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Santa Cruz: The Quail Press, 1990.. Small folio. Half morocco and linen. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine in matching linen slipcase. First edition. One of 100 numbered copies, from a total edition of 131, printed in Centaur and Arrighi types on handmade Japanese Torinoko paper, signed by the author/artist/printer. Killion's illustrated journal spanning a decade of travels in North America, Europe and Africa, accompanied by Killion's distinctive wood... more information

Dublin: Printed by and for Samuel Fuller, 1731.. 135,[1]pp. Octavo. Recently bound in attractive three-quarter tan morocco and marbled boards, raised bands, gilt labels. Several old ink smears to title, along with faint old stamp of a defunct mercantile library, early ink ownership inscriptions in top margin of A2 and on verso of title, marginal tanning and some occasional shallow fraying and sliver losses at edges, some shallow brittle corner creases, but an intact copy of an uncommon book. Second edition.... more information

London: Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., [1947].. xvii,91pp. Small quarto. Portrait, plates and illustrations. With a prefatory essay by Charlotte Quaritch Wrentmore. First edition, ordinary issue. 229 items, most with substantial annotations. Spine ends a bit bumped and frayed, but a very good copy. ... more information

Paris: Edward Titus Jan/Feb/March 1930.. II:3. Printed wrappers. Illustrations. Usual nicks and light wear at overlap edges, one gathering foxed, but a very good copy. Edited by Edward Titus. Published bi-monthly, then quarterly. The somewhat more sedate successor to Ernest Walsh and Ethel Moorhead's THIS QUARTER (3 numbers, 1925- 7), published by Titus from his bookshop at the Sign of the Black Manikin in tandem with his press. Titus's enterprises, including THIS QUARTER, are well-documented in For... more information

Paris: Edward Titus Jan/Feb/March 1930.. II:3. Printed wrappers. Illustrations. Usual nicks and light wear at overlap edges, one gathering foxed, a bit dust smudges at edges, but a very good copy. Edited by Edward Titus. Published bi-monthly, then quarterly. The somewhat more sedate successor to Ernest Walsh and Ethel Moorhead's THIS QUARTER (3 numbers, 1925- 7), published by Titus from his bookshop at the Sign of the Black Manikin in tandem with his press. Titus's enterprises, including THIS QUARTE... more information

Paris: Edward Titus Jan/Feb/March 1931.. III:3. Printed wrappers. Illustrations. Usual nicks and light wear at overlap edges, small chip from tip of lower wrapper, first two leaves carelessly opened at top edge, else very good. Stamped 'Sample Copy' on upper wrapper. Edited by Edward Titus. Published bi-monthly, then quarterly. The somewhat more sedate successor to Ernest Walsh and Ethel Moorhead's THIS QUARTER (3 numbers, 1925- 7), published by Titus from his bookshop at the Sign of the Black M... more information

Philadelphia. Winter 1907/8.. Whole Number Two. Quarto. Stiff wrappers. Chips at overlap wrapper edges, light soiling to wrapper edges, else very good. Edited by George W. Plank in tardy pursuit of American and British reflections of fin de siecle decadence. 1/500 numbered copies. Sadakichi Hartmann, Strindberg, et al. ... more information

Philadelphia. Summer 1909.. Folio. Stiff wrappers. Overlap edges of wrappers frayed. Very good. Edited by George W. Plank in tardy pursuit of American and British reflections of FIN DE SIECLE decadence. Folio. Whole Number Seven. 1/300 numbered copies. Moore, Mallarme, Bertrand, Maeterlinck, Untermeyer. ... more information

New York. Feb 1933 through Fall 1940.. VII:1,5,7,9,11; IX:1,2,7,8 and XI:7. Nine issues. Quarto. Printed wrappers. Modest soiling and occasional wrapper spotting, but good to very good. Edited by V.F. Calverton, et al. Founded as a quarterly in Baltimore in 1923, this forum for leftist and progressive criticism resurfaced in February of 1933 as a monthly, and concluded its life, after returning to quarterly publication in 1938, with the final issue above, a Memorial Issue for Calverton. Contributors to the ... more information

