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200534211Dover: Bottle of Smoke Press 2005. First edition lettered & signed issue. Twenty 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inch broadsides laid into a printed folder. Fine. First appearance of Bukowski's poem "Coffee and Babies." Also work by Henry Denander S. A. Griffin Richard Krech Gerald Locklin and others. One of 26 lettered sets SIGNED by all contributors excepting Bukowski. Dover: Bottle of Smoke Press unknown books
200741460Dover: Bottle of Smoke Press 2007. First edition lettered & signed issue. Nineteen letterpress printed broadsides laid into a folder. All elements fine. Contributors are: David Barker justin.barrett Charles Bukowski Dave Church Christopher Cunningham John Dorsey Dan Fante Amanda Fleming S.A. Griffin Robert Head Tom Kryss Jake Marx Hosho McCreech Ann Menebroker Robert Miltner Owen Roberts Larry Smith Marc Snyder Kent Taylor Jeffrey H. Weinberg. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by all living contributors and with a signed numbered print of the cover illustration affixed to the front of the folder. New at publication price: Dover: Bottle of Smoke Press unknown books
200432000Bear: Bottle of Smoke 2004. First edition. Set of twenty-four letterpressed cards each 5 x 7" laid into a printed folder with a mounted cover illustration by Marc Snyder. All elements fine. One of 26 lettered sets SIGNED by all contributors: Ronald Baatz David Barker justin.barrett Glenn W. Cooper Evan Dashevsky Henry Denander Hugh Fox S.A. Griffin Bradley Mason Hamlin Jeffrey Scott Holland Richard Krech t.l. kryss Karl Koweski Gerald Locklin Adrian Manning W. William Martin Robert L. Penick Edward Reilly Bill R. Roberts Owen Roberts Matt Smith Jeffrey Weinberg A.D. Winans and Harry R. Wilkins. Bear: Bottle of Smoke unknown books
196246343Madison: Sixties Press 1962. First trade paperback printing. 45 pp. Very near fine in wrappers and like dust jacket. SIGNED by Bly on the title page. Madison: Sixties Press, paperback books
1970WRCLIT81530Palo Alto: Pacific Books 1970. Cloth. A very good copy in faintly sunned and rubbed dust jacket. First edition. A number of contributors to this year's selection have signed this copy at their contributions including Booth Berry Kumin Meredith Swenson Warren Wilbur and Wagoner. Other unsigned contributors include Auden Carruth Ashbery et al. Pacific Books hardcover books
196813368Paris L'Avant Scene 1966-1968. 1968. First editions. Small 8vo. Text in French. Profusely illustrated. Dust jackets few small chips. Very good. 3 volumes. Essays on such personalities as Eisenstein Griffith Korda Laurel and Hardy Cocteau Melies Disney Sennett Stroheim etc. F. Hardcover. Paris, L'Avant Scene [1966-1968]. hardcover books
189432059New York: Crowell 1894. Red cloth faded light wear. Ownership signature of Max L. Abramson a cousin of Leonore Gershwin who was a drama critic in the teens and became a friend of George Gershwin. With frequent annotations or marks of emphasis of intederminate authorship; two pages containing Hood's "Bridge of Sighs" removed. From lyricist Ira Gershwin's library with posthumous bookplate. <br/><br/> Crowell hardcover books
183548125Paris: Published by A. and W. Galignani and Co. 18 Rue Vivienne 1835. 1st edition. Contemporary brown half- leather with marbled boards. Gilt stamping to spine. Slight lean average wear. Later poi to t.p. top margin. Age-toning to paper. A VG copy. 4 331 1 blank pp. 12mo signed in 6s. <br/><br/>A mostly anonymous collection of stories 25 in number. Rare volume not found in the NUC and with OCLC showing only one institutional holding the British Library. Published by A. and W. Galignani and Co. 18, Rue Vivienne hardcover books
196859364Boston: Impressions Workshop 1968. First edition. Bump to one lower corner else all items fine in a very good plus printed portfolio. Maximum dimensions are 13 x 9 1/2 inches. One of 80 numbered copies. Broadsides SIGNED by Helen Chasin William Corbett Sam Cornish Arthur Freeman Sidney Goldfarb Paul Hannigan Fanny Howe Gail Mazur Geoffrey Movius Yvonne Ruelas Kathleen Spivak Richard Tillinghast Andrew Wiley Ruth Whitman and an unsigned work by Ron Loewinsohn. Boston: Impressions Workshop, unknown books
198153708Northridge: Lord John Press 1981. First edition deluxe limited & signed issue. 55 pp. Spine lightly sunned else very near fine in full black cloth and fine publisher’s slipcase. No dust jacket as issued. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by all contributors: John Ashbery Galway Kinnell W.S. Merwin L.M. Rosenberg and Dave Smith. Northridge: Lord John Press, hardcover books
1964WRCLIT81542Palo Alto: Pacific Books 1964. Cloth. About fine in lightly edgeworn price- clipped dust jacket. First edition. A number of contributors to this year's selection have signed this copy at their contributions including Dickey Kunitz Stafford Strand and Wagoner. Other contributors not signed include Heyen Hanson Hughes Kirkup Merwin Spender Oates et al. Pacific Books hardcover books
