THE INSTRUMENT
Clean first edition, first printing of this tale of a playwright who leaves Broadway success by the author of APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA.
Clean first edition, first printing of this tale of a playwright who leaves Broadway success by the author of APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA.
First editions of various Austrian lesson books for blind children from a single turn-of-the-century publisher, in both Braille and an embossed Latin alphabet, showing the field's move toward the Braille system.
Stunning and extensive collection of original artwork, album covers, and two lengthy reference books — all describing a vast imaginary world of 20th century rock-and-roll that never existed.
Dreamy original linocut poster for the 1967 New York Children's Book Week, with art by Caldecott Medal-winner Marcia Brown.
Original French-language promotional poster for the 1967 New York Children's Book Week, with art by Caldecott Medal-winning artist Barbara Cooney.
Attractive German picture book with simple rhymes for children, exhibiting the pervasiveness of pre-WWI nationalist rhetoric.
Third edition of this patriotic German board book, featuring children's activities from getting dressed in the morning to viewing a parade of pickelhaube-wearing soldiers.
Beautiful original poster for Chris Van Allsburg's Caldecott Award-winning Christmas picture book.
First edition of this tale of Finnish twins Jukka and Vendla's efforts to establish a museum in their small rural town, as war looms in Europe, in the scarce original dust jacket.
Ephemeral prodution from the American Woman Suffrage Association, reprinting a vehement pro-suffrage speech by Senator George Frisbie Hoar of Massachussetts.
First printing of this photo-illustrated picture book from the "Black is beautiful" movement through the perspective of an 11-year-old boy.
The uncommon first printing of this inspirational and hugely popular bestseller.
Serious-minded investigation into the effects of psychedelic drugs on the telepathic abilities of two "sensitives" and two "normals."
First printing of this collection of early letters from the Beat icon.
First edition, first issue of Burroughs' drug-fueled Beat masterpiece — in exceptional condition.
First printing of this charming little book of magic tricks, produced by beloved Baltimore publishing house I. & M. Ottenheimer.
Third printing (stated) — and first produced in the U.S. — of Ginsberg's landmark poem, number four in the Pocket Poets Series.
First printing of this modern children's classic, an exploration of innocence and change, death and courage, a beautiful copy.
First edition of Tennyson's never-staged play, an attractive copy with a hidden fore-edge painting.
First printing of this collection of Black poetry from the late nineteenth century to the Harlem Renaissance, compiled by one of the period's "most talented writers" (Finkelman, 526).
First printing of this educational survey that combines advice on screenwriting and directing with the scenario scripts for the films "A Kiss for Cinderella," "The Last Command," and "The Scarlet Letter."
First edition of this journalistic account of the Swiss Army by the veteran NEW YORKER writer, following the army service of a Swiss winemaker.
Signed first printing of this novel set in 1948 "giddy and chaotic" Rome, the story of a writer amid American expats in the burgeoning postwar film world.
First printing of this collection of essays by the lesbian postmodernist "known for her audacity" (front flap).
First edition of the selected correspondence between to major midcentury literary figures, whose longstanding friendship became public over their "embittered 1965 debate" on Nabokov's translation of a Pushkin novel.