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1928WRCLIT83301Nashville: The Calumet Club Vanderbilt University 1928. Decorated paper boards printed label. Early ink name corners and head and toe of spine worn but a good sound copy. First edition of this anthology dedicated to Donald Davidson. One of 250 numbered copies. The most significant contribution herein is a group of six poems by Cleanth Brooks. The Calumet Club Vanderbilt University hardcover books
1929WRCLIT67283New York: Wm. Morrow & Co. 1929. Cloth and pictorial boards. Illustrations. Modest foxing to spine else near fine in near very good spine-darkened lightly chipped dust jacket. First edition. Pieces of wit and wisdom for daily living from 51 contributors including Richard Aldington Cabell Eddie Cantor Kreymborg Cozzens Richard Hughes et al. Illustrations by 13 artists. Wm. Morrow & Co. hardcover books
1956WRCLIT60993New York: The Zero Press 1956. Cloth. Top edge dusty else very good in modestly frayed dust jacket with some soiling to white portions and shallow loss at crown of spine. The jacket is the primary state printed in red black and pale blue. First edition issued in sequence as #8 of the periodical. Includes contributions by Bowles Vidal Beckett Moore Benveniste Kelly Molinaro Patchen et al. Contributor Dachine Rainer's copy with ownership signature on endsheet and front panel of jacket with page reference and with manuscript correction in his poem. The Zero Press hardcover books
1897WRCLIT62082Boston: L.C. Page and Company 1897. Small octavo. Pictorial cloth by Amy Sacker t.e.g. others untrimmed. Frontis. First edition this being the special issue for Harvard so denoted on the spine and in the design on the upper board. Spine darkened cloth lightly soiled else a very good sound copy. Verse selected from undergraduate publications. L.C. Page and Company hardcover books
1957WRCLIT58933London: Michael Joseph 1957. Cloth and decorated boards. Light offset to endsheets delimited by jacket flaps top edge dusty otherwise a very nice copy in dust jacket near fine. First edition. Review slip laid in. 2600 copies were printed and many of the contributions appear here for the first time in book form. Abse Blunden Gunn Larkin Lee Merwin Pinter Smith et al. HAGSTROM & BIXBY B8. Michael Joseph hardcover books
1928WRCLIT74527London: Duckworth 1928. Cloth and pictorial boards. Spine label chipped small ink star stamped on free endsheet otherwise very good. First edition first printing second issue being the first edition sheets with cancel half-title and title. This issue is unrecorded in Fifoot. Duckworth hardcover books
1930WRCLIT59176New York: Charles Boni Paperbooks 1930. Pictorial cloth designed by Rockwell Kent paper spine label. Faint smudging to cloth and label small discoloration at top of fore- edge otherwise a very good or better copy without dust jacket as issued. First edition in this format clothbound issue. Introduction by Mark Van Doren. A chronological presentation of the poems awarded prize-status by significant periodicals including THE DIAL POETRY THE NATION etc. ranging from Sandburg's suite of "Chicago Poems" through "The Waste Land" to "Paterson" and on. Charles Boni Paperbooks hardcover books
1936WRCLIT83280New York: Albert & Charles Boni 1936. Cloth. A very good copy in modestly nicked and edgeworn pictorial dust jacket by Rockwell Kent with fading and a few small spots to the spine panel. First edition in this format. Introduction by Mark Van Doren. This collection was also published in the format of the Charles Boni Paper Books. A chronological presentation of the poems awarded prize-status by significant periodicals including THE DIAL POETRY THE NATION etc. ranging from Sandburg's suite of "Chicago Poems" through "The Waste Land" to "Paterson" and on. Albert & Charles Boni hardcover books
196551572London: Lovebooks Limited 1965. First edition. 20 pp. Corners lightly tapped else near fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 500 numbered copies. William S. Burroughs Lee Harwood John Hopkins and Miles contribute work to this collection. London: Lovebooks Limited unknown books
198152812Buenos Aires: Centro Cultural Ciudad de Buenos Aires: Museo de Arte Moderno 1981. First edition. 8vo. 156 pp. b&w and color photographs. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Upper tip bumped and creased. Very good. Prepared for an exhibition with an emphasis on Argentinian photographers but also others who photographed there; biographical data on over 60 artists including Jorge Aguirre Cecil Beation Héctor Carballo Horacio Coppola Jorge Alberto Gayoso Eduardo Grossman Hoyningen Huene Sameer Makarius Nadar Fernando Paillet Man Ray Humberto Rivas Grete Stern Juan Travnik. <br/><br/> Centro Cultural Ciudad de Buenos Aires: Museo de Arte Moderno unknown books
