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First edition (not published on fine paper) of Audiberti's first novel in very good condition in glassine cover.Inscribed by author to Henry Church. Abraxas means God in Persian. The novel is a work of mysticism on good and evil in which generosity and love prevail.

Good copy of uncut First Edition of ADELINA or Farewell to one's Nineteenth Year (ODER DER ABSCHIED VOM NEUNZEHTEN 8 ° in original black brochure.tanned back. Some discoloration and chipping to to cover. Interior intact. Novella was authored by Oskar Kokoschka's younger brother. With illustration by Oskar Kokoschka. Vol. 76/77 is part of the Series entitled The Last Day published from 1913 to 1921 in Leipzig by publisher Kurt Wolff and his editors Franz Werfel and Max Brod. The series was to become a forum for Expressionist literature.

Harper & Brothers, New York, 1907. Very good copy of first American Edition of a book of travel writing by Henry James about his trip through the United States in 1904-1905. Ten of the fourteen chapters of the book were published in the North American Review, Harper's and the Fortnightly Review in 1905 and 1906.. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front panel. No shelf wear to spine and no soiling to back panel. No DJ. Textblock tight and square, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

One of four hundred copies, in original dark green boards under Stefan George's historic imprint. Binding tight. No soiling to boards, minor bumping to corners, no wear to spine. Interior immaculate.

Very good unsigned copy of Aller Retour New York, #114 of five hundred copies printed for private circulation in 1945, an account of a round-trip voyage as recorded in a letter to Miller's friend Alfred Perlès. Some wear to gilt lettering on spine and front cover and some scuffing on front and rear boards.

The most acclaimed of Aldington's shorter war stories. Published as a stand-alone book, Wrenchingly poignant, it follows the final hours of a group of officers that has been ordered to make a sacrificial 'last stand' in a trench attack.Marbled boards with green cloth spine, gilt top edge.This edition, numbered #255 and signed by the author, was limited to 275 copies for sale in Great Britain and Ireland. Edgewear to boards. Staining to front and rear flyleaves. Otherwise clean interior. Binding tight.

Very Good Copy of second German edition of Heinrich Heine's satirical novella with original boards and a cover drawing by Jules Pascin, important Bulgarian-born Expressionist painter with more than 20 illustrations by Pascin. In glassine cover with some soiling on cover. Bright and clean inside. Born Julius Mordechai Pincas, Jules PASCIN (1885-1930), was one of the most important artists of the École de Paris. He arrived in France in 1905, year of the birth of Fauvisme at the Salon d'Automne. He was Influenced by Fauvism and later by Cubism but mostly celebrated for his paintings of Montmartre life after dark. Among his models were his wife Hermine David and his mistress Lucy and prostitutes encountered in bordellos. He exhibited his works regularly at the Salon des Indépendants. He committed suicide en 1930. The day of his death, the Parisian Art Galleries closed as a sign of mourning.

One of three hundred copies, in original yellow boards with title page illustrated by Ludwig von Hofmann under Stefan George's historic imprint. Binding tight. Some soiling to boards, minor bumping to corners, some wear to spine. Interior immaculate.

Barbara Cassin is a French philologist and philosopher, born in 1947 in Boulogne-Billancourt. A past Director at Jacques Derrida's Collège international de philosophie.

Ballad of Reading Gaol by C.3.3, Oscar Wilde, Mustard boards with white cloth spine. Condition: In very good condition. Light soiling to original publisher's two-tone mustard and white cloth boards and spine. Seventh printing of Leonard Smithers Edition, 1899. 8°. 31 pages. Original Hardcover (Quarter vellum with mustard boards). This edition was printed on 23 June 1899 and was the first to reveal the author's identity, putting the name Oscar Wilde in square brackets under his cell number on the title page. (Mason, Stuart, 1914; new ed. 1972, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde. Rota pub; Haskell House pgs. 408–423).

First American edition of this collection of Dame Edith Sitwell's poetry. A very good copy. Octavo, original black cloth boards stamped in gilt, bright intact original pink dustjacket with slight wear to folds on panels.

Item Description: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924., Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. 95 pp. Original quarter cloth binding with decorated (first binding) striped boards and printed paper spinal label.

No. 133 of privately printed First Edition of 1250 numbered copies of Waldo Frank's fictional portrait of a New York neighborhood, in a series of short-stories on the characters of a City Block which epitomize Frank's aesthetic of transcendental "oneness" which in the tradition of Winesberg, Ohio expresses the loneliness of its inhabitants. Linen-backed boards, stamped in black on spine and front cover; 320pp. Some soiling to linen spine, bumping to corners. No DJ issued. An internally fine copy of a neglected work.

Poetry by French-born American poet in which an anachronistic narrative of transatlantic memoir, nostalgia and a Euro-American sensibility is forged out of attempts to fashion a convergence of poetic genres and forms – such as the epic of contemporaneity, the lyric of experience and elegiac allusion - through the use of classical rhetorical instruments of apostrophe, imprecation and synecdoche, shaped by the historical imagination.

Edited with an Introduction by Waldo Frank. Large octavo, dark maroon cloth stamped in gold, Spine gilt lettering is dulled, one small chip on spine, some faint scratches on lower righthand edge of front board, otherwise a near fine copy in very good condition, dust jacket missing.

First Edition of play in original wraps.  Edgewear to spine. Sunning and fraying to edges of wraps. Internally clean. Binding tight.

First Edition of Hofmannsthal's 1905 first drama in five acts, an adaptation of Thomas Otway's 1682 English drama Venice Preserved, in which he made use of George's physical and intellectual traits, as a model for his characters. Many critics have commented that the 1905 drama Das gerettete Venedig not only has "homosexual undertones, " but that the relationship of Pierre and Jaffier, the two main characters, is a direct mirroring of the conflict between George and Hofmannsthal. Work is dedicated to Stefan George, "In Bewinderung und Freudnschaft." Very slight soiling to bottom left corner of front wrap, bottom of spine crimped, pages clean and bright.233 pp.

First German edition of The Canterville Ghost, Oscar Wilde's first published short story about a family who moves to a castle haunted by the ghost of a dead nobleman who killed his wife and was starved to death by his wife's brothers. Translated by Franz Blei. Preliminary leaves, 88 pages with frontispiece and plates by famed German painter and illustrator Heinrich Vogeler of the Worpspede Artist's Colony. On vellum paper. Signs of wear: Cover loose from binding. Some soiling on front and back cover; chipping on bottom edge of binding, no tears, no missing pages.

Very good condition. Decorated blue cloth boards, front and spine panel stamped in gold, gold titles, gilt device on the front cover, other edges untrimmed. Gilt top edge to text-block. Interior pages clean. Spine tight. All edges of text-block untrimmed. Preface by Robert Ross, 151 text pages plus 40-page publishers catalogue to rear dated July 1906. 224 mm x 140 mm.

Very good first edition copy in creme coloured linen cover with bright gilt titles, Some light soiling to front and back cover. Bright, clean interior. Stefan George’s collection Der Stern des Bundes [The Star of the Covenant consists of 100 poems: three "Bücher" ["Books"] comprised of three times ten poems, preceded by an "Introit" of nine poems and followed by a concluding "Chorus". It depicts, against the background of fierce and uncompromising criticism of modern society, the appearance of a divine being and the exchange between two friends attaining a mystical union. This union, their covenant, becomes the basis for a vision of renewal in society at large.Citation:Fricker, Christophe. "Der Stern des Bundes". The Literary Encyclopedia. Http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=21896,