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Surrey, England: The Sceptre Press, 1971. Original wraps. A crisp, Fine copy in its stapled wrappers. #118 of 150 numbered copies issued. Originally written in the early 1950s while Sylvia Plath was a student at Smith. More
Surrey, England: The Sceptre Press, 1971. Original wraps. A crisp, Fine copy in its stapled wrappers. #118 of 150 numbered copies issued. Originally written in the early 1950s while Sylvia Plath was a student at Smith. More
London: Turret Books, 1968. Stanislaw Gliwa. Pictorial cloth. The 1968 1st edition. #37 of 180 numbered copies (of which 150 are for sale), published by Turret Books of London. Clean and Near Fine in its off-white cloth, with pictorial gilt (of the "Three Women") adorning the front cover. And in..... More
Surrey, England: The Sceptre Press, 1970. Original wraps. A lovely copy of the 1970 1st edition. Clean and Fine in its stapled wrappers. And in a crisp, Fine example of the publisher's unprinted glassine dustjacket. #45 of 100 copies issued on Glastonbury laid paper. More
Philadelphia: Catholic Standard and Times Publishing Co., 1906. 1st. Cloth. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR T.A. DALY on the front free endpaper. A solid copy to boot of the 1906 1st edition. VG+ in its dark-green cloth, with bright gilt-lettering and decoration to front panel and spine. Light foxing to prelims, otherwise..... More
San Francisco: 1969. Original wraps. The March 1969 printing of "AMPERS&ND", an impressive poetry journal with contributions from Charles Bukowski, Doug Blazek, T.L. Kryss, D.r. Wagner, etc. Tight and VG in its stapled, pictorial wrappers, with even offsetting along the spine (where a plastic binder had once been). Internally immaculate..... More
Cambridge, England: The Rampant Lions Press, 1996. Decorative Boards. An immaculate copy of this lovely 1996 fine press edition of Eliot's "Four Quartets". Published out of Cambridge by the Rampant Lions Press in an edition of 200 copies, this copy is marked at the limitation as #72. A clean, Fine..... More
London: The Egoist Press, 1917. Original wraps. The 1917 true 1st edition, limited to 500 copies, of T.S. Eliot's first published book. A slim, fragile volume physically but one that set the poetry world ablaze upon publication. Seen as a seminal bridge toward Modernism, Eliot's voice in this debut work..... More
New York: Little Light Books, 1981. Original wraps. One of Ted Berrigan's scarcest limitations. #12 OF ONLY 26 COPIES ISSUED. EACH NUMBERED COPY IS SIGNED BY TED BERRIGAN AND EACH "CONTAINS AN ADDITIONAL POEM HANDWRITTEN BY THE POET" on the verso of the limitation page. IN THIS CASE, THE POEM..... More
Chicago: The Yellow Press, 1976. Cloth. SIGNED BY TED BERRIGAN on the front free endpaper. A crisp, near-pristine copy to boot of the 1976 1st edition. Tight and Fine in a bright, Near Fine dustjacket. Octavo, rear photograph of Ted Berrigan by Gerard Malanga. THIS COPY ALSO INCLUDES 2 CANCELLED..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960. Cloth. A crisp, very sharp copy of the 1960 1st American edition of Ted Hughes's 2nd publshed volume of poetry. Clean and Fine in a bight, price-intact, Near Fine dustjacket, with mild darkening along the spine and just a touch of light soiling to..... More
Lincoln, Nebraska: Windflower Press, 1978. Original wraps. The 1978 stated 1st printing of this unusual Ted Kooser tale --told through captioned, engraved illustrations-- of his character "Hatcher". Tight and VG+ in its pictorial wrappers, with inconspicuous staining along the bottom-edge. Otherwise clean as could be. Quarto, written by the former..... More
The Rainbow Press, 1973. Leonard Baskin. 1/4 Vellum. A wonderful Association copy: WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THOM GUNN TO HIS EDITOR, THE FORMIDABLE ROBERT GIROUX OF "FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX", on the front free endpaper. An all-but-pristine copy to boot of the 1973 limited edition, bound in its attractive 1/4 vellum..... More