199339840NY: Oxford University Press 1993. First printing of this edition originally published in 1983. 490 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Review slip and promotional flyer laid in. Uncommon in cloth. NY: Oxford University Press hardcover books
19953740Woodside: Occasional Works 1995. First edition. . 54 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards and printed spine label. One of 100 numbered copies on Rives paper. Poems on Sunday by Gioia Young Bishop Auden Riding Stevens Larkin Berryman Eliot Bowers Clampitt Levertov Walcott Snyder Rich Olds Graves and many others. A wonderful collection both in form and content. Original prospectus accompanies. Woodside: Occasional Works, hardcover books
197547071Rodez: Entretiens 1975. First edition. 288 pp. Very good plus in illustrated wrappers. Includes a section of poems in English and facing French translation by Corso Ginsberg Ferlinghetti McClure Snyder and others. Rodez: Entretiens unknown books
1863119333London: Published at the Leisure Hour Office: The Religious Tract Society 1863. Octavo pp. 1-7 8-288 five illustrations original pebbled gray cloth spine titled and ruled in gold. First edition Perhaps a later printing circa 1880s of this collection of didactic adventure fiction probably intended for young readers. These stories were probably first published THE LEISURE HOUR an illustrated penny-weekly paper which featured moralistic self-improving serial novels most of them published anonymously. Includes "Tale of a Detective" pp. 102-131 a crime story set in 1845. All the stories are presented anonymously but "A Race for Life" is credited to the author of "Danesbury House" and "A Life Secret" i.e. "A Life's Secret" both works written by Ellen Price Wood Mrs. Henry Wood. A popular book reprinted many times into the early twentieth century. Thirteen stories in all. "The Power of Music" tells two stories one about Bach another about Gluck. Hubin 1994 p. 24. A tight clean very good copy. #119333 Published at the Leisure Hour Office: The Religious Tract Society unknown books
1900164610Chicago: Daily Story Publishing Company 1900. Octavo pp. 1-2 1-2 3-325 326: blank twenty inserted plates with illustrations by J. Greville Wilmot original two-part white and purple cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. 325-page anonymously edited anthology with thirty stories by Octave Thanet Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Charles King George Ade Irving Batcheller Opie Read Elia W. Peattie Albert Bigelow Paine and others. Several of the stories are supernatural including "The Princess Yepti" by Opie Read about a mummy "The Night of a Thousand Years" by Irving Bacheller dreams and insanity and "The Rose of Hell" by Mrs. General George E. Pickett a strange flower and insanity. According to Publisher's Weekly two 5000-copy press runs were required to meet the public demand for the book. BAL 6363 Freeman. Wright III 4931. Corner tips lightly worn some spotting and soiling to cloth a very good copy. #164610 Daily Story Publishing Company unknown books
1893135710New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1893. Small octavo six volumes frontispiece in each volume numerous vignettes in text title pages printed in black blue and orange original maroon cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold top edges gilt other edges untrimmed decorated endpapers. Mixed mostly first editions. A full set of the six individual anthologies issued in 1893 all reprinting short stories from SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE: STORIES OF NEW YORK STORIES OF ITALY STORIES OF THE ARMY STORIES OF THE SEA STORIES OF THE SOUTH STORIES OF THE RAILWAY. All are first editions except STORIES OF ITALY which is an 1894 reprint. The NEW YORK volume includes Edith Wharton's short story "Mrs. Manstey's View" her first prose work to appear in a book. All volumes except STORIES OF ITALY contain supernatural material. Garrison B2. Three volumes NEW YORK SOUTH and RAILWAY lack the front free endpaper one SEA with considerable foxing and some stains to covers generally a good to very good set. #135710 Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1890119301Paris London Chicago New York Washington: Brentano's 1890. Octavo pp. 1-8 1 2-193 194-196: blank note: last leaf is a blank original gray cloth spine panel stamped in gold t.e.g. fore and bottom edges trimmed. First U.S. edition. The Brentano's edition was printed in Edinburgh by R. & R. Clark and was probably issued simultaneously with the W. W. Gibbings edition published in London in 1890. Preface signed in type: "C.J.T." Five novelettes weird and mystery: "A Strange Bride" variant on "The Death Bride" in Mrs. Utterson's TALES OF THE DEAD 1813 "The Crazy Half-Heller" is Fouque's "The Bottle Imp" "The Goldsmith of the Rue Nicaise" is Hoffmann's "Mademoiselle de Scudari." Barron ed Horror Literature 2-3. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1583. Bleiler 1978 p. 37. Reginald 13944. Slight spine lean light wear to cloth at lower front corner tip free endpapers tanned a very good copy. #119301 Brentano's unknown books
