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200658875Cambridge: Faux Press 2006. First edition. xii 498 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Cambridge: Faux Press, unknown books
198949194Long Beach: P.O. Press 1989. First edition. 31 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Twenty-five poets collected. Long Beach: P.O. Press unknown books
1963000959Iowa City IA: Cummington Press 1963. # 79 of an edition limited to 250. His 1st published hardback book. Prior owner name and address neatly written on front endpage. Very faint foxing top edge. SIGNED AND NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION. First Edition. Cloth. About Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Private Press. Cummington Press Hardcover books
197547071Rodez: Entretiens 1975. First edition. 288 pp. Very good plus in illustrated wrappers. Includes a section of poems in English and facing French translation by Corso Ginsberg Ferlinghetti McClure Snyder and others. Rodez: Entretiens unknown books
199529008NY: Henry Holt. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 0805033157 . First printing. Review copy with slip laid in. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Henry Holt hardcover books
198859177Augsburg: Maro Verlag 1988. First printing of this edition originally published in 1962. 297 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. All texts in German. Appearances by Henry Miller William S. Burroughs Kerouac Croso Ginsberg Creeley McClure Lamantia and many others. Augsburg: Maro Verlag unknown books
19792319San Francisco: Beatitude Magazine 1979. <br /><br />Small Quarto 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches; 278 x 213 mm 83 1 pages in photo-illustrated wrappers soft cover. <br /><br /><b>SIGNED</b> by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Neeli Cherkovski on the title page. The 20th anniversary issue of Beatitude "the most important Beat-associated little magazine out of San Francisco in the late 1950s." Steven Belletto <i>The Beats: A Literary History</i> Cambridge University Press 2020 page 29. <br /><br />This issue is especially notable for a lengthy tribute to Bob Kaufman 1925-1986 a Black poet who was one of the founders of Beatitude. There are several poems by Kaufman from 1975-78 as well as an analysis of his poems by Raymond Foye. <br /><br />Other contributors include a "Who's Who" of the San Francisco poetry scene including Gregory Corso Lawrence Ferlinghetti Jack Kerouac Carol Bergé Harold Norse Anne Waldman Jack Micheline Allen Ginsberg Peter Orlovsky David Meltzer Neeli Cherkovski and many others including some who are published for the first time. Besides new poetry this issue also includes previously published works. <br /><br />Copies of this 20th anniversary issue are scarce to the market and even more elusive when signed by two important members of the San Francisco poetry scene: Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Neeli Cherkovski. <b>SCARCE</b>. <br /><br />CONDITION: Some soiling to wrappers a bit of foxing to the top edge. Internally clean bright and unmarked. A Near Fine copy of this important San Francisco poetry magazine. <br /><br /><br /> Beatitude Magazine paperback books
1972004750Detroit Michigan: Broadside Press 1972. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page - " for my sister Claudine - read read & paint paint. p.s.- we need u. Arthur Pfister !!!". Near Fine in Pictorial Printed Wrappers light age toning to wrappers. Foreword by Imamu Amiri Baraka. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition First Printing. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Broadside Press Paperback books
1973004752Detroit Michigan: Broadside Press 1973. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title page - "To Ms. Claudine- Health/Success/Freedom - Etheridge Knight". SIGNED copies of this important African-American's early works are SCARCE. Near Fine light soiling to spine tiny corner crease rear wrapper. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition First Printing. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Broadside Press Paperback books
1995007403Athens OH: Swallow Press 1995. Warmly SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to a friend and colleague on title page. Finer in Fine dustjacket. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Swallow Press Hardcover books
1911008478Chicago: Forbes and Company 1911. Publisher's green cloth binding with central floral bouquet and gilt lettering bordered by floral garland back with gilt lettering and floral decoration patterned brown end papers. Near Fine small rubs at tips slight toning at end pages facing the brown end papers. Michigan-born poet Ben King 1857-1894 spent much of his life in Chicago where he was a member of the Chicago Press Club and the Whitechapel Club. He was considered Michigan's favorite poet for at least 25 years after his death. These poems published well after his death are written in an African-American slave vernacular and the accompanying photographs are all of a nostalgic nature depicting happy or distinguished subjects. An exceptionally nice copy gift quality. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Forbes and Company Hardcover books
