James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC
Specializing in Rare Books & Manuscripts, Literary First Editions, Poetry, Private Press Books, Illustrated Books, Association Copies, Literary Art & Artifacts, Archives & Appraisals
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Established in 1982, James S. Jaffe Rare Books specializes in rare books, manuscripts and letters, literary first editions, association copies, poetry, private press books, livres d'artistes, illustrated books, and literary art and artifacts. We are also privileged to assist writers in the appraisal and sale of their literary archives, and over the course of the past thirty-seven years have represented a number of the most important contemporary American poets in placing their papers. We welcome offers of rare books and manuscripts, original photographs and prints, and art and artifacts of literary and historical interest.Terms of Sale
All items are offered subject to prior sale. All items have been carefully described, but any item is understood to be sent on approval and may be returned within seven days of receipt for any reason, provided prior notification has been given. Customers may use Visa, MasterCard, or American Express. Payment from abroad may be made with credit card, check drawn on a U. S. bank, or international money order. All international orders must be confirmed in writing. Domestic (U. S.) orders will be sent via United Parcel Service unless otherwise instructed. International orders will be sent via air mail, insured. Customers will be billed for shipping and insurance. Libraries will be billed to suit their budgets.
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Recently Added Books
The Songs of Innocence and of Experience
by BLAKE, William
The Morning of the Poem
by SCHUYLER, James
When the Sun Tries to Go On. Illustrated by Larry Rivers
by KOCH, Kenneth
Little Gidding
by ELIOT, T. S.
A Song for Simeon. Drawing by E. McKnight Kauffer
by ELIOT, T. S.
Marina. With Drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer
by ELIOT, T. S.
Animula. Wood Engravings by Gertrude Hermes
by ELIOT, T. S.
Recently added catalogues
We are pleased to announce our new catalogue of Rare Books, Manuscripts and Literary Art, which includes original manuscripts by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and G. K. Chesterton; inscribed books by Nathaniel Hawthorne; original art by Morris Cox of the Gogmagog Press; archives and letters by John Cheever and David Markson; comprehensive collections of works by Phillip Levine and Gore Vidal; and first editions by James Agee, John Ashbery, Samuel Beckett, Walter Benjamin, Elizabeth Bishop, Kate Chopin, Cyril Connolly, Miguel Covarrubias, William Everson, Allen Ginsberg, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, James Joyce, Primo Levi, Robert McAlmon, Thomas Mann, Herman Melville, Paul Muldoon, Robert Musil, George Orwell, Fernando Pessoa, Ezra Pound, James Schuyler, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, Walt Whitman, William Wordsworth and W. B. Yeats, many of them signed or inscribed.
An illustrated 108-page catalogue devoted to rare and important works of Twentieth Century American poetry, 331 items, including first editions, mostly signed and inscribed, association copies, original letters, photographs, as well as significant collections of the works of John Ashbery, James Merrill, Philip Levine and Wallace Stevens.
A 109-page illustrated catalogue devoted to the work of Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard, Dick Gallup, Ron Padgett and their associates.
An illustrated catalogue devoted to nine original paintings by the poet Kenneth Rexroth and one painting by his first wife Andree Rexroth, with an introduction by Bradford Morrow, one of Rexroth's executors.
James S. Jaffe Rare Books. Rare Books & First Editions, Fine Printing & Literary Art, Autograph Lett
The catalogue includes the Nobel Laureate Miguel Angel Asturias’s rare first literary work, Rayito de Estrella (Paris, 1929); a fine first edition of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (1899); a fine copy in the extremely rare dust jacket of the first edition of Irma Bombech’s The Joy of Cooking (St. Louis, 1931); the rare first American edition of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (Philadelphia, 1844); Thomas Hardy’s Wessex Poems (London, 1898) in the rare dust jacket; a fine copy of the first edition, first issue of Seamus Heaney’s first book, Eleven Poems (Belfast, 1965); Ted Hughes’s Roosting Hawk (Northampton, 1959) inscribed by Hughes to Sylvia Plath’s mother; the first edition of Keats’s Lamia (London, 1820) in original boards; a fine run of Philip Larkin’s appearances in his school literary magazine The Coventrian (Coventry: King Henry VIII School, 1935-1944); the publisher Gaston Gallimard’s copy of the deluxe issue of Stéphane Mallarmé’s Un Coup de Dès (Paris: Gallimard, 1914); Wilfred Owen’s Poems (London, 1920) in the rare dust jacket; and an important presentation copy of Sylvia Plath’s The Colossus (London, 1960), among others. Among the manuscripts and letters offered are letters from Ray Johnson and Robert Rauschenberg to Hazel Frieda Larsen, the artists’ friend and photography instructor at Black Mountain College; a fine manuscript of Thomas Hardy’s “In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’”, and a highly important series of letters from the poet Charles Olson to Ralph Maud.