Paris: Collection Prisme, 1957. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (5/8 x 7 1/2 inches; 218 x 190 mm), 72 pages, in pictorial wrappers covered by the original glassine. SIGNED by Hans Arp four times (!) on the title page. A heavily illustrated book dedicated to Arp's sculptures and reliefs. Tipped-in photograph... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1950. First Edition, Third Impression. 8vo (8 7/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 225 x 145 mm), 167, [5] pages, in green cloth, gilt titles to spine, in an unclipped dust jacket. T,S. Eliot's play about a couple's faltering marriage and their successful attempt at reviving it. From... More
New York: The Modern Library, 2003. First Edition Thus. 8vo (8 x 5 1/4 inches; 215 x 130 mm), ix, 404 pages, in pictorial wrappers. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Joyce Carol Oates's second published book, about the daughter of migrant farm workers and her relationships with... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 x 5 1/4 inches; 213 x 130 mm), 186 pages, in gray boards. With an unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by Arnold Wesker on the title page and dated 12 June 78. A collection of prose pieces by the British... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 208 x 140 mm), 143, [1] pages, in aquamarine and orange boards, titles to spine, in an unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by Tom Wolfe on the title page. Wolfe's often-hilarious examination of... More
![The Hardware Poets Occasional [#3, June 1964]. Jerry Bloedow, Diane Wakoski](/pictures/thumb/2053.jpg?v=1568643863)
New York: Hardware Poets, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 pages; 217 x 140 mm), 31, [1] mimeographed stapled pages. The scarce third issue of a newsletter issued to support the activities of the Hardware Poets Theatre, an Off Off Broadway venture featuring plays, poetry... More
![The Hardware Poets Occasional [Vol. II, March 1964]. Jerry Bloedow, Diane Wakoski](/pictures/thumb/2052.jpg?v=1568643862)
New York: Hardware Poets, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 pages; 217 x 140 mm), 23, [1] mimeographed stapled pages. The scarce second issue of a newsletter issued to support the activities of the Hardware Poets Theatre, an Off Off Broadway venture featuring plays, poetry... More
![The Hardware Poets Occasional [Vol. 1 #1, February 1964]. Jerry Bloedow, Diane Wakoski](/pictures/thumb/2051.jpg?v=1568643861)
New York: Hardware Poets, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 pages; 217 x 140 mm), 16 mimeographed, unstapled pages (the four sheets laid in to one another). The scarce first issue of a newsletter issued to support the activities of the Hardware Poets Theatre, an... More
![Arnol'd Shenberg [Arnold Schönberg]. I. I. Sollertinskii](/pictures/thumb/2050.jpg?v=1568643860)
Leningrad: Leningradskaia Filarmoniia, 1934. 24mo (5 7/8 x 4 1/2 inches; 150 x 111 mm), 55, [1] pages, in sewn printed wrappers. An appreciation of composer Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951). The author, I.I. Sollertinskii, was a Leningrad music critic and director of the Leningrad Philharmonic. An association copy, with the... More
![Poslednie Dni (Pushkin) [The Last Days (Pushkin)]. Bulgakov, ikhail](/pictures/thumb/2049.jpg?v=1568643860)
Moscow: The Moscow Art Theatre, 1943. First Edition, First Printing. Single printed sheet folded to create [4] pages, measuring 8 5/8 x 5 5/8 inches (220 x 144 mm) when folded. Rare playbill for the Mikhail Bulgakov play The Last Days (Pushkin). Bulgakov, best known for his novel The Master and... More
![Ivan Susanin [A Life for the Tsar]. M. I. Glinka](/pictures/thumb/2048.jpg?v=1568643859)
Moscow: Bolshoi Theatre, 1943. First Edition, First Printing. Single printed sheet folded to create [4] pages, measuring 6 1/2 x 4 1/8 inches (163 x 106 mm) when folded. Rare playbill for the opera Ivan Susanin, performed at the Bolshoi Theatre, on September 26, 1943. This was a notable production because... More
![Lebedinoye Ozero [Swan Lake]. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky](/pictures/thumb/2047.jpg?v=1568643858)
Moscow: Bolshoi Theatre, 1943. First Edition, First Printing. Single sheet, printed recto only, measuring 8 1/8 x 5 inches (205 x 126 mm) Rare playbill for Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, which took place at the Bolshoi Theatre's Main Stage in Moscow on September 28, 1943. This was a notable production because it... More
