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198412801<b>Signed & Inscribed First Edition First State copy a presentation copy by the internationally famed director to noted Polish writer/director Jerzy Skolimowski writer of Polanski's breakthrough film KNIFE IN THE WATER. Much better than very good copy slightly foxed to topedge leaves in like dust jacket showing light wear and a modicum of stain to spine & back panel not affecting the author portrait. This copy is a rarity indeed: it bears a full-page inscription by Polanski in Polish to Skolimowski translation provided by him on a laid-in sheet. In blue ink: "Romek. So you see what is happening / I am signing my biography to you / And it is in English / You could not have foreseen this / during those hot evenings / on Narutowicra Street / when you were served / fruit juices by Kuba / Love/ R." Signature a rarity today highly sought after; an inscription by him particularly one with this degree of meaning & history in such an association on a presentation copy is an extraordinary uniquity.</b> Morrow hardcover books
193446764N.p.: S.i. 1934. Holograph manuscript composed in dark blue ink on 152 numbered leaves rectos and housed in a bespoke chemise and slipcase by Barrieri. With presentation inscription from Cobb to MGM film produced and screenwriter Samuel Marx in pencil at upper right corner of title leaf: "Original manuscript copy for Sam Marx Esq / with my compliments / Irvin S. Cobb." A heavily-revised draft with extensive holograph additions and elisions in pencil and in pen throughout marking substantial textual differences between this and the final draft of the screenplay. Mild wear and handling; preliminary leaves with faint creasing to extremities with subtle toning to title leaf; Very Good or better. Slipcase with some light wear and minute board exposure to points around opening else Near Fine. Early unpublished manuscript treatment of the 1939 Paramount Studios film Our Leading Citizen directed by Alfred Santell with a screenplay by Jack Moffitt. A "Capital vs. Labor" story set in a once-small town that has evolved into an industrial city and centered around Lem Schofield an attorney and homespun philosopher and Clay Clinton son of Schofield's deceased partner. Clinton in love with Schofield's daughter and anxious for quick success joins the employ of J.T. Tapley the town's corrupt and influential industrialist. "When Tapley imposes a ten percent wage cut at his factory the workers walk out on strike precipitating a labor war. Lem immediately withdraws as Tapley's attorney but Clay ignorant of the nefarious tactics that Tapley is planning stays on. To crush the strike Tapley calls in a gang of strikebreakers led by Shep Muir. While pacifist union leader Jim Hanna struggles to end the strike peacefully communist agitator Jerry Perkins arrives in town to advocate radicalism and violence. Riots break out and amid an atmosphere of fear and suffering Lem steps in to quell the unrest. After insuring the arrest of agitators Peters and Muir Lem works to institute a labor settlement and Clay finally recognizing Lem's virtues nominates him for the position of United States Senator" TCM. While the final script faulted greedy capitalists and violent revolutionaries alike the film was blacklisted by V.J. Jerome head of the communist cultural commission who got an early look at the script and together with film critic Howard Rushmore deemed it potentially anti-communist. S.i. unknown books
194447333New York: Reynal and Hitchcock 1944. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21.25cm; yellow cloth with titles stamped in black and red on spine and front cover; dustjacket; x1793pp. Signed by Miller in blue ball-point pen on the title page. Spine ends gently nudged some trivial wear to lower board edges with a hint of sunning to upper board edges and a faint shallow stain to lower edge of rear cover; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.00 with two tiny tears at crown and a faint vertical crease along left joint; a bright very Near Fine example. Laid into this copy is an untitled seven-page carbon typescript on onionskin 8" x 10.5" written by Miller in 1943 relating details about the book's conception; horizontal fold at center staple holes at upper left corner with two neat punctures along left margin; Very Good. Attractive copy of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright's first book based on his experiences researching the war correspondence of journalist Ernie Pyle. The title derives from the widely-used military acronym slang "SNAFU" Situation Normal: All Fucked Up