1862. Etching on laid paper, first state. Signed in the plate upper left with an intertwined E and M. 130 x 74 mm. Matted and framed. Some browning to edges of visible paper from mat, print not affected. Not examined outside of frame. This is one of two portraits.....
![Item #1798 Waiting for Godot [first edition in English]. Samuel Beckett](/pictures/thumb/1798.jpg?v=1608685405)
New York: Grove Press, 1954. First English language edition. 61 pp. Black cloth boards, lettered in blind, silver and copper, with the dust jacket. Jacket spine a bit browned, as usually seen, with some very slight edgewear to the top edge and lower spine edge; book is close to fine.....
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: Contact Publishing Company, 1923. First edition. 60 pp. Original perfect-bound printed wrappers. The first collection of verse by the great American painter, written while he was living the life of an “impecunious exile” in Berlin and published by his friend Robert McAlmon. A fresh, fine copy of a fragile.....
Flushing [Holland, printed in Trieste]: September 1912. First edition. Broadside. 23 x 9 inches. White wove paper, printed signature (‘James Joyce’) at foot. Three horizontal folds, small marginal tears in 3rd fold, some minor handling wear, overall near fine or better, a beautiful copy of an excessively rare and fragile.....
![Item #1734 The House of Sleep [first edition, in dust jacket]. Anna Kavan](/pictures/thumb/1734.jpg?v=1616886628)
Garden City: Doubleday, 1947. First edition. 223 pp. Gray cloth, lettered in gilt and decorated in black and blind, with the dust jacket. Some minor browning to rear jacket panel, tiny chip to head of jacket at rear panel spine, but overall a very sharp and clean example, rare in.....
[Paris: Contact Editions], 1929. First edition. 44 pp. Publisher's printed wrappers. Some handling wear to covers, near fine, unopened. One of 310 copies, printed by Brulliard in Saint-Dizier, the first Contact book not to be printed by Darantiere. It was also the final Contact book, published before McAlmon returned to.....
London: Elkin Mathews, 1915. First edition. [32] pp. Original heavy tan string-sewn wrappers. Spine darkened and fragile with some slight chipping at the lower edge, slight soiling to front wrapper. Pound’s enormously important collection of “translations,” drawn from the notebooks of Ernest Fenollosa. Eliot shrewdly noted that Pound was “the.....
Rotterdam: Cold Turkey Press, 1975. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies printed of the first edition, published October 1975 (there was a later edition published two months afterward). Glossy printed wrappers with black cloth spine. Edited by William Levy. Addendum sheet laid in, as issued. Lower corner bumped, some.....
[New York]: New Directions, 1967. First edition. [11] leaves. Blue paper boards over tan linen backstrip, printed paper label on spine. Introductory note by Noel Stock. One of 110 copies, printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem in San Francisco, all signed by the author. Gallup A90. Fine copy.
London: Elkin Mathews, 1915. Fourth issue, with first edition sheets and cancel title-page. 63 pp. Original printed wrappers, with cover design by Dorothy Shakespear Pound. 400 copies were issued. Ex-libris of Shakespeare and Company, Paris, two plates mounted on both inside front cover and verso of front flyleaf. A rare.....
Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1912. First edition. 119 pp. Grey paper boards over parchment spine and corner tips, spine lettered in gilt. Exterior front hinge cracked, with corresponding tear on front pastedown, but holding; exterior rear hinge separating for several inches from top edge. A fragile book. Gallup B4a.....
New York: Dim Gray Bar Press, 1994. First edition. [20] pp. Handmade paper wrappers, printed on the front cover, string-sewn. Minor sunning to edges, else fine. Cover illustration, repeated on title-page, by Guy Davenport. One of 100 numbered copies printed by Barry Magid at the Center for Book Arts, signed.....
![Item #1001 The Making of Americans [first abridged edition, in jacket]. Gertrude Stein](/pictures/thumb/1001.jpg?v=1608769210)
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. First edition thus (originally published in Paris in 1925 and America in 1926), this edition edited and shortened by Bernard Fay, who has also contributed the preface. xxiii, 416 pp. Original orange cloth, lettered in brown, with the dust jacket.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. Second edition. 152 pp. Blue paper boards over smooth black cloth spine with printed paper label mounted, with the dust jacket. Slight fading to board edges, jacket toned on verso and extremities, spine browned, small snag on rear panel of jacket at top edge.....
Prairie City, IL: The Press of James A. Decker, 1946. First edition. Original light-brown cloth, lettered in black on the front board and spine, with the dust jacket. 69, [3] pp. Some soiling to jacket, spine panel tips chipped, fold corners with tears, edges toned. Inscribed by Zukofsky on the.....