LE ROSEAU REVOLTE.
[ Arless]: Actes Sud, [ 1988]. Narrow octavo. Pictorial wrappers. First edition in French, translated from the Russian by Luba Jurgenson. Fine.
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RÉCITS DE L'EXIL.
[Arless]: Actes Sud, [1991]. Narrow octavo. Pictorial boards. Special omnibus edition of these translations published to mark the author's 90th birthday. Faint rubbing at edges, else near fine.
TCHAIKOVSKI.
[ Arless]: Actes Sud, [ 1987]. Narrow octavo. Pictorial wrappers. First edition in French, translated from the Russian by the author, with a new preface. Fine.
THREE NOVELS THE SECOND VOLUME THE CLOAK THE BLACK PESTILENCE THE COMB.
London: Chatto & Windus, [ 1991]. Cloth. First edition of these translations into English from the Russian by Marian Schwartz. Fine in dust jacket.
[Prospectus for:] VERTICAL A YEARBOOK FOR A ROMANTIC-MYSTIC-REVOLUTION.
Prairie City, IL: Black Faun Press, [prior to 1941]. [4]pp. leaflet (15.3 x 9 cm). Fine. A bibliographically curious prospectus, announcing the forthcoming publication by the Black Faun Press - an affiliate of the Press of James A. Decker - of the anthology eventually printed at the Walpole Printing Office.....
SOME GENTLEMEN OF THE RENAISSANCE GIOTTO - MICHELANGELO - GALILEO - RICHELIEU.
Paris: Edward W. Titus at the sign of the Black Manikin, 1928. Quarto. Printed wrapper over boards. Portraits. Wrapper somewhat soiled, with clean splits to a couple of the fold-ins, internally very good. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies printed by Darantiere. Four poems, in tribute to the gentlemen.....
ABSIT OMEN.
Paris: Edward Titus at the Sign of the Black Manikin, 1927. Quarto. Parchment and boards. Spine somewhat foxed, but otherwise a very good copy. First edition (number of copies unspecified). A collection of undistinguished verse which, nonetheless, sold out during the lifetime of the press, rather than existing in sizeable.....
ALICE IN WONDERLAND.
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930. Oblong small quarto. Printed wrappers. A fine, nearly untouched copy, without foxing, in glassine wrapper and somewhat worn and soiled publisher's slipcase and chemise. First edition in this format. Illustrated with six original color lithographs by Marie Laurencin printed by Desjobert of Paris. From.....
ALICE IN WONDERLAND.
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930. Oblong small quarto. Half dark blue morocco and decorated boards, gilt extra, with geometric rules and angular diagonal panels reaching from the foretips into the approximate center of the boards, and with a small white morocco rabbit inlaid into the upper side-panel of the.....
ALICE IN WONDERLAND.
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930. Oblong small quarto. Printed wrappers. A fine, nearly untouched copy, without foxing, in glassine wrapper and somewhat worn and soiled publisher's slipcase and chemise with split at one joint. First edition in this format, American deluxe issue. Illustrated with six original color lithographs by.....
ALICE IN WONDERLAND.
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930. Oblong small quarto. Printed wrappers. Internally about fine, but the wrappers are somewhat tanned, rubbed and dust soiled, with a smattering of small splash marks at the lower fore-corner of the upper wrapper, and there are two short tears at the ends of the.....
PORTFOLIO SPRING 1947.
Washington & Paris: Black Sun Press, 1947. Whole number 5. Folio. Loose sheets on various paper stocks laid into large printed wrapper with fold- ins. Outer wrapper a bit sunned and lightly soiled, trace of tidemark at a few places at the extreme edges of the outer wrapper, internally very.....
PAINTED SHORES.
Paris: Editions Narcisse, 1927. Quarto. Contemporary tri-part green morocco and decorated boards (by the heir of Jean Stroobant), t.e.g., original wrappers bound in. Three plates. Minor rubbing at tips, some faint occasional foxing, otherwise a very good to near fine copy. First edition, deluxe issue. One of 22 numbered copies.....
