1946-49. Typescript working drafts, plus the final typescript used as publisher's setting copy, for The Man With The Golden Arm (published 1949), many pages of the drafts with Algren's extensive autograph additions (some on versos), corrections and deleted passages (pencil and ink); the final setting typescript with publisher's editorial markings, compositor's directions.....
New York: B. W. Huebsch, Inc., [1921]. First edition. 8vo. 7 plates of Eugene Hutchinson's photographs of the clay impressions of Tennessee Mitchell. Original cloth; dust jacket; black cloth slipcase with morocco label.
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New York: Syrian-American Press, [1928]. 8vo. Frontispiece by Kahlil Gibran. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front flyleaf in Arabic: "Ila Akhiy Jawaad ‘Arid [To my brother Jawaad ‘Arid] Rashid Ayyub." This is the second of the three volumes of verse published by the Lebanese-born poet Rashid.....
New York: The Library Fellows at the Whitney Museum of American Art [by Michael and Winifred Bixler Press and Letter Foundry], 1991. Oblong folio (32.9x42 cm; 13x16½ inches). Beautifully printed in letterpress. [16] pages With 9 mounted chromogenic photographic prints by Tina Barney: 27.7 x3 5.9 cm (11x14¼"). Original turquoise.....
Udine: Art&, 1990. Folio (11 x 11.5 inches). 120 pages. 76 black & white photographs and numerous archival photos. Black cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition of Basilico's early project, made for an exhibition at the Musée de l'Eysée in Lausanne in 1990. Basilico relies on wide, topographical views, but.....
Chicago: Reilly & Britton, 1907. 8vo. Complete with 8 color prints (including frontispiece) and black-and-white illustrations in text by Maginel Wright Enright. Original gray cloth, both covers with color-printed illustrations mounted. First edition, first state, with identical full-color designs on front and back covers.
Newcastle: E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son, 1818. 8vo. xxiv, 376 pages. 188 fable cuts and 136 tailpieces in text. Contemporary English polished calf, the sides and spines decorated in blind and gilt, marbled edges, by Whitehead and Sons, Leeds (with their ticket on pastedown). A handsome copy of.....
Buena Vista, CO: Times Book and Job Rooms, 1882. Small 8vo (6 1/2 x 5 inches). [5], 6-37, [38-40] pp., including advertisements. Original printed wrappers; quarter morocco slipcase. Some soiling, a few discreet paper repairs. FIRST EDITION of this scarce pamphlet on Buena Vista, published three years after it was.....
Chicago: The Literary Times and Cyfoeth Publications, 1965. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. 23 pages, with an extra copy of the sheet containing pages 5/6 and 19/20 laid in. Stapled as issued in printed wrappers reproducing a sketch by Betsy Milam, photo portrait of Bukowski on rear wrapper. FIRST EDITION, one.....
New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972. 8vo (8 x 5.5 inches). 165 pages. Original cloth-backed boards; unclipped dust jacket (priced $6.50) designed by Arnold Skolnick. First Edition in English, translated by William Weaver. Calvino's masterful deconstruction of the travel narrative and a prime example of his use of.....
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Milan: Achille Mauri, 1968. Thermoformed plastic multiple: 11.75 x 11.75 inches; 30 x 30 cm. Some minor age darkening at the edges, generally in fine condition, without cracks or abrasions. The book: 44 pages. Text by Vincenzo Agnetti. In Italian, French, and German. Photographs by Giorgio A. Colombo, Franco Angeli.....
Chicago: S. P. Rounds' Steam Book and Job Printing House, 1861. 8vo. 134 pp, errata leaf at end. 16 (of 17) plates (lacks frontispiece). 20th-century half citron morocco, cloth boards. Moderate browning, heavier on title, discreet blindstamp on title and plates, light wear to extremities. FIRST EDITION of one of.....
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. 8vo (200 x 128 mm; 7 7/8 x 5 in.) . [ii, ads], [vi], 391, [1] pages. Title-page printed in red and black. Publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, top edges gilt, others uncut. A near-fine copy, the top gilt lightly abraded in a few.....
Denver: Rocky Mountain News Printing Company, 1879. 8vo. [17]-440 pp. Illustrated advertisements at front and back, included in pagination. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt title and illustrated Seal of Colorado on front cover, gilt title with small decorations on spine. Pale stain on cover, generally fresh and bright. FIRST EDITION. Detailed.....
[New York]: First Day of Locust Song, 1955. Two variant copies: 12mo (6.25 x 4.75 inches; 159 x 121 mm). Identical settings of type and imposition, with varying wrappers, together in a cloth folding case: First volume: [16] pages, including printed wrapper, stapled. On wove paper. No collaged materials tipped-in.....
London & New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1929. 8vo. [10], 95, [1] pages. Original black quarter cloth, decorated boards, gilt-lettered on spine, edges untrimmed. FIRST EDITION. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front flyleaf in the year of publication: "To John Trounstine, With the good wishes of his friend, /.....
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. 8vo (21 x 13.6 cm). xvi, [2], 624 pages. Lacks half-title. 2-line errata leaf. Engraved frontispiece, title, and 38 plates (including the first example of a 'dark plate', and the first use of horizontal plates) by Hablot K. Browne, all etchings except three (those facing.....
Paris: Michael Woolworth Publications, 2010. 4to (9 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches). 24 original lithographs, printed by Michael Woolworth and Julien Torhy in Paris. Original marbled wrappers, printed paper label on front cover, by Atelier Houdart; slipcase by CPMC Gilles Vercel, Paris. LIMITED EDITION, number 18 of 35 copies signed.....
London: Enitharmon Editions, 2016. Oblong 4to (9.25 x 11.25 inches). 19 original ilthographs by Jim Dine in text. Original black cloth, by The Fine Book Bindery; slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, one of 10 artist's proofs, signed by Jim Dine, one of 15 copies for Enitharmon from an edition of 30. Designed.....
Two pages, 4to. On Dreiser's letterhead. Small stain on verso, otherwise in fine condition. Dreiser writes in to Geoffrey Parsons, the editor of the New York Herald Tribune from 1924-1952, describing a writing submission that he has attached with the letter: “Your general and varied courtesies to me, but more.....
Canterbury: H. J. Goulden, [1935]. 8vo. 38 pages. Original printed wrappers. FIRST (ACTING) EDITION. One of 750 copies printed and distributed at performances at Canterbury Cathedral in May 1935. The text is slightly abbreviated and altered from the text of the complete edition published in June. Gallup A29a.
Philadelphia: Reprinted, by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, 1759. 8vo. iv, 43 pages. Disbound. Provenance: Jacob Lunig (1760 inscription on last blank). First American edition of this Quaker tract, originally published in London in 1648. The Society of Friends of Philadelphia requested Overseers Anthony Benezet and John Reynell to arrange.....
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Boston: Printed and Sold by the Printers and Booksellers, [1770]. 12mo. 24 pages. Original self-wrappers, sewn. Contains the first appearance in print of Franklin's mock epitaph composed when he was 22 years old in 1728. Ames provides the humorless introduction: "Mr. Franklin's Epitaph on himself curious for conveying such solemn.....
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997. 8vo. Original cloth; dust jacket. As-new. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Frazier on the title-page.
Frost's publishers Henry Holt and Company hosted a birthday celebration for the poet at The Waldorf Astoria in New York. The group comprises: Engraved menu on gilt-edged card stock, detailing the five courses and wine served (lightly bowed and soiled). – Mimeograph of attendees, with names and tables identified. Two.....
