Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1858-1885. An attractively bound set of Eliot's works, all in first... Read More about Collection of first editions of her major works, uniformly bound
Price: $12,000
Buenos Aires: Editorial Pleamar, 1946. Ravenet. First edition. A multilingual collection of poetry on the concept of Blackness, with poems in the original as well as in Spanish translation, featuring poetry from the United States (Whitman, Longfellow, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen), Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba..... Read More about Mapa de la Poesía Negra Americana
Price: $650
n.p: January 1975. Self-portrait of Balliett playing the drums, the kick labeled “Big Sid Catlett,” done at the request of collector Burt Britton. INSCRIBED “Dreams of glory don’t / ever really die. / Whitney Balliett / January 1975”. Read More about Self-portrait
Price: $300
New York: 1975. Abstract self-portrait done at the request of collector Burt Britton. Titled and SIGNED “Whitney Balliett / 1975 N.Y.C.”. Read More about Self-portrait, “The Author on the Mark : Morning”
Price: $250
New York: January 3, 1962. Read More about Portrait photograph of Amiri Baraka (formerly Leroi Jones
Price: $1,250
Milano: Luigi Mussi & Giovanni Pirotta, 1813-1820. Read More about Opere di Giuseppe Baretti Scritte in Lingua Itlaiano
Price: $300
London: T. Davies … and L. Davis, 1770. First English edition. A work suggested by Baretti's friend Samuel Johnson, "It was he that exhorted me to write daily and with all possible minuteness: it was he that pointed out the topics which would most interest and most delight in a...... Read More about A Journey from London to Genoa, Through England, Portugal, Spain, and France
Price: $800
Ca. 1970s. Read More about Portrait photograph of Djuna Barnes
Price: $300
London: Faber and Faber Ltd, (1950). Second edition. Read More about Nightwood … with a Preface by T.S. Eliot
Price: $150
London: Printed for John Wilkins at the Sign of the Maiden-Head in New Cheap-side in Moor-field, 1671. First Edition in English. see pp. 100 for Peter Martyr; p. 102 for Peru; p. 91 for Columbus. Read More about The History of the Administration of Cardinal Ximenes, Great Minister of State in Spain...and...
Price: $750
London: Faber and Faber, [1962]. First UK edition. Read More about Happy Days
Price: $150
Paris: The Traveller's Companion No. 71, [1959]. First Edition. Read More about Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable A Trilogy
Price: $400
New York: L. B. Fischer, 1945. First Edition. This was the first US Merchant Marine ship under a Negro commander with white and colored men working together as officers and crew. The story of how well this worked is told by the great-grand nephew of Harriet Beecher Stowe who was..... Read More about All Brave Sailors. The Story of the SS Booker T. Washington
Price: $75
New York: Grove Press, [1957]. First American Edition, #66 of 100 copies. First Book. Read More about The Quare Fellow. A Comedy-Drama
Price: $300
London: [1831-1832]. Bell's Life in London was a rival to Pierce Egan's Life in London and Sporting Guide, an offshoot of his highly successful book. Egan began his periodical in 1824 as a Sunday weekly, and in 1826 asked Cruikshank to design some wood engravings to head the paper's regular..... Read More about Bell's Life in London, Sporting Chronicle. Combining, with the News of the Week, A rich...
Price: $350
New York: May 19, 1960 and January 19 (n.y.). Two items of correspondence from Eric Bentley (b.1916), the prominent translator, editor, and critic. In the letter he thanks Aaron Asher, longtime editor at Meridian Books, for the "handsome edition of Mayakovsky", referring to the 1960 collection The Bedbug and selected..... Read More about Typed letter signed and typed postcard signed, to Aaron Asher and a Mr. Cohen, respectively,...
Price: $75
Copenhagen: Trykt hos Andreas Seidelein, 1820. First edition in Danish, and the second complete translation in any language. The second translation of Beowulf, Very Scarce. A handsome first edition copy of N.F.S. Grundtvig's (1783-1872) Danish translation of the classic epic poem Beowulf. Grundtvig was a bishop and the first great..... Read More about Bjowulfs Drape. Et gothisk helte-digt fra forrige aar-tusinde, af angel-saxisk paa danske riim
Price: $4,500
Paris: E. Basset, Éditeur 3, Rue Dante, 1912. INSCRIBED. Inscribed by the publisher. Read More about Les Morts Lyriques. Contes
Price: $150
Boston: Published for the American Folk-Lore Society by Houghton-Mifflin, 1899. First edition, No. 109 of 500 copies. Inscribed on the first blank leaf, “To Mr. + Mrs. Robinson from F.D. B. 9.29.1899”. Read More about Animal and Plant-Lore. Collected from the oral tradition of English speaking folk. Edited and...
Price: $150
Saint Louis: Printed for Private Distribution to Lovers of Burns by the Burns Club of St. Louis [From the Press of Kutterer-Jansen, Saint Louis], 1918. First edition. Bixby to his Daughter and Son-in-law. RARE. Inscribed by Bixby to his daughter and son-in-law, 12/25/18. With articles by Albert Douglas, Thomas Augustine..... Read More about Burns Nights at the Burns Club of St. Louis. Edited with notes by Walter B. Stevens
Price: $350
Saint Louis: Printed for Private Distribution to Lovers of Burns by the Burns Club of St. Louis, 1924. First edition. Daughter's copy. From the library of W. K. Bixby's daughter, Emma Jordan (Mrs. A. H.) whose signature appears on the endpaper. Read More about St. Louis Burnsians. Their Twentieth Anniversary and Some Other Burns Nights. The Bard from the...
Price: $250
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1928. Blaine, Mahlon. First edition. Inscribed to His Psychiatriat, with Drawing. With orginal pen and ink drawing of man on horseback by Blaine and inscription on verso of the flyleaf: "For Archie Crandell from Mahlon Blaine 41" Dr. Archie Crandell was a psychiatrist..... Read More about Black Majesty. The Life of Christophe, King of Haiti
Price: $750
Montreal: Editions du Jour, 1968. First edition thus, illustrated edition, limited to 475 numbered copies [total edition of 500 numbered copies]. INSCRIBED BY MARIE-CLAIRE BLAIS AND MARY MEIGS TO MARY McCARTHY. Marie-Claire Blais (b. 1939 - d. 2021) was a prolific Canadian author who wrote primarily in French for a...... Read More about Une Saison Dans La Vie D'emmanuel. Roman Prix Medicis 1966. Illustrations Originales de Mary Meigs
Price: $500
Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel / Nordisk Forlag, 1942. First edition. "Navigare necesse est..." Signed with Blixen's personal motto. Signed on the half-title, with the motto Blixen adopted as a youth: "Karen Blixen.– Navigare necesse est, vivere non necesse." (To sail is necessary, to live is not necessary.) The famous quote is..... Read More about Vinter-Eventyr
Price: $2,250
New York: Anthropological Press, [1933]. Number 193 of 3000. Read More about Anthropological Studies in the Strange Sexual Practises of All Races in All Ages: Ancient &...
Price: $250
New York: Anthropological Press, [1933]. Number A71 of 100 copies only have been privately issued and bound...for the 100 Connoisseurs. Read More about Anthropological Studies in the Strange Sexual Practises of All Races in All Ages: Ancient &...
Price: $400