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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
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
Rochester: Camden House, 2000. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 301pp; illus. Fine, tight and unmarked in unworn jacket; near-new. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1997. First Edition. Large octavo. Maroon cloth boards; dustjacket; 382pp; illus. Includes bibliography. Tight, straight copy of the first hardcover edition; one page corner turned down, else very Near Fine in a crisp, unworn dustwrapper. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1997. First Edition. Large octavo. Maroon cloth boards; dustjacket; 571pp; illus. Includes bibliography. Tight, straight copy of the first hardcover edition, fine ink underlining to several pages; several page corners turned down; Very Good. More
Oxford: Berg, 2007. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers (softcover); 358pp; illus. Includes bibliography. Tight, clean, unmarked copy, Near Fine. More
Mosvka: Akts. Izdat. O-vo "Ogonek" 1926 [but 1927]. First Thus. First Russian edition (abridged) of Charlie Chaplin's memoir My Trip Abroad (1922), recounting the Hollywood actor's return to his native England and travels through Europe after 10 years in the United States. Describes the (by then) universally recognized movie star's..... More
New York: CIP Ltd., [1966]. First Edition. Quarto (38cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; [8]pp; illus. Faint trace of wear/erosion along spine-fold, else Very Good, complete copy. Original pressbook for Sande N. Johnson's 1966 exploitation film, starring Diane Conti, Linda Gale, and Eileen Dietz. "A no-good Manhattan girl moves in on a...... More
New York: Samuel French, 1932. First Edition. Stage play in seven "Episodes." A parable of the growth of American industry, told from the point of view of an Irish slag-dumper who rises to the presidency of a giant machine plant. Flavin won the 1944 Pulitzer Prize for his novel "Journey..... More
New York: Film Culture, 1966. The celebrated "Special Issue 43" of Jonas Mekas' long-running journal of avant-garde cinema, issued in the wake of Mekas' Expanded Cinema Festival at the Filmmakers' Cinématheque in November and December 1965. The issue's Introduction includes its twofold statement of purpose: "a) to give our readers..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First Edition. Octavo. Black cloth boards, stamped in orange on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 156pp. Fine, tight copy in the scarce dustwrapper, unclipped but with shallow loss along upper front panel and a few small chips at extremities; Very Good. Play set in..... More
Honfleur: Pierre Jean Oswald, [1968]. First Edition. Slim 12mo (18cm.); publisher's yellow printed card wrappers, French flaps; 46pp. Spine a hint sunned, else Fine condition. Poetry collection by the French translator, dedicated to Jean-Luc Godard. More
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1890. First Edition. Collection of stories and essays (some falling under the mystery genre) by William Schwenck Gilbert (of Gilbert and Sullivan fame) written during his early career as a writer for magazines. Many of the stories, including "Foggerty's Fairy," "Creatures of Impulse," "The Wicked..... More
New York: Viking Press, [1972]. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in cream pictorial dust jacket, red topstain; [6],185pp. Some light dust-soil to jacket, a few tiny chips, else Very Good or better. Review copy with slip and author photograph laid in. Short story collection by the English-born..... More
Warszawa: [Wydzia Kultury i Sztuki], 1988. First Edition. Slim octavo (20.5cm.); original black pictorial card wrappers; 67pp.; photographic illus. throughout, color map laid in. Light wear to extremities, else Near Fine. Guidebook to the theaters of Warsaw. No copies in North America according to OCLC as of November, 2016... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. First Edition. Octavo. Clothbacked boards; dustjacket; 605pp; illus. Warmly inscribed by the author on front endpaper. Clean, tight copy in lightly edgerubbed jacket. Critical biography of the noted leftwing composer and playwright, author of "The Cradle Will Rock." More
[México]: Fondo de Cultura Economica, [1956]. 1981 Printing. Small thick 12mo (17.5cm.); publisher's cloth in cream pictorial dust jacket; xxvii,[1],740pp. Some chipping and wear to jacket extremities including short closed tear at bottom edge of upper panel not quite touching image, corners slightly bumped, bookseller rubberstamp to half title, else..... More
Moscow: VOKS, 1935. First Edition. Unusually well-preserved copy of this landmark of Soviet book design, featuring copious examples of the revolutionary photomontage work of Rodchenko and Stepanova. The two extremely fragile inserted design elements – a die-cut, folded plate bearing Lenin's portrait on a movie screen, and a clear celluloid..... More
[Prague: 1933]. First Edition. Tenth annual yearbook issued by the Prague City Theatre, featuring twenty-four photomontaged portraits of cast members, the portraits often incorporating elements from the short poems about each member. 12mo (14.5cm.); publisher's orange cloth-backed pictorial boards printed in darker orange and black; 115pp.; 24 leaves of photomontaged..... More
London: Secker & Warburg, 1972. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (25cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; frontispiece,[ii],284pp; illus. Upper corners bumped, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is price-clipped, with some trivial wear and corresponding wrinkling to upper flap folds; Near..... More
[Varsovie: Centre Polonais de l'Institut International du Théâtre, 1978]. First Edition. Slim quarto (29.75cm.); original glossy blue printed card wrappers; 64pp.; folding map plate laid in, photographic illus. throughout. Light wear from handling, else Very Good or better. French-language overview of modern Polish theater. OCLC locates two copies in North..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1962]. First Edition. Folio (33cm.); original blue and red pictorial staplebound wrappers; unpaged; chiefly illus. About Fine. Satirical cartoon collection of Caroline Kennedy's doll collection, namely political and popular figures depicted as wind-up dolls, including the Jackie Kennedy doll: "You wind it up and invites..... More
[Los Angeles]: Philosophical Research Society, 1972. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's green pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 80pp.; illus. throughout. Light wear to extremities, else Very Good or better. Includes the articles "Cabalistic Literature and the Zohar"; "The Kabuki Drama and the Elizabethan Stage"; and "The Hedgehog with Four Curls!" in..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1923. First Edition. Slim octavo (21cm.); original cloth in white decorative dust jacket; [6],76pp.; frontispiece by the author. Jacket cover illustrated wtih facsimile of the author's manuscript title page. Jacket extremities chipped and worn with a few tiny losses, none affecting text, extremities and spine toned..... More
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1876. First Edition. 12mo (15cm.); publisher's green decorative cloth stamped in black, gilt-lettered spine, all edge stained red, greenish-black glazed endpapers; 151pp. Boards and textblock somewhat soiled throughout, shelf wear with corners bumped, slight lean to spine, else About Very Good. BAL 7286: "Essentially..... More