New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1928. First Trade Edition. "In This Book-Collecting Game there are discussions of bindings, of the earmarks of editions, of auctions, of the "knock-out," of all the rewards and perils of the collector's life" (from front flap). First Printing. Octavo (21cm); light blue paper and... More about This Book-Collecting Game

London: Martin Secker, 1921. First UK Trade Edition. The author's fifth novel, a sequel to The Rainbow (1915). ROBERTS A15c. First Impression, one of 1,500 copies. Octavo (19.75cm); brown cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and double-ruled borders stamped in blind to covers; dark brown topstain; [4],5-508,[4]pp ads... More about Women in Love

Düsseldorf: Museum Bochum, 1989. First Edition. Catalog of works composed by Franta over a 20 year period, shown at the Museum Bochum in Dusseldorf. Provenance: From the library of Broadway star Sondra Lee. One of 1000 copies. Quarto (28.75cm); pictorial card wrappers; unpaged; illus; text is entirely in German. Inscribed... More about Franta: Arbeiten 1969-1989 [Inscribed

Atlanta / New Haven: High Museum of Art, Atlanta / Yale University Press, 2001. First Edition. Quarto (31.5cm x 25.5cm). Black cloth boards (hardcover) with title blind-stamped on cover and titling embossed in silver on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 176pp; illus. Fine copy; appears new. Near Fine dustwrapper, very slight rubbing... More about After the Scream: The Late Paintings of Edvard Munch

Washington DC: Mage Publishers, Inc., 1986. First Trade Edition. The first monograph of Franta's work, tracing "his development from the 1960s, when he first arrived in France, a refugee from Czechoslovakia, up to his recent exhibitions in New York and Paris." A bilingual edition, with 109 illustrations (50 of them... More about Franta: Paintings and Works on Paper [Inscribed to Sondra Lee, with a Full-Page Original...

New Haven: Yale University Library, 1985. First Edition. Facsimile of a 1906 letter written by Pound to Viola Baxter from the Yale archives, printed as a keepsake in celebration of Pound's hundredth birthday. One of 500 copies. Small quarto (26.5cm); blue-gray string-tied wrappers, with title label mounted to front cover; [24]pp; illus. Fine. More about At the Circulo de Recreo with Ezra Pound. A Letter from Ezra Pound to Viola Baxter, May 9, 1906

Brooklyn: Powerhouse Books, 2008. First Edition. Superb document of some of the more recent residents of the infamous Chelsea Hotel. The photographer lived in the hotel for four years, getting to know and photographing its residents. First Printing. Quarto (31.5cm); light gray boards and black cloth backstrip, with titles stamped... More about Inside: The Chelsea Hotel [Inscribed to Sondra Lee

N.p. Shoemaker Hoard, 2005. First Edition. Substantial volume of correspondence by the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer. A warm association copy to a long-time friend and collaborator. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); white and blue paper-covered boards, with titling and author's initials stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xii,332,[6]pp. Inscribed..... More about Wings of Friendship: Selected Letters, 1944-2003 [Inscribed to Sondra Lee

Chicago? n.d., ca. 1894. First Edition. Statements made by the founder of the railroad car manufacturer the Pullman Company shortly after the infamous Pullman strike staged from May to July, 1894. In the wake of an economic downturn, the Company had cut wages and hours while keeping company rents the... More about The Strike at Pullman. Statements of Geo. M. Pullman and Second Vice-President T. H. Wickes,...

London: Secker and Warburg, 1984. First Trade Edition. Handsome deluxe edition of Orwell's towering dystopian novel, reproducing to scale the only extant manuscript for any of Orwell's works. The manuscript originated with Orwell's widow, who offered it to a charity auction, and ultimately ended up in the vault in the... More about Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Facsimile of the Extant Manuscript

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943. First Edition. Prescient and surprisingly frank appraisal of gender roles in post-Depression American society, with chapters on women laborers in the war effort, on sexuality and sex discrimination, and on the stereotypical roles available to women in a male-dominated culture. Hawes's writing foreshadows, by... More about Why Women Cry or, Wenches With Wrenches

New York: Eaton & Mains, [1909]. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's tan gilt-lettered cloth; xix,[3],333pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, 19 leaves of photographs. Corners rather badly bumped, general dust-soil, one plate separated but present, else Very Good, internally sound. Study (by a white author) of the social conditions of African-Americans, with... More about The Upward Path: The Evolution of a Race

Cologne: Könemann Verlaggesellschaft mbH, 2001. First English Language Edition. Quarto (30.5cm x 24cm). Black cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in gold on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 560pp; illus. Near Fine copy; very slight shelf wear to extremities, else clean and tight. Near Fine dustwrapper; slight shelf wear to extremities, else..... More about Sexualia: From Prehistory to Cyberspace