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1848WRCLIT40920New Haven: Printed by B.L. Hamlen Printer to Yale College 1848. Printed salmon wrappers. First edition. Very light foxing early and late faint dust soiling to wrappers tiny nick to toe of spine else a fine copy as usual. Printed by B.L. Hamlen, Printer to Yale College unknown books
1943140477London: Oxford University Press 1943. First edition. Hardcover. 86 pages. A collection of poems. A tight near fine copy in a close to near fine price clipped dust jacket with some minor wear. Oxford University Press unknown books
1943303451New York Oxford University Press 1943. 1943. First edition. 8vo. Title page printed in orange and black. Dust jacket unclipped; small chip. Very good. 86 pages. No signatures or bookplates. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York, Oxford University Press, 1943. hardcover books
1943WRCLIT33180New York: Oxford University Press 1943. Cloth. First edition. Inscribed by the author to fellow poet Ralph Hodgson. Fine in lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Oxford University Press hardcover books
1943WRCLIT19386New York: Oxford University Press 1943. Cloth. First edition. Inscribed by the author. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Oxford University Press hardcover books
WRCLIT63533New Haven nd. Quarto broadside 252 x 240mm. A separate printing of this ten stanza poem published as the Bacons' holiday greeting for some unspecified year. Not reported in OCLC/Worldcat. unknown books
182356253Andover: published by the Society of Inquiry Respecting Missions 1823. First edition 12mo pp. xii 13-108; original tan paper wrappers; title printed in black on front cover; lower spine a bit chipped; slight dampstaining on front cover; otherwise very good. Compiled for the benefit of the Society of Inquiry Respecting Missions an organization formed by undergraduates at Williams College. American Imprints 11660. <br/><br/> published by the Society of Inquiry Respecting Missions unknown books
1947WRCLIT63532Philadelphia: The Pickering Press 1947. Broadside 12 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches. Slight bump at lower edge and faint tanning otherwise near fine. First separate edition. Handset in Cloister Oldstyle at the Golden Hind Press and printed by the Pickering Press. A handsome ephemeron. The Pickering Press unknown books
1930WRCLIT22365New York: Harper & Bros. 1930. Linen and boards paper label. Slight foxing of endsheets and top edge else nice in darkened nicked white dust jacket. First edition limited issue. One of only 50 numbered copies specially printed and bound and signed by the author. This copy additionally inscribed by the author with "dearest love." Harper & Bros. hardcover books
19302206New York: Harper 1930. First edition. One of 50 copies printed on Vidalon paper numbered and signed. Original quarter white cloth with printed label spine slightly discolored but nice copy in the dust jacket. Inscribed by Bacon to Mr. & Mrs. Charles Mills Gayley. The poem "The Archaeologist of the Future" based on an idea by Sherwood Anderson wonders about the rediscovery of "Alice in Wonderland'" <br/><br/> Harper hardcover books
1930140754New York: Harper & Brothers Publisher 1930. First edition. Hardcover. 129 pages. Number 25 of only 50 copies printed on Vidalon Velin. A fine copy in an about very good spine darkened dust jacket with some splitting along the spine in a near fine slipcase with publisher's printed label. Signed by Bacon on the limitation page and with an additional presentation by him on the front free endpaper. A very nice copy. Harper & Brothers Publisher unknown books
184567728Hanover: The Dartmouth Press. Very Good-. 1845. Pamphlet. 23 pages appears to have been removed from a bound volume. Shows some light soiling and toning but overall about very good. . The Dartmouth Press unknown books
183382269New Haven: A. H. Maltby 1833. Second Separate edition so stated. Paperback. Good. 24p. Pamphlet. 23cm. Disbound removed from a bound volume. Foxing moderate on title-leaf light elsewhere. Six digit number stamped at top of first text leaf. Bacon was one of the leading lights of Congregationalism during his lifetime. This is Bacon's closely argued and perhaps once persuasive dismissal of the criticisms of Garrison and others of the schemes of the American Colonization Society. <br/><br/> A. H. Maltby paperback books
