London: Condé Nast Books, 1992. First edition. 208 pp. Black cloth boards, spine lettered in silver, with the dust jacket. Head of spine a bit rubbed with some slight crinkling to the jacket, slight edgewear to rear jacket panel and lower spine edge. Introduction by David E. Scherman. A remarkable.....
![Roland Penrose. The Friendly Surrealist [inscribed]. Roland Penrose, Antony Penrose](/pictures/thumb/2131.jpg?v=1641875498)
Munich: Prestel, 2001. First edition. 192 pp. Dark blue cloth boards, spine lettered in light blue, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to upper edge of rear jacket panel, slight yellowing to page edges. Profusely illustrated. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the National Galleries of Scotland. Inscribed.....
New York: John Lane Company, 1921. First edition. 118 pp. Deep brown polished cloth backstrip over light brown paper boards, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to the head of the jacket spine, minor offsetting to endpapers, else a remarkably fresh and bright copy, jacket edges trimmed a little close.....
New York: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 2010. Six staple-bound volumes in publisher's slipcase with title label, plus supplemental volume containing a publisher's note by Glenn Horowitz and introduction and notes by Marcella Spann Booth. One of 500 copies printed. A fine copy, with publisher's prospectus laid in. Offered at original publication.....
![Fight Club [first edition]. Chuck Palahniuk](/pictures/thumb/2128.jpg?v=1641875525)
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1996. First edition. 208 pp. Half burgundy cloth over black paper boards, spine lettered in silver and front board blocked in black, with the dust jacket. Minor rubbing to the head and tail of the spine, else a fine copy. Palahniuk's iconic first novel.....
[Paris?]: Alexandre Iolas Gallery, 1969. First edition. Unbound signatures in illustrated paper wrapper, as issued. Head of spine bumped with some creasing, interior fine. One of 500 numbered copies “sur les presses lithographiques de Pierre Chave à Vence le 25 mars 1969.” Plates in color and black and white, one.....
Paris: Aux Editions Jeanne Bucher, 1934. First edition. One of 800 numbered copies (of a total edition of 816 copies). Five volumes, in publisher's slipcase. Each volume is hand-numbered 512, save the final volume, which is numbered 588. The five volumes are as follows: Premier Cahier: Dimanche / Elément: La.....
Paris: Europa Press, 1935. First edition. [40] pp. Publisher’s printed wrappers. Spine browned with some uneven browning to covers, slight Gauloiseian miasmal redolence. One of 250 numbered copies on Alfa, of a total edition of 327 copies. Published by George Reavey's Europa Press, one of Beckett's earliest publications, a collection.....
[Portland?]: [K. Dunn?], 1979. First edition. [24] pp. Stapled wrappers. Some creasing to wrappers. Illustration by Alaina Lara, published as "Arboreal Abomination #1." One of the scarcest items by this Portland author, best known for her novel Geek Love. Signed by Dunn on the title-page.
Colorado Springs: The Mamalujo Press, 1955. First edition. 46 pp. Original printed wrappers. Slight sunning to spine, top corner slightly bumped. Introductions by Stanislaus Joyce and Ellsworth Mason. These essays were later subsumed into Mason and Ellmann's collection of Joyce's critical writings (Viking, 1959).
[New York]/Freedom, CA: Out & Out Press, distributed by the Crossing Press, 1978. First edition. [12] pp. Stapled wrappers. Extremities toned, lower corners bumped. Sticker ghost on rear panel. The first publication of Lorde's important and influential essay, initially delivered at the Fourth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women.....
San Francisco: Zephyrus Image, 1975. First edition. [32] pp. String-sewn wrappers of refractive mylar with linocut cover image, with inner cover of smoky mylar. Remarks following a screening of "The Text of Light" at the San Francisco Art Institute, November 18, 1974. Brakhage loved the book and wrote to publisher.....
![Satyagraha. M.K. Gandhi in South Africa 1893-1914. [signed by Glass and DeJong]. Constance...](/pictures/thumb/2119.jpg?v=1641276308)
New York: Tanam Press, 1983. 80 pp. Original glossy printed wrappers. Slight bump to head of spine, else a fine copy. The historical material and libretto comprising the book of the opera by Glass and DeJong. Illustrated with photographs from the premiere production in 1980. Signed by Glass on the.....
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.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First American edition. 254 pp. Blue cloth spine over brown paper boards, spine and front board lettered in silver, with the dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with photographs throughout. Top edge of jacket slightly rubbed at head of spine and rear flap. A landmark work.....
London: George Routledge, 1938. 282, [4] pp. Publisher's later binding of coarse gray cloth with spine lettered in black. Slight rubbing to the head and tail of the spine. Rejected by over forty publishers before finally being published by Routledge on Jack Butler Yeats' recommendation, the book's initial print run.....
![What Work Is [first edition, inscribed]. Philip Levine](/pictures/thumb/2115.jpg?v=1641275889)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. First edition. 77 pp. Full deep rose cloth, lettered in gilt and blind, with the dust jacket. Slight toning to jacket verso, small crease to top edge of rear jacket panel, near fine. An important collection, winner of the National Book Award. Inscribed by.....
Berkeley: Serendipity Books, 2000. First edition. [16] pp. String-sewn wrappers, title letterpress printed on front cover with mounted photo of Drif Field and Stone. One of 200 copies printed by Poltroon Press. The essay by Peter Howard was originally written to accompany a suite of photographs by Steven J. Gelberg.....
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.....
![The Indian Never Had a Horse [first edition, signed]. Etel Adnan](/pictures/thumb/2112.jpg?v=1641275577)
Sausalito: The Post-Apollo Press, 1985. First edition. 103 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Slight toning to spine, minor handling wear. A collection of poems by the Lebanese American poet and visual artist, who died at age 96 in November 2021 on the eve of a retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum. Inscribed.....
![Already Dead [first edition, signed]. Denis Johnson](/pictures/thumb/2111.jpg?v=1641275726)
New York: HarperCollins, 1997. First edition. 437 pp. Black paper boards over black paper backstrip, spine lettered in silver, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to head and tail of jacket spine, near fine. Johnson's follow-up to his classic collection Jesus' Son, a murky noir set on the northern California.....
![Resuscitation of a Hanged Man [first edition, review copy, signed]. Denis Johnson](/pictures/thumb/2110.jpg?v=1641275760)
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991. First edition. 257 pp. White paper boards over white cloth backstrip, spine lettered in black, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to head and tail of jacket spine, some minor toning to jacket, near fine. Review copy, with review slip, promo material, and.....
![The Stars at Noon [first edition, signed]. Denis Johnson](/pictures/thumb/2109.jpg?v=1641275793)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First edition. 181 pp. Black paper boards over black cloth backstrip, spine and front board lettered and decorated in gilt, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to head and tail of jacket spine and lower corners, some minor toning to jacket, near fine. Johnson's.....
Pittsburgh: Three Rivers Press, 1974. First edition. [2], 14 pp. Stapled printed wrappers. A couple of stray marks and toning to covers and edges. The uncommon first book by a noted poet.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. First edition. 499 pp. Full lavender paper boards, spine lettered in black, with the dust jacket. Top edge of boards slightly sunned, else fine. The first substantial edition of her journals, written between 1916 and 1937.