13 OPOWIADAN AMERYKANSKICH [13 American Short Stories]
First printing of this scarce anthology of classic American short fiction in Polish translation, with cover art by midcentury poster designer Marian Stachurski.
First printing of this scarce anthology of classic American short fiction in Polish translation, with cover art by midcentury poster designer Marian Stachurski.
Uncommon edition of this early 15th century poetic dialogue between Death and a widower, movingly illustrated by Masereel.
First US edition of Dinesen's four-part coda to her classic OUT OF AFRICA, recalling the dreams and memories of her years in Kenya.
Regency-era edition of these richly hand-colored engravings by one of the finest imitators of Holbein, in a handsome contemporary binding.
First edition of this sweeping history of Paris, from Gallo-Roman Lutèce to the imagined future of 1987 — featuring transmission screens and flying swan-boats, the latter depicted in a stellar full-page image by Robida.
Complete run of Eugene and Maria Jolas's landmark literary journal, which — along with Margaret Anderson's THE LITTLE REVIEW — was one of the primary vehicles of Modernist and experimental writing.
First edition of the first modern Western novel featuring a time machine, published eight years before THE TIME MACHINE by H.G. Wells.
Rare first complete English edition of the classic swashbuckling adventure.
Signed limited first US edition of Petterson's novel, a Norwegian best-seller and winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize and the Brage Prize, issued specially for the Powell's Books INDIESPENSABLE series.
Pristine slipcased first edition of this gripping Pulitzer prize-winning novel of two children growing up on either side of a world war.
First US edition, special promotional copy of this collection of short stories from the multiple award-winning Irish author – issued as part of the Powell's Books INDIESPENSABLE Series.
Beautifully bound first edition of Zotti's annotated DIVINE COMEDY, primarily designed for British women learning Italian and dedicated by the editor to three aristocratic women patrons.
Scarce edition of Kleist's narrative of a doomed and unstable transgressive romance set amid the tumult of the Haitian revolution, illustrated with frightful lithographs by tormented Austrian Symbolist Alfred Kubin.
First US edition of these bleak posthumously published stories by the Belgian Symbolist poet and anarchist, illustrated with Masereel's stark woodcuts.
Signed first trade edition of a landmark graphic novel, in extraordinary condition.
The iconic modernist book, signed by Matisse — one of the great editions of one of the great books.
Reduced fascimile of Tchemerzine's complete ten-volume work, reproducing 12 pages of the original on each page of this reprint edition.
Beautiful two-volume illustrated catalogue of the early (1475-1692) French books in the library of artist and collector Charles Fairfax Murray, reprinted from Davies's original 1910 edition.
Weighty and resplendent limited reprint edition of Davies's 1913 descriptive catalogue of German books printed from c.1455 to 1680 housed in the library of artist, dealer, and collector Charles Fairfax Murray.
Brancusi tribute issue of the celebrated Modernist journal, published in protest after the persecution and prosecution of the editors for their publication of ULYSSES.
First English-language paperback edition of LA COMTESSE SANGLANTE, re-titled to coincide with the release of the Hammer horror film based on Penrose's singular gothic historical fantasia.
First US edition of the first volume of Knausgaard's unaccountably compelling and internationally successful six-volume work of autofiction.
Stark and haunting card of mourning from the September 10th, 1898 funeral of Stephane Mallarmé.
Second edition, Flaubert's Legend of Saint Julien, illustrated with twelve lithographs by Max Kaus.
Early Knopf Pocket Book edition, in the lovely and uncommon Art Deco jacket, of Casanova's account of his bold midnight escape from solitary confinement in 1750s Venice.