Search Results: Titles starting with V from James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1931. First edition. A very fine copy, virtually as new. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket. A very fine copy, virtually as new.

New York: New Directions, (1950). First edition (1600 copies printed). Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his friend Anatole Broyard, "For Anatole / from Delmore." Broyard was a prominent critic and book reviewer for the New Yorker and the New York Times, a teacher [Columbia University, The New School and New York University), and author, whose memoir Kafka Was The Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir was published posthumously in 1993. After his death, Broyard, a man of mixed race born of Louisiana Creole parents in New Orleans in 1920, was criticized for concealing his race by Henry Louis Gates Jr. in an article first published as "White Like Me" in the New Yorker in 1996, and later in an expanded version of the essay published under the title "The Passing of Anatole Broyard" in Gates's book Thirteen Ways of Looking At A Black Man (1997). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

(Boston, MA: Barn Dream Press, 1971). First edition. One of 26 specially bound lettered copies signed by Wright out of a total edition of 526 copies, 500 of which were bound in paper wrappers. Fine copy.. 8vo, original red cloth. Fine copy.

Paris: Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1926. First edition. Limited to 878 copies, of which this is one of 118 roman-numeraled copies, printed hors commerce. Presentation copy, inscribed on the half-title: "A Madame Lalli Horstmann, pour l'accompagnon a Paris et, surtout, pour l'attirer dans le Valais et vers l'ancienne tour jalouse de Val-Mont, (Fin de Juin 1926, Muzot) R. M. Rilke. Yapped edges slightly worn, otherwise a fine copy in custom cloth folding box with a reproduction of the frontispiece on the front cover. Small 8vo, original green printed wrappers. Yapped edges slightly worn, otherwise a fine copy in custom cloth folding box with a reproduction of the frontispiece on the front cover.

Verona: Printed for Cariere Fedrigoni, 1981. First edition of this essay, translated from the English into Italian by Amerigo Guadagnin, and printed on commission by the Plain Wrapper Press. Limited to 400 numbered copies printed in Monotype Dante on white Fedrigoni Scaligera paper, with a screenprint by Berardinelli from a drawing by Ruskin. Fedrigoni is one of the largest paper manufacturers in Italy, and supplied much of the paper used by the Plain Wrapper Press. Smyth 32. Fine copy. 4to, original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Fine copy.

Cambridge, MA: Richard Brukenfeld, 1955. First edition of Corso's first book, printed in an edition of 500 copies, of which approximately half were estimated to have been lost in the mail. The cost of the book was underwritten by friends of Corso's at Harvard, where he was allowed to continue to audit courses as a non-matriculating student by Archibald MacLeish to whom he had shown his poems, and where the first of his poems were published in The Harvard Advocate. The book bears an introduction signed P. L. B., and is dedicated "For all my friends . . . my beautiful Cambridge friends.. A hint of discoloration at the top of the front cover, otherwise a very fine copy. 8vo, original printed wrappers designed by Nick Cikovsky. A hint of discoloration at the top of the front cover, otherwise a very fine copy.

London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, Fleet Street; and E. Drury, Stamford, 1821. First edition, Carter's variant binding ‘A', complete with half-titles and four pages of publisher's advertisements at the back of the second volume. Carter, Binding Variants, p. 104. 2000 copies printed. "The Village Minstrel reveals Clare as a far more versatile and accomplished writer than had been apparent from his first book. The main body of the first volume is dominated by the title poem, Clare's first attempt at a sustained autobiographical meditation in verse. It is followed by a miscellany of poems, with songs and ballads interspersed among descriptive and reflective pieces in which Clare describes himself walking or sitting alone in the countryside, watching and recording the processes of nature. The second volume contains the sonnets in which Clare's miniaturist art begins to mature as well as a glossary Taylor compiled from information provided by the author." Jonathan Bate, John Clare: A Biography… Read More

