Rare books from Ashlar Books

The author's first book. Very good. Dust jacket has a 3" split on along spine and slight edge wear. Inscribed and signed by Sexton on the half title page Scarce

Very good copy of the scarce bilingual literary magazine of French surrealists in exile.This copy is inscribed by Goll at his contribution, Atom Elegy, to Boris Pregel. Pregel was Jewish/Ukrainian engineer who was awarded the French Legion of Honour in 1939 for his role in the International Organization to Fight Cancer. Goll was diagnosed with leukemia tin 1945, so this presentation is quite fitting. After Pregel fled the Nazis he established a Radium & Uranium Mining company in NY that supplied the Manhattan Project.Quite a few pages are uncut. The Goll poem and the Yves Tanguy illustrations pages are cut.

Vorticist design by Dorothy Shakespeare Pound. Covers show rubbing to extremities, otherwise very good. One of 500 copies. The first appearance in book form of T..S. Eliot's poems including the "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". Gallup B1.

First edition. Inscribed by the author to her sister, the dedicatee of the book. No closer association imaginable. Very good in dust jacket with some rubbing to the top edge. A bit of sunning/toning to top edges of the boards. An important Afro-American writer who was a significant contributor to the Harlem artistic community in the 50's/60's.

Oblong cloth edition in dust jacket with a few minor tears. According to the Frank Bibliography of the Press this is one of 197 copies with Johnson's cutups enclosed in an envelope glued to the inside of the front cover. The glue has dried and the envelope is laid in. A scarce work by this experimental artist known for his "mail" art.

About fine copy ( minute rubbing to spine edges ) of the Second Printing. Signed by Zweig on the front free endpaper.Patterned boards with paper label on spine. Translated by Theodore Koch. Printed at the Lakeside Press, Chicago. Scarce

Publisher's gilt decorated cloth binding. First edition. Front piece engraving with seven additional illustrations. A bright very good copy. An important early text in the Afro-American immigration to Liberia narrative. Scarce.

Program pamphlet for first season of the Living Theatre. Preview of Gertrude Stein's "Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights" and "Ladies' Voices", Pablo Picasso's "Desire", T. S. Eliot's "Sweeney Agonistes" as well as Kenneth Rexroth & Paul Goodman. Also W.C. Williams "Reply" prose and an early piece by John Cage. Cover illustration by Picasso.Very good preserved condition considering the fragile nature of the publication.

Original red decorated cloth binding. Very good. A minor scruff to a small section of the top edge. First signature a bit loose but still solid. First American/English edition translated by Howard Thayer Kingsbury. Frontispiece portrait of the actor Richard Mansfield. Scarce.

A very scarce volume of poems by the Pulitzer Prize winner. No copies listed online, one library holding. Fine copy in wrappers.

First American edition. Very good in bright blue cloth with scattered foxing to endpapers. Exceptionally scarce in a very good dust jacket with a small tear on top spine edge.

Very good condition, inscribed by the author to Gillian Lewis ( Tyler ) who published her second book of poems. May Miller was an important playwright of the Harlem Rennaissance. She went on to a career in education and later devoted much of her time to poetry. This is a scarce book, especially signed.

Fine first edition in dust jacket with very slight age toning to the edges. Scarce orignal edition of this comic novel recently republished by New Directions. Blurb by Ann Beattie on rear cover.

A fine copy in dust jacket, signed by the author. A huge book, rarely found in this nice condition. The author's only novel.

First edition and first english edition translated by Donald Keene, Almost fine in a nice dust jacket. Signs of age toning to the top edge. Scarce.