Search Results: Titles starting with P from Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books

1916.

Illustrated wrappers, spine chipped. Features Crane as Associate Editor. In the margin of page 21, above Dimond Crisp's poem "Valentine (To a picure by Abel Warshowsky)", Crane has written: "Dear Mrs Baker, This poem seems to me quite descriptive of the picture by the same Artist that adorns your living room / Hart Crane". [Schwartz & Schweik B 135].

New York: Pagan Publishing Co, 1918. Illustrated tan wrappers, very good. Crane is listed as Associate Editor (with Eugene O'Neill), and contributes two poems "Carrier-letter" and "Postscript", neither reprinted during his life, an essay "The Case Against Nietzsche", and, signed with initials, a recap of recent events titled "Last Chords," and also an editorial "Note" on a poem entitled "America" by Grace Bostwick. [Schwartz & Schweik B 19, B 85, B 126, B 134 and B 128]. A RARE EARLY EXAMPLE OF HART CRANE'S EDITORIAL EFFORTS. Some pages show notations in ink, which appear to be additions or corrections to some material, or indicate suggested printing changes; These notations are probably by Hart Crane; Crane expert Vivian Pemberton (see infra.) believes they are. The details of these notations are as follows: (1) on the title page there are a check mark by the name of contributor Elizabeth F. Jaeger; and two price-changes (from $1.00 to 1.50, and from Ten Cents a Copy to Fifteen Cents a Copy; (2) on… Read More

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1917.

Paris: Robert Laffont, 1945. First edition. Hugo,Valentine. Original wrappers, fine. One of 912 copies on Rives.

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1966. First edition. Alvarez Bravo, Manuel. Cloth. Fine copy in dust jacket (a few small nicks).

New York: Lancer Books, 1966. Second printing of the first wrappers edition. Pages toned as usual, nearly fine. See Juliar A35.03.

Los Angeles: Palmer Photoplay Corporairon, 1921. Revised edition. Two volumes, 165, 165 pp., boards.

New York: Robert McBride, 1932. First edition. Rotter, Robert. Tan boards, gilt. Light wear and soil, a very good copy, without slipcase. No. 502 of 780 copies. With a handy index.

Peru, 1938. Two joined views, printed on albumen paper, measuring 47 x 17 1/3 cm (18 x 7 inches). In excellent condition, matted and framed. [Offered with Harper's Books].

London: Longmans, 1847. Humphreys, Noel. 8vo, 6 1/4 x 4 1/2 in. Chromolithographed title page and 31 chromolithographed pages, with text, symbolic borders, miniatures and initials printed in gold, black, and colors, 2 page printed explanation and advertising leaf. Publisher's papier-maché boards, covered with black plaster, molded to appear like a Gothic carved wood binding, with gilt stamped leather back. Although as inevitable with the gutta-percha gluing, the leaves have become detached, this is nonetheless an exemplary, and extraordinarily fine copy of a fragile production, usually found quite worn, often missing the spine, the edges chipped, etc., but here with the binding showing almost no wear and even the gilt on the cover edges intact and the spine gilt visible though tarnished. This is the earliest example of this innovative use of materials to reproduce antiquarian handmade work, and it met with considerable commercial success. Cornelius Hauck copy with bookplate. Ray, The Illustrator… Read More

Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1973. First edition. Original wrappers, fine. 208 pp. One of 32 copies on Lafuma (tirage de tête including seven h.c.).

London: Hogarth Press, 1978. First English edition. Deep pink cloth. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket, spine panel faintly toned, price-clipped. Kirkpatrick A50.

Paris: Kickshaws, 1990. First edition. Hand printed by the artist. Edition of 160 copies. This copy is No. 146. Softbound with pages loose in portfolio in a paper dustjacket, unpaginated and illustrated throughout. Fine condition. 17 X 17 cm.

New York: G. Sully & company, 1927. First edition. 4 p.l., 281 p. front., illus. 20 cm. Orange cloth, jacket missing a large piece.