The Georgiad. A satirical fantasy in verse.
London: Boriswood, (1931). First edition. Limited to 170 copies signed by Campbell. Fine copy. 8vo, cloth-backed decorated boards, acetate dust jacket. More
London: Boriswood, (1931). First edition. Limited to 170 copies signed by Campbell. Fine copy. 8vo, cloth-backed decorated boards, acetate dust jacket. More
N. Y. Random House, (1968). First edition of this musical comedy, based on the book by Capote, with lyrics by Capote & Arlen, who wrote the music. Fine copy in lightly discolored white jacket. 8vo, frontispiece, original cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. More
N. Y. Random House, (1952). First edition. One of 500 copies printed. Covers a little rubbed, otherwise a fine copy in lightly dust-soiled & worn jacket. Scarce. 8vo, illustrated with scenes from the 1952 production, original boards, dust jacket. More
Louisville, KY: White Fields Press, 1994. First edition. One of 26 lettered copies signed by Carroll, out of a total edition of 300 copies. Published as Heaven Chapbook Series #50. Fine copy. 8vo, wrappers. More
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1961. First edition. One of 300 numbered copies printed on Hayle paper by Harry Duncan & Kim Merker. A very fine copy of a beautiful collaboration. Prospectus laid in. Small 4to, original cloth-backed boards, glassine dust jacket. More
Iowa City: The Prairie Press, (1962). First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Barnard Taylor of the Press of Appletree Alley at Bucknell Unversity, sometime publisher of Carruth's, on the front free end-paper: "For Barnard / from Hayden. / 3 June 85." Very fine copy. Large 8vo, original cloth and patterned paper over boards, dust jacket. More
Iowa City: The Prairie Press, (1964). First edition in book form. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Barnard Taylor of the Press of Appletree Alley at Bucknell Unversity, sometime publisher of Carruth's, on a preliminary leaf: "For Barnard / from Hayden. / 3 June 85." Very fine copy. Large 8vo, original cloth and patterned paper over boards, dust jacket. More
Roma: Botteghe Oscure IV, 1949. First (separate) edition of Carruth's poem, preceding his first book publication by ten years. One of an unrecorded number of author's separates from Marguerite Caetani's distinguished literary journal Botteghe Oscure. Presentation copy, inscribed by Carruth to artist and writer Tom Lea on the front free endpaper: "For Tom Lea / With gratitude and / warm friendship - / Hayden Carruth / January 25th, 1950 / Chicago, Illinois". Carruth was promoted to editor of Poetry magazine in 1949, a position he held for one year, during which time Lea acted as one of the magazine's advisors. Some light dust-soil, otherwise a fine copy. 8vo, original printed wrappers, stapled as issued. More
N. Y. Press of the Woolly Whale, 1935. Limited to fewer than 250 copies. Fine copy. Original yellow and purple cloth, bound by Gerhard Gerlach. More
Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968. First edition of Castaneda's seminal first book, published when the author was a graduate student at UCLA. Slight marginal tear to the jacket, but generally a fine copy. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket. More
New York: Bulletspace, etc. 1991. First edition. Limited to 150 copies, the numbered limitation is in white ink on the black rubber wrapper. Each poster is signed by the artist. Printed at Bullet Space, an anarchist, squatter community since 1982, The Lower East Side Workshop, Black Cat Printshop, Cooper Union, and the Brandywine Workshop, and funded by Art Matters, Artist Space, Northstar Fund, and the Andy Warhol Foundation, the 32 silkscreened posters printed by hand on Mohawk vellum paper are each signed by the artist. The artists include: Paul Castrucci, John Fekner, Stash Two, Tom McGliynn & Emily Carter, Day Gleeson & Dennis Tomas, Nadia Coen, Anton Von Dalen, Juan Sanchez, Martin Wong, Miguel Pinero & Andrew Castrucci, Betzaida Concepcion, Seth Tobocman, Sabrina Jones, Red Rodriguez, Marguerite Van Cooke & James Romberger, Neighborhood News, David Wojnarowicz, Lee Quinones & Eduardo Galleano, Lady Pink, Sebastian Schroeder, Missing Foundation, Salter Sipser, Bruce Witsiepe, Will Sales, Vincent Galgliostro and Avram Finkelstein, and Eric Drooker. "This project is a collection of images and texts concerning the broad and essential issue of housing on the Lower East Side [of Manhattan]". Many of the artists have become well known in recent years, with their works represented..... More
