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Dream Life of Balso Snell by WEST Nathanael WILSON Edmund

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books
Title
Dream Life of Balso Snell
Author
WEST Nathanael WILSON Edmund
Seller
Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1931. First Edition. WEST, Nathanael. The Dream Life of Balso Snell. Paris, New York: Contact Editions, (1931). Octavo, original tan stiff-paper wrappers, uncut. $1750.Limited first edition of West's first novel, number 234 of only 300 copies for sale in America (total of 500), a ""deliberately blasphemous"" introduction to his disruptive and unique genius, followed by Miss Lonelyhearts, Cool Million and Day of the Locust before his tragic death in 1940, in original wrappers.Much of West's debut novel, Dream Life of Balso Snell, was written while working as a night manager of a Manhattan hotel, where ""Lillian Hellman, Dashiell Hammett, James T. Farrell and others [were often] happily in line for free lodgings."" Well ahead of its time, the novel is increasingly viewed as ""dazzling parade of literary and cultural references"" (New York Times). The innovative and often Dadaist ""architecture of West's imagination emerges in toto here"" (Veitch, American Surrealism, 27-28). The novel ""is deliberately blasphemous, sometimes hilariously so, and it was altogether too unconventional to attract even the most adventurous of the established publishers. But in 1931, on the strength of a positive report by William Carlos Williams, Dream Life became the first novel to be published as a Contact Edition in the United States. It was also the last. This legendary small press had been started by McAlmon in Paris, where it published, among other innovators of the 1920s, Stein, Hemingway and Robert Coates."" West followed Dream Life with Miss Lonelyhearts (1933), Cool Million (1934) and Day of the Locust (1939), before dying in a car crash at the age of 37. ""It was a bad, bad weekend for American literature: the day before, F. Scott Fitzgerald, died at the age of 44"" (New York Times). Of the 500 copies printed in this limited edition, West had to guarantee to buy 150, and it all but vanished on publication: caught in the spin of the Wall Street Crash and the publisher's financial crisis. Partial glassine to front dust jacket flaps. Text fine; fragile original wrappers with light expert restoration. An attractive copy of an elusive American classic.
An Easy Introduction to the Game of Chess: containing one hundered Examples of Games, and a Great Variety of Critical Situations and Conclusions; including the whole of Philidor's Analysis, with copious selections from Stamma, the Calabrois, &c. Arranged

An Easy Introduction to the Game of Chess: containing one hundered Examples of Games, and a Great Variety of Critical Situations and Conclusions; including the whole of Philidor's Analysis, with copious selections from Stamma, the Calabrois, &c. Arranged by Anonymous

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Seller: The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
Title
An Easy Introduction to the Game of Chess: containing one hundered Examples of Games, and a Great Variety of Critical Situations and Conclusions; including the whole of Philidor's Analysis, with copious selections from Stamma, the Calabrois, &c. Arranged
Author
Anonymous
Seller
The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (United States)
Condition
Good to very good
Description
[26 ad]+282+[2 ad] pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 4 3/4") bound in original stiff boards with spine label in black lettering. (Hagedorn: 3. 1817) First American edition.This is the third chess book published in the United States and was not noted by Fiske in his bibliographical work. A revised edition was also published in 1817. Fisk first notes this in 1824, as a reprint of the London 1806 edition and notes that it was reprinted in England in 1809, 1813, 1819 and at other times. The name of the compiler has never been made public. The miscellaneous collection of anecdotes, essays and poems at the end is not without interest.Condition:Corners bumped and rubbed, paper hinges cracked, spine rubbed, former owner's label on front paste down else a good to very good copy of a very scarce chess item.
From The Missouri West

From The Missouri West by ADAMS, Robert

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Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA
Title
From The Missouri West
Author
ADAMS, Robert
Seller
Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780893810597
Description
Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1980. First edition. Oblong hardcover. First printing. A terrific book of 46 black and white photographs. A very near fine copy with some bumping to the top corners and to the bottom of the spine in a bright and clean very near fine dust jacket with some bumping to the bottom of the spine. A much nicer than usual copy of a book that is highly susceptible to soiling and wear.
SPEAKING WITH HANDS: Photographs from The Buhl Collection

SPEAKING WITH HANDS: Photographs from The Buhl Collection by BLESSING, Jennifer

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Seller: Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix
Title
SPEAKING WITH HANDS: Photographs from The Buhl Collection
Author
BLESSING, Jennifer
Seller
Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
ISBN
9780892073016
Condition
Near fine in a near fine jacket.
Description
New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2004. First Edition. Near fine in a near fine jacket.. First printing, with photographic images of human hands by various artists, variously considered as aesthetic objects, anatomical curiosities, and symbols, published to accompany an exhibition held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. With essays by Jennifer Blessing, Kirsten A. Hoving, and Ralph Rugoff. Plates in color and black & white. Hardcover. 4to. Pictorial boards in black and yellow dust jacket. Minor shelfwear. A hint of toning to upper edges of pages; otherwise unmarked. Near fine overall. 264pp.
Mini Atlas

Mini Atlas

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Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Title
Mini Atlas
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1976. Softcover. Very Good. First edition thus. 24mo. 160pp. Wrappers. Maps. Very good with owner stamp to first page, rubbing and edge wear.
Twentieth report to congress on lend-lease operations for the period ended June 30, 1945

Twentieth report to congress on lend-lease operations for the period ended June 30, 1945

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Title
Twentieth report to congress on lend-lease operations for the period ended June 30, 1945
Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1945. 63p., stapled wraps, 5.75x9.25 inches, tables, graphs, staples rusted, else very good condition.

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