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[Callow End, Worcester]: Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1967.. [16]pp. Small octavo (20.5 x 13.5 cm). Pale green printed wrapper. Trace of sunning to wrapper around edges, near fine. The uncommon second impression of this whimsical jeu'desprit, bound in a pale green printed wrapper. The first impression was "Hand Set on a Wide range of type faces and printed on pilfered Papcr This booK was planned and surrreptitiously perpetrattd bythe MIniOns of the stanqrook Abbeyp ress u´nder the u´nsu´specting no´se o´f their FIRST in honour of Whose Silver Iubilee It is affectionately deDicated anb proudly presented Iune 20ht 1967" - colophon. According to some sources, almost the entirety of the first impression was suppressed due to a reference to an acquaintance of the press and this impression was quickly prepared for private distributions. Inside the rear wrapper appears a faint pencil inscription noting this is a presentation copy from Dame Sister Hildelith Cumming, Printer of the Stanbrook Abbey… Read More

London: [London]: Secker & Warburg, Chatto & Windus, 1956. 1928.. Gilt lettered boards. Spine somewhat cocked, but a very good copy in near fine dust jacket. O. First edition of the author's most widely read work. Poet Roy Fuller's copy, with his ownership signature on the front free endsheet. Laid in are some relevant clippings, including a 1966 NEW STATESMAN review of an anniversary reprinting marked with Fuller's absolute disagreement on a point, a very closely written and revised half-page autograph manuscript of his rebuttal to that notice, and a clean carbon typescript of the revised text.

[San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1972].. Brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Preliminaries and chapter heads illustrated. Thin and almost unobtrusive remainder designation on top edge, otherwise about fine in near very good, typically rubbed pictorial dust jacket with remnant of Yale Co-Op price sticker on front jacket flap near printed price. First edition of the Chicano activist lawyer's first book, embracing the many roles he filled in his early career, including Hunter Thompson's "300-pound Samoan" inspiration and fellow traveler in FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS.

[London]: Methuen, [1950].. Gilt lettered cloth and marbled boards. Illustrations by Feliks Topolski. Small spot on top edge seeping a trace into the fore- edge, tasteful bookplate, spine a trace cocked, but a very good copy, in good, spine- darkened dust jacket with several nicks and a short split at lower fold. First edition. Inscribed on the front free endsheet: "For Anthony [Hobson] trusting that he will learn to avoid all Evil Eyes con tanti saluti Harold Acton." The reference is the novel's protagonist's alleged possession of the Evil Eye. RITCHIE A14.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1941.. Gilt cloth. Spine cocked, binding a bit darkened and handsoiled, a few spots to the top edge with a bit of bleed to the top edge of the front endsheets, some light foxing and creasing to a few corners, but a good copy, without dust jacket. First edition. An association copy of a high order, inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet to his contemporary, friend and fellow "Bright Young Thing," Cecil Beaton: "To my dear friend Cecil, the brilliant perpetuator of Paquita Gossamer's charms (see p. 288) with much love from Harold." The reference on p.288 is to a film star and hostess of late-night parties on the roof of the Peiping Palace Hotel, who has promised Freddie Follicle, social editor of the Peiping Star Bulletin, "an autographed 'study' of herself in SEMIRAMIS by Cecil Beaton." A few smudges on that page suggest that Beaton turned to it more than once. The first impression consisted of 1250 copies. RITCHIE A11a.

[London]: Thames & Hudson, [1979].. Large octavo. Gilt decorated cloth. Plates. Fine in very slightly darkened dust jacket. First edition. One of a total edition of approximately 3000 copies for British and US distribution, this being the UK issue which precedes by a couple of months. Inscribed by the author: "For Jimmy with happy memories of his dancing in New York. very cordially Harold." RITCHIE A27.

[Louisville, KY]: Contre Coup Press [for the] Typocrafters, 1999.. [26] loose cards, plus coversheet. Small octavo (19 x 13.5 cm). Enclosed in printed paper folder. First edition. One of sixty copies assembled for the Typocrafters, with a coversheet printing explanatory text and the imprint. According to the text, the selection was to include twenty of the small Christmas broadsides issued by Leonard Bahr at the Adagio Press. This copy happens to include 26 rather than 20 examples.

