Eyes, Etc.: A Memoir
by Clark, Eleanor
New York: Pantheon, 1977. First edition. Light blue cloth.The dedication copy, with an inscription by Clark incorporating the printed dedication: "[To Sylvia Marlowe] With love, Eleanor, Sept. 1977." The noted harpsichordist Sylvia Marlowe, along with her husband the painter Leonid Berman, was among the closest friends of Clark and Robert Penn Warren who made Marlowe godmother to their son Gabriel. Corners bumped, else fine in a lightly used dust jacket with a long, tape-mended tear across the back panel.... Read More
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Frice. A one shot magazine
by Clark, Tom (ed.) ; BRAINARD, JOE
Brightlingsea. Wrappers, stapled. Cover by Joe Brainard. s, [25] pages (printed on rectos only), illustrated (reproducing art work by Joe Brainard), stapled. Contains the first appearance of "Portland Aug. 27, 1965" by Allen Ginsberg [Morgan C253; Dowden p. 74]. Reprints Hart Crane's "Chaplinesque
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Singular Pleasures
by Clemente, Francesco ; Mathews, Harry
The Grenfell Press, 1988. First edition. Clemente, Francesco. One of 26 specially bound copies containing a signed original watercolor. From an edition of 350 copies, signed by author and artist, 152 pages, 67 duotone lithographs by Clemente accompanying Mathews’s text. Printed on Kozo/Gampi. The lithographs were printed by Joe Petruzzelli and Maurice Sanchez, the type cast and set by Michael Bixler. Full leather binding by Claudia Cohen.
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Roughing It
by [Clemens, Samuel L.]; Twain, Mark
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1872. First edition. Original black cloth, gilt, corners rubbed, almost invisibly rebacked, spine gilt slightly dulled, front cover bright, internally very fresh and clean. Arnold Wilson bookplate. Advertisement present on p. ; state "A" of page 242, both presumed to be the earliest state. BAL 3337.
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Souvenir of the Photoplayers Ball.; Given by the Photoplayers' Club of Los Angeles. Valentine's Night. February 14, 1914
by Photoplayers' Club
Los Angeles: Photoplayers' Club, 1914. First edition. Unpaginated, portraits and advertisements. This was the second Photoplayers' Ball, after the third the club fell into bankruptcy. Recent quarter cloth, original wrappers preserved with reinforcement to their versos, in near-fine condition.
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Symposium on Television. A group of five papers describing the apparatus and methods used in the experimental demonstration of television over communications channels of the Bell System
by American Telephone and Telegraph Co
American Telephone and Telegraph Co, 1927. First edition. Original blue wrappers, margin hole-punched as issued; near fine. 9, , 44, 12, 17,m , 29. Reprints five important articles from The Bell System Technical Journal, October 1927, including "Television," by Herbert Ives.
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The Cloud. By Percy Bysshe Shelley. With photographs by Alvin Langdon Coburn
by (Coburn, Alvin Langdon)
Los Angeles: C.C. Parker, 1912. First edition. Coburn, Alvin Langdon. Quarto, 9 1/2 x 13 inches. [31] p. (on double leaves), [6] leaves of plates. Number 28 of an intended but not completed edition of 60 copies, signed by Coburn. The book contains six original 7 x 5 inch platinum prints, printed by Coburn himself. Text printed in brown ink on french-folded sheets of Strathmore Japan paper. Original canvas backed boards, paper label on front cover. Marginal dampstaining on... Read More
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Dada: The Avant Garde in print 3
by Cohen, Arthur A.
New York: AGP Matthews, 1981. First edition. 1 portfolio Loose in a black cardboard portfolio with title mounted on cover. Portfolio contains 10 facsimiles of Dada posters and a 6 page catalog explaining each piece. Contents are near fine and the portfolio is faded. Title label has come unglued but is present inside the portfolio. 33 X 31 cm.
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Les Costumes du Pays de France.; Presented by Aline Keim
by Coline, Line
Paris: Nilsson, n.d.. Keim, Aline. 60 hand-colored plates. Plates in fine condition, in worn portfolio.
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La Musique Moderne. Préface de Claude Rostand
by Collaer, Paul
Brussels: Elsevier, 1958. Second edition, revised and corrected. Boards, light browning but a very good copy in dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Virgil Thomson. With the separately printed section of examples.
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Green Thoughts. With a Frontispiece by Edward Wolfe and a Foreword by Osbert Sitwell
by Collier, John
London: Joiner & Steele, 1932, 1932. Wolfe, Edward. Light brown cloth, gilt. Covers with some dark spots, very good copy. First edition, one of 550, signed by the author.
