Search Results: Anthologies from Le Bookiniste, ABAA-ILAB-IOBA

Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 218 x 140 mm), 318 pages, in red boards, gilt titles to spine, in an illustrated, unclipped dust jacket.
INSCRIBED by Joseph North, the editor, on the front end paper to artist Raphael Soyer and his wife Rebecca: "You were inspirers of this book. With love, Joe North." Inscribed and dated in the year of publication. A nice association: Soyer was a socialist realist artist who taught at the John Reed Club, the New School for Social Research, and the Art Students' League.
The book consists of fiction, reportage, and essays from the pages of New Masses, a left-wing literary magazine that was published from 1926-1948. With work by Ernest Hemingway, Muriel Rukeyser, Theodore Dreiser, James Agee, Kenneth Patchen, John Dos Passos, Dorothy Parker, Richard Wright, Nelson Algren, Federico Garcia Lorca (translated by Langston Hughes), Mike Gold, and Henri Barbuse, among many others. Numerous drawings and cartoons by Bill Gropper, John Groth, Gardner Rea, Mischa Richter, and others.… Read More

New York: Basic Books, [2000]. First Edition, First Printing.
Small Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches; 240 x 165 mm), xxx, 486, [4] pages.
INSCRIBED by Ishmael Reed on the title page: "For / Brian, / good / wishes. / Ishmael Reed / May 3 2000." Excerpts from Reed's novels, plays, essays, short stories, and poems. With a lengthy introduction by the author. A lovely copy.
CONDITION: Near Fine in a Fine, unclipped dust jacket. Spine ends slightly bumped.

Octavo (8 1/2 x 6 7/8 inches; 215 x 175 mm), [32] pages, in stapled wrappers (soft cover).
A scarce antiwar chapbook featuring poems by Ezra Pound and Wilfred Owen, an excerpt from a small-arms training manual, a letter from the mother of a soldier, and other texts that highlight the horrors of war. Numerous striking illustrations by Cynthia Steinberg.
No other copies in commerce (February 2022). SCARCE.
CONDITION: Some staining and soiling to wrappers, rusting to staples. Pages are clean, bright, and unmarked. Very Good or better.