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New York: Peter Blum Edition, 1985.. Printed wrappers. Illustrations hors-text. Fine in glassine. Wraparound land laid in. First edition, deluxe issue. One of 100 copies with an original color etching, signed and numbered by Cucchi bound in. Cucchi has also inscribed and signed this copy in the year following publication. The texts were translated by Franco Martinelli.

Buenos Aires: Nuestro Pabellón, 1958.. Small oblong quarto. Specially bound (without wrappers) in full piebald cowhide, with silk moiré endsheets. Hide a bit bald along the lower edges of the boards, and with a couple of tiny patches of natural balding on the lower board, otherwise about fine. First edition. Borges's Foreword appears in Spanish, English, German and French, and the index, with captions to Thorlichen's 94 photographs, appears in Spanish, German and English. The text and photographs were printed in Stuttgart in May 1958.

[Purchase, NY: Center for Editions, 1991].. Oblong small quarto (23.5 x 24 cm). Pictorial boards. Illustrated throughout with derivatives from photographs and other media, with foldouts and flaps. Mask device inserted in pocket on pastedown. Fine, accompanied by the booklet of explanatory text. First edition. One of 500 copies printed. Accompanied by brief a.l.s. of thanks from the artist. A rendering in book form of the themes also developed in Lovejoy's 1988 projection installation, produced and printed by Clifton Meador.

New York, [nd. but no earlier than March 1946 and no later than 1958].. [4]pp. Folded leaflet (13.5 x 12 cm). Portrait on upper panel. Very good or better. An important ephemeron, being an informational/promotional handout concerning this important undertaking, named after the French activist physician (1842-1911). The clinic had its conception after a meeting of Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison and Frederic Wertham, MD, the intent of which was to explore the possibility of medical exemption from the draft for Ellison. The men shared a common view of the dire state of mental health services for African Americans in New York and conceived the notion of a psychotherapeutic clinic for the community. Rev. Shelton Hale Bishop offered the use of two rooms at St. Phillip's Episcopal Church on West 133rd Street and joined Wright, Wertham, Earl Brown and Marion P. Hernandez. as board members. The clinic operated until November 1958, offering its services to "any child or adult without referral from any public or… Read More

New York: Farrar, [1975].. Very large, thick octavo. Quarter cloth and marbled boards, t.e.g. Near fine in lightly marked slipcase with small label shadow at one corner and small bump at another. First edition, limited issue, including a complement of color plates of watercolors by the author not present in the ordinary edition. One of 490 numbered copies (of 500), specially printed and bound, signed by him. The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography for 1976.

Hollywood: Selmur Productions, Inc., 26 October 1962.. [1],62 leaves. Quarto. Stapled mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only. Title leaf detached from staple and a bit creased and chipped, staple corner of textblock bruised, with staple rust, An unproduced first draft screenplay by Nugent, better known for his screenwriting work for John Ford on such films as FORT APACHE (1948), TULSA (1949), THE SEARCHERS (1956), THE QUIET MAN (1952), etc. This was Nugent's retained copy, and a manuscript note, signed by Nugent's second wife (and frequent collaborator) in the extreme corner of the title leaf indicates it is a "TV Pilot - never made." At the time, Selmur Productions was fielding successful television series, such as "Combat" and "The New Breed." This script is set in 20th century Arizona cattle country.

Northridge: Santa Susana Press, 1984.. Small folio (33.5 x 25.5 cm). Loose sheets, laid into plain wrapper. Three plates. Fine in cloth portfolio with printed label (bookplate inside front panel of portfolio). First edition. Illustrated with three original color linoleum block prints by Hans Burkhardt. One of sixty numbered copies, designed by Howard Williams and printed in Century Type on Arches by Patrick Reagh, signed by the author and the artist. Additionally, each of the three blockprints is numbered and signed in the margin by Burkhardt.

New York: Dial Press, 1966.. Trimmed, loose printed sheets, punched and plastic spiralbound between stiff green card sheets. Fine in near fine, lightly nicked and smudged pictorial dust jacket. Advance reading copy, bound up from printed sheets, of the first edition of the author's third novel, source for the multiple award- winning and nominated 1971 film adaptation, based on McMurtry's collaborative screenplay with director Bogdanovich. Preceded by a minute handful of sets of actual uncorrected page proofs, a wholly different animal than this state, although this format is sometimes confused with the other.

New York: Dial Press, 1966.. Cloth. Small thumb smudge to fore-edge, otherwise near fine in very good or better dust jacket with sunning to the spine panel. First edition of the author's third novel, source for the multiple award-winning and nominated 1971 film adaptation, based on McMurtry's collaborative screenplay with director Bogdanovich. With McMurtry's late signature on the front free endsheet.

London: Digby, Long & Co., 1902.. viii,320pp, plus 16pp. terminal catalogue. Thick octavo. Maroon cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, beveled edges. Cloth faintly soiled, textblock uniformly tanned at edges, front inner hinge cracking slightly, spine ends slightly shelfworn, otherwise a very good copy of a scarce book. First edition, first binding. There was no comparable US edition, and a number of the constituent stories were not reprinted until the Collected Edition of 1925-6, and a few others were not reprinted even then. Crane's scarcest trade collection. WILLIAMS & STARRETT 33. BAL 4096.

