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 is 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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[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. ... (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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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 Falk, ... (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. First edition, limited issue. One of fifty numbered copies, specially bound, and signed by the poet/bookseller/musician/social critic/journalist. About fine, without dust jacket, as issued. ... (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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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 end... (more information)

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Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1973.. 12mo. Pictorial wrappers. Frontis. First trade edition. 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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Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 2003.. Cloth. Illustrated facsimiles and photographs (the latter chiefly by Rob Rusk). New in dust jacket. First edition. A case-study of print and art in the service and spirit of revolution (of various orders) in the Bay Area in the space of slightly over a decade. History, anecdote, narrative, bibliography -- often inseparable. ... (more information)

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New York: Farrar, [1940].. Cloth. First edition. With an Introduction by Benet. Essays urging America to join the War in Europe by Erika Mann, McGeorge Bundy, William L. White, Garret Underhill and Walter Millis. Light toning to endsheets, cloth slightly foxed, but a good or better copy in a lightly soiled dust jacket with shallow chipping to the top edge. ... (more information)

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Paris: YMCA Press, 1932.. Printed wrappers. First edition of this impressionistic short biography. Small chips to wrapper extremities, otherwise very good. ... (more information)

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Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1943.. Cloth. Decorations by Edith Mahier. First edition. Offsetting to endsheets, light foxing to edges of cloth, otherwise near very good in spine-faded dust jacket with a faint, oblong dampstain to the lower part of the spine, a short closed tear and light wear to the extremities. African American folk tales of Louisiana. ... (more information)

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Washington, D.C. and San Francisco: Dryad Press, [1976].. Printed wrappers. First edition. Spine a bit tanned, white wrappers lightly dust smudged, otherwise a very good copy. ... (more information)

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New York: Viking Press, 1958.. 244pp. Cloth. First edition. Endsheets a bit foxed, faint discoloration to top edges, otherwise very good in somewhat sunned and modestly soiled dust jacket with a couple of short edge-tears and matching top edge discoloration. ... (more information)

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London: John Murray, 1841.. Two volumes. Original cloth, paper spine labels. First edition of Borrow's first original prose book publication, preceded by translations, editing jobs and the like. One of 750 copies printed. Cloth a bit rubbed and with a few minor spots, labels chipped, but with titles intact, otherwise a very good, tight set. COLLIE & FRASER A1. WISE 7. ... (more information)

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