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Tandem: Comprising two of her favourite novels namely 'My Cousin Rachel' and 'Mary Anne' by du Maurier, Daphne

Victor Gollancz, 1964. First thus, publisher's file copy, novels previously published 1951, 1954.This edition includes the psychological thriller set in Cornwall, My Cousin Rachel, and Mary Ann, a novel based on the life of du Maurier's great grandmother …

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£250.00

[Lot of Ephemera and Photographs, ] by Porter, Katherine Anne

Various places, various dates. Quarto and small octavo. Eleven photographs, two printed items, and one publicity print of a dust jacket. Generally very good to fine (with exception noted below). Included are five original prints of portrait photographs,…

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$275.00

[Original Studio Publicity Pressbook for:] MEN AGAINST THE SKY by West, Nathanael [screenwriter]

[Los Angeles]: RKO Radio Pictures, 1940. 11,[2]pp. Folio. Pictorial self-wrappers. Heavily illustrated throughout. Horizontal fold (with a bit of wear to upper wrapper along fold), some minor dust marking, pencil booking date erased from white area of up…

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$450.00

LA S.V. E FAMIGLIA E PREGATA DI PARTECIPARE ALLA "SETTIMANA MOZARTIANA" CHE SI SVOLGERA A RAPALLO ... [caption title] by [Pound, Ezra]

[Rapallo, 1933. [4]pp. Folded broadside, text on exterior panels only. Some soft creases and short tears, a few pencil erasures from lower panel, else very good. First printing of this prospectus for the series of three concert performances by Olga Rudge…

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$225.00

PRAYER FOR THE GREAT FAMILY [caption title] by Snyder, Gary

[San Francisco: Hermes Free Press, 1971. Folio broadside (40.5 x 29 cm). Block prints by Paul Kissinger. Old hard crease across middle, some darkening at edges and a small spot, short edge tear at top margin, otherwise very good. First edition, the "fugi…

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$175.00

THEORY 140 STATEMENTS by [Hollings, Ken]: "Capalula" [pseud]

Amsterdam: Kontext Publications, 1979. [30]pp. Sq. octavo. Printed wrappers. White wrappers a bit dust smudged, otherwise very good or better. First edition. One of 500 copies printed. A quite early work by the musician and performance artist, later nove…

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$125.00

LES LAURIERS SONT COUPÉS by Dujardin, Édouard

Paris: Librairie de la Revue Indépendente, 1888. 139,[5]pp. Small octavo. Original printed wrappers. Engraved portrait of the author by Jacques E. Blanche. Wrappers lightly rubbed and faintly soiled, top edge foxed, with a few isolated incidents of foxi…

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$1,250.00

MUSICA TIGULLIANA PROGETTATA 'INVERNO MUSICALE"... RAPALLO: CONCERTI NELLA GRAN SALA DEL MUNICIPIO [caption title and conclusion] by Pound, Ezra

[Rapallo: Printed at the Office of IL MARE, 1934. Quarto broadside. (28.3 x 22.3 cm). Text on recto only, printed in double columns. A few short edge tears and creases, but very good. First separate printing, signed in type by Pound at the conclusion, of…

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$175.00

POETIC DISTURBANCES by Duncan, Robert

[ Berkeley]: Maya Quarto Eight, 1970. Quarto. Sewn wrappers, paper label. Trace of sunning to spine, else fine. First edition, deluxe issue. One an unknown number of copies designated 'H.C.' (this being #2) and initialed by Duncan, in addition to fifty n…

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$175.00

...A LETTER TO A SMALL NEPHEW NAMED CLAUD... by Rolfe, Frederick, "Baron Corvo

Iowa City: Typographic Library The University of Iowa School of Journalism, 1964. Quarto. Decorated paper wrappers, printed label. Soft crease at crown of spine, else about fine. First edition. One of sixty-five copies printed on Strathmore Rag paper, fr…

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$350.00

STUDI TIGULLIANI [caption title] ESSENDO RAPALLO ORMAI CONOSCIUTA COME CENTRO MUSICAL [text opening]...ORE DI STUDIO ALLE 21 DI:... by [Pound, Ezra]

[Rapallo: Arti Grafiche Tigullio, 1936. Narrow folio broadside (44 x 14.5 cm.) Text on recto only, printed in double columns. Griffin device at head and toe. Folded across middle, otherwise a very nice copy. First separate printing of this prospectus for…

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$175.00

Collected Poems of Raymond Knister by Knister, Raymond

Toronto: Ryerson Press [1949], 1st edition. (Hardcover) 45pp. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Photographic frontispiece, bibliography. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown and owner markings on the front endpaper, also…

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$105.00

SERGEI YESENIN 1895 - 1925 [caption title] by Harrison, Jim

[Fremont, MI]: The Sumac Press, 1971. Octavo broadside (23 x 15 cm). Very near fine. First separate edition, the slightly more common state printed in black ink. However, this copy exhibits a feature the bibliographers identify with the red-ink variety: …

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$750.00

MONOLOGUE DE L'EMPLOYÉ by Ferry, Jean [ pseud of Jean André Levy]

[ Paris]: Collège de 'Pataphysique, 1954. 12mo. Pale green printed wrappers. Wrappers faintly sunned at edges, otherwise fine, unopened. First edition. One of 278 copies on Chiffon, from a total edition of 333 copies. An early example of the prolific fi…

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$175.00

JET-P68 by Bentivoglio, Mirella

Rome: Edikon, 1976. Oblong small octavo. Stiff decorated wrappers. Laid-in pictorial gatefold by Bruno Conte. A few small faint spots to white wrapper, otherwise very good to near fine. First edition. Bentivoglio's poems are printed in both Italian and E…

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$100.00