Of the Characters of Women; An Epistle to a Lady
Pope, Alexander Small folio, 16pp loose in plain brown wrappers, likely disbound from a larger volume and recased in present wrappers. This copy of Pope's famous poem has "Fleet Street" correctly spelled on the title page (variant B). Includes the half title as well as the leaf of publisher's ads, here in the front rather than the rear as usually found. Provenance: collection of Carroll Atwood Wilson, with his bookplate. Wilson was pone of the most distinguished and accomplished American book collectors in his time. Griffith 361. A touch of wear to corners and spine, internally clean and fresh, handsome bookplate on inside front wrapper- $275
- $275
Powerful Long Ladder
Dodson, Owen 8vo, 103pp; gray cloth. Dodsons first book of poems, here in a presentation copy, inscribed on the front flyleaf: "For Una, who ploughed thru cold & all that. Affectionately, Owen, Jan. 22, 1947." Lightly shelf-rubbed, a bit of wear at corners, base of spine; with most of the original dust jacket laid in, albeit in pieces.- $175
- $175
Letters; Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
Wollstonecraft, Mary 8vo, (v), 262, (4, Appendix and Notes), (2, Publisher's ad listing Wollstonecraft's other books); contemporary calf, printed green spine label. A bit of the upper edge of the title page is missing, where it appears that a signature has been clipped out; edges of front and rear blanks stained from the binding; last leaf corner turned down; covers rubbed and with a horizontal abrasion to the front, but sound and sturdy- $1,350
- $1,350
Invitation card; to A Poetry Reading by T.S. Eliot presented at the McMillin Academic Theater of Columbia University and Barnard College
(Eliot, T.S.) Printed card, 6-1/2 x 4 in, with the embossed seal of Columbia University. At the event, Eliot read his most famous poems, including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "The Waste Land" after being introduced by Lionel Trilling. Small tear to upper left corner; paper clip impression; very good- $40
- $40
The Works; of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patricks, Dublin, Accurately Revised in Twelve Volumes, Adorned with Copper-Plates; with Some Account of the Author’s Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory, by John Hawkesworth
Swift, Jonathan 8vos, 16, 80, [xxx], 340; (4), 8, xii (i.e. x), 542; (14), 411; (4), 307; (4), v, 344; (8), 307; (10), 430; (4), 440; (4), 473; iv, 438; (4), 374; iv, 383; full contemporary calf with gilt spines, red and blue spine labels, and five raised bands. An attractive set of the Large 8vo edition of Hawkesworth's Swift. The set was extended by the addition of another five volumes between 1764 and 1766. This set derives from the Thun-Hohenstein collection (Tetschner Bibliothek - red ink Armorial exlibris stamps to the versos of the title pages), a noble Austrian collection that sadly marks a sordid chapter in the history of the rare book trade. When the Bohemian castle of the Thun-Hohensteins was requisitioned by the Czech army in 1932, the collection was packed up and sent off to Prague to be sold into the trade. The bulk of the collection was purchased there by H.P. Kraus in 1934. But with the annexation of Austria by Hitler in 1938, Kraus faced persecution as a Jew. He was denounced by a business partner who took possession of his inventory to begin his own new business. Kraus was imprisoned, first at Dachau and then at Buchenwald, and although he was released, he was forced to flee, abandoning most of his inventory to his former partner. While Kraus succeeded in reestablishing his thriving book business in New York, it was many years before a restitution settlement for his Austrian inventory was reached. Teerink 88. General wear to extremities; some pages rumpled, but clean; tidelines and some spotting to endsheets; ex-libris stamps on the versos of each title page; in all, a presentable set- $2,500
- $2,500
In This Our Day; together with a group of eight of the poet’s self-published pamphlets
Pierce, Edith Lovejoy Crown 8vo, 71pp; black cloth. A nice presentation copy of the British-born Christian poet's first book, along with a splendid series of her slef-produced poetry pamphlets made between 1950 and 1980. Laid into the book are two pages of typescript poems. The book and all of the pamphlets have been inscribed by the poet to Gwendolyn Brooks. Very good in a slightly sunned, chipped dut jacket with a short snag to the front; pamphlets in very good condition- $350
