Madison, Wisconsin: The Red Ozier Press, 1978. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 207 x135 mm), [20] pages, sewn into marbled wrappers. SIGNED by Allen Ginsberg opposite the copyright page. This is one of 280 trade copies (there were also 10 patron copies). Featuring two..... More
San Francisco: No publisher stated, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. Small Octavo (7 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches; 200 x 145 mm), [16] pages in stapled illustrated wrappers. INSCRIBED by Michael McClure on the title page: "For Rick--Black Oaks -- Michael / McClure." Poems opposing the war in Vietnam, along..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Small Octavo (7 3/4 x 5 inches; 195 x 130 mm), xxv, 197 pages, black boards, in unclipped printed dust jacket. SIGNED by John Edgar Wideman on the title page. "As a memoir it is superb," the reviewer Mel Watkins wrote in..... More
Washington, D.C. National Geographic Directions, 2003. First Edition. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 210 x 140 mm), xxx, 167 pages, black and green boards, in an unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN on the title page. A travel memoir by the acclaimed author. Signed copies are scarce..... More
Holyoke, Massachusetts: The Elizabeth Towne Co., Inc., 1924. 12mo (7 1/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 185 x 120 mm), 55 pages, in green printed wrappers. A guide for young women on "how to make your conversation pleasing and attractive," and "how to radiate magnetism and attract success." The book quickly gets..... More
San Francisco: Self-published, [1983]. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 217 x 142 mm), [36] pages in stapled illustrated card wrappers. Third and apparently final issue of "The Bridge," a sort of artists' book, art magazine, and portfolio of new art all wrapped into one, published by San Francisco artist..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1990. Uncorrected Proof. Octavo (8 x 5 3/8 inches; 205 x 135 mm), [12], 384 pages, in orange wrappers printed in black. SIGNED by Terry McMillan on the title page. A scarce uncorrected proof for the U.K. edition of "Disappearing Acts," McMillan's second novel, a love story..... More
San Francisco: Eidolon Editions, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Oblong Octavo (8 5/8 x 6 inches; 220 x 155 mm), [28] pages. in printed gray wrappers. SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Diane di Prima on the colophon, one of only 50 copies of a special two-color edition (there were also 250..... More
[Santa Rosa, California]: Caliban Press, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches; 242 x 164 mm), [10], 20, [6] pages, sewn into screen-printed card covers. SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Diane Wakoski on the colophon, one of 100 copies of this collection of rose poems designed..... More
Brussels: Galerie des Éditions La Boétie, 1945. Small Octavo (7 9/16 x 5 5/8 inches; 192 x 143 mm), [16] pages of text and [8] pages of plates in stapled illustrated wrappers. Scarce catalogue of a Surrealism exhibition that took place from December 15, 1945, to January 15, 1946..... More
New York: William Morrow & Co., Inc., 1966. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches; 215 x 145 mm), 252 pages, grayish-green boards, in an unclipped, illustrated dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Amiri Baraka (formerly known as LeRoi Jones) on the title page: "For / Day o...... More
Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc., 1977. Octavo (8 1/8 x 6 5/8 inches; 219 x 170 mm), ix, 37 pages in illustrated wrappers. INSCRIBED by Charlotte H. Bruner, the co-editor: "To Mr. Lubin -- / A friend and colleague of long standing, / with whom I am..... More
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2000. Small Quarto (9 x 6 1/8 inches; 228 x 155 mm), 92 pages, bound in grayish-green leather, with gold-stamped boards, all edges gilt, and ribbon page marker. SIGNED by Harold Pinter on the front end paper. Pinter's tragicomedy about a professor who brings his..... More
Postcard measuring 4 x 5 3/4 inches (102 x 145 mm), writing on both sides, sent through mail. A rare postcard from World War II signed by art collector Peggy Guggenheim to "Monsieur M. Lefebvre," likely Maurice Lefebvre, the brother of her lover René. Guggenheim used a postcard that..... More
Kansas City, Missouri: Frederic Thoreau Singleton at the Sign of the Red Pale, 1896. First Edition, First Printing. 16 mo (6 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 160 x 120 mm), pages [10], 42-62, original decorated wrappers in red and black, enclosed in a modern box. A single volume (February 1896)..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 208 x 138 mm), xv, 362, [2] pages in wrappers. *SIGNED by Ann Beattie, Amy Hempel, Margaret Atwood, Joyce Carol Oates, Jamaica Kincaid, Mary Gaitskill, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Louise Erdrich at their respective contributions..... More
![White Dove Review #5 [Volume 2, Number 5]. Ron Padgett, Joe Brainard, Betty Kennedy](/pictures/thumb/1129_1.jpg?v=1592171195)
Tulsa, Oklahoma: White Dove Press, 1960. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 217 x 140 mm), [24] pages, in stapled illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Ted Berrigan on the title page with a note regarding his contribution. The fifth and final issue of this scarce literary magazine..... More
Moscow: Kinopechat, 1926. First Edition, First Printing. 24mo (5 7/8 x 4 3/8 inches; 150 x 110 mm), 14, [2] pages in photo-illustrated stapled wrappers. An illustrated booklet on comic actor Igor Ilyinsky (1901-1987) in the Kinopechat series. Ilyinsky was associated with the Meyerhold Theatre, most notably as Bruno..... More
![Sketchbook of an Ocean Voyage and Stay in France]. Margaret Stark](/pictures/thumb/2229_1.jpeg?v=1591709703)
1948-49. Black leather sketchbook measuring 11 x 8 1/2 inches (278 x 213 mm), about 120 leaves. First time offered in commerce: Sketchbook of original ink drawings documenting an ocean voyage and stay in France by Margaret Stark (1915-1988), an Indiana-born artist who had been living in New York. The..... More
Newark, New Jersey: Revolutionary Communist League (M-L-M), 1976. Quarto (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 280 x 215 mm), 28 stapled pages, in printed red wrappers. SIGNED by Amiri Baraka, the poet and playwright, on the title page. Baraka was chair of the Maoist group that issued this polemic, which does not..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1948. First Edition. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 217 x 145 mm), viii, [2], 494 pages, black cloth, paper titles to upper board and spine. Lacking the scarce dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Tennessee Williams on the front end paper: "To Aiden- /..... More
Newark, New Jersey: Newark Museum, 1947. First Edition. Octavo (9 x 6 inches; 223 x 152 mm), 100 pages, in gray wrappers. Catalogue of an exhibition of New Jersey pottery and porcelain at the Newark Museum. Detailed descriptions of 263 items, along with a list of references and 52 black-and-white..... More
New York: Dramatists Play Service Inc., 1995. Small Octavo (7 5/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 195 x 130 m), [2], 104, [6] pages in yellow printed wrappers. SIGNED by Terrence McNally (1938-2020) in ink on the title page of this acting edition. A comedy featuring eight gay friends who hash..... More
Candia, New Hampshire: John LeBow, 2008. No Edition Stated. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 217 x 136 mm), 37 pages, in printed stapled wrappers. SIGNED by Amiri Baraka on the title page. The trade edition of this defense of Malcolm X; there was also a limited edition of..... More
Detroit: The Radio League of the Little Flower, 1933. First Edition. Small Octavo pamphlet measuring 7 3/4 x 5 inches (197 x 128 mm), [16] pages, in stapled printed wrappers. Transcript of a radio broadcast by Father Coughlin in which he says government action so far has amounted only to..... More