Paris: Gallimard, 1959. First Edition. First trade printing after a numbered issue of 30 copies. 12mo (19cm). Printed wrappers; 362,(4)pp. Text unopened (pages uncut). Bright, unread copy with mild toning to text paper; Very Good. Text entirely in French. First collected edition of Jabès' poems in French, published shortly after..... More

Santa Monica: Lapis Press, 1987. First printing of the Michael Taylor translation (edition of 1150 copies). Octavo; pictorial card wrappers; unpaginated [139pp]. Trivial external wear, still a tight, very Near Fine copy in the publisher's wrappers. There was a simultaneous limited issue in boards. More

Paris: Présence Africaine, 1962. Fourth edition (first published 1950). 12mo. Printed orange card wrappers; 72pp. Spine and wrapper edges slightly sunned, else a tight, clean, Very Good or better copy. Text entirely in French. Early printing of Césaire's most important work – a foundational work of postcolonial literature that has..... More

Paris: Éditions du Sagittaire, (1948). First Edition. Trade issue, after 587 numbered copies in various limitations. 12mo. Printed glossy-paper wrappers; 112,(5)pp. A clean, tight, well-preserved copy in the original wrappers, with expected toning to text; Very Good. The full-page lithographic illustrations by Masson, being on better paper, are clean and..... More

Oakland: Alameda County Committee, Communist Party, 1937. First Edition. Original printed broadside, with text offset printed in black on beige stock, measuring 28cm x 45.25cm (11" x 17.75"). A few old folds smoothed out, some very subtle toning to extremities, with a brief notation written at upper left margim; Near..... More

Philadelphia: National Publishing Co., [1893]. First Edition. An illustrated account of the fair, with a chapter on the Woman's Department by Frances E. Willard. RYDELL 1128. First printing. Octavo (26.5cm). Original blue cloth, with rainbow printing to front and spine, all edges marbled; green patterned endpapers; 854,[2]pp; one-page ad at..... More

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1927. First Edition. The American author and suffragist's ninth collection of short fiction. "All are shot through with her extraordinary, uncanny perception of the mind and heart of the average man and woman - the inarticulate, lonely souls of whom she writes with an..... More

Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, 1843. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (25cm). In original tan paper wrappers, printed on front; 160pp. Largely sound, though front wrapper partially detached, some losses to paper over spine, minor staining to wraps, scattered foxing: Very Good. Mann was Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education..... More

[New York]: The Red Ozier Press, 1981. First Edition. One of 115 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author and illustrator, this being copy no.98. Octavo (18cm); marbled paper-covered boards and grey cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in white on spine; [viii],13,[3]pp, with wood engravings by John DePol..... More

Charleston, WV: Mountain State Press, 1981. First, Limited Edition. Cloth Issue, one of 50 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.18. Octavo (21.75cm); dark brown leatherette, with titles stamped in gilt on front cover; dustjacket; [xiv],12,[6]pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, with light..... More

Chicago: Margaret C. Anderson, 1916. First Edition. Contents include poetry and short works by Carl Sandburg, Elizabeth Buehrmann, Sherwood Anderson, Arthur Davidson Ficke, Ezra Pound, Alexander S. Kaun, Margaret Anderson, Elizabeth Gibson Cheyne, William Saphier, Charles Zwaska, Lupo de Braila, and Allan Ross Macdougall. Slim octavo (25cm); original taupe wrappers..... More

[Washington, D.C.]: Middle East Research & Information Project, [1976?]. First Edition. Quarto (27.75cm.); publisher's cream photo-illustrated staplebound wrappers; 26pp.; photographic illus. in text. Light wear, contemporary manuscript price sticker to upper cover, else Very Good to Near Fine. Contents includes essays on women in the workforce in Egypt and "The..... More

Washington DC: Washington D.C. Women's Liberation, n.d., ca. 1970. First Edition. Text in double columns, the right-hand text comprised of comments made by the author's female students ("I bought some face powder this week and the ad inside said all these things about how he will love the smooth look...Why..... More