which translates to a bad situation that is a normal state of affairs. Miller was tasked by Hollywood to gather material for "an honest movie" about American GI's during the war about their training daily life their hopes dreams and why they are fighting. Miller visited several Army camps training living and interviewing soldiers and taking down the unvarnished truth of his discoveries. "I was the person fate picked out of Brooklyn to go among the soldiers and pick up enough facts honest-to-God true facts to make a soldier picture which soldiers could sit through until the end without once laughing in derision. A picture that would properly end all soldier pictures" p.1. The film in question was William A. Wellman's The Story of G.I. Joe to be adapted by Miller for Lester Cowan from Pyle's 1943 book This Is Your War. Miller version was ultimatley not produced likely due to ideological differences and his communist sympathies. The typescript written the year before Situation Normal was published summarizes the conception of the book detailing his early meetings with Ernie Pyle over how his work would be translated into film and what they wanted to accomplish. "I bring up the idea that it would be a shame to show this massive canvas without reducing what is chaos to at least an inkling of purpose and order and of course he agrees. But we both feel that to lard on ideology where there is no ideology would be to wrap the truth. You can't have soldiers talking about four freedoms when all they want is to go home. Myself I curse the press and the million textbooks that turn out the billions of words and never add up to an excuse for dying" typescript p.5. A superlative copy of an important debut. Reynal and Hitchcock unknown books
197912223New York: Andy Warhol Books/Grosset & Dunlap 1979. First edition. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Hardcover with dustjacket Warhol's first photography book with 360 b/w photos of friends and celebrities most of them both. 4to 10 x 11 inches. 255 pages. Signed on the half-title page "To Kevin and Steven / his pushy manager / Love/ pushy Andy Warhol" adding below the title a large sketch of a heart signed "AW" and an additional similarly signed heart drawing on the opposite-facing blank. Nicely bound in black tyvek with a cover design referencing the original dust jacket of the edition and including actual elements of that dust jacket incorporated into the design including Warhol's face in profile. And sold together with the original dj flap also signed "Andy Warhol" with the signature quite faded corners worn but suitable as a nice bookmark for the volume!<br>A more unusual than generally encountered copy of this volume sometimes found signed twice but rarely with several added sketches and such an amusing inscription. Andy Warhol Books/Grosset & Dunlap hardcover books
192046734Pasadena: Upton Sinclair 1920. Two octavo volumes 18.75cm; maroon cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; ii9911pp. The first copy is inscribed by Eugene Debs to American film actress screenwriter and editor Helen Louise Gardner on the front endpaper: "To Helen L. Gardner / With love and greetings and with deep appreciation for her beautiful character her lofty spirit her rare vision courage understanding and her high ideals and noble aspirations - Eugene V. Debs / Terre Haute Indiana / December 1924." Gentle sunning to spine oxidation to gilt with moderate scattered soil to covers light wear to extremities and heavier wear with resulting board exposure to upper right corner of front cover; mild offset to endpapers from binders glue; Good. Housed in a clamshell case. <br/><br/>The second copy is inscribed to Gardner by Ruth Le Prade opposite the title page: "To Helen Gardner - with cordial greetings / Ruth Le Prade." Spine-sunned cloth edge-worn and lightly soiled with oxidation to gilt a few small stains to front cover some erosion to cloth toward lower spine and mild offset to endpapers from binders glue; Good. Poems honoring socialist leader Eugene Debs by a variety of radical 20th century poets including Witter Bynner Max Eastman Charlotte Perkins Gilman Carl Sandburg Siegfried Sassoon Horace Traubel and Israel Zangwill many others. Sinclair contributed the foreword along with letters from H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw who states: "Clearly the White House is the only safe place for an honest man like Debs". An interesting pair of copies inscribed to Gardner 1884-1968 acclaimed stage actress and the first actress to form her own production company. <br/><br/>Moved by his circumstances and deeply influenced