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1936WRCLIT83280New York: Albert & Charles Boni 1936. Cloth. A very good copy in modestly nicked and edgeworn pictorial dust jacket by Rockwell Kent with fading and a few small spots to the spine panel. First edition in this format. Introduction by Mark Van Doren. This collection was also published in the format of the Charles Boni Paper Books. A chronological presentation of the poems awarded prize-status by significant periodicals including THE DIAL POETRY THE NATION etc. ranging from Sandburg's suite of "Chicago Poems" through "The Waste Land" to "Paterson" and on. Albert & Charles Boni hardcover books
1930WRCLIT59176New York: Charles Boni Paperbooks 1930. Pictorial cloth designed by Rockwell Kent paper spine label. Faint smudging to cloth and label small discoloration at top of fore- edge otherwise a very good or better copy without dust jacket as issued. First edition in this format clothbound issue. Introduction by Mark Van Doren. A chronological presentation of the poems awarded prize-status by significant periodicals including THE DIAL POETRY THE NATION etc. ranging from Sandburg's suite of "Chicago Poems" through "The Waste Land" to "Paterson" and on. Charles Boni Paperbooks hardcover books
1953WRCLIT81504Berlin: Phaidon 1953. Gray cloth stamped in green. First edition of this thematic selection from English- language poets. Endsheets browned else very good in spine-darkened lightly soiled dust jacket with short tear. Chaucer to Dylan Thomas in translation. Phaidon hardcover books
1994WRCLIT69615New York: Dutton 1994. Gilt cloth and boards ribbon marker. First edition. Remainder mark on bottom edge else fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket. Stories from Baldwin Cheever Irving Kerouac Mailer Oates Updike et al. Dutton hardcover books
1947WRCLIT30473London: Methuen 1947. Plain wrappers. Uncorrected "first proof" of the first edition with ms. revisions on prelims reflecting format changes etc. Some damp marking to lower edges and wrappers lower portion of front wrapper torn away; just a good copy used for in-house purposes. Methuen 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
1928WRCLIT74527London: Duckworth 1928. Cloth and pictorial boards. Spine label chipped small ink star stamped on free endsheet otherwise very good. First edition first printing second issue being the first edition sheets with cancel half-title and title. This issue is unrecorded in Fifoot. Duckworth hardcover books
1986WRCLIT69598London: Century 1986. Blue cloth. Black & white photographs. Fine in equally fine dust jacket. First edition. An anthology that reflects the fashion writing reviews and the world of art dating from World War I to the mid- eighties. Represented are the works of Dorothy Parker Virginia Woolf George Gershwin Colette Bruce Chatwin Andy Warhol and Ken Tynan among others. Century hardcover books
1974WRCLIT69595London: London Magazine Editions 1974. Gilt boards. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a tiny nick at front foretip. First edition. Edited with a preface by Alan Ross. A compilation of accounts by seventeen writers regarding their experience of living in London. The writers include Angela Carter Paul Bailey Shiva Naipaul Hugo Williams et al. London Magazine Editions hardcover books
1977WRCLIT27537London: Globe Playhouse Productions 1977. Gilt cloth. Fine in slipcase. First edition limited issue. One of 120 numbered copies signed by the contributors: Elizabeth Jennings Iain Crichton Smith Brendan Kennelly A.L. Rowse Richard Burns John Wain D.M. Thomas George Barker Donald Davie Elaine Feinstein John Montague Edwin Morgan Charles Tomlinson and Patric Dickinson. Thomas Blackburn having died prior to the book's completion did not sign. Globe Playhouse Productions hardcover books
1992WRCLIT76342New York: Poets in Public Service 1992. 858pp. Decorated wrappers. First edition. Small ink squiggle and a few faint spots to lower wrapper otherwise very good or better. Poets in Public Service unknown books
1973WRCLIT80926New York / London: Macmillan / Collier Macmillan 1973. Large octavo. Blue cloth. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a few stray marks on the lower panel. First edition. Short prose fiction contributions by the poets John Berryman Edna St. Vincent Millay Sylvia Plath Richard Wilbur and Elizabeth Bishop among others. Macmillan / Collier Macmillan hardcover books
1918WRCLIT70133New York & London: Putnam /Poetry Bookshop 1918. Gilt brown boards t.e.g. First edition U.S. issue comprised of British sheets of the 3rd in the series. Spine extremities worn ink gift inscription; a good sound copy. Stephens Sassoon Graves Nichols Rosenberg et al including some important war verse. WOOLMER A11ref. Putnam /Poetry Bookshop hardcover books
