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193971389Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1939. First edition. xiv 296 pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket with shallow chipping to crown and foot of spine. Stories by Bowen Bullett De La Mare Hanley Pritchett Spender and many others. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, unknown books
193966556Cummington: Playhouse-in-the-Hills 1939. First edition. 8 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Samuel French Morse William Bronk Jr 2 poems Harry Duncan and Jane Ward. One of 300 copies printed for the Association of Friends of the Cummington School by the Kraushar Press. Cummington: Playhouse-in-the-Hills unknown books
194945966Columbus: Golden Goose Press 1949. First edition. 32 pp. Faint offsetting to endpapers else near fine in stapled wrappers and near fine dust jacket with a tiny tear to top edge of front cover. Collects work Robert Lawrence Beum Leslie Woolf Hedley Harold G. Miller Scott Greer and Nathan R. Teitel. One of 200 numbered copies. Columbus: Golden Goose Press, unknown books
19706865London: Wallrich Books 1970. First edition. 111 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers; a trade paperback original. Poem print insert by Asa Benveniste and Paul Vaughan present. 500 copies printed. Other contributors include Elaine Feinstein Lawrence Ferlinghetti Allen Ginsberg Muriel Rukeyser and many others. Issued to raise legal defense funds for Bill Butler a UK publisher and bookseller arrested on obscenity charges. London: Wallrich Books, paperback books
199365094Chengdu: Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House 1993. First edition. 178 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Chinese translations by Ziqing Zhang and Yunte Huang followed by English originals by Charles Bernstein Hank Lazer and James Sherry. Chengdu: Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House, unknown books
197264376St. Marks Poetry Project 1972. First edition. 4to. 62 pp. Very good only in side-stapled wrappers with uneven toning all around and some light stains to front cover. An uncommon item from the Project collecting poems by Jean Boudin Shelley Cholst Sheri Fein Ed Friedman Yancy Gerber Dan Icolari Suzanne Kaufman Michael Ladin Bernadette Mayer and Frances Waldman. St. Marks Poetry Project, unknown books
196939675Toronto: House of Anansi 1969. First edition. 115 pp. Near fine in like dust jacket with a small chip. Uncommon in cloth. Toronto: House of Anansi hardcover books
197360539Dublin: Goldsmith Press 1973. First edition. 119 pp w/list of contributors. Near fine in full cloth and near fine clear plastic dust jacket with shallow chipping to crown and flap folds. Original printed title card present. Beckett Boland Heaney Kinsella Liddy Longley Mahon Montague Muldoon and many others appear. Dublin: Goldsmith Press hardcover books
199269501Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press 1992. First edition. 183 pp w/biographical noes. Two small corner creases to front cover else near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Dated 2/8/92 and INSCRIBED by Harteis and SIGNED by Meredith. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, unknown books
194172227Norfolk: New Directions 1941. First edition. 218 pp. Small damp stain to bottom edge else near fine in very good plus dust jacket. Work by Clark Mills Paul Goodman Karl Shapiro David Schubert and Jeanne McGahey. Norfolk: New Directions unknown books
197440398Vermillion: Dakota Press 1974. First edition. 67 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Poems by John Barsness Paula Gunn Allen Todd Haycock and Jeff Saunders. This is Allen’s first appearance in a book. Vermillion: Dakota Press, unknown books
198068466New Rochelle: Elizabeth Press 1980. First edition. 58 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards. Fine publisher’s cardstock slipcase. One of 100 copies on Magnani rag paper. Poems translated from the original Italian by Stefanile with his introduction. Wrok by Altomare Buzzi Cavacchioli D’Alba Folgore Govoni Lucini Manzella-Frontini Marinetti Palazzeschi and Soffici. New Rochelle: Elizabeth Press hardcover books
19984590Menlo Park: Occasional Works 1998. First edition. 71 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with printed paper spine label. One of 80 numbered copies on Arches. Doty Auden Gunn Wright Grennan Boland Adcock Niedecker Swenson Loy O’Hara and many others. Menlo Park: Occasional Works, hardcover books
187941542New York: Beadle and Adams 98 William St 1879. 1st printing cf. Johannsen BEADLE I p. 401. Pale orange printed wrappers with the reverse dime cut. Series advert to rear wrapper lists through No. 24 with this title advertised as a "new book" on inner front wrapper. Modest wear & soiling to wrappers. Text paper yellowing. A solid VG copy. 2 9 - 92 10 = 96 pp. Adverts last 10 pages. Woodcut vignette to front wrapper. Text illustrated with cuts. 12mo. 6-5/16" x 4-1/16" <br/><br/> Beadle and Adams, 98 William St unknown books
1920WRCLIT64432Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1920. Cloth and boards. Extremities a bit rubbed edges tanned else a good copy. First edition in this format being a collective reprinting of the volumes for those years including work by Vera Brittain Graves Huxley Kitchin Meyerstein Nichols Sayers Strong et al. Of course a number of contributions are war verse. Basil Blackwell hardcover books
