One for the Rose.
N. Y. Atheneum, 1981. First edition. Signed by the poet on the title-page. Fine copy. 8vo, original red cloth, dust jacket. More
N. Y. Atheneum, 1981. First edition. Signed by the poet on the title-page. Fine copy. 8vo, original red cloth, dust jacket. More
(Santa Barbara, CA): Unicorn Press, (1971). First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by PL to his brother Eli on the first (blank) sheet: "Dear Reader - & you too Eli - this book is so loverly that everyone should have two copies. And the author is so modest! So remember "this is my hand reaching to you." Love, Phil, Chicago, April 18th, '71" On the colophon page, PL has written: "Absolutely Numero Uno, Federico Garcia Levine" Fine copy. Tall 8vo, illustrated, original boards with printed paper label on spine. More
London: Turret Books, 1970. First edition. One of 100 copies numbered and signed by Levine; however, this is a presentation copy, inscribed by PL to his brother Eli: "To Eli with love from the Bald of Fresno - Phil". Levine has also added a humorous inscription on the colophon page. In place of the conventional number appearing after "This is no.", he has written: "CCXMVCRG2TUX13, Edna St. Vincent Goldblatt" A little faded along spine, one corner slightly creased, but a very good copy. 8vo, original wrappers. More
(Santa Cruz, CA): Greenhouse Review Press, (1997). First edition. One of only 35 copies specially bound in cloth by Timothy Geiger & Shari DeGraw and signed by the poet. As new. 8vo, original cloth with printed label on spine. More
N. Y. Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First edition. Signed by Levine on the title-page. Fine copy. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket. More
Fresno, CA: Press at California State University, Fresno & Greenhouse Review Press, (2013). First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by PL to his brother Eli: "Dear Eli & Louise, If you don't read this no one will know. Love, Phil." The book is also signed on the title-page. Contributors include Christopher Buckley, Kelly Cherry, Peter Everwine, Edward Hirsch, Mark Jarman, Paul Mariani, Sharon Olds, Dewayne Rail, Charles Simic, Mona Simpson, Gary Soto, David St. John, Gerald Stern, Jean Valentine, Charles Wright, Gary Young, among many others. Fine copy. 8vo, frontispiece, original paper wrappers. More
Iowa City: Windhover Press, 1977. First edition. One of 70 copies on Rives Light paper, out of a total edition of 175 copies. Signed by Levis. Berger 67. Spine very slightly faded as often, otherwise a fine copy, with errata slip laid in. 8vo, cloth-backed boards with printed spine label. More
(London): Turret Books, (1967). First edition. Limited to 126 copies signed by Larkin, Day Lewis, Skeat and Lewis. Includes Larkin's essay Operation Manuscript in which he laments the increasing likelihood of a situation wherein the manuscripts of every considerable British writer since 1850 are in American hands. A fine copy. 8vo, illustrated, original cloth, dust jacket. More
NY: Howell, Soskin & Co., (1940). First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: “To John Slocum with cordial salutations from his friend W. L. Aug. 1940.” At the time, John Jermain Slocum was Lewis’s exclusive but ultimately ineffectual American literary agent, representing the fledgling firm of Russell & Volkening, Inc., and as ill-luck would have it, also Lewis’s benefactor. From July through October 1940, Lewis and his wife lived in the Jermain House on Main Street in Sag Harbor, Long Island, courtesy of Slocum. It was at Jermain House that Lewis finished work on The Vulgar Streak. In financial distress at the time, Lewis borrowed $375.00 from Slocum, a sum that he never repaid; nor, however, did Slocum succeed in finding a publisher for Lewis’s work. – Paul O’Keeffe, Some Sort of Genius. A Life of Wyndham Lewis. Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2000), p. 421-425. Back panel of dust jacket faintly discolored as usual, otherwise a fine copy. . More
London: Hutchinson & Co., (1950). First edition of the second volume of Lewis' autobiography. Morrow & Lafourcade A35. One of 2500 copies printed. Lightly foxed, otherwise a fine copy in slightly dust-soiled jacket, nicked at the extremities. 8vo, illustrated, original cloth, dust jacket. More
(N. Y.): Thornwillow Press, 1999. First edition. With a never-before-seen collection of all the known letters & telegraph communications exchanged among members of the Lincoln family up to the time of his assassination. One of 185 copies printed on handmade paper & signed by David Herbert Donald, a leading Lincoln scholar, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for biography & the Charles Warren Professor Emeritus of American History & American Civilization at Harvard University. A lovely book. As new. Small 4to, illustrated with three tipped-in photogravure portraits & two fold-out facsimile letters, 3/4 black moroccan goatskin & dark blue paste-paper boards, t.e.g., velvet lined folding black cloth traycase. More
(Gloucestershire and London): The Whittington Press & Pentagram Design, (1983). One of 350 numbered copies printed on Zerkall mould-made paper and signed by the author/artist (the entire edition). Fine copy. 8vo, original quarter cloth and Whittington marbled paper over boards by Woolnoughs, printed paper spine label. More
