La vieillesse d'Alexandre : essai sur quelques états récents du vers français
by Roubaud, Jacques
Paris: F. Maspero, 1978. 215 p. Wrappers, fine. 22 cm. Collection Action poétique;.
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Vrille; La peinture et la littérature libres
by Évrard de Rouvre
Mantes, 1945. Wrappers, cover by Osar Dominguez. 32 cm"Publié sous la direction d'Évrard de Rouvre." DJ with some wear along edges. Copy number 68 of 200, there were a further 750 unnumbered, and three deluxe versions. Texts by Bataille, Hugnet, Desnos, Béalu, Mabille, Michaux et al.
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Typed letter signed twice. January 13, 1935
by Runyon, Damon
11 x 8.5 inches, fine. "Your letter of March 10 was lost in the office of The New York American and has just come to light. Herewith the autograph you requested, and thanks a lot for your kind expressions...also for your good wishes and I return them with compound interest" Signed below the closing, and again at the botton of the page.
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Walter Winchell's file on Damon Runyon
by (Runyon, Damon)
Approximately 20 items: Correspondence (no Damon Runyon autograph items) concerning Runyon and his family, and the Runyon Foundation, telegrams (including one from Damon Runyon), letters from Patrice Runyon, from Stokes Publishers, Winchell's scripts, etc. Some chipping to brittle paper.
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The Garden
by Sackville-West, Vita
London: Michael Joseph, 1931. First edition. Publisher's brown cloth, near fine copy. One of 750, printed on handmade paper, numbered and signed.
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Sur la route de Narcisse
by Saillet, Maurice
Paris: Mercure de France, 1958. First edition, on ordinary paper. 20 cm. 253 pp., original wrappers. Signed by the author and inscribed "a Raymond Queneau, cordial hommage de Maurice Saillet". Some yellowing of cover and text.
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Billets doux de Justin Saget
by Saillet, Maurice
Paris: Mercure de France, 1952. First edition, on ordinary paper. Wrappers, pages yellowed; very good. "Ces articles ont paru, entre 1946 et 1951, dans la page littéraire de Combat." Includes "Raymond Queneau et la poésie". Inscribed to Raymond Queneau and signed by author. Like Queneau, Saillet was a Satrape of the Collège de 'Pataphysique. He edited a collection of Alfred Jarry's work.
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Pilote de Guerre
by Saint Exupéry, Antoine de
Paris: Gallimard, 1942. First edition. Original wrappers, fine, unopened. One of 58 numbered copies on vélin (second paper, after 21 on Mûrier d'Annam). Gallimard had been given approval to print 2,100 copies of Saint Exupéry's account of his reconnaissance flights during the Battle of France in 1940. When it appeared in November 1942 "the scandal broke. The collaborationist press went wild....Vichy did not wait for the press campaign to develop: at the first 'denunciations' by anonymous Frenchmen protesting the... Read More
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French Lyrics
by Saintsbury, George (ed.)
New York: Appleton, 1883. Printed vellum, tear at the head of the spine; good copy. Ownership signature of the philosopher Josiah Royce.
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La boule de verre
by Salacrou, Armand
Paris: Editions Estienne, 1958. First edition. Wrappers, in dust jacket, fine copy, small edge tears on jacket. 45 pp 16 cm.Design, composition, printing, and binding executed by the students at Ecole Estienne. Inscribed and signed by author to Raymond Queneau. Copy number 3 of 200.
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Still Such. Photograph by Duane Michaels
by Salter, James
New York: William Drenttel, 1992. First edition. Michaels, Duane. Cloth backed boards, fine. One of 200 numbered copies signed by Salter.
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Los Angeles in the Sunny Seventies. A flower from the Golden Land.; Translated by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur. Introduction by Phil Townsend Hanna
by Salvator, Ludwig Louis
Los Angeles: Bruce McCallister - Jake Zeitlin, 1929. Cloth backed boards, leather spine label scuffed, else fine. 900 copies printed by Bruce McCallister for Jake Zeitlin.
