London: John Lehmann, [ 1951]. Large, thick octavo. Plain paper wrappers. Illustrations by Philippe Jullian. Introduction by Raymond Mortimer. Page proofs of the first edition of this new translation. Wrappers somewhat soiled, nicked and creased, a few corners turned down, but a good copy of this very bulky, fragile format.....
London: Faber and Faber, [1943]. Gilt cloth. First edition. Some faint erased pencil annotations, but a very good copy, in moderately sunned and smudged, price-clipped dust jacket.
[ New York]: New Directions, [ 1969]. Cloth, t.e.g. First edition, limited issue. One of 150 numbered copies, specially printed and signed by Rexroth. Title-page, sectional division and slipcase illustrations after designs by Juan Gris. Fine in faintly dust smudged pictorial slipcase.
[New York]: New Directions, [1976]. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition, clothbound issue. Uniform tanning to textblock, as usual, otherwise fine in acetate dust jacket.
[ New York]: New Directions, [ 1969]. Cloth, t.e.g. Hint of minor dust soiling to lower board at edges, otherwise fine in slipcase. First edition, limited issue. Copy #1 of 150 numbered copies, specially printed and signed by Rexroth. Title-page, sectional division and slipcase illustrations after designs by Juan Gris.....
[New York]: New Directions, [1979]. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition, clothbound issue. Top edge of lower board sunned, otherwise near fine in acetate jacket.
New York. 1928. Small quarto. Stiff wrappers, printed label. Color pictorial vignette. Minor use to overlap wrapper edges, else a fine copy. One of 375 copies printed by Watson Kent, Bryson Burroughs and Bruce Rogers at the Museum Press.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, [1924]. Small quarto. Tan cloth, lettered in gilt, with pictorial decorations. Frontis and fifteen color plates by Hamzeh Carr. Extremities nicked and frayed, endleaves browned, old clipping and residue of same affixed to recto and verso of half-title, with consequent offset tanning; a good.....
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1861. xxxvi,464,[2]pp. Original black vertically ribbed cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt, edges rough-trimmed. Cloth lightly rubbed, a few very minor nicks at the spine ends, a bit of offset to the coated brown endsheets, but a quite nice copy, very good or better. First.....
San Francisco: City Light/Pocket Poets 11, [ 1959]. Printed wrappers. First edition of the poet's first book, albeit comprised of translations. Very faint dust marking to lower wrapper, else about fine.
San Francisco: City Light/Pocket Poets 11, [ 1959]. Printed wrappers. First edition of the poet's first book, albeit comprised of translations. Very faint dust marking to wrappers, ink name, else very good or better.
East Aurora: Roycrofters, 1899. Limp suede, decorated in blind, lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed. One of an unspecified number of copies printed on handmade paper, with the initials illuminated in color. A bit of sunning to the suede, with a bit of slight dust marking along the overlap top edge.....
Tunbridge Wells: The Pound Press, 1954. Quarto. Pictorial wrapper over stiff wrappers. First edition. One of 365 numbered copies (of 399). This copy bears Russell's early inscription to fellow poet/translator/editor, Cid Corman. A few light coffee stains to the front wrapper, else a very good or better copy.
London: Martin Lawrence, [ nd]. Gilt cloth. British issue of American sheets. Endsheets and edges lightly foxed, ink name dated 1932, else very good in lightly chipped dust jacket (bearing denotation "Second Edition").
Tokyo: Kodansha, [ 1963]. Octavo. Cloth-backed marbled boards, paper labels. Woodblock illustrations by Kitao Masami. Light wear to a couple of corners, else very good in a lightly worn pictorial slipcase. First edition. Signed by the translator, Eric Sackheim. An anthology of popular Japanese folk songs, some dating back to.....
Paris: Travellers Companion Series / The Olympia Press, [1963]. Printed green wrappers. Spine extremities a bit rubbed and slightly creased, crayon price in upper corner of rear wrapper,otherwise very good. Second printing in this format, as TC #67, of Wainhouse's 1953 translation.
Paris: The Olympia Press, [May. 1953]. Decorated wrapper over stiff wrappers. Two small stickers obscure the price and prohibition on the lower wrapper panel, small spot and corner scrape to upper panel, a bit of wear at corners and very faint foxing to endleaves and top edge. A good to.....
Princeton: Princeton, 1952. Cloth. First edition. Top edge a bit dusty, else near very good in a spine and edge-faded dust jacket with slight chipping to the crown of the spine. Rilke, Hesse, Hofmannsthal, et al.
New York, etc: Samuel French, Inc., [c. 1963]. 94,[2]pp. Small octavo. Printed wrapper. Near fine. First edition (printing unidentified, priced $1.25) of the classical scholar, popular novelist and screenwriter's first separate book.
[Maastricht]: The Halcyon Press [for A.A. M. Stols, Publisher], 1929. 19,[5]pp. Small, thin quarto. Dull red cloth. Crown of spine has a short snag, some tanning to endsheets and gutters; a good copy. Text edited by Paul van de Woestijne. One of 450 numbered copies printed on Pannekoek paper, from.....
[ Ashland, OR]: Story Line Press, 2000. Printed wrappers. Uncorrected page proofs of the first edition of this translation by Louis Simpson. Fine.
London: Printed for Thomas M'Lean [et al], 1819. Three volumes. Octavo. Full polished contemporary calf, raised bands, gilt labels. One joint cracked, but cords sound, narrow loss at crown of one spine, nicks at tops of a couple joints, corners a bit worn, internally apart from some slight occasional foxing.....
Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, [1967]. Quarto. Decorated boards. Illustrations by Paul Klee. First edition of this translation. Fine in near fine dust jacket. This was one of Snodgrass's own copies, with his blindstamp in the upper forecorner of the title.
Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, [ 1967]. Quarto. Decorated boards. Illustrations by Paul Klee. First edition of this translation. Fine in near fine, price clipped dust jacket.
[New York: Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts, Inc., 1933]. Quarto. Cloth and printed paper over boards. Boards very lightly dust spoiled, a couple of marginal finger smudges, otherwise very good to near fine. First edition. The appendix includes phonetic transcriptions of the songs, with notes and bibliographical references.
