Put Yourself In My Shoes
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1974. First Edition. Wrappered Issue. Octavo (17.5cm); pictorial card wrappers; [6],7-36,[2]pp; illus. A Fine copy of this short story, issued as No.21 in the Yes! Capra Chapbook Series. More
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1974. First Edition. Wrappered Issue. Octavo (17.5cm); pictorial card wrappers; [6],7-36,[2]pp; illus. A Fine copy of this short story, issued as No.21 in the Yes! Capra Chapbook Series. More
New York: Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit, 1952. First Edition. Small quarto broadside (23.5cm.) illustrated by Edward C. Caswell; light wear from handling with a few short closed tears, else Very Good or better. Flyer advertising the spring show in the Greenwich Village, "The Art Cradle of America," May 22..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First Trade Edition. Octavo (21.25cm.); original cloth-backed boards in bluish-grey decorative dust jacket printed in black and yellow; 122pp.; decorations and two-toned (yellow and black) illus. throughout. Faint spot of soil to verso of title page, else a tight, Very Good or better copy..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, [1931]. First American Edition. Limited to 300 copies printed on Utopian laid paper of which this is no. 276. Quarto (24.5cm.); original rigid cream pictorial card wrappers, glassine dust jacket, with the original paper-covered slipcase; [2],ix,[1],156pp.; color illus. throughout by Dos Passos. Just a...... More
New York: Random House, 1941. First Random House printing (originally published by Row, Peterson, 1941). Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover; 60pp; illus. Light rubbing at spine ends and board corners, else Near Fine. In the original illustrated dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $1.00 on front flap), but rather a wreck, rubbed, chippped and..... More
N.p. Gallimard, [2001]. First Edition. Oblong folio (25.5x36cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; 182,[18]pp.; chiefly color illus. throughout, including some folding. Just a hint of wear to jacket extremities else Fine. Watercolors of Africa and its wildlife by the French illustrator. More
London: Chatto and Windus, 1950. First Edition. A Brown Burrows Book. 12mo; pictorial glazed boards; 64pp; illus. Mild external wear, but still a tight, VG copy free of markings or internal wear. Lacking the presumed dustwrapper. More
[London]: Next Editions in Association with Faber & Faber, [1981]. First Edition. Slim octavo (22.75cm.); original green pictorial spiral-bound card wrappers; [4],27pp.; illus. Light wear, some faint foxing, else Very Good or better. More
Paris: Librairie Stock, 1931. First Trade Edition. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's pink wrappers; 264pp.; illus. throughout by the author. Shallow chips and a few tiny losses to wrapper extremities, none approaching text, spine toned and cracked, else Good to Very Good, internally fine. Cocteau's journal of opium addiction and rehabilitation. More
London: Knockabout Comics, 1983. First U.K. Edition. Folio [35.5 cm] in stapled wraps; 42pp; illus. Light creases to corners, else about Fine. First issued as "Raw One-Shot no.2" (NY: Raw Comics, 1983). A graphic and textual polemic against South African apartheid. An early and compelling work by Coe, whose blend..... More
Clarkston, MI: ASAP, 2004. First Edition. Limited to 26 collectors copies of which this is copy "L." Quarto (26cm.); original green cloth, color plate mounted to upper cover, spine lettered in white; in original clear and white plastic slipcase; [8],19pp.; mounted photographic frontispiece and 2 illus. Fine. Signed on limitation..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956. First Edition. Compilation of women-related cartoons culled from major American periodicals. Grouped into chapters by subject ("Fashion and Beauty," "Love, Sex, and the Pursuit of the Male," etc.) Includes works by Currier & Ives, William Steig, James Thurber, and Art Young, among many others. Large..... More
