Modernism is a movement in the arts in the first half of the twentieth century that rejected traditional values and techniques, and emphasized the importance of individual experience.
New York: An American Place, 1946. First edition. Single sheet printed in black. [9 x 6"]. Printed on recto only. Fine. First edition. A rare exhibition sheet for a 4 February -- 27 March 1946 show of Georgia O'Keeffe's oil paintings and "pastelles" at Alfred Stieglitz's An American Place gallery in.....
New York City: An American Place, 1944. First edition. Single sheet printed in black. 12 x 9.5" approximately, folded once to form four unnumbered pages. Fine. First edition. A rare exhibition catalogue for a 11 January - 11 March 1944 show of Georgia O'Keeffe's oil paintings at Alfred Stieglitz's An.....
New York City: An American Place, 1940. First edition. Single sheet printed in black on both sides. [21.3 x 15.3 cm]. Text on recto by Georgia O'Keeffe. Fine. First edition. A rare exhibition catalogue for a 3 February -- 17 March 1940 show of Georgia O'Keeffe's oil paintings and pastels.....
New York City: An American Place, 1939. First edition. Single sheet printed in black. 12 x 8.5" approximately, folded once to form four unnumbered pages. Fine. First edition. A rare exhibition catalogue for a 22 January - 17 March 1939 show of Georgia O'Keeffe's oil paintings and pastels at Alfred.....
Greenwich & New York: The Dial, April 1923. Octavo. Bound in publisher's original salmon wraps printed in black. xvi,[2],329-432,xxviii pp. Plates, one tipped in. Usual oversized wrappers, else a fine copy. Barney's poem, which appears on pages 379-80, queries the usefulness of change for change's sake. NCB, as she was.....
Milan: Istituto Grafico Bertieri, 1934. First edition. Folio (32×24 cm). pp. [8], 329, [3]; with 229 reproductions and 25 plates hors texte, some tipped in. Publisher’s printed boards with paper title labels to spine and upper cover. Spine label lightly worn; otherwise, a remarkably well-preserved copy, clean and sound throughout.....
New York City: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, [2004]. Octavo. Decorated green and white stiff card, paper label, full fold-in flaps. First edition. Frontispiece color illustration, color plates. [8],67,[5] pp. Excerpt of 1928 letter to Virginia Woolf as prologue; Introduction by Sackville-West's son, Nigel Nicolson; Notes, and Works Cited. Collection of forty-five.....
London: Peter Owen, [1965]. First British Commonwealth Edition. Octavo. Original publisher's brown cloth, gilt spine. 271,[3] pp. Dust speckled top edge, spine ever-so-slightly cocked, else a clean, bright, very good copy; pictorial dust jacket with minor rubbing, rear panel slightly soiled, else good and presents well. Scarce in this condition. .....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. First edition. Red cloth. Typography, binding, and dust jacket designed by Vincent Torre. Fine, in near fine dust jacket. First edition. This volume includes seventeen new poems, a selection of poems written in the 1920s and 30s, and an excerpt from her long wartime.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1936]. First edition. Pale green cloth, stamped in silver. Ownership signature and stamp of Boyle's publisher, James Laughlin [New Directions]. Tiny Gotham Book Mart label affixed to rear pastedown (upside down, as you would expect it to be). Spine sunned, else a near fine.....
New York: New Directions, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gilt cloth. First U.S. edition, clothbound issue. Edited with an introduction by Sandra Whipple Spanier. Issued in the New Directions Revived Modern Classics series. Fine, in a near fine pictorial dust jacket featuring Marcel Duchamp's "The Chess Game." HARRISON, NEWTH & CANDIDO.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1938]. First edition. Cloth. Discreet bookseller's label tipped in, cloth faded at the edges and head and toe of spine, but a good copy in a very worn, soiled and chipped dust jacket. First edition. A departure for Boyle, she serves up a kind.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1934]. First edition. Pale green cloth. Ownership signature of her future publisher, James Laughlin on front free endsheet. Spine and extremities of cloth faded, else very good, lacking the jacket. First edition. Epigram: "Knife will be my next bride." -- Laurence Vail. Dedicated to.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. First edition. Yellow cloth. First edition. Slight foxing to endsheets at gutters, else a very good copy in edgeworn dust jacket. Dust jacket designed by Harry Ford.