183312870New Haven 1833. 24pp. Disbound scattered foxing. Good. <br/><br/> The only edition recorded by American Imprints NUC the Library Company Dumond and Sabin despite its stated description. "Bacon was a strong colonizationist and bitter opponent of immediate emancipation. He was equally opposed to slavery and to organized antislavery effort." Dumond 23. In this piece Bacon's loathing of the Garrisonian "fanatics" and their abolitionist ideas comes through loud and clear. "Reader notice the admirable simplicity of the proposal. The remedy for slavery is that slavery should cease. How simple and yet how effectual. Certainly this looks like philosophy." <br/>FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. AI 17489 5. LCP 759. Dumond 23. Sabin 2671. Not in Blockson Work. unknown books
1936WRCLIT20274New York: Farrar 1936. Cloth. First edition. Inscribed by the author. Fine in lightly used dust jacket. Farrar hardcover books
1914138491Berkeley CA: University of California Press 1914. First edition thus. Softcover. An offprint from The University of California Chronicle Vol. XVI No 3. An about fair copy in stapled wrappers with some creasing to the corners and some soiling as well. Inscribed and initialed by Bacon on the front cover. Scarce. University of California Press unknown books
WRCLIT84710Berkeley: Reprint from the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA CHRONICLE XVI:3 nd. Printed wrappers. Offprint. Small chip to one corner light dust soiling. Very good. Reprint from the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA CHRONICLE XVI:3 unknown books
1920WRCLIT23642Stanford: Stanford University 1920. Printed wrappers. First edition of this Phi Beta Kappa Poem. Wrappers faintly tanned at edges else a very good or better copy. Stanford University unknown books
1936533381936. BACON Leonard. THE GOOSE ON THE CAPITOL. NY: Harper and Brothers 1936. 8vo. orange cloth. First Edition. Signed presentation from Bacon on the front endpaper: "Tom Coward. with the author's best wishes." Very Good some wear sunning. $50.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1928WRCLIT54927New York & London: Harper & Bros. 1928. Linen and boards paper spine label. Spine label and edges a bit dust marked otherwise a very good copy in modestly sunned slipcase with minor wear. First edition limited issue. One of an unknown number of copies for presentation in addition to fifty numbered copies specially printed on English handmade paper differently bound and signed by the author. This copy is signed by the author with a '-' in place of the number and bears his inscription to printer/typographer Carl P. Rollins. With Rollins's bookplate. Harper & Bros. hardcover books
WRCLIT23717Berkeley: Reprint from the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA CHRONICLE XVIII:4 nd. Printed wrappers. Offprint. Dust soiling at upper edge very good. Reprint from the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA CHRONICLE XVIII:4 unknown books
1935WRCLIT19384New York: Harper & Brothers 1935. Cloth. First edition. Inscribed by the author. Fine in very good dust jacket. With printed broadside Christmas poem laid in. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1935104888New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1935. First edition. Hardcover. An about near fine copy in cloth binding with some fading and a few spots to the spine. Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown books
1923WRCLIT20859New York: Knopf 1923. Cloth and boards paper label. Near fine in lightly chipped spine darkened dust jacket. First edition of this pseudonymous work Bacon's first substantial book from a trade publisher. A four line quotation in manuscript signed by Bacon is attached to the verso of the title-leaf. Knopf hardcover books
192314239New York: Knopf 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. Blue cloth tan title label to spine top page edge dyed red. SIGNED and with an original poem in the author's hand. Moderate handling wear more prominent to rear. Last endpaper with crease marks slight foxing to interior more so at extremities. <br/><br/>Orignal poem in praise of Carmel CA penned to front endpaper: "Wise men say and I know well / There is only one Carmel. / Romes and Londons are to burn. / From them in contempt I turn / Who perpetually seek / The undeniably unique. / Many roses many trilliums / Many Helens many . / Only one of Mrs. Williams. / Leonard Bacon / January 8th 1924" Knopf hardcover books