TALES TOLD OF SHEM AND SHAUN THREE FRAGMENTS FROM WORK IN PROGRESS.
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1929. Small quarto. Printed wrappers. Frontispiece by Brancusi. About fine in later acetate wrapper, in lightly rubbed original foil covered slipcase with ribbon pull. First edition. Preface by C.K. Ogden. One of 500 copies on Hollande van Gelder Zonen, from a total printing of 650.....
THE ESCAPED COCK ... WITH DECORATIONS IN COLOR BY THE AUTHOR.
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1929. Quarto. Printed wrappers. Frontis. Vignettes. Fine in slightly darkened glassine wrapper with small chips at extremities. Wanting the slipcase. First edition of the unexpurgated text. One of 450 numbered copies on Hollande van Gelder Zonen, from a total of 500.
NEW FOUND LAND FOURTEEN POEMS.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930. Gilt blue boards. Bookplate mark on pastedown, otherwise fine in slipcase with ripple in label. First edition, U.S. issue, one of 500 copies bound up from sheets printed at the Black Sun Press.
NEW FOUND LAND FOURTEEN POEMS.
Paris: Black Sun Press, 1930. Small quarto. Stiff printed wrappers. Trace of minor foxing along extreme untrimmed fore- edges of a couple leaves, otherwise near fine, in slightly rubbed and torn later acetate wrapper, without slipcase. First edition. Copy #17 of twenty-five numbered copies on Japan vellum, signed by the.....
THE DISSOLVING FABRIC.
[Palma de Mallorca]: The Divers Press, 1955. Small quarto. Silk-screen decorated newsprint over plain wrappers. Usual offset from the newsprint flaps to the endsheets, otherwise about fine. First edition of the poet's first collection of original poetry, preceded by his esteemed volume of translations, PROENSA. The wrapper design is by.....
THE DISSOLVING FABRIC.
Toronto: Mother/Island, 1966. Small quarto. Printed wallet-style wrapper, with remains of original wax seal on flaps. Small shadow of darkening at one corner of the wrapper, otherwise near fine. Second (and first Canadian) edition of the poet's first collection of original poetry, first published by the Divers Press in 1955.....
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[RemarkableTyped Letter, Signed, with Manuscript Corrections and Revisions].
La Préfète, Montfavet, Vaucluse, France. 1 February 1926. Four closely typed pages, on four quarto sheets of airmail stationary. Folded, several old paper clip rust marks, some marginal breaks at folds, but good to very good. A superb letter from Bolitho (1891-1930), South African journalist and biographer, intimate friend of.....
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF JANE BOWLES WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TRUMAN CAPOTE.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, [ 1966]. Cloth. First edition. About fine in dust jacket.
IN THE SUMMER HOUSE.
New York: Random House, [ 1954]. Cloth, pictorial onlay. Frontis and plates. First edition. Fine in very good or better, price-clipped dust jacket with shallow chip and tear at top of one joint and slight darkening at extremities.
PLAIN PLEASURES.
London: Peter Owen, [1966]. Cloth boards. Fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed by Jane Bowles to the publisher ("love to Peter from Jane Bowles") on a slip affixed to the free endsheet by Owen. Bowles was, of course, in Tangier on the occasion of publication, and the.....
STÈLE DE JANE BOWLES.
Paris: Le Nouveaux Commerce, 1978. Sq. octavo. Folded and gathered sheets, laid into printed wrappers. Trace of sunning at edges, small sticker mark on lower wrapper, else fine, with very good wraparound band laid in. First edition of this selection, translated by Michèle Causse. An unnumbered, out of series copy.....
TWO SERIOUS LADIES.
London: Peter Owen, [ 1965]. Cloth boards. Fine in lightly rubbed and smudged dust jacket. First U.K. edition. Inscribed by Jane Bowles to the publisher ("love to Peter from Jane Bowles") on a slip affixed to the free endsheet by Owen. Bowles was, of course, in Tangier on the occasion.....