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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. Octavo. Paper over boards. First edition, later impression. Fine, in about fine dust jacket.  "Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does -- humans are a musical species" -- from the publisher.

Tavistock Square, London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Blue boards printed in black. First edition, issued as the Hogarth Living Poets, First Series, No. 11 with 1000 copies printed. Boards quite faded at spine and edges, otherwise very good. WOOLMER 207. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall.

Tavistock Square, London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Blue boards printed in black. First edition, issued as the Hogarth Living Poets, First Series, No. 11 with 1000 copies printed. Boards quite faded at spine and edges, some little foxing to endsheets, small red initial ownership chop in corner of front free endsheet, spine ends a trifle toned, tiny bookseller's label on rear pastedown, otherwise very good. WOOLMER 207. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall.

Boston / Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1959. Octavo. Grey cloth, spine gilt. 248 pp. First edition, third issue with the dedication page tipped in facing the copyright page. Original dust jacket, price intact. Page 173 has the requisite misspelling of the title character "Seymour" as "Seymore." Small crease at bottom foretip of front endpaper, spine slightly sunned, else a very good/near fine copy.  This last book-length work of fiction by J. D. Salinger published in his lifetime collects two novellas about the Glass family. .

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. First edition, limited issue. Number 26 of one hundred fifty copies, signed and numbered by the author, of the third installment of his autobiography. Cover design by Barbara Martin. Fine, in clear acetate dust jacket, as issued. Black Sparrow Press was a small independent publishing house focused on avant-garde literature. Established by John and Barbara Martin in 1966, in Los Angeles, and shuttered in 2002, in Santa Rosa. With the help of typographer and printer Graham Mackintosh, the Press was responsible for drawing attention to Charles Bukowski and his literary work.

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. First edition, limited issue. One of two hundred copies numbered and signed by the author. Black and white half-tones. Cover design by Barbara Martin. Fine in clear acetate dust jacket, as issued. Black Sparrow Press was a small independent publishing house focused on avant-garde literature. Established by John and Barbara Martin in 1966, in Los Angeles, and shuttered in 2002, in Santa Rosa. With the help of typographer and printer Graham Mackintosh, the Press was responsible for drawing attention to Charles Bukowski and his literary work.

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. First edition, limited issue. Number 109 of one hundred twenty-five copies, signed and numbered by the author, of the fifth installment of his autobiography. Cover design by Barbara Martin. Fine, in clear acetate dust jacket, as issued. Black Sparrow Press was a small independent publishing house focused on avant-garde literature. Established by John and Barbara Martin in 1966, in Los Angeles, and shuttered in 2002, in Santa Rosa. With the help of typographer and printer Graham Mackintosh, the Press was responsible for drawing attention to Charles Bukowski and his literary work.

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. First edition, limited issue. Number 34 of one hundred fifty copies, signed and numbered by the author, of the fourth installment of his autobiography. Cover design by Barbara Martin. Fine, in clear acetate dust jacket, as issued. Black Sparrow Press was a small independent publishing house focused on avant-garde literature. Established by John and Barbara Martin in 1966, in Los Angeles, and shuttered in 2002 in Santa Rosa. With the help of typographer and printer Graham Mackintosh, the Press was responsible for drawing attention to Charles Bukowski and his literary work.

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. First edition, limited issue. Number 22 of one hundred fifty copies, signed and numbered by the author, of the second installment of his autobiography. Cover design by Barbara Martin. Fine, rare promotional leaflet laid in, in clear acetate dust jacket, as issued. Black Sparrow Press was a small independent publishing house focused on avant-garde literature. Established by John and Barbara Martin in 1966, in Los Angeles, and shuttered in 2002, in Santa Rosa. With the help of typographer and printer Graham Mackintosh, the Press was responsible for drawing attention to Charles Bukowski and his literary work.

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. First edition, hardbound trade issue, of the first volume of the author's autobiography. Cover design by Barbara Martin. Lightly shelf rubbed at bottom edge, else fine in clear acetate dust jacket, as issued. Black Sparrow Press was a small independent publishing house focused on avant-garde literature. Established by John and Barbara Martin in 1966, in Los Angeles, and shuttered in 2002, in Santa Rosa. With the help of typographer and printer Graham Mackintosh, the Press was responsible for drawing attention to Charles Bukowski and his literary work.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1943. First edition. Very good./Good.. Gilt cloth. A very good copy of this cheaply made wartime book in lightly soiled dust jacket with tiny dots on upper panel and a small loss at crown of spine.   First edition. From the dust jacket: "The text of Miss Sayers' famous series of broadcast plays on the life of Christ: together with (1) notes on the action and characters as furnished by Miss Sayers to the producer, (2) a long introduction by Miss Sayers, covering the theology and dramatic structure of the plays, (3) a foreword by Dr. Welch of the B..C., giving the history of the controversy aroused, (5) a brief note on the production by Val Gielgud, and (6) the complete cast for each play.

New York: Harper & Row, 1978. Very good.. Printed wrappers. Heraldic drawings by Scott-Giles (though not all were printed). Title label across bottom edge, staple in upper wrapper, but a very good copy, and of particular interest to Lord Peter Wimsey devotees. Uncorrected page proofs of the first U.S. edition. From the "Brief Description" that precedes the half-title: "During the thirties and forties Dorothy L. Sayers had a long and continuing correspondence with C. W. Scott-Giles, Fitzalan Pursuivant of Arms Extraordinary, a man extremely knowledgeable in heraldry. Together they explored the history of the Wimsey family taking it back as far as the Norman Conquest.

