Let it Come Down
by Bowles, Paul
London: John Lehmann, 1952. First edition. Cloth, very good in lightly faded and used dust jacket. Ownership signature dated Cairo, 1952. Jacket design by John Minton.
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Wreckage," in Frank. Vol. 1, No. 4
by (Bowles, Paul)
Paris, 1985. First edition. Wrappers, near-fine. Inscribed by Bowles to his biographer Virginia Spencer Carr.
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Selected Songs
by Bowles, Paul
Santa Fe: Soundings Press, 1984. First edition. Wrappers, very good.
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Two Years Beside the Strait. Tangier Journal 1987-1989
by Bowles, Paul
London: Peter Owen, 1990. First edition. Cloth, fine in dust jacket. Çopy 61/75 hardbound, signed.
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The Campaign of Waterloo, Illustrated with Engravings of Les Quatre Bras, La Belle Alliance, Hougoumont, La Haye Sainte, and Other principal Scenes of Action: including A Correct Military Plan, together with A Grand View of the Battle on a large scale
by Bowyer, Robert ; Horne, Thomas H.
Printed by T. Bensley and Son: Robert Bowyer, 1816. First edition. Folio, 19 1/2 x 13 1/4 inches. Six hand-colored aquatints, one folding, on four plates, 34 pages of text with map plus ten pages of biographical appendices and two uncolored engravings. Contemporary quarter calf. Watermarks dated 1814, 1816. Short tear to one fold of the large folding plate, else fine. Tooley 98; Abbey, Life, 355.
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A Selection of Facsimiles of Water-colour Drawings from the Works of Distinguished British Artists
by (Bowyer, Robert)
London: Printed by T. Bensley for R. Bowyer and M. Parkes, 1828. Reprint. Folio, 20 x 15 inches. 10 leaves of text and 12 colored aquatint plates, exquisitely reproducing works by Samuel Prout, William Collins, John Smith, Francis Nicholson, and Robert Hills. Original boards, paper label, spine worn, plates and text in fine condition. Reissue dated 1828 (the work was originally published 1825), the six additional plates and ten text leaves sometimes included in the reissue are not present.... Read More
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Something Wicked This Way Comes. Screenplay
by Bradbury, Ray
1983. Screenplay by Bradbury from his own novel. Cover title. 126 pages, brad-bound. Dated as "Revised 8/24/81". Title penned on spine edge. Inside rear cover notes this a the "prop shop copy" and there is a short handwitten "buy-list". Fine.
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Through Persia from the Gulf to the Caspian
by Bradley-Birt, F.B.
London: John Murray, 1909. First edition. 8vo., 331 pp. 31 illustrations, folding map. Original brown cloth, gilt. Fine copy. Inscribed "To Peter with all good wishes from the writer on a great occasion. November 1939." Neat 1971 signature on endpaper.
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Signed photograph: montage of three portrait photographs clipped from concert programs
by Brailowsky, Alexander
The whole measures 9 3/4 by 7 3/4 inches. Two of the portraits are inscribed: "To G.H.R. Gardener in remembrance of A. Brailowsky. London" and dated November 1938 and April 1943. Tipped to a leaf of sturdier paper (with a truly frightening portrait of Beethoven on the verso). Noted French pianist Brailowsky (1896-1976) specialized in a complete concert cycle of Chopin's works. Signed photograph.
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Life at the Top
by Braine, John
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962, 1962. Boards, a fine copy in dust jacket. First edition.
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Photographies de Bill Brandt: Ombre de Lumière
by Brandt, Bill
Paris: Chêne, 1977. Brandt, Bill. Black cloth, a little dusty, otherwise fine, in edge worn dust jacket.
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Dreaming of Babylon
by Brautigan, Richard
New York: Delacorte, 1977. First edition. Black cloth, fine copy in dust jacket, fold of jacket nibbled.
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The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western
by Brautigan, Richard
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974. First edition. Cloth, slight spotting to edges, otherwise fine, in dust jacket.
