

Paris and the Expatriates
[Obelisk Press] PRESTON, William
Journal In Mexico
Paris: N.p. [Obelisk Press], N.d. [?1931]
Large 8vo., pp. 40. 2 pp. note on the career of William Preston bound in to preliminaries (present in all copies examined). Rebound in leather, original pale blue paper wrappers bound... [more]
GENET, Jean
Lettre A Leonor Fini
Paris: Loyau, 1950
Small 8vo, inpaginated. Original salmon stiff paper wrappers, titled in black to front panel.
First edition, SIGNED BY BOTH GENET AND FINI WITH... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
DURRELL, Lawrence
The Black Book
Paris: Obelisk, 1938
Octavo, pp. 260. Original stiff paper wrappers.
First edition.
No. 1 in the Villa Seurat series, established by Henry Miller and Laurence and Nancy Durrell as an imprint of the Obelisk... [more]
MILLER, Henry and FRAENKEL, Michael
Hamlet
Santurce, Puerto Rico: Carrefour, 1939
Small 8vo, pp. 230. Original stiff paper wrappers, printed in red and black to front panel. Original glassine wrapper.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
BROWN, Bob
Globe-Gliding
Diessen: Roving Eye Press, 1930
Small 8vo, pp. 151. Original brown stiff paper wrappers, lettered in gilt to front panel.
First edition of only the second book... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[Obelisk Press] ANDERSON, Robin
Four Schools
Paris: Obelisk Press, 1935
Small 8vo, pp. 118. Original red stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black on front panel and spine.
First edition. A tirade against the... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
MILLER, Henry
Money and How It Gets That Way
Paris: Booster Publications, 1938
Small 8vo, pp. 64. Original black stiff paper wrappers, lettered in gilt to front panel. Partly unopened.
First edition. One of... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
BECKETT, Samuel
Waiting for Godot
London: Faber, 1956
8vo, pp. 94. Original yellow boards, lettered in red to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper, photographic portrait of the author to rear panel.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
RIDING, Laura
Four Unposted Letters to Catherine
Paris: Hours Press, N.d. [1930]
Small 8vo, pp. 51. Original illustrated boards. Ownership bookplate laid in.
First edition. No. 125 of 200 copies SIGNED BY THE... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
GENET, Jean
The Gutter In The Sky
Philadelphia: André Levy, 1955
Large 8vo, pp. 256. Original tan boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Line drawing of Genet by Jean Cocteau in gilt to front panel. Illustrated... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[illus. LE BRETON, Constant] KESSEL, Joseph
L'Equipage
Paris: NRF, 1925
4to, pp. 185. Blue heavy board three-quarter binding, title and author in gilt to red goat leather banded spine. Wrappers and preliminaries bound in. Marbled ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[JOYCE, James] ed. ROTH, Samuel
Two Worlds
New York: At the Sign of the Mocki-Grisball, 1925-6
Small 4tos, lettered in red and black to front panels and spines. Original black slipcases.
First... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
CARROLL, Jock
Bottoms Up
Paris: Olympia Press, 1961
Small 8vo, pp. 210. Original green stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to front and rear panels and spine. New price printed faintly to rear panel.
First edition. CANADIAN PUBLISHER STUART.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[trans. RIGNAUT, Homer] SAINE, Uc
The Legend Of Ermengarde
Paris: Edward Titus, 1929
8vo, pp. 16. Original plain stiff paper wrappers, housed in a dustwrapper printed in red and black to front panel. Top edge cut, others uncut. Small ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
SPEAR, Thelma
First Fruits
Paris: Edward Titus, 1927
12mo, pp. 34. Original cream marbled stiff paper wrappers, green title label to front panel, title label to spine. Edges rough cut.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
COCTEAU, Jean
Le Mystère Laïc
Paris: Editions des Quatres Chemins 1928
Small 8vo, pp. 81. Original stiff paper wrappers and glassine jacket.
First edition. Copy no. 650 of a not especially limited edition of 3000 copies, but a superior example.
MILLER, Henry
Plexus
Paris: Olympia Press 1953
2 vols. 8vos, pp. 342 and 348. Original stiff paper wrappers.
First English-language edition, preceded only by the French translation published by Corrêa a year before in an edition of just ... [more]
[MILLER, Henry] ed. PERLES, Alfred
The Booster, Christmas Special
Paris: P.p., 1937
Small 8vo, pp. 48. Original green stiff paper wrappers, printed in black to front and rear panels.
First edition.
In 1937, and for reasons best known to himself, the head of the American Country Club of France entrusted its house journal to the editorial control of Alfred Perlès, encouraging him to bring in his literary friends and turn it into 'something really good'. Perlès took him at his word. Henry Miller, William Saroyan and Lawrence Durrell were installed as Literary Editors, which was a solid start, but alarm bells must have started to ring when Michael Fraenkel opened the Department of Metaphysics and Metempsychosis, and Walter Lowenfels was appointed to the key position of Head of Butter News. The newly conceived organ was relaunched in September 1937 and followed a less than predictable orbit before crashing to earth seven issues later in April, 1939. (It was lucky to get to seven: when Durrell published a piece about an old man being fucked to death by Eskimo Nell, the name of the magazine was changed to Delta at the insistence of a management understandably fearing legal action.)
This is the third issue, which bears the seasonal title 'The Tri-Lingual Womb Number'. It features contributions from Gerald Durrell (Death), Henry Miller (How to Lead the Podiatric Life) and Perlès (Limbs Ancient and Modern), as well as Saroyan, Raymond Queneau and Anais Nin.
A scarce survivor, and a bizarre literary side street.
