[San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1972]. Brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Preliminaries and chapter heads illustrated. Thin and almost unobtrusive remainder designation on top edge, otherwise about fine in near very good, typically rubbed pictorial dust jacket with remnant of Yale Co-Op price sticker on front jacket flap near printed.....
New York: Brooks-Bryce Foundation, [ 1927]. Small octavo. Red paper boards, printed label. Boards a bit edgeworn and sunned at spine, but about very good. First edition. Agee's first appearance in a book, as winner of the third prize while an 18 year-old student at Phillips Exeter Academy. His essay.....
![Item #WRCLIT41051 [ POEMS]. Richard Aldridge](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage.png?auto=webp)
Swinford: Fantasy Poets No. 32, 1956. Printed wrappers. First edition of the author's first book. Inscribed and signed by the author. Faintly dusty, very good.
Swinford: Fantasy Poets No. 32, 1956. Printed wrappers. First edition of the author's first book. Faintly soiled, very good.
[Ranches of Taos: Motive Book Shop, 1950]. Printed wrapper over stiff wrapper. First edition of the poet's first book. Trace of tanning to white wrapper, else about fine.
[New York: Bantam Books, 1973]. Printed self wrappers. About fine. First edition of the author's first separate publication, distributed in advance of the story's appearance as the cover item for AMERICAN REVIEW 19.
![Item #WRCLIT36926 [Corrected typed manuscript of] AT THE JERUSALEM. Paul Bailey](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/wrclit36926.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593712193)
[ Np]. [nd. but ca. 1967]. [3],253 leaves. Quarto. Carbon typescript (prelims and final leaf of text in original typescript), typed on rectos only, with occasional insertions in manuscript. Very good. A late draft of the author's first novel, subsequently published by Cape (and Atheneum in the U.S.) in 1967.....
Sydney: British Lion Films, [ca. 1962 or 1963]. Folio. Vintage brilliant color lithographed daybill poster (30 X 13.25", 76 X 34cm). Folded, as issued, slight wrinkle at one edge, a few dust marks on blank verso, otherwise about fine. An original daybill poster for the Australian release of the 1962.....
Paris: N. Pichard & Ch. Gosselin, 1826. 276pp.plus errata leaf. Large octavo (23.8 x 16cm). Original printed wrappers, untrimmed, sewn into protective 20th century pastepaper boards. Wrappers slightly frayed and smudged, with repaired tear/chip at lower edge, occasional minor foxing, but a very good copy. First edition. One of an.....
Portland, OR: Printed at the Graphics Arts Workshop Reed College, 1952. Large octavo. Printed wrapper over plain stiff wrapper. Some small nicks and a minuscule tear along the extended top edge of the printed wrapper, otherwise about fine, First edition of the poet's first solo collection, preceded by her collective.....
London: Labour Publishing Co., [ 1926]. Printed wrappers, sewn. Faint tan offsetting from wrappers to facing leaves, as often, otherwise a fine copy. First edition of the author's first formally published book, published in the "Plays for the People Series." Signed by Bates on the title page. In THE VANISHED.....
New York: Twice a Year Press, [ 1940]. Printed wrappers. Trace of sunning at wrapper edges, as often, else about fine. First separate edition, preceded by publication in the TWICE A YEAR serial anthology. Two poems of some length, constituting the author's first separate publication.
London: Ward and Downey, 1896. Small octavo. Green cloth, lettered in gilt, t.e.g. Very slight tanning to endsheets, minor rubbing at corners, otherwise a very good, or better, bright copy. First edition of the author's first book, issued shortly after his matriculation from Baillol College, Oxford. Reportedly, Belloc gave away.....
New York: Vanguard Press, [1944]. Cloth. Faint darkening to spine and endsheets, edges a bit dusty marked, otherwise a very good copy, in corner-worn, somewhat rubbed dust jacket with shallow chips at head and toe of spine, a tiny chip at the lower edge of the front panel, and a......
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1911. Gilt cloth. Minor wear, corners bumped, gutter of endsheet abraded (from the mounted letter - see below), otherwise a good copy. First edition. The first novel by this prolific fiction writer, described by Kunitz and Haycraft "as essential a part of the social education.....
Norfolk: New Directions / Poet of the Month, [ 1942]. Plain wrappers. First edition, first book, issue in wrappers (one of 1500 thus, from a total of 2000 copies). Fine in spine sunned dust jacket.
Norfolk: New Directions / Poet of the Month, [1942]. Plain wrappers. First edition, first book, issue in wrappers (one of 1500 thus, from a total of 2000 copies). A couple minor foxmarks, else fine in very good, edge-tanned dust jacket.
Norfolk: New Directions / Poet of the Month, [1942]. Printed wrapper over plain wrapper. Outer wrapper faintly sunned, otherwise near fine. First edition, first book, wrapperbound issue (one of 1500 thus, from a total of 2000 copies).
Norfolk: New Directions, [1940]. Gilt cloth. Portraits. Slight tanning to endsheets, otherwise about fine in slightly hand soiled dust jacket with tiny tear at top edge of rear panel. First edition. One of 800 copies printed. Collective format for first books by Berryman, Randall Jarrell, Mary Barnard, G.M. O'Donnell and.....
London: John Camden Hotten, [1873]. Plum-brown cloth, decorated in gilt. Rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down, fore-corners a bit worn and cloth a bit rubbed, small spot to fore-edge in latter portion of text (mainly in the 32pp. catalogue), early ink inscription on half- title, once tipped-in bookplate now.....
Boston: Sherman, French & Company, 1917. Cloth and boards, stamped in gilt. Light rubbing at top and bottom edges, otherwise near fine in slightly chipped glassine. First edition of the poet's uncommon first book.
[Palma de Mallorca]: The Divers Press, 1955. Small quarto. Silk-screen decorated newsprint over plain wrappers. Usual offset from the newsprint flaps to the endsheets, otherwise about fine. First edition of the poet's first collection of original poetry, preceded by his esteemed volume of translations, PROENSA. The wrapper design is by.....
Toronto: Mother/Island, 1966. Small quarto. Printed wallet-style wrapper, with remains of original wax seal on flaps. Small shadow of darkening at one corner of the wrapper, otherwise near fine. Second (and first Canadian) edition of the poet's first collection of original poetry, first published by the Divers Press in 1955.....
[Westport: Tiger's Eye, 1948]. Quarto. Printed wrappers. Wrappers faintly dusty, else near fine. First edition, issued as the first of the intended series of "Tiger's Eye Pamphlets." The first separate publication by the legendary Greenwich Village craftsman and musician.
London: Erskine MacDonald, 1916. Printed wrappers. Modest use at overlap edges of wrappers, else near fine. First edition of the poet's first commercially published volume, issued in the Little Books of Georgian Verse, Second Series, in an edition of 1050 copies.