Paris: Félix Alcan, 1889.. vi,496pp. Contemporary gilt lettered cloth backed marbled boards, bound without wrapper. Some tanning and foxing, foretips bumped, binder's front free endsheet cracking at crown, but a good or better copy, with the half-title. First edition in book form of Janet's doctoral thesis, based on his studies of hysterical patients. His conception of psychological automatisms is predicated on his notion that "hysterical symptoms are due to subconscious fixed ideas that have been isolated and usually forgotten ..." - Bliss. Several of his hypotheses anticipated Freud who, at times, acknowledged the indebtedness. NORMAN LIBRARY 1154. GARRISON-MORTON 4976.I. BLISS, pp.38-9.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927.. Parchment backed batik boards, paper label. Spine label darkened and a bit rubbed, but a very good or better, unopened copy in broken (but largely complete) slipcase with numbered printed label. First edition, limited issue. Copy #737 of 775 numbered copies, specially printed and bound, and signed by the author. ATKINSON A29-I-I.b.

Paris: Chez la Citoyenne Toubon, 1793.. 36pp. Octavo. Extracted from none volume. A couple of minor spots, small chip in lower edge of one leaf, otherwise a very good or better copy. First edition of this early work by the future head of the Odéon-Théâtre and Director of the Académie Impériale de Musique. "Representee pour la premiere fois, sur le Theatre des varietes du Palais, le 22 juillet 1793." OCLC: 2362195.

Paris & Rouen: Chez Béchet, 1821.. Two volumes. vi,228;[4],238pp. 12mo. Quarter calf and marbled boards, spines stamped in gilt, in contemporary style. Modest foxing and offsetting early and late, old repair to blank area of first half-title, otherwise a very good set. Third edition, revised and corrected, of the author's most widely read work, published in the same year as the first edition. It was quickly translated into English, and subsequent 1821 impressions published by Béchet added frontispieces by Chasselat (not present here) and vignettes by Tardieu.

Paris: Chez le Veuve de Hancy ..., [nd].. 35 leaves, 36-39pp., [12] leaves. Octavo. Full reddish brown 18th century morocco, raised bands, side panels with elaborately gilt borders, a.e.g. Comprised entirely of engraved text and illustrative matter, including portraits, plates, borders and vignettes. Extremities rubbed, with small crack at toe of lower joint, largely marginal smudging, soiling and spotting, a few short tears, one marginal pen scribble, terminal leaf excised; just a used but sound copy, with the bookplate of Coleman Jennings. A somewhat mysterious, and likely considerably later variation on the highly popular work first published by Mazot in 1651- 3. The original edition included a dedication to Charles Aubespine, Marquis de Chateauneuf, and a portrait by G. Gheyn, not present in this edition, and a privilege leaf, also not present (perhaps the absent terminal leaf?). Like the original edition, the engraved title is signed "J. Collin" in the plate. Apart from the title leaf, which has… Read More

New York: Harper & Row, [1963].. Cloth. An exemplary copy in dust jacket, the latter with the price clipped and the adjusted $4.95 price sticker in the lower corner of the front flap. First edition of the author's fine second novel with his quite legible, early signature in ink on the front free endsheet. The sourcework for a rather regrettable film adaptation released under the title LOVIN' MOLLY with a trajectory that took it rather wide of its mark.

Praz [ie .Prague]: Moderni Revue, 1920.. 31,[3]pp. 16mo (12.5 x 7 cm). Quarter morocco and decorated paper boards, t.e.g.. Etched frontis. Spine largely chipped away, early ink ownership signature on preliminary blank, tiny spot in gutter of title and frontis, pale yellow spot (the artist's paraph) at lower edge of frontis, otherwise internally a very good copy. First edition thus, printing a translation into Czech by 'A.P.', published as volume 69 of the "Library of the Modern Revue." Of special note is the etched frontispiece of Leda and the Swan by distinguished Czech artist, Tavík Frantisek Simon (1877-1942), best known to the English language public for his superb images of New York and other cities based on his world tour of 1926-7. The edition consisted of 200 numbered copies printed by Melantrich in Prague, and this is copy #2 of the first thirty copies with the frontispiece signed in the lower margin by Simon. Rare: OCLC locates a single copy, at UCLA. OCLC: 188123546.

New York: Simon & Schuster, [c. 1968 but issued 1969].. x,35pp. Octavo. Pictorial boards. Frontis. Foreword by Victor Spinetti. First US edition. About fine, without dust jacket, as issued.

[Paris: Pauvert], 17 & 24 June, 1 July, & 1 August 1968.. Whole numbers 4,5,6 & 8 (of 12 published). Quarto. Pictorial self wrappers. Heavily illustrated. Printed on cheap newsprint and a bit tanned, several fore-corners chipped, spine of #8 worn, but intact. Edited and published by Pauvert in this ephemeral form in the context of the strikes and other events of May, featuring, in the main, satirical anti-Gaullist visuals, occasionally with text commentary. A total of 12 numbers were published.

[Worcester: Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1960].. Quarto broadside (26.5 x 19.5 cm), printed in blue on WSH handmade paper and tipped into light tan paper folder. With accompaniments as below. Near fine. An overprinting of this leaf (from THE PATH TO PEACE) in part for the author's use, as four copies turned up when his library was dispersed). As it appears in the book, it is printed in a fashion out of character with the rest of the text. In the corner of the back panel of the folder appears the following manuscript notation, in ink: "© From: the Path to Peace [/] Siegfried Sassoon [/] SAP" followed in a different color ink by "And given by Dame [/] Hildelith." Accompanied by the quarto [4]pp. leaflet prospectus for PATH ... (printing two poems), accompanied. by three lightly used quarto proof leaves, printing six poems: "The Contention," "The Need," "Unfoldment," "Arbor Vitae," "Rogation," and "Sight Sufficient." And finally, accompanied by two proof printings of poems ("Before a Crucifix," and "A… Read More