Paris: Contact Publishing Company, 1923. First edition. 93 pp. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers skillfully repaired at the spine and edges, some minor soiling and light foxing. Now housed in a custom clamshell box. Printed in Dijon by Maurice Darantiere. About 300 copies printed, “but many of these may not.....
Los Angeles: [Mason Williams], 1967. First edition. Unpaginated. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Some rubbing to spine edges and extremities. A fairly uncommon self-published artist’s book by a fairly undersung developer of west coast conceptual art. Alongside his close friend Ed Ruscha, with whom he drove from Oklahoma to Los Angeles.....
London: Published by L. and V. Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1931. First edition. [vi], 7-31 pp; four plates. Printed paper boards, spine label mounted, possibly as issued. Some browning and minor soiling to boards, endpapers toned. Lotte Reiniger (1899-1981) was a pioneer in the making of animated films.....
Bogota: Libreria Colombiana, Camacho Roldàn & Compañia, 1929. First edition. 166 pp. Full red morocco, lettered and decorated in gilt, ruled in blind, silk bookmark sewn in, all edges red and embossed. Original front wrapper bound in. A bit of foxing, the occasional light pencil mark throughout. A collection.....
Torino: Galleria Il Fauno / Galleria Martano, 1971. First edition. [16] leaves, printed on rectos only. Heavy marbled paper boards over black cloth backstrip, printed label on front cover, acetate wrapper. Edges and spine rubbed, label a little stained. Illustrated with seven tipped-in images of photographs of Man Ray.....
Paris: Bibliotheque Nationale, 1962. First edition. [3], 16 pp, printed on rectos only. Perfect-bound wrappers, lettered in white on the front cover with a mounted photograph. Some slight waviness from mounted image, near fine. An uncommon catalogue of an exhibition held at the Bibliotheque Nationale of Man Ray’s photographic.....
Montevideo: Peña Hnos. 1926. First edition. 16 pp. Original stapled wrappers. A bit of toning and handling wear, staple rusted, but solid and complete. Previous owner’s signature to the title and dedication pages, with elegant annotations throughout in ink. An obscure work by an instigador of the Nativismo movement.....
Dublin: Seafront Press, 1971. First edition. [8] pp. Printed stapled wrappers. Slight edgewear to page edges, which are just slightly longer than the cover stock, else fine. The scarce first book by an acclaimed modern poet. Inscribed on the first leaf, “30 December 1971 / For [Nathaniel] Tarn- /.....
Berkeley: Bern Porter, 1946. First edition. 52 pp. Publisher’s paper-covered patterned boards. Very slight edgewear to boards, tiny spot to front board, else near fine. Lamantia was the bridge between the Beat Generation and the Surrealists: he was mentored by Rexroth, and André Breton saluted him as a “voice that.....
Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1929. First edition. 194 pp. Original printed wrappers, with cover design by Sylvia Beach. Top edge uncut and unopened. Some slight overall soiling to the wrappers, slight chipping to the lower edge of the spine. Chemised in a custom slipcase. One of 96 numbered copies.....
New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1920. First edition. 124 pp. Publisher’s maroon cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt on the spine and ruled in blind on the front board. Board edges slightly rubbed at the head and tail of the spine and the corners. “These prefatory essays were.....
[Grand Rapids]: Montcalm Galleries, 1972. First edition. Unbound gatherings laid into stiff paper wrappers, housed in a clamshell box, as issued. Spine gilt on box rubbed with some old staining, front of box gilt rubbed as well, some old scuff marks; very minor spotting to wrappers, contents fine...
[New York?]: Poet's Press, n.d. c. 1965. "Pirated Edition." [24] pp. Sewn wrappers mounted in thin red buckram boards, front cover lettered in gilt. Boards slightly splayed, else fine. English translation with original French text en face. Two illustrations by Jean Cocteau. This is noted in holograph as number.....
Majorca: Caravel Press, 1936. First edition. [26] pp. Stapled wrappers mounted in black paper cover, printed label on the front cover. Leaves foxed, front cover with two old ring stains. Frontispiece by Pavel Tchelitchew. Inscribed by Ford on the first leaf, “To Madame Fellowes / with the homage.....
Paris: Pierre Seghers, 1948. First edition. 28, [6] pp. Stapled wrappers with French flaps. Some soiling to covers. The second volume in the series “Poésie 1948,” this is the trade edition following 60 copies on chine. Inscribed by Eluard on the half-title, “pour Hans Bellmer, / qui a salué.....
Prague: Nakladatelství E. Beaufort A. S., 1930. First edition. [16]; 46 plates. Original publisher’s yellow cloth, printed label mounted on front board, lightly textured endpapers, without the very rare dust jacket. Spine a little faded, some minor soiling to cloth. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Introduction by J.R......
Madrid: Sucesores de Rivadeneyra, 1928. First edition. 405, [7] pp. Publisher’s red cloth, lettered in black and ruled in blind on the front board. Illustrated with two photographic frontispieces and line drawings in the text. Some faint, expected page toning, corners slightly rubbed, else a bright and near fine example.....
n.p. [New York]: n.d. [1967]. First edition. [20] pp. Staple bound wrappers. Some tanning to wrappers, else near fine. Carroll’s first book, published when he was sixteen. Apparently about 500 copies were printed, many of which were lost by the printer. OCLC locates less than ten copies...
Aisne: L'Impatiente, 1990. First edition thus. [24] pp. Two sewn gatherings glued into a printed paper wrapper. Very slight wear to spine, else fine. An attractive finely printed edition of Carrington’s “Mexican Fairy Tale,” printed by Christine Brisset at her small press. No limitation given, but certainly printed in.....
Cagnes-sur-Mer: Roving Eye Press, 1931. First edition. 109, [3] pp. Patterned paper boards, original wrappers bound in. Some rubbing to head and tail of spine and corners, some foxing to preliminaries. Brown’s mockery of censorship uses visual design to prove its point, by redacting words and phrases using the.....
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1929. First edition. [xii, 60] pp. Printed wrappers with fold-over flaps, with the possibly original glassine. Some browning to edges, mostly of the glassine only, slight chipping to the foot of the spine. One of 150 copies privately printed for Brown at the Black.....
London: Anvil Press Poetry, 1981. First edition. [8] pp. Unprinted black stapled wrappers with printed dust jacket. Two very slight scuffs to wrappers, else fine. Of a total edition of 500 copies, this is one of 250 copies signed and numbered by Brodsky and Alan Myers, the translator.
Paris: GLM, 1936. First edition thus. [38] pp., folding frontispiece. Original printed wrappers. Minor toning, else fine. One of 100 numbered copies, of a total edition of 115 copies of the edition de tête. Folding frontispiece illustration by Dalí. After reading Paul Valéry’s “Notes on Poetry” in Les Nouvelles.....
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Paris: est en vente chez Jean Budry, 1924. First edition. [8] pp. Original blue publisher’s printed sewn paper wrappers, titles in gilt to front cover, advertisements in black to interior of rear cover. The fragile single stitch has come undone, easily repaired professionally. Pierre Albert-Birot’s important and very scarce.....
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.....