London, England, UK;: Faber and Faber; Dalkey Archive Press, 1950; 1995. Second Faber and Faber Edition; First Edition Thus. Hardcovers. Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) was raised in a unique family situation in upstate New York, and it’s hard to deny that her upbringing contributed to her outlook on life and the themes in her writing. When her mother managed to move Djuna and her brothers to New York City, it liberated..... More

New York, NY: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1934; 1935. First Editions. Hardcovers. "In this scoffing strange book Mr. (Branch) Cabell has written the only existing novel whose reality is the astounding reality of that world of dreams in which we pass a third of our lives. Lewis Carroll alone has guided his readers on a similar journey in the company of his world-famous Alice; but Alice was both immature..... More

New York, NY: Boni & Liveright, 1927. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. "There is good reason for Mr. (E.E.) Cummings' crypticism in his description of HIM. We do not remember any book that more baffles an attempt to describe it. You may think you know what to expect in a play by Cummings- and you will find out that you don't know the half of it. Such lucid madness, such adventurous..... More

New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1961. First Printing. Softcover. This eclectic vintage number of the legendary literary journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features a theretofore-unpublished text fragment, "The Sources of the Loir at Illiers," by the great French author Marcel Proust, translated by Rosset's distinguished colleague (& an associate editor of ER) Richard Seaver. As stated in a footnote, this is "An interesting fragment in itself, it is..... More

Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2005. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed by editor James L.W. West III to George Bornstein & Jane York Bornstein; & with manuscript note from West III to George Bornstein. "Twice during the last decade of his life, in 1934 and 1936, F. Scott Fitzgerald proposed a collection of his personal essays to Maxwell Perkins, his editor at Charles Scribner's Sons. Perkins was unenthusiastic..... 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

New York, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. "This is the last bit of writing left by Rudyard Kipling, a story as memorable as any animal story he ever wrote. It now appears in America as a first edition in book form...As an epilogue to his writing life, (Kipling) left this magnificent story of a stunted, earnest little tyke who was an artist in the esoteric..... More

New York, NY: The Little Review, 1921. First Printing. Sewn Wrappers. This vintage number of the iconic & prescient avant-garde literary & art journal, the "...ONLY American periodical that ever gives the reader something he hasn't learned to like somewhere else," (pg. 2) chiefly edited by Margaret Anderson (1886-1973), features three portfolios of images of sculptural artworks by Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957), the great Romanian-French artist whose immortal works are the..... More

New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. "If I could have/ Two things in one:/ The peace of the grave,/ And the light of the sun;" ("Moriturus," first stanza, pg. 3) A vintage, classic collection of poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), the canonical American poet, quintessential Greenwich Village bohemian & LGBT icon. Hardcover in boards with cloth spine & corners, first edition as stated on..... More

New York, NY: Carrefour, 1941. First Trade Edition; Original Prospectus. Softcover in Sewn Binding; Folded Sheet. "I am writing with the keenest anticipation your soliloquy from Barcelona. What is going to happen to Hamlet in the sunshine? Are we going to hear the death-rattle of the ghost or is the whole conception of death going to undergo a fundamental alteration? It seems to me that when you crossed the border..... 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

London, England: Constable & Company Limited, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. "I hold, as firmly as St. Thomas Aquinas, that all truths, ancient or modern, are divinely inspired; but I know by observation and introspection that the instrument on which the inspiring force plays may be a very faulty one, and may even end, like Bunyan in The Holy War, by making the most ridiculous nonsense of his message." (from afterword..... More

New York, NY; Berkeley, CA: Charles L. Webster & Co.; The Iowa Center for Textual Studies/ University of California Press; Oxford University Press, 1891; 1979; 1996. Early Edition; First Editions Thus. Hardcovers. Three rare editions of a favorite work of early science fiction, fantasy & allegory by Samuel Langhorne Clemens a/k/a Mark Twain (1835-1910), the canonical American humorist & author: (1) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Charles L...... More