19291017Spoleto: Presso Claudio Argentieri 1929. Limited Edition. Three quarter leather. Good /missing. Giuseppe Maria Crespi. A good plus limited edition no. 82 of 1000 printed. No dust jacket. Three quarter leather over marbled boards with matching marbled endpapers. Front joint cracked but still sturdy. Four raised bands with bright gilt title stamping on spine and at leather edges.Small rub on spine see photos. Top edge gilt. Deckled fore and bottom edge. Limitation stamped on copyright page. Held by 6 libraries in Europe. Pages are clean and unmarked. Text in Italian. XXVII 278 p. 20 gorgeous copper engravings all present. Quarto 9 x 11 1/2 inches tall. Vicenza 800 AD. The crude but world-savvy peasant Bertoldo is invited to the court of the Longobard King Alboin and manages to ingratiate himself with the sovereign through his wit and pranks. Returning to his small village from the naive wife Marcolfa and son Bertoldino the farmer Bertoldo finds out that they fell victim of a Fra Cipolla from Frosolone a swindler monk Alberto Sordi who sells fake relics. He sets to recover his property and take vengeance of the monk with whom ultimately a truce and friendship begins. After various adventures and involvement with court intrigues mainly due to the young princess refusal to marry an ugly Bizantine nobleman for political reasons and the queen's pursuit of feminine rights and equality Bertoldo and his entire family get richly rewarded by the king and ultimately admitted to the court of Alboin. The peasant finds however in this his demise as he cannot adapt to the life and food of the noble class and soon dies of a broken heart. ---wikipedia From the 1984 film adaptation Presso Claudio Argentieri hardcover books
196933451NY: Bill Berkson 1969. First edition. 174 pp. Covers rubbed at extrems else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Work by Brainard Burroughs Creeley Mathews Padgett Berrigan O'Hara Ashbery and many others. NY: Bill Berkson unknown books
195771213Stanford: Stanford University Press 1957. First edition. 116 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a short tear to one flap fold and a small chip. Frost Auden Abse Eric Barker Causley Ciardi Hall Lattimore Rich and many others including Sylvia Plath her first appearance in a hardcover book. Stanford: Stanford University Press, hardcover books
1964210088Palo Alto: Pacific Books 1964. First. hardcover. fine/fine. Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards 1964. Vol. XVI. d.w. Palo Alto 1964. First Edition.<br/><br/> A Compilation of original poetry published in magazines of the English-speaking world. Includes Sylvia Plath Ted Hughes and many others.<br/><br/> Pacific Books unknown books
197546342Clevelad: Big Mama Poetry Troupe 1975. First edition. 72 pp. Inked gift inscription inside front cover else very good plus in glossy illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Dorothy Boroush and contributors Linda Monacelli Barbara Angell Mary Ann Cronin Meredith Holmes Sally Pirtle and Marguerite Beck Rex. Clevelad: Big Mama Poetry Troupe unknown books
1854007688Boston: C. S. Francis & Co. 1854. A SCARCE early collection of her poems beautifully bound in contempoary chocolate morocco gilt titles 5 raised bands stamped and tooled rules and decorations all edges dyed red dark brown endpapers. xvii 312. xvi 300. viii 234. Contains all her poems to date the third volume contains "Prometheus Bound and other Poems including Sonnets from the Portugese Casa Guidi Windows etc." Volume I contains her 1844 Dedication to her Father and Introduction by H. T.Tuckerman and the 1850 author's advertisement. Near Fine a few small rubs to morocco white end pages toned period armorial bookplates of Ward front paste downs the owner's name "Julia F. Ward 1855" front end pages is nearly invisible due to dark brown color of paper. . New American Edition. Morocco. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. C. S. Francis & Co. Hardcover books
1869007930Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo 1869. Fine binding signed Bickers & Son of polished blue calf the back with ornate floral gilt tooled decorations and gilt lettering on red morocco label matching marbled end pages and page edges xx 475 pages frontispiece portrait . Near Fine light rubbing to edges light toning to end pages. The bookplates at front paste down of Edward Robeson Taylor lawyer poet and 28th Mayor of San Francisco and his son Edward DeWitt Taylor noted California artist and printer. Signature of Mayor Taylor in pencil dated 1881 top edge front end page. A quite handsome finely bound copy of this SCARCE edition. . First Nimmo Edition . Full Calf. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. William P. Nimmo Hardcover books
