The Great Prisoners; The First Anthology of Literature Written in Prison
New York: Dutton, 1946. 879pp. 8vo, tan cloth. New York: Dutton, 1946. Very good.
ANTHOLOGY
Brothers and Sisters; Modern Stories by Black Americans.
8vo, cloth, d.w. (N.Y., 1970).
Vanity Fair, Selections From America's Most Memorable Magazine, A Cavalcade Of The 1920s And 1930s.
New York: Viking, 1960. Profusely illustrated in black and white. 327pp. 4to, red cloth-backed boards. New York: The Viking Press, Publishers, 1960. Toning on inside covers and endpapers, as well as toward edges of front and rear covers, nevertheless a very good copy.
Prose [Number One]
New York: Prose Publishers, 1970. 159pp. 8vo, printed wrappers. New York: Prose Publishers, (1970. First Edition. Contributors include W.H. Auden, Harold Bloom, Anthony Burgess, Edward Dahlberg, Richard Howard, et a.
Eleven Verse Plays.
1929-1939. Thick 8vo. N.Y., (1939).
Ideal Empires and Republics.
Two portraits. 8vo, buckram; (spine sunned and faded). N.Y.: M. Walter Dunne, (1901). Contains: Rousseau's Social Contract; More's Utopia; Bacon's New Atlantis; Campanella's City of the Sun.
The World of George Jean Nathan.
489pp. 8vo, cloth, d.w. N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. Very good.
Tales From Town Topics.
New York: Town Topics, 1896. 256 pages, 12mo, rebound in cloth backed marbled boards, original stiff tan printed wrappers bound in. New York: Town Topics Publishing Co., 1896. First Edition. Very Good. Scarce. No. 22. Quarterly. On the Altar of Passion and others stories and poems. Previous owners ownership stamp on page 7. Small reinforcements with tape.
Daughters of Emily: Eleven Women Poets / Fifteen Poems
Haybarn Press, 2018. Frontispiece on Rives Heavyweight, printed from a painting on a Mylar plate, and hand-colored by the artist. Illustrated in color by Ed Colker. Letterpress printed. Unpaginated, unbound in burgundy cloth portfolio, as issued. Haybarn Press, 2018. A fine copy. Limited edition, number 24 of 125. Signed by the artist on the limitation page. Poems by: Lee Briccetti, Lea Graham, Kathryn Hellerstein, Catherine Kasper, Kadya Molodowsky, Kathleen Norris, Nina Pick, Ronnie Scharfman, Rosmarie Waldrop, Jeanne Murray Walker, and Suzanne Wise.
Le Merite Des Femmes and Petit Souvenir des Dames
Paris: Chez Janet. Text in French. Engraved title page and illustrated with 6 black and white engravings by A.B. Massol, protective tissue guards. Unpaginated (some light foxing), miniature book, 32mo, pale pink boards with decorative gilt stamped borders, all edges gilt, matching slipcase (slipcase a little darkened by dust). Paris: Chez Janet, no date, circa 1810. A very good(+) copy. Very scarce. Includes poetry selections from various authors and 23 pages without text, (12 decorated with engraved zodiac designs,) plus...
The Apple (Of Beauty and Discord).
New York: Stokes, 1920. A Volume devoted to Arts and Letters. This First Volume contains numerous Poems and Stories, Essays on the Arts ...and some One Hundred and Sixty Reproductions of Etchings, Lithographs, Woodcuts and Drawings by Modern Artists. Includes Frank Brangwyn, Wyndham Lewis, John Nash, Augustus John, Gordon Craig, Steinlen. Folio, gray cloth with apple device on cover; spine repaired. New York: Stokes, [1920]. Very good.
Three Plays.
Fore,. by George Bernard Shaw. Small 8vo. N.Y., (1927).
The Princess Elizabeth Gift Book
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1935. Edited by Cynthia Asquith & Eileen Bigland. Illustrated. 224pp. decorative end-papers & title page by Rex Whistler. 8vo, white cloth pictorially stamped in blue & silver, d.w. London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1935). First Edition. A fabulous "Gift Book" issued to raise funds for the Princess Elizabeth of York Hospital for Children. Two striking double-page color plates from the Disney Studios are highlights of this treasury, which also includes contributions by Kipling, J.M.Barrie, G.K. Chesterton &.....
Soviet Scene.
Six Plays of Russian Life. Transl. by Alexander Bakshy. 8vo, cloth, d.w. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1946.
A Place in the World called Paris.
San Francisco: Chronicle, 1994. Illus. 8vo, black cloth, d.w. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (1994). Very good.
Stars and Sand: Jewish Notes by Non-Jewish Notables.
Illus. 555pp. 8vo, blue cloth (a bit edgeworn). Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 5703-1943.
Representative Plays.
Intro. by William Lyon Phelps. 439pp. N.Y., (1926).
A New Jersey Reader.
8vo, cloth, margin of page 143 expertly repaired. Rutgers UP, (1961). vg.
Golden Tales of the Far West.
8vo, cloth. N.Y.: Dodd, Mead, 1947. vg.
The Open Air; An Anthology of English Country Life
London: Faber & Faber, 1949. Illus. 12mo, green cloth, d.w. chipped and lightly soiled. London: Faber and Faber, (1949).
Collected Works by and about Blanche Evan Unedited: Dancer, Teacher, Writer, Dance/Movement/Word Therapist, January 28, 1909 - December 24, 1982.
San Francisco: Blanche Evan Dance Foundation, 1991. Signed and inscribed by the compiler. Illustrated in black & white. 213pp. 4to, grey cloth. [San Francisco]: Blanche Evan Dance Foundation, 1991. A few ink marks on the front cover, still a very good(+) copy. Signed and inscribed by Ruth Gordon Benov on endpaper: "For my sister Lettie, Who allowed me to use her house, to cut, clip, & paste as I worked on this project. Lettie, loves the Dance and I love...
From the Modern Repertoire.
1952. Series Two. 511pp. N.p.: University ofIndiana Press, (1952).
Four Plays.
1968. Port.,cloth, 298pp., Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1968.
The Bibelot.
Portland: Moser, 1895. A Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers, chosen in part from scarce editions and sources not generally known. 21 vols., thick 12mo, white backed blue boards with paper labels (spines slightly yellowed at the extremes). Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1895. Very good (+).
Magic Symbols of the World
London: Hamlyn, 1972. Many color and b/w Illustrations. 4to, black cloth, dust wrapper with light edge-wear, corners lightly bumped. London: Hamlyn, (1972). A very good(-) copy.