London: P.R. Stephenson / Printed by Botolph Printing Works, [1930]. First Edition. Staplebound. Scarce pamphlet is a printed original specimen and sold on the streets of Oxford the day after Crowley was told not to turn up Poetry Society. The lecture by Crowley was due to take place on 4th.....
Price: $5,500.00
[San Francisco, CA]: O.T.O. and Stellar Visions, [1984]. Reprint. Staplebound. As the title suggests, this work contains facsimiles of a number of O.T.O. related texts that were originally collected in Crowley's "Blue Equinox" (1919), comprising "Liber LII," "Liber CI," "Liber CLXI," "Liber CXCIV," and "Liber XV." The book was sanctioned.....
Price: $75.00
Hollywood, CA: [1942] c.1980s. Reprint. Staplebound. A reprint copy of the rarest "Free Distribution", non-wrap Issue this copy, as per the note to rear: "To follow the example of the English edition, a limited number of copies have been made available 'For Free Distribution among the Soldiers and Worker of.....
Price: $35.00
New York: House of Collectibles, Inc., [1974]. First Edition. Paperback. Autobiography of English high priestess and witch, Patricia Crowther, initiated under the teaching of Gerald Gardner. An intimate read from the British circle of well-practiced witches and warlocks developing Wiccan roots. Introduction by Dr. Leo Martello, New York witch and.....
Price: $275.00
New York: Evert Duyckinck, 1813. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Repaired and rebound by Amy Wertheimer in 1987 with matching slipcase with burgundy silk pull. A lovely volume. Leaves toned, touch of foxing, professional repairs of torn leaves, else tight and unmarred. Slipcase tight. Half bound, burgundy leather spine and tips.....
Price: $145.00
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1926. Later Printing. Hardcover. Light shelf wear, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light shelf wear, several small, closed tears, some related creasing, small chip at heel, small soil spot at top edge, else bright and clean. Brown coated cloth boards, black ink lettering.....
Price: $45.00
Various publishers, 1964-1978. [Most/All are First Printings]. Original Wraps. Robert Crumb, aka R. Crumb, is the megalith of subversive, underground, hyper-sexualized comic book illustrators. Crumb first published his psychedelic and explicit Zap Comix in 1968, at the height of the visual art revolution in San Francisco. He is most known.....
Price: $4,500.00
Hardcover. "Reprinted from Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, Vol. 33, No. 1, January, 1945" (from front wrap). A handsome copy of this somewhat uncommon volume. Light self wear, two soft creases, small, closed tear at head, toning at edges of wraps, else tight, bright and unmarred. Blue paper wraps.....
Price: $65.00
Pennsylvania/New York: Maureen Cummins, 2019. Limited Edition. Stiff Boards. Done as part of Swarthmore College’s Friends, Peace, and Sanctuary project. "The project brought five artists into conversation with Syrian and Iraqi individuals resettled in Philadelphia. Cummins interviewed four participating families in 2018. The interviews captured the unspeakable losses experienced by.....
Price: $2,600.00
Mt. Tremper: Maureen Cummins, 2021. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. “One day, to everyone’s astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg, and everything blows up.” [James Baldwin] "Newark 1967: A Narrative in Black and White was produced by Maureen Cummins during the summer and fall of 2020, with typographic.....
Price: $2,500.00
High Falls, New York: Maureen Cummins, 2016-2017. Limited Edition. The/rapist was produced by Maureen Cummins in the autumn and winter of 2016/2017, with typographic assistance from Kathleen McMillan, production assistance from Molly Berkson and Sarah Rose Lejeune, and metalwork by Charles Hubert. Initial research for the project was conducted in.....
Price: $3,300.00
Pennsylvania/New York: Maureen Cummins, 2019. Limited Edition. Unpublished Ms, 1946 juxtaposes a memoir by Hans Bargas—a survivor of Buchenwald who resettled in Pennsylvania—with a rejection letter from the head editor at Readers Digest. This spare and chilling book speaks powerfully to issues of anti-semitism, denial, and the erasure of cultural memory.....
