Firenze: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1998. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's cream card wrappers printed in brown and black; xxx,[6],533pp.; illus. Light shelf wear, spine a shade sunned, else Very Good or better. Publisher's compliments card laid in. At head of title: Accademia Toscana di Scienze e Lettere "La Colombaria,"..... More

New York: Laugh Club, 1933. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in yellow pictorial dust jacket by Nat Falk, black topstain; 261pp. General dust-soil and darkening to jacket extremities, spine a bit sunned, minor shelf wear, including 1-inch closed tear to bottom edge of upper panel touching two letters without..... More

New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1941. First Edition. A presentable, Very Good copy of possibly the scarcest of Cohen's many books, a hardboiled novel of the boxing underworld. It is one of Cohen's few ventures outside of Black dialect fiction and to our knowledge his only foray into fistiana. The..... More

Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark, [1979]. First Edition. Limited to 500 copies of which this is no. 36. Large, slim quarto (28.5cm.); original tan marbled gilt-lettered paper over brown cloth in original acetate dust jacket, matching marbled endpapers; frontispiece and full-page illustrations by Robin McDonald printed in brown. Closed tear to..... More

San Anselmo: Chitresh Das Dance Company, 1986. Edition and printing not stated. Quarto. Pictorial glossy card wrappers; 32pp; illus. Minor external rubbing and wear; Near Fine. Autobiography by the Kathak dance master. More

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1995. First Thus. Thick quarto (30.5cm). White publisher's cloth, stamped in foil, in white pictorial dustwrapper; 451pp. Minor scratches and wear to boards and dustwrapper, light soiling (particularly to extremities); interiors tight and clean. Near Fine. First published in 1973, this edition has been..... More

[Amsterdam]: Dwarsfilm, 1981. Original pictorial poster (70x50cm.) printed silkscreen in red, white, and blue on pale blue stock; stock a bit wrinkled, tiny chips at top edge, short closed tear at bottom edge not approaching text or image, one small dampstain, else Near Very Good overall. Poster advertising the premier..... More

Benin City (Nigeria): Ethiope Publishing Corporation, 1973. First Edition. Revolutionary play based on the Aba riot of 1929, dealing with "a women's revolt in the mythical city of Nagase in which a colonial power is overthrown [...] the author's progressive intention is weakened by [his] essentially romantic conception of leadership..... More

Shanghai: Shanghai dianying yizhichang (Shanghai Film Dubbing Studio), [n.d. but ca.1960's]. An early transcript for subtitling Stanley Kubrick's Oscar-winning 1960 film adaptation of Howard Fast's 1951 novel - an artifact reflecting the reach of the film which, for a Hollywood blockbuster, was uniquely acceptable in socialist countries. Perhaps the most..... More

Warsaw: Editions Interpress, 1977. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial card wrappers; 140pp; illus. Lightly used, Near Fine copy in original wrappers. Extensively illustrated. Text entirely in French. More

New York: Amkino, [1939]. First Edition. Handbill promoting the American premiere of the 1938 Soviet film "The Conquests of Peter the Great," shown at the air conditioned Cameo on Broadway. The film, produced by Lenfilms, was based on a story by the novelist Alexei Tolstoy, directed by the hugely prolific..... More

Berlin: Nicolai, 1994. First Edition. Quarto (28cm). Paper-covered boards; dustjacket; 270pp; illus. Slight external rubbing and wear, with a few small nicks to jacket extremities; internally clean and unmarked; Very Good Plus. Text entirely in German. More

Berlin: Nicolai, 2000. First Edition. Quarto (30cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 351pp; illus. Fine, unworn copy in unworn jacket - near new. Text in German and English. More