Boston: Little Brown and Company / San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001.. Oblong large quarto. Cloth. Frontis and many other plates after photographs (114 tritone plates in all). Fine in matching cloth slipcase. First edition. Published on the occasion of a traveling Centennial Exhibition. Laid in, as issued, is a single frameable reproduction print, along with the publisher's promotional sheet.

Boston: Printed at the Riverside Press for the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1918.. Small quarto. Full dark blue-green crushed morocco, raised bands, gilt extra, gilt inner dentelles, t.e.g. by Riviere & Son. Portrait frontis. Gilt initials 'E.O.A." in center of upper board, spine a shade sunned, upper joint cracking slightly at tips, but a very good copy. First printing of the first public edition, one of an issue suggested to have consisted of approximately 250 copies bearing the imprint for Mass Historical. The text is offered as 'edited' by Henry Cabot Lodge, and the Preface is attributed to him; BAL mirrors scholarship in noting that Adams was the actual author of the Preface, and the editor omitted none of the original text. The binding on this copy is, of course, an exception. The Mass. Historical copies were bound in a fashion almost identical to the Houghton Mifflin copies, except without the publisher's spine imprint. BAL 39. REESE (NARRATIVES) 2.

New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., [c. 1972, 1974].. ix,[3],429,[1]pp. Large octavo. Cloth and boards. Spine very slightly cocked, pencil erasure in corner of otherwise about fine in like dust jacket with a couple of small nicks. First US edition of the author's first novel, first printing, with complete number sequence on copyright page, and matching '70003' on rear board and on rear panel of jacket. First published in the UK in 1972 and adapted to film for the first time in 1978.

[New York]: Commission on the Church and Race Relations [etc], [ca. 1925].. vii,[1],192pp. Large octavo (24.5 x 16 cm). Sewn, untrimmed, largely unopened signatures. Some tanning at edges of outer leaves, a few small nicks and minuscule chips at extremities, but very good. First edition of this substantial gathering of panel discussions, papers and addresses associated with this conference conducted under the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Among those presenting addresses to the General Sessions were Dr. C.V. Roman, Dr. Will W. Alexander, Dr. George Haynes and Dr. Sherwood Eddy. Conference committees were devoted to race relations in relation to churches, housing, publicity, health, schools, industry, courts and laws, and social agencies. OCLC/Worldcat locates a single copy, at NYPL, and there is a copy at Yale. Negro Universities Press published a reprint in 1969. OCLC:48057352.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941.. [2],xvi,471pp, with 31 full-page plates from photographs. Octavo. Black cloth, spine lettered in silver. A couple spots of mild finger-soiling on the front free endsheet, otherwise a very good or better copy in very good dust jacket with flap price intact and a modest amount of sunning and slight fraying at crown and toe of the spine panel. First edition of this central work in the history of 20th century photo-documentary. After he graduated from Harvard, Agee was hired by Time Inc, and wrote for FORTUNE from 1932 to 1937. In 1936, on assignment for the magazine, Agee and Evans (who was then working with the FSA) traveled to southern Alabama where, for eight weeks, they documented via interview and photographs the Depression-era hardships of the daily lives of three families of sharecroppers. In the end, FORTUNE did not publish their article, largely due to Agee's resistance to FORTUNE's editors demands for substantial cuts. Harper & Brothers, who had… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941.. [2],xvi,471pp, with 31 full-page plates from photographs. Octavo. Black cloth, spine lettered in silver. Spine ends faded, small smudge on top edge, pencil notes on rear free endsheet, two ink ownership inscriptions (see below) on front free endsheet, small bookplate on pastedown, but a very good copy in spine sunned, somewhat worn dust jacket with old internal mends and a split along the upper joint. First edition of this central work in the history of 20th century photo-documentary. After he graduated from Harvard, Agee was hired by Time Inc, and wrote for FORTUNE from 1932 to 1937. In 1936, on assignment for the magazine, Agee and Evans (who was then working with the FSA) traveled to southern Alabama where, for eight weeks, they documented via interview and photographs the Depression-era hardships of the daily lives of three families of sharecroppers. In the end, FORTUNE did not publish their article, largely due to Agee's resistance to FORTUNE's editors… Read More

