Algeria
London: Aloes Books, 1984. First edition. [2], 1-29, [1] pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Very slight rub to corners, very slight browning to endpapers, near fine. Initially written as a short story, "Girl Gangs Take Over the World."
London: Aloes Books, 1984. First edition. [2], 1-29, [1] pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Very slight rub to corners, very slight browning to endpapers, near fine. Initially written as a short story, "Girl Gangs Take Over the World."
New York: The Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2015. First edition. Five volumes. Stapled printed wrappers. Comprises: Kathy Acker: Homage to Leroi Jones (ed. Gabrielle Kappes). Jean Sénac: The Sun Under the Weapons, Correspondence & Notes from Algeria (Parts I & II) (ed. Kai Krienke). Langston Hughes.....
Berkeley: Oannes, 1963. First edition. First edition, one of 500 numbered copies printed. Stiff wrappers with attached printed dust jacket. Printed on textured brown paper. 110 pp. A two-act ballad opera set in San Francisco in 1906. Slightest rubbing to head of spine, still a fine copy.
Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2000. Second edition. Full tan cloth, spine lettered in black, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to head and tail of jacket spine, slight yellowing to lower edge, else fine. The second edition of this classic photobook, first published in 1974. Texts in German.....
Tucson: Nazraeli Press, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. 52 pp. Full light-green cloth, lettered in blind, with the dust jacket. One of 500 copies printed. Signed by Adams on the half-title. Fine copy.
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1979. First edition. 582 pp. Brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Spine slightly rolled, jacket a bit toned and slightly rubbed at the head of the spine. Illustrated with over 250 line drawings by Moser. Signed by Moser on the title-page.....
Somerville: Firefly Press, 1985. First edition thus. Bilingual edition, translated by Nicholas Fersen. First edition of these translations. [32] pp. String-sewn printed wrappers. One of 250 copies printed. Some sunning to spine, near fine. An uncommon edition, OCLC locates three copies (West Point, Lilly, Williams).
Madrid: Afrodisio Aguado, S.A., 1964. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition of this later collection by the esteemed Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27, which also included Federico García Lorca and Vicente Aleixandre. 112 pp. Original printed wraps, with a cover illustration by the author. Slight edgewear.....
Philadelphia: Dorrance, 1955. First edition. 49 pp. Salmon cloth, lettered in gilt on the front board and the spine, with the dust jacket. Spine a little faded; the jacket is slightly chipped along the top edge with a closed tear at the spine crease and the head of the spine.....
New York: Random House, 1969. First edition. 281 pp. Black cloth, lettered in gilt on the front board and spine with red gilt publisher's device on the spine, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to head and tail of spine, previous owner name to front free endpaper, jacket shows a......
Paris: Olympia Press, 1953. 110, [10] pp. Plain white wrappers with printed dust jacket folded on, as issued. Jacket extremities rubbed, small nick to fore-edge of last three leaves. An uncommon early Olympia Press publication, published June 1953. Kearney notes, "A translation, reportedly by Richard Seaver, of Les Exploits d'un.....
A fontfroide, bibliothèque artistique & littéraire, 1985. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition, one of 845 copies on vergé teinté, of a total edition of 900. Original printed wrappers. Published by Gilbert Boudar, Pierre Caizergues, and Michel Décaudin, with presentation and notes by Pierre Caizergues. Portrait frontispiece of Apollinaire by.....
Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1985. First edition thus. Hardcover. First complete British edition of Padgett's translations of Apollinaire's stories. Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt on the spine, with the dust jacket. 139 pp. Book near fine with some rubbing at the head of the spine; jacket a bit toned with.....
Berkeley: Arif Press, 1978. First edition thus. Hardcover. [16] pp. Blue cloth boards, printed label on spine, with the dust jacket. Hand-illuminated initial letter in gold on first text page. Typeset and printed by Jerry Reddan at the Arif Press, as noted in Peter Howard's hand. Of a total edition.....
Berkeley: Atelos, 1998. First edition. First edition, one of 1,000 copies printed, of this memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. A fine copy in wrappers, as issued, with a slight bit of shelfwear at the bottom edge. Signed by Armantrout on the title-page.
Paris: Éditions de la Revue Fontaine, 1945. First edition in French. 50, [2] pp. French-fold card wrappers, cover by Mario Prassinos. Edges and spine rubbed. One of 450 numbered copies, of a total edition of 475 copies. Published in the Collection "L'age d'or" dirigée par Henri Parisot; Leonora Carrington's En.....
Meudon-Val-Fleury (Seine et Oise): [privately printed], 1939. First edition. [40] pp. Unprinted heavy wrappers, folded and string-sewn. A bit of surface wear to the wrappers, contents clean. Despite previous periods of intense collaboration dating back to their initial meeting decades earlier during the flowering of Zurich Dada, this is.....
Paris: Galerie Simon, 1923. First edition. [16] pp. Original printed wrappers. One of 100 copies (of 112 printed), signed by Artaud and the illustrator Elie Lascaux. Hint of wear to head and tail of spine, mild offsetting to endpapers, near fine or better. Artaud's first book, a collection of.....
New York: Adventures in Poetry, 1970. First edition. Side-stapled wrappers, photographically illustrated front cover. One of 65 copies printed, called to be numbered and signed, this copy neither signed nor numbered. Fine copy. Kermani A18.
New York: The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, 1973. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition. One leaf, folded. Program for Auden's memorial service, with readings of his poems by Robert Penn Warren, Galway Kinnell, Muriel Rukeyser, Richard Wilbur, William Meredith, Richard Howard, and Ursula Niebuhr. Music by Benjamin.....
San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 2006. First edition. Five volumes, printed perfect-bound wrappers, in publisher's slipcase. I. Diane Arbus II. The Countess de Castiglione III. Peter Hujar IV. Irving Penn V. Etcetera. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York 30 August-16 September 2006 and the.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First English language edition. 213 pp. Smooth deep orange cloth, lettered and decorated in black. Some rubbing to edges and corners, interior clean. The rare dust jacket is not present. The first appearance in English of Babel's legendary stories, based on his experiences with.....
New York: Peter Freeman, Inc., 2011. First edition. [96] pp. Printed paper boards. A book of drawings by Swiss artist Silvia Bächli with text by Jamaica Kincaid. Of a total edition of 1000 copies, this is one of 50 numbered copies, signed by Bächli and Kincaid. Fine copy.
Cambridge: The University Press, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. One of 350 copies printed for Christmas. ix, [46] pp. Brown buckram titled in gilt on the spine. Collotype facsimiles printed at the Chiswick Press, London. A couple of stray marks to the cloth, spine a bit sunned. Interior clean and tight.....
Berkeley: Bancroft Library Press, 1997. First edition. String-sewn wrappers, woodcut illustration mounted on front cover. Air mail envelope bound in with facsimile of the original letter. One of forty-five copies printed. Fine copy. The Bancroft Library Press is the teaching press at Berkeley where students print a publication under the.....