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19661619San Francisco and Toronto: Gnomon Press and Island Press 1966. Second Edition Second Issue. 8vo 8 x 6 1/2 inches / 203 x 165 mm 24 pages in stapled green wrappers.A reissue of a 1952 book of poems featuring a facsimile of Duncan's handwritten poems "newly drawn for this edition." In 1966 the publishers issued the new edition with a cover drawn by Anton Van Dalen according to the Duncan bibliography. Duncan objected to the Van Dalen cover so the publishers withdrew that edition and issued this version; the new cover reproduces Duncan's hand-drawn title page. About 500 copies of this second issue were printed. Bertholf A4c.Robert J. Bertholf Robert Duncan: A Descriptive Bibliography 1986. <br /><br />CONDITION: Slight sunning to spine. Near Fine. Gnomon Press and Island Press books
198440780NY: New Directions 1984. First edition limited issue of 150 numbered copies signed by Duncan on the limitation page. Copy #61. Cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Issued without dustjacket. Slipcase. Slipcase with light rub and two small discolor spots not immediately apparent. Fine condition in a Near Fine slipcase. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. New Directions Hardcover books
19731347New York: New Directions 1973. First Edition Thus. Small 8vo 7 7/8 inches x 5 1/8 inches / 201x 131 mm 96 pages in stiff pictorial wrappers. SIGNED by Robert Duncan opposite the title page in black and blue ink: "Robert Duncan / in Camden / Nov. 1978." A collection of poems first published by Grove Press in 1960 and reissued here by New Directions. Duncan 1919-1988 was a key figure in both the Black Mountain school of poetry and in the San Francisco Renaissance. <br/><br/>CONDITION: Wrappers a bit soiled front wrapper rubbed at top right with some loss price sticker improperly removed. Spine darkened. Interior clean and bright. About Very Good. New Directions unknown books
18992222015<p>First edition. Small octavo. Frontispiece portrait. Original gilt stamped olive green cloth t.e.g. Bookplate. No dust jacket. Good. 227 pages. No signatures.</p><p>BAL 4925</p> Dodd, Mead and Company hardcover books
1904008441New York: Dodd Mead and Company 1904. 8vo 144 pages. Original brown cloth binding with green red cream and gilt floral and lattice panel gilt lettering motif repeated on spine in green and red top edge gilt untrimmed signed by the designer: M.A. Margaret Armstrong. Illustrated with photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club. Very Near Fine top white line at spine rubbed. A gorgeous copy. Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872-1906 one of the first influential Black poets in American literature gained his fame for his dialect poetry. "When Malindy Sings" the title poem in this collection was written as a tribute to his mother Matilda. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dodd Mead and Company Hardcover books
1894007689London and New York: Lawrence & Bullen / Chas. Scribner's Sons 1894. RARE one of 100 copies in the Large Paper Edition for The Muses Library series. From the collection of Alfred Ernest Hamill Chicago and Lake Forest investment banker book collector philanthropist and president of the Newberry Library Board of Trustees 1929-1953. Bookplate design by Thomas Maitland Cleland American artist and book designer. Finely bound by Hertzberg of Chicago old pencil note rear end page in crushed dark blue morocco 5 raised bands and gilt lettering at spine top edges gilt blue buckram endpapers. Near Fine tiny rubs at corners. The last copy to auction was in 1909. . First Edition. Morocco. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Lawrence & Bullen / Chas. Scribner's Sons Hardcover books
200124200Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 0807126780 . Winner of the 2000 Walt Whitman Award. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Louisiana State University Press hardcover books
1896007699London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co. Ltd. 1896. The less common 1896 New Edition a one volume work.Handsomely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe London England for Marshall Field and Company. in half crushed morocco over decorative boards five raised bands with gilt rules and lettering top edge gilt decorative end papers ribbon marker frontispiece engraved portrait of Shelley. Near Fine small shelf rubs top and bottom edges light soling rear cover. . New Edition. Half Morocco. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd. Hardcover books
200941410NY: W.W.Norton 2009. First edition first prnt. Signed by Dove on the title page. Additionally a holograph note on 5.5x 8.5 inch University of Virginia letterhard is laid-in. "April 8 1997 Dear Mr. Wigand Thank you for your kind note and for your warm wishes. I try to write every day though obligations and distractions abound. And yes someday I hope to compile another book of stories. Someday. All the best to you Rita Dove." Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed by Author with Letter laid in. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. W.W.Norton Hardcover books