by his speeches she visited him in prison in 1920 bringing him an autographed photo and beginning a correspondence that would last through the mid-1920's. In a December 21 1920 letter she writes: "Let me tell you that I was surprised to find my emotional self somewhat unaffected while I listened to you talk. I know the reason now. It is the same with you as it was with Epictetus prison walls cannot confine the spirit -- the mind is ever free. So in a way I did not feel your plight as keenly as I would that of another who had little vision little intelligence little understanding about his body being so small a part of the real him that his confinement was of the physical order only." While the "special edition" of 500 with signed bookplate by Debs appears with some frequency inscribed copies of Debs and the Poets are genuinely uncommon. Upton Sinclair unknown books
195347331New York: The Blue Heron Press 1953. Fiftieth Anniversary Edition. One of an unstated number of copies signed by the author on a decorative plate tipped onto the front pastedown this being copy no.497. Octavo 21cm; publisher's mauve and white patterned paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip with titles stamped in gilt on spine; mauve topstain; publisher's original glassine overlay; xviii2646pp. Trivial wear to lower corners tiny tear with attendant crease to right margin of half-title page else very Near Fine in a glassine with numerous tears creases and small losses. Handsome edition of this cornerstone sociological work by Du Bois first published by A.C. McClurg in 1903. "Souls Of Black Folk was written beautifully in a style which Du Bois labored to perfect. It is one of the noteworthy books not merely of the period but of the epoch. The monumental work was the opening salvo in the struggle that has dominated the century for black and white Americans: the quest for dignity justice and equality.Every page is filled with spirituality and with spontaneity" Blockson 52. This edition bears a new foreword by Du Bois titled "Fifty Years After" and introductory matter by his wife Shirley Graham Du Bois. The Blue Heron Press unknown books
193238355New York: E.p. Dutton & Co. Inc 1932. First Edition. Quarto 31cm; turquoise cloth with black and yellow printed title labels applied to spine and front cover; dustjacket; 822pp; illus. Moderate offsetting to front pastedown from binders glue faint discoloration to cloth along upper and lower edges with a gentle bump to upper front board corner and a paper-clip impression at upper front endpaper; clean throughout; Near Fine. Dustjacket with trivial wear to extremities two shallow nicks to crown with a few short tears and four unnecessary tape reinforcements on verso; Near Fine. A stunning copy of Hirschfield's first book an iconic volume dedicated to capturing the the personalities behind the counter at Manhattan's various speakeasies. Published the year prior to the repeal of Prohibition the book features 36 full-page illustrations by Hirschfeld with accompanying text describing each establishment and a signature cocktail recipe suggested by the bartender. With an introduction by Heywood Broun. A superior copy of this wear-prone Jazz Age classic. E.p. Dutton & Co., Inc unknown books
1921019231Berlin Germany: Verlag Alexander Kogan Russische Kunst G.m.b.H. 1921. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Bound volume containing the first nine issues of this publication including one double issue. There is a title page inserted with a Brentano's Inc. slug on it stating that there are 10 issues within but there is no indication that these issues are original issues and are not reprints. The text is in Russian with some captions in German and French and a few summary articles are in English. Beautifully lithographed covers with numerous tipped-in color plates portraits and black-and-white illustrations. Small bump to the top corner and the cloth of the rear hinge is torn but the inner hinge remains strong. The texts are clean and unmarked. Ezhemesiachnyi literaturno-khudozhestvennyi illiustrirovannyi zhurnal. Russische Montasschrift für Kunst u. Literatur revue russe d'art et de littérature. Issues 1 2 3 and 4-5 were issued in 1921 and 6-9 were issued in 1922. First edition. Verlag Alexander Kogan Russische Kunst G.m.b.H. Hardcover books