19856873Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1985. First edition. 300 pp. Page edged slightly darkened else near fine in very good plus dust jacket with wear to base and crown of spine. SIGNED by Canin inscribed John L'Heureux Bharati Mukherjee Joyce Carol Oates and Norman Rush. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, unknown books
1946WRCLIT49991Firenze: Valecchi Editore 1946. 468;457-946pp. Two volumes. Original printed wrappers. First edition with a substantial 180 page introduction by the editor. Publisher's blindstamp in each title wrappers and edges a bit darkened and foxed but a very good unopened set of this mammoth undertaking. Valecchi Editore unknown books
1937WRCLIT55700New York: Simon & Schuster 1937. Large octavo. Gilt cloth. Endsheets tanned at gutters a bit dusty at edges but very good in lightly rubbed and dust darkened jacket with short internal edge mend and small nicks. First edition. The COLOPHON series by Anderson Benet Chesnutt Dreiser Jeffers Kent Lewis Mencken Van Vechten Wharton et al. This copy bears Adler's presentation inscription signed with initials. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
1904135945London: John F. Shaw & Co. 1904. Large octavo pp. 3-4 5-160; 5-96 note: complete despite gap in pagination inserted chromolithograph frontispiece other illustrations some full-page in the text original pictorial bevel-edged red cloth stamped in green blue black and silver chromolithograph mounted on front cover endpaper ads. First edition. A collection of patriotic adventure fiction for boys mostly military exploits on land and at sea set in various parts of the British Empire. Authors include Gordon Stables Harold Bindloss Frank Savile and others. COPAC reports 3 copies. Mild damp stains to rear cover a bright very good copy. #135945 John F. Shaw & Co. unknown books
1910113762London: Truth" Office 1910. Octavo pp. 1-4 1-244 original pictorial gray wrappers printed in red. First edition. Mixed collection of commercial fiction including horror and criminous tales. Paper wrappers dusty a very good copy. Scarce. #113762 Truth" Office unknown books
1900118041Chicago: 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. White spine a bit dusty else a bright clean very good copy. #118041 Daily Story Publishing Company unknown books
1901113147London: The Religious Tract Society 1901. Octavo pp. 1-4 56 7 8 9-332 note: title leaf is an inserted leaf conjugate with frontispiece both of which are included in the publisher's pagination 23 inserted plates including frontispiece original pictorial brown cloth front and spine panels stamped in gray black and gold. First edition. Nineteen short stories most with historical settings. "The Crimson Chamber" and "A Night in the Old Oak Chamber" are rationalized ghost stories. "The Forlorn Shop" is a novelette of crime. Free endpapers tanned preliminaries and fore-edge of text block foxed else a fine copy of a handsome book. #113147 The Religious Tract Society unknown books
1896118301London: Chatto & Windus 1896. Octavo pp. 1-8 1-3 4-171 172: blank 1-4: ads 32-page publisher's catalogue dated "March 1896" inserted at rear twelve inserted plates with illustrations by Frank Brangwyn original pictorial blue cloth stamped in light brown dark brown and gold fore and bottom edges untrimmed white endpapers with floral designed printed in green. First edition. Collects five nautical stories: "The Smugglers of the Clone" by S. R. Crockett "There is Sorrow on the Sea" by Gilbert Parker" The Path of Murtogh" by Harold Frederic "The Roll-Call of the Reef" by Q i.e. Arthur Quiller-Couch and "'That There Mason'" by W. Clark Russell. "The Roll-Call of the Reef" reprinted from THE WANDERING HEATH 1895 is one of Q's best and best-known ghost stories. BAL 6288 Frederic. Early owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Cloth rubbed at spine ends and corner tips several small scuffs to rear cover some foxing to preliminaries a very good copy. #118301 Chatto & Windus unknown books
1856157441New York: G. P. Putnam & Co. 1856. 12mo pp. 324 original decorated gray green cloth stamped in gold and blind. First edition. "Putnam's Story Library" at head of title. An anthology of twenty-two tales by unspecified authors: "the best selections from the standard story literature of the English language" according to the editor's preface. Most of the material appears to be British. "The Sultan's Bear" from CHAMBERS'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL is an amusing oriental satire. "The Ghost-Raiser" from HARPER'S is a clever tale of a confidence scam. "The Pierced Skull" is a murder mystery; "Our Major's Story" is a tale of somnambulism. Other material is sentimental romantic etc. This is one apparently the first of several books at least five in "Putnam's Story Library" series. Wright II 1727. Mild shallow chip from cloth at upper end some tanning and foxing to text block a very good copy. Superior condition for this book. A scarce book. #157441 G. P. Putnam & Co. unknown books
1931151120London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd. 1931. Octavo pp. 1-6 7-256 original black cloth front and spine panels stamped in red. First collected edition. An omnibus volume combining UNCANNY STORIES 1916 and MORE UNCANNY STORIES 1918 which in turn were selected from PEARSON'S NOVEL MAGAZINE. Includes two early stories by noted mystery writer Roy Vickers; also death premonition story by Theo. Douglas Mrs. H. D. Everett. Routine commercial work of World War I-era. On the plus side it should be noted that these are stories seldom encountered elsewhere. "Mostly crude horror." - Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 690. Bleiler 1978 p. 7. Reginald 05932. A clean very good copy. A scarce book. #151120 C. Arthur Pearson Ltd. unknown books