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19082221877<p>"Greek and/or George" various places including San Francisco Carmel New York City Oakland all to author and poet Joseph Noel 70 pages 1908-1921 six holograph and signed envelopes one letter from Carrie Sterling eight Millergraph Company signed stock certificates and a few other items. Very good.</p><p>This important archive relates to Jack London's and Sterling's investment in the Millergraph Company with discussions about their personal lives works in progress mutual friends and Sterlings marriage and divorce.</p><p>Jack London lost a large amount of money when the company failed. See London's Collected Letters for details of the investment as well as his relationship and eventual falling out with Noel.</p> unknown
1903010693Oxford: Daniel Press 1903. Book. Near Fine. Morocco. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Finely bound in pebble-grain black morocco with title author and floral decoration gilt front cover with gilt tooling top cover edges and turn-ins and with blind tooling back cover. Two raised bands no lettering on spine. Stamp signed in gilt at front turn-in "Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd. Bindery". Original paper wrappers bound in with Daniel Press insignia on rear wrapper. Contents Fine. With a facsimile folding leaf of manuscript in collotype. Near Fine minor rubbing to boards even toning at edges of end papers as usual caused by binding glue. Madan 54 Inscribed in Latin by Luxmoore to Brinton on recto of front endpaper: "Huberto Brinton Adjutori optime merito Senex Etonensis Etonae non Dec. MCMXXIV H.E.L." To a most-deserving Assistant Master an old Etonian gives this at Eton on the Nones of December December 5th 1924. Also includes a laid-in ALS in ink from Luxmoore to Brinton dated Dec.12 1924. Headed "Baldwin's Bec". "My dear Brinton I take the liberty of sending you a 'leaving book'. I value it because it was written to deal with the theories of my pupil Will Stone. You may value it perhaps because the issues of the Daniel Press - now at an end - are much sought after. & also I hope for the sake of an old friendship I most heartily claim to include your dear wife ever yours HE Luxmoore". Henry Elford Luxmoore 1841-1926 was an influential English author and horticulturalist. Luxmoore is known for his forty-one-year tenure at Eton in the classics department from 1867-1908. He also served as the House Master at Baldwin's Bec prior from 1872-1902. Luxmoore was a good friend of noted ghost story writer M.R. James and is also known for his creation of the Luxmoore Garden at Eton. Hubert Brinton 1863-1941 was another prominent schoolmaster at Eton serving as an Assistant Master from 1887-1924 and as House Master at Baldwin's Bec from 1902-1924. He was a close peer with H. E. Luxmoore during his time at Eton. Adding to his Eton legacy in 1919 Brinton's former students hosted the first "Old Boy" dinner which officially marked the beginning of a community group known as the Brinton Club. William Johnson Stone 1872-1901 was the author of the highly regarded yet controversial academic treatise On the Use of Classical Metres in English 1898 which caused a massive stir amongst classical scholars and poets. He fell ill and passed away at the young age of 28 in February of 1901 while working as an Asst. Master at Marlborough College. Robert Bridges 1844-1930 was trained as a medical doctor and practiced medicine several years before launching his career as a poet in his 40s. He was appointed Poet Laureate of England in 1914. Stone's tragic and sudden death particularly devastated Bridges. To honor his memory in 1901 Bridges appended Stone's essay to his own famous work published as Milton's Prosody & Classical Metres in English Verse by William Johnson Stone. The offered title Now in Wintry Delights is written as an epistle in quantitative hexameters using Stone's theories. The Daniel Press founded by Charles Henry Olive Daniel 1836-1919 and his wife Emily ran from 1874 to 1923. The press notably sparked the revival of Fell Types an idiosyncratic collection of 17th-century type faces. It also served as a stepping stone between Victorian parlor printing and the Arts & Crafts private press movement pioneered by William Morris and his Kelmscott Press founded in 1891. One of Daniel's closest literary collaborators was Robert Bridges as Daniel was willing to hand-set the complex typographical nature of much of Bridges's poetry. Given the fine leather binding the diligently selected work the dated Luxmoore letter and inscription and the strong Eton College associations between Luxmoore Brinton Stone Bridges and the Daniel Press this is a highly desirable one-of-a-kind offering that epitomizes the perfect 'leaving book' gift between two "Old Boys". . Daniel Press Hardcover