- $350
Poetry & Films; rehearsal for the preaux festival
Heliczer, Piero Broadside announcement/invitation, approx. 8-1/2 X 11 in, printed on one side only. A variant printing of the announcement listed as F.16 in Heliczer's Verdant Press online bibliography, this one dated and signed by Heliczer on the verso, with a handwritten note to the German critic and avant-garde cineaste Heimo Bachstein. Folded in half twice, as for mailing, otherwise fine- $625
- $625
Liberdade Politica; A cada povo a liberdade de traçar o seu próprio destino (Conforme a carta do Atlantico)
McKnight-Kauffer, E[dwward] Color offset poster, 20.25 x 14.25 in. (51.4 x 36.2 cm.), printed on one side only. Propaganda poster produced as part of an appeal for support from South American nations for the allied war effort in Europe. The subtitle translates to "To each power freedom to plan its own future (according the Atlantic charter)"- $495
- $495
Film Makers’ Cinema Theque Pre Sents: Spectro-Mach 1; Original two-color single-sheet poster
[Experimental Cinema] Snyder, Don Blue and white poster, approx. 9-1/4 X 14-1/2 in. Original vintage poster for this multimedia event produced by Snyder for Jonas Mekas's Filmmakers' Cinematheque with the collaboration of Angus Maclise (of the Velvet Underground), Ralph Metzner (psychedelic researcher and associate of Timothy Leary and Ram Dass), Allen Neff, and Diane Rebuffo. An excellent, unblemished copy.- $450
- $450
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a Benefit for Paris Filmm[akers Cooperative]; Piero Heliczer’s Adieu. .
Heliczer, Piero Broadside poster/announcement, 8-1/2 X 11 in., printed on one side only. Announcement for a benefit for Heliczer's Paris Filmmakers Cooperative at the Bleecker Street Cinema, featuring screenings of films by Heliczer, Andy Warhol, Stan Brakhage, Jack Smith and others. This copy was sent by Heliczer to the German critic and avant-garde cineaste Heimo Bachstein, with his address typed on the blank side, stamped and postmarked (Feb. 7, 1970). F19 in the Verdant Press online Heliczer bibliography. Folded in half twice for mailing; two tiny staple holes, else close to fine.- $550
- $550
Piero Heliczer’s Newy Ears How; . .
Heliczer, Piero Broadside leaftlet/announcement, 8-1/2 X 11 in, printed on one side only. Small poster announcement of a benefit event at the Bleecker Street Cinema for Heliczer's Paris Filmmakers Cooperative. The event featured the world premiere of his film "The Stone Age," along with films by Andy Warhol ("Couch") and Tony Conrad ("The Flicker"). Although not stated on the poster, the event also included performances by Angus Maclise, Gerard Malanga, and William S. Burroughs. This copy was sent by Heliczer to the German critic and avant-garde cineaste Heimo Bachstein, and has a handwritten letter to him on the blank side, signed "Piero" along with his address and two newly issued "First Man on the Moon" stamps. F18 in the Verdant Press online Heliczer bibliography. Folded in half twice for mailing, pair of tiny holes as from a staple, otherwise just about fine.- $625
- $625
Poem for Con
Merker, K.K. Single bifolium, 4 x 6-3/4 in, printed on all sides. One of 250 copies printed as a keepsake to celebrate the Grolier Club exhibition "K.K. Merker: Serving the Muse, The Stone Wall and the Windhover Press (1956-1996." This copy has been inscribed by the printed at the colophon for poet and small-press puyblisher James L. Weil.- $45
- $45
What About the C.C.C.?; with: Woodsmanship for the Civilian Conservation Corps
(Wendelin, Rudy) Two pamphlets, the first being 8 x 10-1/2 in., 7pp printed on rectos only and staple in one corner; the second being approx. 6 x 9 in, [16]pp stapled in printed wrappers. Illustrated. Two publications from the historic and highly successful New Deal project that put thousands of unemployed men to work on conservation and forestry projects during the Great Depression. Each pamphlet is fully illustrated with drawings by Rudy Wendelin depicting men at work in various capacities. Along with many artists of his generation, Rudy Wendelin took work with the federal government during this period. While most of the artists in federal projects returned to their own private careers, Wendelin would spend his life as an artist for the U.S. Forest Service. He was the principal artist behind the popular figure of Smokey Bear and designed several commemorative postage stamps. Larger piece a trifle soiled and with some gentle rumpling; smaller piece with stamp from an Ohio CCC camp on front- $200
