![Nightwood [first edition]. Djuna Barnes](/pictures/thumb/1881.jpg?v=1608680529)
London: Faber and Faber, 1936. First edition. 239 pp. Original purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Top edge stained purple. Slight rubbing to head and tail of spine, old stain to lower edge of front board with minor stain continuing to lower center of first several.....
Paris: Printed for the author, and sold by Edward W. Titus, 4 rue Delambre, at the sign of the Black Manikin, 1928. First edition. 84 pp. Illustrations by the author. One of 1000 copies on Alfa, of a total edition of 1050. Original cream folded wrappers, illustrated on front and.....
![Éparpillements [inscribed]. Natalie Clifford Barney](/pictures/thumb/1890.jpg?v=1608685005)
Paris: E. Sansot et Cie, 1910. First edition. 62, [2] pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Minor toning, spine a bit creased, near fine. Barney's first collection of "scatterings" of pensées and aphorisms. Inscribed by Barney on the half-title. A fairly uncommon early book by the legendary author and salon host, a......
![Waiting for Godot [first edition in English]. Samuel Beckett](/pictures/thumb/1798.jpg?v=1608685405)
New York: Grove Press, 1954. First English language edition. 61 pp. Black cloth boards, lettered in blind, silver and copper, with the dust jacket. Jacket spine a bit browned, as usually seen, with some very slight edgewear to the top edge and lower spine edge; book is close to fine.....
![Books of the Black Sun Press [cover title]. BLACK SUN PRESS](/images/noimage.png)
New York: Black Sun Press/Harry F. Marks, 1930. Original wrappers. New York and Paris: Black Sun Press/Harry F. Marks, 1930. [12] pp. Stapled wrappers. Spine splitting slightly at head, some cover wear. Catalog of titles in print from the Black Sun Press, with a two-page preface by Harry F. Marks.....
New York: Jargon/Corinth, 1959. First edition thus. Original Wraps. First edition thus. Unpaginated. Original printed wrappers, with a cover photograph of Bob Brown by Jonathan Williams. Very slight handling to covers, but still a fine copy. First published in 1929 in an edition of 150 copies by Black Sun Press.....
Territet, Riant Chateau: Pool, 1927. First edition. 152 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Some foxing to fore-edge and preliminaries, very slight rubbing to head and tail of spine, but overall a very fresh and clean copy of a fragile book. Printed in Dijon by Darantière. Following her divorce from.....
Paris: Contact Editions, 1926. First edition. xvi, 1-179 pp. Original integral marbled printed wrappers, printed label on front cover and spine. Spine a little rolled with some minor creasing, some slight edgewear, but overall a very clean copy of a fragile production, as were all Contact publications. Printed at Dijon.....
Paris: Albert Messein, 1925. Revised and expanded edition, "nouvelle édition augmentée." Parchment spine backstrip over pale blue paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt on front cover and spine, with the dust jacket. iii, 69 pp. Hand-colored frontispiece landscape, "Daybreak: Ile Saint-Louis" by Daniel-Girard. Interior hinges fragile, slight foxing to edges. Jacket.....
Paris: Editions Narcisse, 1927. First edition. [48] pp. Original printed wrappers, folded French-style, with the original glassine. Small chip with loss at head of spine, glassine toned and a bit chipped at extremities. One of 222 copies on Arches paper, of a total edition of 244 copies. Illustrated with three.....
Paris: Contact Publishing Company, 1923. First edition. 60 pp. Original perfect-bound printed wrappers. The first collection of verse by the great American painter, written while he was living the life of an “impecunious exile” in Berlin and published by his friend Robert McAlmon. A fresh, fine copy of a fragile.....
Paris: Hours Press, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. 61 pp. One of 700 copies, this copy unnumbered. Original marbled boards, printed labels on front board and spine. Spine label rubbed, head and tail of spine a bit chipped, some browning to endpapers.
New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1923. Hardcover. Second Huebsch edition of Joyce's first book, with the type reset. Original black paper-covered boards stamped in gilt on the cover and in blind on the spine. The first American edition to be authorized by Joyce was published in September 1918. See Slocum &.....
New York: Joyce Memorial Fund Committee, distributed by the Gotham Book Mart, 1941. First edition. Original wrappers. Stapled printed wrappers. One of 700 numbered copies, of a total edition of 800. Facsimiles of Joyce manuscripts, with commentary by Maria Jolas and Padraic Colum. Frontispiece portrait of Joyce by Jo Davidson.....
Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1927. First edition. [24] pp. Original paper boards, lettered in green. Boards faded with some slight soiling to front cover, the notoriously fragile spine is a bit rubbed but secure, front inner hinge starting. Errata slip tipped in, as issued. Slocum & Cahoon A24.
[Paris/Dijon]: [Contact Editions], [1922]. First edition. 288 pp. Original printed wrappers. McAlmon's second book, a collection of stories, the first publication of what would become his press Contact Publishing Company; this book issued without a date, publisher or place of publication. Printed in Dijon by Darantiere. The title was taken.....
![The Making of Americans [first abridged edition, in jacket]. Gertrude Stein](/pictures/thumb/1001.jpg?v=1608769210)
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. First edition thus (originally published in Paris in 1925 and America in 1926), this edition edited and shortened by Bernard Fay, who has also contributed the preface. xxiii, 416 pp. Original orange cloth, lettered in brown, with the dust jacket.....