199630117967386223University of Chicago Press 1996. Book. Acceptable. Paperback. POETRY MAGAZINE! You will receive a single issue of the POETRY MAGAZINE dated: June 1996. Some shelf wear and scuff marks to the covers. Former owner address sticker to the cover. The binding is good. The pages flow clearly. VINTAGE MAGAZINE TO TREASURE!. University of Chicago Press Paperback
198630117967386220University of Chicago Press 1986. Book. Acceptable. Paperback. POETRY MAGAZINE! You will receive a single issue of the POETRY MAGAZINE dated: Some shelf wear and scuff marks to the covers. Former owner address sticker to the cover. The binding is good. The pages flow clearly. VINTAGE MAGAZINE TO TREASURE!. University of Chicago Press Paperback
195064011Ripton VT & New York NY: Robert Frost 1950. 4to. sized 8 x 10.5 in. 13 leaves typescript typed on a “Mill†typewriter typically used by the military for communiques and for civilian telegrams and featured a 9 point font larger than the standard typewriter font stapled twice at upper left corner center crease fold faint thumbing at fore-edge of last couple leaves slight creasing to a couple leaves and very minor small stain to fore-edge last leaf inscribed by Robert Frost to his friend Reginald Cook English Professor at Middlebury College head of the Bread Loaf School nearly from its’ inception title change insertion of an apostrophe and annotation both in Frost’s bold ink MS at upper right corner. A very scarce original “Ribbon Copy Typescript†-- not a carbon copy of one of the author’s longest poems as well as one of his more important late poems offering a metaphor on free will and betrayal. Frost original typescript or manuscript poems are frequently only less than a page to 2 pages long while this is significantly more. This typescript was used originally by Frost on May 25 1951 for “the Blashfield Address of the American Academy of Arts and Letters†- as quoted from the first published edition issued afterwards as a signed limited edition by House of Books in 1951. Clearly as evidenced by the manuscript revisions here he chose to revise and rename the poem “Hard to Keep from Being King†and subsequently later further revised for the printed version. The poem also appeared with a few textual changes in Frost’s last collection “In the Clearing†under the title of “How hard it is to keep from being king when it’s in you and in the situation†-- a near quote of the last 3 lines of the first leaf of this typescript. A list of textual changes can be supplied upon request. See: Henry Hart The Life of Robert Frost p. 342. Robert Frost, unknown
194688109New York: New Directions Books 1946-1958. First Editions. First Printings. Five octavo volumes 24cm; beige cloth blocked in various colors and titled in gilt on front covers; dustjackets; 48; 58; 56; 64; 48pp. All volumes show a hint of foxing to upper board edges some offsetting to pastedowns on Vol.1 else cloth bindings are uniformly clean and contents quite fresh; very Near Fine. Dustjackets are all unclipped Vols.1-3 showing a hint of sunning to spines and upper panels Vol.1 showing a 2" split to lower front joint and clear tape reinforcement at upper edge on verso with a single foxed spot to front panel; one tiny nick to lower front panel on Vol.3 with two clear tape mends on verso; faint foxing to verso of Vol.5; Near Fine. All housed in a custom felt-lined half-morocco clamshell case designed by Chicago bookbinder Scott Kellar with the covers reproducing a photo of the Passaic Falls.<br /> <br /> A uniformly attractive set of these five volumes which together constitute Williams's magnum opus a long poem completed over the course of more than a dozen years. "Paterson is both a man and a city as Joyce's Earwicker is both a man and a hill. The long poem has many moods and includes quotations from letters by Pound and Ginsberg large Seurat-like canvases of the Park on Sunday intimate Bonnard-like interiors uproarious comedy. The Passaic river becomes to him what the polluted Bièvre was to Huysmans. 'A poem is a complete little universe it exists separately. Any poem that has worth expresses the whole life of the poet'" Connolly The Modern Movement p.95. WALLACE A24a A25a A30a A34a A44a. 88109. New Directions Books unknown
