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1989002110New York: Thunder's Mouth Press 1989. Near Fine 1 page corner creased and page block uniformly browning in a Fine dustjacket. Includes poems written over a 20 year span with nearly 50 new poems published for the 1st time in the U.S. . First Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Fine. Thunder's Mouth Press Hardcover books
1960101175NY: Totem/Corinth 1960. First edition first issue. Printed stapled wraps. Cover illustration & drawings by Will Petersen. One of 1100 copies. Beginning toning along extremities staple oxidation very faint dampstain shadow on rear cover. Tight copy in Very Good condition. Snyder's second book. McNeillA2a. First Edition. Soft Cover. Illus. by Will Petersen. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.<br />The images are of the book described and not stock photos. Totem/Corinth paperback books
196912898Bellingham: Goliards Press 1969. First edition. 51 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Poems by Ed Ochester Victor Contoski Mark McCloskey Gene Fowler Bob Watt and Jerry Burns illustrated by Jack Martin. Bellingham: Goliards Press unknown books
197031501New York: Adventures In Poetry 1970. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tall side-stapled wrappers. An unpaginated volume of poems printed on rectos only. Small inked notation on the title page. Corner creases. A very good copy. Sepia cover photograph is not attributed. The total edition was 300 copies. Adventures In Poetry paperback books
1944004249New York: Simon & Schuster 1944. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front endpage " For Will Hays with best regards Russell W. Davenport December 12/ 44". Will Hays managed Warren G. Hardings successful campaign for the Presidency of the U.S and was his Postmaster General for one year. He is most famously known as the first President of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America MPPDA which under his guidance published a blacklist of actors and workers studios should not hire inserted moral clauses into actors' contracts and published an informal list of suggested guidelines for film producers. When the Catholic Church formed its Legion of Decency and threatened nationwide boycotts of movies Hays installed a more formal production code called the Hays Code later simply "The Code" which became the virtual law of Hollywood until the 1960s. Russell Davenport became managing editor of Fortune magazine in 1937. At age forty-one he turned to politics and became a personal and political advisor to Wendell Willkie the Republican nominee for the 1940 presidential election. A great Republican Party Association Copy. Near Fine tiny rubs to cloth at the tips in a Near Fine dustjacket narrow 1/2" chip top edge rear spine fold. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Association Copy. Simon & Schuster Hardcover books
190536447San Francisco: The James H. Barry Company 1905. 1st edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the ffep in the year of publication. With tipped-in TLs in front. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. TEG. Slight lean. Modest extremity wear. A VG - VG copy. 210 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> The James H. Barry Company hardcover books
195020600Berkeley CA: Gulick Press 1950. 4th prtg. Paper-wrapped boards lettered in brown. Dust jacket. F/NF. 105 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> Gulick Press hardcover books
200135458Princeton: Princeton University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 0691089280 . Third printing. SIGNED by the translator. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Princeton University Press hardcover books
19921766Tucson: University of Arizona Press. Near Fine. 1992. Paperback. 0816512817 . First paperback edition. Slight sun fading along the spine and top edge of rear cover gift inscription in pencil on half-title page else near fine. . University of Arizona Press paperback books
19962393Washington D.C.: Counterpoint 1996. Limited Edition. <br /><br />Octavo 8 1/4 x 5 inches; 211 x 130 mm in beige cloth titles to spine in a pictorial slipcase hard cover. <br /><br /><b>SIGNED AND NUMBERED</b> by Gary Snyder on the half title one of only 150 copies of the limited edition that was published with a slipcase. Snyder began writing his epic poem in 1956 and finally published it 40 years later in 1996. <br /><br />CONDITION: Both the book and slipcase are Fine. Counterpoint hardcover books
1921005343New York: Henry Holt 1921. Second Edition copyright page states 1916 1921. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front end page - "Robert Frost Amherst & Ann Arbor". Although undated a mid-1920s signature. as Frost spent two years in Ann Arbor beginning in 1924 after receiving an appointment with the title Fellow in Letters at the University of Michigan. Lacking the scarce dust jacket the front panel of which is laid in the book is Very Good small hole to cloth near bottom of spine gilt at bottom of spine dulled minor rubs at corners of boards period Ann Arbor book store label rear paste down. Frontispiece portrait with tissue-guard of Frost from a plaster cast by Aroldo Du Chene. His third published collection of poetry which includes the poems "The Road Not Taken" "Christmas Trees" "In the Home Stretch" "Birches" "Snow" and "The Bonfire" among many others. . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Henry Holt Hardcover books
1943006064Gunnison Colorado : Alan Swallow 1943. SCARCE. Printed at the Prairie Press for Alan Swallow. Illustrated by Bruno Da Osimo. 31p.; Bulmer Roman hand-set; black and brown; 500 copies on Kilmory. Cheever 55. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Fine in Wraps as Issued/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Alan Swallow Paperback books
1932004875Paris: Gallimard 1932. Very Good Plus most pages are uncut slight age toning to page edges slight wear to wrappers at lower spine end. . Eighth Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Gallimard Paperback books
