![Mother: A Short One-Act Play [Inscribed to Andreas Brown]. Robert A. WILSON](/pictures/medium/44432.jpg?v=1558734592)
N.p. S.i., 1963. First Edition. A warm association copy, connecting two of the 20th century's most notable bookstore owners. OCLC notes 9 holdings. Quarto (28cm); mimeographed leaves (rectos), stapled at upper left corner; [i],8,[1]pp. Signed by the author on the cover leaf, and inscribed by him to Gotham Book Mart..... More about Mother: A Short One-Act Play [Inscribed to Andreas Brown
![Keep the River on Your Right [Inscribed to Sophie Wilkins]. Tobias SCHNEEBAUM](/images/noimage.png)
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1969. First Edition. Schneebaum's narrative of his 1950's journey to Peru, where he lived for a time with the Pueranga tribe, who had very little internaction with the civilized world, and later with the Akarama, head-hunters and cannibals, who had never seen a white man... More about Keep the River on Your Right [Inscribed to Sophie Wilkins
New York: Central Committee, Communist Party of the U.S.A., 1933. First Edition. 12mo (15cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 23pp. Textblock uniformly toned due to poor paper quality, else Very Good or better. BRENNEMAN, p. 62; SEIDMAN C-420. More about An Open Letter to All Members of the Communist Party Adopted by the Extraordinary National...
[London]: Russia Today, [1944]. First Edition. 12mo (15.5cm.); publisher's photo-illustrated self-wrappers printed in red and black; 15pp.; illus. Stock uniformly toned due to inferior paper quality, else Very Good or better. More about Poland and the Peace
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 about Opium: Journal d'une Désintoxication
New York: New Directions, [1960]. Revised Edition. Lovely association copy. From the front jacket flap: "The drawings are made especially for this edition by James Kearns, young American artist of whom Ben Shahn has written 'He is one of the most gifted, most intelligent artists I know...'" Octavo (22.5cm.); original... More about Can These Bones Live [Inscribed and Signed by Kearns to Ben Shahn
Rockport, MA: First Person, 1960. First Edition. Includes contributions by Thornton Wilder, Ford Madox Ford, Allan Seager, Robert Hellman, Curtis Zahn, Patrick Brophy, and others. Notably includes portions of Edward Gorey's Leaves From A Mislaid Album. First Printing. Octavo (22.5cm); variant (one of two) bound in card wrappers with French... More about First Person: A Journal of Travels, Memoirs & Humor (First Issue, Fall 1960
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1891. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's grey printed wrappers; 253pp.; frontispiece, 14 leaves of plates, including one folding plan. Lacking rear cover, shallow chips along extremities of upper cover and spine ends, textblock uniformly toned due to poor paper stock, else Very Good overall. Bureau... More about The Fourth International Prison Congress, St. Petersburg, Russia
Rockport, MA: First Person, 1960. First Edition. Includes contributions by Thornton Wilder, Ford Madox Ford, Allan Seager, Robert Hellman, Curtis Zahn, Patrick Brophy, and others. Notably includes portions of Edward Gorey's Leaves From A Mislaid Album. First Printing. Octavo (22.5cm); variant (one of two) bound in illustrated card wrappers with... More about First Person: A Journal of Travels, Memoirs & Humor (First Issue, Fall 1960
![Rivers to the Sea [Inscribed and Signed to Arthur Guiterman]. Sara TEASDALE](/pictures/medium/44414.jpg?v=1558734592)
New York: Macmillan Company, 1915. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth; xii,148pp. Some light shelf wear, corners gently bumped, spine bit sunned, else Very Good or better. Inscribed and signed to the author of humorous poetry Arthur Guiterman, "with homage to his laughing muse as well as his... More about Rivers to the Sea [Inscribed and Signed to Arthur Guiterman
Salzburg: Otto Müller Verlag, 1958. First Edition. The German author's second book, a collection of poems deeply influenced by the works of Wittgenstein and Kafka. Slim octavo (21.25cm); string-tied card wrappers, glued into black letterpress-printed dustjacket; 30,[2]pp; text is entirely in German. Trivial wear to extremities, else Fine. More about In hora mortis
New York: Douglas Taylor, 1873. First Edition. The British physician Elizabeth Blackwell founded the Infirmary in 1857 where she began lecturing to women on the study of medicine, her name appearing at the head of the Faculty Members on p. [3]. A list of the graduates for the years 1870... More about Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary, 128 Second Avenue, Corner 8th Street. Annual...
