New York: Prometheus Books, 1987. Lionel Abel was a prominent American dramatist, critic and translator, credited with coining the term “metatheatre” and translating Jean-Paul Sartre into English. In Important Nonsense, Abel offers incisive essays on major intellectual figures such as Dostoevsky, Sartre, Kojeve and Russell, revealing his lifelong engagement with.....

New York: Horizon Press, 1970. KEY FEATURES OF THE TRILOGY —+++ The Set: Includes all three volumes of Anderson's memoirs, covering the Modernist literary explosion, the Ulysses obscenity trial, and her life in Paris with Georgette Leblanc and Jane Heap.+++ Subject Matter: A foundational text of Lesbian history, capturing the.....

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1963. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Historical Significance:This volume remains one of the most important visual records of Arturo Toscanini (1867–1957). Robert Hupka's photographs are technically masterful, taken under difficult low-light conditions without flash, yet they reveal the 'terrifying intensity' of Toscanini's.....

London: Dennis Dobson, 1956. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Eric Bentley one of the twentieth century’s foremost drama critics, profoundly influenced modern theater study. A student of Reinhold Niebuhr and a translator of Brecht, Bentley helped shape English-language understanding of European modernism while grounding his essays in.....

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1947. Limited Edition, Deluxe Issue of 249 copies. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE -- Ray Bergman was the undisputed king of American angling for three decades. As the long-time editor of Outdoor Life, his voice didn't just teach people how to fish; it defined the gear, the ethics.....

New York: George Braziller, 1972. Two Hardcovers with Dust Jackets, accompanied by original typed correspondence. SCHOLARLY FEATURES+++ The Poetry Wars of 1972: The September letter preserves a fierce defense of Burnshaw's In the Terrified Radiance following Richard Howard's refusal to provide a promotional blurb, with Burnshaw colorfully dismissing Howard's output.....

London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1950. No. 204 of a Limited Edition of 370 copies. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE -- Comenius wrote the Labyrinth while a religious refugee during the Thirty Years' War. His vision of the world as a city where everyone wears 'rose-colored glasses' of delusion remains one of the most.....

New York: Doubleday & Co., 1980. First Edition, First Printing. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE —Jack Dann emerged as one of the important literary voices of modern speculative fiction, helping expand the genre beyond traditional adventure narratives into psychologically complex and experimental territory.The stories in Timetipping blend science fiction, fantasy, mysticism, and surrealism.....

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. Isabella Gardner was a significant voice in mid-century American poetry, often called a "poet's poet." Though her output was small (only four books in her lifetime), her work was highly regarded for its sonic intensity and emotional depth. West of Childhood was.....

Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Post Press, 1975. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE —Tim Gidal (born Ignatz Nachum Gidalewitsch) stands as one of the definitive structural architects of modern photojournalism. Operating in Weimar Germany during the late 1920s and early 1930s, Gidal pioneered the use of small, lightweight cameras like the Leica and Ermanox to.....

New York: Doubleday, 2017. 19th Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Additional Information —•+++ Seventeen original color photographs taken on location in Osage County, Oklahoma—depicting Grayhorse, Fairfax, cobblestone roads, oil wells, and other key sites of the Osage murders.+++ Two geological bulletins with fold-out maps issued by the U.S. Department of.....

New York: Horizon Press, 1973. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE —By 1973, the partnership between B. H. Haggin and Ben Raeburn’s Horizon Press had become one of the most respected boutique collaborations in American letters. Raeburn’s ability to maintain a profitable and prestigious house while publishing uncompromising intellectuals like Haggin was a feat.....

New York: Horizon Press, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE - B. H. Haggin was one of the earliest and most consistent champions of George Balanchine’s work. This book serves as a summation of decades of observation, elevated by Martha Swope’s photography—widely considered the definitive visual.....