Beings of Fancy
by [Pennyroyal Press]. S.G. Goodrich. Anne O’Connor, ill
[Easthampton]: Pennyroyal Press, 1975. First edition. [36] leaves, unbound as issued, laid into a chemise housed in a clamshell box. A couple of small minor scuffs to box, contents fine. One of forty copies printed. Six wood engravings by Anne O’Connor with texts “freely edited from the 1871 edition of Johnson’s Natural History.” With an additional suite of the wood engravings printed on Moriki, as issued. Composition, printing, and wood engravings by Anne O’Connor. This copy signed... Read More
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![The Road Is Wider Than Long. An Image Diary from the Balkans July-August 1938 [inscribed to Max Ernst and Leonora Carrington]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/119/282/1605282119.0.l.jpg)
The Road Is Wider Than Long. An Image Diary from the Balkans July-August 1938 [inscribed to Max Ernst and Leonora Carrington]
by Penrose, Roland
London: London Gallery Editions, 1939. First edition. Publisher's wood-grain boards, lettered on the front board and spine (design by Hans Bellmer). Photographic endpapers. Photomontage frontispiece; 37 black and white photographs and a drawing, text in black and red. Some minor foxing to boards, slight chipping to head of spine. One of 500 numbered copies, this is number 132 (H.C.). Originally created as a unique visual diary dedicated by Penrose to Lee Miller as a souvenir of their travels... Read More
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Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu
by Picasso, Pablo, ill. Honoré de Balzac
Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1931. First edition. No. 217 of 240 copies on Rives paper, of a total edition of 305. 13 original etchings by Pablo Picasso and 67 wood engravings after drawings by the artist, engraved by George Aubert. Bound in gray calf by Renée Haas and collaborators Renaud Vernier and Claude Ribal. Front and back covers with a black and gray inlaid checkerboard pattern with alternating gold squares mounted, each cover with inlaid red line vertically zigzagging with... Read More
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Ripostes. Whereto are Appended the Complete Poetical Works of T. E. Hulme, With Prefatory Note
by Pound, Ezra
London: Elkin Mathews, 1915. Fourth issue, with first edition sheets and cancel title-page. 63 pp. Original printed wrappers, with cover design by Dorothy Shakespear Pound. 400 copies were issued. Ex-libris of Shakespeare and Company, Paris, two plates mounted on both inside front cover and verso of front flyleaf. A rare and desirable issue, due to the striking cover, similar to Pound's Catholic Anthology published the same year. Gallup A8d.
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Diptych Rome-London. Homage to Sextus Propertius & Hugh Selwyn Mauberley; Contacts and Life
by Pound, Ezra
New York: James Laughlin/New Directions, 1958. First edition thus. 76 pp. Brown paper boards lettered in gilt on the front board and the spine, with the publisher's slipcase with printed label. One of 200 numbered copies, signed by Pound. Gallup A75.
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![Photographs by Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934. [first issue]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/662/598/1473598662.0.l.jpg)
Photographs by Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934. [first issue]
by Man Ray
Hartford: James Thrall Soby, 1934. First edition. Publisher's plastic comb binding, stiff wrappers. Minor vertical crease to front cover, light chipping to outer edge. Upper and lower portions of the front cover coming loose from the binding, but the cover is still held firmly. Internally clean and bright. Now housed in a custom clamshell box. The very rare first issue. As Roth describes, the publisher "attempted to generate demand where none existed by suggesting the edition had sold... Read More
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![Exhibition ["Objects of My Affection"]. Julien Levy Gallery, April 1945](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/438/678/1600678438.0.l.jpg)
Exhibition ["Objects of My Affection"]. Julien Levy Gallery, April 1945
by Man Ray
New York: Julien Levy Gallery, 1945. Single sheet, folded once to form [4] pp. Slight edgewear, minor staining to center crease. Slight transfer ghost to rear cover, as often seen. Exhibition brochure designed by Marcel Duchamp, cover image based on a photograph by Czech filmmaker Alexander Hackenschmied. Includes an artist's statement by Man Ray, a checklist of the exhibition, and some definitions by the artist about certain of his "objects of my affection.".
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A Good Man and His Good Wife
by Reinhardt, Ad, ill. Ruth Krauss
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1944. First edition. [32] pp. Publisher’s oatmeal cloth, lettered and decorated in red, with the dust jacket. Some offsetting to front endpaper from laid-in newspaper article (a dismissive review of a 1946 exhibition by Reinhardt). The jacket shows heavy wear with some chips, detached at the spine. Rare in any jacket. The first and only children’s book illustrated by irascible abstract artist Ad Reinhardt, and the first book by Ruth Krauss, who went... Read More
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![Zehn Kupferstiche [Die Grundlagen des 20. Jahrhunderts]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/117/282/1605282117.0.l.jpg)
Zehn Kupferstiche [Die Grundlagen des 20. Jahrhunderts]
by Smith, Eddy [Edmund Richard Max]
Berlin, 1921. First edition, number 79 of 200 numbered copies. Ten copper engravings (each approximately 2 ½ x 3 ½ inches), each signed by the artist (one signed upside-down on the top edge), each mounted and housed in an individual passepartout, titled on the exterior in pencil, with a leaf of patterned glassine laid in. The whole housed in a folding portfolio of half vellum over patterned paper boards, with vellum tabs. With the original publisher's cardboard slipcase, numbered... Read More
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![Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/034/525/1547525034.0.l.jpg)
Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia [cover title]
by Stein, Gertrude
[Firenze: Tip. Galileiana propr. Cappelli], n.d. [1912]. First edition. [1], 2-11, [12] pp. Original Florentine wallpaper sewn wrappers, printed label on front cover. Slight edgewear all around, otherwise an unusually bright and clean example of a fragile item normally found in much lesser condition. This copy with the publisher’s imprint at foot of p. [12], Wilson notes that “most copies examined lack the imprint.” Ownership signature of legendary bibliographer and bookman John Carter on the inside front cover. Now... Read More
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![The Loved One [signed limited edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/777/714/1678714777.0.l.jpg)
The Loved One [signed limited edition]
by Waugh, Evelyn
London: Chapman and Hall, 1948. First edition. 144 pp. Green buckram, spine lettered in gilt, no dust jacket as issued. Top edge gilt. Spine slightly faded, slight offsetting to front endpapers, else fine. One of 250 numbered copies of the large paper edition, signed by Waugh and the illustrator Stuart Boyle. Inscribed by Waugh as “Major G. Gordon’s copy.” Many of these copies were inscribed by Waugh directly to individuals; it’s unclear who Major Gordon was, but there is... Read More
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