Algeria
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."
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."
New York: Random House, 1969. First edition. 281 pp. Black cloth, lettered in gilt on the front board and spine with red gilt publisher's device on the spine, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to head and tail of spine, previous owner name to front free endpaper, jacket shows a......
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.....
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.....
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.....
Washington DC: Caresse Crosby Gallery, [1944]. Single sheet, folded. Some minor browning. A brochure announcing the preview of an exhibit of photomurals of J.J. Grandville engravings executed and donated by Sam Rosenberg and Charles Gratz and colored by Pietro Lazzari to raise funds for the children of Céreste, France. With.....
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.....
Lexington: University of Kentucky, 1985. First edition. 71 pp. Perfect-bound illustrated wrappers. Minor surface wear, else fine. Dove's first collection of short fiction. Vol. 1 in the Callaloo Fiction Series. Inscribed by the author on the title-page.
Boise: Ahsahta Press, Boise State University, 1981. First edition. 46 pp. Perfect-bound green wrappers. Ehrlich's second book, published eleven years after her first collection. Previously uncommon. Fine copy.
London: The Cuckoo Press, in association with Europa Editions for John Sandoe (Books) Ltd, 2015. First edition thus, one of one hundred numbered copies, of a total edition of 126 copies, signed by the author. 315 pp. Quarter Japanese silk, Chiyogami blue and gold paper boards, spine and printed label.....
London: Flamingo, 1995. First edition. 225, [2] pp. Blue paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Slightly rubbed at the head of the spine; pages toned as always. Her final novel. Signed by Fitzgerald on the title-page and rare thus.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1970. First edition. 156 pp. Black paper boards over orange cloth backstrip, spine lettered in black and decorated in yellow, with the dust jacket. Extremely slight rubbing to the head and tail of the spine, else about fine. A classic Brooklyn novel, about which.....
[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: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. First edition. 76 pp. Gray paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Slight crimp to top edge of rear jacket flap, else a fine copy.
New York: The Ecco Press, 1980. First edition. [12], 48, [4] pp. Deep purple cloth boards, spine lettered in silver, with the dust jacket. Very slight edgewear to jacket, small snag on lower rear edge, else fine. The Nobel laureate's third collection.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. First edition. 71 pp. Gray paper boards, spine lettered in white, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to head and tail of spine, else a fine copy. Winner of the National Book Award, and the last book Glück published prior to winning the.....
[New York]: Antaeus Editions, 1976. First edition, limited issue. [12] pp. Stapled printed wrappers, French flaps. A bit of toning to the spine, else a fine copy. One of 50 signed and numbered copies, of a total edition of 500. Designed and printed by Ronald Gordon at The Oliphant Press.....
New York: The Ecco Press, 1985. First edition. 60 pp. Gray cloth backstrip over red paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, front board in blind, with the dust jacket. Slight scuff to upper right corner of front jacket panel, a couple of tiny nicks to the top edge of the.....
[Paris]: 1924. “During the 1920s, a number of Russian artists living and working in Paris formed the L’Union des Artistes Russes. To help raise funds they held several spectacular charity balls, organized primarily by Natalie Goncharova (1881-1962) and her husband Mikhail Larionov. These included the Grand Bal des Artists in.....
London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1925. First edition. vii, 90, [2] pp. Red cloth, marbled in black, printed paper label on spine, top edge red, with the dust jacket. Cloth slightly bubbled in spots, some slight foxing to text. The jacket shows a few chips and.....
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1970. First edition. 245 pp. Yellow paper boards over red cloth backstrip, spine lettered and decorated in silver, with the dust jacket. Board edges slightly rubbed at the spine, jacket shows some toning, slight edgewear, and a couple of tiny chips at the top edge.....
Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1913. First edition. 15 pp. Black wrappers with printed paper label on front cover. Some handling wear, slightest chipping to spine. The first book by one of the founders of the Dada movement. Together with her partner and future husband Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara.....
Paris: Maurice de Brunhoff, 1914. First edition. 24 pp, [4] leaves of plates. Unbound in printed wrappers, as issued. Covers a little dusty, else fine, the prints bright and vibrant. The first work illustrated by Valentine Hugo, then Valentine Gross. Four full-color plates, engraved vignette on the cover reproduced.....
New York: Harper & Row, 1972. First edition. 185 pp. Brown cloth backstrip lettered in gilt over yellow boards, with the dust jacket. Creasing to top edge of rear panel of jacket with a short closed tear, some minor edgewear and handling wear to jacket. Signed by the author on.....
London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1949. First edition. 112 pp. Gray cloth, rounded corners, spine lettered in white. No dust jacket, possibly as issued. Spine text dulled, leaves toned, as always given the paper the book was printed on. The first and only edition of one of Anna Kavan's rarest books.....