564 résultats
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
195813477Highlands NC: Jargon Society 1958. First edition. Jargon 31. 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. Jaffe B1. Presentation copy from Max Finstein to his wife Rena inscribed: "For Rena - as if you weren't busy enough Max. Fine copy. DAWSON Fielding. 8vo loose sheets in folder portraits by Fielding Dawson original printed envelope. Fine copy. Jargon Society) unknown
19596Introduction by William Styron. Collects 15 short stories from the first 6 years of the literary magazine. The author's represented are Evan S. Connell Jr. Italo Calvino Philip Roth Samuel Beckett Mac Hyman Antoine Blondin Terry Southern Gerard Kornelis Van Het Reve Hohn Phillips Jack Kerouac Hughes Rudd Pati Hill William Fain and Owen Dodson. A very uncommon edition nearly fine in a similar dw; almost never seen with the dw intact. E.P. Dutton hardcover
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
2018283613Haybarn Press 2018. hardcover. fine. Ed Colker. Frontispiece on Rives Heavyweight printed from a painting on a Mylar plate and hand-colored by the artist. Illustrated in color by Ed Colker. Letterpress printed. Unpaginated unbound in burgundy cloth portfolio as issued. Haybarn Press 2018. A fine copy.<br/> <br/> Limited edition number 24 of 125. Signed by the artist on the limitation page. Poems by: Lee Briccetti Lea Graham Kathryn Hellerstein Catherine Kasper Kadya Molodowsky Kathleen Norris Nina Pick Ronnie Scharfman Rosmarie Waldrop Jeanne Murray Walker and Suzanne Wise.<br/> <br/> Haybarn Press unknown
19947A collection of fifteen original essays on Obsession presented as talks at the Fifth Annual PEN/Faulkner Gala in Washington D.C. Essays by Louis Begley David Bradley Robert Olen Butler Thomas Flanagan Ernest Gaines Barry Hannah Maureen Howard Jayne Anne Phillips George Plimpton Francine Prose Vikram Seth Mary Lee Settle Ntozake Shange Elizabeth Spencer and Scott Spencer. Two hundred numbered copies in hardcover were issued; this copy is unnumbered very nearly fine in gray cloth boards and slipcase and includes the original silkscreen by Lou Stovall. SIGNED by all of the contributors at their respective essay Quill & Brush hardcover
1976207927Northridge California: Lord John Press 1976. First Edition. Fine. 4to 47pp; cloth-backed boards. One of 350 numbered copies #288 signed by each poet. Lord John Press unknown
20095699London: GreenProfile 2009. FIRST TRADE EDITIONS SIGNED BY 15 CONTRIBUTORS 4 vols. 8vo pp. 207 1; 208; 206; 208. Original colour-printed card wrappers. Just a touch of shelfwear to extremities. Signed by 15 contributors to the title-pages of their contributions. A complete set of the trade paperback editions of these charity anthologies published for Oxfam based loosely around the 4 classical elements and highlighting aspects of the charity’s work in related areas for example the afterword of the third volume ‘Fire’ summarises their work in arms control. In this set Kate Atkinson Ian Rankin Marina Lewycka Alexander McCall Smith DBC Pierre A.L. Kennedy Kamila Shamsie Louise Welsh Geoff Dyer Xiaolu Guo Ali Smith Jeanette Winterson William Boyd Michel Faber Giles Foden and Michael Morpurgo have all signed their contributions. GreenProfile paperback
1699260422London: s.n. 1699. First editions. 8 224 245-267 1 pp.; 8 264 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Modern calf red leather spine label. Title-page of second part foxed otherwise very good. First editions. 8 224 245-267 1 pp.; 8 264 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. ESTC R26563; R30534 "It seems likely that Part 2 was also issued separately but Wing does not record such an edition" s.n.] unknown
18545702London: G. Willis 1854. 8vo pp. xvi 248 frontispiece and 5 plates. Later half morocco by Ramage marbled boards spine divided by raised bands between double gilt rules 2nd compartment lettered direct in gilt other compartments tooled in gilt top edge gilt. Just a touch of rubbing to extremities. An attractively-bound collection of poetry taken from the late 18th-century periodical The Anti-Jacobin noted for its pro-government stance in the wake of the French Revolution. G. Willis hardcover
1928205052New York: Horace Liveright 1928. First edition. Slight soil; just about fine in a lightly soiled dust jacket with a bit wear to extremities and spine-ends. 8vo 410pp; cloth-backed boards. Contributors include Sherwood Anderson Robert Benchley Colette Rube Goldberg Arthur Schnitzler Andre Maurois Ferenc Molnar Jim Tully others. Horace Liveright unknown
18245463Edinburgh: John Anderson 1824. 12mo pp. viii 420 2 engraved frontispiece portrait. Final leaf of ads discarded. Contemporary half black calf marbled boards spine divided by raised bands between blind rules lettered in gilt other compartments diced in blind. Some dampmarks to frontispiece a little spotting throughout. Binding rubbed and slightly worn to extremities. Faint remnants of pencil notes to endpapers. A scarce compilation. Motherwell notes that ‘such of its ballads as are for the first time published are all modern’. John Anderson hardcover
19699London: Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell in the Strand; and W. Creech at Edinburgh. 1783. Fifth edition Corrected. 4to. Three volumes bound in full leather with spine labels. Fifth edition Corrected. From the library of Burgess Meredith and Paulette Goddard. Spines chipped hinges tender worn at exremities. Interiors with a bit of foxing else clean and tight. London: Printed for W. Strahan, and T. Cadell in the Strand; and W. Creech, at Edinburgh. 1783. 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
