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1887AQ28166London: Griffith Farran and Company 1887. 30pp 2. With a half-title and numerous illustrations in the text several full-page Sewn as issued in original publisher's pictorial card wrappers A.E.G. With original publisher's pictorial buff dustwrapper. A trifle rubbed dustwrapper worn and spotted upper flap detached lower wrap absent. Contemporary inked gift inscription to half-title. The sole edition of an anthology of verse including contributions from Austin Dobson and original compositions by Edith Nesbit 1858-1924; produced and printed by Ernest Nister of Nuremberg and here preserved in the rarely seen dustwrapper. . 16mo. Griffith, Farran and Company unknown
1972ANTHOLOG008477The Globe Playhouse Trust Publications London. 1972. First edition. Octavo. 63 pages. Quarter leather decorated gilt cloth. Three page Introduction by Christopher Hampton. W.H. Auden Bob Cobbing Robert Graves Jeni Couzyn Stephen Spender Peter Redgrove Norman MacCaig Vernon Scannell C. Day Lewis George Barker Dannie Abse Adrian Mitchell and Peter Porter each contribute one poem. Each contribution is preceded by a black and white photograph of the respective author together with short biographical details. All edges gilt.Contributor's copy: one of 100 numbered and specially bound copies signed by the contributors but not by the editor. This is Dannie Abse's copy with loosely inserted a short typed letter from the publisher presenting the book to him.Slight rubbing at head of spine otherwise fine in very good indeed partially faded cloth slipcase. The Globe Playhouse Trust Publications, London. hardcover
199712074SUMAC READER MSU Press 1997 first edition as new without dust-wrapper as issued. 1/26 lettered copies bound in half leather and SIGNED by Jim Harrison Dan Gerber & Joseph Bednarik. Contributions by: Charles Simic Paul Blackburn Hayden Carruth Ezra Pound Jim Harrison Adrienne Rich Galway Kinnell Gary Snyder James Tate Gabriel Garcia Lorca Tim Welch Rothenberg Gerber Diane Wakowski Denise Levertov William Kittredge et.al. MSU Press hardcover
1925GAM286William Heinemann London 1925. Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. First Edition first printing. This copy signed by Betjeman twice once on the front free endpaper alongside a note of his correction and again at the base of his contribution on page 26 this leaf also exhibits a single minor correction in his hand. 8vo. viii 40pp. Paper-covered boards with a tanned and lightly chipped paper spine label. The boards rubbed at the corner tips and extremities and a little blemished in places. Some spotting throughout mostly confined to the margins and one text leaf detached and laid-in. Tiny dealer plate to the base of the front pastedown above which is a contemporary former owner name and date. A good copy most uncommon with Betjeman's signature. No dust wrapper almost certainly as issued. Betjeman contributes his poem 'The Song of a Cold Wind' which was originally printed anonymously in 'The Marlburian' a year earlier and here marks the poet's very first appearance in bookform. The fifth volume of this Public School Verse anthology series here featuring twenty-nine poems by seventeen authors. William Heinemann, London Hardcover
BN107513Celephais Revue. Softcover. Monstres <br/><br/>Monstres Celephais Revue paperback
Andersen, Michael AsgaardIn Pristine Condition. unknown
1901355490716449London: Methuen 1901. First Edition. Hard Cover. First UK Edition. Includes stories by H.D. Lowry W. Clark Russell W.E. Norris Grant Allen W. Beer L.Cope Cornford Beatrice O'Connor Martin Ross Frank Hird Lettice Galbraith Mrs Fleming F.C. Philips H.B. Marriott-Watson Hamlin Garland Francis Prevost Clara Savile-Clarke. 309 pages. plus publisher's catalogue dated March 1901. Publisher's dark blue cloth lettering in gilt a series of fine borders to spine and front cover in red top edge trimmed fore and lower edges uncut light rubbing to top/lower spine edges corners of boards rubbed slight mark to rear cover end-papers very lightly tanned else a Very Good copy. An Edwardian collection of short stories which includes weird and mystery stories. Very scarce. From the collection of the late and greatly-missed Bob Adey. Methuen hardcover
