Les Gommes suivi de clefs pour les gommes par Bruce Morrissette.
Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1962. Later printing. Original Wraps. 12 Mo (4 1/4 x 7), pp. 314. More
Arts & Letters
Huon de Bordeaux.
Brussels: Presses Universitaire de Bruxelles, 1960. First edition. Original Wraps. Octavo, pp. 500 plus 5 b/w plates. More
Flight into Darkness (from the library of Harvard Historian Reginald Phelps, w/ his signature on FFE, w/ dates read and reviewed. A fragment of his review is laid in at the end of the book).
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1931. First English language edition. Cloth over Boards. Small Octavo, pp. 152, printed on heavy textured paper. More
Diccionario Enciclopedico del Peru (3 volumes).
Lima, Peru: Editorial Juan Mejia Baca, 1966. First edition. Brown Cloth over Boards. Octavo, vol. I pp. 557, vol. 2 pp. 606, vol. 3 pp. 434. Illustrated with b/w in-text drawings. Text in Spanish. More
Lady Chatterley's Lover.
Paris: The Pegasus Press, 1938. Ninth printing. Original Wraps. 12 mo (5 X 7 3/4), pp. 360. One of the most influential books of the 20th century. More
Sprachen der Welt/Languages of the World.
Munich: K. G. Saur, 1987. First edition. Orange Boards. Quarto, pp. 410. A very good ex-library copy of this reference book. Interiors unmarked. More
EETI: e e c E.E. Cummings and the Critics.
East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 1962. First edition. Original Cloth. Octavo, pp. 220, indexed, primary and secondary bibliographies, 35 critics write about cummings. Scarce study on an elusive poet. More
The Brigadier and the Golf Widow.
New York: Harper & Row, 1952. First edition, as stated. Original Black Cloth. 12 mo (5 1/2 X 8 1/4), pp. 275, collection of 16 stories. More
Philo About the Contemplative Life, Or the Fourth Book of the Treatise Concerning Virtue.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1895. First edition. Cloth over Boards. octavo. 403 pp. indexed. original text in Greek with commentary and defense in English. More
21 Tales in 15 Volumes.
New York: Hurst and Co., nd (circa 1904). Later edition. Uniform Half-Leather over Marbled Boards. Octavo,15 volumes, complete as issued. pp approx. 14,000. Illustrated frontspieces. b/w drawings in several stories. The works of]. . . The adventures of Oliver Twist, also, Pictures from Italy and American Notes; with illustrations by..... More
Apocalypse.
New York: Viking Press, 1932. First American edition. Original Black Cloth. 12 mo (5 3/4 X 8 1/4), pp. xxxii, 200, introduction by Richard Aldington. This commentary on the Book of Revelation was written while Lawrence was suffering from tuberculosis, from which he died in 1930. As he struggled to..... More
Stories of the Sea.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1836. First American edition. Original Cloth. 12 mo (4 1/2 X 7 1/2), pp. 232, originally published in London as the "Naval Annual" for 1836. No illustrations. Photo laid in. Scarce, with original nineteenth century photo of the original owner, with inscription to his mother..... More
The Man Who Loved Bicycles: The Memoirs of an Autophobe.
New York: Harper's Magazine Press, 1973. First edition. Boards. Octavo, pp. 130. Illustrated with b/w drawings. More
German Expressionism in the Fine Arts: A Bibliography (Art and Architecture Bibliographies, 3).
Los Angeles: Hennessey & Ingalls, 1977. First edition, limited to 1000 copies. Paperback. Octavo, pp.272. catalogs 4259 items. well indexed. in English. A most ambitious project, well done. More
Cobbett's Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music (3 vols.).
New York: Oxford University Press, 1963. Second edition. Boards. Large Octavo, vol. 1 A-H pp. 585; vol. 2 I-Z pp. 641; vol. 3 pp. 211. More
International Who's Who in Music and Musicians' Directory (in the Classical and Light-Classical Fields) Vol. 1.
Cambridge: International Who's Who in Music, 1996/97. Fifteenth Edition. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 1206. More
River Song.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. First edition. Trade Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 307, Danny Kachiah, a Native American wanderer from Oregon, searches for the wisdom of the traditional ways in order to pass them on to his son, a quest that ends when he meets Willis Salwish, an old River..... More
The Golden Ocean.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956. First edition. Original Blue Cloth. octavo. pp 267. with map of voyage and several other images. scarce and important title and first edition. contains list and explanation of sea terms. More
Colour and Colour Theories - International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method. (Signed by the author).
New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1929. First American edition. Green Cloth over Boards With Gilt Lettering on Spine. Octavo, pp. 287. Indexed, illustrated with 8 color Plates plus frontis. and 25 b/w in-text Figures. Signed on FFEP to "E. E. Fairbanks from Christine Ladd-Franklin" An interesting book on the..... More
The Jersalem Delivered of Torquato Tasso; Translated into English Spenserian verse with a life of the author
New York: D. Appleton, 1850. Second American edition from the last English edition. Original Embossed Brown Cloth w/gilt pictorial. 12 mo (5 X 7), pp. 624, illustrated w/engravings, frontspiece engraving of Tasso. Torquato Tasso (1544-1595) has been called the greatest Italian poet of the late Renaissance, best remembered for his..... More
The Kings of Min Zaman.
London: Oxford University Press, 1938. First edition. Trade Vellum over decorated Boards. Octavo, pp. x, 29. Written as a conversation between Ashbee and a Mulim friend, inspired by his time in the Middle East during the first World War. A beautiful and uncommon edition. More
Lyrics of the Nile.
London: Oxford University Press, 1938. Second edition. Trade Vellum over decorated Boards. Octavo, pp. viii, 88. A beautiful and uncommon edition. More
Body of This Death.
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1923. First edition. Original Cloth. 12 mo (5 1/4 X 8), pp. 30, First edition of her first book, inscribed to Elizabeth Mayer, her future fellow translator. An important association. Louise Brogan and Elizabeth Mayer would collaborate on translation projects in later years..... More
Collected Poems.
New York: Noonday Press, 1954. First edition. Original Cloth. 12 mo (5 1/4 X 8 1/4), pp. 127, inscribed to her collaborator, Elizabeth Mayer, includes several new poems not previously published. Erratum slip laid in. Elizabeth Mayer and Louise Bogan collaborated on several translation projects together, just as Ms Mayer..... More