Modern Literature
Lincoln. Statesman and logician
Davenport, Iowa: privately printed [by Carroll Coleman at the Prairie Press, Muscatine], 1944. Edition limited to 500 copies, 8vo, pp. [4], 7-68, [2]; title page printed in red and black; fine copy in original blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine and upper cover; fine dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker..... More
Big Sur. Traduit de l'Américain par François Villié. Préface de Henry Miller.
Paris: Les Éditions Denoël, [1949]. Later French edition (first published 1948), 8vo, pp. 302-[304]; folding frontispiece map showing "La Région CÙtière de Big-Sur en Californie 1870;" a very good copy in original white wrappers printed in black and red, the spine creased, overall minor soiling. Originally published in English as..... More
The journey of Tao Kim Nam
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1959. First edition, 8vo, pp. 284; map endpapers; publisher's yellow cloth over brown boards (soiling), spine quite toned; interior near fine. "The author's first novel, about Vietnam just after the partition, and one former landowner's attempt to escape the North and reach freedom..... More
Anthony Trollope a new judgement.
New York & London: Oxford University Press, 1946. First American edition, 16mo, pp. [6], 35, [2]; fine in orig. marbled boards, orig. tissue jacket with chips and tears. A one-act play by Bowen, with Trollope as the main character. With a portrait, a map, a facsimile of Trollope's handwriting, and..... More
Edith Sitwell.
The Ramparts, Monaco: Lyrebird Press, 1947. First edition, issued in the publisher's Contemporary British Poets series, tall 8vo, pp. 41, [3]; photo frontis of Sitwell by Baron; original tan wrappers printed in black and yellow; some cracking along the joints, else very good. This copy inscribed "To Mrs. Bernard Henize..... More
Literary blasphemies.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, [1927]. First edition, 8vo., jacket chipped and price clipped; very good. More
Three winter poems
[Lisbon, Iowa]: to celebrate a new life at the New Year. The Penumbra Press at Abattoir Editions, 1986. Edition limited to 235 copies on Lana Laid paper, 12mo, pp. [14]; title page printed in brown, blue, and black; woodcut frontispiece; fine copy in original printed wrappers. From the library of..... More
I remember
[New York]: Full Court Press, [1975]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 138, [4]; fine copy in a dust jacket that shows light sunning to the spine. More
Self portrait
[New York: Siamese Banana Press, 1972.]. 4to, [40] leaves (including back wrapper) printed offset on rectos only; 2 full-page self portraits; original printed wrappers, side-stapled; back wrapper toned, else about fine. More
The ten foot chain, or can love survive the shackles? A unique symposium by Achmed Abdullah, Max Brand, E.K. Means, P.P. Sheenan.
New York: Reynolds Publishing Co., [1920]. First edition, 12mo, pp. 159; 2 full-p. illustrations; in the uncommon dust-jacket which shows a few short repairs on verso, and some loss to corner of lower front panel, and along the bottom edge of the back panel; all else very good. According to..... More
Diary from Baja California
Santa Barbara: Christopher Books, 1978. First edition, 8vo, pp. [15]; illustrations by the author; fine copy in original pictorial wrappers. From the library of Allan Kornblum, fine press printer, poet, and founder of the Coffee House Press. More
Diary from Baja California
Santa Barbara: Christopher Books, 1978. First edition, 8vo, pp. [15]; illustrations by the author; fine copy in original pictorial wrappers. From the library of Allan Kornblum, fine press printer, poet, and founder of the Coffee House Press. More
Rite for the beautification of all beings
West Branch, Iowa: The Toothpaste Press, 1983. Edition limited to 555 copies, signed by the author, oblong 12mo, pp. [24]; fine copy in original orange Canson wrappers with printed label; 4 illustrations in the text by Brandi; handset by Ehrhardt & Hadriano, designed by Allan Kornblum, printed by David Duer..... More
That back road in
Berkeley: Wingbow Press, [1985]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], ix-xv, [5], 133, [3]; original pictorial wrappers slightly rubbed; near fine. This copy inscribed: For Allan --* Keep to the hard work & beautiful spirit! Best to you! John Brandi 1.9 85." More
Towards a happy solstice: mine, yours, everybody
[Santa Barbara]: Christopher's / Tree Books, [1971]. Edition limited to 100 copies, large 8vo, pp. [14]; illustrations by the author; near fine in original decorative red wrappers. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press. "Printed with love and great expectations..... More
No other business here
Albuquerque: La Alameda Press, [1999]. First edition, small 8vo, pp. [6], 9-94, [8]; 3 illustrations from photographs; fine in original pictorial wrappers. 11" x 8½" prospectus laid in. "A haiku correspondence." More
L'Histoire de Marie par Brassai avec une introduction sur Henry Miller.
[Paris: Les Editions du Point du Jour, 1949.]. Edition limited to 2600 copies, 12mo, pp. 90-[91]; a near fine, unopened copy in original tan paper wrappers printed in black, minor soiling to covers. Shifreen and Jackson B60. More
First poems
Iowa City, Iowa: Lanandra Press, 1975. Edition limited to 25 copies designed, set and printed by Robin Brennan, "celebrating the poet's twenty fifth year of fatherhood," 4to, pp. [40]; printed on rectos only; original unadorned red cloth; fine copy. From the library of Kim Merker. This copy signed by the..... More
Up the country. * Ten creek's run. * Back to Bool Bool.
Edinburgh & London: Blackwood & Sons, 1928-30-31. The pseudonymous (accepted as Miles Franklin) author's second, third, and fourth books, a trilogy dealing with early settlements in Australia. 3 volumes, 8vo, dust-jackets, that on Ten Creeks Run a little chipped with a small piece missing from the border of the front..... More
The poetical works of Robert Bridges.
London: Oxford University Press, 1914. 8vo, pp. [10], 472; frontispiece; original maroon cloth, gilt stamped cover and spine, owner's inscription on front free endpaper; very good. More
Anacoluthon
[Markesan, WI: 1980.]. Edition limited to 526 copies, this being one of 500 in wrappers; 8vo, pp. [22]; fine in original red pictorial wrappers. More
Nothing but the girl: the blatant lesbian image: a portfolio and exploration of lesbian erotic photography
[Herndon, Virginia: Freedom Editions, 1998]. Square 4to, pp. 144; photographically illustrated in black & white throughout; near fine in original pictorial wrappers. More
Twenty-four hours.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1930. First edition limited to 500 signed and numbered copies, 8vo, [10] & 463pp., virtually a flawless copy in the original silver, black and red dust-jacket, with original glassine overlay (slightly chipped), and publisher's box (a little rubbed). Bromfield's fifth novel. More