eCatalog 12 contains 70 items, including signed and inscribed first editions, broadsides, photographs, and more!
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Charleston, West Virginia: Parchment Gallery Graphics, 1997. Unbound. First edition. Poem by John Ashbery and portrait by Larry Rivers. Single sheet, approximately measuring 11" by 12½" printed rectos only. Photolithographically reproduces in color a portrait of poet John Ashbery by Larry Rivers. Ashbery is shown seated at a typewriter composing..... More
London: The Hogarth Press, 1938. Hardcover. First edition, signed issue. Tall octavo. 56pp. Quarter vellum and dark orange cloth. Spine is lightly tanned, very slight toning on boards, else a near fine copy in very good or better dust jacket with small stain at the base of spine, and some..... More
(London): Andre Deutsch, (1980). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by Peter Shaffer: "To Michael Curtis from Peter Shaffer." Shaffer adapted his own play for the Milos Forman film which won them both Academy Awards, as well as Best Picture and Best Actor for F. Murray Abraham (co-star..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1966). Hardcover. First American edition. Illustrated by Garth Williams. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy. More
Paris: The Obelisk Press, (1936). Softcover. First Paris edition. Octavo. 363, [3] ads pp. Pictorial self-wrappers. Moderate wear on spine, light wear at extremities of covers, few leaves of text lightly creased, a very good copy. A novel first published in the U.S. by Covici in 1934, followed by a...... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1981?]. Softcover. Uncorrected proof. Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Book by George Furth. Based on the 1934 play of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. Octavo. Printed green wrappers. Very slight sunning at the spine else fine. The front..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, (1986). Hardcover. First edition, limited and signed issue. Fine in fine slipcase. Issued without dustwrapper. One of 250 numbered copies Signed by both Sondheim and Lapine. A very desirable edition of this Pulitzer Prize winning play which featured Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters in..... More
![Item #557285 [Playscript]: Hello, Dolly! Based on "The Matchmaker" by Thornton Wilder. Michael...](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/557285.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1691780395)
New York: Studio Duplicating Service / David Merrick, [circa 1963]. Softcover. Quarto. Music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. Directed and choreographed by Gower Champion. 73 mimeographed leaves printed rectos only in screwbound green Studio Duplicating Service wrappers titled in gilt. Small, neat handwritten control number ("35") on title page, plasticized..... More
![Item #557221 [Playscript]: Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Tom STOPPARD](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/557221.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1689001927)
New York: Studio Duplicating Service / David Merrick, [1967]. Softcover. Quarto. Mimeographed leaves printed on rectos only in screwbound pale purple Studio Duplicating Service wrappers titled in gilt. 35, 33, 26pp. Small, neat handwritten control number (“#13”) on title page. Plasticized wrappers are well-rubbed along the spine, a little toning..... More
[Winston-Salem]: Palaemon Press, (1981). Softcover. Second or "New" edition. Fine in plain sewn wrappers and fine patterned paper dust jacket. One of 100 numbered copies (of a total edition of 150) Signed by both Styron and Warren (the first edition wasn't signed by Warren). A brief speculation by Styron on..... More
[Blacksburg, Virginia]: Press de la Warr, 1994. Softcover. First edition. Quarto. 7, [4]pp. Sewn blue wrappers with publisher's printed label on front cover. Fine. One of 200 numbered copies Signed by William Styron of a total edition of 226 copies. The earliest work of fiction by William Styron known to..... More
New York: Random House, (1971). Hardcover. First edition. A bit of sunning at the top edges of the boards as always, else fine in a bright fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy. More
Paris: Inédit, 1976. Softcover. First edition. Paperback original. Foreword by François Roland Truffaut. Perfectbound in glossy wrappers. Near fine with some toning and a few light creases on the front wrap. Inscribed on the title page by Truffaut: "Pour Jonathan, un souvenir de Bazin, François." A book by the influential..... More
![Item #500170 [Corrected Typescript]: Wyndham Lewis: Scenarist for the Ballet. Parker TYLER](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/500170.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1648145436)
New York: [1930's]. Unbound. Typescript. Loose quarto sheets. [7]pp., typed rectos only. With numerous holograph pencil corrections to the text by Tyler, as well as a few editor's marks. Old folds, light toning and soiling, a couple of nicks, very good or better. The essay appeared in *Westminster Magazine* (published..... More
(New York: Interview Enterprises, Inc., 1981). Softcover. Magazine. Folio Cover image of Nancy Reagan by Cris Alexander, designed and painted by Richard Bernstein.. Newsprint faintly toned, cover with a few tiny edge tears, else fine. Warhol has Signed the cover across Mrs. Reagan's forehead. A nice copy, and visually striking..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1984. Hardcover. First edition, limited issue. Octavo. Gilt-stamped cloth. 105pp. Illustrated reproducing photographs of Eudora Welty. Fine in fine publisher's slipcase. Copy number 146 of 350 numbered copies Signed by Welty on the limitation page. The limited issue has become very uncommon. More
Macon, France: Monroe Wheeler, 1926. Softcover. First edition. Slim small octavo. 35pp. A fine copy in publisher's toned glassine with a bit of loss at the corners. Inscribed by Wescott to critic and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Carl Van Doren and his wife: "For Carl and Irita van Doren with my..... More
New York: The Technology Press / John Wiley & Sons, Inc., (1948). Hardcover. First American edition. Octavo. 194pp. Red cloth stamped in black and silver. Topedge is moderately foxed else a fine, bright copy in near very good, price-clipped dust jacket with a 2" tear at base of spine, small..... More
Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1919. Softcover. First separate edition, stating "Second Edition" on front cover. Octavo. 10pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Fragile printed wrappers lightly toned, faint crease on rear wrap, near fine in a custom cloth clamshell case. Although this publication states "Second Edition" on the front cover, it is in..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1934. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. Green cloth stamped in gold. Endpapers are moderately foxed (as usual), else a near fine copy, with the binding quite bright, in near fine dust jacket with one small edge tear. Prints four plays by W.B. Yeats: *The Words upon the..... More