Norwalk, CT: The Heritage Press, 1969. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "The journey described by Marlow in Heart of Darkness parallels Conrad's own trip to the Congo in 1890. Conrad once said that this story, together with his other African tale, An Outpost of Progress, was "all the spoil I brought out from the centre of Africa." The spoil turned out to be no less valuable in its way than ivory..... 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

Seattle, WA: Wood Works, 2000. Limited First Softcover Edition. Sewn Wrappers in Over-Wrap. "Juan Ramon Jimenez's Naked Woman is a classic celebration of love, conveyed upon breaking waves of passion and despair, with evocative, shadowy asides that draw us close to the excited, humbled poet, till we share his perceptions, his agony and joy." (from back cover) A stately, passionate four-part masterpiece of poetry by Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881-1958), the..... 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: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1901. First American Edition. Hardcover. The iconic novel by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), the canonical British author & journalist whose prolific output epitomized & celebrated the colonial British Empire. While he may be out-of-favor if not entirely "canceled" by our current, intolerant "liberal" literary establishment for his indeed extreme advocacy of colonial imperialism & what is now often viewed as appropriation of native cultures..... 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, 1925. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Two works by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), the canonical British author & journalist, in one rare volume: Kim, the novel which is among Kipling's most acclaimed & famous works, in which Kim (Kimball O'Hara), an Irish orphan living by his wits in British-ruled India during the late 19th century, gets deeply involved in adventures as he is brought into..... More

Avon, CT: The Limited Editions Club, 1975. Limited First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Signed by illustrator Sheila Robinson. A novel by D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence (1885-1930), the great British poet & writer. First published in 1913, this early work in the Lawrence oeuvre was at the cutting edge, indeed way ahead of its time with its deep, relatively explicit treatment of the sexual, emotional & psychological issues of its protagonists. The initial..... 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: 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

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