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: Bruno Chap Books, 1915. First Edition. Octavo (20.75cm.); original pale orange printed staplebound wrappers; [91]-111pp.; illus. Wrappers a bit toned along extremities, light rubbing at spine foot, else a Very Good or better copy. The author's first book, a slim collection of subtly erotic poems. MESSERLI A1. 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: 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
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
San Francisco: Porpoise Bookshop, 1955. First Edition. 16mo (13.75cm.); illustrated staplebound self-wrappers; 32pp.; woodcut illus. throughout. A bit toned, else Fine. 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
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
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
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1931. First Edition. Still-useful guide to bohemian expatriate Paris in the Twenties; especially useful for its discussion of such lesser luminaries as Lowenfels, Elmer Rice, Edward Titus, Natalie Clifford Barney, etc. Huddleston, a Times correspondent, would later be arrested for collaborating with the Vichy regime during WW2. Octavo... More
Paris: Transition, 1928. First Edition. Cover illustration by Picasso. Includes the continuation of James Joyce's Work in Progress (which would become Finnegan's Wake ), with a b/w photographic frontispiece portrait of Joyce by Berenice Abbott; illustrations by Man Ray, Eugene Atget, Pablo Picasso, etc; literary contributions by Gertrude Stein, Paul... 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, 2015. 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
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
New York: Provincetown Theatre, [1923]. First Edition. Octavo bifolium (21.25cm.); printed on tan stock. A bit worn from handling, horizontal fold-line, a few chips and faint creases to extremities, else Very Good. Playbill for Lula Vollmer's 3-act folk drama Sun Up, set during the Great War in the mountains of... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, [1960]. Quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's cloth in yellow pictorial dust jacket; xii,[2],177pp.; sheet music. Jacket extremities rather worn with one-inch loss at spine foot, some minor soil, corners bumped, else Very Good in About Very Good jacket. Songbook of the Greenwich Village-based folk band. More
![[Broadside] "Friday Nites in Greenwich Village" Jazz Concert and Dance. Harold ANTON.](/pictures/medium/27174.jpg?v=1546561308)
![The Book of Repulsive Women: 8 Rhythms and 5 Drawings [Bruno Chap Books, Vol. II, no. 6, November, 1915]. Djuna BARNES, ed Guido Bruno.](/images/noimage.png)
![The Village Forum March 1948 Calendar [drop title]. CPUSA -- LOWER WEST SIDE SECTION.](/pictures/medium/27152.jpg?v=1529353526)
![City Block [Limited Edition]. Waldo FRANK.](/pictures/medium/25637.jpg?v=1529353465)
![The Friend of Antaeus: A Comedy of Fantastic People [Review Copy]. Gerard HOPKINS.](/pictures/medium/22185.jpg?v=1529353344)
![Back to Montparnasse: Glimpses of Broadway in Bohemia [Lippincott File Copy]. Sisley HUDDLESTON.](/pictures/medium/32383.jpg?v=1529353695)
![May Days: An Anthology of Masses - Liberator Verse, 1912-1924 [Association Copy, Signed and Inscribed by 9 Contributors]. Genevieve TAGGARD, J. J. LANKES, illustrations.](/pictures/medium/25871.jpg?v=1529353478)
![[Playbill] Sun Up. Commencing Thursday May 24th, 1923, every week day evening at 8:45, matinee Saturday 2:30, The Provincetown Theatre. THE PLAYERS COMPANY.](/pictures/medium/27173.jpg?v=1529353527)