1815008943Hartford CT: Sheldon & Goodwin Printers 1815. RARE in contemporary binding of full marbled calf Lydia Huntley Sigourney's first book which was originally issued in printed boards. Last seen at auction in 1985 only other copy in current commerce has a modern binding. Very Good 1/2" loss of calf at head of spine calf rubbed gilt title and rules at spine a bit dulled. scattered light toning. 267 pages unnumbered errata page and 8 pages listing subscribers. Known as the "Sweet Singer of Hartford" Lydia Huntley Sigourney was one of the first female authors in America to have a successful career as a writer. BAL 17615 . First Edition. Marbled Calf. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Sheldon & Goodwin Printers Hardcover books
196540035London: Keepsake Press 1965. First edition. 23 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Barker Betjeman Conquest Gunn Hughes Redgrove and others contribute. Edition limited to 12 copies for each of the nineteen contributing poets and 100 more for public sale. London: Keepsake Press, unknown books
19761111179Wash DC & San Francisco: Dryad Press 1976. First edition. Perfect-bound printed wraps. 34pp. Drawings by Joan Root. Softcover issue. 50 copies were bound in boards numbered and signed by Wright and Root; the wrappered issue was unsigned. This copy has been signed by Wright on the title page. Cover type is Perpetua. Text is Bembo. Paper is Hopper Sonata Vellum and Becket cover. Shallow wrinkle on rear cover bottom corner. Near Fine condition. From the collection of RichardLlautz Professor of modern poetry at La Salle Univ with his penciled initials on the last page upper corner. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dryad Press Paperback books
199936351Port Townsend:: Copper Canyon Press. Fine. 1999. Paperback. 1556591330 . Second printing paperback. Fine in illustrated wraps. . Copper Canyon Press, paperback books
198347544NY: MPT/Persea 1983. First US edition. 210 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Introduction by Ted Hughes. NY: MPT/Persea unknown books
1891005118Portland Maine: Thomas B. Mosher 1891. "Only Fifty copies of this Large Paper Edition Post 4to have been printed ten of which are on Japan vellum and forty on Van Gelder's hand-made paper. Each copy numbered and the type distributed. No. 34". Thomas B. Mosher's first published book. Foreword by E. Cavazza. Number 34 of the 40 copies printed on Van Gelder's paper and SCARCE. Near Fine small rub at head of spine a scattering of foxing pages are uncut. In a Near Fine French wrappers dustjacket title at spine slightly rubbed narrow chip at head of spine light soiling. . Limited and Numbered First Edition. Paper Covered Boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Thomas B. Mosher Hardcover books
196149197San Francisco: Inferno Press 1961. First edition. 40 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Translations of poems by Betocchi Carrieri De Libero Fassolo Fiorentino Parranchi Fisi Sharbaro Solmi Valeri and Quasimodo. The work of each poet is preceded by a short biography. Inferno Press Editions #32. San Francisco: Inferno Press unknown books
1865008652London: Smith Elder and Co. 1865. SCARCE in commerce. Vols. III and IV published 1865 Vols. I and II 1866. Four volumes bound in contemporary half red morocco over marbled boards the backs gilt edges and end papers marbled to match boards contemporary bookplates of William Milner Crowe. Half title pages in Vols. I III and IV none in Vol.II. Very Good moderate spotting at end papers internal pages clean and bright light rubbing at tips. Collects the following : V. 1. Ballads. The Book of Snobs. The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan. The Fatal Boots. Cox's Diary.--V. 2. Memoirs of Mr. C.J. Yellowplush. Diary of C. Jeames de la Pluche Esq. Sketches and Travels in London. Novels by Eminent Hands. Character Sketches.--V. 3. The Memoirs of Barry London Esq. A Legend of the Rhine. Rebecca and Rowena. A Little Dinner at Timmins's. The Bedford-Row Conspiracy.--V. 4. The Fitz-Boodle Papers. Men's Wives. A Shabby Genteel Story. The History of Samuel Titmarsh and The Great Hoggarty Diamond. First Edition Thus. Half Morocco. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Smith, Elder and Co. Hardcover books
1977005974New York: Doubleday 1977. Review Copy with publisher's review slip and 2 page typed copy of Warren Rosenberg's review on "The Book Review Folio" letterhead laid in. Near Fine some relevant underlining in a Near Fine dust jacket tiny chip at head of spine. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Review Copy. Doubleday Hardcover books
198949404Denman Island B. C. 1989. 1st Printing. Printed paper covers stitched. Faint vertical fold-line. Minor wear & soiling. Very Good. Unpaginated though 32 pp. Illustrated primarily with drawings & b/w half-tone photographs. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 6-3/4" <br/><br/> unknown books
1931007008New York: The Macmillan Co 1931. Number 215 of an edition limited to 350 copies each SIGNED BY AUTHOR at limitation page. Fine in original 1/2 gilt stamped black cloth over brown linen boards and publisher's original brown slipcase paper label with publisher's pencilled number 215 and other publisher's markings Slipcase Very Good with stains top edge and rear and light rubbing and soiling. . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. Tall 8vo. Limited Edition. The Macmillan Co, Hardcover books
1874008497Paisley Scotland: Printed at The Paisley Herald Office by W. B. Watson 1874. First Edition 1874. Binder's ticket of D. Carswell Paisley. Bound in brown embossed cloth gilt title "Miltonian Bouquet" front cover all edges gilt bright yellow end papers 46 pages. Near Fine four pages with lateral creases top edge very light soiling. RARE OCLC shows 5 holdings worldwide. A companion book to the author's The Flowers and Plants of Shakespeare .Burns .Tannahill. Written as an offshoot of the Paisley flower show where prizes were offered for displays of flower arrangements named in the works of these authors. Apparently the author had entered each category and then published these pamphlets done in the spirit of uncritical adulation of the great writers. The Language of Flowers: A History Beverly Seaton p.27. Squarely in the genre of Sentimental Flower Books of the Victorian Age a work that would also fit nicely in a Milton collection. First Edition. Embossed Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Thin 8vo. Printed at The Paisley Herald Office by W. B. Watson Hardcover books