xxiii, 454 pages. Hardcover: dust wrapper slightly torn at head of crown. Softcover: spine creased, with minor cracking. Albeit with some wear, both are attractive copies, suitable for exhibition. ¶ Two significant copies of one of the most..... More
![Canzoniere]. Poesie. Manoscritto antico d’ignoto autore (early title in MS on upper cover)....](/pictures/thumb/2973.jpg?v=1582352917)
Venice: 1510 (25 January). 8vo. in fours. Collation: A-Q4, COMPLETE. 64 ff. (some signatures written in contemporary MS, several erroneously, neat modern foliation in pencil). Paper size: 155 x 105. Watermarks: Northern Italy, ca. 1480-1520 (see below). Bound in late 18th century Italian sprinkled ochre boards, upper cover with title..... More
![Sammelband of 5 works of "ANA"]. Angotiana. BOUND WITH: Facetiana. BOUND WITH: Rousseliana. BOUND...](/pictures/thumb/1261.jpg?v=1553284494)
Paris: Barba, Delaunay, Cavanagh, Les Marchands de Nouveautes, & Tiger, 1803. Hardcover. Dates: 1803-1824. 16mo., together 5 works in one volume: 144 pp + 179 pp + 160 pp +122 pp + 108 pp., each work accompanied by an engraved frontispiece of which 2 are hand-colored (some fraying along outer..... More
New York: Panther Books, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. Paperback. Fine. The book includes poems, plus b/w photographs by the author of the following luminaries: Jack Smith, Brion Gysin, Kazuo Ohno, Faye Cohen, Lakshmi Cohen, Gregory Corso, Mikki Maher, Vali Myers, Angus MacLise, Caroline Gosselin, Raphael Aladdin Cohen, and others. More
Faenza: Archi, 1726. First Edition. 8vo. 185, [1] pp. Collation: A-Y4 Z6 (lacking final blank leaf Z6). With a printer's mark on title-page and p. 76 (Apollo with lyre) plus a large woodcut of Hercules and the Nemean Lion on final page. Some early corrections on pages 50, 55. Original..... More
London and Halifax, Yorkshire: Milner and Sowerby, 1867. Second edition. 8vo. 320 pp. including half-title, engraved woodcut frontispiece and additional woodcut title-page. Bound in green publisher's cloth (trifle worn), tooled in blind with the stamp of the "Wide Wide World Library" in the center of the upper and lower covers..... More
London: Faber & Faber, 1952. First Edition. 8vo. xi, [1], 177, [1]. Original pale blue cloth, brown spine label, original dust-wrapper unclipped (a few trifle nicks, spine soiled, evidence of circular label at foot of spine). Preserved by a mylar sleeve. This bibliography features T.S. Eliot's presentation inscription to the..... More
Frankfurt: 1925. Hardcover. Calligraphic manuscript on paper: 10 pages, including an original watercolor by the artist, and bound by her. Written on Flinsche Paper (Frankfurt). Large "modernist" watercolor illustration on first leaf (evidence of deep pencil scratch in outer margin), on the recto a manuscript dedication (dated June 1925) being..... More
![Promena [Metamorphosis - First Czech edition]. Together with: Promena, Sestero Konfigurací k...](/pictures/thumb/2905.jpg?v=1572656224)
Stara Rise (Czech Republic): Josef Florian, 1929. First Edition. Softcover. Together 2 volumes, large 4to and 8vo. PORTFOLIO (310 x 235 mm). Half-title SIGNED by the artist, title-page, 2-page translation of Kafka's "Ein Traum" into Czech by Gustav Janouch, list of plates, and statement of limitation printed in red and..... More
![American Publisher's Binding]. The Master Spirit. William Magnay](/pictures/thumb/2291.jpg?v=1553284621)
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1906. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. 8vo. vi, 319, [1] pp. + 4 pp. advertisements. With a frontispiece + 1 plate by John Cameron. Bound in original green publisher's cloth designed by the Decorative Designers firm (signed with their interlocking "DD" monogram, the second D facing left);..... More
![Le reveil ["resveil"] de Maistre Guillaume aux bruits de ce temps. Guillaume Marchand, Fou du...](/pictures/thumb/682.jpg?v=1553284728)
S.l. (Paris?): s.n., 1614. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Collation: A-D4, COMPLETE. 32 pp. Recent half calf over marbled boards in the antique style. Blindstamps of the Theological Institute of Connecticut (now known as the Hartford Seminary). NB: in 1976 a collection of more than 200,000 books from the Hartford Seminary..... More
Charlottesville, VA: Bibliographic Society of the University of Virginia, 1952. First Edition. Softcover. 28 cm. 14 pp. 4to. Printed wrappers, stapled (front cover detaching). Mimeographed typescript. Preserved in a mylar L-Sleeve. Very early account of the then-neglected field of Southern Amateur Fiction, still valuable. The author, a noted Americana dealer..... More
Paris: Didot jeune, 1796. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Octavo. 8 volumes in 7. With a frontispiece portrait by Saint Aubin in vol. 1 and another frontispiece portrait of the author (unsigned) in vol. 5. Traces of minor wear to bindings, some faint foxing. BOUND IN CONTEMPORARY FULL RED MOROCCO BY BOZERIAN..... More
New York: Charles Wells, 1833. Hardcover. N.d. (ca. 1833). 16mo. [2], xiv, [3], 14-227, [4], 230-328, [1], iv-x pp. Contemporary beige calf (by Charles Wells of New York?) elaborately gilt, a.e.g. Front free endpaper excised, binding with some minor refurbishment. ¶ Charles Wells was described in New York City Directories..... More
Paris: George Cres et Cie. 1914. First Edition. Small 4to. Woodcut frontispiece printed in black and sepia by P.-Eug. Vibert. Contemporary Art-Deco binding by Madeline Gras: full smooth green calf, front and back covers inlaid with two rectangles of brown calf, gilt with the title (upper cover) and oblong ornaments..... More
![The Ides of March [SIGNED]. Rene](/pictures/thumb/1165.jpg?v=1553284483)
New York: Vantage Press, 1977. Hardcover. 8vo. 85, [1] pp. With 43 black and white macabre plates by the author. Original black cloth, original dust wrapper illustrated by the author. ¶ First and only appearance of these curious quatrains (ballad stanzas and clerihews) written by an otherwise unknown American author..... More
![Manila Galleon, Typescript]. "That Year's Galleon" (early title). Cameron Rogers](/pictures/thumb/1698.jpg?v=1553284553)
S.l. (probably Santa Barbara, CA): 1936. Unbound. n.d. (but not after 1936). 23 chapters + Epilogue, each individually paginated. Typewritten on "Superior Manifold - Esleeck Mfg Co" paper (8 1/2 x 11"). This appears to be the only significant Cameron Rogers manuscript still in private ownership (the University of Oregon..... More
New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. original cloth, in original dust-jacket. ¶ First edition, an impeccable SIGNED copy, first printing, first state DJ protected in mylar cover, with points: the full edition number-line down to 1, has the Livesey quote on the DJ, and the..... More
![Curiosa]. [Bibliography]. [Ed Wood Jr.] Ed Wood's Sleaze Paperbacks. Michael Daley, Johan Kugelberg](/pictures/thumb/1352.jpg?v=1553284503)
New York: Boo-Hooray Gallery, 2011. FIRST EDITION. Softcover. 4to. (large), original illustrated wrappers, 100 pp., profusely illustrated with color reproductions of Ed Wood paperback book material, each fully and meticulously described. First edition of the indispensible catalogue of the pioneering exhibition of Ed Wood's degenerate paperbacks, tantamount to a bibliography..... More