1884154688New York: Charles Scribners Sons 1884. Small octavo ten volumes original yellow cloth front and spine panels stamped in black. First editions first printings of all volumes with title pages of the first eight volumes dated 1884 and the last two dated 1885. Collects fifty-seven stories all but one "Venetian Glass" by Brander Matthews appears here for the first time in print first published in ATLANTIC MONTHLY SCRIBNER'S MONTHLY LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE APPLETON'S JOURNAL CENTURY MAGAZINE PUTNAM'S MAGAZINE HARPER'S MAGAZINE OVERLAND MONTHLY THE GALAXY and other magazines and newspapers between 1863 and 1884 with the exception of "The Spider's Eye" by Lucretia P. Hale published in PUTNAM'S MAGAZINE in July 1856. Most of the stories appear here for the first time in a book and some have not been collected elsewhere. Most of the fiction is social or sentimental in orientation but a few sensational and fantastic tales are included. Among the latter are "The Transferred Ghost" by Frank R. Stockton "A Martyr to Science" by Mary Putnam Jacobi "The Spider's Eye" by Lucretia P. Hale here mistakenly attributed to Fitz-James O'Brien "The End of New York" by Park Benjamin an early American future war story first published in FICTION 31 October 1881 "The Tachypomp" and "The Ablest Man in the World" both by Edward Page Mitchell "The Life-Magnet" by Alvey A. Adee and "Manmat'ha" by Charles De Kay a lost race tale of a semitransparent people. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2112. Wright III 5267-5276 lists contents. Some wear to cloth mostly upper spine ends some spotting and considerable dust soiling to cloth stain to spine of volume 3 a sound good set. Signature of an early owner dated 1890 in all but one volume. First printing sets are now seldom found. #154688 Charles Scribners Sons unknown books
1956104891London: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1956. Octavo boards. First edition. Original anthology collecting three novellas: "Envoy Extraordinary" by William Golding science fiction set in the ancient world "Consider Her Ways" by John Wyndham feminist science fiction set in a dystopian future and "Boy in Darkness" by Mervyn Peake a fantastic tale set in the world of Titus Groan. Golding's story was adapted later as a play and published as THE BRASS BUTTERFLY 1958. According the Berger Science Fiction and the New Dark Age pp. 196-8 Wyndham's "haunting" novella in which "the preventable is not prevented" is "the quintessence of dystopian fiction." Anatomy of Wonder 1995 3-78. Reginald 13447. Gekoski and Grogan B1a. Very slight spine lean mild dust soiling to top edge of text block else a fine copy in bright very good plus dust jacket with light edge wear light age-darkening to spine panel and extremities of flaps mostly internal but with some show through on flaps and dust soiling to rear panel. An elusive book. #104891 Eyre & Spottiswoode unknown books
1882133668London: James Blackwood & Co. 1882. Octavo pp. i-v vi-vii viii 1 2-391 392 note: title leaf is a cancel inserted plates plus illustrations in the text original pictorial cream paper over boards printed in red blue and black top edge stained gray plain endpapers. First edition The authors of about half of the contributions are identified the most prolific being Cuthbert Bede and George Frederick Pardon the latter's short novel MAY FAIR running throughout. The list of six titles on the rear cover includes CRUIKSHANK AT HOME published by Blackwood in 1882 and one of only two of the advertised titles recorded in Topp. The current volume is not in Topp who perhaps considered it a periodical and intentionally omitted it. Not in Topp perhaps considered a periodical and intentionally omitted. Not in Wolff who probably would have bought a copy if he had found one for sale. Some general dust soiling to covers spine rubbed and a bit darkened upper spine end worn with shallow loss small chip from lower spine small stain to lower margin of frontispiece a very good internally nearly fine copy. OCLC reports 2 copies; none reported by COPAC. #133668 James Blackwood & Co. unknown books
1963WRCLIT81532Palo Alto: Pacific Books 1963. Cloth. A very good copy in faintly sunned and rubbed dust jacket. First edition. A number of contributors to this year's selection have signed this copy at their contributions including Dickey Hall Kumin Meredith Stafford Swenson Summers and Ghiselin. Other contributors not signed include Everson Bishop Roethke Sexton Wevill D.M. Thomas et al. Pacific Books hardcover books
1968WRCLIT81534Palo Alto: Pacific Books 1968. Cloth. A very good copy in faintly sunned and rubbed price-clipped foil-finish dust jacket. First edition. A number of contributors to this year's selection have signed this copy at their contributions including A. Hecht Merrill Moss Shapiro Stafford Wilbur and Wallace. Other contributors unsigned include Hughes McCaig Merwin Reid Wain Van Duyn Attwood Berrigan et al. Pacific Books hardcover books
