Explore our curated collection of rare and collectible books in an small personalized space. The Book Mark has assembled a one-of-a kind assortment of titles from a wide range of subjects.
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A passion for the dying art of having books.
Special sections in Gertrude Stein, Hawthorne, Hemingway, Henry James and Bloomsbury.
Hemingway
Hemingway is a pet-peeve of mine. Researching an article I wrote, “Ernest Hemingway and Hart Crane: Twins of the Sea and the Stars”, I accumulated quite a large Hemingway collection. Vol I is juvenilia and Vol 6 hasn’t come out yet.
Modern Literature
“Paris Transition 1949 First edition number 648 of 1000 copies. Frontispiece and cover design by André Masson, illustrated with photos. 195, [5] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Compendium of Joyceana which contains an anonymous piece, clearly by Joyce himself, entitled “Ad-Writer”. It is a very funny letter . . .”
“Wraps Fine. Sunned tissue has chips, o/w near fine.”
Warholiana
The Andy Warhol Diaries (1989) with the Name Game insert.
Andy, by Christopher Makos
I have an unusual collection of 20 offset lithographs from ‘Love is a Pink Cake’. It’s quite a story! Get in touch with me for more details.
Vintage Paperback Cover Collectors
Three Edward Gorey covers (Doubleday Anchor Books)
This post on FB had over a thousand likes. We’re psyched!
Samuel Garth’s OVID, 1794
Sir Samuel Garth, physician and poet, and patron of poets, commissioned and published translations of Ovid from Dryden, Pope, Gay and others in 1717. The edition of 1794 was the first to assemble the complete “Garth’s Ovid”.
I offer all 8 in (quite) good condition. Price on request. More photos on request.
Children’s Books
The Nutshell Library, an early Maurice Sendak collectible, and the comprehensive Art of Maurice Sendak.