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New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1940. Book. Near Fine. Spiral Bound. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stiff b&w pictorial wraps, spiral-bound. Front cover photograph by Carl Van Vechten of Ruth Bower's painting celebrating Joyce's Finnegans Wake. This copy emerges directly from the inventory of Frances Steloff's Gotham Book Mart, never circulated and showing only the slight shelf wear that one might expect of a bookseller's catalog printed nearly 80 years ago. Gotham's 20th-anniversary catalog, which, as W. G. Rogers writes in his biography of Steloff, "served to establish Gotham Book Mart among avant-gardists" and so captivated the New York publishing world that it gained mention in the New York Times Book Review. Introductory notes by Steloff and Kay Steele, Gertrude Stein, and Samuel Putnam, with sub-introductions to individual sections of the catalog by Dudley Fitts, William Carlos Williams, and Whit Burnett. Sections on literary… Leer más

New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1940. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stiff b&w pictorial wraps, perfect-bound variant. Front cover photograph by Carl Van Vechten of Ruth Bower's painting celebrating Joyce's Finnegans Wake. This copy emerges directly from the inventory of Frances Steloff's Gotham Book Mart, never circulated and showing only the slight shelf wear that one might expect of a bookseller's catalog printed nearly 80 years ago. Gotham's 20th-anniversary catalog, which, as W. G. Rogers writes in his biography of Steloff, "served to establish Gotham Book Mart among avant-gardists" and so captivated the New York publishing world that it gained mention in the New York Times Book Review. Introductory notes by Steloff and Kay Steele, Gertrude Stein, and Samuel Putnam, with sub-introductions to individual sections of the catalog by Dudley Fitts, William Carlos Williams, and Whit Burnett. Sections on… Leer más

New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1940. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stiff b&w pictorial wraps, perfect-bound variant. Front cover photograph by Carl Van Vechten of Ruth Bower's painting celebrating Joyce's Finnegans Wake. This copy emerges directly from the inventory of Frances Steloff's Gotham Book Mart, never circulated and showing only the slight shelf wear that one might expect of a bookseller's catalog printed nearly 80 years ago. Gotham's 20th-anniversary catalog, which, as W. G. Rogers writes in his biography of Steloff, "served to establish Gotham Book Mart among avant-gardists" and so captivated the New York publishing world that it gained mention in the New York Times Book Review. Introductory notes by Steloff and Kay Steele, Gertrude Stein, and Samuel Putnam, with sub-introductions to individual sections of the catalog by Dudley Fitts, William Carlos Williams, and Whit Burnett. Sections on… Leer más

New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1940. Book. Near Fine. Spiral Bound. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stiff b&w pictorial wraps, spiral-bound. Front cover photograph by Carl Van Vechten of Ruth Bower's painting celebrating Joyce's Finnegans Wake. This copy emerges directly from the inventory of Frances Steloff's Gotham Book Mart, never circulated and showing only the slight shelf wear that one might expect of a bookseller's catalog printed nearly 80 years ago. Gotham's 20th-anniversary catalog, which, as W. G. Rogers writes in his biography of Steloff, "served to establish Gotham Book Mart among avant-gardists" and so captivated the New York publishing world that it gained mention in the New York Times Book Review. Introductory notes by Steloff and Kay Steele, Gertrude Stein, and Samuel Putnam, with sub-introductions to individual sections of the catalog by Dudley Fitts, William Carlos Williams, and Whit Burnett. Sections on literary… Leer más

New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1940. Book. Near Fine. Spiral Bound. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stiff b&w pictorial wraps, spiral-bound. Front cover photograph by Carl Van Vechten of Ruth Bower's painting celebrating Joyce's Finnegans Wake. This copy emerges directly from the inventory of Frances Steloff's Gotham Book Mart, never circulated and showing only the slight shelf wear that one might expect of a bookseller's catalog printed nearly 80 years ago. Gotham's 20th-anniversary catalog, which, as W. G. Rogers writes in his biography of Steloff, "served to establish Gotham Book Mart among avant-gardists" and so captivated the New York publishing world that it gained mention in the New York Times Book Review. Introductory notes by Steloff and Kay Steele, Gertrude Stein, and Samuel Putnam, with sub-introductions to individual sections of the catalog by Dudley Fitts, William Carlos Williams, and Whit Burnett. Sections on literary… Leer más

New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1940. Softcover. Very Good. First edition, perfect bound issue. Introductions by Samuel Putnam, Dudley Fitts, and William Carlos Williams. Illustrated wrappers. Light rubbing and edgewear, very good or better. Catalogue #42 issued to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the bookstore.