1890156304Paris London Chicago New York Washington: Brentano's 1890. Octavo pp. 1-8 1 2-178 179-180: blank note: first and last leaves are blanks original gray cloth spine panel stamped in gold t.e.g. fore and bottom edges trimmed. First edition. The Brentano's edition was printed in Edinburgh by R. & R. Clark and was probably issued simultaneously with the W. W. Gibbings edition published in London in 1890. Author of all these tales is Gustavo Adolfo Becquer 1836-1870 known as "the Spanish Poe" the most famous nineteenth century Spanish writer of supernatural fiction also very influential on Latin American fiction. This is one of only two English-language collections extant the other being the Romantic Legends of Spain Crowell 1909. Barron ed Horror Literature 2-3. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1585. Bleiler 1978 p. 37. Reginald 13946. Remnants of pictorial label affixed to front paste-down inked names on front free endpaper and first blank. Binding slightly leaned wear to corner tips spine ends a bit rubbed a closed split in cloth along outer rear joint light ring stain to front cover free endpapers tanned a very good tight copy with a clean interior. #156304 Brentano's unknown books
1881WRCLIT73707New Haven: Tuttle Morehouse & Taylor Printers 1881. 256pp. Bright blue cloth decorated in black lettered in rustic type in gilt. Spine ends a bit rubbed and spine a trace darkened offset to two pages from absent place marker but a very good copy with the booklabel of the Betts Collection at Yale and another related bookplate properly withdrawn and an early private bookplate. First edition. A substantial compilation though some of it anonymous. Authorship is noted when known but the compilers opted out of indexing same perhaps because their own identified contributions would have overwhelmed the index. [Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, Printers] hardcover books
193012107New York: Random House 1930. Six volumes wrappers spine labels slight wear to labels otherwise fine boxed as issued. First editions of the six titles comprising this collection each one of 875 copies: S.V. Benet The Litter of Rose Leaves; L. Bromfield Tabloid News; C. Aiken Gehenna; C. Van Vechten Feathers; S. Anderson American County Fair; T. Dreiser Fine Furniture. <br/><br/> Random House unknown books
184235483Nashua: Published by David Marshall 1842. 1st edition American Imprints 42-1865. Publisher's brown vertically-ribbed cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine & front board. Yellow eps. Wear to extremities with board showing at tips. Period pos & po book label to front paste-down. A VG copy. 10 2 13 - 391 3 blank pp. Errata tipped-in to p. 391. 7-3/4" x 4-7/8" <br/><br/> Published by David Marshall hardcover books
196511153London: MacGibbon & Kee 1965. First UK edition. 351 pp. Light foxing to top edge else fine in very near fine dust jacket with one short closed tear. Eastlake Kerouac Creeley Metcalf Rechy Burroughs Jones Dawson Woolf Douglas Selby Rumaker Dorn Di Prima Edson. London: MacGibbon & Kee, unknown books
1940WRCLIT59518Prairie City: The Press of James A. Decker 1940. Printed wrapper over stiff wrappers. Spine slightly chipped and mended otherwise a very good copy. First edition of this offshoot of the YMHA Poetry Center including work by Williams Auden Hughes Patchen Devlin Kreymborg Davidman Ford Jolas et al much of it published for the first time in book form. The Press of James A. Decker unknown books
198869068NY: Viking 1988. First US edition. 384 pp. Pages browned cheap paper hard erasure to first leaf else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Edited by Silvina Ocampo and Bioy Casares with Borges. Introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin. A world-wide collection of tales. Promotional flyer and review slip laid in. NY: Viking unknown books
197365411Indianapolis & NY: Bobbs-Merrill 1973. First edition. xiv 415 pp w/notes. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket with light edgewear one short tear and chipping to the base of spine. Collects work by Neruda Borges Mistral Fuentes Paz and many others. Indianapolis & NY: Bobbs-Merrill unknown books