Demonics de brown bob (2 resultados)

Softcover. First Edition. Octavo, 111 pages. In Good condition. Bound in publisher's tan wraps with black lettering to spine. Chipping along spine with material loss at head and tail. Front cover detached. Tearing along rear hinge at top edge. Heavy age toning to wraps. Stain at top edge of front wrap present throughout textblock to page 27. Heavy age toning throughout. Inscribed by Brown on front free endpaper: "For B. B. from b. b. Cagnes 1931." SH consignment. Shelved in Case 0. Bill Bird was an American publisher best known for running the Three Mountains Press, a small press that published many prominent modernists in the 1920s including Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams and Robert McAlmon, with Ezra Pound serving as editor. Over a period of two and a half years he published 9 works. Concurrently he founded Consolidated Press Service and worked there as a journalist from 1920-1933, when he joined the New York Sun as chief foreign correspondent. Forced to flee France after the Nazi invasion, he wrote articles warning of war. After WWII he moved to Tangier and was the editor of the Tangier Gazette. This title was among Bird's private collection, having been carted by him from Paris (where he stayed until 1940), to Spain, Tangiers, and finally back to Paris and by descent to the US. 1403260. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.…

Condición: Fair. Cagnes-sur-Mer 1931 first edition. Roving Eye Press. Octavo. later wraps. Dedication poem to Stuart Davis. 111p. Paper toned and brittle. Titlepage present then page 5 with poem "Like Lettuce" so presumably 1 , possibly 2 pages are missing. Rest of pages are present and binding is secure. Some light chipping along outer edge of first four pages (no loss of text.) No owner marks. Other than the missing pages, the book is in Fair, legible, condition. Almost Rare book of quite unusual and very interesting poems. Pictures available on request.…