1906008726London: Duckworth & Company 1906. SCARCE. Six volumes bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spines. Near Fine very light wear at spine ends and corners 6 pages at front of Vol. V with foxing mainly along bottom margin. A long epic poem in pentameter. Charles M. Doughty 1843-1926 is best known for his 1888 travel book Travels in Arabia Deserta. A quite handsome set. Laid in is a 1934 dated receipt for this book and others from Gerald Duckworth & Co. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Duckworth & Company Hardcover books
1770009011A La Haye The Hague and Paris : Delalain / Sebastien Jorry 1770. Uncommon as a three volume set bound uniformly in later half morocco over marbled boards marbled end papers all edges red. A Near Fine set the marbled boards lacquered with lacquer peeling on 2 of the volumes scattered faint toning tiny prior seller's notations at front end paper. Lettres en Vers publ. 1867 En Vers et en Prose. 1870 and Les Baisers Precedes du Mois de Mal 1870. Baisers with title page printed in black and with all the wonderful illustrations present. . First Editions. Half Morocco. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Delalain / Sebastien Jorry hardcover books
1758008369London: Printed by J. Hughs for R. And J. Dodsley 1758. Fifth Edition 1758. Six volumes 4 335; 4 336; 4 350; 4 360 1 engraved music; 4 336; 336 pp. With an engraved vignette repeated on each title page an engraved headpiece to each volume and two engraved tailpieces. Bound in contemporary calf Very Good gilt lettering at spines worn uniform toning at edges of end papers from binder's glue boards soiled and rubbed lightly at edges. Joints showing some wear yet still holding. Poets represented include Samuel Johnson Thomas Gray and Henry Fielding among many others. Prior owner name front end page Vol. II. A heavy set will require additional postage charges for priority and international mail shipping. Please inquire before ordering. Free media mail shipping. . Fifth Edition. Full Calf. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. Small 8vo. Printed by J. Hughs , for R. And J. Dodsley Hardcover books
199324054Chapel Hill:: University of North Carolina Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0807821152 . Edited by William H. Shurr with Anna Dunlap and Emily Grey Shurr. First printing. Fine in an about fine dust jacket. . University of North Carolina Press, hardcover books
199211157Hanover: Wesleyan Univ. Press 1992. First edition first prnt. Inscribed by Dickey on the title page. "- to Bill from James Dickey." Cloth spine ends lightly pushed and dustjacket with few tiny edge wrinkles. Otherwise a tight copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Dickey's second collection of poems and the first spanning his work from 1949 to the published date. Inscribed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Wesleyan Univ. Press Hardcover books
19722311San Francisco: Self-published 1972. First Edition. <br /><br />16 mo 6 3/4 x 6 inches; 172 x 152 mm 144 pages in illustrated wrappers soft cover. <br /><br />A collection of prose poems one of 2000 copies self-published by Diane di Prima 1934-2020 who was long associated with the Beats and whom she outlived. Beautiful calligraphy by Bill Kwong on the front cover and throughout the book. According to the final page of the book The Calculus of Variation was written between 1961 and 1964 and printed in Denver at Bradford Printing in 1972. Within the edition of 2000 there were 50 signed and numbered by di Prima. <br /><br />"Di Prima.was a revolutionary feminist poet who was on the front lines of the shifts in art and culture that took place in the fifties sixties and seventies" writes actress director and author Amber Tamblyn. "She fought for queer rights trans rights and womens rights long before clothing lines and hashtags began to flood political movements. For six decades her writing confronted the traditional stereotypes of the female body how it should look weigh and be desired. She was to my eye the real sexual liberator of the sixtiesa woman who wrote dangerously lived wildly and loved daringly right up to her very last breath." The New Yorker November 9 2020. <br /><br />CONDITION: Foxing to wrappers and top edge along with soiling to wrappers. Internally clean bright and unmarked. About Very Good. <br /><br /><br /> Self-published hardcover books
200141045NY:: Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 0375411534 . First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Knopf, hardcover books