New York: Booksellers Guild of America, May & September 1939.. I:3 & 4. Large octavo. Printed wrappers. Wrappers faintly soiled, with minor discolorations at upper wrapper tips, but very good. Edited by Terence Holliday, Eugene Schwaab and Martin Kamin. The official journal of the Guild, featuring a constructive, left of center, anti-Fascist/Nazi stance, including discussion of censorship actions against GRAPES OF WRATH, first hand accounts of persecution and censorship in Germany and Austria, etc. ... more information

Devon & London: Grey Walls Press [beginning in 1940], Summer 1939 through Summer 1952.. I:2; II:3; III:1-4; V:4; VII:1; VII:3; X:1; XI:1-4; XII:2; XIII:2-4, and XIV:1&2. Twenty issues. Quarto and octavo. Overlap edges of I:2 a bit chipped and spotted, wrapper of III:1 rubbed and tanned, ink annotation on upper wrapper of one issue, else very good or better. Edited by Wrey Gardiner (first as associate editor, then, beginning in 1940, as chief editor). Terminated with issue XIV:5, Spring/Summer 1953. ... more information

Hull, UK. Spring 1959 through Spring 1963.. I:1-4; II:1 & 2; III:2; IV:1- 4; & V:1. Twelve issues. Printed and pictorial wrappers. Modest use and edge-dusting, but very good. Edited by C.B. Cox and A.E. Dyson. Founded in the wake of the demise of Leavis's SCRUTINY, and in reaction to its heritage, with contributions, both criticism and verse, by Hughes, Tomlinson, Empson, Gunn, Enright, Larkin, Justice, Grigson, Blackburn, Plath, M. Bradbury, Davies, Roethke, Jennings, Stafford, et al. Additiona... more information

Philadelphia. Summer 1908.. Quarto. Stiff wrappers. Overlap edges of wrappers have shallow chipping, faint discoloration at lower edges, otherwise very good, partially unopened. Edited by George W. Plank in tardy pursuit of American and British reflections of FIN DE SIECLE decadence. Folio. Whole Number Four. 1/500 numbered copies. Untermeyer, Amy Smith, et al. ... more information

[Barrytown: Station Hill Press, 1979].. Narrow quarto. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrations. First edition, trade issue (after sixty deluxe copies). Inscribed and signed by the author in the year of publication. Near fine copy. ... more information

[Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, 1979].. Narrow quarto. Pictorial wrappers. First edition, trade issue. One of a total edition of 1473 copies. Review slip affixed with paperclip. Very good. ... more information

Fremont, MI: Sumac Press, [1973].. Pictorial wrappers. First edition, wrapper issue (one thousand copies thus, of 1126). Rubbed and dusty; just a good copy. ... more information

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957.. Cloth and paper over boards. First edition. Dust-soiled and with a water stain near toe of spine and along bottom edge of upper board (bled through dust jacket), but a good copy in an acceptable, spine-sunned dust jacket with a few foxmarks on back panel. ... more information

Paris: Editions J.A.R., [1955].. Small quarto. Printed wrappers. Fine, largely unopened copy. First edition. One of 200 numbered copies on vélin Edita. Works by Bazin, Gibeau, Rosnay, Raphael, Fallet, and Calaferte, with a 33pp. introduction by Queneau, and bibliographies. ... more information

Geneva: Editions d'Art Albert Skira, [1949].. Folio. Printed wrappers. Ten tipped-in color plates. First edition. Four small marks from once tipped in clipping, head and toe of spine a trifle worn, otherwise near fine in chipped glassine. ... more information

[Paris]: Gallimard, [1968].. Printed wrappers. First edition, trade issue, after fifty copies on Hollande van Gelder and 160 copies on Lafuma- Navarre. An "SP" copy. A bit of light soiling to lower cover and spine, else very good or better. ... more information