Benet, Stephen Vincent; Bromfield, Louis; Aiken, Conrad; Van Vechten, Carl; Anderson, Sherwood; Dreiser, Theodore

Prose Quartos _ the Litter of Rose Leaves/Benet, Tabloid News/Bromfield, Gehenna/Aiken, Feathers/Van Vechten, American County Fair/Anderson, Fine Furniture/Dreiser

New York, Random House, 1930. Paperback Octavo in slipcase. Paperback. 6 volumes paperback, different colors, paper labels to spines (lacks original glassene wrappers) front edges untrimmed in cloth covered cardboard slipcase with label pasted to spine one of 875 printed spines and slipcase spine faded Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Good .

San Francisco Book CompanyProfessional seller

Book number: 53605

Catalogue: Literature

Book Club of California; H. L. Mencken, Christopher Morley, Carl Van Vechten, et al.

Ten Dullest Authors: A Symposium. Quarterly News-Letter, Winter 1965, Volume XXXI, Number One

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1965. 8vo. 22 pp. Stapled Wraps, Very Good+. Newspaper clipping present. Illustrated. First Edition. .

Wittenborn Art BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 15-7769

Catalogue: Ephemera

Carl van Vechten.

Parties. Een dronkemansrit door het New York van de 'Roaring Twenties'.

Zoelmond, Parvenu, 2010 Hardback, 271pp., 230x155mm, 26 bw and col. illustrations, nieuw. ISBN 9789491117008.
¶ Men neme: een rijk, blank, upperclass stel. Mix hen met losbandigheid, jazzmuziek en voeg cocktails toe, flink veel cocktails. Roer het om met seks (hetero- of homoseksueel zo u wilt, het maakt niets uit voor de uiteindelijke smaakbeleving) en maak het geheel af met quasi intellectuele gesprekken, overdrijving en gevoel voor stijl. Serveer het vervolgens in de Roaring Twenties, New York, met op de achtergrond de drooglegging en de naderende financiele crisis. In de roman Parties 'shaken' en 'stirren' de personages cocktail na cocktail om de onnoemelijke verveling van zich af te schudden. In clandestiene bars (speakeasy's) en jazzclubs in Harlem proberen zij de akelige leegte te vullen met cocktails, jazzmuziek, meer cocktails, overdreven aandachttrekkerij, nog meer cocktails, holle frasen, seks en nog veel meer cocktails. Onder hen het echtpaar David en Hilda Westlake, in wie zonder al teveel moeite Scott en Zelda Fitzgerald te herkennen zijn. David heeft iemand vermoord en zijn vrouw heeft, volgens haarzelf, zelfmoord gepleegd. Terwijl de drank overvloedig vloeit en het geklets het gebrek aan inhoud verdoezelt, blijkt het feest allang voorbij. De jarenlange excessen hebben hun tol geeist. Kokette onwetendheid is niet langer afdoende om het noodlot van de rijke New Yorkers naar de hand te zetten. De beroemde New Yorkse journalist en fotograaf Carl van Vechten (1880 - 1964) was kind aan huis in de salon van Gertrude Stein. Hij introduceerde de zwarte cultuur en het bruisende nachtleven van Harlem bij de blanke New Yorkers en schreef in 1930 het boek Parties. In deze satire legt hij als een Bret Easton Ellis van de twintiger jaren moeiteloos de vinger op de zwakke plek van de zelfbenoemde intellectuele elite. In een verzameling van hyperbolen vermaakt en bespot hij de upperclass en toont hij de minder fraaie kanten van de Roaring Twenties. Genadeloos en hilarisch weet hij de 'lost generation' in woorden te vatten. De kenmerkende illustraties van Maurice Vellekoop vervullen de rol van suikerrandje aan het glas en maken het boek helemaal af. Kortom: Parties laat zich lezen als prachtig tijdsdocument in woord en beeld. Na verschijning in Duits en Engels, lanceert de Parvenu Parties voor het eerst in een Nederlandse vertaling. En dat leest wel zo prettig. Zeker in (licht) beschonken toestand. Want reken maar dat u tijdens het lezen de onbedwingbare behoefte krijgt om drank, tumbler en glazen uit de kast te halen!.

Erik Tonen BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 31736

Catalogue: Literatuur ; Literature ; Litterature ; Literatur

Keywords: 9789491117008 . ' '

DREISER, Theodore [Carl Van Vechten]

Signed Photograph

Photograph. A fine 7" x 9-1/4" informal photographic "head shot" portrait by Carl Van Vechten of a seventy-year old Dreiser with a smile bordering on a laugh. INSCRIBED and SIGNED at the bottom with fine contrast: "To lovely Helen/with love and/admiration-/from T.D./Hollywood/January--/1942." Helen Richardson first met Dreiser in 1919 and married him in 1944. Dreiser left his entire estate to her in his will and, after her death in 1955, she was buried next to him. In 1942, however, Dreiser and Helen were often apart with Dreiser often romantically involved with another woman. Just a few months after inscribing this photograph to his future wife, Dreiser had an eleven-day fling with one of his ardent female admirers. Still, Dreiser's inscription captures the great feeling he had for Helen from the beginning. W. A. Swanberg in his biography DREISER sums up well their relationship: "Although he still threatened at times to leave her, Dreiser needed Helen for survival, Helen knew that he needed her, and he knew that she knew" (p. 478). About Fine with a superb association .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 014044

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Literary Autographs, Literary Photograph, Signed Photograph, Autographs, Theodore Dreiser, Modern Firsts, Inscribed Modern First Editions Association Literature: American Carl Van Vechten

Freedley, George, foreword by Carl Van Vechten,

More Mr. Cat and a Bit of Amber too.

