Berkeley: Counterpoint Press, 2012. First Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto (9 1/4 x 6 1/8 inches; 235 x 155 mm), 237, [5] pages, in blue boards, titles in gilt to spine, in an unclipped, illustrated dust jacket (hard cover). SIGNED on a bookplate pasted to the half title..... More
London: Faber and Limited, 1961. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 207 x 124 mm), 102 pages, in burgundy cloth, titles in gilt to spine, in a price-clipped, illustrated dust jacket (hard cover). John Osborne's play about Martin Luther's religious revolution. It was..... More
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 205 x 120 mm), 115, [1] pages, in green cloth, titles in gilt to spine, in an illustrated, unclipped dust jacket. A surly lawyer watches as his life falls apart due..... More
New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 5/8 inches; 215 x145 mm), 178 pages, in quarter cloth over boards, titles in gilt to spine, in an unclipped, illustrated dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Doris Lessing on the title page. A novel..... More
New York: The Viking Press, Inc., 1974. First American Edition. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 208 x 142 mm), 169, [1] pages, in quarter cloth over boards, titles to spine, in a price-clipped, illustrated dust jacket (hard cover). Ionesco's only novel, originally appearing in French as..... More
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947. First Edition. Small Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches; 240 x 155 mm), xiii, [1], 562 pages, gray cloth, titles to upper board and spine in black and red, in an unclipped dust jacket (hard cover). A collection of the New..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc., 1995. First Edition. Small Octavo (7 7/8 x 5 inches; 200 x 130 mm), 128 pages plus appendix, in wheat-colored boards, titles in black to spine, in an unclipped dust jacket. Solzhenitsyn's hopes for Russia on the occasion of his return..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1980. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches; 215 x 143 mm), xx, 530 pages, red quarter cloth over black boards, titles in gilt to spine, in an unclipped dust jacket (hard cover). A massive..... More
New York: International Publishers, 1957. First Edition. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 3/8 inches; 208 x 138 mm), 350 pages, in gray cloth, titles to spine in a blue panel, in an unclipped, illustrated dust jacket. Albert Maltz's novel about racial relations among inmates in a Washington, D.C...... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press [Oxford University Press], 1970. Later printing. 12mo (7 3/8 x 5 inches; 190 x 125 mm), xxii, 315, [1] pages, blue cloth, titles in gilt to spine, in a price-clipped dust jacket (hard cover). An anthology of Irish monastic and secular poems, with each poem..... More
New York: Random House, 1953. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 208 x 138 mm), 332, [2] pages, in black cloth, titles to spine, in an unclipped dust jacket (hard cover). Autobiography of newspaper editor James Wechsler (1915-1983), who ran the New York..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1960. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 207 x125 mm), 96 pages, in black cloth, titles to spine, in an unclipped, illustrated dust jacket (hard cover). Jean Genet's explosive play of Blacks reenacting feelings of resentment and revenge..... More
Princeton: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1999. First Edition. Small Quarto (10 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches; 273 x 217 mm), 162 pages, in illustrated wrappers (soft cover). Catalogue for an exhibition of American folk art from the collection of Edward Duff Balken (1874-1960), a Princeton alumnus who..... More
New York: Achim Moeller Fine Art, 1997. First Edition. Octavo (8 7/8 x 6 3/4 inches; 226 x 172 mm), 104 pages, in quarter cloth over red boards, titles in gilt to spine, in an illustrated dust jacket (hard cover). Lavishly illustrated book celebrating the 25th anniversary of..... More
Brighton, England / Seattle: Unicorn Bookshop, 1972. First Edition. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 7/8 inches; 207 x149 mm), 26 pages, in photo-illustrated wrappers (soft cover). An often critical view of Allen Ginsberg's poems by Eric Mottram (1924-1995), who was a British poet and professor at King's College..... More
Santa Rosa, California: Black Sparrow Press, 1993. First Edition. Small Quarto (9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches; 235 x 157 mm), 194, [4] pages, in illustrated boards, titles to upper board and to a label attached to spine, with the original acetate dust jacket (hard cover). SIGNED by..... More
London: Macmillan and Company Ltd., 1959. First Edition. Small Octavo (7 5/8 x5 inches; 194 x 125 mm), 207, [1] pages, in red cloth, titles to spine, in an illustrated, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by John Wain on the title page. Wain's comic novel about a married couple..... More
London: Macmillan and Company Ltd., 1961. Later printing. Small Octavo (7 3/4 x 5 inches; 196 x130 mm), 245, [1] pages, in orange cloth, titles to spine, in an illustrated dust jacket. INSCRIBED by John Wain on the front end paper: "Jonathan's / copy / best wishes from..... More
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011. First American Edition. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 140 mm), xii, 258 pages, in black boards, titles in silver to spine, in an unclipped, printed dust jacket. Terry Eagleton takes on objections to Marxism and explains..... More
London and Rome: Anthony d'Offay and Gian Enzo Sperone, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. Folio (13 1/8 x 10 1/8 inches; 333 x 262 mm), [10] illustrated leaves, front and rear boards fold out to each create [4] illustrated panels, in a green cloth binding. SIGNED by..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1948. First Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto (9 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches; 247 x 167 mm), 220 pages, in green and tan cloth, in an unclipped, illustrated dust jacket (hard cover), accompanied by four photographic prints. An account of a trip to..... More
Paris: Théatre Sarah-Bernhardt, 1929. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto (12 3/8 x 9 5/8 inches; 315 x 245 mm), [32] pages, in stapled, illustrated wrappers (soft cover). Rare, lavishly illustrated program for the Ballets Russes, issued in May 1929, just months before the death of the troupe's founder..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1949. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Small Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches; 245 x 165 mm), xvi, 367, [1] pages, in red buckram, top edge gilt, titles to spine in black and gilt, in an acetate dust jacket and black..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 217 x 140 mm), 201, [3] pages, in black cloth, yellow top stain, titles in gilt to spine, in a printed, unclipped dust jacket (Albee photo on lower panel). Edward Albee's adaptation..... More
