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New York: Phaedra, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Cloth; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 114. Spine tips and corners a little bumped, otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket tanned and a little soiled; ghost of a price sticker on front panel.

New York: Phaedra, 1965. Advance Reading Copy (ARC) / Galley / Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. Near Fine/Very Good. Plain wraps, paper tape backstrip; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 114. Advance copy, with laid-in publisher's slip with handwritten corrections to the address and phone number, and a note, "With our compliments, [illegible] if you would care to make a comment." Bottom corner a little dog-eared, otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket rubbed; a little wrinkled and chipped along the edges.

New York / Toronto: McGraw-Hill, 1971. First Edition, First Printing Stated. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Nice copy.

New York: Phaedra, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Cloth.

New York: McGraw Hill, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A sparkling copy.

New York: Doubleday, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. A very nice, near fine copy in lightly soiled DJ.

Paris: Editions de Seuil, 1945. 2e edition revue. Paperback. Good+. Wraps; 12mo; pp. 358, [8] (table des matieres, colophon), plus 8pp. b/w illustrations on glossy stock at rear. Inscribed by the author on the FFEP, "A Enrico Donati, le Watteau du Surrealisme, son ami, Maurice Nadeau." Spine chipped, with gatherings exposed; covers lightly chipped along the edges; text block tanned and a bit brittle (as usual), but clean and unmarked, with a few pages yet unopened. Sold as is. An excellent association copy. Enrico Donati (1909-2008) was an Italian-born American painter and sculptor, known for his works in Surrealism, Constructivism, and Abstract Expressionism. He attended the New School for Social Research, and in 1942 had his first one-man show at the New School’s gallery. His work impressed the art historian Lionello Venturi, who brought him into a circle of prominent European artists, many of them Surrealists, who had gathered in New York at the outset of the war – Andre… Read More

London: Andre Deutsch, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo. First UK edition (Andre Deutsch) in the (American) McGraw Hill DJ, with identical design (Stephen Russ). Jacket clipped at the bottom lower flap and with tape repair to verso at top of front panel, else a bright example.

1971. Paperback. Very Good+. Wraps; 4to; unpaginated (approx. pp. 100), with b/w photo-illustrations throughout. Covers lightly rubbed; spine tips and corners very gently bumped. Small scuff mark on FFEP, where perhaps a price sticker was removed. Internally clean and unmarked. Female nudes, mostly.

London: Lyrebird Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Black cloth over boards; dust jacket; slipcase; 8vo; pp. [80]. Number 37 from a limited edition of 50 copies, signed by the artist and the publisher. Book is fine, in lightly rubbed dust jacket and slipcase. Poems by numerous contributors.

Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Cloth; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. xv, [1], 256. Inscribed by the author on the FFEP, "to Dore Schary with deep appreciation and sincere best wishes, Caspar H. Nannes, August 31, 1972." Spine tips and corners gently bumped and a little frayed; small bump at fore-edge of upper board. Dust jacket rubbed; lightly chipped and torn along the edges; small tape repair on rear panel; not price-clipped, VG in mylar. Isadore "Dore" Schary (August 31, 1905 - July 7, 1980) was an American motion picture director, writer, producer, and playwright, who became head of production at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and eventually president of the studio. He is mentioned on pp. 122, 131, and 133 of this book.

Leningrad, 1926. Paperback. Good. Scarce book of poetry. 300 copies only. pp. 46. 4.25" x 6.75". Plan printed wraps. Spine worn, beginning to separate. A few ink marks to wraps.

Rome: Typis Ludovici Cecchini, 1893. Hardcover. Very Good. Tomus Prior only. Coplectens Codices Ab Instituta Bibliotheca Ad a. 1870. Folio. 662 pp. Large, heavy book. Extra shipping costs may apply. Scarce.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1949. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. Red cloth, gilt-stamped lettering and ornament on upper board and spine; dust jacket; small 8vo; pp. xiii, 169. Head of spine very gently rubbed, otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket rubbed and foxed; head of spine lightly chipped; price-clipped.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. Red cloth, gilt-stamped lettering and ornament on upper board and spine; dust jacket; small 8vo; pp. xiv, 180. Book is fine, in faintly foxed and price-clipped dust jacket.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Original cloth in DJ. Illustrated by O. Soglow. Pictorial DJ has tear to top of spine and another to upper right corner of flap, along with general edgewear, but it is still an attractive copy.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1953. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Red cloth, gilt-stamped lettering and ornament on upper board and spine; dust jacket; small 8vo; pp. xiii, 169. Book is fine. Dust jacket foxed; some light wrinkling and a few small closed tears along the edges; price-clipped.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1945. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. Red cloth, gilt-stamped lettering and ornament on upper board and spine; dust jacket; small 8vo; pp. xvii, 333. Book is fine, in lightly foxed and price-clipped dust jacket.

1974. Fine. Photographic portrait of James Agee by Walker Evans, about 8-by-10 inches, b/w silver-gelatin print from a negative dated 1937. From the Cooper-Hewitt Picture Gallery.