1834FF183Edinburgh:: William Oliphant and Co. no date but after 1834; ca.1855-60. 1834. 12.7 cm. 380 pp. Engraved frontispiece. Original full brown blind-stamped morocco raised bands gilt title all edges gilt. Near fine. Provenance: Inscribed: Emily Ward from her affectionate school-fellow Catherine Gray April 30 1863. With a fore-edge painting of Norwich Cathedral painted by Don Noble ca. 1978/86 not signed. See: Weber Jeff Annotated Dictionary of Fore-edge Painting Artists & Binders pp. 214-6. William Oliphant and Co., [no date, but after 1834; ca.1855-60]. hardcover books
1830007796Paris: A. Boulland 1830. Beautifully bound in contemporary red morocco the covers with outer black rule and ornately blind tooled around a central octagon panel the backs tooled in gilt with black morocco labels and gilt lettering all edges gilt marbled end pages an altogether excellent example of fine French bookbinding of the period. With four hors-texte illustrations copper engraved by Frilley Cousin and Durand after Tony Johannot Pujol Devéria and Henri Monnier. Near Fine occasional moderate toning one signature in each volume evenly browned indicating the use of a different paper. . First Edition. Morocco. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A. Boulland Hardcover books
1989004321Pittsburgh PA: Univ of Pittsburgh Press 1989. First Paperback Edition SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front endpage -"for Jordan toi derricotte 3/30/90 UK" . . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Paperback Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Fine in Wraps as Issued/No Jacket As Issued. Univ of Pittsburgh Press Paperback books
1986004322Detroit Michigan: Lotus Press 1986. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title page -" for Jordan- toi derricotte 3/30/90 UK". 2nd Printing of her 1st published book of poetry originally published 1978 the 2nd Printing published may 1986. SCARCE SIGNED. The author was the founder of Cave Canem a workshop retreat for African American writers. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 2nd Printing. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Fine in Wraps as Issued/No Jacket As Issued. Lotus Press Paperback books
1970005658Iowa City IA: The Prairie Press 1970. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket spine ever-so-slightly darkened top corner front flap clipped. RARE. While Derleth's "Love Letters to Caitlin" is a known rarity "Derleths lurid book a rare mystery" By Allied Authors March 19 2014 this title appears to be running a close 2nd. No copies currently in search of all of Addall's databases no auction results in a search on Google. 450 copies were printed. Cheever 166. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Prairie Press Hardcover books
1962005654Iowa City IA: The Prairie Press 1962. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Wood engravings by Frank Utpatel. 350 copies printed. Cheever 130. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Frank Utpatel . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Prairie Press Hardcover books
1968005657Iowa City IA: The Prairie Press 1968. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket 1/8" tear top edge at spine bottom corner front flap neatly clipped. Wood engravings by Frank Utpatel - the wood engravings have been printed direct from the blocks. . 750 copies printed. Cheever 162. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Frank Utpatel. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Prairie Press Hardcover books
19751372New York: Full Court Press 1975. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br />8vo 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches / 145 x 215 mm 14 3-186 8 pages in gray cloth with silver lettering to spine. <br /><br /><b>SIGNED </b>by Edwin Denby on the colophon one of 100 copies signed by the author. A collection of poems by Edwin Denby 1903-1983 who was associated with the New York School and was a well-regarded dance critic. This collection includes an appreciation by Frank O'Hara reprinted from Poetry magazine February 1957. Also includes a short bibliography. <b>SCARCE.</b> <br /><br />CONDITION: Bright clean interior. Top edge has a tiny bit of soiling. Some rubbing to extremities of dust jacket with moderate toning and creasing to verso of jacket. Near Fine in a Very Good or better dust jacket.<br /><br /> Full Court Press hardcover books
2013245250Berkeley & Riverside: Heyday & Inlandia Inst 2013. Paperback. 113p. 8x8 inches poetry illustrated with color photographs of amateur business signs very good first edition trade paperback original in pictorial wraps. A bit of useless philosophy from you humble bibliographer: are simple photos of art works art in themselves Or are they merely documentation. I once saw a large color photo of another artist's wall mural being sold by a photographer as his own original art.The photographer did not paint the mural he photographed it. Hmmmm. Heyday & Inlandia Inst paperback books
