Shanghai: Limited Editions Club, 1933. Softcover. Octavo (8" x 11") bound in full silk brocade wrappers and housed in a Chinese redwood box with lettering incised by hand, as published. Copy #8 of 1500 translated with an introduction by Lionel Giles and printed on handmade Chinese paper. Four illustrations printed.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1932. Edward Wilson. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-5/8") bound in half buckskin leather, blindstamped, with marbled paper sides. Introduction by Edward Everett Hale. Designed by Will Ransom. Illustrated with color drawings by Edward Wilson. Copy #514 of 1500 copies SIGNED by the illustrator. An unusual.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1981. Robert Kipniss. Hardcover. Octavo (6-1/8" x 9-1/4") bound in half buckram and boards covered with blue Fabriano Roma paper handmade in Italy. Translated and annotated by C. F. MacIntyre. Copy #1396 of 2000 illustrated with 4 full-page and 6 half-page ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS by Robert.....
Westport, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1976. Lajos Szalay. Hardcover. Octavo (6-3/8" x 9-5/8") bound with sides of marbled paper hand-made in France and a spine of green Buffalo calf leather stamped in gold. Translated by Constance Garnett. Introduction by Alec Waugh.Illustrated with 8 full-page color illustrations and 10 line drawings.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1978). First Edition. Hardcover. Beautifully bound in full blue leather with gilt decorations. Copy #223 of 2500 SIGNED in full by the former President. Laid in is the publisher's Certificate of Authenticity. The most desirable and scarcest issue of this book.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935. Miguel Covarrubias. hardcover. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-1/2") bound in full native tappa with an introduction by Raymond Weaver who was most responsible for resurrecting Melville's reputation in the twentieth century. Copy #601 of 1500 numbered copies with lovely color illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias and.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1955. Edward Ardizzone. The Centenary Edition. Hardcover. Two quarto volumes (6-3/4" x 10") bound in cloth-backed pictorial buckram. Printed by the University Press, Cambridge. Introduction by Angela Thirkell. With hand-colored illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Copy #1185 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist on.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1955. Edward Ardizzone. The Centenary Edition. Hardcover. Two quarto volumes (6-3/4" x 10") bound in cloth-backed pictorial buckram. Printed by the University Press, Cambridge. Introduction by Angela Thirkell. With hand-colored illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Copy #39 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist on.....
[Newark, NJ ]: Toothpaste Press for Bookslinger, 1980. First Edition. Broadside. A SIGNED broadside (9-1/2" x 13") of this poem printed on the dedication of the author's reading at Walker Art Center. Copy #12 of 85.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1982. Al Hirschfeld. Hardcover. Folio (8" x 12-1/2") bound in burgundy aniline leather-backed cloth imported from Italy, hand-printed in 13 colors with a pattern by Kazumi Oshida. Copy #340 of 2000 illustrated by Al Hirschfeld with two-color drawings and an ORIGINAL FOUR-COLOR LITHOGRAPH for the.....
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1965. Robert Shore. Hardcover. Small quarto (7-3/8" x 11") bound in full white sailcloth stamped in black on the spine. Introduction by Maxwell Geismar. Copy #511 of 1500 illustrated with 10 double-page color plates by Robert Shore and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon.....
[Burlington, VT]: Limited Editions Club, 1966. Clarke Hutton. Hardcover. Octavo (5-3/4" x 9-1/4") bound in full gold brocade cloth with gilt-lettered leather spine label. Introduction by David Daiches, 568 pages. Illustrated with paintings and line drawings by Clarke Hutton. Copy #970 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon.....
Saratoga Springs: 12 October 1945 and 5 June 1947. Letter. A pair of one-page typed letters SIGNED in full, the earlier to a Professor Wells and the later to an unnamed editor. In the letter to Wells, Sullivan gives his permission to include his essay "Football is King" in an.....
New York: Golden PTG Service, 1922. First Edition. Framed Broadside. A 5-1/2" x 23-1/4" broadside matted and framed to 10-1/4" x 28-1/2" serving as the original playbill for this famous one-night performance of what is considered the foundational document of the Algonquin Round Table. All of the members of the.....
[1920s - 1970s]. Photograph. A collection of over 200 original photographs, nearly all black-and-white and ranging in size from 2" x 2" to 9-1/2" x 12-1/2" or so, along with some newspaper clippings and notes. Most are unidentified and require further research, but all come from the Pennsylvania home of.....
[1930s-1940s]. Photograph. Three formal original photograph portraits (7-1/2" x 9-3/4") tipped to an 11" x 14" mat SIGNED in pencil by the photographer, Maurice Goldberg (1881–1949) of Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, and both Parker and Campbell together. Parker and Campbell produced over 20 scripts made into movies, most famously the.....
Photograph. Scarce original 8" x 10" photograph of Parker and her husband Alan Campbell INSCRIBED and SIGNED in the upper left corner by Campbell and SIGNED by Parker as "Dorothy." Parker and Campbell produced over 20 scripts made into movies, most famously the script of the Oscar-winning A STAR IS.....
The Saturday Review of Literature, 13 June 1931. Wraps. A single sheet (14" x 19") printed on one side and folded into fours of Canby's important review of Parker's book that helped establish her as a serious poet. This is a proof copy of that review in which Canby states.....
[1930 - 1949]. Manuscript. A collection of original working MANUSCRIPTS and partial manuscripts, mostly unproduced screenplays but including unpublished short fiction, on 8-1/2" x 11" and legal-sized sheets, with many corrections and annotations. Includes an unproduced adaptation of Agatha Christie's N OR M; a short story about screenwriting titled "Crazy.....
[1942]. Photograph. A collection of 47 original photographs, nearly all by Jacob Lofman, of Fox House, the Bucks County home of Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell, 33 approximately 8" x 10" with 14 smaller images. Sixteen of the 8" x 10" photographs, some featuring Parker and Cambell, are ANNOTATED by.....
[1930s]. Photograph. A collection of 30 mostly formal original photograph portraits of Dorothy Parker, all approximately 8" x 10" with 8 of them including her husband, screenwriter Alan Campbell, and 22 of them of Parker alone or with her dog. None of the photographs is signed by photographer or subjects;.....
New York: The Viking Press, 1939. First Edition. hardcover. A major Algonquin Round Table Association Copy wonderfully INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper to another major figure of the Algonquin Club: "Alexander Woollcott, his book--/Dorothy Parker, her book--/Lake Bomoseen, June 1942."
New York: The Viking Press, 1930. First Edition. hardcover. Collection of short stories. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on a front blank: "To Zoila Conan--/with best wishes/and gratitude to her/for wanting this/extremely unimpressive/signature--/Dorothy Parker/Hollywood--." At the bottom of the page, in a different hand, is the date "Oct. 26.....
New York: Viking, 1933. First Edition. hardcover. A collection of short stories. Copy #123 of only 250 SIGNED by the author.
New York: Viking, 1931. First Edition. hardcover. Patterned fabric over boards with gilt-lettered leather spine label. Copy #203 of only 250 SIGNED by the poet of perhaps her best-known collection.
