Rights of Passage
by BRATHWAITE, Edward
London: Oxford University Press, 1967. Slightest toning to jacket spine but a fine, superior copy. 8vo. 86 pages. Brown cloth; yellow printed dust jacket. First edition of Brathwaite's first book. Born in Barbados, Brathwaite was educated at Cambridge and returned to the West Indies to teach at Ghana.
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Troy Brauntuch
by BRAUNTUCH, Troy (artist);Mary BOONE; Michael WERNER
New York: Mary Boone Gallery, 1985. First edition. A few marks and stains to wrappers; internally a clean copy. 11 x 9.5 inches. Profusely illustrated in color. Original wrappers. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at Mary Boone Gallery in 1985.
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LUZ Y TIEMPO Colección Fotográfica Formada por Manuel Alvarez Bravo para la Fundación Cultura Televisa
by BRAVO, Manuel Álvarez
Mexico: Fundación Cultura Televisa, 1995. First edition. Slightly cocked in wrappers, one small abrasion on a spine. Generally, clean and well-preserved. Three volumes. 11.5 x 9 inches. Text in Spanish. Profusely illustrated from color and black-and-white photographs. Printed wrappers. A copiously annotated series documenting the superb collection of photographs Bravo collected for the Fundación Cultura Televisa. Biographical details of some of the photographers are included.
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Autograph quotation signed, undated
by BREMER, Fredrika (1801-1865)
One page, 12mo. Adhesion along blank rear right side, where removed from an album. In fine condition. A signed quotation from Frederika Bremer: “’The shadow of God wanders through nature’” but in the noble heart, in the happy home his spirit loves to dwell. Fredrika Bremer” The quotation comes from the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus, and appears an an epigraph in Frederika Bremer’s book ‘New Sketches of Everyday Life: A Diary, Together With Strife and Peace,’... Read More
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A Snake-Lover's Diary
by BRENNER, Barbara
New York: Harper Collins, 1985. An exceptional copy, very clean and bright. 8.5 x 7.25 inches. 89, [7] pages. Black-and-white photographs by George Ancona. Glazed pictorial boards. Inscribed by Brenner on the half-title: "To Steven – Another snakelover! Barbara Brenner." The first edition was published in 1970 by Addison-Wesley. Both are suprisingly uncommon.
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Abstract Vaudeville: The Work of Rose English
by BRETT, Guy; Martha FLEMING
London: Ridinghouse, 2014. A fine copy. 10.75 x 8 inches. 432 pages. Illustrated in color. Original pictorial boards. First edition. "Rose English emerged from the Conceptual art, dance and feminist scenes of 1970s Britain to become one of the most internationally influential performance artists working today. This comprehensive exhibition catalog documents her 40-year career to date, including legendary site-specific performances and large-scale spectaculars. Her uniquely interdisciplinary work combines elements of theater, circus, opera and poetry to explore themes... Read More
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Marco Breuer: Tremors, Ephemera
by BREUER, Marco; James ELKINS
New York: Roth / Horowitz, 2000. A fine copy. 4to. Color plates. Cloth; French-fold printed wrapper; board slipcase. FIRST EDITION, one of 1000 copies of the trade issue.
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Marco Breuer: Early Recordings
by BREUER, Marco
New York: Aperture, 2007. First edition, first printing, special proof copy. 13.25 x 10 inches. Color reproductions of Breuer's camera-less photography. Original boards; clamshell box. Signed and numbered P/P (?) on the colophon, with a Polaroid print laid-in. This is possibly a printer's proof copy in a pictorial folding clamshell box: someone, presumably Breuer himself, has abraded all of the text off of the front cover and spine of the book (as in other known copies), and some of... Read More
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Breughel
by BREUGHEL, Pieter; F. Grossman
Phaidon, 1966. A near-fine copy with modest shelfwear. 206 pp. 4to. Cloth; dust jacket.
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Prize Stories of 1951: The O. Henry Awards
by BRICKELL, Hershel (editor)
Garden City: Doubleday, 1951. A near-fine copy, well above average, with slight toning to the jacket and trifling wear along edges. 8vo. Original black cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition. Best known for containing the first book appearance of the Frank Rooney story, "Cyclists' Raid" (originally publisher in Harper's). It was the basis for the first biker movie, "The Wild One," produced by Stanley Kramer, directed by László Benedek and starring Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith, and... Read More
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Pictorial Figure Photography, Volume Two: Masterworks of Photography Library
by BRIDGES, J. C. Introduction
American Photographic Pub Co, 1951. The second printing. A very good copy. Small 4to. 81pp. Spiral bound.
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Quantitative Vectorelectrocardiography
by BRINBERG, Louis
Baltimore: Waverly Press, Inc, 1960. First edition. Jacket with a few tears/chips at edges. 8vo. Photographic illustrations, diagrams in text. Original black cloth; original printed dust jacket. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front free endpaper by the author: "To Roy with best wishes from Louis Brinberg". Brinberg was a cardiologist and researcher at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. His work on vector cardiography gained international recognition when he was a research assistant at Mount Sinai from 1957... Read More
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Elephant's Breath. Some Curious Occurrences Related in Prose and Verse
by BRINCKERHOFF, Nelson W.
