ORIGINAL ART from James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC

(Haverford, PA): Green Shade, 1999. First separate edition of this essay which was originally published in The American Scholar in 1998 & selected for inclusion in The Anthology of Best American Essays for 1999. One of 85 specially bound copies signed by Burroughs & Gill, with an original frontispiece etching by Bryan Nash Gill, out of a total edition… Read more about this item

Amherst: Shanachie Press, 1980. First edition. One of only 10 lettered copies reserved for the author and artist (this being copy "J") out of a total edition of 35 copies produced, of which 25 roman-numeraled copies were for sale; all copies were signed by the poet and the artist, with each of the original prints also numbered and signed… Read more about this item

Invalided out of the Army after World War I, Ralph Chubb studied at the Slade School of Art between 1919-1922. "During the summer of 1921, however, he returned to his home in Curridge in the Berkshire countryside where he dressed as a gypsy and . . . spent some weeks living rough, among the Romanys, whom he sketched." -… Read more about this item

N. Y.: The Grenfell Press, 1988. First edition. One of only 15 specially bound, Roman-numeraled copies signed by Mathews and Winkfield, with an original four-color silkscreen print signed by Winkfield laid in, the binding and box bearing original colored silkscreen designs not used in the regular issue of this book, which was strictly black & white. Box lightly soiled,… Read more about this item

Calais, VT: Z Press, 1999. First edition. One of only 26 copies with the original seven-color engraving signed by the artist & the colophon signed by Ms. Guest out of a total edition of 226 copies printed in Bembo type on Zerkall & Fabriano paper by The Grenfell Press. In the regular issue, which is unsigned, the frontispiece is… Read more about this item

(N. Y.): Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1991. First edition. One of 160 copies printed on Hahnemuhle etching paper by Leslie Miller at The Grenfell Press and signed by Burroughs and Condo. As new.. CONDO, George.. Folio, with 3 original etchings & several tipped-in color illustrations, pictorial endpapers, black cloth, matching slipcase. As new.… Read more about this item

N. Y.: Grove Press, (1956). First edition. One of only 15 copies, signed by Kallman, and containing an original drawing signed by Larry Rivers tipped-in as a frontispiece. Offsetting to title-page from the original drawing, otherwise a very good copy. Small 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, glassine dust jacket. Offsetting to title-page from the original drawing, otherwise a very… Read more about this item

(London): Gogmagog Private Press, (1980). First edition. One of 35 numbered copies "designed, cut, modelled, hand-printed & bound" and signed by Cox. "Plates & text printed on Japanese Hosho & Kuzo-shi papers.... Binding material woven in Hong-Kong, supplied by Mr Corrie Guyt". Chambers 33. Presentation copy from Cox to Guyt, who supplied the binding materials, with Guyt's bookplate on… Read more about this item

(Frankfort, Kentucky): Gnomon Press, (2006). First edition, limited issue, one of 50 numbered copies signed by the photographer and with an original signed and numbered print ["Juana Paloma, 1998"] enclosed in a separate envelope and laid in. By the author of The Neugents (Jargon Society, 1993). As new. 4to, illustrated, original cloth, matching cloth slipcase. As new. … Read more about this item

Milano: Libreria Bocca, (1981). First edition. One of 100 numbered copies printed by the Officina Bodoni, with an original print by Enrico Baj, editioned & signed, as frontispiece. Fine copy in lightly rubbed slipcase. BAJ, Enrico. 8vo, quarter morocco & marbled boards, t.e.g., acetate dust jacket, matching marbled slipcase with leather tips. Fine copy in lightly rubbed slipcase.… Read more about this item