![Simfonicheskiy Koncert: Sed'maya Simfoniya [Symhonic Concert Symphony No. 7]. Shostakovich, mitry](/pictures/thumb/2046.jpg?v=1568643857)
Moscow: [Iskusstvo], 1942. First Edition, First Printing. Single sheet folded to create [4] pages, measuring 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches (223 x 145 mm) when folded. Rare program for the Moscow premiere of Dmitry Shostakovich's acclaimed Seventh Symphony, dedicated to the heroic people of Leningrad during the Nazi siege... More
1935. Postcard measuring 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (88 x 140 mm). Postcard signed by the two leading Surrealists, Paul Éluard and André Breton, to Brussels music publisher Georges Vriamont. Éluard has addressed the card in black ink and written: "Très amical souvenir," signing it underneath. Breton added his signature... More
Paris: Pierre Vorms, 1930. First Edition, First Printing. Small 4to (10 5/8 x 7 3/8 inches; 270 x 185 mm), 31, [1] pages, in printed wrappers. A sumptuously illustrated tribute to Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, issued in 1930, one year after his death. Diaghilev (rendered here as Diaghilew) created one... More
Moscow: Progress Publishers, [ca. 1962]. First Edition, First Printing. 16mo (6 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches; 163 x 130 mm), 105, [7] pages, in illustrated paper wrappers over white card stock. Profiles of prominent theatres in Moscow, Leningrad, and 20 other cities around the Soviet Union. Heavily illustrated with... More
New York: F.F.F. Publishers, Inc., 1945. First Edition, First Printing. Small 4to (10 7/8 x 8 1/2 inches; 277 x 215 mm), 77, [3] pages in stapled pictorial wrappers. A photo magazine documenting the horrors inflicted by the Nazis, Fascists, and Japanese before and during World War II. Profusely illustrated... More
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1939. First Edition, First Printing. 24mo (5 5/8 x 4 1/4 inches; 143 x 110 mm), 30, [2] pages, in stapled pictorial wrappers. A pamphlet on the Soviet theatre by the acclaimed actor Ivan Moskvin (1874-1946). It was issued in 1939 for distribution at the... More
Moscow: Intourist, [1936]. 7th Printing. Oblong 4to (12 x 8 1/2 inches; 308 x 216 mm), [64] pages, in original orange wrappers. A profusely illustrated guide in English to Moscow's many theatres: academic theatres, "Theatres Created by the Great October Revolution," national theatres; theatres for children; collective-farm theatres; and new theatres... More
London: New Burlington Galleries, 1936. First Edition, First Printing. Small 4to (9 5/8 x 6 1/8 inches; 244 x 155 mm), 31, [1] pages in stapled pink wrappers. PRESENTATION COPY for French art dealer Pierre Loeb, signed by artists André Breton, E.L.T. Mesens, Hans Arp, Roland Penrose, Sheila Legge... More
Toronto: CBC Enterprises, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 x 5 inches; 202 x 125 mm), 74, [2] pages, in pictorial wrappers. INSCRIBED to NBC News Anchorman John Chancellor: "To John / Chancellor, / in friendship / and respect / Fuentes / 1985." A book based on Fuentes's series... More
New York: Committee to Secure Justice for Morton Sobell, [1951]. Single sheet folded to make [4] pages, measuring 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (215 x 140 mm), when folded. Rare leaflet issued on behalf of Morton Sobell, who was a defendant with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in the Cold... More
New York: Constitution and Free Enterprise Foundation, 1952. First Edition Thus. 12mo (7 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 187 x 123 mm), 177, [1] pages in stapled card wrappers. A defense of free enterprise combined with attacks on labor unions and European companies (they're lazy and always seek government handouts, the... More
Washington, D.C. Seventy-Three Club, 1936. First Edition, First Printing. Small 4to (9 x 6 1/8 inches; 230 x 158 mm), [12] pages, in wrappers featuring a wonderful photographic portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt. A program for a luncheon honoring Eleanor Roosevelt at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., March 25, 1936... More
Pittsburgh: The Courier Publishing Company, 1950. First Edition Thus. Small 4to (9 1/8 inches x 6 5/8 inches; 235 x 170 mm), 7, [1] pages, in stapled pictorial wrappers. Pamphlet reprinting an article from The Pittsburgh Courier on the social progress of African-Americans in the first 50 years of the... More