Established in 1982, James S. Jaffe Rare Books specializes in rare books, manuscripts and letters, literary first editions, association copies, poetry, private press books, livres d'artistes, illustrated books, and literary art and artifacts. We are also privileged to assist writers in the appraisal and sale of their literary archives, and over the course of the past twenty-five years have represented a number of the most important contemporary American poets in placing their papers. We welcome offers of rare books and manuscripts, original photographs and prints, and art and artifacts of literary and historical interest. We issue catalogues annually, and e-lists on a regular basis.
James S. Jaffe Rare Books
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James Jaffe
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Salisbury, CT 06068
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15 Academy Street
Salisbury, CT 06068
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(212) 988-8042http://www.jamesjaffe.com
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Midnite Show. Original painting, oil on canvas, 30 ¼ x 24 inches, signed lower right with the artist's initials, as was his custom
by WILLIAMS, Tennessee [Thomas Lanier]
(No date) (click for more details)![[WOOLF, Virginia] BELL, Vanessa. Original gouache painting for the dust jacket design for Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, 8 x 5 ¼ inches, unsigned and undated but 1925](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/775/970/952970775.0.m.jpg)
![The Poems by John Ashbery. Prints by Joan Mitchell [with:] Permanently by Kenneth Koch. Prints by Alfred Leslie [with:] Odes by Frank O'Hara. Prints by Michael Goldberg [with:] Salute by James Schuyler. Prints by Grace Hartigan](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/881/384/942384881.0.m.jpg)
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The Poems by John Ashbery. Prints by Joan Mitchell [with:] Permanently by Kenneth Koch. Prints by Alfred Leslie [with:] Odes by Frank O'Hara. Prints by Michael Goldberg [with:] Salute by James Schuyler. Prints by Grace Hartigan
by ASHBERY, John, et al.
N.Y. : Tiber Press , (1960) (click for more details)
Recent Catalogs
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Literary Art - December 2015
We are pleased to announce our new catalogue of Rare Books, Manuscripts and Literary Art, which includes original manuscripts by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and G. K. Chesterton; inscribed books by Nathaniel Hawthorne; original art by Morris Cox of the Gogmagog Press; archives and letters by John Cheever and David Markson; comprehensive collections of works by Phillip Levine and Gore Vidal; and first editions by James Agee, John Ashbery, Samuel Beckett, Walter Benjamin, Elizabeth Bishop, Kate Chopin, Cyril Connolly, Miguel Covarrubias, William Everson, Allen Ginsberg, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, James Joyce, Primo Levi, Robert McAlmon, Thomas Mann, Herman Melville, Paul Muldoon, Robert Musil, George Orwell, Fernando Pessoa, Ezra Pound, James Schuyler, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, Walt Whitman, William Wordsworth and W. B. Yeats, many of them signed or inscribed.
Recent Catalogs
Modern American Poetry
An illustrated 108-page catalogue devoted to rare and important works of Twentieth Century American poetry, 331 items, including first editions, mostly signed and inscribed, association copies, original letters, photographs, as well as significant collections of the works of John Ashbery, James Merrill, Philip Levine and Wallace Stevens.