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."

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.....

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.....

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.....

Paris: Mercure de France, 1939. First edition. 214 pp. Original printed wrappers. Spine a little creased, corners slightly bumped. Mostly unopened. One of 20 numbered copies on Arches, with a different cover design than the regular edition, and printed on variously sized sheets, with full margins. The epigraph, “ÉCRIRE AVEC.....

Paris: Europa Press, 1935. First edition. [38] pp. Publisher’s printed wrappers. Some minor creasing to covers, else fine. One of 300 copies on Alfa, of a total edition of 327 copies, this copy unnumbered. Inscribed by Beckett on the half-title, “‘Echo’s Bones were turned to stone’ Ovid Met. 3 ---.....

Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 1988. First edition. 101 pp. Full black cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine and front cover. No dust jacket, as issued. Slightly dusty, else fine. Twelve short stories, with four tipped-on illustrations by Frances Butler. Printed letterpress on laid paper; two hundred copies were.....

Los Angeles: Cloverfield Press, 2009. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition. 57 pp. An attractive small book printing a story that was first published in a different version in The New Yorker. Wraps with letterpress-printed dust jacket, as issued. Embossed on the title-page with the Cloverfield Press mark, and hand.....

Paris: Black Sun Press, 1930. First edition. 56, [4] pp. Original publisher’s wrappers and cardboard slipcase. Head of box splitting slightly but solid; lacking the original glassine. Volume about fine with a shadow at the spine from the slipcase opening. One of 300 numbered copies on Navarre, from a total.....

Paris: Black Sun Press, 1929. First edition. 27, [5] pp. Original publisher’s printed wrappers with French flaps, original glassine, and publisher’s cardboard gilt and silver slipcase. Slipcase split along bottom edge and missing a section of the top edge; volume about fine with very slight wear to the corners of.....

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1973. First edition. [24] pp. Unprinted stapled red wrappers with dust jacket. Jacket a little toned with a short closed tear and a bit of rubbing at the head of the spine. The uncommon fourth volume of Brainard's series of remembrances.

New York: Angel Hair Books, 1973. First edition. [32] pp. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Cover photo by Bill Katz. One of 700 copies, of a total edition of 726. The third volume of the initial publication of Brainard's masterpiece. Influenced by Gertrude Stein and Andy Warhol in its repetition and yet.....

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.....