London: Antony D'Offay, (2001). First edition. Limited to 480 copies signed by the artist. Comprises portraits of the artist by Hendrika Sonnenberg and Leo Holub, reproductions of drawings by Celmins, and an essay entitled "Night Skies: The Distance Between Things" and an interview with the artist by Adrian Searle. Laid in is a separately printed insert with a portrait of the artist by James Lingwood and, on the verso, William Butler Yeats's poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" As new. Oblong folio, illustrated, original linen in publisher's card slipcase. More
Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 1991. First edition, deluxe issue, of the bibliography of the most extraordinary English book-artist of the Twentieth Century, published in celebration of Morris Cox's 88th birthday "as a tribute to the brilliance of his work at the Gogmagog Press - as author, artist, and printer, creator of some of the most original hand-printed books in this latter part of the century." - from the Introduction. One of 69 special copies, of which the present copy is one of 59 copies containing nine specimen pages, several of which are signed by Cox, bound in, as stated on a separately printed colophon which is signed by Morris Cox and tipped in at the back. As new. 4to, illustrated in color & black & white, original gilt-decorated black cloth, matching cloth slipcase. More
London: Jonathan Cape, (1977). First edition of Chatwin's first book which won the Hawthornden Prize and the E. M. Forster Award. Fine copy. 8vo, illustrated, original boards, dust jacket. More
London: London Limited Editions, (1987). First edition. One of 150 numbered and specially bound copies signed by Chatwin. Top-edge of textblock foxed, otherwise a fine copy with a few sliver chips in the glassine. 8vo, original cloth-backed marbled boards, glassine dust jacket. More
Invalided out of the Army after World War I, Ralph Chubb studied at the Slade School of Art between 1919-1922. "During the summer of 1921, however, he returned to his home in Curridge in the Berkshire countryside where he dressed as a gypsy and . . . spent some weeks living rough, among the Romanys, whom he sketched." - Anthony Reid, Ralph Chubb, The Unknown, [The Private Library, Autumn, 1970, p. 152]. Dated Nov. 1921, this delicately rendered self-portrait, which focuses on the body rather than the face (which is not even sketched in), & shows the artist dressed in gypsy costume, seems to be based on Chubb's persona of the previous summer. Ralph Chubb was an innovative & largely unappreciated artist & bookmaker, little known today beyond the homosexual community. During his life (1892-1960), his highly unconventional personal philosophy, which he expounded in his art & books, gained him more enemies than friends. Despite financial difficulties & critical hostility, Chubb, supported by his family, continued to produce his painstakingly hand-crafted books. He believed that his art was a divine gift & that eventually he would receive the recognition he deserved. His dedication to his art & his unswerving truthfulness..... More
(N. Y.): The Sarabande Press, (1984). First edition. One of 224 copies printed letterpress from handset type on dampened Johannot paper and signed by Clampitt (out of a total edition of 250). Very fine copy. Folio, original printed wrappers, publisher's cloth slipcase. More
London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, Fleet Street; and E. Drury, Stamford, 1821. First edition, Carter’s variant binding ‘A’, complete with half-titles and four pages of publisher’s advertisements at the back of the second volume. Carter, Binding Variants, p. 104. 2000 copies printed. “The Village Minstrel reveals Clare as a far more versatile and accomplished writer than had been apparent from his first book. The main body of the first volume is dominated by the title poem, Clare’s first attempt at a sustained autobiographical meditation in verse. It is followed by a miscellany of poems, with songs and ballads interspersed among descriptive and reflective pieces in which Clare describes himself walking or sitting alone in the countryside, watching and recording the processes of nature. The second volume contains the sonnets in which Clare’s miniaturist art begins to mature as well as a glossary Taylor compiled from information provided by the author.” Jonathan Bate, John Clare: A Biography (NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003), pp. 223-231. Spines, particularly joints, of both volumes rubbed (small stain on the spine panel of Vol. II), top and bottom fore-tips of the first volume and bottom fore-tips of the second bumped, offset to first couple..... More
