Paris: Olympia Press, [1958]. Boards. Top edge a trace dusty, else fine in dust jacket with light rubbing at edges. First edition of the late dramatist/novelist's first book, a serious exploration of narrative point of view, "focusing on a mentally ill man confined to a hospital bed as his perception.....
Paris: Olympia Press, [1958]. Boards. Top edge a trace dusty, else fine in edgeworn dust jacket with minute chip at one corner. First edition of the late dramatist/novelist's first book, a serious exploration of narrative point of view, "focusing on a mentally ill man confined to a hospital bed as.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925. Quarto. Cloth-backed decorated boards, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Color frontis and 49 collotype plates (some in color) with printed tissue interleaves. Edges shelfworn, spine dull, inner hinges cracking, slightly shaken, a few marginal smudges, but a good, internally very good copy. First edition. Introduction by.....
Draguignan: The Melissa Press, 1962. Printed wrappers. First printing under Count Potocki's imprint. Fine.
London: E. Lahr, 1931. Later gilt cloth, original wrappers bound in. Wrappers dusty at edges, sewn a bit close at spine, otherwise very good. Second edition, published as Blue Moon Booklets #7. Preceded by the numbered issue of 100 copies.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1930. Cloth and decorated boards. Trace of sun to spine, a bit of typical foxing, otherwise near fine, unopened. First edition, limited issue. One of 308 numbered copies, specially printed and bound, and signed by the author.
Florence: G. Orioli, 1931. Small quarto. Cloth and boards. Small spot on half-title mirrored to verso of free endsheet (or vice-versa), otherwise fine in near fine dust jacket. First edition. Copy #496 of 800 numbered copies (of 808), signed by the author. Published as No. 7 in the Lungarno Series.....
Draguignan, France: The Melissa Press, [nd. but ca. 1961]. Original loose sheets in printed wrappers. Slight soiling, but a very good copy. First separate and first complete edition (a shorter version was published as an Introduction to R.S. Magowan's ROME: A BOOK OF PHOTOGRAPHS in 1960). A presentation copy, inscribed.....
Draguignan, France: The Melissa Press, [nd. but ca. 1961]. Sewn printed wrappers. Faint dusting to upper wrapper, very good. First separate and first complete edition (a shorter version was published as an Introduction to R.S. Magowan's ROME: A BOOK OF PHOTOGRAPHS in 1960). A somewhat slipshod production by Count Geoffrey.....
Draguignan, France: The Melissa Press, [nd. but ca. 1961]. Sewn printed wrappers. Some spotting to extreme upper and lower edges of front wrapper, else very good. First separate and first complete edition (a shorter version was published as an Introduction to R.S. Magowan's ROME: A BOOK OF PHOTOGRAPHS in 1960).....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1931. Pictorial boards. British bookseller's blind stamp on free endsheet, foxing at edges, otherwise a good copy, without dust jacket. First edition. Published as #10 of the Dolphin Books. McGreevy, then lecturer in English literature at l'Ecole Normal Supérieure and intimately involved in the defense of.....
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, [1978]. Cloth. Edges dust speckled, slightly cocked, otherwise very good in spine-sunned, lightly soiled and nicked dust jacket. First edition of the author's debut novel, affectionately inscribed in the year of publication (signed "Steve") on the dedication page to two friends, one of whom provided.....
New York: Hermitage House, [1951]. Cloth and boards. Photographs. Fine in very good, lightly edgeworn dust jacket with small chip at top edge and light soiling to rear panel. First edition of the second volume of the author's autobiography, covering the post- LITTLE REVIEW years. Rather expansively inscribed and signed.....
Zürich: Diogenes Verlag, [1961]. 407,[5]pp. Small octavo. Cloth. First edition. Near fine in very good lightly soiled and nicked pictorial dust jacket. With a prospectus for the German edition of Ellmann's JAMES JOYCE laid in.
[Woodstock] & Kathmandu, Nepal: Shivastan, 2006. Square octavo. Black wrappers, printed in silver and gilt, handmade endpapers. Illustrations. Fine. First edition. Published under the editorial hand of Shiv Mirabito. One of 333 numbered copies. Contributors include Neeli Cheerkovski, Ira Cohen, Janine Pommy Vega, et al.
[Woodstock] & Kathmandu, Nepal: Shivastan, 2002. Square octavo. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrations. Fine. First edition. Published under the editorial hand of Shiv Mirabito. One of 333 numbered copies printed on handmade paper. Contributors include Ira Cohen, et al.
[Woodstock] & Kathmandu, Nepal: Shivastan, July 2005. Square octavo. Pictorial wrappers, decorative endsheets. Illustrations. Fine. First edition. Published under the editorial hand of Shiv Mirabito. One of 333 numbered copies printed on handmade paper. Contributors include Ira Cohen, Ferlinghetti, Robert Kelly, Taylor Mead, Anne Waldman et al.
[Woodstock] & Kathmandu, Nepal: Shivastan, 2009. Square octavo. Pictorial wrappers, decorative endsheets. Illustrations. Fine. First edition. Published under the editorial hand of Shiv Mirabito. One of 333 numbered copies printed on handmade paper. Contributors include Ira Cohen, Ed Sanders, Janine Pommy Vega, et al. Denoted a "Small Press Revolution Issue.".....
[Woodstock] & Kathmandu, Nepal: Shivastan, 2001. Square octavo. Pictorial yellow wrappers. Illustrations. Fine. First edition. Published under the editorial hand of Shiv Mirabito. One of 333 numbered copies printed on handmade paper. Contributors include Ira Cohen, Janine Pommy Vega, Ed Sanders, Philip Levine, et al.
New York: The Zero Press, [1956]. Cloth. Top edge dusty, else very good in modestly frayed dust jacket with some soiling to white portions and shallow loss at crown of spine. The jacket is the primary state, printed in red, black and pale blue. First edition, issued in sequence as.....
Paris: Les Editions Denoel et Steele, [1931]. Thick octavo. Three quarter dark blue crushed levant, raised bands, red morocco onlay on spine, t.e.g., by Valmar. Minor foxing at edges and in prelims and terminal leaves, else about fine, the original wrappers bound in. First edition. From an issue of 200.....
Paris: The Olympia Press, [July 1953]. Decorated wrapper over stiff wrappers. Minor rubbing at edges, otherwise about fine. Second impression of this new translation, undertaken anonymously by Richard Seaver. The first impression was dated June 1953. "A translation, reportedly by Richard Seaver, of Les Exploits d'un Jeune Don Juan, an.....
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1926. Black cloth, printed in red. Edges and endsheets a bit dusty and foxed, a bit of shelfwear at extremities and a few smudges to boards, but a good copy, without dust jacket. First US edition in English, translated from the Yiddish by Rufus.....
New York: Guido Bruno, November 1915. Printed wrappers. Small chips at lower overlap edges of wrapper, light discoloration at inner gutter toward toe, wraps lightly marked and dust soiled, otherwise a very good copy of this fragile pamphlet. First edition of the author's first "book," in actuality issued as Special.....
New York. March 1920. LXVIII.3. Printed wrappers. Plates. A bit of rust offset from the lower staple to the upper wrapper, dusty at fore-edge, spine crimped a bit in the course of binding, very good or better. Barnes's drawing in crayon appears in company with the work of Brooks, Sandburg.....
