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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