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Paris: [Actes Sud, 1992].. 119pp. Quarto. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Black and white photographs. 31 colour reproductions. Bibliography. Wrappers lightly shelf-worn with one small tear to lower wrapper, otherwise a near fine copy. First edition. Text in French. This exhibition catalogue published for the Musée Réattu and Cloître des Cordeliers contains essays by various art historians and academics, and a Foreword by Jacques Chirac. ... more information

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Arles: [Actes Sud], 1992.. Quarto. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrations. First edition. Catalogue for an exhibition held at the Espace Van Gogh. Fine. ... more information

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Durham, NH. 1971 - 1975.. ZAHIR XTRAs #s 2 & 3 and regular issue #7. Three issues, plus associated and one duplicate. Quarto and octavo. Stapled spirit duplicated typescript, and pictorial wrappers. Illustrations. Very good. Edited by Diane Kruchkow. Peter Wild, Lifshin, Eigner, Holland, et al. Accompanied by some promotional sheets, a duplicate of XTRA #2 and a brief a.n. from the editor, all enclosed in an envelope addressed to Ted Wilentz. ... more information

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[Danzig]: Verlag Slovo, 1921.. Cloth and printed boards, spine stamped in gilt. Uniform tanning of paper, light wear at corners, otherwise fine. First edition of this late novel by the Russian decadent. Kilgour notes only copies in wrappers. KILGOUR 1175. ... more information

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Kraków: Oficyna Literacka, 1994.. Decorated stiff wrappers. First edition of these Polish translations of selected poems by Katarzyna Krzyzewska. About fine. HOLTZMAN EXHIBIT 115. ... more information

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Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Company, [1937].. Thick 12mo. Pictorial boards. Illustrations. "Big Little Book" 440. Minor edgewear, otherwise a very good copy of this piece of Greyana. ... more information

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New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1872.. 296pp. Original plum cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Binding extremities heavily worn, and with a corner of pp.191/2 torn away, costing portions of three lines; hence just a fill-in copy of a scarce book. First edition of this novel based on the eccentric author's 1870 sojourn in the Yosemite, including thinly veiled caricatures of John Burroughs (as Kenmuir, the hero) and Florence Hutchings (the heroine). Farquhar has a long, interesting note about this absurd, b... more information

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[Np]. [nd].. Unnumbered issue. Quarto. Mimeographed, stapled fanzine. Light foxing, couple of stains to lower cover, very good. Edited/written by Robert Briggs. Spectator Amateur Press Society mailing 15. Reviews, lots of art work. ... more information

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Moscow: Izdanie Vserossiikogo Soiuea Poetov, 1925.. 30,[2]pp. Decorated wrappers after a Supremacist-influenced design by V. Kulagina-Klutsis. Portrait. Wrappers rubbed, fraying at overlap edges, portion of spine neatly split, ink deletion from list of Khlebnikov's publications on recto of last leaf, internally a very good copy. First edition of this selection from Khlebnikov's notebooks, edited with commentary by A. Kruchenykh, and with a commemorative essay by Tatyana Vechorka. One of 2000 copies ... more information

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Zurich: Alpha-Presse, [1965].. 81,[3]pp. plus laid in lithographs. Large quarto (31 x 24.5cm). Loose gatherings laid into pictorial wrapper over stiff wrappers, untrimmed. Minute nick in crown of spine, else fine in glassine wrapper (a bit darkened at spine) and lightly corner-worn slipcase. First printing in this format of the German translations of Apollinaire's letters and poems to Madeleine Pagès, written largely from the Front. Illustrated with thirteen original erotic lithographs by Hans Fa... more information

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Paris: The Olympia Press / Traveller's Companion Series, [1959].. Printed wrappers. Illustrations by Jacqueline Duhame. About fine in dust jacket with two short snags in top edge of front panel. First edition in English, translated by Eric Kahane and Norman Rubington (under the pseudonym Akbar del Piombo), and published in the same year as the French text. The source for the 1960 Louis Malle film, based on a screenplay by Paul Rappeneau, starring Catherine Demongeot and Philippe Noire. KEARNEY 149. ... more information

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Berkeley: Univ. of CA Press, 1971.. Cloth. First edition, U.S. issue, printed in Britain. Large USPS auction stamp on endsheet, hence only good in very good dust jacket. ... more information

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[Barrytown, NY]: Station Hill, [1981].. Cloth. About fine, without dust jacket, as issued. First edition, limited issue. One of fifty numbered copies, specially bound, and signed by the poet/bookseller/musician/social critic/journalist. ... more information

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[Darmstadt and Neuwied]: Luchterhand, [1982].. Folio. Cloth. Plates and illustrations. First edition, ordinary issue. Herausgegeben von Anselm Dreher. Textauswahl und Nachwort von Sigrid Mayer. Fine in dust jacket and cracked publisher's plain slipcase. ... more information

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New York: Simon & Schuster, [1997].. Large octavo. Boards. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. ... more information

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London: Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1789.. Two volumes. Octavo. Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked in recent calf, gilt labels. Neat early ink name on each title (along with a correction in the epigraph on the first title), minor soiling and a minor splash mark on one leaf, possibly wanting half-titles. A very good set. First edition of the first, and most distinctive, of three novels by Smollett's biographer and physician. The protagonist, Zeluco, is something of a selfish cad and meets a bad... more information

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Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1973.. 12mo. Pictorial wrappers. Frontis. First edition, trade issue. Spine sunned, top edge dusty, else near fine. ... more information

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[Osaka]: Kyoto Editions, [1978].. Printed wrappers. First edition. Fine. ... more information

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[Guildford: The Circle Press, 1973].. Large quarto. Gathered, loose signatures (29.5x29.5cm), laid into cloth clamshell box. The box is worn at the tips and a bit rubbed, but the contents are about fine. First edition of these hitherto unpublished poems by Kirkup, accompanied by seven original prints by Birgit Skiöld, each within an elaborate blindstamped border replicating the texture of the raking of a Zen Garden. From a total edition of only one hundred and five numbered copies, printed by hand in S... more information

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Brooklyn, NY. May 1916.. New Series, number 6. Small quarto. Printed self-wrappers. Illustrated. Lightly used, but very good. Edited by George J. Houtain and Ethel M. Houtain, as members of the National Amateur Press Association. George served as president of NAPA as well. ... more information

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