np: Les Mesneux, 1976-. 4to, mimeographed and side-stapled into illustrated card covers. With prospectus for Subsidia Pataphysica laid in. Second issue of the periodical emanating from the OULIPOPO division of Oulipo which was devoted to mystery, detective and crime literature, aka L'Ou.li.po.po. (Ouvroir de littérature policière potentielle) under the directorship..... More
New York: George Munro's Sons, [1898]. 8vo, 160 pp, bound in printed wraps. Possibly a vernacular binding, with the original printed wraps covered or replaced with brown paper, with a full photographically illustrated pastedown, titled in ink across the image, with the title and author also handwritten onto the spine..... More
London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1953. First edition. 8vo, unpaginated, bound in red cloth titled in green at the spine. Illustrated with 28 drawings by Franciszka Themerson. With two folding promotional card prospectuses for the book laid in. An abecedary by the philosopher and logician, illustrated with drawings by Franciszka Themerson -..... More
![Item #30561 Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Atheist [Little Blue Book No. 1405]. Marquis...](https://divisionleap.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30561.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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
New York: School for Democracy, 1942. 8vo, 22 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. A course catalog for the School for Democracy, founded by Selsam and others at 13 Astor Place and associated with the CPUSA. The faculty and lecturers listed for the four month periodi are staggering, including Gwendolyn Bennett, Langston Hughes..... More
Calgary: housepress, 2000. First edition. One of a limited edition of 70 handbound and numbered copies. Oblong 64mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Superb collection of experimental texts - fine. More
London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1953. First edition. 8vo, 142 pp, bound in publisher's original full black cloth titled in blue at the spine. A satirical novel involving the misadventures of three Englishmen in the mountains of Central Asia. 'Mr. Sisson hasused an elaborate fantasy to to help make his point that..... More
![Item #30562 Trial and Death of Socrates [Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 94]. Socrates](https://divisionleap.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30562.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1974. First edition. 8vo, 303 pp, bound in orange cloth titled in gilt at the spine. A square, sturdy very good copy, with some faint toning to the endpapers and light tapping to the tips, in a very good unclipped example of the dust jacket, which is..... More
![Item #31205 An Apology for Idlers and Other Essays [Little Blue Book No. 349]. Robert Louis...](https://divisionleap.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31205.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694045826)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, [1923]. 32mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 349, likely a first printing, in the first noted state for both contents and wrapper. As well as the excellent title essay, it also includes the texts "El Dorado," "The English Admirals," and "Child's Play." Some minor fraying to spine ends else..... More
[Madrid]: Casa Ed. Blanco, [1919]. [Madrid]: Privately Printed, [1918]. 12mo, 110 pp, bound in purple cloth embossed with a snakeskin pattern, and titled in gilt at the spine. With a foreword by Valle Inclán. Illegible signature and date to title page. The impossibly rare first edition of this series of..... More
Cummington, MA: The Cummington School, 1941. First edition. 4to, single sheet folded once to make a four-pager. Illustrated with black and white photographs. A rare early prospectus for the Utopian educational project, which was started by Katherine Frazier and devoted to creative collaboration in the fine arts, and whose alumni..... More
Amsterdam: Gaberbocchus Press / Turret Press / De Harmonie, 1988. 8vo, unpaginated, illustrated wraps. A reprint of the book originally published by Themerson's own Gaberbocchus Press in 1954. Themerson's superb illustrations to quotes by an eclectic group of writers, from Bertrand Russell to Gaston Bachelard to Kierkegaard to Wittgenstein. Near..... More
London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1974. First edition. 8vo, 202 [6] pp, printed wraps. "Perhaps central to all these essays is the theme of the inevitable civilogical evolution towards a non-historical definition of 'neighbor.'" Spine a bit rolled, with some staining to the wraps, a solid and very good reading copy. More
London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1975. First edition, wrappered issue. 8vo, 127 [1] pp, bound in white wraps titled in red. Inscribed by Themerson at the half title; "For David & Nancy / with best wishes / Stefan." Illustrated with drawings by Franciszka Themerson. Wraps a little toned and slightly grubby, a...... More
London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1967. 8vo, 65 pp, bound in white wraps printed in two colors, and illustrated by Franciszka Themerson. A reprint of the novel first published in a hardcover edition by Gaberbocchus in 1951. Near fine with some faint scratches to wraps and a single small spot of soiling..... More
London: Editions Poetry London, 1949. First edition. 8vo, 92 pp, bound in the publisher's original black cloth titled in gilt, and in the original dust jacket illustrated by Franciszka Themerson. The first edition of Themerson's first novel, the story of a three legged man on a roller skate, and and..... 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
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
Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1957. First edition. 12mo, viii, 61 pp, bound marbled boards backed in yellow linen with black titles. Title, initial, and printer's device on colophon printed in red. One of 250 numbered copies printed by letterpress at the Dolmen press, the first 50 copies being hand-colored and signed..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, [1922]. 32mo, saddle-stapled in blue wraps printed in black. Gibbs 77b, first recorded state of text, third noted wrapper state with Pocket Series to cover and variant typeface. Includes quotes about women from Shakespeare, Milton, Lord Byron, Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, Thomas Carlyle, Victor Hugo, Robert Browning..... More
Anvers: Complexe, c. 1968. Oblong 8vo, 70 pp, side-stapled and backed with black cloth tape. Illustrated in black and white. Text in French. Debut issue of this student little magazine of art and literature edited by a young André Versaille, who would later take the name - based upon the..... More
[Santa Rosa]: [Black Sparrow press], [1986]. Large format printing block, metal mounted on a sheet of plywood, approximately 11 1/2" x 6 1/2." The original printing block for the rotational celestial design of the double title page of The Books of Saturn. A unique artifact from one of the..... More