Pioneers & Caretakers: A Study of 9 American Women Novelists
AUCHINCLOSS, Louis First edition. viii, 202pp. Small, faint erasure mark on front flyleaf, else a fine copy in a price-clipped, very good dust jacket with light rubbing, and a tape repair at the crown. Contains chapters devoted to Willa Cather, Sarah Orne Jewett, Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Katherine Anne Porter, Jean Stafford, Carson McCullers, and Mary McCarthy.- $35
- $35
Charlotte and The White Horse
(SENDAK, Maurice). Ruth Krauss First edition. Illustrated in color by Maurice Sendak. 16mo. [24]pp. Pictorial papercovered boards, black cloth spine. Light foxing on topedge and bottom edge, boards trifle foxed, near fine in a lightly foxed, very good or better dust jacket. A story about a little girl, and Milky Way, her horse. The first book illustrated in full color by Sendak, who spoke highly of Krauss saying: "Ruth broke rules and invented new ones, and her respect for the natural ferocity of children bloomed in to poetry that was utterly faithful to what was true in their lives". Sendak and Krauss collaborated on nine books together, and inspired many to imitate their rebellious child protagonists.- $300
- $300
A Little Boy in Search of God: Mysticism in a Personal Light
SINGER, Isaac Bashevis and Ira Moskowitz First trade edition. Illustrated. Quarto. 209pp. Scattered foxing on some pages and on topedge, spine mildly cocked, near fine in a very good dust jacket with modest edgewear, short nicks and tears. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. Isaac Bashevis Singer won the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature.- $85
- $85
Éden, Éden, Éden
GUYOTAT, Pierre First edition. Advance Review Copy with publisher's review perforation stamp "S. P." on rear cover. Text in French. Prefaces by Michel Leiris, Ronald Barthes, and Philippe Sollers. White printed wrappers. Small tear on the cover near the crown, a couple faint soil marks with light creasing on the spine and rear wrap, very good.- $45
- $45
Foot – Number 2
(SNYDER, Gary, Lew Welch, Kenneth Rexroth, Philp Whalen, Jess Collins) First edition. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Moderate creasing on wraps, small sticker shadow on cover, very good. Contains "More Better" by Gary Snyder, and contributions by Kenneth Rexroth, Jack Spicer, Philip Whalen, M. McClure, Robert Duncan, Jess Collins , and more.- $30
- $30
Poems. Read at Woodlawn Cemetery, New York, April 29, 1964
METCALF, Eleanor Melville. [Herman Melville] First edition. Slim tall octavo. Sewn wrappers toned at the spine end edges of the lower wrap, modest edgewear, very good. Poems by the granddaughter of Herman Melville, apparently read at her funeral. *OCLC* locates eight copies.- $100
- $100
Restif de la Bretonne
BOISSIN, Firmin First edition. Octavo. 108pp. Text in French. Bound with wrappers into clothbacked marbled papercovered boards with spine label gilt. A couple of tiny stamps on the preliminary leaves. Spine toned and binding worn at the spine ends and corners, wrappers trifle soiled and a just a bit of light foxing within, very good and sound. Inscribed by the author on the front blank, with the family name of the recipient canceled in ink. Number 137 of 150 copies printed. A biography of the French novelist Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne, who worked his way up from humble beginnings to leave a dent in the world of French literature; he is credited with coining the term "pornographer" and having the term "retifism" (meaning shoe-fetishism) named after him because of his book *Le Pied de Franchette* (*Franchette's Foot*). Clearly it was more than sheer literary ambition that inspired him to start tugging at his boot straps. The author, Boissin, left less of a legacy but at one point held the position of Commander in the Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Cross. Uncommon.- $250
- $250
Regulations of the School of Physic, in the University of Dublin, and List of Medical Graduates
(GOGARTY, Oliver St. John) First edition. 16mo. 104pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Covers have light soiling with oxidation of staples at spine edge, small nicks, else a very good copy. Rear cover prints a table of contents. the text provides detailed historical information about the various departments of the School of Physic, including names of all medical students by department, past and current, prizes won, current lecturers, noting requirements and fees, and other historical and current information including Oliver St. John Gogarty, who was a medical student at the University of Dublin, as was his father, Henry Alexander Gogarty. Oliver is listed on four separate pages: p.46, noting that he was awarded a Doctors in Medicine in 1907 and that his father Henry Alexander Gogarty was also awarded a Doctors in Medicine in 1878, p.60 noting Gogarty has a Bachelors in Obstetric Science, p.70 noting Gogarty has a Bachelors in Surgery and p.87 noting that Gogarty has a Bachelors in Medicine, and also listing his father, Henry Alexander Gogarty, with a Bachelors in Medicine in 1878. Uncommon. OCLC locates no holdings for the year 1910; ) Uncommon. *OCLC* locates no holdings for the year 1910.- $350
- $350
Thoughts on Design
Second edition. Introduction by E. McKnight Kauffer. Small quarto. 159pp. Heavily illustrated in color and black and white. Fine in a modestly toned, very good or better dust jacket with a few nicks and short tears. "Complimentary Copy" rubberstamp beneath second edition statement on copyright page. With French and Spanish translations. Rand was one of the first American artists to practice the Swiss Style of graphic design, and was known for his corporate logos for IBM, UPS, Enron, Morningstar, Inc., Westinghouse, ABC, and NeXT. He taught graphic design at Yale University, and was inducted into the New York Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 1972. After collaborating with Steve Jobs on the NeXT computer corporate identity, Jobs referred to him as, "the greatest living graphic designer." Deep in the Territory
First edition. Oblong octavo. Fine in an accompanying fine clamshell box covered in several cloth patterns. One of 120 copies produced, Signed by designer Claire Van Vliet and initialed by assembler Audrey Holden. A remarkably elaborate book of poems, bound mainly using folded paper, and illustrated with 13 elaborate collages of woven and layered paper (six double-sided pages and the cover) using both hand- and machine-made cut paper. With a bag of additional slips of patterned paper laid in, possibly to customize one's book? A remarkable object from the redoubtable Janus Press; we note that about half of the issue has ended up in institutional libraries. Rhymes for the Young Folk
Second edition. With Pictures by Helen Allingham, Kate Greenaway, Caroline Paterson, and Harry Furniss. Octavo. 76pp. Half cloth with decorative brown papercovered boards with color pictorial onlay on front board reproducing artwork by Kate Greenaway. Half-title page and last leaf moderately foxed, else a fine, bright copy, with the text and illustrations otherwise bright and clean. [Cover Title]: The Words and Music of My Mother
First edition. Cover by Ruth Gikow. Two small quarto sheets folded and stapled to make eight pages. Light creasing throughout, wrappers toned and lightly soiled, very good. Merriam's first collection of poems, *Family Circle*, was awarded the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. *OCLC* locates eight copies.