New York & Paris: The Little Review, 1929. Original edition. 110 pp., illustrations from photographs, original printed wrappers, 9.75 x 7.5 inches. With publisher's broadside announcing this Final Number laid in (16.5 x 9.5 inches, printed both sides, folded). Scarce final number of an influential literary magazine begun in Chicago... More
Chicago: Lincoln Book Concern, 1904. Hardcover. Octavo, original green cloth, 498 pp., illustrated with full-page plates from photographs. A fascinating and well-written expose of all kinds of financial swindles, from stock market and futures exchange frauds, to horse-race betting scams. More
London: Kegan Paul, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. xiii, 304 pp., publisher's 19 pp. catalog at rear; octavo, original blue cloth. From the publisher's "The History of Civilization" series. More
London: Philip Allan, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. xxvii, 289, [3] pp., frontispiece; octavo, original orange cloth. "The contents of the present volume are meant as a further plea for the greater spirit of tolerance with regard to the aspirations and activities of those who do not conform to our own... More
New York: Anthropoligical Press, nd (1935?). Edition limited to 1500 copies, this #1044. Hardcover. Japon vellum spine and red boards; octavo, xxxiii, 233 pp., illustrated. A prurient study of sexual relations between adult males and prepubescent boys, cloaked in the guise of anthropology. More
Princeton / Tokyo: Princeton University Press / University of Tokyo Press, (1979). First edition. Hardcover. Original blue cloth with cover design in white and red, gilt title, square octavo, xiv, 417 pp. "This is a collection of English translations of thirty-three epic songs of the Hokkaido Ainu. Except for one... More
London: William Heinemann, 1932. Limited first edition. Hardcover. xxxiv, 889 pp.; octavo, full japon paper boards with phoenix emblem at center of front panel, slipcase. #187/525 copies. More
London: William Heinemann, 1932. First trade edition. Hardcover. xxxiv, 889 pp.; fine binding by Bayntun of 3/4 russet morocco and boards, top edge gilt. More
NY: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1942. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Large octavo, original blue cloth blocked in gilt and blind, xxiii, [1], 1063 pp, 24 photo plates, including frontispiece, top edge gilt, jacket. "Originally published in Bengali, in five volumes, by M, a disciple of the Master. Complete translation, with an... More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, (1963). Printed in an edition of 450 copies by Lawton Kennedy. Original red cloth, folio, 64pp. Tipped-in color frontis (from the Ellesmere Ms.) many facsimile pages from various editions, and 1 ORIGINAL LEAF FROM THE UNDATED EDITION OF CHAUCER'S WORKS (circa 1551). Original leaf... More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1977. Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio (14 x 9.5 inches), white cloth with gilt spine title, title and portrait of Dodoens printed in olive green on front board; 288 pp., profusely illustrated with reproductions from old engravings, original leaf from the 1583 edition tipped-in. Leaf... More
NY: Viking Press, 1950. All volumes first edition, first printing. 5 volumes, complete; small octavo, original yellow and red cloth. A well-regarded anthology of English verse selected and edited by one of the great poets of the 20th century. More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. xxxiv, 78 pp., frontispiece and 4 plates from photographs; 8vo, original white cloth and green boards. Eight letters chronicling his first trip to Yosemite. A young Thomas Starr King had arrived a few months earlier from Boston to take his... More
Paris: Editions Abel Rambert, (1984). First edition. Hardcover. 2 quarto volumes in original cloth, index pamphlet in wrappers; 407; 375; 47 pp., 1185 illustrations, some in color. Slipcases. Definitive guide to the work of the Bulgarian artist "Pascin" - born Julius Mordecai Pincas in 1885. His early artistic training was... More
(Potts Point, NSW, Australia): Hordern House, (2003). First edition. Hardcover. xv, 1168 pp., large quarto, original green cloth, jacket. An indispensable reference to the history and literature of travel and exploration. More
New York: Abaris Books, (1977). First edition thus. Hardcover. Quarto, original rose cloth with gilt title, 472 pp, 190 illustrations, jacket. Original German text with English translation on facing pages. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. Early reprint. Hardcover. xi, [6], 263 pp., front cover illustration, endpapers, and 4 full-page color plates by N. C. Wyeth; octavo, black cloth with color pictorial inset on front cover. The Wyeth-illustrated edition was originally published in 1930. More
London: Rider, (1964). First edition. Hardcover. Original blue cloth, octavo, 240 pp. 4 b/w photo plates. More
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NY: Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), (1981; 1982; 1983; 1985). First edition. Hardcover. Original burgundy cloth; quartos; various paginations, profusely illustrated. A selection of images from the Museum's collection of some 5000 Atget prints and plates originally purchased in 1928 by American photographer Berenice Abbott from Atget's estate. More
Hammersmith: Doves Press, [1911]. First edition. Single leaf, 9 x 6.5 inches, printed in red and black, the only text of recto is the heading at top of page in red "Part III: Sonnets" and signature mark and page number (h1, 117) in black ink at bottom. Verso with with... More
Isla Vista: Turkey Press, 1986. First edition thus. Hardcover. Leaves joined to form continuous accordion-fold series of pages printed in black and red, woodcut illustrations by Antonio Frasconi, quarto, red cloth and pictorial boards. Poems written during the years 1923-1925 and first published in Spanish as "Cinco Metros de Poemas... More
Washington, DC: Counterpoint, (1999). First edition. Hardcover. xxii, 617 pp; octavo, maroon cloth and gray boards, jacket. Signed on the title page by the author. More
Santa Fe: The Rydal Press, 1986. Signed limited first edition. Hardcover. 140 pp., octavo, original maroon cloth and decorative boards,slipcase. Edition of 200 copies printed at the Meriden-Stinehour Press, this #137/180. There were also 20 lettered copies. More
San Francisco: Cadmus Editions, (1984). Signed limited first edition. Paperback. Unpaginated, frontispiece portrait of Garcia Lorca by Carolyn Cassady, original red cloth with color illustration by Garcia Lorca inset on front cover, octavo, 2 folded sheets labeled "Songs" laid in at rear. Erratum slip laid in at front. Text in... More
San Francisco: Cadmus Editions, (1984). Signed limited first edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated, frontispiece portrait of Garcia Lorca by Carolyn Cassady, original white cloth with color illustration by Garcia Lorca inset on front cover, octavo, 2 folded sheets labeled "Songs" laid in. Text in Spanish and English on facing pages. Extensive section... More