Paris: Editions du Carrefour, 1930. First edition. 237 pp. Original wrappers. One of 370 copies on vélin pur-fil, of a total edition of 500 copies. Spine a little creased, slight bump to front top and rear lower corners, overall an excellent copy. Illustrated with ten full page heliogravures of photo.....
![Item #2098 Disavowals, or, Cancelled Confessions [Aveux non Avenus]. Claude Cahun](/pictures/thumb/2098.jpg?v=1635130703)
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008. First edition thus. 226 pp. Original printed wrappers. Slight handling wear, slight spine crease, near fine. Introduction by Jennifer Mundy. Afterword by Francois Leperlier. Translated by Susan de Muth. The is the first English translation (published in the UK by Tate Publishing in 2007).....
![Item #2199 [Untitled Drawing]. Leonora Carrington](/pictures/thumb/2199.jpg?v=1655782648)
n.p. n.d., c. 1932-33. Watercolor on paper. 12 x 15.5 cm. Matted and framed. An early drawing, very reminiscent of Carrington’s series "Sisters of the Moon" (1932-33), which scholar Susan Aberth notes "must be understood as a pivotal turning point in the development of Carrington's unique artistic vision that.....
Paris: [Pierre Argillet], 1962. First edition. Unbound signatures laid into a chemise with an original Dali print on silk inlaid on the front board, housed in a clamshell case. The case is faded at the spine and edges with some rubbing to the corners. Contains original lithographs and etchings.....
Amsterdam: De Bezige Bij, 2005. First edition. 100 pp. Oversize tall narrow octavo. Black paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Very slight toning and edgewear to jacket, small remainder mark on bottom edge. Drawings by Peter van Sambeck. True first edition of this Halloween tale by.....
[New York]: Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, 1964. [82] pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers, with Duchamp's doorway image extending slightly beyond the rest of the wrapper, and reproduced in blind on the rear panel. Some tanning and soiling to covers, some surface wear, especially to edges, as almost always seen due to.....
New York: Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies, 1942. First edition. [49] pp. Stapled wrappers designed by Duchamp, cover punched with five holes, as issued. Corners a bit rubbed, abrasion to lower edge of front cover and first several leaves, minor edgewear. Catalog of an exhibition held at.....
Paris: Éditions GLM, 1935. First edition. Unbound folded gatherings laid into publisher’s photographically illustrated wrapper, as issued. Some creasing to the front cover at the spine, as often seen, slight rubbing to head and tail of spine. Interior clean and bright. Housed in a custom chemise and slipcase, with title.....
Paris: Pierre Seghers and Imprimerie Union, 1953. Folded concertina, made up of three sheets assembled and attached to the back with strips of cloth. Original hangers attached to verso. With the publisher's original rhodoïd case. A gorgeous, fine copy, bright and fresh. Now housed in a custom clamshell box...
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1931. First edition. Translated by Kay Boyle. [8], 38, [8] pp. Publisher's black cloth boards, decorated in elaborate gilt and blind, designed by Ernst in collaboration with A.J. Gonon. Nineteen photograms with tissue guards, with text printed in red. One of 200 copies on "finest.....
New York: B. Ess, 1979. Oversized tabloid format, unbound as issued. Just Another Asshole was an experimental "no wave" publication that ran from 1978 to 1987. Each issue was published in a different format, the first two being xeroxed zines estimated at about 20 copies printed. This third issue compiles.....
Paris: Agori, 1973. First edition. Pictorial boards with Fini-designed cats, printed paper label on spine, in publisher’s slipcase with same pattern and printed label. One of 230 numbered copies on Arches (another 20 on Japan and 35 for the author were also produced), signed by Fini on the colophon. Contains.....
[Paris]: Collection “Le Terrain Vague”, [1955]. First edition. [78] pp. Original printed wrappers. Spine slightly browned, some mild age-toning. One of 970 copies on Alfama (of a total edition of 990 copies), this copy unnumbered. Cover illustration by Max Walter Svanberg, five interior illustrations by Leonor Fini (uncredited, save.....
London: Fulcrum Press, 1969. First edition thus. Hardcover. First Fulcrum edition, adding poems not present in the earlier Migrant Press editions. 48 pp. Blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. The source of much controversy, as Finlay was displeased that Fulcrum presented the book as a first.....
London: Reaktion Books, 2008. First edition. 197 pp. Green cloth boards, spine lettered in white, with the dust jacket. Lavishly illustrated with photos by Emily Cooperman of Finlay's various landscape projects, including Little Sparta and others. Slight rubbing to head of jacket spine, else fine.
Los Angeles: Cold Calm Press, 1986. First edition. [32] pp. Stapled wrappers with cover illustration by Mike Kelley. One of 700 copies printed. A collection of ten pieces by the legendary performance artist. Extremely slight surface wear, near fine or better.
![Item #1783 One Hour [first edition, signed]. Robert Frank](/pictures/thumb/1783.jpg?v=1608694477)
Madras and New York: Hanuman Books, 1992. First edition. 82 pp. Brown textured wrappers, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to front edge, else fine. Number 48 in the Hanuman series, this copy is inscribed by Frank on the half-title and dated 1992, and quite rare thus.
![Item #822 Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife [true first edition, hardcover issue]. William H. Gass](/pictures/thumb/822.jpg?v=1608694830)
Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. One of 400 hardcover copies printed, of which 100 were signed by Gass; this copy one of 300 unsigned. Published as TriQuarterly Supplement #2. Original black cloth with photos inlaid on front and rear boards, no jacket as issued. Printed on varying.....
n.p. M. Gira/Young God Records, 2012. First edition. Velo-bound cardstock covers. One of 1000 copies, numbered and signed on the cover. Of the eight stories, three were previously published in Gira's collection The Consumer. With the Somniloquist CD mounted on the inside rear cover, as issued. Fine copy. "I wrote.....
[n.p.]: 1971. Paper wrappers, printed label on spine. Illegally published by Harvey Brown of the Frontier Press, from an autograph transcription of the manuscript at the Beinecke Library. Label slightly rubbed, else fine. Boughn A28a.
Boston: Fire Exit/William Corbett, n.d. [1975]. First edition. Single sheet, folded several times, as issued, to form [16] pages. A twenty-eight stanza poem and very early Howe publication. Cover by David von Schlegell. Some browning to exterior fold. Quite uncommon.
New York: Kulchur Foundation, 1983. First edition. 126 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Very minor surface wear, two small sticker ghosts on rear panel, near fine. A fairly early publication by an important poet.
Paris: Éditions Totem/Librairie José Corti, 1932. First edition. 232 pp. Original publisher's printed wrappers. Minor handling wear, yapped edges a little rubbed. Very clean overall. A play by the great Chilean poet. Gilles de Rais was the notorious knight who fought alongside Joan of Arc but is better known as.....
Paris: Clémence Hiver, 1990. Facsimile edition. Two volumes, joined accordion-style, texts in French and Russian (French translation reads from front to back; original Russian, from back to front). Translation by Andre Markowicz. Design by Braque on rear cover, portrait of Iliazd by Giacometti. A sequence of sonnets, originally published in.....
London: The James Press, 1939. Second edition, revised. xxxii, 89 pp. Original gray cloth, decorated with an arrangement of stars in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Decorations by Rex Whistler. Some minor handling wear, rear pastedown protruding slightly. Title-page, head and tail-pieces, illustrations throughout. One of 412.....