Los Angeles: Press of the Pegacycle Lady, 1974. Large octavo. Printed boards, pictorial onlay by Wallace Berman. As common with this boardbound issue, the sewing is a bit slack, bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise about fine. First edition of this translation, deluxe issue. One of one hundred numbered copies specially.....
Los Angeles: Press of the Pegacycle Lady, 1974. Large octavo. Printed boards, pictorial onlay by Wallace Berman. Boards a bit smudged, pictorial onlay rubbed, toe of spine bumped, a couple of small splashmarks to spine; just a good copy. First edition of this translation, deluxe issue. One of one hundred.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., [ 1934]. Cloth, with pictorial design by Rockwell Kent, along with a frontis and chapter heads by him. First edition in English, translated from the French by Alvah Bessie. Publisher's dated review slip laid in. Endsheets foxed at gutters, else a very good copy.....
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1982. Large octavo. Gilt cloth boards. First edition. Illustrated by Michael Foreman. Fine, in fine dust jacket with the Library Association Kate Greenaway Medal affixed to front panel and publisher's price increase sticker on flap.
New York: Schocken Books, [1984]. Large octavo. Gilt clot boards. First edition, American issue, bound up from British sheets. Illustrated by Michael Foreman. Fine in dust jacket.
New York: Harper & Bros. 1931. Quarto. Pictorial wrappers. Frontis and illustrations in color by John Dos Passos. First edition of this translation, the trade issue. Poet Dunstan Thompson's copy, with his 1931 (or possibly 1939) ownership inscription. Wrappers a trifle tanned and dust-soiled, but very good.
Monte Carlo: André Sauret, [1960]. Large quarto. Cloth. Illustrated throughout (largely in color). Fine in color lithographed pictorial dust jacket with minute patch of edgewear at lower foretip of upper panel, in plastic protective wrapper and card slipcase. First English language edition of the first volume in the series. Translation.....
London: T. Heptinstall, 1797. [2],xi,[1],275,[1]pp. Large octavo. Contemporary tree calf, rebacked with most of the original spine laid down. Engraved title, portrait frontis, and six plates by Thomas Stothard. Ownership signature on front free endsheet, portrait and engraved title quite foxed, only minimal foxing to the internal plates and text.....
Cambridge: The Pomegranate Press, 1973. Folio broadside. Illustrated with an original linocut by the printer, K. Klopp. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies, of which this is one of one hundred signed by the author and the artist. Slight rumpling and a few small creases at edges (the consequence.....
Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, 1903. Large octavo. Cloth backed gilt boards, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Binding rather rubbed and edgeworn, ink gift inscription on front blank, internally fine. First printing in this format. One of 160 numbered copies printed on handmade paper, in addition to eight on Japan Vellum.....
London: Constable, 1934. Small quarto. Red cloth, decorated in blind, stamped in black and lettered in gilt. Numerous engravings on wood by Robert Gibbings. First edition. Boards lightly faded at edges, top edge dusty, offset on endsheets delimited by jacket flaps, else very good in worn, price-clipped and spine- darkened.....
Lincoln: Penmaen Press, 1977. Small quarto. Cloth and marbled boards. With the attractive bookplate of printer Harold Hugo. Fine in slipcase. First edition, deluxe issue. Illustrated with six wood-engravings by Lynd Ward. Introduction by Arthur Wilson. One of one hundred copies, numbered in Roman, signed by the principals, from a......
Lincoln: Penmaen Press, 1977. Small quarto. Cloth and marbled boards. Fine in lightly rubbed slipcase. First edition, deluxe issue. Illustrated with six wood-engravings by Lynd Ward. Introduction by Arthur Wilson. One of one hundred specially bound copies, numbered in Roman, signed by the principals, from a total edition of five.....
London: The Rodale Press, [nd but ca 1953]. Large octavo. Cloth. Collotype plates after colored copper engravings by John Buckland- Wright. Preface by Gwyn Williams. First edition of this translation from the 1832 French version. One of 1000 numbered copies for UK subscribers. Yellow cloth lightly smudged, else better than.....
[ Tokyo & New York]: Mushinsha/Grossman, [ 1973]. Oblong octavo. Gilt crimson silk. Illustrated with tipped-in color plates by Shariff. First edition. Fine in faintly rubbed black dust jacket.
[Bloomington, IN]: Corydon Press, 1944. [8]pp. Folio. Sewn wrappers, printed label. Two clean tears (one long) in from fore-edge of rear wrapper, otherwise about fine. First edition in this format, wrapperbound issue. Illustrated with an original full-page multi-color woodcut by Joseph Low, who also designed and printed the volume. One.....
London: Faber and Faber, [ 1968]. Large quarto. Illustrations by Sidney Nolan. First British edition. Neat, tiny ink ownership inscription, otherwise fine in dust jacket with tiny nick at toe of spine.
New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1898. viii,[4],202pp. plus plates Octavo. Three-quarter polished calf, spine gilt extra, t.e.g., original pictorial upper panel of the cloth binding, as well as the spine panel, bound in at the end. Some rubbing at tips, but a very good copy. Bookplate. First edition of.....
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.....
[ 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.
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.....
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.
[London: Privately printed at the Curwen Press for Allen and Richard Lane, Christmas, 1951]. Natural linen, decorated in gilt and red. Slight offset to first page of text from facing woodcut, else near fine, without dust jacket. One of 1250 copies printed and bound by The Curwen Press. Facsimiles of.....
[ New York]: New American Library, [ 1966]. Cloth. Plates. First edition in English, U.S. issue (bound from British sheets), of this substantial work by Ezra Pound's son-in-law, the English version undertaken by this significant poet/translator. Fine in very good dust jacket.
