New York: Folder Editions, [1960]. Annual anthology of new art and poetry. Contributors include John Ashbery, Jackson Pollock, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Motherwell, LeRoi Jones, Philip Whalen, many others. Octavo; printed card wrappers; 128pp; illus. Bit of sunning to spine and wrapper edges, else Very Good or better. First paperback printing..... More
![Broadside] "Friday Nites in Greenwich Village" Jazz Concert and Dance. Harold ANTON](/pictures/medium/27174.jpg?v=1546561308)
New York: 1949. First Edition. Flyer advertising the weekly show "A Tonal Paradise," presented by Harold Anton and "Raphael" at the Panel Ballroom every Friday night from 9 PM to 2 AM. The show features Gene Sedric on the clarinet, bebop songs by Anton, and "Ecstasy Provided By The Shmoo."..... More
New York: Mitchell Kennerley, [ca. 1914]. First Edition. Small octavo broadside (19x12.5cm.); Fine. Prospectus issued for the publisher's Modern Drama Series, of which twelve plays are listed here, including works by Ibsen, D.H. Lawrence, Leonid Andreyev, and Lord Dunsany. More
New York: Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit, 1952. First Edition. Small quarto broadside (23.5cm.) illustrated by Edward C. Caswell; light wear from handling with a few short closed tears, else Very Good or better. Flyer advertising the spring show in the Greenwich Village, "The Art Cradle of America," May 22..... More
New York: Cellar Players, n.d., ca. 1920. First Edition. Octavo illustrated broadside (22.5cm.) printed in dark blue on buff card stock. Some light wear from handling, tiny loss to top edge not affecting text, else Very Good. Flyer promoting the Cellar Players, a theater troupe founded by the Hudson Guild..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1917. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); pictorial dark green cloth, stamped in black, grey, and gilt; x, 301pp, frontis., 16 plates. Boards smudged and worn; leading corners bumped; rubbing to extremities, with slight chipping to crown and heel of spine. Front pastedown/ffep tanned; sticker on..... More
New York: New Directions, 1960. First Edition. The Beat author's third collection of poetry, written during a Paris soujourn in 1957. First Printing, a trade paperback original. Octavo; illustrated wrappers; 91, [3]pp ads, plus a fold-out poem "Bomb" between pages 32-33. Vertical crease along front joint, with some pinpoint wear..... More
![The Village Forum March 1948 Calendar [drop title]. CPUSA -- LOWER WEST SIDE SECTION](/pictures/medium/27152.jpg?v=1529353526)
New York: "Auspices Lower West Side Section CPUSA" 1948. First Edition. 16mo broadside (14cm.); top edge browned, light wear from handling, else Very Good. Among the events listed are a "birthday party" for the magazine Masses and Mainstream; Israel Epstein's lecture "Inside Red China"; Muriel Draper's lecture "Where Is Woman's..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1897. First Edition. 12mo (18.75cm.); original tan decorative cloth embossed in red, black, and gilt; [4],203pp. Spine a bit toned and very slightly cocked, corners just a hint bumped, blank bookplate to front pastedown, else a Very Good or better copy. One of the..... More
Aix-en-Provence: Suzie David Imprimeur, 1954. First Edition. Guevara, a Chilean-born painter, poet and playboy, was loosely affiliated with the Bloomsbury set and with Nancy Cunard's Hours Press. Aside from one poem (published by Cunard), this appears to be Guevara's only published literary work. Most of his painted oeuvre (which was..... More
New York: Fifth Avenue Playhouse, 1939. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); single sheet folded into 8-panelled pamphlet; illus. A bit soiled and toned, else About Very Good. Film festival held on the eve of World War II, providing a page-long introduction on "World Democracy and the Second International Film Festival," which..... More
![City Block [Limited Edition]. Waldo FRANK](/pictures/medium/25637.jpg?v=1529353465)
Darien, CT: Waldo Frank, 1922. First, Limited Edition. Frank's kaleidoscopic, loosely-structured fictional portrait of a New York neighborhood, constructed as a series of interrelated short-stories. A sadly overlooked New York novel by one of the more intriguing members of the Greenwich Village left-wing intelligentsia of the Teens and Twenties. HANNA..... More
