Moscow: Various Publishers, 1930s. Thirty black-and-white postcards, each measuring 5 3/4 x 3 7/8 inches (147 x 98 mm), all unused and unmounted. A collection of postcards depicting scenes in Moscow during the tumultuous 1930s, when Stalin was expanding his power and killing off his opponents. The scenes..... More

Cincinnati: Cincinnati Art Museum, 1954. First Edition, First Printing. Scarce catalogue for an exhibition of prints by Chinese-French artist Zao Wou-ki (1920-2013) at the Cincinnati Art Museum. The exhibition took place from November 22, 1954, to January 4, 1955, and featured 70 prints. The catalogue features a listing..... More

Paris: La Table Ronde, 1965. Later printing. A collection of plays INSCRIBED on the half title by Jean Anouilh: "Pour le Docteur Paul Robert, Jean Anouilh, Nov. '69." The plays are: L'Invitation au Chateau; Colombe; La Répetition ou l'amour puni; and Cécile ou l'école des pères. Text entirely..... More

Paris: La Table Ronde, 1956. First Edition, First Printing. A collection of plays INSCRIBED by Jean Anouilh on the half title: "Pour ce gamin de Claude Sainval souvenir de la representation d'adieux de son ainè. Affectuesement, Jean Anouilh, 10 Janvier 62." ("For this kid of Claude Sainval, a memory of..... More

Paris: La Table Ronde, 1966. Later printing. Collection of plays INSCRIBED on the half title by Jean Anouilh: "Pour le Docteur Paul Robert, Jean Anouilh, Nov. 69." The plays are: Humulus le Muet; Le Bal des Voleurs; Le Rendez-Vous de Senlis; and Léocadia. Text entirely in French... More

Easthampton, Massachusetts: Warwick Press, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. A gorgeous production from Carol J. Blinn's Warwick Press and one of the more elusive of John Barr's poetry collections (only 75 copies were printed). Barr and Blinn have signed the colophon, and Blinn has contributed six hand-colored line drawings to..... More

London: Faber and Faber, 1958. First Edition Thus. A fragment of an unfinished novel, written ca. 1955, featuring the musings of a neurotic man. Beckett told his bibliographers that the fragment resulted from an attempt to return to fiction in English. "Asked why it ends abruptly, he replied..... More

Leningrad: Detskaya Literatura, 1967. A profusely illustrated Soviet children's book by Mikhail Belomlinsky featuring a veritable menagerie of mischievous cats, mice, kangaroos, hedgehogs, elephants, horses, tigers, squirrels, birds, and much more (kids too). A giraffe blocks traffic, angering the other animals. Cats and bats fly in the air..... More

London and New York: Cape Goliard Press in association with Grossman Publishers, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto (9 7/8 x 6 1/2 inches; 245 x 165 mm), [106] pages in illustrated wrappers (soft cover). A book of poems and prose, INSCRIBED on the front end paper..... More

New York: Boke Press, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 279 x 215 mm), [108] pages in side-stapled wrappers. The second and last issue of Joe Brainard's "C Comics," a spinoff of Ted Berrigan's "C, a Journal of Poetry." "C Comics" was notable..... More

London: Brentano's Ltd., 1929. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 348 pages. An exhaustive look at the first 12 years of Soviet theatre by an art and theatre critic who made numerous trips to Moscow. This is an excellent, well-researched study of early Bolshevik drama. Good photos..... More

Paris: Editions Présence africaine, 1957. 12mo (7 1/16 x 4 1/2 inches; 180 x 113 mm), 15, [1] pages in stapled green-gray wrappers, with errata slip pasted to recto of lower wrapper. A letter from the Martinique poet and politician Aimé Césaire to Maurice Thorez, secretary general of..... More

Moscow: A.A. Gorozhankin and K.A. Fisher, 1911-12. Twenty-six postcards, each 5 1/2 x 3 3/8 inches (138 x 84 mm), featuring black-and-white photos of scenes from Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and text descriptions in Russian. The Cherry Orchard opened at the Moscow Art Theatre on January 17..... More