New York: Red Ozier Press, 1981. First Edition. Handsome fine press production of Wakoski's poem, by Steve Miller's Red Ozier Press. One of 200 copies signed by the author. Slim octavo (24.25cm); letterpress printed sheets, housed in a folding card enclosure; [8]pp. Fine. More about MX1: Looking for Beethoven in Las Vegas [Limited Edition, Signed
New York: The East Village Other, Inc., 1969. Upper cover adorned with a small reproduction, surrounded in black, of Eddie Adams's photograph of the execution of Viet Cong leader Nguyen Van Lem. Contributors include Eli Enzer, Jaakov Kohn, and Harry Smith. Tabloid (43.5cm); illustrated newsprint wrappers; 40pp; illus. Horizontal mail... More about The East Village Other - Vol. 4, no. 20, April 23, 1969
Chicago: American Library Association, 1922. First Edition. A short, moving vignette in support of public libraries, recalling a chance encounter Morley had on a side-street in Philadelphia, where he came upon a young girl sitting on a stoop, reading a library book. "In the soiled little book she had shown... More about The Child and the Book
N.p. Alfredo Valente, [n.d. but late 1950's-early 1960's]. Handsome photographic portrait of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Arthur Miller by Alfredo Valente (1899-1973), an Italian-American photographer best known for his coverage of Broadway. Original black and white photograph, measuring 8" x 10" (20.25cm x 25.5cm). Signed by Arthur Miller toward lower right... More about Original Photographic Portrait of Arthur Miller [Signed
[New York]: William Katz / Indianakatz, 1969. First Edition. A handsome new year's greeting, printing the text of Creeley's poem "Hero." One of 1000 copies. Bifolium (24.75cm); single sheet of cream cardstock, folded vertically at center, with text printed in brown, and reproduction of a color illustration by Rober Indiana... More about Hero [Inscribed to Gerard Malanga
New York: Jonas Mekas / Film Culture, 1955. First Edition. Debut issue of this long-running avant-garde film magazine published by Jonas Mekas, who produced 79 issues between 1955-1996. Contents include contributions by Edouard L. de Laurot, George Fenin, Hans Richter, William Everson, Orson Welles, Erich von Stroheim, Roger Tilton, and... More about Film Culture - Vol.1, No.1 (January, 1955
San Francisco: David Haselwood, 1966. First Edition. Plymell's first book. Slim octavo (22.5cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; [52]pp. Light wear and toning to wrapper extremities, faint, shallow stains to base of spine and lower right corners; Very Good+. Laid into this copy is a sheet with biographical data on Plymell, and... More about Apocalypse Rose [With ALS to Sophie Wilkins
![The Hero Continues [Signed]. Donald WINDHAM](/pictures/medium/44398.jpg?v=1558734591)
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1960. First Edition. One of the author's more successful novels, based on the life of Tennessee Williams. YOUNG 2864. First Impression. Octavo (20.25cm); green paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-191,[1]pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Lower corner tips gently... More about The Hero Continues [Signed
![Something To Remember Me By: Three Tales [Inscribed to Karl Shapiro]. Saul BELLOW](/pictures/medium/44397.jpg?v=1558734591)
New York: The Viking Press, 1991. First Edition. Volume containing three works of short fiction - "The Bellarosa Connection," "A Theft," and "Something to Remember Me By." A warm association copy, inscribed to Bellow's friend and correspondant Karl Shapiro and his wife Sophie Wilkins. A distinguished copy, connecting two prominent... More about Something To Remember Me By: Three Tales [Inscribed to Karl Shapiro
New York: Baillière Brothers, 1866. First American Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's red pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, red glazed endpapers; xiii,[3],313,[1],6pp. Cloth a bit soiled, some wear to extremities, corners bumped, spine a shade faded, else Very Good, internally fine. French historian's account of his travels across the United States..... More about The United States During the War
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications / Crest Book, [1960]. "First Crest Printing" 12mo (18cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers, all edges stained red; 160pp. Spine slightly cocked, light wear at extremities, else Very Good and sound. The author's first novel, originally published in 1959, which recounts a lesbian relationship that blossoms out... More about The Lion House [alt. title "Two Women"
Washington DC: Wm. W. Morrison, 1841. First Edition. Ralph Randolph Gurley, secretary of the ACS, had travelled to England the previous year in order to garner support for the Society's project of sending emancipated African Americans to Liberia as an alternative to abolition. It would be on this trip that... More about Mission to England, in Behalf of the American Colonization Society [Inscribed
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1901. "Intermediate printing" (BAL). Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's "A" binding, blue pictorial cloth stamped in white to upper cover, spine lettered in white, top edge gilt; [4],459pp. Extremities rubbed, corners bumped, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good, internally sound. The author's... More about Graustark: The Story of a Love Behind a Throne