1922WRCLIT45123London: The Poetry Bookshop 1922. Gilt cherry red boards t.e.g. First edition of the 5th in the series. Backstrip sunned two short splits in the paper at ends of upper joint some offset on endsheets and scattered foxmarks early and late else a better than good copy without dust jacket. Stephens Blunden Lawrence Graves et al. WOOLMER A33. The Poetry Bookshop hardcover books
1922WRCLIT67318London: The Poetry Bookshop 1922. Gilt cherry red boards t.e.g. First edition of the 5th in the series. Backstrip sunned inscription on flyleaf some offset on endsheets light discoloration at lower fore- tip and edge of lower board else a better than good copy without dust jacket. Stephens Blunden Lawrence Graves et al. WOOLMER A33. The Poetry Bookshop hardcover books
1940WRCLIT59518Prairie City: The Press of James A. Decker 1940. Printed wrapper over stiff wrappers. Spine slightly chipped and mended otherwise a very good copy. First edition of this offshoot of the YMHA Poetry Center including work by Williams Auden Hughes Patchen Devlin Kreymborg Davidman Ford Jolas et al much of it published for the first time in book form. The Press of James A. Decker unknown books
1931WRCLIT24023Paris: Les Editions Denoel et Steele 1931. Thick octavo. Three quarter dark blue crushed levant raised bands red morocco onlay on spine t.e.g. by Valmar. Minor foxing at edges and in prelims and terminal leaves else about fine the original wrappers bound in. First edition. From an issue of 200 numbered copies on Alfa this copy is out of series specially imprinted with the name of the copublisher Bernard Steele. An important and relatively early anthology of American authors in French translation including Hemingway Anderson Stein Wescott Lewis Dreiser Dos Passos London Sinclair et al the translations by several hands. This is the first appearance of several of the pieces in translation. WILSON D14 etc. Les Editions Denoel et Steele hardcover books
1957WRCLIT58933London: Michael Joseph 1957. Cloth and decorated boards. Light offset to endsheets delimited by jacket flaps top edge dusty otherwise a very nice copy in dust jacket near fine. First edition. Review slip laid in. 2600 copies were printed and many of the contributions appear here for the first time in book form. Abse Blunden Gunn Larkin Lee Merwin Pinter Smith et al. HAGSTROM & BIXBY B8. Michael Joseph hardcover books
1897WRCLIT62082Boston: L.C. Page and Company 1897. Small octavo. Pictorial cloth by Amy Sacker t.e.g. others untrimmed. Frontis. First edition this being the special issue for Harvard so denoted on the spine and in the design on the upper board. Spine darkened cloth lightly soiled else a very good sound copy. Verse selected from undergraduate publications. L.C. Page and Company hardcover books
1897WRCLIT62081Boston: L.C. Page and Company 1897. Small octavo. Pictorial cloth by Amy Sacker t.e.g. others untrimmed. Frontis. Later impression of the first edition denoted the fourth thousand. Some darkening and light foxing to spine extremities and gutter of frontis short scrape at upper tip of lower board else a good sound copy. Verse selected from undergraduate publications. L.C. Page and Company hardcover books
1875WRCLIT68114New York: Henry Holt 1875. xvi24011pp. Small quarto 21 x 16cm. Contemporary full dark brown crushed morocco gilt extra a.e.g. A bit of rubbing to fore-tips and edges else very good or better. A somewhat curious large-paper rendering of this anthology with a pictorial title and sectional vignettes drawn by John A. Mitchell and engraved by Henry Marsh. Henry Holt unknown books
1979WRCLIT69047London: Hodder and Stoughton 1979. Gilt cloth. About fine in very good or better dust jacket with nick toward toe of spine panel. First edition. Advance review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Diamond jubilee anthology edition of a leading London literary agency. Works some published for the first time by David Niven John Le Carré and George MacDonald Fraser among others. Hodder and Stoughton hardcover books
1956WRCLIT60993New York: The Zero Press 1956. Cloth. Top edge dusty else very good in modestly frayed dust jacket with some soiling to white portions and shallow loss at crown of spine. The jacket is the primary state printed in red black and pale blue. First edition issued in sequence as #8 of the periodical. Includes contributions by Bowles Vidal Beckett Moore Benveniste Kelly Molinaro Patchen et al. Contributor Dachine Rainer's copy with ownership signature on endsheet and front panel of jacket with page reference and with manuscript correction in his poem. The Zero Press hardcover books
1929WRCLIT67283New York: Wm. Morrow & Co. 1929. Cloth and pictorial boards. Illustrations. Modest foxing to spine else near fine in near very good spine-darkened lightly chipped dust jacket. First edition. Pieces of wit and wisdom for daily living from 51 contributors including Richard Aldington Cabell Eddie Cantor Kreymborg Cozzens Richard Hughes et al. Illustrations by 13 artists. Wm. Morrow & Co. hardcover books
1966WRCLIT84832Omslog: Bok och Bild 1966. Printed wrappers. First edition. Ferlinghetti Ginsberg Hollo and Kearns. Fine. Bok och Bild unknown books