New York: Claridge Publishing Corp. 1951. First Edition. Anthology of labor writings by Meyer Levin, Edward McSorley, Oscar Ameringer, John Beecher and others. Full-page illustrations by Raymond Zalstein. Octavo (20cm). Pictorial wrappers; 128pp; illus. Wrappers lightly rubbed and foxed; text clean and unmarked; Very Good. Issued simultaneously in cloth. More
London: 1819-21. Mixed set, with ninth edition of vol. I and stated third edition of vols II-III. Octavo (26cm). Uniformly bound in mid-century orange cloth, stamped in blind on boards and gilt on spines, top edges gilt; pale yellow endpapers; I: [iv],[iv],276pp; II: [vi],277,[1]pp; III: [iv],279,[1]pp; illustrated with hand-colored aquatints..... More
Toronto: Annick Press Ltd., [1997]. First Edition. Wrapper issue. Slim quarto (26.5cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; unpaginated; color illus. throughout. A few minor surface scratches to wrappers, else Near Fine. Children's picture book inspired by Caribbean folklore. More
New York: Daily Worker, 1933. First Edition. Transcript of Dimitroff's statement in self-defense before Germany's Supreme Court, made in Leipzig in December 1933, against accusations that he had participated in the Reichstag fire. Foreword by William L. Patterson, who at this time was head of the International Labor Defense. The..... More
Philadelphia: [Gehenna Press], 1966. First Thus. Limited to 1100 copies of which this is no. 351. Large quarto (29cm.); original marbled boards, paper label printed in red and black mounted to upper cover in grey board chemise and matching slipcase, printed paper spine label; 78,[2]pp.; woodcut portrait frontispiece of Conrad..... More
[Washington DC]: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943. Treasury Department-issued War Bonds poster, featuring an illustration of a Russian peasant woman weeping in front of the smoking rubble of her home directly beneath the slogan "...and WE talk about sacrifice." Meant to provide a measure of perspective to Americans on the..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1901. First Edition. First edition, first printing, with "folorn" for "forlorn" on p.212. Octavo (20cm). In original red cloth, stamped in gold and silver with crossed swords on front board; titled in gold on spine; plain endpapers; [ii], [1-2] 3-5 [6] 9-278pp; with 8 halftone illustrations by..... More
London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1881. Limited Edition. No. 88 of 200 copies on India paper, signed by the artist. Large folio (62cm) with loose prints, as issued. Brown cloth-covered portfolio, gilt-tooled, with paper onlay to front; yellow burnished endpaper; protective brown paper wrapper with remnants of wax seals; 57..... More
Chicago: Oyster Publications / New Romantics Publications, 1990. First Edition. Late volume of verse by the American poet, bookseller, and small press publisher, illustrated throughout by Harland Ristau. Uncommon; we find no examples in the trade (Sept.2017), with only 6 found in OCLC (SUNY Buffalo, UC Riverside, Yale, Brown, UVA..... More
London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1968. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (23.25cm); original pictorial boards; decorative endpapers; [vi],40,[2]pp; illus. Faint vertical crease and a slight upward curl toward right edge of front cover, brief gift inscription to upper margin of title page, with some faint foxing and dust-soil..... More
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1960. Revised Edition. A terrific inscription from Dahlberg, whose "Sorrows of Priapus" had been illustrated by Shahn a few years earlier: "For Ben Shahn / with deep appreciation of his own brilliant drawings done for The Sorrows of Priapus & for suggesting that Kearns do the..... More
[Norfolk, CT]: New Directions Book, [1957]. First Trade Edition. Octavo (23cm.); original cloth in violet pictorial dust jacket; [8],118,[1]pp.; illus. Minor rubbing to jacket extremities, else About Fine. BILLINGS A7b. More
[Norfolk, CT]: New Directions Book, [1957]. First Trade Edition. Octavo (23cm.); original cloth in violet pictorial dust jacket; [8],118,[1]pp.; illus. Minor rubbing to jacket extremities, else About Fine. Near Fine in a slightly worn and spine-faded dustwrapper. The artist's copy, with Shahn estate label inside front cover (but no other..... More