194215579New York: Knopf 1942. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/good . Two signed items. Stated first edition of book which is inscribed by Hughes on the front free endpaper "To Edwin R. Embree with the sincere regards of Langston Hughes. Chicago February 24 1942." Drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer. Book has black and orange cloth boards. Slight fading of orange at top and bottom of spine. Dust jacket with price intact has a long 1/8-inch shallow chip across top front edgewear and small corner chips. ALSO laid in is a 5x8" one-page Hughes poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers". Signed and dated 1941 by Hughes on the front. On the verso he has writen "Twenty Years Writing and Publishing -- June 1921-June 1941". This is the first separate publication of the poem and it is printed on orange card stock with illustration at top by Aaron Douglas. It is one of 250 copies Hughes had printed in 1941 and sent to friends and is now rare. Not available for international shipping. <br/><br/>Stated first edition. Knopf hardcover
192302063New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1923. Octavo. Pastel-striped paper over blue cloth with paper spine label; 140 pp.; dust jacket. First edition second state binding limited to 215 copies. This was the smallest print run of the 1500 first edition copies spread across three binding states. With the exceedingly scarce unsophisticated dust jacket. A Near Fine copy with scant rubbing to board edges and one small stain to top of spine label; page edges a trifle browning along the top and small bookseller's ticket to rear endpaper else Fine internally. The unclipped $2.00 dust jacket is Very Good with some surface soiling and a small chunk missing to crown not affecting title; 1" hairline crack along joint fold. We find zero copies of either the first or state binding with the dust jacket currently in the trade June 2015. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
19742091202133204281Private Edition/Published by Izara Shobo 1974. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 2 Private Edition/Published by Izara Shobo paperback
19772090202120700084Osaka Form Gallery 1977. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: 500x400 Osaka Form Gallery paperback
195981300San Francisco: Wallace Berman 1959. First Edition. One of 350 copies. Slim photo-illustrated card portfolio 4 7/8" x 7 3/8" containing 18 loose hand-printed inserts of various sizes and on various types of stock housed in an interior pocket. Portfolio is lightly edgeworn showing some trivial dust-soil and a few faint foxed spots to covers with a tiny split at base of spine-fold; Very Good. A few inserts show some of the usual faint offsetting else Near Fine. A well-preserved of the "Mexico Issue" of Wallace Berman's literary and arts magazine which he published nine issues of in very small numbers between 1955-1964. This issue features contributions by Antonin Artaud Berman writing as Pantale Xantos Charles Brittin Kirby Doyle Philip Lamantia Lawrence Jordan Robert Kaufman Michael McClure David Meltzer John Wieners and others. Wallace Berman unknown
1991DEMO002909IStatesboro GA: The Boxwood Press 1991. First Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. woodblock prints by Solomon. Folio two-tone cloth unpaginated fine in publisher's slipcase <br/><br/>The text incorporates poems by David Ignatow Marge Piercy Harvey Shapiro Grace Paley David Meltzer Chana Bloch etc. This is a visionary livres d'artiste by Bernard Solomon. Among his remarkable woodblocks is a multi-block large fold-out print depicting his fantasy perfect Passover one in which he could invite anyone living or dead to partake. Curiously he is not in the scene but is shows Golda Meir and Anwar Sadat Gandhi and Elijah Lincoln and Martin Luther King Rabbi Hillel and Queen Victoria Maimonides and Betty Williams. There are 110 woodcuts in the text 10 smaller mounted folding plates and 9 larger mounted folding plates. This is copy no. 10 of the edition which is limited to only 50 copies signed by the artist Solomon. An absorbing presentation much of it bi-lingual of this timeless prayer. The Boxwood Press hardcover
1983022670Boston: Little Brown and Company / Atlantic Month Press 1983 First printing of the stated first edition in original first issue dust jacket. Faint rubbing to bottom edge of boards else book in fine condition; with light wear to spine ends / corners and light rubbing to back fold else fine. Oliver was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for American Primitive. Little, Brown and Company / Atlantic Month Press hardcover