N. Y. Viking Press, 1935. First edition of Cobb's first and only book, one of the more celebrated American novels of the Great War, and the basis for the film starring Kirk Douglas. An exceptionally fine bright copy, with just a hint of rubbing at the extremities. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket. More
N. Y. The Grenfell Press, 1986. First edition. One of 15 deluxe copies numbered in Roman, specially bound, and signed by the author and the artist, accompanied by a separate original woodcut print numbered and signed by Shapiro, from a total edition of 150 copies. As new. 4to, original woodcut frontispiece by Joel Shapiro, original full limp vellum by Claudia Cohen, publisher's cloth and natural wood veneer folding box. More
London: Horizon, 1944. First edition, hardcover issue, one of 500 copies printed on Barcham Green handmade paper by the Curwen Press. Of the 1000 sets of sheets printed, 500 were reportedly bound in cloth and 500 were bound in wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Connolly to his friend Tom Driberg on the front free endpaper: "Tom with much love / from Cyril – " Tom Driberg, later ennobled as Baron Bradwell of Bradwell, a poet in his youth, a journalist (author of “The Talk of London” column under the pseudonym of “William Hickey” in the Daily Express), a member of the British Communist Party and later long-standing Labour MP (and Chairman of the Labour Party), the author of a sympathetic account of Guy Burgess and a suspected spy, a promiscuous homosexual and High Church Anglican, Driberg is the subject of a biography by Francis Wheen entitled The Soul of Indiscretion: Tom Driberg, Poet, Philanderer, Legislator and Outlaw – His Life and Indiscretions. One of the most civilized, and civilizing, of modern books, The Unquiet Grave is a compilation of the “doubts and reflections of a year” on “art, love, nature and religion.” Begun in 1940, “The Unquiet Grave,” as Connolly..... More
(Hythe and Cheriton: Privately printed for the author by J. Lovick, nd, but 1902). First edition of this preface, a 7pp. leaflet. One of 100 copies printed, of which approximately 40 copies, according to Conrad, were accidentally destroyed. This privately printed edition of the 'Preface' is a considerably revised version of that which appeared in the December 1897 issue of the New Review. Cagle A3f. Outermost leaves lightly dust-soiled, small area of offset from the absent staple, otherwise near fine. 8vo, printed self-wrappers. More
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1902. First edition, first issue, with ads dated 10/02, The first appearance in book form of Conrad's masterpiece Heart of Darkness. Bookplate on front paste-down, mild foxing, spine ends worn. 8vo, original green decorated cloth. More
(Venezia: Gianfranco Ivancich, editore, 1970). First trade edition. Gallup B100b. Although not called for, this copy is signed by Pound on the front free endpaper. A photographic portrait of the poet in Italy, accompanying passages from The Pisan Cantos, with an introduction by Pound, notes by Olga Rudge, and answers to questions from Pier Paolo Pasolini and Vanni Ronsisvalle, "all written out by Pound and reproduced both in facsimile of his manuscript and in type." The wraparound band, which gives the limitation, states that this is the "Edizione In Italiano" - it is, in fact, in English. Not to be confused with the common Rizzoli edition of 1978. A fine copy in slightly worn slipcase. 4to, illustrated with photographs by Vittorugo Contino, original pictorial boards, wraparound band, card slipcase. More
(N. Y.): Adventures in Poetry, (1971). First edition. One of 26 lettered copies signed by Coolidge and Marden (out of a total edition of 300). Some light dust-soiling to wrappers, otherwise a fine copy. 4to, original illustrated wrappers, front cover by Brice Marden, stapled as issued. More