London: Faber and Faber Ltd:, [1948]. First edition. Gilt cloth. Foreword. Offsetting to endsheets, old label mark to front free endsheet, else very good in two-color dust jacket with some bumps along top and bottom edges, smudges to both panels. First UK edition. Dedicated, in gratitude, to her friend Caresse.....
New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, [1930]. First edition. Cloth, and decorated boards, matching endsheets. The ownership signature of her occasional publisher, James Laughlin appears on the first free endsheet. Spine faded, light wear to corners and edges, but a good or better copy, lacking the dust jacket. First.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1936]. First edition. Blue cloth. Ownership inscription of Boyle's occasional publisher, James Laughlin on the front free endsheet. Boards and spine heavily sunned, else a very near fine copy, without the dust jacket. Seemingly scarce. First edition. A fine collection of short stories featuring.....
New York: Harrison Smith, 1932. First edition. Red cloth, stamped in gilt. Ownership inscription, dated the year of publication, of her future publisher James Laughlin [New Directions] on first free endsheet. Spine faded, else very good, lacking the jacket. First edition. Boyle's second novel, dedicated to the Italian-American poet.....
Tavistock Square, London: Printed and published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1925. Octavo. Original illustrated boards. 24pp. Illustrations by Eugene McCown. First edition, one of 420 copies hand-printed and published by the Woolfs at their home publishing firm in Tavistock Square, London. Owner's signature on front.....
London: Faber and Faber, [1932]. Small octavo. Blue boards, spine lettered in red. First edition, first recorded binding. 31 pp. Sunning to edges and spine, no notations or inscriptions, very good; in a good, unclipped dusty typographical yellow dust jacket printed in blue, with a sunned and chipped spine, closed.....
![Item #293 THE ELDER STATESMAN A PLAY BY [...]. T. S. ELIOT](https://secondwindbks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/293.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1673987153)
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, [1959]. First edition. Black cloth, gilt stamped spine. A near fine copy in a very good, only minimally rubbed, price-clipped typographic dust jacket. First U.S. edition, first printing. Eliot's last play, drafted originally in 1955 but not completed until three years later, and.....
Brooklyn, NY: Hamilton Easter Field, May, 1921. Tall octavo. Printed and decorated gray wrappers. First edition. Cover art by Robert Laurent. Full and half-page black and white reproductions of important art exhibited during the first quarter of the twentieth century. Art and artists, exhibitions, books, letters and opinions of the.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1935. Octavo. Plum pebble cloth, gilt spine lettering. First edition. 119 pp. Spots along fore-edge, else very good in a very good dust jacket with spine lightly sunned. From the library of noted Bloomsbury collector William Beekman with his elegant bookplate affixed to the front pastedown. .
London: Chatto & Windus, 1924. First edition. Octavo. Plum and black cloth, paper spine label. T.e.g. Wood-engraved tile page vignette, dust jacket, and text illustrations by R. A. Garnett, the author's first wife. Very good, off-setting to endsheets, the book label of collector William Beekman, whose stunning Hogarth Press /.....
![Item #830 THE WELL OF LONELINESS [Signed Limited Edition]. Radclyffe HALL](https://secondwindbks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/830.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1762116425)
New York: Covici-Friede, 1929. Victory edition. Tall octavos. Gold cloth, blue paper, embossed with silver Art Deco design stamped on upper panel and spine. Frontispiece portrait. Two volumes; xxiv, 506 pp. Top edge gilt, fore-edges uncut; spines sunned, silver gilt rubbed, as usual. A few preliminary leaves faintly foxed, else.....