196822798<p>Patchen Homage Anthology. The Outsider 4 & 5: Embracing a 46-Page Homage to Patchen. With pressed flower from near Geronimo's grave. Tucson: Loujon Press 1968/69. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in a Very Good plus example of the uncommon dust jacket with foxing to spine. This is one of only 500 copies issued. The Loujon Press was an avant-garde publisher operating during the 1960s in New Orleans. Combining art prose and poetry and using a labor-intensive old-fashioned letter press Jon and Louise "Gypsy Lou" Webb published the now-famous literary journal The Outsider as well as books. The Outsider was a critical success almost from the very start making a remarkable impact in the literary landscape of the twentieth century and helping to usher in a whole new style and energy of modern writing. Outsider 4&5 was the last issue of the unique magaine Loujon Press issued. </p> Loujon Press, hardcover
0525064346-11-1Dutton. First Edition. Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Dutton unknown
196703379DANGEROUS VISIONS Doubleday 1967 first edition some lightening to the gutters between the end-papers and paste-downs as is often the case with this volume else just about fine and bright in near fine pictorial dust-wrapper. The major original '60's anthology with contributions by Isaac Asimov Robert Silverberg Frederik Pohl Philip Farmer Robert Bloch Harlan Ellison Brian Aldiss Philip K. Dick Larry Niven Fritz Leiber Damon Knight Theodore Sturgeon John Sladek R.A. Lafferty James Ballard John Brunner Roger Zelazny Samuel Delany et.al. Inscribed by the editor/ author to esteemed Canadian fandom member Michael Glicksohn. Doubleday unknown
195616081SPACE POLICE World 1956 first edition a bright tight fine copy in like bright 4 color Virgil Finlay dust-wrapper with some light wear to the head of the dust-wrapper spine. Contributions by: H. Beam Piper Jack Vance James Schmitz L. Ron Hubbard James Blish et.al. World unknown
193125043London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd. n.d. 1931. First collected edition. Small bookstore label affixed to lower front paste down penciled name and address to verso of front free end paper pages age darkening with some foxing to first few leaves a very good or better copy in a good pictorial dust jacket with chipping to corners chip to lower front panel and lower left front corner head of spine chipped at corners affecting the GH in GHOST cut out to center of spine panel where the price was printed. An uncommon book the jacket is scarce. 25043. Octavo pp. 1-6 7-256 original black cloth front and spine panels stamped in orange. 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 a 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. Reference: Bleiler 1978 p. 7. Reginald 05932. C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., n.d. unknown
19983394LIBRARY OF AMERICA. NY 1998. Fine with no dust jacket. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. UNCORRECTED PROOFS. Two volumes. Fine in plain tan printed wrappers. B . LIBRARY OF AMERICA. NY 1998 paperback
192412076ET CETERA -A COLLECTORS SCRAP-BOOK Pascal Covici 1924 first edition fine in a vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear. Previous uncollected works by such luminaries as: Richard Aldington W.C. Bryant Stephen Crane Floyd Dell Ernest Dowson Lord Dunsany Lafcadio Hearn Joseph Hergesheimer Martin Hewlett Laurence Housman Rudyard Kipling Andrew Lang Arthur Machen Gustav Meyrink Richard Middleton George Moore W. C. Russell Edgar Saltus Carl Van Vechten Walt Whitman & others. 1/625 copies. Pascal Covici unknown
195015129MEN AGAINST THE STARS Gnome Press 1950 first edition upper front fore edge corner tip ever so slightly bumped some light dust-soil to the t.p.e.'s else fine in a very fine Edd Cartier pictorial dust-wrapper. Contains contributions by Isaac Asimov Hal Clement L. Ron Hubbard Murray Leinster E. Mayne Hull Lewis Padgett A. E. Van Vogt Manly Wade Wellman et.al. as well as the first appearance in print of any portion of THE FOUNDATION TRILOGY in book form by Isaac Asimov. Gnome Press unknown
