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New York: Covici Friede, 1930. 65 pp. Severe rubbing to corners and edges, spine darkened and missing pieces at top and bottom. A contemporary review by Eda Lou Walton laid in at rear with attendant darkening of end papers. Nicely printed at the Stratford Press in New York on unidentified laid paper, now with slight tanning to edges. Pages clean but for three small coffeelike stains on pp. 26-27, not affecting text. Contents: CHELSEA ROOMING HOUSE: The Sailor; The Young Wife; A Boy of Twenty; Hagen; Prisoner's Song; Rachel; Dilemma on Twenty-Third Street; Husbandry; The Medium; Love Song: Twenty-Third Street. O METAPHYSICAL HEAD: O Metaphysical Head; Dempsey, Dempsey; Longface Mahoney Discusses Heaven; Bridgewater Jones: Impromptu in a Speakeasy; Advice; Time and Isidore Lefkowitz; Jesse James, The Preacher's Son; McAlpin Garfinkel, Poet; Columbo Dominico; No Cock Crows at Morning; Epithalamium 1930; Interior: The Suburbs; Hellbabies. PRONOUN ''I'': I.; II.; III.; IV. O Mors… Read More

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. 384 pp. Spine and lettering darkened. Volume two only. Elegant black and silver papered boards rubbed. Paper begining to break up on foreedge of boards. Binding is sound and pages are clean. Printed on Aventuros paper. The blue and white patterned endpapers are intact and front pastedown is graced with the excellent bookplate of author, lawyer, and civil libertarian Osmond Kessler Fraenkel [1888-1983]. Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff. Cities of the Plain is a translation of 'Sodome et Gomorrhe I' from the fourth part and and a portion of 'Sodome et Gomorrhe II' from the fifth part of Marcel Proust's continuous novel ' A la Recherche du Temps Perdu' (Remembrance of Things Past). 'This rubicund youth, with his blunt features, appeared for all the world to have a tomato instead of a head. A tomato exactly similar served as head to his twin brother. To the detached observer there is this attraction about these perfect… Read More

278 pp. Octavo, 5.5 x 9 in. This is an near perfect facsimile of the original 1970 publication. The book and slip case are in fine condition. The dust jacket, as is quite common with this First Edition Library production, Has light wear along the the spine where the board is hinged and at the fold around the fore edge of the board. Else, a very attractive specimen. The F.E.L. 3.5 x 7.5 in. info card is laid in. An archival cover has been added to the dust jacket.

Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.: St Martins Pr, 1999. First Printing, March 1999. 'When I finished, we kicked back in with the head, Senor Ramirez and I doing our sixteenth-note duet with a precision and somehow instinctive knowledge of the significance of each other, our harmonies not the sound of two trumpets playing but instead of one musical unit, and not even that: of one musician playing one song and that song a song we'd created instead of played.'. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: George Braziller, 1967. Very Clean, Only a few slight signs of wear. Dahlberg's letters to Theodore Drieser, Robert M. Hutchins, Michael Sands, Steven Sands, Mrs. Michael Sands, Herbert Read, Lewis Mumford, James Laughlin, Robert McAlmon, Josephine Herbst, William Carlos Williams, Isabella Gardner, Allen Tate, Frank MacShane, Stanley Burnshaw. 'Try sometimes, when you require new aliments, the elder Pliny or Theophrastus. I think that will not only be real viaticum for your head, but will give your prose a certain wild, rustic texture which we must acquire. Most of our modern writing is very metropolitan and that is a weakness. I find great pleasure in rereading Skeat on Chaucer or in Captain John Smith's Travels, which is which is full of strong idioms, and not vulgar like our own street-gamin patois.'--December 11, 1952, to Lewis Mumford.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

172 pp. Octavo, 5.5 x 8.25 in. First British edition. A fine DJ, now in an archival cover and a fine volume, perfect, but for a small black mark in the bright orange cloth near the gutter of the spine. Contents: The Crisis, The Apology, The New Music, Cortès and Montezuma, The King of Jazz, The Question Party, Belief, Tales of the Swedish Army, The Abduction from the Seraglio, The Death of Edward Lear, Concerning the Bodyguard, The Zombies, Morning, On the Steps of the Conservatory, The Leap, and Great Days. "Man, you from out of town or something? What do you mean you refuse to play 'Smoke'? How'd you get on this gig anyhow? Who hired you?"

St Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A.: Graywolf Press, 1989. 111 pp. 'It is said that when the world was young / allusions were very popular / as when Dante plucked Odysseus / from gentleman farming on Ithaka / and burned him in hell with other liars.'--from 'Talking Pictures of Ducks'. First Printing. Illustrated Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

356 pp. Octavo, 6 x 8.5 in. This is an near perfect facsimile of the original June 4, 1940, publication of which, it is estimated, only 3000 were printed. The book, dust jacket, and slip case are in fine condition. The F.E.L. 3.5 x 7.5 in. info card is laid in. An archival cover has been added to the dust jacket.

291 pp. Octavo (5.5 x 8.25 in.) Light wear to wraps with a crease to top fore-edge corner of wraps. Signed by Walter Mosley at his story "Open House." With a letter from the publisher laid in. Foreword: Lift-off, laurel wreaths, and the power of "yes" by Allan Gurganus, With stories by Sue Miller, Ethan Canin, Ann Patchett, Brad Owens, Harriet Doerr, Mark Dewey, Emily Hammond, A.M. Homes, Jonathan Ames, Suzanne Juergensen, Lauren Belfer, David Lipshy, Daniel Mueller, Michael Drinkard, Chris Spain, Steven Barthelme, Mona Simpson, Jennifer Coke, M.T. Sharif, Pinckney Benedict, Fenton Johnson, and Molly Giles.

Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1999. 247 pp. First Printing, April 1999. Not a remainder. 'William Warner's adventures have taken him from the southernmost point of South America to North America's northenmost permanent Eskimo community. He's been mobbed by howler monkeys in the Guatemalan rain forest, cruised the Florida Keys in the company of hardcore birders, and experienced the solitude of Maine's most isolated lighthouse. Always and everywhere, he has looked around him with the fascination of a born naturalist.' Includes: A Prologue, By the Sea; Into the Porcupine Cave; Shorty, Slim, and the Cave Demon; The Night of the Whales; The Fishes of Peleliu; The River and the Howlers; Watching the Birds, Watching the Watchers; With a Little Help; A Short Journey to the Unknown; Saddleback; Author's Note.. First Edition, First Printing. Quarter Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. 240 pp. Faint sticker ghost on ffep. 'Mr. Bullock siad he wanted for us to write about something we knew, something we knew so well that we didn't see it anymore. And so I wrote about the lacy, summertime shadows of the squat oak that Grandpa DiMartino had planted in the backyard to celebrate his escape from the Bronx . . . .'. First Edition,. Paper-covered Boards. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

400 pp. Octavo, 6 x 9 in. This is an near perfect facsimile of the original publication of September 10, 1951. The book (brown cloth with gilt lettering), dust jacket, and slip case are in fine condition. The F.E.L. 3.5 x 7.5 in. info card is laid in. An archival cover has been added to the dust jacket.

New York: Fordham University Press, 1964. 215 pp. Book with corner bump, sticker ghosts. DJ with rubbing, chipping, tears, but generally complete. 'In the mid-nineteenth century, whan Frederic Mistral gathered round him at Avignon the brilliant group that formed the Felibrige with a view to stimulating interest in the Provencal language, he had little idea of the scope of the movement that then begann. The seven 'gaid felibres provencaux; brought about a revival of letters that was to go hand and hand with the rehabilitation of the old language and make the people of the south of France conscious of their race and heritage. As the principal poet of the group, Mistral was to produce his epic-romance Mireio, a story of frustrated lave in shich Moeric grandeur and the charm and simplicity of Theocritus are situated in the fair land of the valley of the Rhone. In his verse the pagan, sensual world of romance is colored with a delicate Christian mysticism and filled out with the loftier and more… Read More

Mattapan, Massachusetts: L. W. Curry, Rare Books, 1969. 86 pp. 990 items. Cover soiled, tanned, creased, with library catalog stickers on spine and some annotations, inside and out. . Wraps. Good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Knopf, 1991. 64 pp. dj light crinkling at edges, tanning to edges of flaps, price sticker shadow in pastedown. Otherwise fine. 'When the Queen of Darkness heard his voice, / That mortal stranger, saw him lift the lyre / And watched the dull throng of dead rejoice / To hear him tell of earth and earth's desire, / Of pain, of longing, / she was not amused.'--from Noch Einmal, an Orpheus. [Once again, to Orpheus]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1953. xiv, 235 pp. Dust soiling to top of pages, and a dull spot on otherwise unspoiled front board. Dust jacket all-present with a few small tears and one-two inch reparable tear, and some rubbing. Collectible. Contents: Islands for Sale; Islands of the Maritime Provinces; Islands of Ontario and Quebec; Coastal Islands of New England; Lake Islands of New England; The Thousand Islands and Others in New York State and Southeastern Ontario; Coastal Islands from Connecticut to Virginia; South Sea Islands--North Carolina to Texas; Lake Islands of the Mid-continent; West Coast Islands; Coastal Islands of British Columbia and Alaska; Appendices: Naming Your Island; Public Lands of the United States; United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Maps; Electric Power; Boat Prices; Boat Builders; Index. Waldron Island, Washington; The author is grateful for the help of, and thanks islanders, including Hon. John Foster Dulles, of Inner Green Island, Maine; Wallace Island, British… Read More