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Duel in Herne Wood
by Collins, Wilkie
New York: George Munro, 1880. Includes in p. [8]-41: Inez Varian's secret, or, Whose child was she? / by Hazel Wood. [7] p. ; 32 cm. Contemporary half red leather, rubbed. Published in Seaside library Series, v. 44, no. 905.
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For Ready Money
by Comiter, Alvin
No place, 1975. Comiter, Alvin. Artist book, twice folded laminated sheet. Fine. Canadian photographer's collection.
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Les Lettres françaises Clandestines
by Comité national des écrivains; Decour,Jacques
[Paris, no date. Facsimile edition of the 19 numbered plus one special issues, each facsimile issue enclosed in an explanatory cover, the whole enclosed in cloth and board folder. One of 150 copies "Marques H.C. reserves aux collaborateurs des Lettres Francaises Clandestines. " This H.C. copy was printed for Raymond Queneau. Portfolio cover faded, else fine. Les Lettres françaises; ill. 60 cm.; Weekly; Began publication with Sept. 1942 issue and continued until August 1944.
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Les Memoires
by Commines, Philippe de
Leiden: Chez les Elzeviers, 1648. First Elzevier edition. [24], 765, [19] pp, complete with final blank leaf; old calf gilt, a.e.g., rebacked preserving original backstrip, corners and edges worn, corner dampstain through p. 48. Bookplate of Nils Gyldenstolpe.
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The New Republic Anthology: 1915-1935. Introduction by Bruce Bliven
by Conklin, Groff (ed)
New York: Dodge (1936), 1936. First edition. Gray cloth, lettered in black and red. Contains work by T. S. Eliot, Robert Graves, Hart Crane Robert Frost, Lytton Strachey, James Stephens, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Robinson Jeffers, H. G. Wells, Near fine; one miniscule nick at head of spine. Fine in very good dust jacket).
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Bruce Conner. Sculpture / Assemblages / Collages / Drawings / Films. November 29 to December 31, 1967
by Conner, Bruce
Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1967. First edition. Wrappers, slight wear on spine.
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The Nigger of the "Narcissus." Preface
by Conrad, Joseph
[Privately printed, 1902. First edition, one of 100 copies printed. Original self-wrappers, small rust mark from removed staple, otherwise fine. According to Wise approximately forty copies were accidentally destroyed. Conrad's "Preface," his most important artistic statement, originally appeared as "The Art of Fiction" in the December 1897 of the New Review, at the end of the novel's serialization, and was much revised for this first separate printing. Cagle A3f; Wise 12.
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Space
by Conran, Terence ; Tyson, Ian
London: Circle Press, 1970. First edition. Conran, Terence. Screen printed poster on cartridge paper, edition of 150, signed by author and artist, this an A.P. copy inscribed by Tyson. 71 x 56 cm. Rolled, small marginal discoloration, otherwise fine. Circle Press Poetry Poster No. 9. These posters were meant to be foldable.
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Bette & Joan
by Considine, Shaun
The divine feud. Dutton (1989). Boards, remainder mark, otherwise fine, dust jacket. First American edition.
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Easter Day
by Coppard, A.E.
No place, 1931. First edition. Copy "No. [check] Presentation (1a) of an unspecified edition, printed in facsimile of Coppard's manuscript, wIth the last four lines written out by Coppard, as always, signed and dated October 31. This copy is printed on laid paper. Cloth backed green paper boards, titled in red, some little spotting.
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Heaven Can Wait. 2nd Draft screenplay
by Coppola, Francis Ford
1969. Screenplay by Coppola, based on the Harry Segall play (previously filmed as Here Comes Mr. Jordan, 1941, and then in 1978 under this its original title).115 pages. Mimeographed, brad-fastened, covers with light edge wear, title and date inked on spine. Unproduced. This script was written for Bill Cosby, and he was to play a boxer in his first film role, a black version of the classic. Cosby's manager, Roy Silver, had bought the rights, and commissioned the script,... Read More
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Le terre frottée d'ail. Avec 77 dessins inédit de Raoul Dufy
by Coquiot, Gustave
Paris: André Delpeuch, 1925. First edition, regular paper copy. Dufy, Raoul. 4 p.l., [11]-264 p.20x14 cm.. Boards, with leather spine; some browning to the text paper, else fine.
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Poems.; Translated by C.F. MacIntyre. Selected and with an Introduction by William A. Newsom
by Corbiere, Tristan
Nevada City: Harold Berliner, 1988. First edition. Quarto, cloth backed boards, fine. One of 150 copies, printed on Charter Oak handmade paper, design and frontispiece illustration by Wolfgang Lederer.
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Fig Tree John. Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell.; Illustrations by Don Perceval
by Corle, Edwin
Ward Ritchie Press, 1955. Limited edition. Cloth backed boards, fine in slipcase. One of 550 copies. A handsome edition of the Southwest classic.
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