NY, Howard Frisch, (1962). 1st ptg. VG. Corners bumped, misweave in binding material.

Crabtree's Collection Old BooksProfessional seller

Book number: BOOKS023088I

Catalogue: Animals

Freedley, George, foreword by Carl Van Vechten,

More Mr. Cat and a bit of Amber too.

NY, Howard Frisch, (1962). VG in VG DJ. DJ edge wear & price clipped, owner inscription & price sticker fep. No one could replace Mr. Cat but then along came Amber.

Crabtree's Collection Old BooksProfessional seller

Book number: BOOKS025515I

Catalogue: Animals

Hughes, Langston ; Van Vechten, Carl ; Bernard, Emily (ed)

Remember Me to Harlem _ the Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten

New York, Vintage/Random House, 2002. Paperback Octavo. Paperback. wraps, 356 pp cover edge worn Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Good .

San Francisco Book CompanyProfessional seller

Book number: 104320

Catalogue: Belles Lettres

Keywords: Literature. African-American

Hughes, Langston; Carl van Vechten, ed.

The Weary Blues

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A new edition, revised with a Foreword by Kevin Young, a reprint of the original, true First Edition, edited by and with an Introduction by Carl van Vechten. Simply bound in tan cloth over boards, sharp and distinct black lettering, vertically, to front cover and spine. Unmarked but for five words underlined and "no more happy negro" written adjacent to a poetic stanza. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Gift-quality condition exemplar of a justly celebratory edition of a classic poetry collection. Langston Hughes writes powerfully about African-American toils and travails, their experiences in print when most Black voices were mute and silenced. 91 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Fine,

Structure, Verses, Agency BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 359539

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Langston Hughes poems Carl van Vechten Kevin Young

(Mencken, H.L.) Knopf, Alfred A. and Carl Van Vechten, essays

"Reminiscences of Hergesheimer, Van Vechten, and Mencken" (Knopf) and "Random Notes on Mr. Mencken of Baltimore" (Van Vechten) in Yale Library Gazette (April, 1950)

New Haven, Yale University Library, 1950. First Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. Very good in original wrappers with a small pencil erasure on the front panel, edgewear, and sunning at the extremities. Complete issue. Very Good.

Library Books / Clayton Fine BooksProfessional seller

Book number: b34293

Mencken, H. [Henry] L., editor. Clarence Darrow, Carl Van Vechten, Stanley Vestal, and other contributors

American Mercury (August, 1925)

New York, Knopf, 1925. First Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. Very good in original wrappers with light wear and foxing on the edges. Very Good.

Library Books / Clayton Fine BooksProfessional seller

Book number: b30248

MIZENER, ARTHUR & CARL (COVER PHOTOGRAPH) VAN VECHTEN

Far Side of Paradise: A Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press, 1951. Hardcover. ISBN: 1199736635. Green cloth covers, gilt titles to the spine and cover. Very Good++, a very clean interior and tightly bound. The DJ is Good+ with some creasing to the front cover bottom edge, small piece missing of off the back cover top edge. Appendices, Notes and References, Fitzgerald's Published Work (chronological lists of books and periodicals) , and Index. "The Far Side of Paradise was the first ever biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald, widely acclaimed as a sensitive, scholarly appraisal of the writer's life and work. Arthur Mizener has created a definitive portrait of Fitzgerald." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 362 pages. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket .

Bytown BookeryProfessional seller

Book number: 26982

Catalogue: Biography, Author, American

Keywords: 1199736635 American Authors Biography Biography United States Authors

VAN VECHTEN Carl préface de MORAND Paul

Le paradis des nègres

Editions Kra, Paris 1927, 20x21cm, broché. | L'ouvrage phare du mouvement « Renaissance de Harlem » en tirage de tête | * Edition originale de la traduction française, un des 10 exemplaires numérotés sur pur fil lafuma, le nôtre non justifié, tirage de tête. Rare et bel exemplaire à toutes marges de l'un des ouvrages phares du mouvement littéraire et poétique ""Renaissance de Harlem"" qui lutta pour la reconnaissance de la culture noire américaine. Controversé depuis sa publication en raison de son titre, le roman narre les aventures d'un jeune couple de Harlem, dans les cabarets et les soirées du quartier New-Yorkais. Van Vechten a soutenu sans relâche les artistes et les écrivains afro-américains, même après la fin du mouvement qui avait attiré tant d'intellectuels blancs à Harlem. - Editions Kra, Paris 1927, 20x21cm, broché. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]

Librairie Le Feu FolletProfessional seller

Book number: 83093

Catalogue: Histoire - XXème siècle

Banyan Press; Carl Van Vechten (fwd.)

A First List of Books Printed and Published by the Banyan Press

Pawlet, VT.: Banyan Press, 1948. 18mo. 8 pp. Soft Covers, Very Good, with minor staining. Letterpress on fine paper. Price list of Banyan Press titles sold by Gotham Book Mart present. .

Wittenborn Art BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 15-5680

Catalogue: Ephemera

STEIN, GERTRUDE; CARL VAN VECHTEN, INTRODUCTION.

Four Saints in Three Acts: An Opera to Be Sung.

Random House, 1934-01-01. Hardcover. 1934 Random House first edition first printing inscribed to previous owner by composer Virgil Thompson and dated March 11.64, black cloth no jacket. Please email for photos.. Collectible: Very Good .

Griffin BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 68710

Stein, Gertrude. Carl Van Vechten, editor and introduction

Last Operas and Plays

New York, Rinehart, 1949. First Edition. 0 pp. Hardcover. Near fine in dust jacket. Light foxing on the top edge and shelfwear on the bottom edge. The dust jacket has rubbing on the edges and sunning on the flap edges. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Library Books / Clayton Fine BooksProfessional seller

Book number: b25376