- $200
Hermann Zapf; ein Arbeitsbericht. Herausgegeben von der Lehrdruckerei der technischen Hochschule Darmstadt
Zapf, Hermann 4to, 177 [1]pp; blue cloth, issued without dust jacket. One of 1600 copies of this fully illustrated monograph, of which 200 were designated for the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt and the rest for members of the Maximilian-Gesellschaft. This has been nicely inscribed on pencil on the title page by Zapf for Quentin Fiore, the graphic designer who most famously collaborated with Marshall McLuhan on The Medium is the Massage. Small mark to rear cover; minor spotting to top edges; near fine in a homemade stiff-paper wrapper.- $250
- $250
Spenser’s Faerie Queene; A Poem in Six Books, with the Fragment Mutabilitie. Edited by Thomas J. Wise. Pictured by Walter Crane
[Crane, Walter] Spenser, Edmund Six volumes. 4tos; lxxxvii, 1-248 [18], viii, 251-527 [13], viii, 529-805 [13], viii, 807-1044 [12], viii, 1045-1274 [16], viii, 1277-1546 [24]; full polished tree calf gilt with exquisitely tooled spines with red and tan leather labels, marbled endpapers; t.e.g. One of 1000 unnumbered copies on handmade paper printed by Charles Whittingham & Co. at the Chiswick Press, this copy has been beautifully bound in the Riviere style by H.S. Nichols. One of the high-water marks of Art & Crafts book design, this was Walter Crane's last major commission and one of his most fully executed and highly prized publications, featuring 88 full-page illustrations, along with head and tailpieces, devices, and initials throughout. The set was issued in parts between 1894 and 1897 and the original title pages and publisher's devices are bound in at the rear of each volume of this set. [n.b. this is a heavy multi-volume set and will require additional shipping charges]. Rear cover of the final volume detached, hinges tender; some surface scratches; spines faded a shade. A very handsome set- $3,500
- $3,500
Typed Letter Signed; “Amos,” to Sidney Meyers
Vogel, Amos One page on Cinema 16 letterhead, with a second typed letter sent as an enclosure to be signed and returned. A nice letter linking two important figures in the growth of independent filmmaking. Vogel, the Austrian-born cineaste and curator was the founder of Cinema 16 dedicated to the "exhibition and distribution of documentary and experimental films." Meyers, a reclusive editor, director, and writer had been a part of NY Kino and the left-wing Frontier Films groups and made major contributions to landmark films including "The Savage Eye," Joseph Strick's "Ulysses," and Samuel Beckett's "Film.". Here, Vogel attempts to arrange with Meyers to put on a screening of Meyers's Academy Award-nominated docu-drama "The Quiet One" (1948). Folded for mailing, few wrinkles and paper clip impression, very good- $125
- $125
Group of Five Publications
(Bowery Press) Five pieces comprising four broadsheets, approx. 11 X 17 in and one bifolium, approx, 11-1/2 X 17 in., in original mailing envelope. A nice group from this alternative press, mailed together in one package to supportive poet Russell Edson. Includes: Stuart Z. Perkoff, Poems from Prison; C.H. [Lyn] Hejinian, Selections from Winslow Poems; James Ryan Morris, Black Swan Cat, Tony Scibella, The Backshooter, and Windsong Harris, Phoenix Un-Risen: Published for the Fall Offensive to End the War in Vietnam. The first four were installments in the Bowery Broadsheet series (nos. 2-5). Hejinian's broadsheet preceded her first book by three years; the Windsong Harris item is in the form of a tabloid newspaper, printed on newsprint and thus extremely fragile. Bowery Press was the brainchild of latter-day Beat and denizen of the underground scene in Denver, Larry Lake.- $350
- $350
Last Poems
