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.....
Florence: Privately Printed for Subscribers by G. Orioli, [1930]. Gilt decorated boards, gilt spine label. Portrait frontis printed by Emery Walker. Plate. Tasteful bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise a fine copy in very good dust jacket (a bit sunned at spine and edges, with an internally mended edge tear). 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.....
Paris & New York: Two Cities Press, [1963]. Large octavo. Pictorial wrapper. Illustrations. Wrapper slightly flared, slight bump to lower fore-tip, otherwise very good or better. First edition, trade issue, of the author's first commercially published book (albeit by an imprint of her own founding), preceded by a 24 page.....
Philadelphia: Temple University Libraries / Special Collections Dept. 1973. 28,[2]pp. Printed wrapper. First edition. One of 450 copies for private distribution. Reference collection bookplate of John Howell books, edges a trace tanned, but very good or better.
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.
New York: Covici Friede, 1930. Gilt cloth, t.e.g. Spine stamping a bit tarnished, small bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown, otherwise very good or better, without slipcase. First edition, preceding British publication. One of 475 numbered copies, signed by Aldington and by the designer, Frederic Warde.
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.....
Florence: G. Orioli, 1931. Small quarto. Cloth and boards. Very good, with remnants of dust jacket laid in. First edition. Copy #51 of 800 numbered copies (of 808), signed by the author. Published as No. 7 in the Lungarno Series. Aldington's barbed roman à clef, in part a thinly veiled.....
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).....
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.....
[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.
Rochester & Prairie City: The Black Faun Press, [1941]. Gilt green cloth. A neatly and properly deaccessioned special collections duplicate: a bookplate on the front pastedown bears a small release stamp, as does a small stamp on the verso of the title and yet another in the gutter between pages.....
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: 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. August 1923. LXXV:2. Printed wrapper. Plates. Wrapper dusty, lower wrapper heavily and inexpertly cellotaped in some past decade, closed tear at upper spine edge, else very good or better. Barnes's poem appears in company with the work of Russell, Laurencin, W. C. Williams, Morand, Stuart Davis, Cowley, et.....
New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. Cloth. Frontis and plates by the author. A very good to near fine copy, in good-very good dust jacket with some tanning to spine and rear panel, along with shallow losses at the spine ends, a small scrape in the spine panel and two 1.5.....