1949yts37London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Teg. 1949. Limited Edition 99/375. Green hardback cloth cover. 220mm x 150mm 9" x 6". ix 275pp; xii 306pp. Both volumes with photogravure frontis plates of Yeats after John S Sargent and Augustus John. Volume I signed by Yeats on the limitation page. Printed on specially made Glastonbury Ivory Toned Antique Laid Paper. The type selected is Fournier. The work was published on November 25 1949. . Macmillan Publishers Ltd hardcover
191281970Chicago: Harriet Monroe 1912-1914. First Editions. Twenty-four 24 octavo issues 19.5cm; original pictorial wrappers; pp.1-2097 Vol.1; pp.1-23020 Vol.2; pp.1-22524 Vol.3; pp.1-25020 Vol.4. Publication sequence as follows; Vol.1 Nos.1-6 October 1912-March 1913; Vol.2 Nos.1-6 April-September 1913; Vol.3 Nos.1-6 October 1913-March 1914; Vol.4 Nos.1-6 April-September 1914. All issues show some of the expected mild creasing and tiny tears to the yapped edges. The six issues in Vol.1 all show some tiny spots to wrappers from oxidized staples with Vol.1 No.2 spine-sunned and showing several small tears; two issues in Vol.2 with 1" tears to wrappers; a few issues in Vol.3 show some tiny streaks to wrappers with Vol.3 No.1 showing a neatly repaired 3.5" tear to front wrapper; a few issues Very Good though on the whole a very fresh Near Fine set many issues with unopened pages. A uniformly attractive set of the first 24 issues of Harriet Monroe's important modernist little magazine. "The first issue of Poetry marks the turning point in American poetry of the twentieth century. What we refer to as "modern poetry" had been given some slight attention in the Chicago Chap-Book. But for the most part young writers were neglected discouraged from experiment by the editorial policies of the commercial press. Harriet Monroe's editorship was at first prompted by a desire to give all poets a hearing.Her courage helped to save the magazine from occasional financial depression." Hoffman The Little Magazine: A History and Bibliography p.241. The contents of these issues include contributions by Ezra Pound William Butler Yeats John Reed Clark Ashton Smith Rabindranath Tagore Hilda Doolittle Witter Bynner William Carlos Williams Vachel Lindsay Amy Lowell Joyce Kilmer D.H. Lawrence Richard Aldington Robert Frost Sarah Teasdale Padraic Colum Carl Sandburg Ford Madox Huefer William Rose Benet and others. 81970. Harriet Monroe unknown
1947022614New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1947 First printing of the first edition. Inscribed and signed by Robert Frost to poet teacher and friend Samuel French: "To Samuel French Morse / from his fellow in the art / Robert Frost / in great hopes for us all." Light rubbing to board ends and faint toning to page margins else book in fine condition; light toning to jacket spine and cover margins trace of shelf wear else dust jacket in fine condition. Among his many lifetime achievements Frost was a four time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Weidenfeld & Nicolson hardcover
1916BIB331889Melbourne & Sydney: The Lothian Book Publishing Coy Pty Ltd. 1916. Folio Size 38x28cm approx. Very Good condition. Decorated boards with rubbing to edges some light age-toning and small stains. Gilt to spine dulled. Gilt to top edge and uncut edges to pages. Mild offset to endpapers. Binding a little stretched between page 104 and accompany plate. Binding is otherwise extremely good. Illustrated with fifteen 15 tipped in colour plates with tissue guards intact but most creased and thirty 30 tipped in black & white plates. Most of the poems are also accompanied by small black & white vignettes. All plates present and in impeccable condition. Foreword by Archibald T. Strong. List of subscribers at rear. Also has remnants of original ribbon marker - now deteriorated with age. Limited to 1500 copies Muir 5592. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 74 pages. First published in 1916. It appears that this limited edition was published to coincide with an exhibition of Outhwaite's work in Melbourne sold out within hours. The author and the artist donated their royalties from the book to the Red Cross Muir - Australian Children;s Book Illustrators. This is a heavy book and will cost more to ship internationally. Please contact us for a precise quote for your part of the world. . Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback. The Lothian Book Publishing Coy Pty Ltd hardcover
