Payne, C.Douglas.

Youth in Revolt – The Journals of Nick Twist. Volumes I, II, III (Youth in Revolt – Youth in Bondage – Youth in Exile).

FIRST Edition. Sebastopol (California), Aivia Press, 1993. 8°. 503 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in FINE condition. Some very minor discoloration to the edge. SIGNED by Payne on the titlepage.

Phillips, Jayne Anne.

Machine Dreams.

New York, E.P. Dutton / Seymour Lawrence, 1984. 16 cm x 24 cm. 331 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Excellent, very good+ or even better condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by Jayne Anne Phillips on the titlepage.

Pinsky, Robert.

Jersey Rain.

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. Octavo. 52 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

Potter, Stephen.

Potter on America.

London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956. 13.5 cm x 21 cm. 160 Pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Some stains on covers and edges.

Price, Reynolds.

Things Themselves. Essays & Scenes.

First Edition. New York, Atheneum, 1972. 21cm x 13cm. xv,269 (1) pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition.

Redding, J. Saunders (Jay Saunders).

No Day of Triumph. With an introduction by Richard Wright.

First edition. New York ; London, Harper & brothers, 1942. 23 cm. 342 pages. Original hardcover. Good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. There’s noticeable rubbing of and discolouration to the spine. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen – Translator Erik Haugaard. With his Exlibris to the pastedown.

Redel, Victoria.

Where the Road Bottoms Out – A Collection of Stories.

New York, Alfred A Knopf, 1995. 13.5 cm x 21 cm. 171 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition+ with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by author. Yellow top edge decoration.

Rexroth, Kenneth.

With Eye and Ear.

New York, Herder and Herder, 1970. 16 cm x 23.5 cm. 217 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed and inscribed by Kenneth Rexroth on the halftitle. [An Azimuth Book].

Roth, Samuel (editor).

American Aphrodite: A Quarterly for the Fancy-Free. Volume Four / Number Sixteen – [with the printed dedication to Ernest Hemingway]. This Volume includes: “Venus & Adonis” – Behind the Scenes with Catherine, Russia’s Voluptuary Czarina. By Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. / The Merry Muses of Robert Burns / George S. Viereck – Was Shakespeare a Man or a Woman ? / Norman Lockridge – The Women of Plentipunda / etc.

New York, American Aphrodite, 1955. 16.5 cm x 24 cm. 227 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. Small tears and some fraying to dustjacket.

Salamanca, J.R.

Lilith.

First Edition. London / Melbourne / Toronto, Heinemann, 1962. 8°. 381 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear to the binding. The dustjacket with several minor tears but in overall very good condition.

Salinger, J.D.

Der Mann im Roggen. Roman. Deutsch von Irene Muehlon.

Erste deutsche Auflage. Zürich, Diana Verlag, 1954. 14 x 21 cm. 290 Seiten. Hardcover/ Gebundene Ausgabe. Im originalen Schutzumschlag. In Mylar. Sehr guter Zustand mit minimalen Gebrauchsspuren.

Saunders, George.

In Persuasion Nation. Riverhead Books – A member of the Penguin Group.

New York, Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2006. 13.5 cm x 21 cm. 228 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by author.

[Schneemann, Carolee] Eshleman, Clayton.

Bearings. [Two fantastic association copies of this limited edition / Both copies from the library of Carolee Schneemann / Both, beautifully inscribed by Clayton Eshleman to Carolee Schneemann and one copy with an annotation and several interesting textmarkings by Carolee Schneemann].