New York: Privately Printed, 1929. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Large 8vo. Illustrated with drawings by the author. Original pictorial dark gray wrappers over stiff wrapper (inch piece chipped from heel of spine); in a maroon half-morocco slipcase. First (and only) edition of the author's first book, a collection of prose poems and enigmatic vignettes, limited to 100 copies only (this is no. 34), printed at the Plandome Press. This copy is inscribed in ink on the front free... Read More
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The Sway of the Grand Saloon. A Social History of the North Atlantic
by BRINNIN, John Malcolm
New York: Delacorte Press / A Seymour Lawrence Book, 1971. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A fine copy. Thick 8vo. Original two-toned cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed by Brinnin on the half-title beneath the printed title: "For Jack who always Wanted on the Voyage, with love from John / Duxbury November 2, 1971." The printed dedication reads: "For Jack Thompson of Columbia, Missouri Who Piped Me Aboard." Brinnin wrote six volumes of poetry,... Read More
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Brothel
by BRISKI, Zana
New York: Mantis, 2007. Virtually as-new, a very fine copy. Oblong (8.5 x 12 inches). Original black cloth; folding case covered in red silk from India. Signed in gold ink on the half-title. One of 1,000 unnumbered copies. This is the original work created in India that led to her Academy Award-winning documentary Born into Brothel.
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The British Library: Guide to the catalogues and indexes of the Department of Manuscripts
by [BRITISH LIBRARY] NICKSON, M.A.E.
London: The British Library, 1982. Second, revised edition. Fine. 4to. 24 pages. Original printed wrappers. Second, revised edition (the first was published in 1978). Detailing the foundation collections (Cotton, Harley, Sloane) and the other special collections (including Royal, Landsdowne, Hargrave, Stowe, Ashley and Yates Thompson). Also outlined are charters and rolls; seals; papyri and ostraca; and facsimiles.
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Hus i Norge en Forste Hjelp til Forstaelse av var Byggeskikk
by BROCHMANN, Odd
Oslo: H. Aschehoug, 1944. 4to. 117 pages, including a number of illustrations. A very good copy in original printed paper wrappers.
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Piranha Yoga
by BRODEY, Jim
New York: Jim Brodey Books, 1977. Fine. 4to. Side-stapled wrappers. First edition, one of only 100 copies published on the occasion of Brodey's reading with Allen Ginsberg, 8 December 1977 at New Norming Bookstore. Cover photos by James Hamilton, special attire by Ed Berghoff. Introduction by John Godfrey.
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Selected Poems
by BRODSKY, Joseph
New York: Harper & Row, 1973. A near-fine copy with light soiling to cloth and some soiling to upper sheet edges; a near-fine jacket with light shelfwear. 8vo. 172 pages. Purple and black cloth; printed dust jacket. First U.S. edition. Translated by George Kline and with a foreword by W. H. Auden, "After reading Professor Kline's translations, I have no hesitation in declaring that, in Russian, Joseph Brodsky must be a poet of the first order, a man... Read More
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Six Duplicities: William Bronk
by BRONK, William
New York: Jordan Davies, 1978. Softcover. A fine copy. 4to. 20 pages (including blanks). Original printed wrappers, sewn. One of 174 copies printed by Baskerville and Bulmer types on Rives Light Weight & Fabriano Ingres text papers. This copy unnumbered and unsigned, out-of-series, and from the printer's personal collection.
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A Thread of English Road
by BROOKS Charles S.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929. A near-fine copy with some light soiling to binding. 8vo. Original quarter cloth. Seventh printing.
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Catalogue of First Editions of American Authors. Poets, Philosophers, Historians, Statesmen, Essayists, Dramatists, Novelists, Travellers, Humorists, &c., &c. &c
by LEON & BROTHER
New York: Leon & Brother, 1885. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Sides lightly soiled, a marginal nick on a couple of leaves. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers, blue cloth spine. The first catalogue devoted totally to American literary first editions. As it listed all of the known works of the selected authors, it was also the first bibliography of American first editions, published 12 years before P. K. Farley's 'American Authors.' (BA) A run of Poe's works included 'Tamerlane'.... Read More
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Musical Chairs. A songbook for anxious children
by BROUGHTON, James
San Francisco: Centaur Press, 1950. Fine copy in a near-fine jacket with a chip to the back panel and several closed tears, small losses at extremities. 8vo. 83, [1] pages. Illustrated by Lee Mullican. Black cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition, one of 500 copies printed by Kermit Sheets. Signed by Broughton on a front flyleaf.
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Banjo Studies Part 1 Part 2
by BROWER, Grant
Brooklyn: Grant Brower, 1894. Folio (12 x 9 inches). 24 pp. Musical notation. Original printed wrappers. Somewhat age-darkened, a few chips at edges of wrappers. Revised edition, after the first of 1891. Exercises, scale studies, arpeggios or harp chords, harmonics, slides, double fingering, velocity studies, barre, a duet for two banjos, ending with Brower's composition "Kingston Galop." Scarce. Not in OCLC.
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La religion du Médecin
by BROWNE, Sir Thomas
N.p., 1668. Front hinge partly split, but sound. 12mo (130 x 74 mm). Engraved title. [24], 360 pages. Contemporary vellum. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of the famous and influential treatise, Browne's 'Relgio medici,' and the only edition in French until the 20th century. "By turns credulous and skeptical, Sir Thomas Browne is one of the most unusual of the great writers of the seventeenth century... The combination of detachment from the world with fascination with its smallest objects,... Read More
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