Catalog 208 contains 146 newer arrivals to our inventory, including many literary first editions, signed and inscribed books, signed letters, broadsides, and more.
Download PDF of New Arrivals![Item #408300 [Broadside]: $50 Given Away in Prizes at Newton Falls, Sunday, Oct. 12, 1924......](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/408300.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1469599808)
Newton Falls, [New York]: Rod, Gun & Conservation Club, 1924. Unbound. 8.25" x 12.75". Printed in black on buff paper. Modest soiling at the margins, near fine. Shooting event held at a gun club in Northern New York State in St. Lawrence County. Field Captains for the event, Victor Cheney..... More
![Item #403174 [Fanzine]: The Secret of the Bay City Rollers](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/403174.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1457633014)
[Circa 1976]. Softcover. Octavo. [28]pp. Photographically illustrated. Stapled photographically illustrated wrappers. Owner's neat name on the front wrap, spine reinforced with tape and corners a bit worn, about very good. No publication information, but almost certainly American. Scottish pop band that generated more heat than fire. For a brief period..... More
Mattoon, Illinois: F.L. Horn, April and May, 1878. Unbound. One quarto leaf folded to make four pages, apparently paginated with the previous issue: [1], 6-8pp. A small stain on the first page, else fine. An "amateur" newspaper. On page seven (the third page of the newspaper) is an advertisement that..... More
(Chicago, Illinois: Modern Poetry Association, 1962). Softcover. First edition. Magazine. Printed wrappers. A bit rubbed on the wrappers, else near fine. Signed by a number of the contributors (one of the contributions is inscribed to the legendary New York City bookseller Margie Cohn) including John Ciardi, J.V. Cunnigham, James Dickey..... More
![Item #400350 [The Vinegar Bible]: The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New / Newly...](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/400350.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1603004122)
Oxford: Printed by John Baskett, Printer to [the] Kings most Excellent Majesty for Great-Britain and for [the] University, 1716. Hardcover. Two volumes. Royal folios (measuring 55cm. in height, or 14.5” x 21.5”). The rarer of two known states (the other bearing a 1717 imprint): Volume 1 (Old Testament and Apocrypha)..... More
San Francisco: Re/Search, (1982). Softcover. Uncorrected proof. Paperback original. Probably identical to the first edition, but stamped "Advance Proof Copy" on the title page. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Scarce. More
New York: Pantheon Books, (1992). Softcover. Uncorrected proof. Printed wrappers. Fine. A collection of Acker's three multipart novels: *The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula*, *I Dreamt I Became a Nymphomaniac!: Imagining*, and *The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec*. The proof is uncommon. More
New York: TVRT Press, 1975. Softcover. First one volume edition, preceded by an edition issued in six parts. Photographically illustrated wrappers. Some modest stains on the front wrap and bottom back corner a little bent, very good. More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Cambridge Review, [1955]. Softcover. Magazine. Octavo. 152pp. Wrappers designed by Ivan Chermayeff. Printed wrappers. Slight soiling on wrappers, near fine. Subscription card bound in. Cambridge literary magazine, this issue concentrating on memorializing James Agee, who had recently died. Includes the first appearance of eight images by Walker..... More
London: Faber and Faber, (1941). Hardcover. First English edition, and first edition with this title (the American edition, entitled *The Double Man*, preceded). Boards a little foxed, small stain on front endpapers, a very good copy in very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with shallow loss at the foot and a small..... More
New York: Macaulay, (1931). Hardcover. First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with very slight wear at the extremities. A superb copy of this mystery about a group of ruthless brothers competing to get their late brother's fortune while the mysterious "Poacher" flits in and out of the picture; Keating..... More
Philadelphia: Published by M. Carey, 1816. Hardcover. First American edition, from the third London edition, revised and corrected. Translated by Samuel Henley. 16mo. 234pp. Original printed paper covered boards. Two contemporary or very early owner's names (from the same family), paper lacking from the bottom 1/2" of the spine, bound..... More
