First Printing. Octavo (18.5cm); green cloth spine over white paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine and blind embossed with decorations on front cover; dustjacket; [viii],[2],3-39,[1]pp; illus. A Richard Jackson Book. A Fine copy. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $10.95), with trivial surface wear and light shelf-soil; Near Fine. An.....
Octavo. 21cm. Publisher's deep maroon cloth titled in gilt to spine. Lacking dustjacket. [xviii]; 433pp. Light wear to spine ends, clean and bright; internally clean and fresh, with bookplate of Nathaniel Tarn to front pastedown and Spier's signature to the front flyleaf, booksellers sticker to rear pastedown. A near fine.....
Three volumes, all softcovers. Three Octavos (22.5cm); white paper wrappers; 535pp; 578pp; 563pp. Text in French. All three volumes from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his embossed pictorial bookplate to half-title page of vol. 3. Vol. 1 has light shelf-wear, with soil to.....
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First printing. 12mo. Black publisher's cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; fore- and bottom edges uncut; 142pp. Minor thumb-soil to prelims; spine gilt perished, cover gilt slightly dulled; a Very Good copy. First published book by the San Francisco bohemian poet and playwright; Sterling.....
One of 500 copies, this being copy no.327. An elaborate folding object, resembling a narrow chapbook while closed (measuring 23.5cm x 11.5cm), with the upper half opening into a line drawing of a cryptic figure by Franciszka Themerson, and the lower half opening into a concrete poem ("Shooting at doves.....
First Impression. Octavo (23.75cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [10],11-315,[5]pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Spine ends gently nudged, with the barest hint of foxing to text edges; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced £3.50 net), edgeworn, with several tiny tears, some.....
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Octavo (25cm); black boards with titling stamped in yellow on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [xxvi],[1],2-200,[4]pp; illustrations and diagrams throughout, with one fold-out chart. Modest shelf-wear and -soil; Very Good. Dustwrapper crinkled, with modest shelf-wear and -soil, and light creases to extremities; Good. Explores social history of Burma, with focus.....
Slim quarto (28cm); original pictorial wrappers; 24pp; illus. Subtle tanning to text edges, a few tiny tears at right edge of front wrapper and a few preliminary leaves; Near Fine. Early issue of one of the first magazines solely dedicated to cannabis and its uses in the United States. The.....
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Octavo. 18cm. #487 of 550 copies only. Pubisher's black rexine bookcloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board with an applied decorative medallion to the front board. 401pp. Straight andhansome, some very light wear to extremities and spine ends, a little darkening of the gilt in places;.....
Large octavo (23.5cm). Privately printed edition limited to 500 copies. Publisher's heavy pebble grained black leather titled and embellished in gilt and silver to spine and front board, professionally recased using the original materials. [xiii]; 376pp. Light rubbing to extremities, strong, tight and very handsome; internally clean and fresh, all.....
First printing. Cloth issue (simultaneously issued in wrappers). Octavo ( 21cm). Patterned white cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 225pp. Tight, internally clean copy, with foxing to binding on spine and front cover; Very Good. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $5.95 on front flap), lightly rubbed at folds and spine ends.....
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Quarto (27.5cm); red cloth-covered boards, with titling and decoration stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; acetate dustjacket; 235pp; 208 plates of illustrations, including 40 colorful illustrations, with tissue laid in at plates 105 and 135. Very occasional soil to text, with some illustrations becoming less adhered, but all.....
Folio. 30cm. Publisher's burgunbdy cloth titled in orange to spine. Dustjacket & Publisher's Slipcase. [xi]; 428pp. Very light incidental wear to the cloth, sharp and bright; internally clean and fresh, illustrated throughout; in a clean strong pictorial dustjacket, and the publisher's buff card printed slipcase with some minor bumping and.....
Deluxe issue, no.12 of 50 signed, cloth-bound copies, from a total edition of 750. Fine, apparently unread copy, signed by Higgins on half-title. In original unprinted parchment wrapper, also Fine. a new-appearing copy. A collection of experimental and concrete poems by the founder of the Fluxus movement, utilizing the singular.....
Quarto (28cm); mimeographed sheets (printed recto and verso), side-stapled, with crudely-illustrated front cover; [ii],54pp. Light wear, dust-soil, and a few faint creases to front wrapper extremities, with lower stapled starting to come loose; contents clean and complete, with the print bold and unfaded; Very Good+. An early edition of Dylan's.....
Octavo. 18cm. Second issue of the text with "ribbon" spelled correctly on p.235. Bound in contemporary full brown calf with a black leather and gilt title label. [x-xii]; 240pp.; [1]; errata; [5] ads to rear. Some bumping to corners, a few old scrapes and scuffs to the leather and some.....
Three volumes. 12mo. 14.5cm. Publisher's black stiff card covers. Unpaginated. Clean and strong; slight scratching to the laminate of "Cut It Out", price stickers to the rear panels of two vols; internally clean and fresh; A bright, strong, near fine set. A mixed set with "Banging Your Head Against a......
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Octavo. 20cm. Publisher's original blue linen spine, over pasteboard, with a paper title label to spine. 456pp. [pages 311-438, excised due to libellous content]. Bumping to corners, most noticeable to the lower front, some sunning of the spine cloth, soiling, and a small cosmetic split to the tail of the.....
First printing. Octavo (23cm). Printed paper wrappers; 261pp. Text mostly unopened. Fading to spine, with scuffing to publisher's price-sticker; expected toning to text; still a tight, lightly worn copy, Very Good. Text entirely in French. There was no numbered issue. Quite presentable copy of Calas' first surrealist work, written shortly.....
First Printing. Inscribed on the front endpaper: "For Evelyn Scott whose reaction to my little book I most sincerely appreciate," signed in full, datemarked aboard the S.S. Bremen, Mar 28, 1933. Octavo (20.5cm); tan cloth, with titling and rule stamped in black on spine and front panel; green topstain; dustjacket;.....
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Octavo. 22cm. Publishe's original dark brown heavily embossed cloth, titled in gilt to spine. 286pp.; [1] engraved advertising plate; 6pp ads to rear. Strong, bright and straight, sunning to spine and a little incidental bumping and scuffing to extremities; internally almost uncannily clean and bright, printed upon excellent paper stock.....
58+ individual pieces of manuscript material by one Ernest H. Behrens, written on a variety of sheets of paper, notes, and envelopes, many running to a number of pages; comprising short letters to publications, letters to Congressmen and Administration Representatives, speeches and addresses, quotations from relevant figures and notes on.....
Eight quarto issues (28cm); mimeographed and offset-printed sheets, alternately saddle-stiched, stapled, and prefectbound into decorative card wrappers. This set is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his penciled name appearing on the contents leaf of No.1, and a few issues bearing his light.....
Quarto. 28.5cm. Twentieth century red half morocco over marbled boards titled and decorated in gilt to spine. 408pp. Light bumping and scuffing to corners, otherwise strong, tight and clean; internally clean and fresh, edges speckled black, inscription to verso of last blank preceding musical score, very light spotting mainly confined.....
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