Price: $2,500.00
Mill Valley, CA: Sunflower Press, 1984. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Green silk boards, pictorial insert, pictorial endpapers, silver gilt on endpapers, frontispiece. 72x62mm. 35pp. Illus. (color plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 44 of 125.
Price: $100.00
Mill Valley, CA: Sunflower Press, 1998. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Purple cloth boards, paper label on front cover, printed endpapers, frontispiece. 71x75mm. np. Illus. (b/w plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 10 of 37.
Price: $100.00
Mill Valley, CA: Sunflower Press, 1987. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Grey paper boards, gilt decorative elements, orange endpapers, frontispiece. 52x50mm. 28pp. Illus. (color plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 46 of 50.
Price: $150.00
Sunflower Press, 1995. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Red suede wraps, sculptural element on front wrap, Japanese style binding, black paper portfolio, gilt decorative box, handmade Japanese paper. 73x75mm. np. Illus. (b/w plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 10 of 12.
Price: $550.00
Mill Valley, CA: Sunflower Press, 1996. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Purple paper boards, purple and gilt pictorial label, pictorial endpapers. 74x72mm. 34pp. Illus. (color plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 8 of 35.
Price: $300.00
Denver, CO: Alan Swallow, [1964]. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. Printed by Alan Swallow ; designed by Theo Jung. This copy inscribed and signed: "Inscribed for Lewis Turco, April 18, 1972 by J.V. Cunningham." Signed by dedicatee and has embossed seal of Lawrence Clark Powell Library on title page. Pamphlet bound.....
Price: $15.00
Sudbury, MA: Kurbel Books, 1985. [miniature]. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Cream full leather, title in blue on spine, accordion fold, stamps, printed label, marbled endpages; red paper slipcase. 2 1/2x2 1/2. 21pp. Illus. color. Numbered limited edition this being 73 of 200.
Price: $55.00
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Many reproductions of title pages, sketches, etc. and a very good bibliography. A handsome copy. Tight, bright and unmarred. Glassine DJ shows light toning at spine, small closed tears at edge, else clean. Slipcase split at one edge (repaired), several small.....
Price: $75.00
Oldham, UK: Incline Press, 2008. Limited Edition/Unique Binding. Hardcover. Art binding by Julie H.B. Stackpole, a fine hand bookbinder based in mid-coast Maine. After getting a BA at Kirkland College, Julie Beinecke Stackpole studied bookbinding with Kathryn Gerlach in Vermont, in Ascona Switzerland, at the Camberwell School of Arts &.....
Price: $2,450.00
Los Angeles, CA: Christian, Peggy, 1972. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. Tipped-in bookplate. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Printed paper wraps, slipcase. 45x33mm. 18pp. Limited edition of 200.
Price: $45.00
Boston: J. N. Bang, 1839. First Edition. Hardcover. Ornate Harvard crest bookplate with handwritten inscription indicating "The Gift of The Author, Hon. Abel Cushing of Boston. Rec. March 30, 1844." Inscribed by the author at the second blank, "Harvard College Library from A. Cushing". Notation at copyright page repeats contents.....
Price: $350.00
Chicago, IL: Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics, 1931. First Independent Printing. Hardcover. Reprinted from Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics, Vol. LII, February 1931. "Basis of second Arthur Dean Bevan Lecture of the Chicago Surgical Society on October 3, 1930, before the joint meeting of the Chicago Surgical Society, the Institute of Medicine.....
Price: $145.00
Oxford: At The Clarendon Press, 1926. Fourth Impression. Hardcover. A very presentable set of this renowned work on the life of Osler. Light shelf/edge wear, light toning to gilt (focused at heel), ownership signature and bookplate at ffeps. Dark blue cloth boards, gilt lettering, frontispiece, tissueguard. 8vo. 685, 728pp. Illus.....
Price: $125.00