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1947002842New York: New Directions 1947. First Printing of his 1st book. Erratum slip laid in and Scarce thus. Near Fine boards lightly soiled in a Very Good dustjacket with small chips along top edge and at flap folds and 2 dime sized stains front panel. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. New Directions Hardcover books
1949004806New York: Random House 1949. SIGNED by Author half-title page. Near Fine slight waver to paper over rear boards which happened during the binding process. In Very Good Plus dust jacket 1" closed tear top edge at spine fold very light soiling. . SIGNED. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. Random House Hardcover books
197452876Providence: Bonewhistle Press 1974. First edition. 129 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Poems all in English translation by Jacob Reverdy Fargue Eluard Desnos Follain Guillevic Michaux and Jabes. Providence: Bonewhistle Press unknown books
1749008681London: Published by Mr. Warburton Printed for J. And P. Knapton 1749. 2 preliminary leaves xix-xxxviii 1-163 1 leaf 1-78 lxvii-lxxxviii . Title in red and black. Frontispiece facing the title by N. Blakey 1749 engraved by C. Grignion. Includes index and errata page. Bound in contemporary calf Good spine darkened edges rubbed front board nearly detached and hanging by one string. This edition SCARCE in commerce. OCLC locates three university holdings for this Thomas "S" edition. . Later Edition. Calf. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Published by Mr. Warburton, Printed for J. And P. Knapton Hardcover books
1922004807New York: The Macmillan Company 1922. First American Edition published one month after that of the London edition. No. 145 of 750 copies SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Illustrated by Judith Masefield. Near Fine in original grey paper-covered boards black cloth spine. Prior owner name front endpage. Spine label lightly rubbed boards light soiling. . SIGNED. First American Edition. Paper Covered Boards. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Macmillan Company Hardcover books
1831008694London: William Pickering 1831. Two volumes in fine stamp-signed bindings by Hayday of full polished calf gilt backs marbled end papers tops gilt. Very Good title labels mostly lost hinges showing some wear scattered spotting to end papers only corners rubbed small stamp of Tilden Library dated 1895 verso of title pages. Interiors clean and lovely. A rather uncommon Pickering publication with a quite interestin New York City provenance. Samuel Jones Tilden 1814-1886 was a former New York governor who had run for U.S. president in 1876. He went down in history as the first man to win the popular vote but lose the electoral vote. His personal book collection comprising some 20000 volumes along with a good portion of his estate became the driving force behind the foundation of the New York Public Library. . First Collected Edition. Polished Calf. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. William Pickering Hardcover books
198739681Louisville: University Press of Kentucky 1987. First edition. 193 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with sunned spine. Essays about Alà Chumacero EfraÃn Huerta Jaime Sabines Rúben Bonifaz Nuno and Rosario Castellanos. Louisville: University Press of Kentucky unknown books
19461602London: The Cresset Press Ltd. 1946. First Edition First Printing. 12mo 7 1/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 180 x 123 mm 45 1 pages in beige cloth front cover stamped in gold on horizontal brown rectangle and in gold along the spine. Near Fine with light vertical creases to a couple of preliminary pages and some fading to spine letters. The dust jacket has some foxing to the spine and to the jacket edges and light soiling. Overall an attractive copy printed on high-quality paper.SIGNED Denise Levertov on the front end paper. This is Levertov's first book a collection of poems and the only one to use the original spelling of her name. This copy belonged to Levertov's former husband Mitchell Goodman. They married in 1947 the year after the publication of this book and divorced in 1975.Laid in are two handwritten letters from Goodman to another person in 1987 concerning the sale of this copy. There's also a fragment of a letter to Goodman who has replied at the bottom of the letter that he would take $150 for the book; a canceled check for that amount is included with the book.Goodman provides some interesting details about this edition writing in a letter dated November 12 1987: "It was published in London by a very good small press when D.L. was 22 or 23 years old. There was a first edition of 750 copies and then no more. Most of the books sold went to English readers libraries etc. Long ago there seem to be very few copies in this country--and none for sale that I've heard of in recent years. I heard a rumor once from an English collector who said the publisher had scrapped a large number of copies that had been damaged while in storage. It seemed to ring true."Goodman further states: "Denise Levertov herself gave me this copy. We're old friends." Goodman's assertion of a 750-copy print run is at variance with the Levertov bibliography compiled by Robert A. Wilson of the Phoenix Book Shop. Wilson says 13042 copies were published on December 2 1946. Wilson A 1. That seems highly unlikely since this was a first book by an unknown author. Goodman is probably closer to the mark with 750.Given the provenance this is a nice association copy. <br /><br /> The Cresset Press Ltd. hardcover books
19762208New York: The Ecco Press 1976. First Edition Thus. <br /><br />Octavo 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 210 x 140 mm 95 1 pages in illustrated wrappers soft cover.<br /><br /><b>INSCRIBED</b> by John Ashbery on the title page: "For William Targ /John Ashbery / 4/11/77." Targ was the editor-in-chief of G.P. Putnam's Sons and was pps best known for acquiring Mario Puzo's novel "The Godfather" sight unseen. A nice literary association.<br /><br />A collection of 28 poems published here by Ecco Press; the poems originally were published by E.P. Dutton in 1970. The collection derives its title from a painting by Giorgio de Chirico in the Museum of Modern Art. <br /><br />CONDITION: Light edge wear mild soiling to lower wrapper but internally clean and bright. A Near Fine copy. The Ecco Press paperback books
197028669Dickinson ND: The Dickinson Review 1970. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Paperbound poetry journals. Two volumes sold here together. Both used a young James tate as poetry editior. Both volumes in very good condition. The Dickinson Review paperback 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
1946WRCLIT85110London: The Fortune Press 1946. Blue cloth. Frontis and dust jacket by Edward Wolfe. First edition. Extreme upper forecorner of upper cover has a dampmark mirrored on verso of jacket otherwise a very good copy in lightly dust-soiled cream white pictorial dust jacket. REILLY WWII p.133. D'ARCH SMITH 226. The Fortune Press hardcover books
1969001391New York: Scientific American Magazine 1969. Certainly Updike's scarcest "A" item this 24 page 6" x 6" square chapbook along with a similiar one by W.H. Auden was sent out by Scientific American Magazine as a holiday greeting in 1969. In mustard wrappers with red lettering it has illustrations by 6 different illustrators. It was written after Updike read the single topic Sept. 1967 Scientific American devoted to "Materials". The poem was originally published in the Jan. 1969 Scientific American and later in 1969 in Updike's "Midpoint and Other Poems".Top corner of the front wrapper and the first few pages have a slight corner curl Else Fine. First Edition Thus. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Scientific American Magazine Paperback books
186019458New York: The Bradford Club 1860. First edition thus one of 100 of 250 copies. A little foxing; some sunning to the spine small flaw to lower board and some trifling rubbing; a very good copy. Large 8vo contemporary green half morocco perhaps the Club binding marbled sides gilt spine viii 191 1 pages. Double frontispiece portraits. With a specimen sheet folded to make four leaves laid in. The limited edition apotheosis of Knickerbocker verse. BAL 6991: "250 copies as follows: Club Edition 100 copies and Subscriber's Edition 150 copies." Adds 11 eleven poems here first collected. (The Bradford Club), unknown books
170636332London: Printed for John Nutt 1706. 1st edition of this English translation Foxon C493. Modern brown speckled full calf binding executed in a period style. Binding - Fine. Textblock - usual browning & spotting Very Good. 8 311 1 pp. Advert last page. Mispaginations in D gathering. 8vo: A4 B - U8 X4. <br/><br/>The character of Reynard the Fox a folklore fixture thought to have originated in Alsace-Lorraine before spreading to France the Low Countries & Germany. The character received expanded treatment by Pierre Saint-Cloud ca 1170 in his Le Roman de Renart. Caxton first published the tale under the title Reynard the Fox in 1481. This a somewhat uncommon early 18th C English translation with ABPC showing no copies at auction these past 30 years. Printed for John Nutt unknown books