New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1940. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 90 pages. 20th anniversary catalogue issued by the famous Manhattan bookstore and cultural landmark. With introductory notes by Frances Steloff, Kay Steele, Gertrude Stein, Samuel Putnam, Dudley Fitts, William Carlos Williams, and Whit Burnett. .

New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1940. Catalogue No. 42. Pp. 92(including wrappers); post 8vo; pictorial glazed paper wrappers with yapped edges, slightly soiled, the edges lightly rubbed and split; text block stapled (lightly rusted) and faintly browned; Gotham Book Mart, New York, n.d.[1940]. *Catalogue of Modern Literature. Includes the text of letters to the bookshop by Gertrude Stein, Samuel Putnum and Dudley Fitts. With introductions to author sections by writers including Sherwood Anderson (on William Faulkner), Kay Boyle (on Djuna Barnes), Ezra Pound (on T. S. Eliot), John Dos Passos (on e.e. cummings), a.o.

New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1941. First Edition. Octavo. Wire-bound pictorial card wrappers; 90pp; illus. Very Good, unmarked copy. Landmark retrospective catalog of the Gotham Book Mart, with personal recollections throughout by various authors of many of the figures whose works are represented, including Alfred Kreymborg on Conrad Aiken; Richard Eberhart on W.H. Auden; Kay Boyle on Djuna Barnes; John Dos Passos on e.e. cummings; Sherwood Anderson on William Faulkner; Eugen Jolas on James Joyce; James Laughlin on Henry Miller, and many, many other noteworthy contributions. Samuel Putnam, Dudley Fitts and William Carlos Williams each provided introductory essays.

New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1940. Softcover. Very Good. First edition, spiral bound edition. Illustrated wrappers. Small tears at the edges of a couple spirals, a nice, very good copy of Catalogue #42 issued to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the bookstore. One of 500 copies in the spiral binding.

[New York]: [Gotham Book Mart], 1940. Card Covers. Fine-. Twentieth anniversary catalogue issued by the famous midtown Manhattan bookstore and cultural landmark, one of 500 unnumbered copies in spiral binding, from a total edition of 5,500. Introductory notes by Frances Steloff and Kay Steele, Gertrude Stein, Samuel Putnam, Dudley Fitts, William Carlos Williams, and Whit Burnett. Crown 8vo (197 x 134mm): 3-88,[2]pp. Wire-bound pictorial card covers (as issued), featuring Carl Van Vechten's photograph of Ruth Bower's painting "The Life of the Party at Finnegans Wake," created to celebrate publication of Joyce's novel in 1939. This copy reputedly from the inventory of Gotham Book Mart and never circulated. Regardless, a superb survival (barely rubbed), tightly bound and clean throughout. Sales catalogue no. 42 for more than 1,200 items, featuring first editions, presentation copies, letters, and manuscripts, as well as little magazines and anthologies of American, English and Continental authors, with… Leer más

Gotham Book Mart, 1940. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The Famous Book Catalogue of The Gotham Book Mart.First Issue in Spiral Trade Paper.Beautiful Well Preserved Copy..

New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1940. Book. VG. Spiral Bound Wraps. 1st Ed. Octavo. Catalogue #42 of the famous bookshop, done to celebrate their 20th anniversary. There were 500 copies done in the spiral binding. There's a few books in this catalogue I'd like to buy..

Gotham Book Mart, 1940. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Catalogue #42 The Famous Gotham Book Mart Fine Condition Signed by Frances Steloff The Owner on Front Cover.Amazing Insight of Rare Book Market in the 40"s.