Literature from Zachary Stacy, Bookseller

Cornell Woolrich. Cover Charge. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. First edition. Octavo (7.5 x 5.125 inches; 190 x 130 mm.). 286, [2, blank] pages. Publisher's dark green cloth, spine and front board with a panel painted red, outlined in gilt on the front board, and lettered in gilt; publisher's device stamped in blind on the backstrip; top edge of… Read more about this item

Frank Kuenstler. Lens. New York: Film Culture, [1964]. First separate edition, first appearing in the Summer 1964 issue of Film Culture (no. 33). Association copy, inscribed by the author on the second preliminary blank for poet and musician Tuli Kupferberg of The Fugs: "To Tuli / Frank / Nov. 1964." Quarto in three gatherings of sixteen (10.5 x 8.5 inches;… Read more about this item

Tennessee Williams. The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone. [New York]: New Directions, [1950]. First edition, trade issue. Octavo (8 x 5.25 inches; 202 x 135 mm.). [2, blank], [10], 148, [2, blank] pages. Publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in yellow and front board stamped in yellow; all edges of the text block trimmed; plain endpapers; in the original dust jacket,… Read more about this item

Federico García Lorca. III [Three] Tragedies of Federico García Lorca. Blood Wedding, Yerma, Bernarda Alba. [New York]: New Directions, [1947]. First U. S. edition. Octavo (8 x 5.375 inches; 202 x 135 mm.). [6], 378 pages. Publisher's black cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt; top edge of the text block stained black, others trimmed; plain endpapers; in the original… Read more about this item

Kenneth Patchen. Red Wine & Yellow Hair. New York: New Directions, [1949]. First edition, painted issue, limited to 108 copies, of which this is number three. Signed by the author with a handwritten limitation statement on the rear endpapers. Octavo (9 x 6 inches; 228 x 150 mm). 64 pages, printed on light greenish blue laid-paper stock. Publisher's green quarter-cloth… Read more about this item

Candy Barr. A Gentle Mind ... Confused. [Midland, Texas]: Dulce Press, 1972. First edition. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, presumably as issued. Octavo (8.5 x 5.5 inches; 216 x 140 mm.). [2, blank], [2, title-leaf (verso blank)], 56, [4, blank] pages. Publisher's blue quarter-cloth over light blue cloth covered boards, spine lettered in gilt; all edges… Read more about this item

[Val Lewton, attributed]. Grushenka. Three Times a Woman. Paris: Privately printed, January 1933. First edition, limited to 800 copies, of which 650 were designated for to the U. S. or England, with 150 numbered copies for continental distribution. This unnumbered, therefore likely an export issue. Limitation also states the work was printed in Dijon, which it was not, so numbers… Read more about this item

Lajos Zilahy. Two Prisoners. [Két fogoly]. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1931. First U. S. edition. Octavo (8 x 5.375 inches; 202 x 135 mm.). [2, half-title (verso blank)], [2, title-leaf, copyright on verso], [2, dedication (verso blank)], [2, fly title (verso blank)], 504 pages. Publisher's grayish-blue cloth, spine and front board lettered in black, front board decoratively stamped… Read more about this item

Georges Simenon. Tropic Moon. [Le coup de lune]. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1943]. First U. S. edition. Octavo (8 x 5.25 inches; 202 x 133 mm.). [5], [1, blank], 218 pages. Publisher's smooth grayish-blue cloth, spine lettered in black; all edges of the text block trimmed; plain endpapers. In the original dust jacket, priced $2.00, with art by… Read more about this item

Tennessee Williams. 27 Wagons Full of Cotton. And Other Plays. Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, [1953]. Third edition, augmented by two newly published plays. Octavo (8 x 5.25 inches; 202 x 135 mm.). [2, blank], xii, 238 pages. Publisher's smooth yellow cloth, spine lettered in dark grayish blue; all edges of the text block trimmed; plain endpapers; in the original dust… Read more about this item