Paris: Two Cities Editions, 1960. First edition. 8vo, 63 pp, printed wraps illustrated after drawings by Brion Gysin. One of 1000 copies. Signed by both Burroughs and Gysin at the title page. Burroughs' third book, and the first standalone publication to employ the cut-up technique as Gysin & co. envisioned..... More
London: Victor Gollancz, 1932. 8vo, 288 pp, bound in red cloth titled in black. Lacking the rare dust jacket. First edition of this collection of supernatural fiction by the editor, novelist and associate of Rose Macaulay, with whom she hosted an influential salon in London. Her fiction sometimes dealt with..... More
London: Editions Poetry London Limited, 1950. First edition. 12mo, 12 pp, bound in illustrated boards. A remarkable children's story about Peddy Bottom, who "knew that he was Peddy Bottom, but men all thought that there was something doggy about him, while dogs all thought that there was something human about..... More
London: The Galley Press, 1962. First edition. 8vo, 204 pp, bound in yellow cloth titled in gilt. Housed in the original dust jacket illustrated by the author. The scarce first edition of this roman a clef describing postwar life in the St. Ives artist commune after the war, a period..... More
Münster [actually Berlin]: Aurin Verlang, 1987. 16mo, 78 [2] pp, perfect bound in illustrated wraps. Text in German. Prints the title work by Benjamin as well as his essay on Lebel, and Werner Fuld’s essay Die Aura. This little book concludes by reprinting item no. 4 item with a reset..... More
![Item #30544 Cyberpunk [Videocassette]. Marianne Trench, director](/pictures/thumb/30544.jpg?v=1674079316)
np: Torso Kino, 1990. VHS Videocassette with printed label, housed in the publisher's original case with printed insert. Original videocassette release of the Marianne Trench film, which included interviews with William Gibson and Timothy Leary, and included Skinny Puppy, Barry Adamson et al. on the soundtrack. Rare. Visually fine, but..... More
San Francisco: Anderson Valley Advertiser, 1995. First edition. 4to, 24 pp, comb bound in card covers. A "preview" edition, published in advance of the trade edition. Includes a preface by Bruce Anderson, the owner of the AVA, in which he advances the theory that the letters were the work of..... More
![Item #30564 Meditations of Marcus Aurelius [People's Pocket Series No. 65]. Marcus Aurelius](/pictures/thumb/30564.jpg?v=1673554502)
Girard, Kansas: Appeal Publishing Company, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 65, first noted variation, in the second wrapper state (PPS3). Wraps faded creased and lightly stained, but very good. More
![Item #30562 Trial and Death of Socrates [Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 94]. Socrates](/pictures/thumb/30562.jpg?v=1673554861)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1929. 32mo, 156, [4] pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 94a, third noted variation. One of the longest of the pocket books. Very good with fading to the wraps, some pages stil uncut, with the first opened a little roughly. More
![Item #30561 Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Atheist [Little Blue Book No. 1405]. Marquis...](/pictures/thumb/30561.jpg?v=1673554777)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1929. 32mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 1405, first noted printing, in the first wrapper state. De Sade's text, written while he was incarcerated at Chateau de Vincennes, and here translated into English by the author of Paris Was Our Mistress. The translation first appeared in the U.S. under..... More
![Item #30560 E. Haldeman-Julius - The Man and His Work [Little Blue Book No. 678]. John W. Gunn](/pictures/thumb/30560.jpg?v=1673554742)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1924. 32mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 678, first recorded printing, in the first wrapper state. A biography of the founder of the Haldeman-Julius project, illustrated with a few photographs. Wraps rather toned at extremities, with some minor rubbing. Very good. More
![Item #30559 Tales of the Strange and Supernatural [Little Blue Book No. 969]. Arthur Machen](/pictures/thumb/30559.jpg?v=1673554682)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled wraps [one staple]. Gibbs 969, but this appears to be a state note recorded by Gibbs, in brown wrappers with the emergency paper notice at foot of rear wrapper. A superb pocket Machen and a scarce title in the Little Blue Book series, which..... More
![Item #30558 Out of the Earth and Other Sketches [Little Blue Book No. 970]. Arthur Machen](/pictures/thumb/30558.jpg?v=1673555102)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 970, first noted printing, in the second wrapper state. A superb pocket Machen and a scarce title in the Little Blue Book series, which collects Out of the Earth, The Spagyric Quest of Beroaldus Cosmopolita, The Hidden Mystery, The Art of Dickens..... More
New Hyde Park: University Books, 1968. Large 8vo, bound in resplendent gold boards. No dust jacket. With a superb introduction written for this edition by Kenneth Rexroth. Near fine with some light bumping to extremities. More