First Edition. Santa Barbara, Capricorn Press, 1971. 22.5cm x 15.3cm. 22 (6) pages. Original illustrated softcover. Excellent condition of noth editions, with only minor signs of external wear. This is one of Eshleman’s most personal works, which explains why he inscribed it in two consecutive years to Carolee Schneemann. Clayton Esleman writes about the impact Rilke’s “Letters to a Young Poet” had on him in 1959. Carolee Schneemann has marked several passages which were important to her, among which is: “for in the sense that what is deeply sick in man today is his hate for his body, in that he has loaded the most energetic word he has for love-making with all the hostility he feels against the act of love. Don’t fuck with me, we say. Keep your fucking hands off. Fuck you. And that word, like a jungle interwoven with all kinds of lianas and vines of tensions, desires, and hate, can’t now possibly convey just its erotic energy – “. / Eshleman also leaves a short biographical note (in print) at the end of this Volume in which he critically describes his consequential status quo: “…..Moved to New York City the summer of 1966…..the bottom fell out: I left my family, moved into a hole in the corner of Greenwich Avenue and Bank Street and entered Reichian Therapy…..Presently living in Sherman Oaks, California, with my wife Caryl – and, as of last week, loaned orgone accumulator sitting expectantly in Garage….– 28 January 1971”.

Serrano, Andres.

America and other work.

Köln, Taschen, 2004. 37,5 cm x 28,5 cm. 352 pages. With over 100 photographic images, full page and with some double pages Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. With full red cloth hardboards & spine and title embossed into cloth. The price for this heavy book includes international shipping per Courier ! The price for this heavy book includes international shipping per Courier !

Sinclair, Upton.

Depression Island.

First Edition. Pasadena, Published by the Author, 1935. 8°. 124 pages. Hardcover / Original red cloth with black lettering on spine and cover. Fine condition of this novel on the american Depression. Rare, but in this condition rather scarce.

Slaughter, Frank G.

In A Dark Garden.

Garden City, New York, Doubleday and Company, 1946. 14.5 cm x 20.5 cm. 435 pages. Original hardcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

Smiley, Jane.

A Thousand Acres.

First Edition. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. 16.5 cm x 24 cm. 371 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Deckled fore edge. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear to the Mylar ! Signed by Jane Smiley on the titlepage. In 1992 Jane Smiley won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for this publication !

Smiley, Jane.

Ordinary Love & Good Will. Two Novellas.

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. 15 cm x 22 cm. 197 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by Jane Smiley on the titlepage.

Snyder, Gary.

Back on the Fire – Essays.

California, Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm. 167 pages. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Fine / As New. Signed by author Gary Snyder on the titlepage. Rare !

[Stanley Cavell Collection] – Cavell, Stanley [Stanley Louis Goldstein].

Collection of important and rare publications by and on american philosopher Stanley Cavell. The books in this collection originate from the personal library of Stanley Cavell, his friends Victor and Jacqueline, as well as from the library of philosopher Graham Parkes [Please see each title described and photographed in our section “Libraries & Collections” and search for “Stanley Cavell Collection”]. The collection includes: 1. Must We Mean What We Say ? – Modern philosophical essays in morality, religion, drama, music and criticism. First Edition, 1969. Signed and inscribed by Stanley Cavell / 2. Stanley Bates and Ted Cohen – More on what we say. First Edition. Chicago, Middlebury College, 1972 / 3. Cavell, Stanley – Themes out of School. Effects and Causes. San Francisco, North Point Press, 1984. Signed and inscribed by Stanley Cavell / 4. Cavell, Stanley. The World Viewed – Reflections on the Ontology of Film. New York, The Viking Press, 1971. Signed and inscribed by Stanley Cavell in the year 1971, to his friends Victor and Jacqueline / 5. [Cavell, Stanley] Oksenberg Rorty, Amélie. The Many Faces of Philosophy. Reflections from Plato to Arendt. First Edition. Oxford and others, Oxford University Press, 2003. Signed and inscribed by the Editor to Cavell. / 6. [Cavell, Stanley] – Massimo Cacciari – Architecture and Nihilism: On the Philosophy of Modern Architecture – Stanley Cavell’s personal copy with notes and annotations. / 7. [Cavell, Stanley] Desan, Wilfrid – The Tragic Finale – An Essay on the Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre – with interesting annotations and textmarkings by Stanley Cavell / 8. Cavell, Stanley. Pursuits of Happiness – the Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage. Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1981. From the librray of philosopher Graham Parkes / 9.Cavell, Stanley. The World Viewed- Reflections on the Ontology of Film. Enlarged Edition. Massachusetts, Harvard Universaity Press, 1979. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes.

