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Neuchatel: Cahiers Du Rhone, 1945. Printed wrappers. First edition, numbered trade issue, after thirty copies on Velin. Spine and edges darkened, else a very good, unopened copy.
Neuchatel: Cahiers Du Rhone, 1945. Printed wrappers. First edition, numbered trade issue, after thirty copies on Velin. Spine and edges darkened, else a very good, unopened copy.
Madrid: Imprenta y Libreria de Gaspar y Roig, 1860. 317,[3]pp. Quarto. Quarter Spanish calf and marbled boards. Engraved portrait. Text in double columns. Copiously illustrated with steel- engravings. A bit of occasional tanning or foxing, a few isolated spots, but a very good copy. An early edition, following the first.....
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.....
New York: Shubert Theatre, [1966]. Folio (22 x 14") pictorial stiff board window card, printed on recto only. Shubert filing stamp on verso, union distribution stamp on recto, slight bumps to corners, else near fine. A window card for this very short-lived production (19 previews, 7 performances) of Albee's theatrical.....
[Np]: AFT International, 1974. Original pictorial one sheet (41 x 27"). Rolled, near fine without signs of original use. A one sheet issued to promote the theatrical release of Albee's own adaptation for the screen of his 1966 Pulitzer Prize winning play. Tony Richardson directed Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield, Lee.....
[New York]: Dramatists Play Service, [1960]. Printed wrappers. Baker's Plays label in lower corner of front wrapper, some tanning to wrapper edges and closed tear at lower edge of upper wrapper. A good copy. First edition of the author's first book. The printing status of DPS imprints are notoriously difficult.....
[New York]. 18 April 1961. Original borderless gelatin silver print, 25.3 x 20.5 cm (9 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches). Somewhat amateurishly matted. Small spot on verso, else fine. A striking and characteristic portrait by Van Vechten of the American dramatist, seated, semi-profile, with smile and cigarette, dating from the.....
London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1902. xvi,427pp. Large octavo. Plum cloth, lettered in gilt. First British edition. Small bookplate on free endsheet, some pencil annotations, light dampmark in upper spine corner of upper boards and upper margins of endleaves, a good copy. Signed in an unknown hand, "Ernest Albee [/].....
New Haven: Yale, 1961. Small quarto. Cloth-backed boards. Illustrations. First edition. Ink name, boards a bit soiled, spine faded, but a good or better copy, lacking the dust jacket.
New Haven & London: Yale University Press with the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, [2009]. Two volumes. xiv,[2],118pp text plus second volume of color plates, with inserts and overlays. Small folio (34 x 28 cm). Cloth. An excellent set, enclosed in a lightly rubbed example of the cloth slipcase. "New.....
[ Dennis, MA]: Salt-Works Press, [ 1976]. String-tied pictorial wrappers. First edition. One of 335 copies. Fine.
New York: Scribner, [1992]. Printed wrappers. Uncorrected page proofs of the first edition of the author's first novel. A mystery novel set in the Texas Hill Country, featuring attorney/sleuth China Bayles. About fine.
[Np]: Dalkey Archive Press, [1987]. Large octavo. Cloth. First U.S. edition, clothbound issue, of these translations by Barbara Wright. Top edge a trifle dust- darkened, else very good or better in dust jacket.
[Norfolk]: New Directions/Poets of the Year, [1944]. Plain wrappers. First edition of these translations, wrapperbound issue. Light private ownership stamp in blind on half title, else very fine in dust jacket.
[New York]: New Directions, [1944]. Pictorial boards. First edition, boardbound issue, of these translations by Lloyd Mallan. Boards faintly sunned at extreme top and bottom edges, a few faint spots to boards and a surface abrasion to upper board, trace of foxing to endsheets, but a good, sound copy in.....
[New York]: New Directions / Poets of the Year, [1944]. 32pp. Pictorial boards. Top edge slightly dusty, otherwise very good or better in lightly sunned and foxed dust jacket. First edition, boardbound issue, of these translations by Lloyd Mallan. Uncommon in this issue.
New York. June 1952. Whole number one. Small octavo. Printed wrappers. Heavily illustrated. Near fine. Edited by Frank Alberts and Jane D. Klein. Poems, prose, music and a film script by then newcomers, as well as art by James Forsberg, Al Newbill and John van Wicht. Publisher's prospectus letter laid.....
Boston: Atlantic / Little, Brown, 1942. Cloth. First edition of this novel set in the context of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. A bit musty, military officer's ownership stamp on pastedown, light foxing at edges, otherwise a very good copy in frayed dust jacket.
New York: The Alcestis Press, October 1934. Volume one, number one (of four issues published). Large octavo. Printed front wrapper, bound up in later gilt lettered cloth. Bookplate, lower wrapper wanting, tape stains to front wrapper and verso of terminal leaf, signatures opened, exposing blank versos; just a now sound.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. Printed wrappers. Uncorrected page proofs of the first edition of the author's first book. About fine.
Boston: Robert Bros. 1876. [6],307,[1],[8]pp. Small octavo. Olive green cloth, decorated in black and gilt. First edition. 1876 gift inscription on first blank, spine a bit cocked, with a few signatures slightly proud, 19th century private bookplate on front pastedown, extremities somewhat rubbed, with two spots of soiling on lower.....
[Np]: Mascot Pictures, [1934]. Original 11 x 14" color studio lobby card. One blank corner cracked and repaired, one small, shallow marginal chip. old small label on verso, but very good. A promotional lobby card for Nat Levine's production, directed by Phil Rosen, based on a screenplay adaptation of Alcott's.....
[New York]: RKO Radio Pictures, [1940]. Original 11 x 14" studio lobby title card. Margins smudged, two closed tears at extreme edges repaired on blank verso, vestiges of cellotape on left and right margins from previous mounting and a circular mark and pinhole in lower left margin, also apparently from.....
Boston: Roberts Bros. 1872. [8],215pp. Bright blue cloth, spine decorated in gilt. Inserted double-spread frontis. Light rubbing at extremities, bit of white smudging in lower fore-quadrant of upper cover, otherwise a very good, bright copy. First U.S. edition, just possibly preceded by the London edition. The first installment in the.....
Boston: Roberts Bros. 1871. [8],376pp. Small octavo. Forest green cloth, lettered in gilt. Frontis and 3 plates. Two corner creases to free endsheets, spine extremities and fore-tips a bit frayed, one signature starting very slightly; a few stray marks to cloth, but a good copy. First U.S. edition, preceded by.....