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28569SF: Red Tower Press Roosevelt Junior High School 1938. First edition. Pages 142 pp.8vo. Custom bound in full dark blue Morocco leather tooled in gilt sewn on cords with raised bands on spine and with sewn head and tail band. Housed in custom felt-lined slipcase covered with paste-grained paper. First edition. Expert binding not signed. A unique copy of a scarce title published by a high school printing class reproducing inspirational letters generated from experiences with printing presses. In fine condition with only the slightest bit of fading to the spine and a light bit of wear to the corners of the slipcase. SF: Red Tower Press, Roosevelt Junior High School 1938. hardcover
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
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
197362750Chicago IL: Follett Publishing Co. 1973. 8vo. 381 1 pp. Blue publisher’s cloth silver lettering on spine w/ d.j. cover art by Franz Altschuler proted by the “Aldine†lamination process as issued very slight sunning to spine tiny chip at foot of spine still F/NF copy. First edition of this excellent 24-story anthology drawing upon 100 years of science fiction literature including first time stories specifically written for each of the categories: Robots Monstrosities Machines Mutants Time Travel & Space Travel by authors Rachel Cosgrove Payes William F. Temple Richard Posner Robert Silverberg Jeff Sutton and Dean Koontz respectively. Follett Publishing Co., hardcover
193630752New York: The Telegraph Press 1936. First U. S. edition. A fine copy in a nearly fine to fine dust jacket with a small 11 mm closed tear to the lower front panel. A very attractive copy. 30752. Octavo pp. 1-9 10-224 note: first leaf is a blank original gray cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold. Published earlier in Britain as MY GRIMMEST NIGHTMARE 1935. Original anthology with twenty-two stories by Cynthia Asquith Algernon Blackwood Marjorie Bowen H. de Vere Stacpoole Noel Langley Theodora Benson and others. The stories in this collection were originally broadcast in 1934 on the BBC program "Nightmares" produced by Cecil Madden. The compilation of the volume is sometimes mistakenly attributed to Cynthia Asquith. Reference: Barron ed Horror Literature 3-1. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 59. Bleiler 1978 p. 12. Reginald 10548. The Telegraph Press unknown
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
199448859James Cahill. Fine. 1994. Hardcover. Original quarter cloth gilt with patterned boards. #4 of 250 copies signed by all contributors by their work. Fine condition appears unread. The cloth slipcase is faintly rubbed. ; Limited Edition; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 185 pages; Signed by Author . James Cahill hardcover
1994consign310James Cahill 1994. Hardcover. Clean pages tight binding sign. 0x0x0. Signed. Limited edition #182 of 250 printed. Signed by all authors in the anthology.Clean pages tight binding signatures crisp cloth boards bright and square slipcase crisp James Cahill hardcover
17329088Paris, Briasson, 1732. 2 volumes in-12 de [12]-464 et [12]-432-XXXVI pages, plein maroquin rouge, dos lisses ornés de filets et rubans dorés, pièces de titre brunes, filets droit et courbes dorés sur les plats, fleurons dorés aux angles, filet doré courbe sur les coupes, tranches dorées.
190554899ABParis., H. Welter, éditeur, 1905. 12°. VIII, 333 p. broché.
190554899ABParis. H. Welter, éditeur 1905. 12°. VIII, 333 p. broché.
1830195281-1Padua, Pietro Tarone [d. i. Berlin, F. Himburg] ( 1830?). 12°. 1 nn. Bl., 336 S. Prgt. d. 20. Jahrhunderts.
1824115560Crapelet 1824 6 demi chagrin signé Guetant A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Crapelet, Bibliothèque choisie des poètes françois [...], 1824, 6 volumes in-8 de 135x215 mm environ, de 436 à 528 pages. Reliure signée L. Guétant, demi-chagrin vert, plats marbrés, dos à cinq nerfs portant titres, tomaisons et fers dorés, tranches de tête dorées, gardes de papier marbrées. Dos insolés, rousseurs éparses sur quelques tomes seulement, bon état général, belle série.
187891254New York, S. Zickel, 1878. Titel, 1 Bl. (Inhaltsverz.), 1036 S. 29 cm. OHLdr.
10766Vienne, William Fisher, 1868 et Oxford, imprimé pour la coterie des amoureux, 1878. In-12, demi-reliure cuir.