New York: Bernard Geis Associates (Random House), 1960. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); one quarter red cloth with pictorial tan paper sides and gilt titling on spine, in pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; 256pp. Spine sunned, heel/crown chipped with material loss; short tears at inner panel joints; mild smudging and soil, edgewear..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. First Edition. Collects the Charles Elliot Norton lectures, delivered at Harvard between 1967-68. Octavo; orange paper and rust-colored cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [6],154pp. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket. More
[Paris]: Gallimard, [1966]. First French Edition. Small octavo (18.5cm.); original yellow card wrappers, French flaps; 172pp. General shelf-wear to wrapper extremities, some minor foxing, spine slightly cracked, else Near Very Good and sound. Forms part of the series La Croix du Sud. From the Library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn..... More
N.p. Bouchercon Book, 1973. First Edition. One of 500 numbered copies, of which 475 are for sale (this is no.212). Octavo (22.5cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; xii,13-136,[2]pp; a 5.5" x 8.5" black and white print, featuring an illustrated portrait of Boucher by Kelly Freas..... More
![No Man Is An Island [With Signed Bookplate Laid In]. Ray BRADBURY](/pictures/medium/39896.jpg?v=1641872374)
Los Angeles: The National Women's Committee of Brandeis University, Los Angeles Area Chapter, 1952. First Edition. An early chapbook by Bradbury, containing an address he delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Women's Committee of Brandeis University (November 7, 1952), printed specifically for their..... More
[London]: Privately Published, 1895. First Edition. First Impression. 250 copies, this being #94. Octavo (18.5cm). Maroon cloth covered boards titled in gilt on spine; tissue guarded portrait frontispiece; top edge gilt; deckle edges; 97pp. Mild rubbing to boards; spine cloth sunned a shade lighter, but gilt titling still perfectly legible;..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1911]. First Thus. Slim 12mo (18cm.); publisher's red blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; [4],115,[1],[8](ads)pp. Light shelf wear, mostly at spine ends; near-contemporary (1927) ownership inscription to front free endpaper and top textblock edge, else Very Good or better. Three essays originally published in the author's larger collection..... More
London: John Lane / The Bodley Head, 1896. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19.5cm); binding designed by Patten Wilson; beige cloth-covered boards and vertically-ribbed dark brown cloth backstrip, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and in black on covers; brown topstain; [xiv],205,[3], plus 16pp publishers catalog at..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5 cm); light green cloth-covered boards, blind-stamped and titled in purple and white on cover and spine; dustjacket; purple topstain; 319pp; faint foxing near spine end; Near Fine; The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $6.00) rubbing to spine, with a...... 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
Paris: Collège de 'Pataphysique, [1969?]. First Edition. Slim octavo (20.75cm.); original grey pictorial wrappers printed in blue; [4],96pp.; text illus. throughout. Extremities a bit toned, spine has a finy small chips, textblock loose in wrappers. Good or better overall. More
New York: Viking Press, 1967. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22.cm); black cloth spine over grown paper-covered boards; black endpapers. stamped in brown on cover and spine, gilt on spine; orange topstain; dustjacket; 304pp.; a Fine copy. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $5.95) with a few short, closed tears to..... More
Dayton, OH: Press of U.B. Publishing House, 1905. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt; viii,[9]-363pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, plates. Boards a bit rubbed with brief exposure at corners, some minor soil including to textblock, else Very Good and sound. Self-published collection of essays, including travel..... More
![Because I Was Flesh: The Autobiography of Edward Dahlberg [Advanced Reader's Copy]. Edward DAHLBERG](/pictures/medium/21292.jpg?v=1641872136)
