FIFTY ROMANCE LYRIC POEMS.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1931. Gilt cloth. One corner bumped, spine a bit rubbed at edges, but a good, bright copy. First British trade edition. Inscribed by Aldington: "Eunice [Black] from Richard."
London: Chatto & Windus, 1931. Gilt cloth. One corner bumped, spine a bit rubbed at edges, but a good, bright copy. First British trade edition. Inscribed by Aldington: "Eunice [Black] from Richard."
[Madison]: The Sixties Press, [1961]. Gilt black cloth. Endsheets slightly offset, as usual, boards slightly bowed, otherwise a very good copy, in slightly dust smudged jacket with a few small nicks. First edition. The clothbound issue of this early production by both poets, inscribed and signed by Bly at an.....
[Madison]: The Sixties Press, [1961]. Gilt black cloth. Endsheets slightly offset, as usual, boards slightly bowed, otherwise a very good copy, in slightly dust smudged jacket with a few small nicks. First edition. The clothbound issue of this early production by both poets. 1000 copies were bound in cloth, 500.....
New York: Gotham Press, Inc., 1927. xii,13-55,[1]pp. 12mo. Crimson cloth, printed in black. Cloth a trace dust-dimmed at edges, otherwise a very good copy. First edition of this translation into French verse of Butler's social satire, "Nothing to Wear," accompanied by an explanatory Preface. There was an earlier translation into.....
Parsippany, NJ: Blue Ridge Mountain Press, [1950]. Sewn printed wrappers. Slight darkening at edges, otherwise very good or better. First edition. One of 200 copies printed. Inscribed by the author "For Herbert Cahoon - Half-century greetings from Hubert Creekmore January 1950."
[ Chicago]: University of Chicago Press, [ 1961]. Cloth. First edition. Inscribed presentation copy from the translator. Fine in near fine dust jacket.
London & Boston: John Lane / Copeland & Day, 1886. Slate cloth, decorated in gilt, edges untrimmed. Binding rather rubbed at crown of spine and edges, else a good, sound copy. First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed by the translator on the half-title page: "Constance Plumptre with R. Garnett's sincere.....
London: Heinemann, 1898. Red cloth, with pictorial vignette of guillotine in black and gilt. Spine rather darkened and foxed, crown of spine frayed, otherwise good and sound. First edition of this translation from the Provencal. Inscribed by the translator on the occasion of publication to her husband, American writer Thomas.....
[Paris: Privately printed, 1977]. Padbound pictorial wrappers. Portraits. First edition. Foreword by the translator. With Jolas's signed year of publication presentation inscription on the title. Pad binding separated at spine, minor foxing, very good.
Oxford: B.H. Blackwell, [ca. 1919]. Decorated wrappers. Wrapper neatly split at spine and rather rubbed and chipped, internally very good. First edition. Inscribed presentation copy from Mathers to Albert Boni, who published a selection of his translations from the 1001 Nights.
[Berkeley]: OYEZ, [1975]. Decorated wrappers. Illustrations by Allen Say. First edition of this translation from the Japanese, printed as a New Year's Greeting for friends of OYEZ. Inscribed and signed by Meltzer, and signed by Say. Fine.
London: Phoenix Press, 1949. Small octavo. Blue cloth. Two tasteful bookplates of the bookseller and author George Sims on front pastedown, else near fine in very good lightly soiled and tanned dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed to George Sims by the translator on front free endsheet, and with two pages.....
New York: Grove Press, [ 1959]. Cloth. First edition, issue in wrappers. Inscribed by Nims, "ex dono authoris." Parallel texts. Wrapper corners a bit worn, but a very good copy.
Worcester, Mass: Privately printed, 1906. Large octavo. Cloth, printed paper spine label. Portrait, facsimile. The white cloth is a bit soiled, top edge dusty, otherwise very good. First edition, ordinary issue on paper. Introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole. Inscribed presentation copy from the translator to DIAL editor, Scofield Thayer, with.....
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1942. Large octavo. Decorated cloth. Slight darkening along joints, a bit of tanning to endsheet gutters, pictograph chop in red in upper forecorner of the free endsheet, but a very good copy in good dust jacket (some sunning to spine and several short and one.....
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.
Middlesex: Penguin, [1974]. Pictorial stiff wrapper. Very near fine. First edition of this selection of translations, with an introduction, published in the Penguin Modern European Poets series, by Teo Savory. Inscribed and signed by Savory, "with admiration and good wishes," to poet & publisher James Laughlin. New Directions published Denise.....
Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1986. Small quarto. Plain wrappers, printed label.Upper corner bumped, but a nice copy. First edition thus, edited, with notes and bibliography, by Bruce Morris. An unnumbered "proof" copy, so designated by the printer/publisher, and bearing his presentation inscription to bookseller George Sims.