1900006645No Place: Liquid Peptonoids Co. 1900. RARE advertising ephemera for Liquid Peptonoids a patent medicine.No date circa 1900. Near Fine in stapled fold-over handmade paper wrappers 6 pp. with lithographic scene and poem printed recto advertising for product printed verso. The poem "The Country Doctor" is excerpted from Carleton's book RHYMES OF OUR PLANRT Harper & Brothers 1895. . First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 5" x 8". Liquid Peptonoids Co. Paperback books
198210532NY: Harper & Row 1982. First edition later printing third. Softcover issue in glossy pictoral wraps. Inscribed by Forche on the title page. For - with warm regards Carolyn Forche 10 March 1983." Small indentation on the foreedge and beginning foxing on the topedge; appears unread. Near Fine condition. The 1981 Lamont Poetry selection. Inscribed and Dated By Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harper & Row Paperback books
1956008212Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1956. RARE the complete set in SCARCE dust jackets. Near Fine publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering prior owner name and date front end pages light foxing at end pages only a few widely scattered light pencil check marks in margins.In Near Fine dust jackets stain at spine of Vol. III. Jackets in mylar. A heavy set please be advised added shipping charges will be requested for international orders. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Oxford at the Clarendon Press Hardcover books
19751324<p>San Francisco: Golden Mountain Press 1975. First Edition First Printing. 12mo 4 1/2 x 7 inches / 107 x 178 mm 36 unnumbered pages in orange wrappers. Minor handling wear to covers spine slightly darkened otherwise Fine.</p><p>INSCRIBED by Jack Hirschman on the inside front cover: "For -- / with my warmest / good wishes / Ever / Jack" and dated October 1975.</p><p>A small poetry chapbook interspersed with calligraphy by Paul Yee as well as expressions that sound like Chinese fortune cookies such as "It is easier to run down a hill than up one." Cover by Kristen Wetterhahn. UNCOMMON. <br /><br /></p> Golden Mountain Press books
1927008304London: The Fortune Press 1927. #503 of 1200 copies printed on machine-made paper. Near Fine in original tangerine buckram gilt lettering corner bumps. A quite handsome set. An oversize set that will require added postage for priority and international mail- please inquire. . Limited and Numbered First Edition. Buckram. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Edition. The Fortune Press Hardcover books
008069London No date 1928: The Fanfrolico Press No date 1928. #392 of 750 copies printed. xxxv 257 258-590 pp. Two volumes Frontispiece portrait Vol. I. Very Good Plus offsetting to endpapers corners rubbed. Quarter black cloth over decorative cloth covered boards. . Limited and Numbered First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. Tall 8vo. The Fanfrolico Press Hardcover books
1894008480New York: Thomas Y Crowell & Co. 1894. A lovely example of American fine binding of the time in full red crushed morocco with floral gilt tooled decorations trailing from corners ornate floral gilt back all edges gilt marbled end papers with exquisite gilt tooled floral dentelles trailing in from inner corners and stamped onto end papers. Very Good Plus the joints showing light wear with front joint starting at top edge light soiling to boards uniform browning at edge of first end page caused by binders glue used on turn ins. First Thus. Crushed Morocco. Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Thomas Y Crowell & Co. Hardcover books
1963003122London: Jonathan Cape 1963. First Printing. Contains 749 poems adding 113 poems to "Collected Poems" published in 1942 and reprinted several times. Near Fine prior owner name front endpage in a Very Good Plus dustjacket with a 1" closed tear at spine fold and light edge wear. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. Jonathan Cape Hardcover books
1965005564Middletown CT: Wesleyan Univ Press 1965. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket yellow at spine faded. . First American Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Wesleyan Univ Press Hardcover books
1986008817Graywolf Press 1986. SCARCE publisher's promotional poster 25" h x 13"w featuring a portrait of Rilke. Fine. Well suited for framing will be shipped loosely rolled in sturdy mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 25" h x 13"w. Graywolf Press books
