n.p. [Rome]: n.d. [1944]. First edition thus. [27] pp.; [20] folded leaves of plates. Chemised in a slipcase. One of 298 numbered copies. Some foxing throughout. Chemise retains fragments of original glassine. Contains 22 drawings reproduced photolithographically, plus two culs-de-lampe. In Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement, Whitney Chadwick.....
New York: Atlantis Editions, 1974. First edition. Unbound as issued. Sewn text booklet containing half-title, title, introduction, “Epigraph” and introduction by the artist, colophon on separate sheet, twenty-one drawings reproduced in 300-line offset lithographs (negatives by Richard Benson) on Arches Silkscreen by Meriden Gravure, each in a folder, most with.....
Paris: Georges Visat, 1967. First edition. 45 pp. One of 120 copies on Rives (of a total edition of 135 copies), with an extra suite of engravings, as issued, on Japan pearlescent and Japan Hosekawa. Frontispiece by Hans Bellmer and eight etchings by Zürn, each signed in pencil, as are.....
Genève: Editions d’Art Albert Skira, 1981. Three volumes. Full brown buckram, stamped in blind, with the dust jackets and card slipcases. Some wear and small tears to jackets at spine head and tails, slipcases a little rubbed at extremities and splitting slightly at opening. Contents fine. A facsimile edition reproducing.....
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Paris: Arthaud, 1989. First French edition. 100 pp. Full tan cloth, spine lettered in brown, with the dust jacket. Old stain to top of rear board and spine and corner of front board, affecting verso of jacket as well, slight dampstaining to top edge of last twenty leaves. Introduction by.....
![Item #2268 The Secret History [first edition, signed]. Donna Tartt](/pictures/thumb/2268.jpg?v=1676596110)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. First edition. 524 pp. Printed semi-glossy boards with clear acetate jacket. Just a bit of rubbing to the acetate jacket, not nearly as much as usually seen. First edition of her debut novel, a massive bestseller and cult classic. Signed by Tartt on the.....
[n.p. (Chicago): Hairy Who, n.d. 1968]. Staple-bound printed wrappers. [16] pp. Some minor handling wear, minor old stain to top edge affecting most leaves. This artist comic book was distributed at two Hairy Who shows in Chicago and San Francisco that were held the same year. It features works by.....
[Paris, Georges Visat, 1973]. First edition. [3], blank; [2], [3], blank. Sewn wrappers, covered with blue paper. Original lithograph with embossing, number 28 of 100 copies, signed by Oppenheim. Spine and extremities of fugitive blue covers sunned, interior fine. “In 1930, when she was 16 years old, Meret Oppenheim.....
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Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1931. First edition. Four volumes in publisher's slipcase. 68; 62; 65, ix; 44, viii pp. Original publisher’s cream wrappers, lettered in red on the front cover and spine and black on the front cover. Number 41 of an edition of possibly 500 on Lafuma (see.....
[Los Angeles]: Edward Ruscha, 1965 [i.e. 1970]. Second edition, one of 3000 copies, after the first printing in 1965 of 700 copies. Perfect-bound printed wrappers, with original glassine wrapper. Slight toning to glassine at spine, else fine. Photographed by Ruscha, with 34 black and white reproductions of mid-sixties Los Angeles.....
[Los Angeles]: Edward Ruscha, 1967. First edition. Perfect-bound printed wrappers, with original glassine wrapper. The folding flap to the last image is present. Some toning to glassine, top edge of rear panel slightly creased with a small chip, overall near fine. "When he was working on Thirtyfour Parking.....
New York: Alexandre Iolas Gallery, 1970. First edition. [36] pp. Original white printed wrappers. Introduction by Henry T. Hopkins, fourteen color reproductions. Catalogue of Ruscha's second exhibition in New York, at the Alexandre Iolas Gallery (his first New York exhibition was at the same gallery three years earlier). Some very.....
![Item #2259 Mendicant. #1, Autumn 1961 [all published]. Kenneth Patchen, ed, et. al. William J....](/pictures/thumb/2259.jpg?v=1672975697)
Boston: William J. Margolis, 1961. First edition. [36] pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Covers toned with some minor soiling. Only issue of this little magazine. Contains a six-page reproduction of Patchen's picture-poems, along with work by Stuart Z. Perkoff (on Aleister Crowley), James Boyer May, and others. See Semina Culture, p......
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.....
San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, 1965. First edition. 66 pp. Original printed wrappers. Spicer's last book to be published in his lifetime (published June 10, Spicer died August 17). Some toning to cover extremities, minor spotting to lower corner of front cover. Johnston, White Rabbit, A30.
San Francisco: Auerhahn Society, 1962. First edition. 109, [3] pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers, lettered in black and decorated in blue. Lithographs by Fran Herndon. Spine a little creased and slightly browned. One of 750 copies in wrappers. Johnston, Auerhahn, 21.
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.
n.p. [Highlands]: The Jargon Society, 1974. First edition. 84 pp. Oatmeal cloth, lettered in black on the front board and the spine, with the dust jacket. A few stray white marks to the cloth, slight tideline mark to upper edge of boards and last few leaves; jacket crisp and clean.....
[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.....
[The Hague]: [’s-Gravenhage, F. Batten; Printed by N.G. van der A (Drukkerij Albédon)], 1945. First edition thus. First edition thus [together with:] second edition. [8] pp. String-tied textured wrappers. Minor wear to spine, else fine. One copy each of the first edition (March 1945) and the second edition (April.....
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.....
[New York]: [Printed by the Gemor Press], 1942. First edition. [16] pp. Unbound folded sheets laid into a printed wrapper. Minor handling wear to cover, near fine. “Limited to one hundred copies handset in light italic Bernhard Gothic type of twelve point… designed and edited by Caresse Crosby as.....
Topanga [CA]: n.d. [1973]. Broadside flyer. 8 ¾ x 10 inches. Folded once, likely for mailing. Fine copy. One of Berman’s only solo exhibitions during his lifetime, a one-day event held at the Mermaid Tavern in Topanga Canyon. (He famously never exhibited in a commercial gallery after his 1957.....
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...