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London: The Nonesuch Press, 1926. Limited edition, #98 of 1250 copies on japon vellum signed by the author. Pages uncut and untrimmed. Top and bottom spine darkened, otherwise an about fine copy. Parchment dust wrapper, trimmed short of board edges as issued, is toned and a bit wrinkled with one chip.

New York: Living Hand, 1976. First Edition.
Limited Edition this is #260 of 500. Though not called for, signed by Auster.
After graduating Columbia in 1970, Paul Auster moved to Paris where he earned a living working as a telephone operator for the Paris bureau of the New York Times and translating French poetry. While in Paris, Auster founded Living Hand, both a little magazine and a small, independent publishing house. Living Hand took its name from Keats ("This living hand, now warm and capable"). Eight issues of Living Hand were published, containing a great number of Auster's translations. This is issue # 7, a full length monolog of Selected Poems from Andre Du Bouchet, translated by Auster.
A fine copy in wrappers.

West Norwood, London: The Complete Press, n.d. (1917). First edition.
Sm 4to. 27pp. Tissue guarded frontis. Inscribed by Page to a fellow diplomat posted to the U.S. embassy at Bangkok. A very good copy, slightly cocked with a little weakness to front binding, heavy offsetting to front and rear end papers, slightly faded spine and rubbing to spine tips.
Walter Hines Page (August 15, 1855 - December 21, 1918) was an American journalist, publisher, and diplomat. In March 1913, Page was appointed U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom by President Woodrow Wilson, whom Page had befriended in 1882 when Wilson was a young lawyer starting out in Atlanta. Page was one of the key figures involved in bringing the United States into World War I on the Allied side. As ambassador to Britain, he defended British policies to Wilson and helped to shape a pro-Allied slant in the President and in the United States as a whole. One month after Page sent a message to Wilson, the U.S. Congress declared war on Germany. For… Read More