196947929Hamburg: Quer-Verlag 1969. Second Expanded edition. Oblong 16mo ca. 7x13cm.; original red staplebound card wrappers taped into cloth tape-backed sharp aluminum boards decorative element mounted to upper cover; 61ll. printed mimeographed on white and red paper. Old ballpoint manuscript spine title boards a bit tarnished else Very Good or better contents fresh and fine. Rubberstamp to upper cover: "Notwehrtauglich" "suitable for self-defense" the title page describing this as "Handliche mit scharfen kanten ausgestettatet kampfausgabe für die phase des revolutionären widerstands" a "handy sharp-edged combat edition for the next phase in revolutionary resistance" - our/google's translation. Collection of rhymed chants first issued by the author's publishing house Quer-Verlag in 1968 for members of the German Student Movement and the protests staged that year. The author the son of a dock worker was himself a member of the leftist literary group Hamburg Linksliteratisch. This work a curious example of a book as weapon in the literal sense the boards' fore-edges extending beyond the text block and are both sharp and the corners quite pointed so that while the book is small enough to fit in the palm of one's hand one can imagine the harm it could do to a vulnerable jugular. Quite scarce OCLC locates three copies of any edition in the United States as of March 2020 at Yale U. Iowa and Harvard. Quer-Verlag unknown books
193939022Tromøy Norway 1939. Octavo 20.5cm.; contemporary blue cloth upper cover lettered in gilt decorative endpapers; 1454pp. typed on rectos only. Cloth very slightly worn spine a hint sunned shallow loss to front free endpaper fore-edge shallow creasing to three leaves else Very Good or better. Occasional autograph corrections in the author's hand throughout. German-born author poet editor and translator Max Barth began his career as an editor of the pacifist socialist paper Sonntags-Zeitung before founding his own radical socialist paper Die Richtung in 1932 at Stuttgart. The paper only survived a few issues before being confiscated by the Nazi-infiltrated Stuttgart populace the following year after which Barth fled to Switzerland. Found guilty of "High Treason" by the Third Reich Barth found himself exiled making his way to Norway from which this collection was compiled and finally the United States where he remained until after the end of World War II. <br/><br/>The present collection consists of seventy poems written between 1919 and 1939 including some previously unpublished selected for the author's sister and preceded by a letter of introduction addressed to her "Li Fri" and signed in manuscript "Max." In the letter Barth explains that the collection was compiled entirely with her in mind and includes certain pieces dear to him despite their lesser literary quality. In a final postscript the author notes that in the poem "Abseits" he has rhymed the word "Fjord" with "Spur" because the word "Fjord" in Norwegian is pronounced "Fjur." The letter is dated September 1 1939 the day the Germans invaded Poland leading France and Britain to declare war on Germany two days later thus marking the start of World War II. The author was certainly unaware of such developments as no mention is made to the catastrophic events simultaneously unfolding.<br/><br/>Reference: John M. Spalek and Joseph Strelka eds. Deutschsprachige Exilliteratur seit 1933 Vol. 2 1989 pp. 24-37. unknown books
192040004Pasadena: Upton Sinclair 1920. First Edition. Octavo 18.75cm; maroon cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; ii9911pp. With a full-page contemporary inscription from Le Prade to U.S. Attorney General A. Michell Palmer on the front endpaper: "To A. Mitchell Palmer - The poets of the world appeal to you for the liberation of Eugene V. Debs. - Sincerely / Ruth Le Prade / Editor of "Debs and the Poets" / "Glad witness to your zeal for God and love of man I bear." - Whittier / December 25 1920." Gentle sunning to spine hint of dustiness to upper edge of textblock else Near Fine and clean throughout. Poems honoring socialist leader Eugene Debs by a variety of radical 20th century poets including Witter Bynner Max Eastman Charlotte Perkins Gilman Carl Sandburg Siegfried Sassoon Horace Traubel and Israel Zangwill many others. Sinclair contributed the foreword along with letters from H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw who states: "Clearly the White House is the only safe place for an honest man like Debs". A key association copy inscribed to Palmer who served as Attorney General under Woodrow Wilson from 1919-1921. As a reaction to domestic unrest Palmer created the General Intelligence Unit in 1919 recruiting J. Edgar Hoover to lead the new organization. During the First Red Scare 1919-1920 the "Palmer Raids" were launched which resulted in numerous suspected radicals to be rounded up and deported. During the final weeks of Wilson's time in office Palmer requested a Presidential pardon for an aging Debs whose health was deteriorating in prison; Wilson's response was "Never! Upton Sinclair unknown books
