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197469426Fremont: The Fault 1974. First edition. 56 pp. Tiny blemish to front cover else very near fine in stapled wrappers. Poems by prisoners printed anonymously. Fremont: The Fault, unknown books
199420831Shaverton: Stroker Press 1994. First edition. 384 pp. Very good plus in illustrated wrappers with a price sticker on the rear cover. Includes work by Seymour Krim Lawrence Durrell Ted Berrigan Charles Bukowski Thomas Merton etc. Shaverton: Stroker Press unknown books
1901113147London: The Religious Tract Society 1901. Octavo pp. 1-4 56 7 8 9-332 note: title leaf is an inserted leaf conjugate with frontispiece both of which are included in the publisher's pagination 23 inserted plates including frontispiece original pictorial brown cloth front and spine panels stamped in gray black and gold. First edition. Nineteen short stories most with historical settings. "The Crimson Chamber" and "A Night in the Old Oak Chamber" are rationalized ghost stories. "The Forlorn Shop" is a novelette of crime. Free endpapers tanned preliminaries and fore-edge of text block foxed else a fine copy of a handsome book. #113147 The Religious Tract Society unknown books
1924159645New York: Lincoln MacVeagh The Dial Press 1924. Small octavo pp. 1-6 1-2 3-330 original cloth-backed boards. First edition. A collection of fifteen stories by Sherwood Anderson D. H. Lawrence Conrad Aiken Mary Butts A. E. Coppard Thomas Mann and others. Includes "The Gentleman from San Francisco" buy Ivan Bunin. A few leaves a bit wrinkled at lower front corner tips a very good copy. #159645 Lincoln MacVeagh The Dial Press unknown books
1893135710New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1893. Small octavo six volumes frontispiece in each volume numerous vignettes in text title pages printed in black blue and orange original maroon cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold top edges gilt other edges untrimmed decorated endpapers. Mixed mostly first editions. A full set of the six individual anthologies issued in 1893 all reprinting short stories from SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE: STORIES OF NEW YORK STORIES OF ITALY STORIES OF THE ARMY STORIES OF THE SEA STORIES OF THE SOUTH STORIES OF THE RAILWAY. All are first editions except STORIES OF ITALY which is an 1894 reprint. The NEW YORK volume includes Edith Wharton's short story "Mrs. Manstey's View" her first prose work to appear in a book. All volumes except STORIES OF ITALY contain supernatural material. Garrison B2. Three volumes NEW YORK SOUTH and RAILWAY lack the front free endpaper one SEA with considerable foxing and some stains to covers generally a good to very good set. #135710 Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
19742987Toronto: Macmillan 1974. First edition. . 284 pp w/biographical notes. Fine in fine dust jacket with one chip to fold. Short stories by Malcolm Lowry Ethel Wilson Jane Rule James Houston Jack London and many others. Toronto: Macmillan unknown books
1901133470New York: McClure 1901. Small octavo pp. 1-10 11-164 165-168: blank note: last two leaves are blanks inserted frontispiece. title leaf and extra title leaf printed in orange and black original red cloth stamped in gold fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. Seven stories by Marion Hill two contributions George Madden Martin G. K. Turner Ellisworth Kelley Louise Herrick Wall and Annie Webster. Smith Y-51. A very good copy. #133470 McClure unknown books
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
188427097NY: Scribners 1884. Reprint edition. 10 volumes. Some minor binding wear o/w a very good set bound in tan cloth stamped in brown. This seems to be a reprint set with volumes 3 7 8 dated with the original publication date of 1884 the other 7 volumes are dated 1891. Includes original stories by: Rebecca Harding Davis; Frank Stockton BAL 18879; Mary Putnam Jacobi; Harriet Prescott Spofford BAL 18481; Frances Hodgson Burnett BAL 2063; Celia Thaxter BAL 19890; Constance Fennimore Woolson BAL 23463; N. P. Willis; Henry James BAL 10567; Park Benjamin; Edward Bellamy BAL 955; Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; Thomas Nelson Page; T. A. Janvier etc. Scribners unknown books
198952827Milan: Giancarlo Politi Editore 1989. First edition. Large 8vo. 197 pp. adverts b&w and color plates. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. Includes work and texts by John Baldessari Bernd and Hilla Becher Victor Burgin Gilbert and George Joseph Kosuth Barbara Kruger Richard Prince Cindy Sherman et al. Post-modernism. <br/><br/> Giancarlo Politi Editore 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
197469184Los Angeles: Black Sparrow 1974. First edition. 192 pp. Fine full cloth with printed cover label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Bound collection of individual Sparrow issues: 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. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, hardcover books