1942220164New York: Privately Printed 1942. Merrill's first book published by his father for him when he was 16 years old. Lightly rubbed with a touch of wear at the corners spine sunned toning to the edges of the boards. Paper clip crimp to the upper edge of one page. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Privately Printed Hardcover
1947009781Cummington Mass.: The Cummington Pres 1947. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Edition. # XLVII 47 of 52 numbered copies with hand-colored initials SIGNED BY AUTHOR Wallace Stevens at colophon page out of a total edition of 246. Printed from Blado & Poliphilus types and from initial letters cut in wood by Wightman Williams on Crown & Sceptre paper. In original quarter cloth over marbled paper boards. Near Fine small rubs at corners a faint stain line top corner rear cover. The Cummington Pres Hardcover
1946250099Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1946. Bishop's first collection winner of the Houghton Mifflin Poetry Award. Second printing one of 500 copies following the initial print run of 1000. Gently bumped and rubbed spine and edges of the boards darkened. Binding square and solid pages lightly tanned. Jacket rubbed and tanned with chips and tears price clipped in Brodart. Inscribed " Rita Liepioa with fond recollections of the Library of Congress. Elizabeth Bishop 1950." Bishop was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1949-1950. Inscribed By the Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Houghton Mifflin Hardcover
1923056213New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1923. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good . 8 1/4" Tall. 140 Pp. Blue Cloth Spine With Paper Spine Label Printed In Red Check Patterned Boards Red Topstain First Edition 1923 First Issue Binding. A Solid Lightly Used Copy Of Stevens' First Book Spine Label Complete. Cloth Spine Bright No Fading Or Rubbing Color Even Throughout. Red Topstain Bright And Entirely Unfaded Color Even. Some Browning To Covers And To Spine Label. Wear To 3 Small Areas On Top Edge Of Rear Board And To All Four Tips With Loss Of Paper At Those Points. Contents Immaculate An Unopened Copy Pages Still Attached Throughout Rare Thus. With The Knopf "16Th Season Fall 1923" Price List Single Sheet Folded Into Four Pages This Book Mentioned In Poetry Section Fine. <br/> <br/> Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1965495007London: Writers Forum 1965. Paperback in good condition. First edition. Number seven in series. Fifty-one one-sided pages plus title page. Staple-bound with black card cover. Covers are lightly marked. Leading corners edges and spine are creased and worn. Minor foxing on a few pages. Minor bumps throughout pages. Text is clear throughout. Binding is sound. HCW. paperback. Good. Used. Writers Forum Paperback
192654530New York: Boni and Liveright 1926. limited edition. Hardcover. Very good. 6 x 9 in. Black cloth with black paper speckled with gold. Limited edition of 77 copies on special paper 70 for sale signed by Cummings on the limitation pg in black ink limitation number is 48 in blue ink. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers and spine very clean spine is mildly sunned with gilt spine titles a touch dull but nicely visible. Spine ends bumped with minimal wear to spine ends and corners. BInding tight. Small pencil note on upper front pastedown text is extremely clean with no markings. Pg 14 has some wrinkling in a spot appears due to contact with water but is not stained. Green Gotham Book Mart NYC paper label on rear pastedown. Very scarce. Poetry. RGR. Case. Boni and Liveright hardcover
19852092902137502742Gingashobo 1985. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: 31x21 Volume: 1 volume Gingashobo paperback
1949010020New York: Harper & Brother Publishers 1949. Book. Fine. Cloth. Second Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine prior owner name in ink front end page in Very Good dust jacket 1/1/2" x 1" triangular chip at top edge front cover light rubbing at edges. x 56 pages. The 1950 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry which made Brooks the first African-American to win that award. This copy lacking the First Edition F-Y statement so a 2nd Printing with same price of $2.50 and rear flap with "The Critics and Annie Allen" rather than "The Critics and A Street in Bronzeville" . SCARCE in any 1949 printing an attractive dust jacketed copy of this important poetry collection. Harper & Brother Publishers Hardcover
