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APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume. La Rome des Borgia. Paris: Biblioteque des Curieux, 1914. Octavo, 301pp. First edition of this work actually written by Apollinaire’s close friend René Dalize (nom-de-plume of Renée Dupuy), to which Apollinaire affixed his name as author as a favor to Dalize. Authorship notwithstanding, a presentation copy from Apollinaire to another close friend, Henri Duvernois, whom he came to know around the time of publication. In 1916, when Apollinaire underwent trepanning for the head-wound he’d received in combat, Duvernois nursed him during his recuperation from the procedure, "À mon cher Henri Duvernois, son admirateur Guillaume Apollinaire." Wraps illustrated with a licentious painting of one of the Borgia's infamous orgies. Something of a surrealist, or dadaist, object, and surely one of an extremely small number of copies that would have been inscribed by Apollinaire. In addition, a superb association copy.
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2,250.00 |
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APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume. The Poet Assassinated. New York: Broom, 1923. Octavo, 158pp. First edition in English translation by American expatriate fixture Matthew Josephson. One of twelve hundred and fifty copies on Alexandra Japan vellum, this being copy number 403. A very good copy in publishers quarter Japan vellum and paper-covered boards and a not-quite-very-good example of the rare and fragile printed dust jacket -- the spine and borders are rather sunned. Inscribed by Josephson to noted modernist painter Charles Sheeler, "July 25, 1925. to my friends Katherine and Charles Sheeler. Matthew Josephson" Ilustrated with frontispiece of Apollinaire by André Rouveyre and four woodcuts by André Dérain, originally executed for the Au Sans Pareil edition.
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500.00 |
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ARAGON, Louis. Feu de joie. Paris: Au Sans Pareil, 1920. Octavo, unpaged. With a cubist frontispiece by Picasso. Of 1070 copies printed, one of 50 copies reserved for the press numbered OOOO. Text a shade darkened. Very good + in grey printed wrappers.
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850.00 |
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ARENAS, Reinaldo. El mundo alucinante. Barcelona: Montesinos, 1978. Octavo. 222pp. Third Mexican edition of a book first published in France in 1968. Minor spotting to top edge; else near fine in publisher's paper covers. Inscribed to human rights activist Nancy Pérez Crespo, director of “Nueva Prensa Cubana” in 1980.
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850.00 |
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ARENAS, Reinaldo. El portero. Miami, FL: Ediciones Universal, 1990. Octavo, 157pp. First edition of this novel written in exile by the great Cuban author, among the major writers of the Americas in his generation. A near fine copy in publisher's illustrated wrappers. Inscribed by Arenas, warmly and at some length in the year of publication, to his friend, fellow hispanic writer in exile, Jaime Manrique. Manrique has written an eloquent appreciation of Arenas in Emminent Maricones. Manrique has made one marginal comment, "New York." A scarce title.
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1,250.00 |
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ARENAS, Reinaldo. Termina el desfile. Barcelona: Seix Barral, 1981. Octavo, 174pp. First edition thus, adding the title story to the contents of the collection published without authorization in Uruguay in 1972, Con los ojos cerrados.
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50.00 |
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ARENAS, Reinaldo. Termina el desfile. Barcelona: Seix Barral, 1981. Octavo, 174pp. First edition thus, adding the title story to the contents of the collection published without authorization in Uruguay in 1972, Con los ojos cerrados. The present early short fiction won Arenas an honorable mention in the Writers' Union Competition in 1968, but his work was banned soon afterward. He managed to have two copies of the manuscript smuggled out of Cuba, the one which was eventually published by Angel Rama in Uruguay became the seed of intense contention when Arenas discovered its existence only twelve years later in New York. The present text might be called the "first authorized edition." This copy inscribed by Arenas to fellow writer-in-exile Jaime Manrique, "con amor y admiracion, su amigo y lector, Reinaldo Arenas. 1985, New York."
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950.00 |
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ARENDT, Hannah. Between Past and Future; Six Exercises in Political Thought. New York: The Viking Press, 1961. Octavo, 243pp. First edition. Good copy in publisher's cloth covered boards. Dust jacket has been dissassembled and pasted onto the endpapers. Inscribed by Arendt on the front free endpaper "With Kind regards, H.A."
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1,000.00 |
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ARGUEDAS, Jose Maria. Agua. Lima: 1935. Octavo, 110pp. First edition of the first book by the first great Peruvian novelist, author of Los rios profundos, one of the great novels of modern Latin American literature. A collection of stories (including some of considerable autobiographical interest), exhibiting the hallmarks of Arguedas’s mature style and concerns. A fine, mostly unopened copy in publisher’s illustrated self-wrappers. Inscribed by Arguedas in January of the year of publication to American journalist and radical, Lincoln Steffens, "Al compañero Lincoln Stephens (sic) con un efusivo saludo, José Maria Arguedas de la A.E.A.R. del Peru, Lima enero 1936." Steffens was one of the central literary figures speaking in behalf of the American poor and against the manifold corruption that insured their oppression. At time when it had become most unpopular, he spoke in support of the Mexican and Russian revolutions and in favor of dynamic social change in general. A superb association copy of a very rare book.
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4,500.00 |
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ARIAS, Arturo. After the Bombs. Willimantic, CT: Curbstone, 1990. Quarto, 221pp. First US edition of the fourth novel by the award-winning Guatemalan author. "Page proofs" written on the top of the cover Near fine in a very good+ dust jacket. Inscribed by the author "For Alan, still one more of too many signatures" and signed by the translator. Very good or better condition of the paper covered copy .
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150.00 |
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