Search Results: Authors starting with S from Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books

London: Hogarth Press, 1927. First edition. One of 1,000 copies, 500 of which were later pulped. Printed light green paper over boards, 74, [2, ads] pp. A very good copy, lightly toned and worn, bump to crown of spine. Translation and Preface by Roger Fry. The Hogarth Essays, Second Series, No. 7. Woolmer 146.

London: Michael Joseph, 1931. First edition. Publisher's brown cloth, near fine copy. One of 750, printed on handmade paper, numbered and signed.

London: Hogarth Press, 1924. First edition. One of 1,500 copies. Marbled red cloth with red topstain, cream dust jacket. [74] pp. Spine lightly rolled, light foxing to page block and occasional pages throughout; dust jacket toned to spine and lightly soiled from handling. A very good copy. Woolmer 52.

London: Hogarth Press, 1928. First edition. One of 2,025 copies. Brown and black marbled cloth, in the rare dust jacket. viii, 9-143, [1] pages. 32 black-and-white plates. Slightly cocked, faint foxing to top edge and few leaves, else about fine. Dust jacket extremities slightly worn, edges archivally reinforced to verso. Woolmer 176.

London: Hogarth Press, 1941. First edition. Boards, fine in dust jacket. New 3/6 price sticker on jacket flap.The New Hogarth Library Vol. IV. Woolmer 485.

Paris: Mercure de France, 1958. First edition, on ordinary paper. 20 cm. 253 pp., original wrappers. Signed by the author and inscribed "a Raymond Queneau, cordial hommage de Maurice Saillet". Some yellowing of cover and text.

Paris: Mercure de France, 1952. First edition, on ordinary paper. Wrappers, pages yellowed; very good. "Ces articles ont paru, entre 1946 et 1951, dans la page littéraire de Combat." Includes "Raymond Queneau et la poésie". Inscribed to Raymond Queneau and signed by author. Like Queneau, Saillet was a Satrape of the Collège de 'Pataphysique. He edited a collection of Alfred Jarry's work.

Paris: Gallimard, 1942. First edition. Original wrappers, fine, unopened. One of 58 numbered copies on vélin (second paper, after 21 on Mûrier d'Annam). Gallimard had been given approval to print 2,100 copies of Saint Exupéry's account of his reconnaissance flights during the Battle of France in 1940. When it appeared in November 1942 "the scandal broke. The collaborationist press went wild....Vichy did not wait for the press campaign to develop: at the first 'denunciations' by anonymous Frenchmen protesting the antinational character of the work, Gallimard was asked to recall all the copies that had been distributed" Assouline, Gaston Gallimard, p. 270. The recall was particularly effective and very few copies of the Gallimard edition survived. It was replaced by an edition of 500 printed in New York, and then by a series of clandestine mimeographed printings.

New York: Appleton, 1883. Printed vellum, tear at the head of the spine; good copy. Ownership signature of the philosopher Josiah Royce.

Paris: Editions Estienne, 1958. First edition. Wrappers, in dust jacket, fine copy, small edge tears on jacket. 45 pp 16 cm.Design, composition, printing, and binding executed by the students at Ecole Estienne. Inscribed and signed by author to Raymond Queneau. Copy number 3 of 200.

New York: William Drenttel, 1992. First edition. Michaels, Duane. Cloth backed boards, fine. One of 200 numbered copies signed by Salter.

Los Angeles: Bruce McCallister - Jake Zeitlin, 1929. Cloth backed boards, leather spine label scuffed, else fine. 900 copies printed by Bruce McCallister for Jake Zeitlin.

San Francisco: David Magee, 1957. 8vo, 42 pp. Fine, Reprint edition, limited to 750 copies, of the rare 1786 edition.

New York: Joseph Hall Schaffner, 1968. Dean, Mallette. Cloth backed boards, fine. First edition, one of fifty copies on handmade Tovil paper, from an edition of 250, designed and printed by Mallette Dean. Out of series copy. Signed by Weigel. Frontispiece portrait of Sandburg after Steichen.

Cleveland: Frontier Press, 1967. Second, enalarged edition. Wrappers, lightly tanned; very good, 81 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.

Woodstock, N.Y.: P.C.C. Books, 1984. First edition. Wrappers, mimeographed, 11 x 8-1/2 inches. [1], 6 pp., drawing on cover of Bardic pulse lyre by Miriam Sanders. Account of Sanders's experiments with building electronic instruments. Scarce.

New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1928. First edition. Original orange cloth, blocked in black. A very good copy, with all the lettering and design intact.

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1940. First edition. Freeman, Don. Yellow cloth, labels, fine in lightly edge-worn dust jacket. Five line inscription from Saroyan "For my pal Leon Gelber Xmas & New Year greetings & best wishes for the biggest year ever in 1941. Sincerely, William Saroyan / 1940." Antiquarian bookseller and publisher, Leon Gelber had published Saroyan's "Christmas Psalm" in 1935.

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1937. First edition. White cloth, a fine copy in lightly chipped dust jacket. 1500 copies were printed. Inscribed "To my very good friend Leon Gelber, who on many occasions has shown his admiration for art, and horse racing, by financing my internationally famous bets (Saroyan's horses never lose -- the next race) -- with sincere admiration and good wishes -- Bill Saroyan. S.F. Sept. 24, 1937.' Antiquarian bookseller and publisher, Leon Gelber had published Saroyan's "Christmas Psalm" in 1935. Kherdian 7.

Paris: Gallimard, 1968. Wrappers, 226 p. Fine, unopened.