Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs by Cohen, Leonard - 1993

London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1877. Two volume set with purple cloth, black and gold printing on front covers, gold on spine, bevelled edges on covers, brown end papers. Square solid copies with color fading of cloth on spines and along spines of both volumes. Light fading around edges of covers, a thin light stain along right side of front cover of volumetwo, otherwise all covers show light wear. Top edges of both books are dusty. Small pieces of cheap paper were used to mark about five places in volume 2, and the papers left small stains near the top of the page near the center gutter. A small amount of pencil writing on the back of the front free end paper of volume one, otherwise the interiors of both volumes are clean and unmarked.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good- Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Bordeaux, ACTAR arc en reve / centre d'architecture, 2000. Signed by Rem Koolhaas. First edition / First printing. Includes CD in back pocket. Black wrappers in yellow printed vinyl jacket. Very fine in fine jacket. Rem Koolhaas is the Pritzker Prize Winner for 2000.

The Fortune Press, London, 1945. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition of the author's first book, this being in un-noted binding variant in grey cloth, lettered in gold at the spine. Printed on Glastonbury watermarked paper by S.C.Jennings & Sons Ltd. Slim 8vo. 36pp. A touch of wear to two or three extremities. Some production fault creasing to two text leaves. A very good copy. No dust wrapper. Bloomfield (2002) notes: "White laid paper watermarked: 'I Batchelor & Sons Ltd | HAND MADE'. Copies are also found with paper watermarked: '[crown] | Glastonbury' and with mixtures of both. This is due to the owner of The Fortune Press habitually buying end runs of paper stock for his printers". Printed in an edition likely not exceeding 500 copies. Thirty-one poems. Bloomfield (2002) A1..

New York: The Armchair Detective, 1991. Signed by Richard Condon on the colophon. Limited Edition / First Printing. Number 87 0f 100 copies. Maroon cloth in a Maroon cloth slipcase Very fine in a very fine slipcase. With a new introduction by Richard Condon. Basis for the 1962 John Frankenheimer film, starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, and Angela Lansbury.

Oxford University Press, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. NF/NF. 1st edition, 1st Impression. 14.3 x 22cm red cloth with silver titles to the spine, 200pp with original unclipped dust jacket with £6.96 net price. The book has been signed on the title page by Philip Pullman. A near fine book with clean bright boards and sharp corners. Internally, there is the usual uniform toning to the pages resulting from the quality of the paper stock used. The author has signed the title page in blue biro. The dust jacket is near fine with only a little light creasing to the spine and only very slight fading of the red sections at the spine ends. All in all an excellent, collectable, signed first edition of this the first in Pullman's extremely popular Sally Lockhart quartet. If you would like any further information or images, please do not hesitate to ask. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are… Read More

London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1877. Two volume set with purple cloth, black and gold printing on front covers, gold on spine, bevelled edges on covers, brown end papers. Square solid copies with color fading of cloth on spines and along spines of both volumes. Light fading around edges of covers, a thin light stain along right side of front cover of volumetwo, otherwise all covers show light wear. Top edges of both books are dusty. Small pieces of cheap paper were used to mark about five places in volume 2, and the papers left small stains near the top of the page near the center gutter. A small amount of pencil writing on the back of the front free end paper of volume one, otherwise the interiors of both volumes are clean and unmarked.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good- Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

NY: ***** Privately Printed *****. VG/NO DUSTJACKET. 1930. Buckram cloth. Tom Maloney of U. S. Camera and other photography fame was also a poet. His first commercial publication was published by Morrow in 1935. This book was copyright, 1930, Mountain Lakes, N.J. On the front fly leaf it is inscribed "For Bill and Ruth and food and fun not forgetting drink. Tom" . Sm 8vo., 60 pp. .

New York: New York University Press, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by Augie Pabst Jr. to Thomas N. McGowen on the ffep. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Dust jacket has a few light scuff marks and a coffee drop in the upper left corner of the front panel; in a clear archival sleeve. 451 pages. 9 x 6 inches. A sharp copy. The inscription reads ''To Tom McGowen - / former President and C.E.O. / present Chairman of the Board / part time fly fisherman / would be hunter / and very good friend / August Uilhlein Pabst / 11/10/81''. August Uihlein ''Augie'' Pabst, Jr, is the great-grandson of Pabst Brewing founder Frederick Pabst. He joined the family business in 1966, following a highly successful motor racing career, and served the company in a variety of capacities, including as vice-president, before his retirement in 1983. Thomas N. McGowen had been on Pabst's board of directors since 1973 and was chairman from 1981 to… Read More

New York: The Floating Bear, 1961. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 12pp (mimeographed), corner-stapled. A rare early issue of this seminal 1960s little magazine. Includes an excerpt from The System of Dante's Hell by Jones and Roosevelt After Inauguration by William Burroughs (Schottlaender v4.C25; Shoaf III-25). An unmarked copy, never folded or mailed, with stains to back cover and a little toning.

John Murray. London. 1960. Reprint. 8vo. (7 x 4.5 inches). Finely bound in late twentieth century beautiful full red calf by Bayntun bookbinder of Bath. Spine with five raised bands, each with decorative floral gilt roll. Compartments ruled and decorated in gilt. Black title label, gilt. Double gilt ruled lines with floral corner pieces on both boards. Gilt inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Aside from some minor rubbing to the front hinge this is a near fine, attractive copy of this classic poetry collection.