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Letter to Carl Sandburg.; After reading his autobiography "Always the Young Strangers" published on his 75th birthday January 6, 1953
by (Sandburg, Carl); Weigel, John C.
New York: Joseph Hall Schaffner, 1968. Dean, Mallette. Cloth backed boards, fine. First edition, one of fifty copies on handmade Tovil paper, from an edition of 250, designed and printed by Mallette Dean. Out of series copy. Signed by Weigel. Frontispiece portrait of Sandburg after Steichen.
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Peace Eye
by Sanders, Ed
Cleveland: Frontier Press, 1967. Second, enalarged edition. Wrappers, lightly tanned; very good, 81 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
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The Melos of Verse
by Sanders, Edward
Woodstock, N.Y.: P.C.C. Books, 1984. First edition. Wrappers, mimeographed, 11 x 8-1/2 inches. [1], 6 pp., drawing on cover of Bardic pulse lyre by Miriam Sanders. Account of Sanders's experiments with building electronic instruments. Scarce.
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Cowboy. Illustrated by the author
by Santee, Ross
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1928. First edition. Original orange cloth, blocked in black. A very good copy, with all the lettering and design intact.
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Little Children
by Saroyan, William
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1937. First edition. White cloth, a fine copy in lightly chipped dust jacket. 1500 copies were printed. Inscribed "To my very good friend Leon Gelber, who on many occasions has shown his admiration for art, and horse racing, by financing my internationally famous bets (Saroyan's horses never lose -- the next race) -- with sincere admiration and good wishes -- Bill Saroyan. S.F. Sept. 24, 1937.' Antiquarian bookseller and publisher, Leon Gelber had published Saroyan's... Read More
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Nathalie Sarraute : portrait d'un écrivain
by (Sarraute, Nathalie)
Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1995. First edition. Textes réunis par Annie Angremy. "Réalisé à l'occasion de l'exposition Nathalie Sarraute, portrait d'un écrivain, présentée par la Bibliothèque nationale de France dans la galerie Colbert du 13 avril au 27 mai 1995." Softbound printed on double leaves, 64 pp. Spine glue partially gone, else fine.
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Ici
by Sarraute, Nathalie
Paris: Gallimard, 1995. First edition, on ordinary paper. Wrapppers, 181 pp. Spine slightly faded; very good.
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Ici
by Sarraute, Nathalie
Paris: Gallimard, 1995. First edition, on ordinary paper. Wrappers, 181 pp. 21 X 14 cm. Very fine. Inscribed and signed by author.
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Entre la vie et la mort
by Sarraute, Nathalie
[Paris]: Gallimard, 1968. First edition, an S.P. copy on ordinary paper. Wrappers, fine. 253 p. With a full-page inscription from Sarraute to Victor Moremans, the Belgian critic who had championed her work since her first book appeared.
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Le planétarium : roman
by Sarraute, Nathalie
Paris: Gallimard, 1959. First edition, on ordinary paper. Wrappers, 310 p. Spine slightly browned, small sticker on back cover. Unopened.
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Vous les entendez
by Sarraute, Nathalie
Paris: Gallimard, 1972. First edition, on ordinary paper. Wrappers, slightly faded.
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Portrait d'un inconnu. Préface de Jean-Paul Sartre
by Sarraute, Nathalie
[Paris]: Robert Marin, 1948. First edition, on ordinary paper. Original wrappers, tape marks, small chips and creases on covers. There was no special paper edition, and only a few hundred copies were sold. Preserved in a cloth and acrylic slipcase.
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Tropismes
by Sarraute, Nathalie
Paris: Denoël, 1939. First edition, on ordinary paper. Wrappers, fine. Sarraute's first book. There were 10 numbered copies on Alfa, not for sale.
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