The University of Chicago Press, 1967. Cloth. SIGNED BY THOM GUNN on the title page. A solid copy to boot of the 1957 1st American edtion of the poet's third published book. Clean and Near Fine in a bright, price-intact, VG+ dustjacket, with very light chipping at the spine ends..... More
London: John Sharpe, 1821. Richard Westall. Full calf. A handsome copy of this 1821 collection of the poems of Thomas Gray, with 7 plates after Richard Westfall. Bound in a lovely, contemporary-to-the-period full calf, with decorative blindstamped and gilt-bordering. 5 raised bands, 6 compartments, with intricate gilt-tooling within. Lightly-chipped original..... More
Coach House Press, 1971. Joe Brainard. Decorative Wrappers. The 1971 1st edition, "designed and printed at the Coach House Press in an edition of 1,500 copies in October 1971". Crisp and VG+ in its Joe Brainard-designed yellow wrappers, with one tiny tear along the spine crown. Square 16mo, Joe Brainard..... More
San German, Puerto Rico: Editorial La Nueva Salamanca, 1957. 1st. Original Wraps. INSCRIBED BY TRAM COMBS on the half-title. A solid copy to boot of the 1957 1st edition. Clean and VG+ in its original cream wrapers. And in a bright, VG dustjacket, with very light creasing along the panel..... More
Hugh Maxwell, Philadelphia, 1804. 1st. Hardcover. 1st U.S. edition, 1804. In its original brown calf with modest flaking along upper edges of the front panel, minor fraying to outer hinges and a bit of rubbing to the spine and a small amount of scufffing to the back panel. 12mo, 301..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1977. Cloth. A clean, tight copy of the 1977 1st American edition, translated from its Japanese by the formidable Burton Watson. Clean and Fine in a crisp, Near Fine dustjacket, with 1 tiny nick along the spine. Octavo, prepared by "the Columbia College Program of..... More
Seattle: University of Washington Book Store, 1928. Original wraps. The April 1928 2nd printing of Ezra Pound's translation of "The Great Learning" by Ta Hio. Solid and VG- in its dark card wrappers, with notable chipping along the spine and the panel edges. Internally, clean as could be, with no..... More
Paris: Editions de la Revue Fontaine, 1946. Hans Arp. Original wraps. The 1946 1st edition, #658 of 750 copies published. Clean and VG in its printed, off-white wrappers, with very light offsetting along the front panel's fore-edge and light wear at the spine ends. 12mo, nicely illustrated in woodcut by..... More
Moscow: Vladymir Mayakovsky, 1926. Alexander Rodchenko. Pictorial wrappers. An uncommon example of 1926 post-Revolution poetry AND Constructivist design, with the work of 2 giants of Russian Futurism and Constructivism, Vladymir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) and Alexander Rodchenko (1891-1956) here on display. Published by Mayakovsky, this slim, 16 pg. book, which features Mayakovsky's..... More
Lincoln: Penmaen Press, 1977. Lynd Ward. Decorative Boards. A handsome copy of the 1977 1st edition. #22 OF 200 COPIES SIGNED AT THE LIMITATION BY LYND WARD (the illustrator), ANTHONY HECHT (who translated the text from its original French) AND ARTHUR WILSON (who wrote the Introduction). Clean and Near Fine..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1935. Cloth. A crisp, pleasing copy of the 1935 1st edition. Tight and VG+ (very light offsetting at the endsheets and pastedowns) in a bright, price-intact, VG+ dustjacket, with very light creasing along the lower-edges and just a touch of light chipping to the spine crown..... More
New York: The Fountain Press, 1929. Cloth. SIGNED BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS on the half-title. #191 of 600 copies signed by the poet and distributed (300 to America via Random House and 300 to Great Britain via Grant Richards and Humphrey Toulmin at the Cayme Press Limited). The entire limitation..... More
Ilkley, England: Privately Printed, 1973. Original Wraps. The 1973 facsimile re-issue of W.H. Auden's very scarce 1st book. Originally published in 1928 in an edition of "about 45 copies", this facsimile --which in itself is uncommon-- is #65 of only 100 copies issued. An attractive miniature (64mo), crisp and VG+..... More