London: Wildenstein & Co., Ltd., 1939. Exhibition announcement measuring 7 x 5 inches (172 x 125 mm) and consisting of [2] leaves stapled into heavy card stock. A checklist of 20 drawings by Joseph Sima at a 1939 exhibition at Wildenstein in London. No illustrations. The..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912. First Edition. 12mo (7 1/4 x 5 inches; 185 x 125 mm), 281, [1] pages plus advertisements, in green cloth, top edge gilt, beautiful gold medallion to the upper panel, in an illustrated dust jacket. A love story set in New York..... More
New York: Random House, 1945. First Edition, First Printing. Small Octavo 7 1/2 x 5 inches; 190 x 130 mm), 127, [1] pages, in gray cloth, in an illustrated dust jacket by Baldwin Hawes. Christopher Isherwood's novel about the making of a film, based on his experiences as..... More
New York: Davis & Long Company, 1975. Small Quarto (9 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches; 247 x 190 mm), 75, [1] pages, in printed, stapled wrappers (soft cover). Catalogue of an exhibition of works by the Welsh artist Gwen John (1876-1939). The catalogue lists 102 paintings, drawings..... More
London: 21 Publishing, 1999. Later printing. Octavo (8 5/8 x 7 1/4 inches (220 x 185 mm), 229, [2] pages, in illustrated wrappers (soft cover). A rollicking, irreverent look at the New York art world of the late 1990s by the British art critic Matthew Collings. Profusely..... More
n.p. Intourist, Inc., 1939. Red folder measuring 4 x 5 3/4 inches (150 x 113 mm) containing 10 post cards. Souvenir folder issued to commemorate the 1939 World's Fair in New York. The folder consists of 10 post cards in black-and-white, with descriptions in English, French, and..... More
New York: Random House, 1950. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 142 mm), 512 pages, in publisher's original orange cloth, gray top stain, in a price-clipped, illustrated dust jacket. Robert Penn Warren's novel, set in his native Kentucky, about a 19th-century love..... More
Havana: Guairas Book Institute, 1967. First English Language Edition. Small Quarto (9 1/4 x 6 inches; 235 x 155 mm), 104, [16] pages, in white cloth, red titles to upper panel, in an unclipped, illustrated dust jacket. Che Guevara's reminiscences of his days as a revolutionary fighting..... More
New York: New Directions, 1956. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 inches; 205 x 128 mm), 107, [1] pages, black cloth, silver titles to spine, in a gray, unclipped dust jacket. Ezra Pound's cantos 85-95. This is a first printing of the first American edition;..... More
New York: New Directions, [1956]. Later printing. Octavo (8 5/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 220 x 143 mm), [14], 273, [1] pages, in original blue cloth, gold titles to upper board and to spine, in an unclipped, gray dust jacket. A collection of Ezra Pound's poems up to 1949..... More
New York: National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government, [ca. 1940]. Rare pamphlet opposing a bill by Senator Robert Wagner of New York to give states the right to establish compulsory health insurance. The American Medical Association strongly opposed the bill, which died in committee. The pamphlet reprints an..... More
[Chicago]: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, [1947]. Reprint (Offprint). Quarto (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 280 x 217 mm), 5, [1] pages, in stapled wrappers (soft cover). Rare offprint of an article by Leo Szilard (1898-1964), a nuclear physicist and veteran of the Manhattan Project... More
![Signature on a typescript page from Endgame]. Samuel Beckett](/pictures/thumb/2401.jpeg?v=1622475870)
n.p. n.d. Single typescript sheet measuring 11 x 8 1/2 inches (280 x 217 mm), typed on one side of the sheet. SIGNED by Samuel Beckett at bottom of the page. The typescript is from the stage directions and opening lines for Endgame, one of Beckett's greatest plays..... More
New York: No publisher listed. [DuBois Memorial Committee], 1964. Quarto (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 280 x 217 mm), 15, [1] pages, in stapled self-wrappers (soft cover). Scarce souvenir program presented to attendees of a memorial service for W.E.B. DuBois at Carnegie Hall in New York. The program..... More
Three letters, 1 notebook, 14 post cards, 1 tour brochure, and 1 leaflet collected by American women attending the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union convention in Edinburgh in June 1925. According to news reports, 2,000 women from 51 countries attended the anti-alcohol convention in the capital of Scotch..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1958. First Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches; 240 x 158 mm), black cloth, titles in gilt to spine, in an unclipped dust jacket (hard cover). An analysis of Black writing in America, from about the 1850s..... More
Washington, D.C. Counterpoint, 1996. Limited Edition. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 inches; 211 x 130 mm) in beige cloth, titles to spine, in a pictorial slipcase (hard cover). SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Gary Snyder on the half title, one of only 150 copies of the limited edition that..... More
Boston: John W. Luce, 1905. First Edition. Small Octavo (7 5/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 194 x 132 mm), black cloth, paper labels to front cover and spine (hard cover). The second book of H.L. Mencken, an analysis (and appreciation) of the plays of George Bernard Shaw..... More
Hong Kong: Alisan Fine Arts, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Oblong Quarto (11 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches; 285 x 210 mm), [24] pages, in stapled wrappers. Catalogue of an exhibition of paintings by Leng Hong (b. 1955 in Shanghai). The exhibition was held at Alisan Fine..... More
![Yin Xin] Peking to Paris. David Tang, Foreword](/pictures/thumb/2391.jpeg?v=1620700324)
London: Kings Road Gallery, 2021. Square Small Octavo (7 7/8 inches; 200 mm), 20 pages, in stapled wrappers (soft cover). Catalogue for an exhibition of paintings by Yin Xin (b. 1959 in Kashgar, China). The exhibition took place at Kings Road Gallery in London in June 2001..... More
Hong Kong: City Museum & Art Gallery, 1970. Small Quarto (10 x 8 inches; 253 x 202 mm), unpaginated, in illustrated wrappers (soft cover). Catalogue of an exhibition of paintings from the Ming and Ching periods at Hong Kong's City Museum & Art Gallery in 1970. The..... More
Oxford, England: Phaidon-Christie's Limited, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto (11 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches; 285 x 215 mm), 319, [1] pages, green cloth, in an unclipped, photo-illustrated dust jacket (hard cover). Lavishly illustrated guide to Chinese ceramics. An important reference work by the former director of..... More
Hong Kong: Art Search, 1997. Folder measuring 5 x 6 7/8 inches (127 x 175 mm), containing 8 color postcards, an exhibition invitation, and the artist's business card. A small folder containing postcards of works by landscape painter Nan Xi (sometimes rendered Nan Qi, b. 1960 in..... More
[Brussels]: Self-published, 1999. Quarto (11 1/4 x 8 3/8 inches; 285 x 211 mm), [16] pages, in stapled printed wrappers (soft cover). Catalogue of paintings by Zhu Tianmeng (b. 1962 in Shanghai), an artist living in Brussels. With an introduction by poet and novelist Jack Keguenne (in..... More
