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Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. First edition, limited issue. Number 26 of 200 copies, signed and numbered by the author. Design by Barbara Martin. Fine, in clear acetate dust jacket, as issued. Black Sparrow Press was a small, independent publishing house focused on avant-garde literature. Established by John and Barbara Martin in 1966, in Los Angeles, and shuttered in 2002, in Santa Rosa. With the help of typographer and printer Graham Mackintosh, the Press was responsible for drawing attention to Charles Bukowski and his literary work. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Tavistock Square, London: Printed and published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1925. Octavo. Original illustrated boards. 24pp. Illustrations by Eugene McCown.  First edition, one of 420 copies hand-printed and published by the Woolfs at their home publishing firm in Tavistock Square, London. Owner's signature on front free endpaper, small contemporary bookseller's label to rear pastedown, covers lightly tanned, some scattered foxing; still a very good and extremely scarce title.   From the collection of R. O. Blechman, an American animator, illustrator, children's-book author, graphic novelist and editorial cartoonist whose work has been the subject of retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art and other institutions. Nancy Cunard (1896-1965), a wealthy young socialite and heir to the Cunard Line British shipping industry, traveled and mingled with the literary elite who included T. S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, Aldous Huxley, Tristan Tzara, Ezra Pound, Louis Aragon, Ernest… Read More

New York: William Drenttel in Assn with the Delos Press, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Pale green cloth, paper spine label, handmade Japanese endpapers. Frontis portrait. Spine and outer edges of upper board sunned, internally fine. First edition, limited issue. Introduction by Robert Hughes. Photograph portrait of Auster by Victor Schrager. Edition limited to 500 total copies, this being #97 of 100 specially bound, numbered copies signed by Auster. The remaining 400 copies have been issued in wrappers.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960. First American edition. Very good./Very good.. ARDIZZONE, Edward:. Small quarto. Green cloth boards, white lettering. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. First American edition, trade binding. Twenty-three of Graves' best poems for and about children. A very nice copy in price-clipped, faintly edgeworn, beautifully decorated dust jacket. .

London: Cassell & Company, Ltd., 1960. Very good./Very good.. ARDIZZONE, Edward:. Green cloth boards, lettered in gilt. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.  First edition.  Upper fore-corners lightly bumped, otherwise a very good copy in pictorial dust jacket with a few marks on the back panel and a trace of darkening near a few edges. Ownership signature of Malcolm Lowry's biographer, Douglas Day on free endsheet, and, presumably, his penciled notations on the Contents page. HIGGINSON & WILLIAMS A92. .

New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1980. Near fine. Twelve glossy, 7 x 5" black & white picture postcards, dating from the 1920s and 1930s, encased in a pictorial folding card case. Cards in fine, unused state; pictorial card case with minute creases. Photographer Walker Evans began collecting picture postcards as a child, amassing 9,000 of them in his lifetime. Evans, inspired by the concise nature of these images, made postcard-size images of his own photographs in an attempt to have them sold in the late '30s at the Museum of Modern Art - where he would later be given his first major exhibition, American Photographs in 1938.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1904. Octavo. Green publisher's cloth, gilt spine; decorated in black and gilt. 272,32 pp. First British edition. Thirty-two page publisher's catalogue at conclusion of text. Entertains every sort of non-PC situation and language, including a portrait of a man of, presumably, Chinese heritage on the spine. A note at the beginning of the text relates, "Picaroon = a petty rascal, one who lives by his wits, an adventurer." A good copy, spine gilt worn.

New York: Pantheon, 1953. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition, preceding the British publication. Poet Ralph Hodgson's copy, with his ownership signature and date. Offset to endsheets from clipping, otherwise a nice copy in lightly edgeworn dust jacket.

Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr College, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Red cloth, stamped in black with the caption title, "A Celebration of H.D. and Marianne Moore by POESIS: a journal of criticism. First edition of this special double number devoted to H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) and Moore. Tips ever so slightly rubbed, else near fine. Contributors include Robert Duncan, Alicia Ostriker, Barbara Guest, and Emily Wallace, among others. This copy seems to have been specially bound, perhaps for the noted speakers at this symposium.

Revere, PA: Woolmer/Brotherson Ltd., 1988. Cloth. Frontis. xxxii,186pp. Contains over 50 b/w illustrations, seven color plates, and folding facsimiles. well illustrated and with detailed discussions of variants, artists, etc. Supplements treat the Rhyme Sheets, ephemera, periodicals, etc. As new in dust jacket and publisher's original shrinkwrap. First edition. Introduction by Penelope Fitzgerald.  A substantial contribution to the bibliography of 20th century literary imprints, by one of the most competent researchers in the field, Woolmer is also the author of A CHECKLIST OF THE HOGARTH PRESS 1917-1938, which is the bible for Hogarth Press collectors.

Sign of the Red Pale, Westminister: [William Caxton], 1482. One original folio leaf of the chapter Liber Quartus, viii, (Book Four), printed on recto and verso in black bâtarde typeface, rubricated in red, with marginal chronological notes in red, and ink notations in an early hand. 10.63 x 7.69 in. (27 x 19.5 cm) approx. 40 lines plus heading on each of the two pages. Small chip from the lower foretip, tiny paper adhesion on extreme edge of verso, else very good. Contained in a floating mat for observation of entire leaf. Scarce. William Caxton (1422-1491 or 1492) introduced printing in English in 1476, establishing his first press on the grounds of Westminster Abbey. Printed in 1482, Caxton's edition of Ranulph Higden's Polycronicon, written around 1344, is a universal history concentrating on Britain. It was translated into English by John of Trevisa in 1387 and was a popular text that was widely copied and read. Caxton's early modern translation expands the chronicle to his own time. The… Read More

Cambridge: At the University Press, 1925. Teal blue wrappers, paper label. First edition. Light use at edges, else about fine, and absolutely hilarious.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. First edition. Octavo. Cloth and boards. First edition. 339,[1] pp. Six black & white plate illustrations. Translated from the Italian by Laura Gibbs. Author's preface, translator's preface, notes, works cited, index. Fine, in a fine pictorial dust jacket.  "'Take an abandoned lover, put a portrait in his hands, and then a story slowly but surely begins to explore the situation.' All the tales presented by Maurizio Bettini in this zestful study concern lovers' separations, with a twist: one of the lonely partners retains an image -- a statue, a portrait -- of the other, and this image becomes the focus of the resulting story about separation and loneliness." -- from the Publisher.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1931. First edition. Gilt cloth. Cloth faintly sunned through jacket, otherwise a very good or better copy, with the bookplate of collector/bibliographer Richard Purdy affixed to front pastedown, in slightly tanned and nicked typographic dust jacket. First edition. Giles Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) English writer, critic, and founding member of the Bloomsbury Group was also the author of EMINENT VICTORIANS, in which he established a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and his special brand of wit. His biography QUEEN VICTORIA (1921) was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Strachey died on 21 January 1932, aged 51. It is reported that his final words were: "If this is dying, then I don't think much of it." -- [Unknown].

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1996. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Cloth and pictorial boards, printed spine label. First edition. Afterword by Allan Campo. Number 40 of only 100 copies numbered and signed by Everson, handbound in boards by Earle Gray. Very fine, in a fine acetate dust wrapper. Black Sparrow Press was a small independent publishing house focused on avant-garde literature. Established by John and Barbara Martin in 1966, in Los Angeles, and shuttered in 2002 in Santa Rosa. With the help of typographer and printer Graham Mackintosh, the Press was responsible for drawing attention to Charles Bukowski and his literary work. There has been interest in reviving this press of late, and relocating it to the east coast. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.