Search Results: Titles starting with R from Division Leap, ABAA

Warwickshire, England: R. A. Gekowski, 1982. 8vo, 32 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. The first catalog issued by the bookseller, novelist, and memoirist, offering 179 items, all well-described, including T. S. Eliot's Journey of the Magi inscribed to his first wife, as well as the corrected page proofs for Ash Wednesday, Virginia Woolf's manuscript for Freshwater, etc. A touch of rubbing to extremities, crease to one tip, else fine.

Nantes: A.G.E.N., 1969. 4to, 4 pp. including covers, single 20 3/4 x 11 3/4" sheet folded once to make a four pager. Illustrated with detourned cartoon strips. Text in French. Addition vertical fold, creasing and a few short tears to margins, but still very good.

London: W & G Foyle Ltd, 1967. First edition. 8vo, 84 pp. incl. covers. Bookseller catalog from the Charing Cross bookseller, offering 564 items in all fields. Very good with some rusting the staples.

[London]: Gaberbocchus Press, 1950. Three panel greeting card, folding down to 3 7/8 x 4 1/2". Illustrated with two drawings by Franciszka Themerson. This example is inscribed in green ink "With warmest wishes for x-mas from F & S T." One of a series of greeting cards on bibliophilic themes, illustrated with drawings by Franciszka Themerson. Small yellow circular sticker, perhaps originally used to affix the card, else fine.

Healdsburg, CA: [Zephyrus Image], nd. 8 1/2 x 16 1/8" broadside, linocut on salmon newsprint. Another beautiful example of the jobwork the press did for their local library. The poster features a striking linocut by Myers, which depicts a book tangled in several plastic six-pack rings. Given the limited scope of distribution, decidedly uncommon. [Johnston p. 234]. Overall creasing, with several marginal chips and closed tears. Good only.

Fareham, Hants: Red Roses for Me, 1991. 4to, saddle-stapled wraps. Though unstated, one of 500 copies. Cassette not present. fourth issue of the zine, beautifully designed and written as they all were. Seven issues were eventually published. Articles on Mazzy Star, Terry Pratchett, Robert Forster, Buffalo Springfield, White Town, Gary Stevens, Shelter, Summershine, A Turntable Friend. Fine.

Brussels: Revo, 1966. Narrow 4to, 40 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Text in Dutch. Debut issue of the periodical issued by the Dutch wing of provo, of four numbers eventually issued (no. 3 didn't appear, and the final number published was no. 5). Includes much coverage of Provo actions in Holland, a piece on anti-Atomic actions in Belgium, etc. Wraps creased, with droplet stains to covers, else very good.

Germany: Langer Peter Verlag, 1960. First edition. 8vo, addle-stapled wraps. Debut issue of the beautifully designed little mag, one of the best of the era. With contributions from the editors and Ezra Pound, Johann Klaj, Salvatore Quasimodo, Peter Rühmkorp, Hannes Brühl, Jürgen Hohn, Carl Pedersen, Jürgen Holm, Gianni Selvani et al. Very good with a hint of tidemarking at heel and a crease to front wrap, and a couple minor (rust?) spots of staining within. Scarce issue.

Tilleur-les-Liège, Belgium: Editions de la revue Rhétorique, 1962. First edition. 12mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Text in French. Superb issue of the Belgian avant-garde and Surrealist little magazine, notable for including a double-paged reproduction in color of the painting 'La Cascade,' with a text about the work by Marcel Lecomte, a reproduction of a work by Rudolf Hausner on the cover, and texts by Magritte, Jacques Wergifosse, and André Pierre de Mandiargues. A hint of toning, else fine.

Tilleur-les-Liège, Belgium: Editions de la revue Rhétorique, 1961. First edition. 12mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Text in French. Debut issue of the Belgian avant-garde and Surrealist little magazine, illustrated with three works by René Magritte, and work by Rachel Baes, as well as contributions from Greorges Roux, Louis Scutenaire, Marcel Béalu, Paul Dewalhans, Jean-Sébastian Vert, Achille Cavée, Gérard van Bruaene, and Paul Colinet. A hint of rubbing along spine else fine.