195016105THE BIG BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION Crown 1950 first edition just about fine in like dust-wrapper with a faded dust-wrapper spine with easily readable text Contributions by Miles Breuer Lewis Padgett Murray Leinster Mack Reynolds Ted Sturgeon Eric Frank Russell Fletcher Pratt Lester Del Rey Clifford Simak Fred Brown Jules Verne H. L. Gold Ray Bradbury John D. MacDonald Fritz Leiber Cyril Kornbluth Damon Knight et.al. Crown unknown
192714763THE GHOST BOOK Scribners 1927 first American edition a bright vg/near fine copy in pictorial cloth in a near vg dust-wrapper with some wear and tear chipping and dust-soiling the latter mostly to the dust-wrapper spine. Most uncommon in dust-wrapper. Contributions by Hugh Walpole May Sinclair Walter De La Mare Mrs. Belloc Lowndes D. H. Lawrence L. P. Hartley Enid Bagnold Algernon Blackwood Oliver Onions Arthur Machen Mary Webb et.al. Scribners hardcover
195813478Highlands NC: Jargon Society 1958. First edition. One of 1000 copies. A "New York Portfolio" with poems by Paul Blackburn Bob Brown Edward Dahlberg Max Finstein Allen Ginsberg Paul Goodman Denise Levertov Walter Lowenfels Edward Marshall E. A. Navaretta Joel Oppenheimer Gilbert Sorrentino Jonathan Williams & Louis Zukofsky; poets' portraits by Fielding Dawson. Jargon 31. Jaffe B1. Signed by Dawson on the envelope. Fine copy. DAWSON Fielding. 8vo loose sheets in folder portraits by Fielding Dawson original printed envelope. Fine copy. Jargon Society) unknown
1973207184New York: Macmillan 1973. First Edition. Fine in a lightly rubbed dust jacket. 8vo 268pp; blue cloth. A generous selection of fiction written by poets compiled by the poetry editor of The New Yorker including contributions from John Berryman Elizabeth Bishop Kenenth Koch James Merrill W.S. Merwin Frank O'Hara Sylvia Plath Anne Sexton James Schuyler and many others. This copy has been signed by editor Howard Moss on the title page and by contributor Elizabeth Bishop at the beginning of her story on p. 9. Macmillan unknown
195553979Munich: Brüder Auer Verlag 1955. First edition. 4tos. 39 1 pp. gatefold table of photographs and 111 plates from b&w photographs. Publisher's black cloth titled in white ink in the photo-illustrated dust jacket housed in the publisher's card slipcase with printed title label on the spine. Other than a thin one inch long line at the top of the first blank flyleaf a fine as new copy. Laid in is a presentation card from Otto Steinert. Didactic by design this is the second volume of the outgrowth of exhibitions organized by Steinert. With texts by Steinert Franz Oh and others in German French and English. Photos by René Groebli William Klieg Rail Houseman Keeled Helmer-Petersen Otto Steinert Heinz Hajek-Halke Rune Johnson Harry Callahan Edouard Bout Irving Penn Martian Coupons Fluvial Rioter Lynn Bullock Yasuhiro Ishimoto Minor White et al. Brüder Auer Verlag unknown
Line Jensen, Erik Vagn JeJacket is shelf-worn but book is in very good condition. unknown
2010214<p>This is a collection of crime and detection short stories by members of the Crime Writers' Association. It is edited by the chair person Martin Edwards.</p><p>This is the deluxe lettered state being one of only 16 copies. It contains 21 signautures including the publisher author of an essay on three time Gold Dagger winner Lionel Davidson 1922-2009. The most well known writers in the volume are: Simon Brett Ann Cleeves Sophie Hannah Reginald Hill Peter Lovesey Rick Mofina Barbara Nadel Zoe Sharp Andrew Taylor Charles Todd twice and Laura Wilson.</p><p>A great volume for the detection and crime collector. New</p> Scorpion Press hardcover
18866824Edinburgh: Imprinted at the University Press by T. & A. Constable Printers to Her Majesty the Queen. 1886. 16mo pp. xvi 240 16 plates. Ruled in red throughout title-page printed in red and black. Later crushed black morocco by Bayntun boards bordered with a gilt rule enclosing gilt dot cornerpieces spine divided by raised bands gilt compartments bordered with a gilt rule 2nd and 4th compartments lettered direct in gilt other compartments tooled centrally in gilt edges gilt turn-in gilt marbled endpapers. Just a touch of spotting. Ownership inscription to flyleaf dated 31st January 1952. A beautifully-bound anthology which includes work by Robert Browning Andrew Lang J.M. Barrie Geoorge MacDonald and Robert Louis Stevenson among others. Prideaux 3.3. Imprinted at the University Press by T. & A. Constable, Printers to Her Majesty the Queen. hardcover
