The Wild Party

NY: Covici Friede, 1929. 2nd Trade Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. The second edition that Covici published with Friede following Covici's 1928 first edition, limited, illustrated by Reginald March. Colophon states second trade edition 2000 copies, this copy hand-numbered 653. This edition, not illustrated, dropped provocative 8-lines in two stanza at the end of page 22. Inserted loosely here… Read more about this item

Pantheon, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Used - Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, First Printing (Full Number Line). Not price-clipped ($22.00 price intact). Published by Pantheon Books, 1994. Octavo. Gray cloth over green boards stamped in green with red endpapers. Book is very good; with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp.… Read more about this item

NY: The Sylvan Press. Very Good; Front cover lettering sticky, plastic jacket worn, endpapers toned.. 1947. Limited Edition. Hardcover. A hard-boiled, jazz age book-length poem originally published in 1928. Faux-leather cloth binding with titles stamped in gilt on front boards and spine. One of 1499 numbered copies issued in US. This is number 222. Introduction by Louis… Read more about this item

New York: Pantheon, 1994. First Edition, Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Tall slim 8vo., 112pp, Beautiful Stated First Edition, First Printing with full number sequence of this newly issued edition illustrated by Art Spiegelman. This is the second state with the correction to included the last two lines of text. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear.… Read more about this item

PANTHEON. NY 1994. Fine with no dust jacket. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 0375706437 . UNCORRECTED PROOF. Fine in pictorial blue printed wrappers. .

London: Martin Secker, 1928. Bound in blue cloth, stamped in gold. This is the first British edition limited to 2000 copies. This book was "Banned in Boston" when it was published in the States two years earlier and was considered "lewd". A party with bathtub gin, flappers, egotistical friends, etc. Some wear to edges, but… Read more about this item

New York City: Pantheon Books, 1994. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Small Bds. & Cl. W. Dj.. Fine. Jazz poem that has never found an avenue of sucess either through movies or musicals. This edition is nice because of the Spiegelman drawings that fill the book. Price clipped. Fine/fine

[Germany]: Privately printed, 1929. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Limited issue. Tall octavo. Blue cloth gilt. Fine in near fine unprinted die-cut dust jacket with a couple of small tears. Limited to 1000 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered. The quintessential hardboiled twenties poem. Basis for the 1975 film directed by James Ivory and starring James Coco and Raquel Welch.

The Sylvan Press, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. limited edition of 1499 copies of which this is number 798. From the 1000+ volume private collection of well-known Australian poet and author Guy Weller all of which are listed or will soon be listed on this site. Includes many hardcover Collected Poems… Read more about this item

NY: PRIVATELY PRINTED.. Very Good. 1929. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Privately printed limited edition. Unnumbered copy constituting an overrun of 200 numbered limitation. Very good copy in quarter black cloth & gold-colored boards with purple end-papers & paste-downs in good only example of the fragile gold-colored printed dust jacket. (Shallow chipping at spine ends, with… Read more about this item

Pantheon, 1994. Stated First edition. Hardcover. Good +/good +.

Pantheon Books, 1994 Book. Illus. by Spiegelman, Art. Fine. Hardcover. First Printing. New edition of the 1928 "lost" classic, with new illustrations. Signed by the illustrator including a bottle of poison drawing on the half title page. Slight imperfections to the jacket, shallow crease on the front flap..

Text is clean and unmarked in a square bright and tight binding. Price unclipped DJ has very light shelf wear with no tears nor chips. From the front DJ flap, " 'The Wild Party' Art Spiegelman's sinister and witty black-and-white drawings give charged new life to Joseph Moncure March's Wild Party', a lost classic from 1928. The inventive and varied… Read more about this item

New York: Pantheon, 1994. First Edition, Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Tall slim 8vo., 112pp, Beautiful Stated First Edition, First Printing with full number sequence of this newly issued edition illustrated by Art Spiegelman. This is the second state with the correction to included the last two lines of text. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear.… Read more about this item

Privately published, 1930. Limited ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 24.5 x 16 cm. Octavo. 80pp. 1/2 black boards, gold paper covered covers. Published for subscribers, copy number 78 of 200 copies printed. Introduction by Louis Untermeyer. Scuffing to the edges of the boards. Evidence of bookplate removeal on front fixed endpaper. Bookplate on rear free endpaper. Lewd narrative poem.… Read more about this item

Chicago: Covici Friede, 1929. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good. 8vo., 120pp, Beautiful Second Trade Edition, #1590 of only 2000 copies published. Bound in publisher's buckram with titles stamped in gold on spine. Square and tight with no discernible wear. A hint only of toning to page edges as well as a small area at the spine. Remarkably well-preserved. Included… Read more about this item

New York: Covici Friede, 1929.. 1929.. Fair. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR JOSEPH MONCURE MARCH TO CINEMATOGRAPHER LEON SHAMROY WITH WHOM HE WORKED ON THE FILM "JENNIE GERHARDT" - Octavo, 8-3/4 inches high by 6 inches wide. Natural buckram titled in black on the spine. The covers are soiled and rubbed with wear to the corners and edges. The head and… Read more about this item

Pantheon. Used - Acceptable. Hardcover The item is fairly worn but still readable. Signs of wear include aesthetic issues such as scratches, worn covers, damaged binding. The item may have identifying markings on it or show other signs of previous use. May have page creases, creased spine, bent cover or markings inside. Packed with care, shipped promptly.

London: Martin Secker, 1928. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Tall slim 8vo., 100pp, Solid First British Edition, one of only 2000 unnumbered copies published. Bound in purple cloth with titles in gold on spine. Square and tight with some light scattered spotting to the prelims. Wear to spine ends, edges and tips. Light soiling. Lacking dust-jacket. An… Read more about this item

Hard Cover. Princeton 1994. Clean Text, No Water Damage, Strong Binding. Unless Listed in this decription, VG or Better.