1949WRCLIT31882London: Fortune Press 1949. Cloth. Very good in spine-darkened dust jacket with light soiling and wear to the spine ends. First edition. Ian C. Bentley H.R. Douglas Peter B. Gammond who has signed this copy and contributed the illustrations as well John Taylor G.W.L. Telfer and J. Irving Wardle. Typed errata slip laid in. D'ARCH SMITH FORTUNE PRESS 37. Fortune Press hardcover books
194472881Oyama: np 1944. First edition. 27 pp. Light crease to last leaf and rear cover else near fine in stapled wrappers. Introduction by Dorothea Allison. Oyama: (np) 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
192938844NY & London: D. Appleton & Co. 1929. First edition. xli 559 pp. Corners lightly bumped spine dull else near fine in blue cloth with gilt stamping to cover and spine. Previous owner’s penciled name and address to front free endpaper. Original Spanish poems with facing translations by Blackwell. Introduction and notes by Isaac Goldberg. NY & London: D. Appleton & Co., hardcover books
197113192Kent OH: Kent State University Libraries 1971. First edition. One of 50 sets signed by the authors and artists out of a total edition of 500 sets produced. With poems by John Ashbery James Bertolino Gwendolyn Brooks Denise Levertov Steven Osterlund & Gary Snyder & with illustrations by Grace Hartigan Alex Katz Fairfield Porter Harvey Quaytman Otto Piene Mary Ann Begland Sacco & Robert Smithson. Kermani C198. Fine copy. 4to 14 loose sheets laid into paper portfolio. Fine copy. Kent State University Libraries unknown books
197247208Milwaukee: Shore 1972. First edition. 34 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Review slip laid in. Milwaukee: Shore unknown books
196440057NY: Harvard Book Company of New York 1964. First edition. 73 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Preface note by James T. Farrell. Poems by John Richardson Roberts Blossom B.A. Uronovitz Stephen Tropp Neil Chassman and Murray Brown. Micheline contributes the concluding poem. NY: Harvard Book Company of New York, unknown books
197811533St. Paul: Ally Press 1978. First trade paperback printing. Fine in wraps. Contributors include Bly Bruchac William Heyen Levertov Rexroth Synder James Wright and others. St. Paul: Ally Press, paperback books
197835844St. Paul: Ally Press 1978. First edition. 88 pp. Fine in gilt-stamped boards; no dust jacket as issued. Poems by Bly Bruchac Heyen Kooser Levertov Rexroth Snyder Wright and several others. St. Paul: Ally Press hardcover books
1900164610Chicago: Daily Story Publishing Company 1900. Octavo pp. 1-2 1-2 3-325 326: blank twenty inserted plates with illustrations by J. Greville Wilmot original two-part white and purple cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. 325-page anonymously edited anthology with thirty stories by Octave Thanet Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Charles King George Ade Irving Batcheller Opie Read Elia W. Peattie Albert Bigelow Paine and others. Several of the stories are supernatural including "The Princess Yepti" by Opie Read about a mummy "The Night of a Thousand Years" by Irving Bacheller dreams and insanity and "The Rose of Hell" by Mrs. General George E. Pickett a strange flower and insanity. According to Publisher's Weekly two 5000-copy press runs were required to meet the public demand for the book. BAL 6363 Freeman. Wright III 4931. Corner tips lightly worn some spotting and soiling to cloth a very good copy. #164610 Daily Story Publishing Company unknown books
1900118041Chicago: Daily Story Publishing Company 1900. Octavo pp. 1-2 1-2 3-325 326: blank twenty inserted plates with illustrations by J. Greville Wilmot original two-part white and purple cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. 325-page anonymously edited anthology with thirty stories by Octave Thanet Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Charles King George Ade Irving Batcheller Opie Read Elia W. Peattie Albert Bigelow Paine and others. Several of the stories are supernatural including "The Princess Yepti" by Opie Read about a mummy "The Night of a Thousand Years" by Irving Bacheller dreams and insanity and "The Rose of Hell" by Mrs. General George E. Pickett a strange flower and insanity. According to Publisher's Weekly two 5000-copy press runs were required to meet the public demand for the book. BAL 6363 Freeman. Wright III 4931. White spine a bit dusty else a bright clean very good copy. #118041 Daily Story Publishing Company unknown books
200552403Berkeley: Ishmael Reed Publishing 2005. First trade paperback printing. 141 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Ishmael Reed who published this book. Berkeley: Ishmael Reed Publishing paperback books
112104First Edition. hardcover. Tradition and Direction. Edited by William M. Sale and James Hall. d.w. Norfolk: New Directions 1949.<br/><br/> unknown books