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Hecht, Anthony Collected Earlier Poems
$100.00
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Stated first edition. Association copy inscribed by Hecht to poet Barbara Jordan. With tipped in explanation of the book’s provenance by poet and collector William Heyen. The complete texts of The Hard Hours, Millions of Strange Shadows, and The Venetian Vespers. 272 pages.
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80 years after publication, a timeless anti-fable
Orwell, George Animal Farm A Fairy Story
$6,651.75 *
* estimated currency conversionVG-/Fair 1st printing 1st ed 1945 Secker hardback, with the original quite fragile corner-clipped dust-jacket. Some chips, creasing and tears along the jacket edges as shown, longer tear to upper front edge of DJ, some loss to DJ spine ends and area of loss to the centre of the DJ spine. Previous name and date written to fly-leaf, thin wartime paper and fading to spine and edge of book, a little spotting to inside rear cover, binding tight and secure, pages tanned but unmarked.
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Lewis’s prescient anti-fascist novel signed
Lewis, Sinclair It Can’t Happen Here
$650.00Garden City (N.Y.): The Sun Dial Press, dated 1935. While Sun Dial, a reprint publisher, doesn’t include printing history, this is likely from the same year as the true first. Signed by Lewis to the front free end paper below his pasted in photo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. A well preserved copy of this inexpensively produced book, a solid very good with only a few minor defects — pages uniformly age toned, boards a little marked, photo pasted to front free end paper. Dust wrapper is also very good, 1” tear bottom rear flap, light chipping to spine extremities, some weakness to the folds, corners clipped, but retains its original bright gold color.
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Duchamp's own Dada gesture: the crumpled catalog
Duchamp, Marcel; Janis, Sidney DADA 1916–1923 Catalog of the Exhibition
$7,500.00The Manhattan Rare Book Company
DUCHAMP, MARCEL; JANIS, SIDNEY. DADA 1916–1923: Catalog of the Exhibition “Dada tried to destroy, not so much art, as the idea one had of art, breaking down its rigid borders, lowering its imaginary heights – subjecting them to a dependence on man, to his power – humbling art, significantly making it take its place and subordinating its value to pure movement which is also the movement of life.” The catalog is “a Dada gesture to cancel the ‘seriousness’ of exhibition catalogues.” — Marcel Duchamp DUCHAMP’S FAMOUS “CATALOG” FOR THE CELEBRATED 1953 DADA RETROSPECTIVE. “Duchamp planned, organized, and installed a major historical show of international Dada at the Janis Gallery in 1953. More than two hundred works of art and documents were on view, each one identified in a Duchamp-designed ‘catalog’ that was itself pure Dada – a tissue-thin broadsheet with written texts (by Jean Arp, Richard Huelsenbeck, Jacques-Henri Lévesque, and Tristan Tzara) in contrasting typefaces, set in narrow columns that ran diagonally down the page. When the sheets were delivered to the gallery, Duchamp took one, crumpled it up into a ball, and told Janis to mail it as it was, and Janis did so, to the confusion of numerous art lovers who wondered why they were being mailed trash. (A wicker basket of crumpled catalogs stood beside the gallery door at the opening.) “Duchamp was represented in Janis’s Dada show by four works: Tu m’, his last painting on canvas; To Be Looked at (from the Other Side of the Glass) with One Eye, Close to, for Almost an Hour, the glass study he had done in Argentina; the ready-made Fresh Widow; and Janis’s replica of Fountain, installed over the door at the entrance, with a sprig of mistletoe dangling from its inverted bowl.” (Calvin Tomkins, Duchamp: A Biography, 378-9). With text by Hans Arp, Richard Huelsenbeck, Jacques-Henry Lévesque, Tristan Tzara; Arp’s and Tzara’s texts were translated by Duchamp. Ref. Schwarz 543. New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1953. Single sheet of thin tissue-like paper, 25×38 inches (96.5×63.5 cm). It’s possible this example was crumpled, but it clearly has been stored flat and folded now for some time. With closed tear at center (with no loss); a few tiny tears at folds and edges. Housed in custom cloth box. Rare in such good condition. AN ESSENTIAL PIECE OF DADA HISTORY.
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SCARCE SIGNED COPY OF LA AUTHOR'S 3RD BOOK
Babitz, Eve (1943-2021) SEX AND RAGE: Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time
$950.00New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. The third book by this 1970s Los Angeles “it girl”, an autobiographical novel in which Jacaranda revels in the pleasures of being a sexy beach bum in Los Angeles until after too many nights of “14 white ladies” she wakes up and takes an opposite path, moving to New York and a world of focus and work. This novel has been described as one which solidified “her place as a singularly important voice in Los Angeles literature—haunting, alluring, and alive.” SIGNED on title page and scarce thus. 227 pp. Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (minor wear at the head of the dj spine)
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