(No date). This "first draft" inscribed: "To Mr. (Herbert F.) Gunnison with the author's best wishes." A printed title page bearing the imprint Eagle Book and Job Printing Department of Brooklyn-New York and the date 1902 states: "This play was acted by the author's brother Mr. Otis Skinner". Otis Skinner, a prominent 19th Century actor, was also the father of the actress Cornelia Otis Skinner. A frontispiece portrait of the author is bound in. Charles Skinner (1852-1907), born in Victor, New York, was editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, and wrote a well-regarded study of a former editor/writer there, Walt Whitman - "Whitman As Editor" - which was published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1903. Villon the Vagabond was one of his more popular works. He collected and published American Indian myths and legends, as well as works of natural history. Binding a bit scuffed. Original holograph manuscript, 92 pages, folio, rectos only, three quarter morocco & marbled boards. Binding a bit scuffed.

(Frankfort, Kentucky): Gnomon Press, (2006). First edition, limited issue, one of 50 numbered copies signed by the photographer and with an original signed and numbered print ["Juana Paloma, 1998"] enclosed in a separate envelope and laid in. By the author of The Neugents (Jargon Society, 1993). As new. 4to, illustrated, original cloth, matching cloth slipcase. As new.

N. Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1925. First American edition. Signed by the author on the title-page. A very fine copy, virtually as new. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket. A very fine copy, virtually as new.

Newark, VT: The Janus Press, 2000. First edition. One of 200 copies of which 50 copies were specially published for Janus Press patrons. Accompanied by a bifolium explaining the volumes (of vulnerability) artists' book exhibition organized by Susan Johanknecht and Katharine Meynell. This book represented Claire Van Vliet in the exhibition. Very fine copy. Small, oblong 8vo, illustrated with numerous wood and metal printers' dingbats and commercial linecuts, 24 unnumbered pages created from an 11- x 23 inch sheet cut into thirds horizontally and folded into fourths vertically, publisher's board slipcase. Very fine copy.

Berlin und Leipzig: Imm Insel-Verlag bein Schuster & Loeffler, 1900. . First edition of this early collection of stories about a God who is a sculptor resembling Rodin, for whom Rilke served as secretary. Von Mises 11. Presentation copy, inscribed by Rilke on the first blank to his cousin Paula: "Meiner lieber Cousine und Fründin, meiner lieber hilfreichen Paula. René. Weinachten 1900." In English, "My dear cousin and friend, my dear helpful Paula. René. Christmas 1900." Paula von Rilke was one of the poet's close relatives, both friend and benefactor. During her life she advanced him money against an inheritance and then, at her death, left him a legacy which enabled him to live permanently in Switzerland. Covers darkened and lightly soiled, otherwise a very good copy, preserved in a full brown morocco clamshell box. 8vo, illustrated, original decorated boards (rebacked). Covers darkened and lightly soiled, otherwise a very good copy, preserved in a full brown morocco clamshell box.

Silver Spring, MD: Self-published, Summer 1973. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the editor on the contents-page: "Dear Jonathan [Williams] and Tom [Meyer], Hope this interests you. Best, Barry. Fine copy. 4to, original illustrated wrappers, stapled as issued. Fine copy.

N. Y.: The Macaulay Company, 1928. First edition of Williams' first serious novel, an autobiographical recreation of an American's first trip to Europe, dedicated to Ezra Pound: "To the first of us all, my old friend . . ." Wallace A10. Louis Zukofsky's copy, with his ownership signature on the front free endpaper, dated 1928. In 1932, Zukofsky, along with other Objectivist poets including Ezra Pound, formed To Publishers, which published Williams' A Novelette And Other Prose (1921-1931). With the publisher's promotional flyer laid in. A very good copy, in a full cloth slipcase with leather label on the spine. 8vo, original cloth. A very good copy, in a full cloth slipcase with leather label on the spine.

Paris: Aux Editions du Sagittaire, 1925. First edition. One of 50 large paper copies printed on Japon. A fine, unopened copy. 8vo, original black and red wrappers. A fine, unopened copy.