1933274691London: Victor Gollancz 1933. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Quite an attractive copy of the first impression of the Brittain's moving and angry memoir of loss; one of the great books to come out of the horrible experience of the first World War. The front and rear panels of the dustjacket are laid in; they are badly chipped and the spine has perished. A clean and tight copy with no marks of any kind and just a trace of shelfwear. Very Good binding. Victor Gollancz unknown books
197716186JNew York: Sotheby Parke Bernet 1977. First Editions. Three volumes. THE VERY RARE DELUXE HARDBOUND EDITION LIMITED TO ONLY 35 COPIES SPECIALLY PRINTED ON SWARTHMORE MIST & CORTLEA FRENCH PAPER. Issued to the public paperbound on different paper only a handful of very special people were presented with the attractively bound edition in full maroon cloth with labels. The catalogues of the massive auction sale of 20th Century modern first editions of what was the greatest sale of such material ever held there is not another auction even close. The depth and quality of the books many in remarkable presentation copies with terrific associations letters and manuscripts assembled by Jonathan Goodwin was an amazing achievement. The Ernest Hemingway collection alone contained manuscripts literally hundreds of Hemingway letters salesman’s dummies photographs Hemingway’s first two books presented to Sylvia Beach plus others with amazing presentation inscriptions. No collector of Ernest Hemingway can have a real view of Hemingway collecting without these sale catalogues. The collections included are a virtual who’s who of important 20th Century writers represented with historic and highly desirable material including F. Scott Fitzgerald William Faulkner John Steinbeck James Joyce Ezra Pound Gertrude Stein Sinclair Lewis Robert Frost Allen Ginsberg Jack Kerouac etc. 256 pages paperbound. These catalogues are profusely illustrated reproducing letters and inscriptions and rare dust jackets. Near fine set with the prices-realized sheets laid in listing the price for which every item sold. Sotheby Parke Bernet hardcover books
193839048New York: Doubleday Doran & Co 1938. Reprint. Octavo 20.5cm.; publisher's red cloth decorative spine stamped in black and gilt red topstain; 6365pp. Cloth rather discolored from damp and soil most heavily so to rear cover spine cocked brief and shallow loss of cloth and board at top edge of rear cover. Good to Very Good only. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper along with the ownership pressure stamp of the United Cannery Agricultural Packing and Allied Workers of America CIO. From the manuscript note on front free endpaper verso: "This book was won at a Party given by Dave Thompson and Barney Dreyfus at 311 1/2 Filbert St. San Francisco California on March 11 1939. Won by John Coon expelled S.U.P. member who fought for Democracy in Spain. Guests attending. followed by sixty-two signatures covering the remaining leaf and the half title page recto and verso." Included among the signatures are H.F. Dean member of the aforementioned Socialist Union Party a shortlived De Leonist organization founded by Abraham Ziegler after his own expulsion from the Socialist Labor Party; Thomas Norton another Abraham Lincoln Brigade veteran; the Australian-born American union leader Harry Bridges co-founder of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union; and the hosts Thompson and Dreyfus. Doubleday, Doran & Co unknown books
192838527London: Alfred A. Knopf 1928. First U.K. Edition. Octavo 19.5cm; purple cloth with titling and decorative elements stamed in pale metallic green on spine and front cover; 248pp. Forward lean small stain to lower left corner of front board with a hint of sunning to spine; clean throughout; Very Good or better. Dustjacket is price-clipped lightly edgeworn and a bit spine-sunned with some rubbing to joints and a few small nicks and short tears; Very Good. "Despite its cheery-sounding title Circus Parade is light years away from Toby Tylerland presenting a dark violent and thoroughly unromanticized portrait of life on the road with a traveling show -- described by Tully as "generally a canvas nest of petty thieves and criminals among the lower gentry." The book's depictions of casual brutality -- including a shocking account of the troupe's exploitation of a young black girl's sexual favors -- got it banned in Boston and caused an uproar with circus fans and unsurprisingly circus owners which helped to put the kibosh on a proposed film adaptation by James Cruze" PROUTY 4. Uncommon particularly in dustjacket - among the titles by American author's published during Knopf's short-lived London years. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