Paris: Chez Jules Renouard, 1834.. xvi,582,[6],lxviii,[4]pp. Large, thick octavo. Original drab wrappers, printed spine label, edges untrimmed. Two portraits. Three plates (one folding) and five folding facsimiles. Upper wrapper detached, with chipping along joints, single closed crack in spine, wrappers a bit darkened, offset from first portrait to title, otherwise an unusually nice copy in original state. Third and best edition of the primary early history of the Manutius family and its Aldine imprints (1494-1598). The first edition appeared in three volumes over 1803 - 1812 and remained for the duration of the 19th century the essential guide to the press, its authors and editors. Bound at the rear, as issued, is the separately paginated "Notice sur la Famille des Junte, et liste sommaire de leurs éditions jusqu'en 1550." There were also thirty-two copies on large paper. Copies in this condition of the regular paper issue, which consisted of 350 copies, are not common. "Its third edition ...… Read More

New York: Scribner, 1895.. Large octavo. Cloth, pictorial onlay, t.e.g. Frontis and illustrations. Cloth a bit sunned, some flecking to cloth sizing at edges, crown and toe of spine frayed; internally very good. First edition. Frontis and cover illustrations by Will Bradley. One of 750 ordinary copies, from a total edition of one thousand numbered copies. A survey of the poster in France, Italy, England and the U.S. (the latter essay by H. C. Bunner). As usual, the Bradley poster that accompanied the book on publication is not present. BOMBACE A8. BAL 1928.

[Toronto]: Aliquando Press, [1982].. [20]pp. 16mo Printed wrapper over stiff wrapper. Fine. First revised and enlarged edition. One of a total edition of one hundred copies, this being one of eighty on Zephyr Antique.

Toronto: The Aliquando Press, 1986.. Octavo. Quarter morocco and marbled boards, paper spine label. Fine in slipcase. An interview reprinted from THE STUDIO (1893), with an Afterword by the printer, William Reuter. Copy #9 of ten deluxe copies, specially bound, from an edition of 100 copies printed in Gill's Joanna roman and de Roos' Egmont capitals on Mohawk letterpress text.

New York: Grove Press, [1965].. [8],278pp. Small octavo. Blue cloth, stamped in silver. Uncommonly fine and bright in like dust jacket. First edition, clothbound issue, of one of the signal anthologies of its generation. Introduction by Warren Tallman. Contributors include Burroughs, Kerouac, Rumaker, Creeley, Eastlake, Selby, Dorn, Jones, Rechy and Woolf. A paperbound issue was published more or less simultaneously.

Edinburgh: Printed by Bayne and Mennons, and sold at their Printing-Office..., [1778].. 192pp (pp. 2-24 printed on one side only and numbered accordingly). 12mo. (12.5 x 7 cm). Contemporary sheep (spine worn and chipped, upper board detached). A few leaves trimmed close at fore- margin, but internally a good, crisp copy. A pocket almanac, printed in exceptionally small type. ESTC locates copies at BL, Nat'l Library of Scotland and the Huntington Library, and records another almanac under the Bayne and Mennons imprint published the following year. ESTC T17767.

Washington, DC, 22 March through May (?) 1967.. Whole numbers 12 - 15 (all published under this title). Four issues. Folio newsprint tabloid. Illustrations and photographs. Folded, as issued. Newsprint a bit tanned, old mend to partial break at one fold, a couple small edge chips, two issues postally used, otherwise very good. Edited and published by Thomas De Baggio (just possibly the future herbalist and chronicler of his own Alzheimer's illness). The first 11 numbers were published under the title, UNDERGROUND. An alternative paper, focusing mainly on war resistance, CIA intrigues, and muck-raking. A series of articles relate to the fate of an alleged surviving Romanoff. One issue notes it is the New York City edition, and two of the numbers are addressed to poet/publisher James Laughlin. One issue prints a long review by Eli Segal of THE WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS READER. OCLC locates runs of this incarnation at Northwestern and Wisconsin Historical. OCLC: 32253140.