London: Heinemann, 1906. Hardcover. First edition. Owner name, some foxing to the foredge and scattered throughout the text, top corners bumped and a little soiling to the boards, an attractive, very good copy lacking the rare dustwrapper. A weird novel about Pan. Not in *Bleiler.*. More
![Item #399085 [Portfolio]: Anita Berber: acht Originallithographieen. [Eight Lithographs of Anita...](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/399085.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1457633288)
Berlin: Gurlitt Presse, 1919. Unbound. Elephant folio. Set of eight 20" x 25" lithographs housed in a portfolio decorated paper over boards in quarter vellum gilt. Each lithograph is laid into a thick card matte, some of which show signs of foxing or light stains. The outer portfolio has splits..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton, (1921). Hardcover. First American edition. Translated from the Spanish by Isaac Goldberg and Arthur Livingston. Contemporary light pencil name, foxing on the foredge, and rubbing on the boards, very good in near fine Dean Cornwell-illustrated dustwrapper. Basis for several films, most notably the 1926 silent version..... More
New York: Arbor House, (1973). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Block's second hardcover novel using this pseudonym, a non-mystery novel about a woman's self-awareness which the publisher compares to *Diary of a Mad Housewife* and *Up the Sandbox!* An uncommon title. More
Santa Barbara: Cadmus Editions, 1979. Softcover. First edition. Translated by Paul Bowles. Fine in wrappers and fine unprinted acetate dustwrapper. One of 200 copies Signed by Choukri and Bowles. More
New York: Ballantine, (1953). Hardcover. First edition, binding state D (no established priority). Slight rubbing to the spine ends and a tiny tear to the edge of one leaf in the text, else fine in a lightly soiled, very good plus dustwrapper with a shallow chip at the crown, and..... More
New York: Vantage Press, (1959). Hardcover. First edition. Slightly cocked and boards a little rubbed, else near fine in good dustwrapper with several small chips and tears, some internal tape repairs, and slight spine fading to the purple jacket featuring a lurid illustration of a scantily clad (apparently) lesbian nymphomaniac..... More
New York: John Day, (1942). Hardcover. First edition. Drawings by William Arthur Smith. Boards slightly soiled else fine in near fine dustwrapper with a small chip on the front panel and a few short tears. A nice copy of a very uncommon children's book. More
[Eureka, California]: Hearse Press, [1960]. Softcover. First edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Staples oxidized else a fine copy. The author's first book (preceded by two broadsides), published in an edition of 200 copies. Signed by Bukowski on the title page. *Dorbin* A1, *Fogel* 3, *Krumhansl* 3. More
Houston Texas: Published by the Students of Mirabeau Lamar High School, 1955. Hardcover. First (only) edition. Quarto. Full red leatherette with embossed front cover and spine. Light wear on the boards, a little foxing in the text, and with many student inscriptions, particularly on the first and last few pages..... More
![Item #406912 "Beware!" [story in] Burroughs Bulletin 39. Edgar Rice BURROUGHS](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/406912.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1457632365)
Kansas City: The Burroughs Bulletin, 1974. Softcover. First edition. Tall quarto. Illustrated by Richard Corben. Stapled illustrated self-wrappers. Slightest age-toning on wrappers, still fine. First publication of the novella written by Burroughs under the pseudonym John Tyler McCulloch. More
Paris: Olympia Press, (1965). Softcover. Reprint (originally published in 1959). Printed green wrappers. Modest edgewear, slight tear at base of the spine, very good or better, without dustwrapper. Inscribed by Burroughs to poet and publisher Charles Plymell: "for Codeine Charlie, All the best medications. William S. Burroughs RX." [With]: the..... More
1979. Unbound. Plaster cast of William S. Burroughs's right hand created by Caroline Gosselin as part of her Bandaged Poets Series with several accompanying photographs taken by Gerard Malanga of the casting process, Burroughs holding the finished hand, and of Gregory Corso. The unsigned hand is 5" x 2¾" x...... More