5 Poems. With Drawings by Jess.
Levertov, Denise. No limitation stated. Pamphlet. 7p. Cover design and two more drawings by Jess, who has SIGNED at the colophon. Levertov's first book. A clean, Near Fine copy with one tiny brown spot affecting rear lower margin of three leaves, else Fine. Scarce. Q19740- $355
- $355
Doctor Faustus. The Life of German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn as told by a Friend.
Mann, Thomas. First American Edition, First Printing. Book is Fine with very bright gilt, red topstain. Dustwrapper is price-clipped, with slight dulling of spine panel. Translated from the German by H.T. Lowe-Porter. English only. Nobel Prize winner. Q19730- $35
- $35
to the Lighthouse.
Woolf, Virginia. First American Edition, First Printing. A Very Good copy in dull green cloth stamped in darker green and spine and on front cover, lacking the dustwrapper. Scuffing to all corners, and dulling of spine. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked, no soil, dog-ears, foxing. 310pp. Q19718- $400
- $400
Captain Blood His Odyssey.
Sabatini, Rafael. Originally published in 1922 by Houghton Mifflin, later reprinted by Grosset & Dunlap, adapted by Hollywood in 1935 [Erroll Flynn, Basil Rathbone, Olivia de Havilland etc.]. A Fine copy in red cloth, all edges of textblock stained dark brown, in a Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped, based on Houghton's original jacket design. 307pp. Toning to extremities of textblock, as always. Nice unread copy. Q19741- $85
- $85
The Place of Creation.
Neumann, Erich. First Printing. A Fine copy in brown and adobe colored cloth, in a Fine dustwrapper (slight uneven toning to spine panel). 398pp. with Index. Translated from the German by Hildegard Nagel, Eugene Rolfe, Jan van Heurk and Krishna Winston. English only. Q19735- $55
- $55
The Wonderful Focus of You.
Kyger, Joanne. First Printing. One of 750 copies in wrappers, as issued. Though not called for, this copy is INSCRIBED to Coffee House / Toothpaste Press publisher Allan Kornblum on the title page, and SIGNED and dated in October 1999 by the Author. 66pp. A Fine copy. Q19726- $210
- $210
Philip Guston Works on Paper.
Schreier, Christoph and Michael Semf [Edited by]. A Very Fine copy in cold white cloth (blindstamped at spine) in a Very Fine illustrated dustwrapper. Exhibition catalogue for a show at select European venues, and the Morgan Library in New York, 2007-8. 213pp. Essays with accompanying plates by the Editors, as well as by Isabelle Dervaux, and Poul Erik Tojner. Checklist, Exhibitions, Biography at end. Q19749- $500
- $500
Shouts and Murmurs. Echoes of a Thousand and One First Nights.
Woolcott, Alexander. First Impression. A Fine copy in dull reddish-tan cloth stamped in red, lacking a dustwrapper, offsetting to endpapers. 264pp. A collection of theatre essays. The title of the book later (1929) became the title of The New Yorker column "Shouts & Murmurs" which Woolcott wrote. This book is scarce. Q19742- $100
- $100
Nightwood.
Barnes, Djuna. Copyright page states 1937, but this New Classics reissue is later, circa 1949. About Fine in variant pale green textured paper covered boards, in a Very Good rich dark purple dustwrapper (designed by Lustig, one of his best), not price-clipped, unfaded with tiny loss to crown and along top edge of front panel. 170pp. With the Eliot Introduction, with his brief "Note to the Second Edition" dated 1949. Text clean and unmarked. Q19717- $225
- $225
Cain X 3. The Postman Always Rings Twice. Mildred Pierce. Double Indemnity.
Cain, James M. First Printing. About Fine in jet black cloth, pink topstain, in a Very Good glossy white, pink and green dustwrapper, not price-clipped, with two short closed tears top rear panel. 465pp. with a New Introduction by Tom Wolfe. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. Trace spotting to fore-edge of textblock. Q19745- $50
- $50
A Stone for Danny Fisher.
Robbins, Harold. First Printing. A Fine copy in dull green cloth, in a Fine dustwrapper, price-clipped. 404pp. This copy SIGNED by the Author on a custom typewriter annotated bookplate laid-in to book. Narrative was the basis for Elvis Presley's King Creole movie vehicle. Q19733- $350
- $350
Mountains and Rivers Without End.
Snyder, Gary. First Edition Thus, First Printing. A Very Fine copy in quarter black cloth over dark blue paper covered boards, in a Very Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped (jacket design by Tom Killion). 157pp. Includes the three CD's inside mounted pockeds at front and rear pastedowns (unopened). Includes the text of the first complete edition of 1996. Q19732- $125
- $125
Moments Preserved. Eight Essays in Photographs and Words.
Penn, Irving. An unequivocally Fine copy in white linen cloth, in a Fine white dustwrapper (slight mellowing of spine panel), in a Fine slipcase (no slits, breaks). 183pp. With an Introduction by Alexander Liberman; Rosemary Blackmon collaborated in the Writing of the Captions and the Text. Includes examples from all phases of his work. Scarce in this condition. Q19746 Fine in Dustwrappers and Publisher's Slipcase- $2,000
- $2,000