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[Collected Works]. Stücke [with] Gedichte
by Brecht, Bertolt
Berlin: Suhrkamp, 1965. 21 volumes. Original boards, or original cloth. Very good and fine copies. First editions (except vol. I of Stücke, which is a later printing) of Brecht's collected works, The first 12 of 14 eventually published volumes of plays and the first 9 (of 10) of poems. W.-G. 64, 77. Additional shipping will be required.,
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Ode à Charles Fourier
by Breton, André
[Paris: Fontaine, 1947. First edition. Kiesler,Frederick J.. 41 p. illus. 28 cm. Collection "L'Age d'or." Original wrappers, tanning at the edges, but a fine copy. Copy 223 of 750 numbered copies on vélin paper. Designed and illustrated by Frederick Kiesler, the Romanian emigre, whose architectural projects, including the "Endless House" and the "Shrine of the Book", built in Jerusalem to house the Dead Sea Scrolls, and surrealist works became well-known through major one-artist exhibitions in America at the Guggenheim... Read More
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Entretiens, 1913-1952 avec André Parinaud [et al.]
by Breton,André
[Paris]: N.R.F., 1952. First edition, on ordinary paper. Original wrappers. 317 p. 19 cm. Some yellowing, a very nice copy. S.p. copy. Publication announcement inserted. "Ces entretiens d'André Breton avec André Parinaud ont fait l'objet de seize émissions de la Radiodiffusion française"--.
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Farouche à quatre feuilles
by Breton, André ;Lise Deharme;Julien Gracq;Jean Tardieu
[Paris]: Grasset, 1954. First edition. 139, [4] p. 20 cm. Original pink wrappers, fine copy. One of 1500 numbered copies on velin de Lana. Les trois premiers textes de ce volume ont été composés en vue d'une émission radiophonique organisée par Lise Deharme. Le quatrième a été spécialement écrit, sur sa demande, dans le même esprit"-
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Réflexions sur André Breton
by (Breton, André ) Isou, Isidore
[Paris]: Lettrisme, 1970. New edition. 23 p. 20 cm. Wrappers, fine. First published in 1948 (50 copies only). Issue 14, nouvelle série of the review Lettrisme.
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Letter to Pierre Mabille, 1939
by Breton, André
2 pages, 42 lines, written in green ink.
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L'amour fou
by Breton,André
[Paris]: Gallimard, 1937. First edition, on "chataignier" paper, one of 1900. [137] p. 19 cm., original white wrappers, usual browning to text but a nice copy. Illustrated with photographs by Man Ray, Cartier-Bresson, Dora Maar, and Brassai.
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Les manifestes du surréalisme, suivis de Prolégomènes à un troisième manifeste du surréalisme ou non du surréalisme en ses oeuvres vives et d'éphéméides surréalistes
by Breton, André
[Paris]: Le Sagittaire, 1955. Cloth, labels, 121 p. 21 cm. Slight fading. Extensively illustrated, complete with the loupe on a ribbon.
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Poèmes
by Breton, André
Paris: Gallimard, 1948. First edition. 271 p. 21 cm.; Boards, copy number 97 of 540 on Alfa paper, cover design by Mario Prassinos. Faint wear to extremities. Contents: Mont de piété.--Les champs magnétiques.--Clair de terre.--Poisson soluble.--L'union libre.--Le revolver à cheveux blancs.--Violette Nozières.--L'air de l'eau.--1935-1940.--Pleine marge.--Fata morgana.--1940-1948.--Les états généraux.--Xénophiles.--Ode à Charles Fourier.
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The Tapestry
by Bridges, Robert
London: Privately Printed, 1925. First edition. Marbled boards, spine label, 43 pp. Instead of the usual black slipcase, the slipcase on this copy is covered with the same marbled paper as the book. A fine copy of this fragile book. One of 150 copies, designed by Stanley Morison and Frederic Warde, printed at the Fanfare press, using, for the first, and one of the few times in a book, Morison and Warde's original Arrighi type.
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The Physiology of Taste. Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy. With an Introduction by Arthur Machen. Illustrated by Andrew Johnson
by Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme de
Garden City: Doubleday, 1925. Johnson, Andrew. Publisher's blue boards, paper spine, slight wear. A very good copy. No. 101 of 500 copies for America in this elegant edition.
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Mademoiselle Dax, jeune fille. Aquarelles de Pierre Brissaud
by (Brissaud, Pierre) [ Farrère, Claude
Paris: Éditions de l'intermédiaire du bibliophile, 1926. Brissaud,Pierre. 235, [1] p., [9] col. leaves of plates One of 625 on Arches paper (total edition of 705). With aquarelles (water colors) by Pierre Brissaud reproduced by the pochoir process. Half morocco with decorated paper sides, top edge gilt, others uncut; binding in excellent condition.
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