Proverbs of Scotland [Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 348]
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 348a, first noted state of the interior, second wrapper state. Wraps faded and rubbed at extremities, but very good. More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 348a, first noted state of the interior, second wrapper state. Wraps faded and rubbed at extremities, but very good. More
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
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
Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1968. First American edition. 8vo, 177 pp, bound in black cloth with titles stamped in green foil. Illustrated dust jacket. With a foreward by Bruno Bettelheim. Beradt began collecting dreams of her fellow German’s in 1933, after being forbidden to publish by the Nazis, and continued to..... 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
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, [1926]. First edition thus. 32mo, saddle-stapled in light blue wraps. Gibbs 1081, in the LBB (b) binding. Joshi & Schwarz A-11A. One of 10 Ambrose Bierce books republished by Haldeman-Julius, this one of the scarcer titles in the series. The copyright page lists the 1911 date in..... More
np: nd. A small archive, incluing typescripts, relating to the occultists Jacob Bonggren and Laura McCormick. Jacob (or Jakob) Bonggren was a Swedish-American poet, Theosophist and occultist, who moved from Sweden to the Chicago area in 1882. In the Chicago area he became an editor for Svenska Amerikanaren and an..... More
London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1961. First edition. 8vo, 45 pp, bound in pale green boards titled in black at the spine. A collection of poems followed by prose commentary. Very good, with a very slight roll and hint of fading to boards at spine, in a very good dust jacket which..... More
London: Gaberbocchus, 1959. First edition. 12mo, 124 pp, bound in green boards titled in gilt at the spine; photographically illustrated dust jacket. Buchanan's memoir of his Ulster childhood, dedicated to Forrest Reid, 'who read an early draft'. Another beautiful book from Stefan and Francizka Themerson's Gaberbocchus Press. A touch of..... More
London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1965. First edition. 8vo, 149 pp, bound in beige cloth decorated and titled in gilt at the spine. Printed dust jacket, typographically designed in red and black. The second installment of Buchanan's autobiography, describing his work for a Belfast newspaper during the troubles and reminiscences of Fleet..... More
New York: Fuck You Press, 1964. First edition. 24mo, [12] pp, mimeographed from typescript and drawing. Covers illustrated with impeccable provocation and grace by Allen Ginsberg. The first separate edition of this section of the Yage Letters, which the "paranoid printers" of the City Lights edition in England refused to..... More
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
New York: The Sunwise Turn, 1923. First edition. New York: The Sun-wise Turn, 1923. First edition. 8vo, 42 pp, bound in marbled paper over boards backed in blue cloth titled in gilt. One of the 100 copies numbered and signed by the author, out of a total stated edition of..... More
Rickford's Hill, Aylesbury: Published by the author, 1917. First edition. 4 9/16 x 7" broadside, letterpress printed on beige paper. The poem is signed E.H.C., Rickford's Hill, Aylesbury - the initials stand Ernst Hartley Coleridge, grandson of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The latin motto had a special significance for the Coleridge..... More
New York: Hillman Books, 1961. First edition. 16mo, 160 pp, paperback. First and only edition of this novel of bisexual life in Greenwich Village, which was written under pseudonym by the New York School writer Joseph LeSueuer, written while he was living with Frank O’Hara. The actually ends up in..... More
Buffalo, NY: Hallwalls / Top Stories, 1983. First edition. Paperback. 8vo. 24 pp. saddle-stitched wraps. A collection of texts by one of the best prose stylists of the era. Near fine with a small spot of darkening (as if held close to a flame) affecting the fore edge of the..... More
London: Hurst, Robinson & Co., 1825. First edition. 8vo, x, [ii], 356 pp, lacking the half title. Bound in half red morocco, gilt and blind-tooled spine by Philip Dusel. First edition of this anonymously published collection of Gothic tales written by a gender non-conforming author who was aided by Mary..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1922. 32mo, saddle-stapled in lightwraps printed in black. Gibbs 122b, second noted variation in the LBB(2) binding, with copyright date still present. The transcript of a debate held in 1919 in London by the Rationalist Press Association, which Conan Doyle had once been a member of. McCabe..... More
Montpelier: Fata Morgana, 1968. First edition. 4to, each issue consisting of loose leaves of paper printed by a heliographic process, laid into paper-covered boards with tie enclosures and title pastedowns. Each volume also bears its own title, respectively "Tourmente," "Sorbonne." and "Le seul mot de liberté est tout ce qui..... More
Rappottenstein: Nova Press, Matsoukas-Real-Life-Company, Pot & The Austria Connection, 1973. 11 3/4 x 15 1/2" broadside periodical, offset printed in blue on both recto and verso. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Single issue of this periodical co-edited by Jörg Fauser, associate of William Burroughs, who also edited Gasolin 23. The..... More
London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1967. First edition. First edition, wrappered issue. 8vo, unpaginated, bound in white card wraps printed in red. With publisher's prospectus laid in. An unusual work, consisting of 100 numbered fragments of text followed by 100 numbered, terse poems, all inspired by the work of Christopher Marlowe. "In..... More
Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 1978. First edition. 12mo, 109 [3] pp, wraps. Lacking the printed band announcing the Robert Walser prize, as usually found. The Austrian writer's first book, the size of which does little to foreshadow the length and textual intricacies of her latter, mammoth works, though the..... More
np: Compass Line, 1967. First edition. 12mo, 160 pp, illustrated wraps. Beat exploitation novel set in New York City, the protagonist a college student who wanders the streets and a series of clubs, including a gay club named "The Harlequin" and a club called "The Inverted Donkey." "Free Lust...They lived..... More
New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1923. First edition. 8vo, x, 113 pp, publisher's original cloth-backed boards with title pastedown to front panel. Lacking the dust jacket. Inscribed by Frost in the year following publication; "For Marguerita Goodwin from her friend Robert Frost" with ownership signature of Marguerita (Parkinson?) above..... More
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