London: Printed by Whittingham and Rowland, Goswell Street; For John Carr, 56, Paternoster-Row, 1814. First Edition. Full Calf. Crown 8vo: viii,158,[2]pp, with 8 delicately hand-colored aquatints, including the frontispiece. Complete with half-title and two pages of publisher's advertisements. (In every copy we've seen, plate no. 5, often described as bound..... more

London: Jonathan Cape, 1971. First Printing. Hardcover. First English-language Edition (a limited American edition followed in 1994), translated from the French and with an introduction by Simon Watson Taylor, of this key text of the surrealist movement. Crown 8vo (196 x 120mm): 222pp. Publisher's paper-effect brown cloth, spine stamped in..... more

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1968. Early Reprint. Hardcover. First Edition, Third Printing, of this touchstone of contemporary American avant-garde poetry. Crown 8vo (203 x 152mm): 94,[2]pp. Publisher's gray cloth, spine stamped in red and black, pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) printed in black and salmon pink. Inscribed by Ashbery on..... more

New York: E. Weyhe, 1930. Decorative Cloth. First Edition of this high point of twentieth-century documentary photography, from the library of one of the foremost documentary photographers. Preface (in French) by Pierre Mac-Orlan. Royal 8vo (267 x 207mm): [4],23,[1]pp, with frontispiece portrait of Atget by Berenice Abbot, 96 full-page sepia..... more

London: Faber & Faber [through 1934], 1932. Early Reprint. Hardcover. Second Edition (first revised edition), one of 1,000 copies. 8vo: 112pp. Publisher's finely woven black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge stained grey, others untrimmed; light blue dust jacket printed in black and priced 7s.6d. About Fine (dust-soiled top..... more

London: Faber & Faber, 1974. First Impression. Hardcover. First Impression of the poet's last-published collection. Slim demy 8vo (216 x 137): 57,[1]pp. Publisher's quarter-bound blue cloth stamped in gold, pale blue paper-covered boards; grey and black dust jacket priced at £1.75. Fine (and unread) in like jacket. Prepared for publication..... more

New York: Faber and Faber, 1965. First Printing. Hardcover. First Printing, one of 4000 copies. Tall, slim 8vo: 94pp. with errata slip tipped in facing page 7. Publisher's pale blue linen cloth, spine stamped in gold; price-clipped typographic dust jacket printed in black, olive green and purple. About Fine (owner's..... more

[Berlin]: Peperoni Books, 2015. First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition (so stated), collecting photographs of back streets and dilapidated spaces in the Berlin neighborhoods of Mitte, Tiergarten, Wedding, and Kreuzberg. Oblong royal 8vo (243 x 300mm): 120 pp, including 49 full-color illustrations (of broken architecture, neglected parks, vacant lots, and discarded..... more

Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1905. Cloth. Fourteenth Edition, revised and augmented. lxx, 474pp, with 15 maps and 30 plans. A superb copy with bright gilt lettering and 2 ribbon page-makers (one loose and laid in); the red flexible cloth covers clean, unfaded, square and tight, the maps properly folded and..... more

Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1926. Cloth. Eighteenth Revised Edition. xlii, 422pp, with 49 maps and 53 plans (37 town plans, 16 floor plans). Publisher's red flexible decorative cloth stamped in blind and gilt with all edges marbled and two silk page-maker. A superb copy with bright gilt lettering and richly..... more

Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, Publisher, [various]. [various]. Stamped Cloth. An excellent 3-volume set (each volume issued separately) of early editions for the traveler wanting a handy panoramic survey of the entire country, in matching bindings. Foolscap 8vo (158 x 99mm): lxviii,698, with 36 maps, 45 plans, and panorama of the Alps;..... more

Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1897. Cloth. Fourth Edition. lii, 458pp, with 14 maps, 18 plans, and 4 floor plans. An exceptional copy (preliminaries and subsequent page edges toned), with bright gilt lettering, one (of two) woven silk page-maker, and richly marbled edges; the red flexible cloth covers unmarked, square and..... more

Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1895. Cloth. Second Edition. xxiv, 294 pages, with 10 maps and 13 plans (some folding). Nominally the second edition, but Baedeker only published this title once. Publisher's red flexible cloth stamped in blind and gilt with all edges marbled and a green silk page-maker. Almost Fine..... more