Washington DC: The National Gallery of Art / Harry N. Abrams, 2002. First Edition. Two large quarto volumes in publisher's slipcase. Mild rubbing to spine titles; slipcase a bit dusty on upper panel; still a nicely preserved, Near Fine set. Massive catalogue produced in conjunction with the 2002 Stieglitz retrospective... More
New York: Beckwith Press, 1924. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 287pp, including color frontispiece. Tight, Very Good+ copy in the original dustwrapper, darkened on spine and with minute chips along upper and lower extremities. Well-preserved copy of this popular anti-Bolshevik polemic, based on documents seized in the Bridgeman raid of 1922. More
London: Red Star Press, 1973. Reprint. Octavo. Printed card wrappers; 158pp. Very Good. More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1905. First Edition. Octavo. Purple cloth boards; 334pp. Binding age-spotted and faded, with a bit of fraying at crown of spine; internally clean, tight and unmarked. Words arranged by Westcott, set to music by A. Madeley Richardson (organist and director of the choir at the... More
N.p. [New York]: Privately Printed, N.d. (ca 1930s). Octavo. Cloth boards with paper spine and cover labels; 640pp; illus. Mild toning to paper labels; front hinge thinly cracked, a few pages opened roughly - about VG, lacking the presumed dustwrapper. The twenty additional illustrations, though never explicitly attributed (and hinted..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1901. Small octavo. Publisher's gilt-decorated gray linen boards (hardcover); xiv,167pp; frontispiece portrait and illus. Moderate cover soil, with small sticker-shadow at upper corner of front board; text clean, tight and unmarked - a solidly VG copy. Engraved bookplate of "C.C. Sampson" inside front cover. Reprint..... More
Boston: William White & Co., 1871. First Edition. Small octavo. Publisher's gilt-decorated cloth boards; 252pp. Cloth faded on spine; text block leaning; faint marginal damp-stain throughout. A complete, sound and Good copy. Scarce volume by the noted Massachusetts clairvoyant and spirit-poet, popular for public recitations in which she improvised thousands... More
Jacksonville, NC: Iron Brigade Publisheres, 2003. Reprint. Octavo; black boards (hardcover); original dustjacket; 396,[1]pp. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. Slight fade to jacket spine, else Fine. The 28th installment in the author's Perry County series. This is the 2003 reissue, with expanded section of afternotes. More
New York: Art-Rite Publishing Company, 1974. First Edition. Issue of the downtown avant-garde art 'zine published between 1973 and 1978 (running to 18 issues total) and distributed on the streets around SoHo and Chelsea. In direct opposition to mainstream art-critical journals of the period, Art-Rite stuck to a low-budget, proto-punk... More
New York: Art-Rite Publishing Company, 1973. First Edition. Early issue of the downtown avant-garde art 'zine published between 1973 and 1978 (running to 18 issues total) and distributed on the streets around SoHo and Chelsea. In direct opposition to mainstream art-critical journals of the period, Art-Rite stuck to a low-budget... More
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. Fourth Edition. Attractive copy of Darrow's fictionalized memoir of his Ohio boyhood, first published by McClurg in 1904. Though it went throught seven editions, the book was never a commercial success, which pained Darrow, who felt it was his finest book. The present copy... More
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1936. Revised Edition. A bitter attack on the American university system, with frequent reference to Sinclair's own experiences at Columbia University and with Columbia President Nicholas Murray Butler, whom Sinclair portrays as a puppet of the city's business interests. AHOUSE A30c. Octavo (21cm); light... More
Winchester, VA: Lorne Bair Rare Books, 2019. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); pictorial card wrappers; 252pp.; fully illustrated in color. New. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1939. First American Edition. Joyce's last major book, a challenging work known for its experimental style and use of language. SLOCUM & CAHOON 48; CONNOLLY 100. First Printing, one of 6,000 copies. Octavo (24.75cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [vi],628,[2]pp... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1960. Lee's first book, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961, and the basis for the classic 1962 Robert Mulligan film starring Gregory Peck. Ninth Printing. Octavo (21cm); brown paper and light green cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in brown on spine;... More
Philadelphia: S.A. George & Company, 1875. Large, thick octavo (23cm.); publisher's blue blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; [2],864,[20](ads)pp.; illus. Light shelf wear and soil, contemporary presentation inscription to front free endpaper of the Pennsylvania chemical manufacturer Powers & Weightman to a William C. Henszey; Very Good or better. More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1935. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth; 156pp. Light shelf wear at spine ends, a hint of foxing to preliminaries, else Near Fine. Includes essays by ten female contributors. More
[New York]: Twayne Publishers / Skidmore College, [1956]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in green and orange decorative dust jacket; 344pp.; illus. Light wear to jacket extremities, else Near Fine. "A survey of American labor's wage demands from the 'living wage' of 1900 to the guaranteed annual wage of... More
London: Hamish Hamilton, [1961]. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 190pp. Short closed tear at top edge of rear jacket spine edge, rear panel a bit dust-soiled, corners bumped, else a Very Good, tight copy in like jacket. Translation of "El Camino," the author's... More
London: William Heinemann, 1902. First Edition. The uncommon first collected edition of these essays which originally appeared serially, from 1890-96, in the British journal Nineteenth Century. A (one might say the) fundamental text of anarchist communism, in which Kropotkin offers a carefully-argued case for cooperation as the basis for survival... More
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr and Company, 1893. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's white gilt-lettered cloth; [103]pp. Cloth a bit soiled, especially at spine, with a few shallow surface scratches, corners gently bumped, else Very Good, internally fine. Quite scarce collection of poems by a near-unknown poet. Despite the imprint the... More
[Managua]: Union de Escritores de Nicaragua, Asociación Sandinista de Trabajadores de la Cultura (ASTC), [1986]. First Edition. 12mo (19.5cm.); publisher's green pictorial card wrappers; 163pp.; illus. throughout. Corners bumped, else Near Fine. Poetry collection by the Nicaraguan author. More
New York: Center for Inter-American Relations, 1975. First Edition. Slim octavo (25cm); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; 88pp.; illus. throughout. Wrapper extremities rather toned and slightly soiled, else About Very Good. Lead collection of articles on Miguel Ángel Asturias's 1949 novel "Men of Maize"; with additional contributions by artist Francisco... More
New York: Center for Inter-American Relations, 1975. First Edition. Slim octavo (25cm); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; 83pp.; illus. throughout. Wrapper extremities rather toned and slightly soiled, else About Very Good. Includes interviews with Gregory Rabassa and José Luis Cuevas. More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. First Trade Edition. Sharp copy of the left-wing cartoonist's colorful autobiography. Considerably less common in the trade edition than the ubiquitous limited edition of 1,000 copies. First Printing. Octavo (22.5cm); tan pictorial cloth boards, stamped in red and black on spine and front cover; brick... More
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