Silver Spring, MD: Self-published, Summer 1973. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the editor on the contents-page: "Dear Jonathan [Williams] and Tom [Meyer], Hope this interests you. Best, Barry" Fine copy. 4to, original illustrated wrappers, stapled as issued. More
(London): Routledge, (1942). First English edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper by the author "to Stephen Spender for the pleasure and satisfaction I have derived from his work, Emanuel Litvinoff". "A powerful expression of Jewish anger and denunciation" - Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II, p. 22. A noteworthy association copy. Fine copy, preserved in a cloth chemise in folding box. More
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, (1944). First edition. Contributors include Mary McLeod Bethune, Sterling A. Brown, W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, Gordon B. Hancock, Leslie Pinckney Hill, Langston Hughes, Frederick D. Patterson, A. Philip Randolph, George S. Schuyler, Willard S. Townsend, Charles H. Wesley, Doxey A. Wilkerson, and Roy Wilkins. An exceptionall fine copy; apart from a wrinkle at upper right corner of text block, virtually as new. 8vo, original cloth, dust jackeet. More
Eugene, OR: Lone Goose Press, (1992). First separate edition. Limited to 75 copies printed by hand and signed by the author and artist. A very fine copy. Small folio, colored pulp paper, original decorated handmade paper over boards, publisher's folding cloth clamshell box. More
(Cummington, MA): Cummington Press, 1944. First edition of Lowell's scarce first book. One of 250 copies printed. Very small spot of faint discoloration on the back cover, otherwise a very fine copy of a book rarely seen without the almost inevitable fading to the spine, in a cloth folding box. 8vo, title-page woodcut by Gustav Wolf, original blue boards without printed dust jacket as issued. More
London: Faber & Faber, (1950). First edition of Lowell's second regularly published book, his first book published in England, of which there was no American equivalent. Fine copy. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. More
(Venice, CA: The Lapis Press, 1990). First edition in English, translated from the French by Bruce Boone. Signed by Lyotard. From the library of bibliographer J. M. Edelstein. Lyotard's text is an extended discussion of Kienholz's assemblage ("Five Car Stud"), the circumstances of its installation at Documenta 5, and its reception as a trope for racism in contemporary American society. Light wear along the folds of the folding plate, otherwise a fine copy. Rare signed. Small 4to, folding photographic plate, original photo-illustrated paper over boards, publisher's sepia-colored acetate dust jacket and printed acetate wrap-around band, publisher's cloth tray case. More
London: Martin Brian & O'Keefe, 1978. First Edition. Limited to 65 copies signed by the poet, of which 50 were issued in blue buckram as here, with 15 lettered copies bound in niger morocco, according to the colophon, a copy of which is loosely inserted in the set; not all copies were supplied with the separately printed colophon sheet. MacDiarmid saw the book through the press, but died two months after publication. A fine set. Scarce. 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth, publisher’s slipcase. More
Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, (1976). First edition. One of 1577 copies printed. Signed by Maclean on the front free endpaper. The basis for the film starring Brad Pitt which won the Academy Award for Best Cinemtography. Foreedge slightly foxed, otherwise a very fine copy, preserved in a custom-made half-morocco folding box. 8vo, illustrated, light blue cloth, dust jacket. More
London: Tetrad Press, 1969. First edition of this pamphlet. One of 500 copies printed. Presentation copy, inscribed by the illustrator, "for Jonathan Williams / Ian Tyson 1970" Fine condition. 4to sheet folded to a bifolium, full-page illustration with text en face. More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1929. First edition, first issue, of MacNeice's first book, in the first issue binding of cream cloth. One of 1000 copies printed, and published while MacNeice was a student at Oxford. Armitage & Clark A1; Hayward 342. A very fine copy. 8vo, original canvas boards, printed paper label on spine, dust jacket. More
Paris: Harrison, 1930. First edition in any language of this early autobiographical sketch. One of 75 copies on Imperial Japanese vellum signed by Mann (according to the colophon, only 50 were intended to be produced). According to the colophon, the edition was originally intended to consist of only 50 copies. A regular issue of 695 copies was also published. Undaunted by the Depression, the expatriate press of Barbara Harrison, under the artistic supervision of Monroe Wheeler, published a series of distinguished editions of works by European and American authors in the early 1930s. In its review of A Sketch of My Life at the time, the Times Literary Supplement called it “a little masterpiece of its kind.” – Hugh Ford, Published in Paris (N. Y.: Macmillan, 1975), pp. 328-331. A fine copy in lightly worn slipcase. 8vo, original quarter-vellum, publisher's slipcase. More
The photograph shows signs of oxidation; the inscription is clean and clear. A fine portrait of the author of Company K (1933) and The Bad Seed (1954), inscribed by him "To Jose Garcia Villa with great admiration from William March" More