London: The Egoist, Ltd., 1919. Printed wrapper over stiff boards. Outer wrapper somewhat soiled, with some small chips at edges, early ink initials and annotation on p.16; just a good copy of this early and important work. First edition, published as the 1st number in the second set of the.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1930. Gilt cloth. First collective UK edition (preceded by the separate pamphlet printings and the US edition of 1921). Some foxing early and late, otherwise very good in lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. Not in Kershaw.
Dublin & London: Dolmen Press / Calder & Boyars, [1972]. Large octavo. Parchment and boards. Fine in near fine dust jacket (a bit wavy due to jacket protector). First edition in book form, trade issue. Apollinaire's French text appears parallel with Beckett's translation, originally published in TRANSITION 50.
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1924. Cloth, paper spine label. Illustrations by Daragnes. First edition of Cowley's translation. Non-authorial gift inscription, a bit of edge wear and light dust spotting, but a good, sound copy, without dust jacket.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1959. Large octavo. Gilt cloth. Illustrated with drawings by Ronald Searle. Near fine in very good or better dust jacket with some tanning to the rear panel. First edition (preceding the UK edition). There were two printings, not differentiated by the bibliographers. This copy has 'A38' in.....
Paris: La Table Ronde, [1948]. Octavo. Printed wrappers. Wrapper lightly smudged and faintly soiled along spine, short tear at toe of spine mended, otherwise very good, largely unopened. First edition in French, review copy with "S.P." imprint on lower wrapper. Translated from the German by Jünger's close friend, Banine (i.e......
Florence: G. Orioli, 1929. Parchment over boards. Portrait. Near fine in printed dust jacket. First edition, trade issue. In spite of the stated limitation of one thousand copies in this issue, it has long been known that 2400 were printed, and the majority, including this copy, were left unnumbered.
Florence: G. Orioli, 1929. Parchment over boards. Portrait. A few foxmarks at edges, else fine and unopened in dust jacket. First edition, trade issue. In spite of the stated limitation of one thousand copies in this issue, it has long been known that 2400 were printed, and the majority, including.....
Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., [ 1912]. Small quarto. Parchment and boards. First edition. Early ink name on endsheet, narrow loss at extreme crown of spine, some inevitable mellowing and rubbing to the parchment spine and corners, but otherwise a very good copy of a fragile book.
Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., [ 1912]. Small quarto. Parchment and boards. First edition. Narrow loss at extreme crown of spine, some inevitable mellowing and rubbing to the parchment spine and corners, but otherwise a very good copy of a fragile book.
Milan: All'Insegna del Pesce d'Oro, 1956. Small octavo. Printed wrappers. First edition of this translation into English of the first volume of IL ROMANZO DI MOSCARDINO. One of 1000 numbered copies, printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. Fine.
London: The Casanova Society, 1926. Cloth and boards. Corners bumped, with loss of paper, else a good or better copy (without dust jacket). First British edition. One of 1500 numbered copies. Pound contributes a substantial postscript.
London: The Casanova Society, 1926. Quarto. Gilt cloth and boards. Spine faded and worn at ends, corners bruised, scattered light foxing, but a sound reading copy, without dust jacket. First British edition. One of fifteen hundred numbered copies (this copy unnumbered). Pound contributes a substantial postscript.
New York: New Directions, [ 1957]. Cloth. Portrait. Ink note on endsheet, else fine in very lightly used dust jacket with short, closed tear. First American printing (offset from British edition), first published issue, with leaf 23/24 an inserted cancel -- one of 999 copies thus.
[Washington]: Kasper & Horton, [1951]. Printed wrapper over plain wrappers. First printing in the Square $ Series format (with the first text ending on p.49). A very good, or better, copy.
[New York]: New Directions, [1966]. Small folio. Quarter vellum and fabriano over boards, stamped in gilt, t.e.g. Fine in slipcase, with printed label. First edition in this format. From a total edition of two hundred copies (ten on Japan and 190 on Pescia paper) at the Officina Bodoni, this is.....
New York. October 1920. LXIX:4. Printed wrappers. Plates. Pencil note on rear wrapper, lower foretip of rear wrapper chipped away, otherwise very good or better. The first appearance this installment of Pound's translation of Remy de Gourmont's epigrams, accompanied by EP's notes, as well as EP's "Island of Paris Letter,".....
New York: New Directions, [1957]. Cloth. Portrait. First U.S. printing, third or fourth binding state, with leaves 23/4 and 37/8 integral, the former corrected. Very good or better, in lightly soiled, price- clipped dust jacket with a few nicks and a small edge tear. The first (unpublished) state of the.....
Rapallo: Scuola Tipografica Orfanotrofio Emiliani, 1942. Quarto. Printed wrappers. Label mark on lower corner of wrapper, chip from top edge of title, just a good copy. First edition, ordinary issue, printed on unwatermarked paper, in buff wrappers. There were also an unknown number of copies printed on watermarked paper. An.....
[ Kansas City]: Hallmark Editions, [ 1971]. Cloth boards. Illustrations by Tom di Grazia. First clothbound edition (of LOVE POEMS OF ANCIENT EGYPT). Fine in price-clipped dust jacket. Due to the intended market and methods of distribution of this edition, it is somewhat difficult to locate.
[ New York]: New Directions, [ 1962]. Pictorial wrapper over stiff wrappers. Illustrated. First edition. Near fine.
[ New York]: New Directions, [ 1962]. Small octavo. Pictorial wrapper over stiff wrappers. Illustrations. First edition. Spine faintly tanned, tiny Swedish bookseller's label, lower panel dust smudged, very good.
[ New York]: New Directions, [ 1978]. Printed wrapper over stiff paper wrappers. New edition, entirely reset, from the 1962 edition. Fine.
[ New York]: New Directions, [ 1951]. Large octavo. Gilt black cloth. Illus. First edition thus. Endsheets darkened, but a very good copy in slightly frayed and rubbed dust jacket.
New York: Viking Press, 1950. Large octavo. Cloth, pictorial label. Twenty- four engravings after drawings by Quintanilla. . Stray smudge to lower corner of upper board, two tiny spots on lower edge, else about fine in very good, faintly dusty pictorial dust jacket with a couple of short tears at.....
