New York: Fotofolio, 1985, 10.8 x 15.3 cm, Fotofolio, Most of the photographs were taken by Ginsberg between 1953 - 1965, various locations, of his fellow Beat authors: Burroughs, Orlovsky, Corso, Bowles, Cassady, Snyder, Kerouac, Creeley, and Ginsberg himself taken by others. Each image reproduces Ginsberg's one or two-line description..... More
New York: Harper & Row, (1972), First Edition. small octavo, boards and cloth in dust jacket. Harper & Row, Author's first book. A very fine copy in a very fine dust jacket which is not price clipped. More
St. Louis, MO: The Anvil, March-April, 1935, First Edition. quarto, original printed heavy paper wrappers. (34)pp., stapled. The Anvil, No. 10. March-April, 1935. With contributions by Erskine Caldwell, Jack Conroy, Saul Levitt, and others. Wood cuts by Dan Rico. Vertical fold through center, Light wear and dust soiling to extremities..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1895, First Edition. octavo, three-quarter cream cloth lettered in gilt and silver with silver stamped butterflies, light green silk deocrated with lavendar irises. (59) pp. Frederick A. Stokes Company, Illustrated in black and white in whimsical fashion of combined photographs of young girls embellished..... More
Spingfield, MA: McLoughlin Brothers, Inc., 1927, quarto, pictorial boards with black cloth spine. (16) pp. McLoughlin Brothers, Inc., Illustrated in black and white and in full color. Gift inscription on front endpaper, wear to cloth at top and bottom of spine. Covers and interior clean. More
London: Putnam, (1955), First Edition. small octavo, black boards in dust jacket. Putnam, With the earlier bookplate of Dr. Eugene S. Flamm, neurosurgeon, bibliophile and former president of the Grolier Club, designed by Enrico Arno in 1967 and with Dr Flamm's holograph notation, "Chicago 28 October 1965". Spine of jacket..... More
(San Francisco): City Lights Books; Beach Books, (1968), First Edition, one of 5,000 copies printed. tall octavo, pictorial wrappers. [40], (ii) pp. City Lights Books; Beach Books, Cook, 70. Wrappers very slightly sunned with mild bends at corners. More
New York: The Grolier Club, 2017, First Edition. octavo, pictorial heavy paper wrappers. (136)pp. The Grolier Club, Illustrated in color. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Grolier Club, November 16, 2017-January 13, 2018. Introduction, followed by eight chapters on American literary publishers and authors, each with detailed descriptions of..... More
New York: Harper & Row, (1980), First Edition. quarto, grey cloth in dust jacket. Harper & Row, Review copy with publisher's slip and with promotional photograph of Vonnegut and Chermayeff. A very fine, clean copy in a very fine dust jacket which is not price clipped. More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1980), First Edition. quarto, boards and cloth in dust jacket. Farrar Straus Giroux, Very fine copy in very fine dust jacket which is not price clipped. More
Westport, CT: Lawrence Hill & Company, (1979), First American Edition. octavo, boards and cloth in dust jacket. Lawrence Hill & Company, Minor foxing to top and bottom of text block. Minute scuffing to color at bottom of dust jacket spine, else a very fine copy in very fine jacket which..... More
Recipient's name indecipherable. Regarding the sale of a Hewlett manuscript,"I don't particularly want to sell an MS. at all, but I can let you have that of Idylls of the Huntress, published in Artemision [1909] if you please. [Indecipherable] 66 foolscap pages, and I shall want L100...no copyright is included...."..... More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, (1986), First Edition, First Printing. octavo, boards and cloth in dust jacket. Naval Institute Press, A novel. New, without flaw, jacket not price clipped. More
(Berkeley: 1948), octavo, printed wrappers. (112) pp. With a poem by Robert Duncan. The last issue published. Fine. More
(Berkeley: 1946), octavo, printed wrappers. (160) pp. This double issue has a cover design by George Barrows. Contents includes oetry and prose by Robert Duncan, Anais Nin, Bern Porter, Kenneth Patchen, Thomas Hughes Ingle, Bern Porter, Henry Miller and others. An important Bay Area magazine. Fine. More
New York: The Eakins Press, (1968), First Edition. octavo, green cloth in printed dust jacket. (288)pp. The Eakins Press, With an essay by Robert F. Sayre. Designe by Edith McKeon. A very fine, clean copy. Jacket not price clipped. More
New York: The Eakins Press, (1966), First Edition. octavo, buckram in printed dust jacket. (104)pp. The Eakins Press, Book and jacket designed by Editrh McKeon. Printed at The Stinehour Press. Inscribed and signed by McKeon inside the back endpaper facing the colophon noting her work on this book: "For Roley..... More
New York: The Eakins Press, (1966), First Edition. octavo, green buckram in printed dust jacket. (96)pp. The Eakins Press, Printed at The Steinehour Press. Nearly as new copy, jacket not price clipped. More
New York: The Eakins Press, (1966), First Edition. octavo, gold buckran in printed dust jacket. (120)pp. The Eakins Press, Printed at The Steinehour Press. Very slight fading to back of jact, a very fine, nearly as new copy. Jacket not price clipped. More
New York: The Harbor Press, 1930, First Edition. octavo, boards and cloth with printed paper label on cover, in printed dust jacket. (10), (62)pp. The Harbor Press, Winner of the Harbor Press Poetry Contest. Very fine, clean copy. Jacket slightly faded and with wear and a small chip to head..... More
Concord, NH: William B. Ewart, 1990, First Edition Limited to 536 copies. 7 3/4 x 15 1/2 inches, William B. Ewart, A broadside poem. With a woodcut by Mary Azarian. Printed at Firefly Press. As new. More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1879, First Edition. small octavo, cream cloth with printed spine label. Macmillan and Co., According to Edel & Laurence this is binding "c" of three, although there is no precedence. This is the first state of the ads with "Hawthorne" listed as being "In Preparation." Edel..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1899, First Edition. octavo, blue cloth with four irises in blind on front cover. William Heinemann, This copy with the publisher's device in blind on back cover, no precedence noted. Edel & Laurence A53a. Cloth color scuffed at extremities, especially along front outer hinge, but without tears..... More
London: Macmillan, 1890, Colonial Issue. small octavo, dark green smooth cloth. Macmillan, Edel and Laurence F53. With a letterpress book label, signature, place and date on front endpaper of Mary C. F. Stuart, East London, July 25th '99." 4 pp. of ads at end. Hinge weak at title page. Light..... More