New York / Cambridge / and others, Charles Scribner’s Sons / Harper / Yale University Press / Oxford University Press / Viking Press etc., 1969-2003. Large Octavo (17 cm x 23,5 cm). XXIX, 365 pages. Hardcover / Original cloth / Softcover. All books in very good or better condition; many signed or inscribed. A rare opportunity to look into the mind of an important philosophical thinker through his annotations and notes, especially in the book on Sartre.

Twain, Mark.

Mark Twains ausgewaehlte humoristische Schriften. II. Band – Abenteuer und Fahrten des Huckleberry Finn / Huckleberry Finns Abenteuer und Fahrten / III. Band – Skizzenbuch / IV. Band – Auf dem Mississippi – Nach dem fernen Westen.

3 Baende (von 6). Stuttgart, Verlag von Robert Lutz, 1897. Octavo. 320, (12), 285 (4), 298, (6) Seiten. Hardcover / Originale, sehr dekorative Ganzleinenbaende mit reicher Vergoldung und Illustrationen auf den vorderen Einbanddeckeln. Sehr guter Zustand bis auf kleineren Wasserschaden auf den ersten 5 Seiten von Band 3. [Text in Fraktur !].

Updike, John.

The Witches of Eastwick.

First Trade Edition. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. Octavo. 307 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear. The dustjacket with a tiny repair only.

Updike, John / Ford, President Gerald.

Memories of the Ford Administration. A Novel.

First Trade Edition. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Octavo. 371 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by President Gerald Ford on the halftitle. Also signed and beautifully inscribed by John Updike on the endpaper: “Read this book – it feels unread” / Includes also a typed note in which John Updike asks the recipient of this signed book to refrain from any future attempts to send him books for signing: “Recent changes in postal regulations have made the task of signing and sending back books more complicated than before…..So i ask you to make this your last shipment; any books henceforth received from you will be donated to the local church book fair……”

Viereck, George Sylvester / [Frederick Franklin Schrader] / [Mentioning of Oscar Wilde / Lord Alfred Douglas].

Collection of early Manuscript Material (which is a Manuscript Ballad / Poem), a two-page Manuscript Letter (which is a MLS mentioning Oscar Wilde, Lord [Alfred] Douglas, Viereck’s literary tastes etc.) and the personal copy of “House of the Vampire”, all by the controversial german-american author George Sylvester Viereck. The collection includes: 1. One six-page, hitherto unpublished Manuscript – Ballad [Poem], called “Die Ballade vom Sündigen Glück” [Translates: “The Ballad of sinful Pleasure”]/ 2. A lengthy and extremely insightful Two-Page Manuscript Letter, signed in New York, 1902, which accompanied and talks about the enclosed Six-Page Manuscript – Ballad [The letter and Poem was not conclusively but very likely addressed by Viereck to Frederick Franklin Schrader, then editor of the New York Dramatic Mirror and shortly thereafter co-founder with George Sylvester Viereck of “The Fatherland” / 3. The collection also includes Viereck’s personal copy of his publication “The House of the Vampire” with handwritten, manuscript entry of his name, address in New York City as well as a pasted statement on the endpaper by the author Viereck: “Concerning “The House of the Vampire” : This book went through several editions when it was first published and was dramatized. It played for eight weeks in New York and for two years on the road under the management of the Shuberts. Critics have compared it to such books as Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde, Lady Into Fox, and Dorian Gray”]. The two-page letter is of great value and touches on Viereck’s admiration for Schrader and his “Blatt” [Newspaper]. Viereck is advertising himself to Schrader by introducing himself as a critical admirer with substantial references (Viereck details his working for numerous newspapers in America). Viereck mentions his secessionist tendencies and name-drops Oscar Wilde, Rosetti and Lord Douglas (whom he claims to know personally). This amazing, autographed/signed Manuscript-Material was created by Viereck directly during his transition from writer to propagandist and is an example of his early, bullish personality, which wants to be heard, which needs attention and it is here, in 1912, where his career begins to develop. This large Archive of manuscript material [8 pages in total] is stunning and unpublished (see partial Transcription of the original german material on our website). Viereck’s close friends included Nikola Tesla and even Theodore Roosevelt was among his acquaintances.