1887007745Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin 1887. RARE and outstanding example of West Coast American Arts & Crafts bookbinding by Clara Rice her initials bottom of front cover. Bound in full crushed green morocco five raised bands gilt lettering spine and front cover front cover image of two trees with initials CR bottom of left tree moire silk end papers top edge gilt. Period bookplate of Charles Ernest Green front pastedown. Gift inscription pasted on card stock front flyleaf reads: " Christmas Greetings to C.E.G. This binding is by Clara Rice and is a fine sample of her work. The book has been on exhibition at the Arts & Crafts Guild. R.J.D.". No Date to inscription circa 1903. The San Francisco Call newspaper shows an article dated Dec. 12. 1903 tha is titled "Guild of Arts & Crafts opens Unique exhibition" and further states "Miss Clara Rice Secretary. Her mosaic leather work in book-binding is much admired". And the Bulletin of the Dept. of Labor Vol. 9 issues 54-56 shows " Guild of Arts & Crafts of California Miss Clara Rice Secretary 639 Kearney St. San Francisco". Very Good front cover and spine uniformly lighter than rear cover top corner front cover small bump. Originally started in 1894 the first run of the Guild of Arts & Crafts in San Francisco lasted until some time in 1897. Douglas van Denburgh launched the second Guild of Arts & Crafts in San Francisco in 1903 and that group lasted at least through 1910. And the poet Edward Rowland Sill was principal of Oakland High School California and professor of English literature at the University of California during the period 1874 - 1882. He died at the age of 46 in 1887 a minor American poet of high quality who but for his early death may have gained a higher place. A uniquely San Francisco book from the height of the Arts & Crafts movement in California and in America. Later Printing. Morocco. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Houghton Mifflin 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
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
1906007646London: J. M. Dent & Co. 1906. Finely bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards matching marbled end pages five raised bands with gilt lettering and devices at spine. top edge gilt. frontispiece engraved portrait of Juvenal xii 382 pp. The Temple Greek and Latin Classics. Near Fine scattered light foxing. . First Edition. Half Calf Over Marbled Boards. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. J. M. Dent & Co. Hardcover books
1914007791London: John Murray 1914. Presentation Copy SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by Harry Gordon Selfridge front end page of Vol. 1 - "To Mrs. Skidmore With best wishes from H. Gordon Selfridge Wed. April 6 1921". Harry Gordon Selfridge was the founder of Selfridges department store in London whose innovations revolutionized English merchandising and created a fortune for him. His life is the subject of the popular PBS TV series "Mr. Selfridge" starring Jeremy Piven. This set contains eight volumes bound as four from the Edition in 17 Volumes lacking Vols. 13 and 17 as follows: Pauline-Sordello Vols 3 & 4 bound in Vol. I Vols. 5 &6 and 7 bound in Vol. II Vols. 8-10 and Vols. 12 & 13 bound in Vol. III and Vols. 14 & 15 and Vol. 16 with General Index bound in Vol. IV. In signed Riviere & Son fine binding of half vellum over powder blue buckram the backs richly gilt top edges gilt marbled end pages Near Fine light soiling to vellum scant toning at illustrations. Each of the eight volumes have a different tissue-guarded frontispiece engraved portrait of Browning. Most likely a unique set especially bound for presentation by Selfridge as no other similarly bound sets published by John Murray appear in the current market or in auction records. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED. Later Edition. Half Vellum. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Presentation Copy. John Murray Hardcover books
199831425NY: Farrar Straus and Giroux. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0374112967 . First American edition. About fine in a fine dust jacket. . Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover books
1867008012London: N. Trubner & Co. 1867. Published 1867-8. lxxiv 12 Subscriber's List 536; lxxi 610; xliv 595 viii 128 pp. Three volumes in contemporary half calf over marbled boards the backs ornately gilt marbled end papers top edges gilt. Folding facsimile of the MS frontispiece Vol. I is Near Fine small crease at edge. A Very Good Plus set light shelf rubbing a few pages with top corner crease. A quite handsome set. . First Edition. Half Calf. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. N. Trubner & Co. Hardcover books