1892WRCLIT64282Chicago: A.C. McClurg 1892. Quarto. Cream cloth lettered in gilt. Two bookplates on pastedown white cloth moderately hand soiled else a good tight copy. Cloth case faded. First edition printing contributions of the moment "sentiments dedicated to little children" in autograph facsimile by Hardy James Kipling Jewett Howe Holmes Meredith Tchaikowsky political dignitaries et al. BAL 10901. A.C. McClurg hardcover books
193423598New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1934. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. A collection of the best Essays and Stories from the first 12 months of the American Spectator. In addition to work by the editors the contributors include Joseph Wood Krutch Thomas Beer H.M. Tomlinson Louis Untermeyer Booth Tarkington Ring Lardner Jim Tully Liam O'Flaherty William McFee Llewelyn Powys Sean O'Casey Evelyn Scott Ludwig Lewisohn and Thomas Burke among others. A fine book in a very good to near fine dust jacket bright and crisp with ony a couple tiny chips and closed edgetears. Uncommon. <br/><br/> Frederick A. Stokes Company hardcover books
193528227London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1935. FIRST EDITION. A collection of essays covering a variety of aspects of the English arts scene. Includes "Psychology and Art" by W.H. Auden "Poetry" by Louis MacNeice "Painting and Schulpture" by Geoffrey Grigson "Fiction" by Arthur Calder-Marshall "Music" by Edward Crankshaw "The Theatre" by Humphrey Jennings "The Cinema" by John Grierson and "Architecture" by John Summerson. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket and uncommon thus. <br/><br/> John Lane The Bodley Head unknown books
197462133Los Angeles: Black Sparrow 1974. First edition signed issue. 192 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket rubbed. Bound collection of individual Sparrow issues all SIGNED by the respective authors or translators: Larry Eigner Robert Creeley Bobbie Louise Hawkins Michael McClure Tom Clark Clayton Eshleman Joyce Carol Oates Robert Kelly Diane Wakoski Gerard Malanga Clayton Eshleman as translator of Artaud and Jerome Rothenberg. One of 50 copies. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, unknown books
195062294Oxford: John Adlard and Alan Brownjohn 1950. First edition. 8 pp. Light bump to base of spine else near fine in stapled wrappers. Poems by Elizabeth Jennings Marion Smith Lotte Zurndorfer Jenny Joseph Gillian Craig and Adrienne Cecile Rich a year before the appearance of her first adult title A CHANGE OF WORLD. Oxford: John Adlard and Alan Brownjohn unknown books
201463127San Francisco: Book Club of California 2014. First edition. 49 pp. Fine paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Two photographs by Campbell who also designed the book. One of 300 numbered copies on Zerkall Frankfurt paper SIGNED by contributors Joseph Stroud Kay Ryan Gary Young Martha Ronk and Michael Hannon. San Francisco: Book Club of California, hardcover books
188427097NY: Scribners 1884. Reprint edition. 10 volumes. Some minor binding wear o/w a very good set bound in tan cloth stamped in brown. This seems to be a reprint set with volumes 3 7 8 dated with the original publication date of 1884 the other 7 volumes are dated 1891. Includes original stories by: Rebecca Harding Davis; Frank Stockton BAL 18879; Mary Putnam Jacobi; Harriet Prescott Spofford BAL 18481; Frances Hodgson Burnett BAL 2063; Celia Thaxter BAL 19890; Constance Fennimore Woolson BAL 23463; N. P. Willis; Henry James BAL 10567; Park Benjamin; Edward Bellamy BAL 955; Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; Thomas Nelson Page; T. A. Janvier etc. Scribners unknown books
192928002New York: The Macaulay Company 1929. FIRST EDITION. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a couple longer closed tears. Among others there is work collected here by Hart Crane William Carlos Williams Malcolm Cowley Gertrude Stein Allen Tate Archibald MacLeish Eugene O'Neill Robert Penn Warren Louise Bogan John Dos Passos Ernest Hemingway and Edmund Wilson. 843 pages. Uncommon in jacket and in this condition. The first volume in the distinguished Caravan series of anthologies. <br/><br/> The Macaulay Company unknown books
1783WB16445London: Sold by J. Debrett. and Richardson and Urquhart 1783. Hardcover. Good. 2 volumes 8vo 175 x 110mm. Pagination: 263pp.; 278pp. 1 errata. Contemporary tree calf ruled in gilt spine gilt in six compartments with red and green morocco labels joints starting light edgewear marginal staining on pastedowns and endleaves only otherwise good and sound copies. Stated Second Edition; first published in 1788. <br/><br/> Sold by J. Debrett... and Richardson and Urquhart hardcover books