New York, Moffat, Yard & Company, 1902-1912. Play and Letters: 20.3 cm x 25.3 cm / Book: 13 cm x 19,5 cm. Pagination: Balld (Poem): 6 pages / Manuscript Letter (MLS): 2 pages / Book: 190 pages. Original Hardcover / Blue publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine in protective collector’s mylar / The play protected in clear folder. The manuscript pages overall in excellent condition besides page IV of the play which has two abrasions with small parts of the text missing only. The book in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Viereck’s usual vanity made him add the lovely littel note of critical success. The personal copy of this controversial author’s most interesting book is a unique possibility for each collector of unusual Vampire material. Extraordinary collection !

Viereck, Peter.

Collection of Books, Offprints and Ephemera, rare Association – copies from the personal library of american writer, Peter Viereck as well as from other famous libraries of philosophers and writers in Peter Viereck’s circle of friends. [Detailed photographs on our website under “Libraries & Collections”] – The Collection includes a wonderful association-copy between the first african american pulitzer prize-winner, poet Gwendolyn Brooks and Peter Viereck, also an interestingly inscribed association copy of Viereck’s “Conservatism Revisited”, sent to philospher and logician Willard Van Orman Quine, a signed version of Peter Viereck’s book “Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals – Babbitt Jr. vs. the Rediscovery of Values”, an inscribed book by Harry Levin to Peter Viereck, an inscribed book by Peter’s father, George Sylvester Viereck, as well as other books of interest. Also included is a larger collection of ephemeral material and offprints, listed here: 1. “Peter Viereck – Profile” – Article by E.V. Griffith in “Poetry Now”, Vol, VI, No. 2 [Issue 32] – With three excellent photographs of Viereck, shown throughout the article. Griffith discusses Viereck’s genesis as a writer, his time in Harvard and his important contribution to conservatism etc. / 2. Peter Viereck – “The Last Decade in Poetry- New Dilemmas and New Solutions” (In this 1954 – Offprint from “Literature in the Modern World”, Nashville, George Peabody College for Teachers, Viereck discusses Wallace Stevens (″Wallace Stevens’ is the sorcery of surfaces. For this he pays a price: the sacrifice of deep feeleing″and Robert Lowell) / 3. Peter Viereck – “Decorum and Terror: Homage to Goethe and Hart Crane” – Original Offprint from “Essays in Criticism”, with a manuscript correction by Viereck / 4. Peter Viereck – “New Views on Metternich” (Offprint from “The Review of Politics”) / 5. Peter Viereck – “The Rootless ‘Roots’: Defects in the New Conservatism (Original Offprint from “″The Antioch Review”, Summer 1955, issue) / 6. Galleyproof Review for NY Times Sunday Book section of Russell Kirk, by Peter Viereck – With two manuscript notes on the Galley by Peter Viereck to american philosoper and Leo Strauss admirer, Harvey Mansfield: “Harvey, many thanks for your piece on Spitzer + Auerbach which meant a lot to me (I’d known Spitzer). Warm regards to both of you – Peter” and a second manuscript entry by Viereck: “Saw Brodsky …..Finishing a new book…poems – Peter” [Mansfield and Viereck must have sent the Galley back and forth between each other]. / 7. Peter Viereck – “First Advance Reviews on “McCarthy and the Communists” by James Rorty and Moshe Decter – With a highlighting of the review-citation of Peter Viereck’s opinion “All conservative and liberals reading this irrefutable indictment of McCarthy’s methods should unite to conserve our traditional Constitutional framework against subversion by McCarthyism as well as by Communism” / 8. “Peter Viereck – A List of his principal works” / 9. Peter Viereck – “Unlaughing and Untragic” – (Original Offprint from “American Quarterly” with some markings by Viereck, ticking off each paragraph) / 9. Peter Viereck – “Reply to a critique of one of Viereck’s publications” / 10. Peter Viereck – “Ogling through Ice: The Sullen Lyricism of Georg Heym” [Original Offprint from “Books abroad”, April 1971, 11 pages – Including Peter Viereck’s Translation of Georg Heym’s poem “Letze Wache” (″Final Vigil”)] / 11. Original Book Review by Jacques Barzun of Peter Viereck’s Masterpiece: “Metapolitics – From the Romantics to Hitler” – Original Offprint from “Journal of the History of Ideas, January 1942, Vol. VIII., No.1” – Including Peter Viereck’s Reply to Barzun’s “passionate” Review, calling Viereck’s book “an ardent attempt to psycho-analyze the religion of the Nazis”. 6 pages/

