Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1941. First American Edition Thus. Hardcover. "Three Lives has had a curious history. First published in 1909 by the Grafton Press, reissued a little later by John Lane, and republished more recently still by the Boni Brothers, this book of short stories has consistently maintained a striking underground reputation....I must have been introduced to the little volume in 1912 or thereabouts. I recall certainly that I...... More

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1930. First American Edition. Hardcover. "This terrifying first novel by a young American is the story of a boy who recoils from everything, has no positive feeling of respect or affection or relationship of any sort. He is representative, horribly representative, of the bottom-dog strata of America, wherein men and women drift, with no will to live or even to exist, but with merely..... More

New York, NY: The Limited Editions Club, 1978. Limited First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrator May Neama. "When a man, however endowed he may be, concerns himself only with telling the story, when he does not take into account that true literary power does not lie in the fact but indeed in the manner of preparing, presenting, and expressing it, he has no sense of art. The profound and..... More

New York, NY; London, England: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; The Artemis Press, 1927; 1955. First Editions Thus. Hardcovers. Two rarities by Knut Hamsun (1859-1952), the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian author whose literary innovations were & remain acclaimed & influential- but whose legacy is forever darkened by his having supported Adolf Hitler & the Nazis during World War II (as with Louis Ferdinand Celine, Ezra Pound et al.): (1) Mysteries, first American..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1966. First "Pirated Edition" Thus. Stapled Wrappers. "The moon's greygolden meshes make/ All night a veil,/ The shorelamps in the sleeping lake/ Laburnum tendrils trail.// The sly reeds whisper to the night/ A name- her name-/ And all my soul is a delight,/ A swoon of shame." ("Alone," unpaginated) An officially unauthorized facsimile of the slender chapbook of poems by James Joyce (1882-1941), the..... More

New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1898. First American Edition, Third(?) Printing. Hardcover. "The cities are full of pride,/ Challenging each to each-/ This from her mountain-side,/ That from her burthened beach." ("Dedication To the City of Bombay," first stanza, pg. v) Thus begins this collection of stirring poems by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), the great English poet, novelist, story-writer & journalist whose prolific output epitomized & celebrated the colonial..... More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. "I have collected in this volume practically all the verses and chapter-headings scattered through my books, with the exception of the Jungle Books and the Just So Stories. In several cases where only a few lines of verse were originally used I have given in full the song, etc., from which they were taken." (author's Preface) A compilation of..... More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. First American Edition. Hardcover. A varied & rich collection of short stories & poems by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), the canonical British author & journalist. Kipling was one of the world's most popular writers for children & adults during the later 19th- earlier 20th centuries; & he remains so today despite his now-unfashionable celebration of colonialism & the old British Empire. The structure..... More

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, Inc., 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. "D.H. Lawrence stands in the first rank of letter writers; his drive and vitality, his overflow of creative energy, is expressed as forcefully in his correspondence as in his many volumes of prose and poetry. Diana Trilling...offers here a major selection of his letters. She has restored many names and references deleted from earlier collections, and in her..... More

New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Edna St. Vincent Millay. A play in three acts by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), the canonical American poet, quintessential Greenwich Village Bohemian & LGBT icon. The text here became the libretto for an opera by the venerable composer & critic Deems Taylor (1885-1966), which was presented at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City to popular acclaim..... More

New York, NY: Boni and Liveright, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. "(Re: All God's Chillun Got Wings) Two months before its announced premiere at the Provincetown Playhouse, Eugene O'Neill's latest work found itself already the most talked of play of the present season. Its theme- the demoralizing consequences of the marriage of a white and a black- has aroused the ire of a multitude of citizens who, completely overlooking the formality..... More

New York, NY: Orgone Institute Press, 1946. First American Edition. Hardcover. " "Away from the animal! Away from sexuality!" is the leitmotif of all human ideology. No matter whether the Fascist puts it in terms of the racially pure "Ubermensch," the Communist in terms of proletarian class consciousness, the Christian in terms of the "spiritual-moral" nature of man, or the liberal in terms of the "higher human values." All these..... More

New York, NY: Crosby Gaige, 1928. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Carl Sandburg. "In the evening there is a sunset sonata comes to the cities./ There is a march of little armies to the dwindling of drums./ The skyscrapers throw their tall lengths of walls into black/ bastions on the red west./ The skyscrapers fasten their perpendicular alphabet far/ across the changing silver triangles of stars and/ streets." ("Good..... More