[New York]: New Directions, [1963, 1964]. First Edition. Account of Dahlberg's child- and early adulthood growing up in Kansas City, the child of a single mother, a "lady barber." Octavo (20.5cm.); original white printed card wrappers (mild soiling); [12],234pp. Minor wear from handling, "Sample Copy" rubberstamped in red to upper..... More
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1960. Revised Edition. A terrific inscription from Dahlberg, whose "Sorrows of Priapus" had been illustrated by Shahn a few years earlier: "For Ben Shahn / with deep appreciation of his own brilliant drawings done for The Sorrows of Priapus & for suggesting that Kearns do the..... More
![The Confessions of Edward Dahlberg [Limited Edition, Signed]. Edward DAHLBERG](/pictures/medium/25212.jpg?v=1641872195)
New York: George Braziller, 1971. First Edition. First printing, limited to 200 copies of which this is no. 182. Octavo (21.5cm.); original linen, spine lettered in gilt; blue board slipcase; [10],312pp. Fine. Signed by Dahlberg on limitation page. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1941]. First Edition. Octavo (22.25cm.); original cloth in black and red dust jacket; vii,[1],158pp. Light edge wear to jacket extremities. Fine in Very Good or better jacket. Collected pieces of literary criticism, published as Sing O Barren in the UK (1947). BILLINGS A5a. More
[Norfolk, CT]: Direction, [1950]. First American Edition. 12mo (16.75cm.); original simulated cloth in yellow decorative dust jacket; 123pp. Strip of foxing to fore-edge of upper jacket panel and rear flap fold; light shelf wear with a few tiny nicks, else Fine in Very Good jacket. Introduction by Herbert Read. Direction..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1972]. First Thus. Octavo (20.5cm.); original cloth-backed boards in cream price-clipped dust jacket printed in red and purple; xvii,[1],237pp. Closed tear to top edge of rear jacket panel, else Near Fine. Two related works, originally published eleven years apart (1957 and 1968). More
![Sing O Barren [Alt. title: Do These Bones Live]. Edward DAHLBERG, foreword Herbert Read](/pictures/medium/22388.jpg?v=1641872154)
London: Routledge, [1947]. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original cloth in rose dust jacket; viii,138pp. Jacket spine toned, extremities a bit worn, flap folds rather tender. Fine in About Very Good jacket. Collection of literary criticism, first published in New York in 1941 as Do These Bones Live. BILLINGS, A5b..... More
London: Peter Nevill Limited, [1950]. First Edition. Small octavo (18.5cm.); original black cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 123pp. Fine, lacking dust jacket. BILLINGS A6a. More
![Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work [Inscribed]. Edwidge DANTICAT](/pictures/medium/37349.jpg?v=1641872345)
New York: Vintage Books, 2011. Collection of lectures by the Haitian-American author, reflecting on the nature of art and exile. Second printing. Octavo; illustrated wrappers; xiv,193pp. Inscribed on the half-title page to Minnesota poet and educator John Calvin Rezmerski: "11/15/2012. To John and Lorna, May you always read joyfully together..... More
![The Poet's Way of Knowledge [...] The Henry Sidgwick Memorial Lecture, 1956. C. DAY LEWIS](/pictures/medium/21245.jpg?v=1641872135)
Cambridge: University Press, 1957. First Edition. 12mo (19cm.); original boards in brick decorative price-clipped dust jacket; 32pp. Some shelf-wear to jacket extremities, including small loss to top edge of upper panel and one short closed tear, neither affecting text; Very Good over all. More
![The Poet's Way of Knowledge [...] The Henry Sidgwick Memorial Lecture, 1956. C. DAY LEWIS](/pictures/medium/21261.jpg?v=1641872136)
Cambridge: University Press, 1957. First Edition. 12mo (19cm.); original boards in brick decorative price-clipped dust jacket; 32pp. Some shelf-wear to jacket extremities; Very Good. More
![The Starry Place Between the Antlers: Why I Live in South Carolina [Limited Edition, Signed]....](/pictures/medium/33870.jpg?v=1641872302)
Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Publishers, 1981. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 500 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.93. Slim octavo; letterpressed sheets, sewn into unprinted wrappers and glued into dustjacket; 16,[2]pp. A Fine copy. More