New York: Rizzoli, 2013. As new.. By the author/artist:. Large octavo. Decorated boards. New and updated edition, first published in 1981, both this and the present publication are out of print. An extraordinary and surreal artist's book, this edition has been redesigned by the author and includes new illustrations. As new, still encased in shrink wrap. Due to the book's interior being inaccessible I am not able to provide additional images. Extra shipping required for this remarkable book measuring 9 x 13-3/8," 396 pages, please choose Priority Mail.   "This visual encyclopedia of an unknown world written in an unknown language has fueled much debate over its meaning. Written for the information age and addressing the import of coding and decoding in genetics, literary criticism, and computer science, the Codex confused, fascinated, and enchanted a generation. While its message may be unclear, its appeal is obvious: it is a most exquisite artifact. Blurring the distinction between art book and… Read More

Fine. Shakespeare's Tempest - A Graphic Presentation in Leporello Format [SHAKESPEARE, William]: ROBSON, Joanna: [Edinburgh: 2011].  Oblong 24mo (12 x 17 cm; 4.75" x 6.625"). [9] ff., illus., color. Aquatint accomplished in gorgeous, rich shades of blue, the work when fully opened measures 140 x 12 cm (55.11" x 4.75"). The brown cloth binding is striped, with an overall scattering of stars picked out in black, tan, and cream. The edition was limited to 20 copies, this being No. 17, signed by the artist opposite the title page. As issued. Padded cloth boards, as above, with a paper obi strip (i.e., "belly band"). WorldCat locates only one copy in a library collection, that of University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, there is an additional unrecorded copy in the collection at Laguna College of Art & Design. "This wordless re-telling of The Tempest is a limited-edition concertina book made from a lengthy etching. The setting is based on the Minack Theatre in Cornwall, an outdoor theatre built into… Read More

London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1911. Good.. Pale green cloth, gilt spine. First published in 1907, this is a later impression. 320 pp., four pages of "Works by the Same Author" follows the text. An attractive book plate for the collector Paul Hyde Bonner (1893 - 1968) is tipped onto the front pastedown; Bonner was an American banker, soldier, singer, diplomat, and author. In February 1934, Bonner's collection of first editions was auctioned off by the American Art Association and Anderson Galleries on East 57th Street, New York City. A tiny Parisian bookseller's label is affixed to the rear pastedown. Rubbed at extremities, endsheets toned, else a good and delightful copy without a dust jacket.

London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1921. First edition. Very good.. Thick octavo. Pale green cloth, gilt spine. xci,[1],267,[1] pp. Light shelf wear at lower spine, endsheets toned, else a very good copy, without a dust jacket.
This title has a lengthy preface by Bernard Shaw entitled "The Infidel Half Century," followed by a series of five plays "In the Beginning: B.C. 4004" (In the Garden of Eden); "The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas: Present Day"; "The Thing Happens: A.D. 2170"; "Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman: A.D. 3000"; and "As Far as Thought Can Reach: A.D. 31,920". The plays were first performed in 1922 by the New York Theatre Guild at the Garrick Theatre.
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London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1929. Paper decorated boards. First edition, limited to 530 numbered copies, this being No. 391, and number thirteen of the Woburn Books. Some little loss at very crown of spine, offsetting to endpapers, else good in a fairly good dust jacket with a few chips and a fragile spine, enclosed in a mylar outer jacket.  "May Sinclair was the pseudonym of Mary Amelia St. Clair (24 August 1863 - 14 November 1946), a popular British writer who wrote about two dozen novels, short stories, and poetry.  She was an active suffragist, and member of the Woman Writers' Suffrage League. She once dressed up as a demure rebel Jane Austen for a suffrage fundraising event. Sinclair was also a significant critic in the area of modernist poetry and prose, and she is attributed with first using the term 'stream of consciousness' in a literary context, when reviewing the first volumes of Dorothy Richardson's novel sequence Pilgrimage (1915-1967), in The Egoist, April 1918" - extracted… Read More

London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1962. Green, mauve, purple and white decorated boards. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Boards and jacket design by Victor Reinganum. Erratum slip tipped in to page 26. If you have never read Dame Edith Sitwell you are in for a treat: "Once my love had the lion's mouth, / My breasts were the pillars of the South.

London: Duckworth, 1933. Small octavo. Cloud-printed boards, title stamped in red. First edition, limited to 1000 copies on laid paper. Small poetry bookshop label on front free endsheet, else about as fine as could be desired in a near fine, unclipped, matching cloud-printed dust jacket. 38pp. FIFOOT EA26a.

London: Duckworth, 1929. Black cloth, lettered in red to upper panel and spine. 7.5" by 5". Frontispiece portrait of Sitwell by Pavel Tchelitchew. About fine, in lightly spotted pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Sitwell's long poem of 500-plus lines combines both dense and obscure language with a bleak picture of modern London. Gold Coast Customs is set first in the African region of its title but the setting shifts to include the customs of London of the 1920s. Sitwell leans heavily on the erroneous descriptions of Hegel in his Philosophy of History, wherein he discusses as fact that "the devouring of flesh is altogether consonant with the general principles of the African race." Sitwell provides a note at the head of her poem and a set of notes at the conclusion to provide an explanation of the "customs" of a continent set both geographically remote from her contemporary London and in time as "In Ashantee, a hundred years ago, ...." The dust jacket image is identified in the notes as "King… Read More