Notre Dame / New York and others, 1951 – c. 1955 Octavo. Original Offprints and loose pages etc. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Peter Viereck.

[Viereck, Peter] Eliot, Alexander.

Proud Youth.

First Edition. New York, Farrar, Straus & Young, 1953. 13 cm x 21 cm. 222 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Marble coloured boards, top edge green. Personal copy of the american poet Peter Viereck, signed and inscribed with a long inscription by his father George Sylvester Viereck: “For Peter – Xmas 1953 – G.S.V. – The most startling book I’ve come across this side of pornography, written by a descendent of President Eliot”.

[Viereck, Peter] Levin, Harry.

Contexts of Criticism. With an Appendix: James Joyce et l’idee de litterature mondiale.

First Edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1957. 8°. XI, 294 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. The jacket in very good+ condition with some minor tear. From the library of american writer Peter Viereck. Inscribed and signed on the endpaper: “For Peter from Harry with warm regards – Cambridge, 14. IV.57”.

Whitman, Walt.

Walt Whitmans Werk. In Zwei Bänden. Mit vier Bildnissen. Ausgewählt, uebertragen und eingeleitet von Hans Reisiger.

Berlin, S. Fischer Verlag, 1922. 15 cm x 21 cm. Band I: “Prosaschriften”: Frontispiz-Portrait, C, 176 Seiten. Band II – “Leaves of Grass”: 253 Seiten. Original Hardcover / Originale Verlagsbindung. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur ganz geringen Gebrauchsmerkmalen an der Bindung. Innen nahezu neuwertig und sehr sauber.

[Whitman, Walt] Kaplan, Justin.

Walt Whitman – A Life.

New York, Simon & Schuster, 1980. 16 cm x 24 cm. 432 pages. Several black and white plates throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Wideman, John Edgar.

Fatheralong – A Meditation on Fathers, Sons, Race and Society.

New York, Pantheon Books, 1994. 13 cm x 19.5 cm. XXV, 197 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Signed by author.

Wilder, Thornton.

The Ides of March – A Novel [including a vintage photograph of Thornton Wilder during his visit to Frankfurt, Germany in the year 1957 when he accepted the german literary Prize “Friedenspreis des deutschen Buchhandels”].

First Edition (Letters M – W). New York, Harper & Brothers, 1948. Octavo. VIII, 246 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. The dustjacket price-clipped and slightly frayed only. Small sticker of former owner on pastedown: “Mrs. Raymond Ziesmer – Appletree Farm, Julian, California”. The excellent photograph measures 17,5 cm x 23,5 cm. The original and rare press-photograph is titled on the back and the story of the picture is told: (Translates:) “….Thornton Wilder arrived on the 11th of September 1957 on the airport in Frankfurt…On August 6th 1957 he received the “Peace-price of the german Bookseller Association in the Paulskirche [Frankfurt]”.