London: John Calder, 1964. 8vo. 160 pages. Original vellum, gilt-lettered and -ruled on spine, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, entirely uncut and unopened; publisher's plain ivory paper-covered board slipcase. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, DELUXE LIMITED ISSUE, number 78 of 100 copies on hand-made paper, "series A" bound in vellum (another.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1956. 8vo. 94 pages. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket with author's photo on rear panel. FIRST BRITISH EDITION, first printing, translated by Beckett himself. With the publisher's note tipped in.
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1952. 8vo. 162, [4] pages. Original printed wrappers, with author's photograph and blurbs on rear wrapper. FIRST TRADE EDITION (after the 35 signed copies on large-paper) of the original French edition of 'Waiting for Godot'. One of 2,500 copies. Beckett's masterpiece, and one of the.....
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1985. 4to (11 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches; 280 x 210 mm). Original frontispiece etching and aquatint by Jasper Johns, printed by Universal Limited Art Editions, signed in pencil. Original blue quarter morocco. LIMITED EDITION, number 229 of 300 numbered copies, of an edition of 326.....
New York: The Dial Press, 1924. 8vo. 120 pages. Original black half cloth, black boards, printed paper spine label, with an additional label mounted on rear pastedown. FIRST EDITION, first impression of Moore's second book of poetry, but the first published with her approval. The book won the Dial Award.....
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947. 8vo. 55 pages. Original tan cloth; printed dust jacket. Provenance: James Radcliffe Squires (bookplate, inscription from the author). FIRST EDITION of Wilbur's first book of poetry, published in an edition of 750 copies. INSCRIBED by Wilbur on the front free endpaper to fellow American.....
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969. 8vo. 216 pages. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; printed dust jacket designed by Roxanne Cumming. FIRST EDITION, first printing. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the division title for the first work: "Jean Doreski, regards from Elizabeth Bishop / Harvard, December 4th, 1970." This.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951. 8vo. 85 pages. Original salmon boards; printed dust jacket. FIRST EDITION of Rich's first commercially published book, issued in an edition of 551 copies as volume 48 of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, edited by W. H. Auden, the judge that year. PRESENTATION.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 1966. 8vo. 57 pages. Original aquamarine cloth; printed dust jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of Heaney's first commercially published book. One of 1,000 copies, using sheets from the UK edition published in the same year by Faber & Faber. An auspicious debut, not only did the.....
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1911. 8vo. viii, 87, [1] pages. Publisher's blue cloth, printed paper spine label. FIRST EDITION, one of 500 copies of Brooke's first collection of poetry, published when he was only 23 years old. The book was issued without a jacket. With his second book, 1914 and.....
Salem, OR: Charles Seluzicki, 1980. Oblong (4.75 x 5.75 inches; 121 x 145 mm). [20] leaves. One plate by Kathleen Gray Schallock. Original plain grey wrappers, deckle edges preserved; publisher's stiff card envelope lined with silver. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION, number 12 of 250 copies signed with initials by.....
Hammersmith, London: Kelmscott Press, 1893. First edition, one of 1500 copies, second impression with readings "Van Eyck" and "guilds" 16mo (5 5/8 x 4 inches; 143 x 104 mm). 37 leaves. Four- and six-line initials. Golden type. Original printed boards (rebacked to match, some soiling). 1-inch photo of Moris mounted.....
Hammersmith, London: The Kelmscott Press for Macmillan Co., 1893. One of 500 copies on paper (with five on vellum not for sale), and the first of the octavo-format Kelmscotts with a woodcut title. This is the first issue, with the uncorrected text. Peterson A17. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/4.....
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[New York]: [1979-1982, but these probably printed 1982-85]. Set of 20 offset prints on multicolored wove paper (including one duplicate), 10x10 inches (25.5x25.5 inches). In original zip-lock bag. Each print is composed of 100 words in 20 lines. Holzer's unsigned and commercially produced pieces subverted conventions of art, advertising and.....
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.....
Morrisania NY: The Author, 1867. 4to. Extensively extra-illustrated by Thomas Addis Emmet, M.D., New York 1903, by the additional of watercolor marginal vignettes, and prints, including from Valentine's Manual. Half brown pigskin, top edges gilt, by Bradstreet. Provenance: Thomas Addis Emmet (his sale American Art Association, 13 April 1921, lot.....
New York: William C. Bryant & Co., 1871. 8vo. 427 pages. Numerous maps and plates, including mounted photographs, some folding. Original plum hard-grained morocco.
New York: Willard Felt & Co., 1867. 11 5/8 x 87 inches. Colored lithographed map. Folding into original flexible cloth covers with printed title panel on front.
New York: W. H. Tinson, 1853. 8vo. Pages [1459]-1488. Colored folding lithographed map of the proposed Central Park (a few separations along folds with some small losses). Large folding table at end showing the excavation and embankment required to grade the streets and avenues in the proposed Central Park. Later.....
New York: Wm C Bryant & Co, 1864. 8vo. 72 pages.14 illustrations and maps. Contemporary cloth.
Racine, WI: Artsts and Writers Guild, 1925. Folio. [40] pages with 23 color illustrations by Parrish (15 full-page and 8 quarter page). Original stiff card pictorial wrappers, spiral-bound. This edition in wrappers was issued simultaneously with the first edition in cloth published by Scribner's.
London: Faber & Faber, 1986. 8vo. 110 pages. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION.
London: Faber & Faber, 1988. 8vo. x, 182 pages. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED on the half-title: "To Jason / Peter Greenaway / Sept 91." The film was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.
London: Faber and Faber, 1988. 8vo. x, 118 pages. Still photographs by Stephen Morley. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Greenaway on the half-title: "Peter Greenaway Sept 91." 'Drowning by Numbers', Greenaway's ironic black comedy that celebrates the English obsession with game-playing and landscape, won Best Artistic Contribution at.....
Tusten, NY: The Lake Press, 2005. 8vo. [28] pages. Original printed wrappers. One of 1000 copies of the third printing (first printing was 1999, second was 2001). Michel Conge was a French biologist and physician who studied with Gurdjieff from 1944 to 1949, and later led groups studying the ideas.....