JAMES S. JAFFE RARE BOOKS SUMMER 2008 James S. Jaffe Rare Books llc 790 Madison Avenue, Suite 605 (Madison Avenue at 67th Street) New York, New York 10021 Telephone: 212-988-8042 Fax: 212-988-8044 Email: [email protected] James S. Jaffe Rare Books | SUMMER 2008 James S. Jaffe Rare Books llc 790 Madison Avenue, Suite 605 (Madison Avenue at 67th Street) – AGEE, JAMES. Permit Me Voyage. (Poems). New York, New York 10021 Foreword by Archibald MacLeish. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket. New Telephone: 212-988-8042 Fax: 212-988-8044 Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1934. First edition of Agee’s first Mobile: 610-246-0622 Email: [email protected] book, published in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Covers very slight- ly discolored at hinges as usual, otherwise an exceptionally fine copy in · ’ a bright, clean and unfaded dust jacket. Rare in such superb condition. · $3500.00 2 – ALGREN, NELSON. Somebody in Boots. All items are offered subject to prior sale. 8vo, original terracotta cloth, dust jacket. New York: The Vanguard All books and manuscripts have been carefully described; Press, (1935). First edition of Algren’s rare first book which served as however, any item is understood to be sent on approval and the genesis for A Walk on the Wild Side (1956). Signed by Algren on may be returned within seven days of receipt for any reason the title page and additionally inscribed by him at a later date (1978) provided prior notification has been given. on the front free endpaper. A beautiful copy in dust jacket with an Libraries will be billed to suit their budgets. unobtrusive half-inch closed tear at the top of the front panel. Rare in We accept Visa, MasterCard and American Express. dust jacket. $12,500.00 New York residents must pay appropriate sales tax. ALGREN, NELSON. Visitors are welcome Monday through Friday and by 3 – A Walk on the Wild Side. appointment. Although we keep regular office hours, it is 8vo, original boards, dust jacket. N.Y.: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, (1956). advisable to call in advance. First edition. The basis for the 1962 film for which John Fante wrote the script, as well as Lou Reed’s more famous song of the same name. Please note that Locus Solus Rare Books is next door to us in As new; a superb copy. $450.00 Suite 604, and in our absence, James Goldwasser may be able to assist visitors wishing to see either of our inventories. 4 – [ANTHOLOGY]. ALLEN, DONALD, editor. We welcome offers of rare books and manuscripts, original The New American Poetry: ‒. photographs and prints, and art and artifacts of literary and 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. N.Y.: Grove Press Inc., historical interest. (1960). First edition of the most important anthology of post-war American poetry. The contributors include Jack Kerouac, Allen We will be pleased to execute bids at auction on behalf of Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky; Barbara Guest, James our customers. Schuyler, Edward Field, Kenneth Koch, Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery; Digital images of items in this catalogue are available upon Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, Paul Blackburn, request. Robert Creeley, Paul Carroll, Larry Eigner, Edward Dorn, Jonathan Williams, Joel Oppenheimer; Helen Adam, Brother Antoninus Member Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America/ (William Everson), James Broughton, Madeline Gleason, Lawrence International League of Antiquarian Booksellers James S. Jaffe Rare Books Ferlinghetti, Robin Blaser, Jack Spicer, Lew Welch, Richard Duerden, 1993. First edition, deluxe issue. Limited to 125 copies signed by each of Philip Lamantia, Bruce Boyd, Kirby Doyle, Ebbe Borregaard; Philip the translators and including a separate original signed etching by Whalen, Gilbert Sorrentino, Stuart Perkoff, Gary Snyder, Edward Francesco Clemente laid in. The text was set in Monotype Dante and Marshall, Michael McClure, Ray Bremser, LeRoi Jones, John Wieners, printed letterpress by Michael & Winifred Bixler on Rives heavyweight Ron Loewinsohn, David Meltzer. In addition to selections of poems, paper. The translators include Heaney, Strand, Halpern, Kinnell, the anthology includes an addendum of “Statements on Poetics” by Clampitt, Jorie Graham, Charles Wright, Richard Howard, Stanley Olson, Duncan, Creeley, Levertov, Ferlinghetti, Spicer, Kerouac, Plumly, C. K. Williams, Alfred Corn, Robert Haas, Sharon Olds, and Ginsberg, Schuyler, O’Hara, Whalen, Snyder, McClure, Jones & Cynthia Macdonald. A beautiful book, as new. $4000.00 Wieners. Allen’s The New American Poetry, organized according to schools (e.g., Black Mountain, New York, Beat, etc.), did more than any 7 – [ANTHOLOGY]. HALL, DONALD, editor. The Harvard other book to define the origins and chart the course of non-academic Advocate Anthology. post-war American poetry. The first edition in dust jacket is rare. A fine Edited by Donald Hall. 8vo, original red cloth, dust jacket. N.Y.: Twayne, copy. $1250.00 (1950). First edition. The first book publication