198418794ENew York: Morrow 1984. First Edition. Signed presentation copy from Roman Polanski inscribed by the author: “To Tom Just a few biographical notes in case you need them.Love Roman ‘Pirates’ - 85.†Laid in is a circular travel sticker from the Djerba / Menzel Hotel in Tunisia where Polanski’s picture ‘Pirates’ was being filmed. Illustrated. Fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some minor signs of use. The autobiography of the acclaimed film director of Rosemary’s Baby Chinatown Tess etc. ‘Pirates’ in the inscription is a reference to his film starring Walter Matthau Cris Campion Damien Thomas Olu Jacobs Ferdy Mayne and David Kelly. Morrow unknown books
194232920New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1942. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20.75cm; beige buckram with printed title label applied to spine; reddish-brown topstain; dustjacket; 10210pp. Hint of sunning to spine else Fine and clean throughout. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.50 with light wear to extremities some faint creasing along front panel edges and a sharp vertical fold slightly left of the front joint; still an attractive Near Fine example. Attractive copy of the National Book Award-winning author's first book a novel based on a roadtrip Morris took with his father from the midwest to the west coast. Harcourt, Brace and Company unknown books
1983WRCLIT57638Barcelona: Albert Ferrer 1983. 191pp. Folio 45 x 33.5 cm. Folded and gathered bifolia laid into cloth-backed printed board folder with ribbon tie. About fine. First edition. Illustrated with five original full-page aquatints by Garzon Florez and a quarter panel woodcut in sepia by him on the upper board of the folder. The title-leaf has two additional decorative figures stamped in blind. One of forty-five numbered copies of fifty with the aquatints and the colophon numbered and signed by the artist who has also signed the upper board of the folder. Ferrer's work as a fine printer was singled out for mention in the March 1984 issue of CONNOISSEUR and in the May/June issue of AMERICAN BOOK COLLECTOR. Apart from his lavish 1987 limited edition of the Barcelona Columbus letter of 1493 with additional material featuring lithographs and etchings by Juan Antonio Roda and co-published with the New York Public Library Ferrer's work is poorly represented in American institutional collections. Albert Ferrer hardcover books
194712923France: Edite Aux Depens De Quelques Bibliophiles 1947. First edition. Paperback. Good. Oversized 8vo. Little known and early work of drawings by Mitelberg a French political cartoonist. Text in French by Ferrary and Roman. This copy INSCRIBED by Mitelberg and dated in 1946. A fragile production. This copy in good condition overall with small chips and wear to covers. One of twelve hundred hand numbered copies. Despite the ample limitation we could find only two copies in world institutional holdings. <br/><br/> Edite Aux Depens De Quelques Bibliophiles paperback books
197528845New York: William Morrow 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo. 185 pp. First edition first printing of this now classic compendium of Puerto Rican poetry edited by Algarin and Pinero. Cloth spine over boards. This is the now very uncommon first hardbound edition in a handsome very good or better dustwrapper with original $6.95 price on the front flap. Contributors to this anthology included Jorge Lopez Pedro Pietri Luz Rodriguez Americo Casiano Pinero Algarin and much more. This copy has been INSCRIBED BY BOTH ALGARIN AND JOSE-ANGEL FIGUEROA one of the contributors to this anthology. Photographs provided by Gil Mendez. This book went a distance in forging recognition of a new langauge of poetry blending Spanish and American cultures. William Morrow hardcover books