Tilleur-les-Liège, Belgium: Editions de la revue Rhétorique, 1962. First edition. 12mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Text in French. Single issue of the Belgian avant-garde and Surrealist little magazine, illustrated with a frontispiece by René Magritte, and work by Maurice Rapin, André Bosmans, Lopuis Scutenaire, Jacques Wergifosse. Tips lightly creased else fine.

Tilleur-les-Liège, Belgium: Editions de la revue Rhétorique, 1963. 12mo, [12] pp, saddle-stapled in illustrated card wraps. Illustrated with 3 drawings by Magritte. Provenace: from the collection of the art collector and book dealer John Hunov, with his tiny rubberstamp inside front cover. Sixth issue of the Belgian Surrealist periodical, this issue illustrated by René Magritte. With texts by the editor and Jacques Werfigosse, Louis Scutenaire, and Marcel Lecomte. Near fine with some light toning to wraps.

Tilleur-les-Liège, Belgium: Editions de la revue Rhétorique, 1961. 12mo, unpaginated, perfect bound in wraps. Third issue of the Belgian periodical, this is a special issue completely devoted to work by René Magritte, profusely illustrated with black and white reproductions of his work. Illustrated bookplate of the book dealer and art collector John Hunov inside front cover; typewritten title label pasted down to spine; some minor wear and toning. Very good.

Paris: Gallimard, 1932. First edition thus. 8vo, 285 pp, photographically illustrated wraps. Translated from the American by M. Lemierre. First French edition, this copy marked as a press copy (S.P., or Service de Presse). The first French edition of Jack Black's masterpiece, a proto-beat novel and massive influence on underground literature ever since. The design of the French edition is far more suitable to the "beat" feel of the novel than the U.S. edition, eaturing an unnatributed sepia photograph of a man in a prison cell on the cover. The back cover features a photograph of a blown safe. 1 1/2" closed tear at foot of front panel at spine, some light creasing and darkening to the spine, short creases to tips, but otherwise a relatively clean and well-preserved very good example of a fragile book.

Zurich: Jean-Christophe Verlag, 1937. First edition. 8vo, 223 pp, bound in dove grey cloth printed in blue; illustrated dust jacket. The first German translation of a work which had originally appeared in Dutch two years prior. The poet and socialist Roland-Holst was a close friend of Luxemburg. Following the ascent of the Nazi party, it was almost impossible to publish books with a socialist or pacifist attitude in Germany, and many such German language books were published in Switzerland, as with this title. Jean-Christophe Verlag was a publishing house closely allied with the Buchergilde Gutenberg, famous for publishing B. Traven. This shift allowed the Swiss designer Richard Paul Lohse to work on a variety of socialist books, including this title, which features one of the most striking and enduring dust jackets of the 1930's. The front is graced with a photograph of Luxemburg; the rear panel reproduces a letter from Luxemburg to the author. The two panels are linked by a photomontage of… Read More

New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1935. First edition. 4to, single sheet folded twice. Published in an edition of 350 copies, this example marked H.C. Morley, author of the Haunted Bookshop, was inspired to write the Rubaiyat one day while visiting Frances Steloff at the Gotham Book Mart, when he witnessed her going through letters from creditors at the shop. He took some of the bills home and wrote the poem, which he had letterpress printed by Lew Nye. The proceeds from the broadside went to Frances to help her pay the bills. "Awake! Depression with its long long blight Has blown by business higher than a kite And lo, the First Day of the Month has caught Me bending, and this letter I indite Oh Bibliophile, if thou canst not aspire To pay this overdue account entire Then break it into little bits, and send At least some portion, for my need is dire. Think, in this battered caravanserai Of books, I also have my bills to pay; I sometimes fear that never dipped so red The ink, as where there sits my… Read More