Housman, A.E. Crown 8vo, 78 (1)pp; handsomely rebound in full green deerskin by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; t.e.g. First state, without punctuation marks at the ends of the first two lines of p. 52. An appealingly bound copy, with lovely oak leaf-patterned endpapers. Laid in is an autograph letter to "Irene dear- " and signed "V." for Beatrice Violet Rawson, known as Violet, Lady Leconfield of Petworth. The letter, on Petworth letterhead, presents the book to her undentified friend, specially bound with the initials "I.B." on front and rear covers. Binder's ticket in the rear from Sangorski & Sutcliffe reads: "This book is bound in Fallow Deer skin, from Petworth Park, Sussex, which has been specially tanned and dyed for The Lady Leconfield. Deerskin is a good-looking and durable leather, rarely used for bookbinding purposes since the Middle Ages. It has been prepred free from injurious acids and the natural grain preserved. The binding is carried out by Messrs. Sangorski and Sutcliffe, of No. 1, Poland Street , London, W.1." Spine and edges faded; a few small scuffs and rubbing to extremities; offsetting to the first blank from a clipping; small paper-clip impression affecting a couple of margins- $175
- $175
Trovascope
Trova, Ernest Kaleidoscope in printed cardboard cylinder, further housed in a silver-paper covered protective cylinder box with metal ends. At the height of his popularity in the mid-1970s, Trova produced this "Trovascope," placing his signature "Falling Man" figure into trippy kaleidoscopic permutations in a manner readily accessible and affordable. THe fall of Trova from the pinnacle of art-world success to the ignominy of the realm of mall-outlets is an epic tragedy. Slight discoloration to metal ends of case, else fine- $50
- $50
Italian Tour
Heliczer, Piero Poster, 9-1/2 X 12-3/4 in., printed on one side only of brown paper. The poster, with a design by Austrian gadfly artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser, announces an uncertain event, naming Heliczer, Andy Warhol, Larry Rivers, Irene Nolan, Pattilee Chenis, Claudio Monteverde, the Rolling Stones, and Pluto Venus. Likely included a screening of Heliczer's 1965 film "Satisfaction." This copy was mailed by Heliczer to the German critic and avant-garder cineaste Heimo Bachstein, addressed to him by Heliczer in white ink on the unprinted side, along with rubberstamped text pertaining to Heliczer's Preaux Festival in Paris. F20 in the Verdant Press online bibliography of Heliczer. Folded in half twice for mailing; fine- $750
- $750
Histoire de la Guerre Presente; Contenant Tout ce qui s’est passé de plus important en Italie, sur le Rhin, en Pologne, & dans la plupart des Cours de l’Europe. Enrichie des principaux Plans des Sieges et des Batailles
Massuet, P[ierre] 12mo, xxvi, 447, [25]pp; seven inserted folding maps mounted on stubs; contemporary (original?) calf. Contemporary account of the War of the Polish Succession, which engulfed much of Europe between 1733-1735 in a power struggle between the Bourbons of France and Spain and the Hapsburgs. The conflict drew in many of the smaller powers. Among its lasting results was the increased dominance of Russia over Polish sovereignty. This edition is complete with seven maps. One map has come loose from its stub and is torn into two pieces, others with minor tears; some wrinkling to page edges; covers rubbed- $595
- $595
Six French Poets; Studies in Contemporary Literature
Lowell, Amy 8vo, 488pp, [4pp} publisher's ads in rear; blue cloth stamped in gilt. Inscribed on the front free endpaper on Lowell's hand: "To Miss Neill, whose care & devotion have been expended to make this book what it is with gratitude from, The Author. November. 1915." Lightly shelf-rubbed; a bit of wear at base of spine; very good copy without jacket- $375
- $375
Gilgamesch; eine Erzählung aus dem alten Orient. Original-Radierungen von Richard Janthur
Folio, 50pp; frontispiece and ten additional original etchings, with decorative initials and vignettes throughout; linen-backed boards. One of 125 numbered copies (121), signed by Janthur at the colophon. Another fifty copies were divided into other deluxe issues with all the prints signed. The text for this edition was Georg E. Burckhardt's translation originally published in 1916. This copy bears a gift inscription: "Meiner kleinen 'Gazelle' von Juljet Gurlitt," evidently the publisher's wife Juliette. Wolfgang Gurlitt took over his father's art and publishing business after Fritz Gurlitt's death in 1893. The artist Richard Janthur was a key member of the expressionist group called Die Pathetiker (in reference to pathos) and a founding member of the Novembergruppe. This is one of his earlier illustrated books. Slight wear to tips and spine-ends; a bump to the edge of the rear board has broken through the covering paper; small spot to the upper corner on rear linen- $1,500
- $1,500