DUN0249Michael Joseph Ltd. London 1952-1958 and Hutchinson London 1960-1977. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Editions first printings. 8vo. A little light spotting to occasional edges and some toning to the free endpapers of ten volumes. Inked former owner names or inscriptions to the free endpapers of six volumes. Two volumes 'New Poems 1955' and 'New Poems 1958' review copies with the publisher's review slips laid-in although the slip for the 1955 volume has been ripped in two with the top half now absent. Also includes an uncorrected proof copy of 'New Poems 1971-72' in addition to the standard published issue. One volume 'New Poems 1967' enhanced with the signatures of nine of the contributes Edmund Leo Wright W.H.Petty Peter Porter Peter Scupham Richard Furlong Michael Spinks Carol Rikker Henry Woolf and John Cotton. A very good set in very good dust wrappers five of which are price-clipped. A veritable who's who of a quarter of a century of predominantly British and Irish verse with contributors including Walter de la Mare Edwin Muir Edmund Blunden C.Day Lewis Anne Ridler A.S.J.Tessimond Louis MacNeice W.H.Auden Lawrence Durrell David Wright George Lamming John Montague Herbert Read Stephen Spender Dylan Thomas Kathleen Raine Robert Graves Hugh MacDiarmid Stevie Smith Vernon Watkins Laurie Lee R.S.Thomas W.S.Merwin Elizabeth Jennings Muriel Spark Charles Causley John Lehmann Alan Ross John Hewitt Thomas Blackburn Thom Gunn Philip Larkin Edwin Morgan Kingsley Amis Geoffrey Hill Ted Hughes Sylvia Plath Siegfried Sassoon Patricia Beer George Mackay Brown Harold Pinter John Betjeman Thomas Kinsella A.Alvarez G.S.Fraser Tony Harrison Jenny Joseph Mervyn Peake Brain Patten D.M.Thomas Fleur Adcock Kevin Crossley-Holland Ian Hamilton Iain Crichton Smith Douglas Dunn James Fenton Michael Longley Derek Mahon Seamus Heaney David Harsent Clive James Paul Muldoon Charles Tomlinson Alan Sillitoe W.S.Graham C.H.Sisson Tom Paulin Andrew Motion Stewart Conn D.J.Enright Craig Raine &c &c &c. The full set comprises the following volumes: 'New Poems 1952 New Poems 1953 New Poems 1954' 'New Poems 1955' 'New Poems 1956' 'New Poems 1957' 'New Poems 1958' 'New Poems 1960' 'New Poems 1961' 'New Poems 1962' 'New Poems 1963' 'New Poems 1965' 'New Poems 1967' 'New Poems 1970-71' 'New Poems 1971-72' 'New Poems 1972-73' 'New Poems 1973-74' 'New Poems 1975' 'New Poems 1967-77' and 'New Poems 1977-78'. Please note: volumes were not issued for the years 1959 1964 1966 1968 or 1969. Michael Joseph Ltd., London 1952-1958 [and] Hutchinson, London 1960-1977. Hardcover
1932ARC95095Cobden-Sanderson Ltd. London 1932. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition first printing. A presentation copy inscribed by one of the contributors: "For Auntie with love from James Laver. Xmas 1932". 8vo. 124pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. The cloth darkened at the backstrip and margins of the upper and lower boards and with just a touch of light wear to several extremities. Some very light toning to the free endpapers and the half-title and one unprinted concluding leaf somewhat more toned. A very good copy in a splendidly preserved example of the uncommon pictorial dust wrapper designed by Rex Whistler non-price-clipped and just lightly spotted at the rear panel with a touch of toning to the spine panel. Contributors include John Betjeman Lord Berners Harold Nicolson Dorothy Wellesley Lord Alfred Douglas Edmund Blunden James Laver Sylvia Pankhurst H.J.Massingham Rose Macaulay Robert Byron Nina Hamnett J.B.Morton Evelyn Waugh V.Sackville-West E.M.Delafield Raymond Mortimer J.C.Squire and twelve others. James Laver contributes a five-page reminiscence of the two-year period he and his sister lived with their maternal grandmother following the death of their mother although whether his familial presentation inscription enhances the value is perhaps open to debate. Cobden-Sanderson Ltd., London Hardcover