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
1963207236New York: The Viking Press 1963. First Edition. Fine in a very faintly used second-issue dust jacket with the price $6.50 printed next to the clipped corner. 8vo 368pp; cloth. Includes interviews with Robert Frost Ezra Pound Marianne Moore T.S. Eliot Boris Pasternak Katherine Anne Porter Henry Miller Aldous Huxley S.J. Perelman Lawrence Durrell Mary McCarthy Ralph Ellison and Robert Lowell. The Viking Press unknown
1959207166Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press 1959. First Edition. Fine in a clean dust jacket with just a touch of wear at upper edge. 8vo 111pp; cloth. Includes critical essays by R.P. Blackmur Yvor Winters Marianne Moore and Mark Van Doren. Moore has inscribed and signed this copy at the end of her contribution on p. 82: "Marianne Moore revised I hope January 13 1969. The Johns Hopkins Press unknown
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
207925Mount Horeb: Perishable Press 1986. First Edition. Fine. 4to unpag.; three-quarter pebble-grain leather and boards. One of 113 copies the entire edition signed by each contributor as well as the printer/publisher Walter Hamady and the binder Bill Anthony. Additionally this copy bears an inscription in the rear signed by Hamady and Colescott identifying this copy as one of two presented to contributor Jerome Rothenberg. Perishable Press unknown
196518321London: Keepsake Press 1965. 12 copies printed for each contributor; 100 copies printed for sale. 1 vols. 24pp. Stiff printed wrappers. Fine. 12 copies printed for each contributor; 100 copies printed for sale. 1 vols. 24pp. Includes poems by George Barker John Betjeman Roy Fuller Thom Gunn Ted Hughes David Wevill and other British poets. <br/><br/> Keepsake Press unknown
1924239477New York: Harper & Brothers 1924. First edition NO. 27 of 250 COPIES signed by Willcox. Seven color plates by Elizabeth Shippen Green and others. 1 vols. Square 8vo. Green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Near fine spine a bit dulled. First edition NO. 27 of 250 COPIES signed by Willcox. Seven color plates by Elizabeth Shippen Green and others. 1 vols. Square 8vo. Harper & Brothers unknown
20132083002115702175Chinese book office 2013. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: 20 feet Number of books: 4 Chinese book office paperback
18831484Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers 1883. Three-quarter leather bound. Very good. Miss L.B. HUMPHREY. ANTHOLOGY. Designs by Miss L.B. Humphrey. <br /> <br /> Anthology: <br /> ADAMS Sarah Flower. Nearer My God to Thee. <br /> KNOX William. Oh Why Should the Spirit of Mortal Be Proud <br /> LYTE Henry Francis. Abide With Me. <br /> TOPLADY Augustus Montague. Rock of Ages.<br /> HEMANS Felicia. The Breaking Waves Dashed High.<br /> BROWNING Elizabeth Barrett. He Giveth His Beloved Sleep.<br /> PAYNE John Howard. Home Sweet Home.<br /> TENNYSON Alfred. Ring Out Wild Bells.<br /> <br /> 8vo; 272pp; three-quarters bound in brown calf with marbled boards 4 banded spine with the title "Favorite Poems" gilt-stamped; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt; thick creamy stock; lacking a general title page each poem with its own title page; printed recto only; profusely engraved; rubbing and chipping to board a few spots split to paper over hinges but holding; very good. A custom anthology of poetry. Most are well-known hymns all published by Lee and Shepard all designs by Miss L.B. Humphrey and engravings by John and George Andrews of Boston. Lee and Shepard, Publishers unknown
1854000042New York: S. G. Mead 1854. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No jacket as issued. 8vo. iv 358 pp. illustrated with 4 hand colored plates numerous b&w steel engravings musical score and portraits. Blue boards lined and decorated in gilt. a.e.g. Extremities rubbed. Occasional light foxing. A very good copy of this rare edition. Beautifully hand-colored plates of flowers. This anthology contains works by notable authors such as Orville Dewey one of Wordsworth's American friends. Dewey's essay "Practical Hints on Reading" advocates reading as a means of improving the lower classes. Harriet Beecher Stowe writes "A Sketch" juxtaposing a rich man with an ornate unread bible next to his bed with a poor woman with a well read penny edition of the bible. Too poor to buy wood she and her children huddle together and read the bible achieving a spiritual warmth. Once again reading for spiritual improvement and consolation is emphasized. S. G. Mead hardcover
18702015Philadelphia: James S. Claxton Successor to Wm. S. & Alfred Martien 1870. JUVENILE. Publisher located at: 1214 Chestnut Street. 12mo; xii iii 8-309pp; maroon cloth over board blind-stamped fillet gilt-stamped lettering on front and spine; brown eps; hand-colored engraved fp 11 plates; hand-colored pictorial half-title; small engravings in text; binding tight; light shelf wear to boards; near fine. OCLC locates only 7 copies. An anthology of children's poetry and hymns popular during the mid-19th century is presented divided into two parts: Religious and Miscellaneous. The text features lovely engravings and hand-colored plates. James S. Claxton, Successor to Wm. S. & Alfred Martien unknown