of the following poems by Wallace Stevens, who has signed this copy at the beginning of his con- 5 – [ANTHOLOGY]. Contact Collection of tributions: “Sonnet [There shines the morning star!]”, “Street Songs, II”, Contemporary Writers. “The Beggar”, “Night Song”, “Sonnet [Lo, even as I passed beside the (Edited by Robert McAlmon). (Paris: Contact Editions / Three booth]”, “Ballade of the Pink Parasol”, & “Quatrain [He sought the Mountains Press, 1925). First edition, published jointly by McAlmon’s music of the distant spheres]”. Edelstein B45. Also includes poems by T. Contact Editions and William Bird’s Three Mountains Press. One of S. Eliot, Conrad Aiken, E. E. Cummings, James Agee, James Laughlin, 300 copies printed in Dijon by Darantiere, who printed Joyce’s Ulysses. Howard Moss, Norman Mailer, Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Slocum & Cahoon B7. With contributions by Djuna Barnes, Bryher, Delano Roosevelt, among others. A fine copy in dust jacket. $750.00 Mary Butts, Norman Douglas, Havelock Ellis, Ford Madox Ford, Wallace Gould, Ernest Hemingway, Marsden Hartley, H. D., John 8 – [ARCHITECTURE – JEFFERSON, THOMAS]. LAMBETH, Herrman, Joyce, Mina Loy, Robert McAlmon, Ezra Pound, Dorothy WILLIAM ALEXANDER & WARREN H. MANNING. Richardson, May Sinclair, Edith Sitwell, Gertrude Stein & William Thomas Jefferson As an Architect and a Carlos Williams. Includes Joyce’s “Work In Progress” from Finnegans Designer of Landscapes. Wake; Hemingway’s “Soldiers Home”, which first appeared in the Small 4to, illustrated, original pictorial green cloth, t.e.g., others American edition of In Our Time; Hanneman B3; and William Carlos untrimmed. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. Williams’ essay on Marianne Moore; Wallace B8. A very fine bright First edition. One of 535 numbered copies printed at The Riverside copy, with a tiny nick at head of spine, and a touch of soiling at the base Press. Spine ends lightly bumped, otherwise a fine, bright copy of this of the spine, otherwise as fine a copy as we have seen. $3500.00 beautiful book. $1000.00 6 – [ANTHOLOGY]. DANTE. Dante’s Inferno. 9 – [ARCHITECTURE]. WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD. Translations By Twenty Contemporary Poets. Frontispiece by Francesco An Autobiography. Clemente. Introduction by James Merrill. Edited by Daniel Halpern. Tall square 8vo, illustrated, original black decorated cloth, dust jacket. Afterword by Giuseppe Mazzotta. Small folio, quarter black calf & red London, New York, Toronto: Longmans, Green and Company, 1932. silk over boards, slipcase, by Claudia Cohen. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, First edition. A remarkably fine copy in dust jacket, which is lightly James S. Jaffe Rare Books James S. Jaffe Rare Books faded along the spine. Uncommon in the first edition, and rare in this tion of this magnificent book. Limited to 100 copies (the entire edition), condition. $3500.00 of which only 50 were for sale. Each copy is signed by the author and each of the artists, who include Gregory Amenoff, Joe Andoe, James 10 – [ART – BERMAN]. BERMAN, WALLACE. Radio/Aether Brown, Vija Celmins, Louisa Chase, Eric Fischl, Jan Hashey, Michael Series ⁄ . Hurson, Mel Kendrick, James Nares, Ellen Phelan, Joel Shapiro, Kiki A portfolio of 13 two-color offset lithographs, each photographed from Smith, David Storey, Michelle Stuart, Richard Tuttle, Trevor Winkfield, an original verifax collage, and printed on star-white cover mounted on and Robin Winters. The present copy is accompanied by one of only 3 Gemini rag-board. Los Angeles: Gemini G.E.L., 1974. First edition. complete sets of 36 original signed prints assembled at the time of pub- Limited to 50 copies, with 10 artist’s proofs, signed by Berman on the lication. Each print is one of an edition of only 10 copies signed by the title-page. Each print represents a grid featuring the repeated image of artist. Only 10 separate prints of each of the illustrations in the book a hand-held transistor radio, Berman’s signature motif which repre- were produced, with the contributing artists receiving 7 copies of each of sented his role as a transmitter of images and ideas. As new in original their prints; the remaining 3 copies of the prints were gathered into 3 screen-printed fabric-covered box. Rare. $9500.00 sets containing the full complement of 36 prints; 2 of these sets were retained by the publisher and one by the author. The prints represent a 11 – [ART – CELMINS]. MILOSZ, CZESLAW. The View. wide variety of media, including woodcut, linoleum cut and pochoir. Both Tall 4to, illustrated with 4 mezzotints by Vija Celmins, original black the book and the portfolio of prints are in fine condition. $50,000.00 leather & paper covered boards, matching slipcase. N.Y.: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, (1985). First edi- 14 – [ART – RAUSCHENBERG]. OPPENHEIMER, JOEL. tion. Limited to 120 copies signed by Milosz and Celmins. A very fine The Dancer. copy of the most desirable of the books published by the Whitney Large 8vo sheet folded to four panels, drawing by Robert Rauschenberg.