New York: [De Pamphilis Press, ca. 1920]. First Edition. 12mo bifolium (17.5cm.); illus., text printed within orange decorative borders of various typographical designs. Minor wear, else Near Fine. American production of a play by Spanish playwright Benavente, who would be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1922. Starring Nance..... More
[New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931]. First Edition. 12mo bifolium (19cm.); text printed in blue. Fine. Publisher's advertisement for the works of eight contemporary poets, including Edna St. Vincent Millay and Edmund Blunden. Order blank printed on rear panel. More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1926. First Edition. Satirical novel of Geenwich Village bohemian life; the title character is loosely based on Hecht's friend, the poet Max Bodenheim. Octavo. Canary-yellow pictorial cloth; red top-stain; 319pp. Tight, bright copy, cloth lightly dusted; Very Good. Lacking the jacket. More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1936. Later Printing. Octavo. Cloth boards; no jacket; 445pp; frontispiece; includes bibliography. Light edge wear; else clean copy in very good condition. More
![The Friend of Antaeus: A Comedy of Fantastic People [Review Copy]. Gerard HOPKINS](/pictures/medium/22185.jpg?v=1529353344)
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, [1928]. First American Edition. Octavo (19.75cm.); original buckram in pink and black pictorial dust jacket, original blue belly-band advertising this title as "The Dutton Book Of The Month For May"; v,[1],309pp. Upper jacket panel unevenly faded, additional fading to jacket and belly-band spines; some..... More
New York: Thomas Seltzer, n.d. [1922]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); bifolium printed on bright yellow stock. Tiny soil spots, else Near Fine. Text printed on pp. [1-3], providing review blurbs from the New York Evening Mail and four other newspapers. Prospectus for Kimmel's chapbook not in OCLC as of July..... More
New York: Something Else Press, 1967. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); original cloth in black photo-illustrated dust jacket, green topstain; 148pp.; photographic illus. throughout; glassine envelope containing The Store's blue business card mounted to front free endpaper. Fine. Pictorial document of Oldenburg's Store and Ray Gun Theater, a public art installation..... More
Berkeley: First Unitarian Church, 1981. First, Limited Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; 21pp; illustrated after original drawings by Harrydick Ross. One of 500 copies, this copy inscribed "for Pete and Sylvia." With laid-in mimeographed prospectus, also signed., requesting recipients send "no less than five dollars" for the enclosed chapbook "as this..... More
![Enjoyment of Living [Inscribed with TLS]. RADICAL, PROLETARIAN LITERATURE](/pictures/medium/11989.jpg?v=1554245941)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948. First Edition. Inscribed by Eastman to his college roommate Ralph Erskine: "For Ralph, my poet-brother, from Max," dated in year of publication. Also laid in is a TLS on Eastman's letterhead to Ralph [Erskine] in Tryon, North Carolina, thanking him for a visit and..... More
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. First Edition. Major anthology of left-wing verse, chosen from the pages of The Masses and its successor publication The Liberator. Contributors include a long roster of major left-wing authors of the period: John Reed, Max Eastman, Louis Ginsberg, James Rorty, Max Bodenheim, Arturo Giovannitti..... More
Newark: Barse & Hopkins, 1921. First American Edition. Octavo (18.5cm); dark green cloth, stamped in gilt, in color pictorial dustwrapper; 220pp. Rubbing to boards along spine joints and rear lower edge. Dustwrapper exhibits dampstains (verso) along spine, with rubbing to extremities; moderate chipping to edges w/ material loss (especially along..... More
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. First Edition. Major anthology of left-wing verse, chosen from the pages of The Masses and its successor publication The Liberator. Contributors include a long roster of major left-wing authors of the period: John Reed, Max Eastman, Louis Ginsberg, James Rorty, Max Bodenheim, Arturo Giovannitti..... More
