New York: Vantage Press, 1977. First edition. Association copy, with a gift inscription to one of the characters in the book: "For M.E. Dugan - who fashioned a hangout in which to feel comfortable himself (page 60) - Happy Birthday '77, Eddie! Regis Murphy." While we don't know the identity..... More
London: Routledge, 1937. First edition. 8vo, 71 pp, bound in green boards titled and decorated in blue. No dust jacket. For Your Convenience takes the form of a fictional dialogue between two members of the Thélème club, discussing where in London to find "relief" out and about after excessive consumption..... More
London: Folio Society, 1987. Six volumes, each bound in red patterned boards backed in black cloth with gilt titles, and housed in the publisher's red slipcase. Introductions by Devendra P. Varma. Illustrated by Sarah van Niekerk. Books fine. Slipcase near fine with a touch of fading to extremites and top..... More
New York: New Directions, 1959. First edition. 8vo, 246 pp, bound in blue cloth. Illustrated dust jacket designed by Donn Devita. Association copy, inscribed by Rexroth at the first blank in the year of publication to Charles Richards: "Happy Birthday Dear Charles. Kenneth Oct '59." A good association - Charles Richards..... More
Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1969. First edition. 8vo, 146 pp, printed wraps. Text in German. Though unstated, one of 2000 copies produced, the bulk of which were distributed to libraries. The rare first edition of Sebald's controversial first published book, a critical study of Carl Sternheim and a landmark work of..... More
London: Iain Sinclair Books, 1985. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. Early catalog from Sinclair's bookselling concern, with a great foreward by Sinclair. "Fiction is optional; first editions of fiction are very optional." The cover is quite a dig at the Booker Prize, one of the sections within. Near fine with some light..... 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
New York: The School of Living / The New York City League For Sexual Freedom, nd. 8 1/2 x 11" leaflet, mimeographed from typescript on recto only. With a handwritten note in blue ink at upper margin; "Tuli spoke at this and asked us." Original leaflet for this early seminar sponsored..... More
Zurich, Vienna, Prague: Buchergilde Gutenberg, 1933. First edition. 8vo, 254 pp, bound in full slate blue cloth with red blind-stamped titles. Printed dust jacket. The first edition of the third book in the Mahogany series, and the first book published by the Buchergilde Gutenberg following the seizure of the Berlin..... More
[London]: Sigma, nd [c. 1965]. 8 x 13", two sheets mimeographed from typescript on rectos only and stapled once at the upper left hand corner. Single issue of Trocchi's Situationist-influenced periodical, a key artists' periodical of the era. This issue lays out Trocchi's proposal for an international project holding company..... 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
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[New York]: c. 1962. 4to, twenty leaves clipbound into a green card folder, typewritten on rectos only, with holograph corrections and additions in pencil, as well as brief holograph passages to the verso of several leaves. Cover, and verso of final leaf illustrated with drawings in ink, graphite, and colored..... More
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Austin: The Ark Press, 1963. First edition. Two volume set, each an 8vo, bound in cloth stamped in gilt. 470, 232 pp. Cloth slipcase with illustrated titled label to spine. Illustrated with decorations by Cyril Satorsky. First edition, one of a limited edition of 1040 sets. The second volume, by..... More