COLOR.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. xvii, 108 pp.; small octavo, original yellow cloth and decorative boards. A decent copy of the first edition of this important African-American poet's first published book.
New Arrivals
UNDER THE WEATHER.
Adyar, Madras, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1943. First edition. Hardcover. [2], 97 pp.; 12mo original purple cloth with printed paper title label, text printed in blue ink with green ruled border. Ruminations on well-being, illness, laughter, and other human qualities in light of the teachings of Theosophy. George Arundale (1878-1945)...
STONES OF THE SKY.
Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, (1987). First edition. Hardcover. [3], 75, [1] pp.; octavo, original blue cloth, pictorial dustjacket. Text in English and Spanish.
THE BOOK OF QUESTIONS.
Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, (1991). First edition. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 74 pp.; octavo, original burgundy cloth, pictorial dustjacket. Text in English and Spanish.
HOW TO MAKE A GHOST WALK: Simple Directions for Staging a Seance. With Drawings by Herman Bernar Temple.
New York: David Kemp & Co., (1936). First edition. Hardcover. viii, 82 pp.; octavo, original black cloth lettered in red, pictorial dustjacket. Joseph Dunninger (1892-1975) was a highly successful stage magician who also specialized in "mentalism" and debunking fraudulent mediums and spiritualists.
NIGHTS WE PUT THE ROCK TOGETHER.
Santa Barbara: Cadmus Editions, 1980. First edition, signed, limited. Unpaginated, color fronispiece illustrations; octavo, marbled paper over card, printed title label. Edition of 500 copies (126 signed, limited copies and 374 trade copies) printed letterpress at Poltroon Press, Berkeley. This copy signed by the author in the colophon and numbered...
THE GOSPEL OF BUDDHA: Compiled from Ancient Records.
Chicago & London: Open Court Publishing Co., 1917. Early reprint. Hardbound. Original dark blue cloth with gilt title and cover ornaments, octavo (7 x 5 inches), xx, [4], 311 pp., illustrated. Lovely copy of this classic retelling of the story of Buddha. Originally published in 1894.
TRAILS: Devoted to Mountaineering. Published Annually by the California Alpine Club. Volume II, Number I.
San Francisco: California Alpine Club, 1922. First edition. Paperback. Original staple bound tan card wrappers with title and cover ornament printed in maroon, 10 x 7 inches, 93 pp. with several pages of outing related advertisements at rear, illustrated. Mountaineering-related articles throughout, including several hikes in the Sierra Nevada, expeditions...
THE STINEHOUR PRESS: A Bibliographical Checklist of the First Thirty Years.
Lunenburg, Vermonot: Meriden-Stinehour Press, (1988). First edition, limited. Hardcover. xxi, 300 pp., illustrated; quarto, original blue cloth, dustjacket. Descriptive catalogue of 1006 numbered entries of books produced at the Stinehour Press between 1950 and 1979. Separate sections contain a short title listing of serial publications printed at the Press and...
THE DERRYDALE PRESS: A Bibliography.
Goshen, Conn. The Angler's & Shooter's Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. xi, 266, [1] pp.; large octavo, original red cloth, slipcase. Essential bibliographical guide to the publications of the Derrydale Press. Printed at the Stinehour Press in an edition of 1250 copies.
T. S. ELIOT: A Bibliography.
London: Faber & Faber, (1970). Second printing of the revised edition. Hardcover. 414 pp., octavo, original red cloth, dustjacket. Essential bibliographical guide to the published work of T. S. Eliot.
HOPOUSIA or the Sexual and Economic Foundations of a New Society.
London: George Allen and Unwin, (1940). First edition. Hardcover. 475 pp., octavo, original brown cloth, dustjacket. Joseph Daniel Unwin (1995-1936) was an English ethnologist and anthropologist. This posthumously published Utopian work presents a detailed analysis of Western society, primarily focusing on economic systems and sexual mores, before presenting a "Hopousian"...
SELECTED MYSTICAL WRITINGS OF WILLIAM LAW. Edited with notes and twenty-four studies in the mystical theology of William Law and Jacob Boehme and an enquiry into the influence of Jacob Boehme on Isaac Newton.
London: Rockliff, 1948. Revised second edition. Hardcover. xxiii, [2], 425 pp., octavo, original blue cloth, dustjacket. This revised second edition adds the foreword by Aldous Huxley as well as the "enquiry into the influence of Jacob Hoehme on Isaac Newton. Stephen Hobhouse's preface to this edition credits Aldous Huxley's inclusion...
DOMENICO SCARLATTI.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. xix, 473 pp., 44 illustrations, mostly full-page, folding genealogical chart; octavo, black and yellow cloth, dustjacket. First full-length biography of the important Italian composer Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757). Biographer Ralph Kirkpatrick (1911-1984) was himself a renowned harpsichordist and pianist. He specialized in the...
ESSAY ON THE TRUE ART OF PLAYING KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS.
New York: Norton, (1949). Early reprint. Hardcover. xiii, 449 pp., frontispiece and 3 full-page illustrations, 480 musical illustrations in the text; octavo, original black cloth, dustjacket. First complete translation into English of the most important contemporary work on keyboard method in the 18th century.
BARREL ORGAN: The Story of the Mechanical Organ and Its Repair
South Brunswick and New York: A. S. Barnes and CO., (1978). First US edition. Hardcover. 567 pp., profusely illustrated with b/w reproductions of photographs, many drawings, diagrams, facsimiles, etc.; small quarto, original black cloth, dustjacket. Review copy with publisher's review slip laid in. A detailed history of the barrel organ...
DO WHAT YOU WILL: Twelve Essays
London: Chatto & Windus, 1949. First edition thus. 310 pp; 12mo, original pale green cloth with gilt spine, dustjacket. Nineteenth title in the uniform "Collected Works" edition.
JESTING PILATE THE DIARY OF A JOURNEY.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1948. First edition thus. 291 pp; 12mo, original pale green cloth with gilt spine, dustjacket. Seventh title in the uniform "Collected Works" edition.
MUSIC AT NIGHT And Other Essays, including 'Vulgarity in Literature.'
London: Chatto & Windus, 1949. First edition thus. 336 pp; 12mo, original pale green cloth with gilt spine, dustjacket. Eighteenth title in the uniform "Collected Works" edition.
THE OLIVE TREE AND OTHER ESSAYS.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1947. First edition thus. 303 pp; 12mo, original pale green cloth with gilt spine, dustjacket. Fifth title in the uniform "Collected Works" edition.
AFTER MANY A SUMMER: A Novel.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1950. First edition thus. 314 pp; 12mo, original pale green cloth with gilt spine, dustjacket. Twenty-third title in the uniform "Collected Works" edition.
TWO OR THREE GRACES: Four Stories.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1949. First edition thus. 272 pp; 12mo, original pale green cloth with gilt spine, dustjacket. Twenty-first title in the uniform "Collected Works" edition.
BEYOND THE MEXIQUE BAY: A Traveler's Journal.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1949. First edition thus. 319 pp, illustrations from photographs; 12mo, original pale green cloth with gilt spine, dustjacket. Thirteenth title in the uniform "Collected Works" edition.
EYELESS IN GAZA: A Novel.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1950. Second printing of this edition. 620 pp; 12mo, original pale green cloth with gilt spine, dustjacket. Fifteenth title in the uniform "Collected Works" edition.
VERSES & A COMEDY: Early poems, Leda, The Cicadas, The World of Light.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1946. First edition thus. viii, 246 pp; 12mo, original pale green cloth with gilt spine, dustjacket. Third title in the uniform "Collected Works" edition.