London: Methuen, 1990. 255 pp. No faults. Includes note by Pierre Chanel; The diaries: January 1, 1953--December 28, 1953; List of works by Cocteau, Index. Mentions: Kenneth Anger, Animal Crackers, Jean Anouilh, Apollinaire, Louis Aragon, Georges Auric, Johann Sebastian Bach, Baudelaire, Beauvoir, Sarah Bernhardt, Hieronymous Bosch, Georges Braque, Bullfighting, Cannes Film Festival, Paul Cezanne, Clair-Obscure, Gabrielle Colette, Salvidor Dali, Edouard Dermit, Vittorio De Sica, Walt Disney, Madame Favini, Flamenco, Jean Genet, Francoise Filot, Francisco Goya, El Greco, Sacha Guitry, Gypsies, Mary Hoeck, Pastora Imperio, Max Jacob, Federico Garcia Lorca, Madame Maeterlinck, Andre Malraux, Jean Marais, Francois Mauriac, Michel de Montaigne, Edgar Neville, Charles Orengo, Pablo Picasso, Art of poetry, Alberto Puig, Aleksandr Pushkin, Erik Satie, Igor Strvinsky, Miguel de Unamuno, Paul Valery, Francine Weisweiller, Orson Welles among many others.. First British Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over… Read More

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1991. 835 pp. 'Wiley Silenowicz is the hero, the narrator, and the controlling intelligence of Harold Brodkey's prodigious and enthralling novel. . . . Wiley's mind and imagination are lightning-quick, obsessively ruminative, alternately grandiose and self-doubting--one of the most sensitive registers of an individual's experience to be found in literature. We hear him meditating on his mother's overpowering nature and his father's seductiveness, on his sister's pathological jealousy and his own mystical yearning for oneness with the world. Later, in adolescence and young adulthood, we are with him as he test the various permutations of sexuality in ceaseless quest for love. Other people's voices resound in his head; ideas teem, converge, refract. Wiley is rash and shameless, tender and fearless, nothing human is alien to him in his search to unravel the nature of good and evil and its relation to himself and those he loves.'.… Read More

183 pp. Octavo, 6.25 x 8.75 in. A bit of toning to the top of the pictorial jacket, else a fine volume in a fine pictorial jacket, now in a protective archival cover. Contents: Critique de la Vie Quotidienne; Traumerei; The Genius; Perpetua; A City of Churches; The Party; Engineer-Private Paul Klee Misplaces an Aircraft Between Milbertshofen and Cambrai, March 1916; A Film; The Sandman; Departures; Subpoena; The Catechist; The Flight of Pigeons from the Palace; The Rise of Capitalism; The Temptation of St. Anthony; Daumier. Honoré de Balzac went to the movies. He was watching his favorite flick, The Rise of Capitalism, with Simone Simon and Raymond Radiguet. When he had finished viewing the film, he went out and bought a printing plant, for fifty thousand francs. 'Henceforth,' he said, 'I will publish myself, handsome expensive de-luxe editions, cheap editions, and foreign editions, duodecimo, sextodecimo, octodecimo. I will also publish atlases, stamp albums, collected sermons, volumes of sex… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. Bookplate of P.O. DJ has minor splitting on corners and spines, otherwise very clean and complete. The binding is very clean. 'Look, / The full bough leans lower, / And I beneath. . . . / Could I but pluck, / Sip, suck, devour, / Sink greedily my teeth / Into these mellow stars: / The gold pulp of Aldebaran, / The red, wild juice of Mars!' Speyer won the Pulitzer prize in 1926. As a girl she was a professional violinist and played with the New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony Orchestra and played concerts throughout the United States. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.