193347057Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co 1933. First Thus. Octavo 22.5cm. Original pictorial publisher's boards in matching dustwrapper; 50pp; illus; four inserted leaves of mechanical plates on card-stock. A bright Very Good or better copy with all mechanical plates present and in working condition retaining the scarce pictorial dustwrapper which is lightly soiled with small losses to extremities scuffed at folds and with a 1" closed tear at crown of spine; just Very Good. Bannerman's original version of this racist children's classic was set in India and even the earliest versions of the book contained illustrations that clearly drew upon negative colonial stereotypes. Langston Hughes noted that Little Black Sambo was a work of the "pickaninny variety.amusing undoubtedly to the white child but like an unkind word to one who has known too many hurts to enjoy the additional pain of being laughed at" quoted at www.historyonthenet.com. <br/><br/>Though public opposition to the Sambo books had begun in earnest by the early 1930s Kurt Wiese's illustrations for this edition brought clearly African features to the character of Sambo reinforcing the pickaninny stereotype. This mechanical version is not listed in Baumgarten and is apparently the only edition of Sambo to include Wiese's illustrations. Rare in dustwrapper. Garden City Publishing Co unknown books
191443988Riverside CT: Hillacre 1914. First Edition. One of 165 copies printed on Omadaka Japan paper from a total edition of 200. Small quarto 25cm; brown paper-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; publisher's original glassine overlay and paper-covered slipcase; 22pp. Fine in Very Good example of the glassine gently sunned and with a few nicks at spine and a shallow loss to lower left corner of rear panel; slipcase lightly edgeworn with a few thin splits along one of the rear joints; Very Good. Giovannitti an Italian emigre Socialist and IWW organizer devoted his life in more or less equal measure to the writing of poetry and to sowing the seeds of discontent. Occasionally as in the current work - a profound indictment of "rotting traditions and living men" written while imprisoned in the Salem Massachusetts jail for his role in the Lawrence Textile Strike - he managed to do both at once. Uncommon in this condition particularly with the glassine present. Hillacre unknown books
193334991New York: The Viking Press 1933. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm; publisher's unbound signatures all edges untrimmed laid into the casing for the trade binding casing is only black cloth over boards without pastedowns; iv3035pp. Scattered foxing to text edges preliminary and terminal leaves; casing with splits along joints and light external wear; Very Good. "The story of a Georgia dirt farmer who digs holes in his ground for fifteen years hoping to find gold. The primary occupation indulged by he and his two sons is sex and outrageous details are given here in a humorous maner" Coan p.56. A social and economic study of poor whites and basis for the 1958 Anthony Mann film starring Robert Ryan Tina Louise and Aldo Ray. Scarce state of this major Southern novel likely issued as an advance copy for distribution to reviewers. HANNA 564. The Viking Press unknown books
193735182London: Constable and Company Ltd 1937. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo 21.5cm; red cloth with titles stamped in navy blue on spine and front cover; dustjacket; x4391pp. Inscribed by the author to his American publisher Evelyn Shrifte on the front endpaper: "To Evelyn / With love / Jim." Upper and lower rear boar corners gently tapped though still sharp touch of dustiness to text edges else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced 8/6 net showing light wear to extremities corresponding bumps to rear corners and some mild rubbing to spine and rear panel; still a bright Very Good to Near Fine example. Substantial volume collecting Farrell's short fiction nearly all of which first appeared in the U.S. published in Calico Shoes 1934 Guillotine Party 1935 and Can All This Grandeur Perish 1937. For Fellow Countryman Farrell revised nearly all of his stories adding three stories which had never before been published in book form. A distinguished copy inscribed to long-time Vanguard Press president Evelyn Shrifte 1901-1999 who published Farrell's Stud's Lonigan trilogy and many of his other works during her 36 year tenure. Constable and Company, Ltd unknown books
191920877New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1919. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm.; original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 6376pp.; frontispiece & 3 leaves of plates. Extremities shelf-worn with a few tiny losses and closed tears jacket spine rather sunned else Very Good in About Very Good jacket. Anti-IWW and "anti-labor account of the ruin of a loyal German-American farmer in Washington state by striking I.W.W. farm workers" - HANNA 1504; see also BLAKE pp. 239-40 and MILES 4995. Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown books
