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."
London: Chatto & Windus, 1930. Cloth and boards, t.e.g. Slight tanning along top edges of boards, otherwise near fine. First edition, limited issue. Copy #27 of 260 numbered copies, specially printed and bound, and signed by the author.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1930. Cloth and boards, t.e.g. Slight flecking to cloth sizing, otherwise very good or better. First edition, limited issue. Copy #185 of 260 numbered copies, specially printed and bound, and signed by the author.
[New York]: New Directions, 1977. 222pp. Cloth. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket. First US issue, printed and bound in Edinburgh. Edited, translated, and with an introduction, by Donald MacAulay. Bilingual anthology in Gaelic and English, printing works by Sorley MacLean, George Campbell Hall, Derick Thomson, Iain Crichton Smith, and MacAulay.....
London: Methuen, [ 1947]. Plain wrappers. Uncorrected "first proof" of the first edition, with ms. revisions on prelims reflecting format changes, etc. Some damp marking to lower edges and wrappers, lower portion of front wrapper torn away; just a good copy, used for in-house purposes.
Boston: Godine, [1976]. Cloth. Frontis. First U.S. edition. Small strip of cloth faded along bottom edge, else very good in dust jacket with minor damp rippling to upper panel and a soft crease and a couple of short closed tears to top edge.
New York: Cheshire House, 1931. Quarto. Parchment and boards. One of 895 copies. Bookplate. A good copy.
New York: Cheshire House, 1931. Quarto. Gilt parchment and boards. t.e.g. First edition of this translation. One of 895 copies. Near fine, with prospectus laid in, in lightly rubbed and dusty slipcase.
New York: Cheshire House, 1931. Quarto. Parchment and boards. One of 895 copies. Thumb-tip size smudge at top of lower board, otherwise very good or better, without slipcase.
[Weston, CT]: LIVING HAND 2, Winter 1974. Printed wrappers. Some small spots to lower wrapper and fore-edge, otherwise about fine. First edition of these translations. One of one thousand copies (of 1100), this being an unnumbered, out of series copy. Signed by Auster, who co-edited this issue, on the title-page.....
[Forest Knolls, CA]. Summer 1975. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. Auster contributed translations of three works by Jacques Dupin.
[Port Townsend, WA]: Copper Canyon Press, [2000]. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. Uncorrected page proofs of the first edition. Edited and translated by John Balaban. English translations are printed alongside modern Vietnamese and the calligraphic Nom writing system from the 18th century.
London: Heinemann, [1943]. Large, thin octavo. Gilt lettered buckram. Offset to free endsheets from pastedowns, that in the front serving as well as the half- title, few minor smudges and brown-spots to cloth and occasionally in margins, but a very good copy. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies for.....
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.
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.....
West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press, [ 1980]. Small, narrow octavo. Sewn printed wrappers. First edition, trade issue, in book form of these translations. One of 1,450 copies (of 1600). About fine.
[Np]. [1969]. 12mo. Stapled self-wrappers. First edition, printed for distribution as a gift. Faint creases, very good.
[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.....
[Madison]: The Sixties Press, [1961]. Stiff plain wrappers. Light use at overlap wrapper edges, otherwise near fine in good, somewhat dusty jacket with a small spot and modest fraying at edges. First edition, wrapper bound issue. 500 copies were issues in wrappers, 1000 in cloth.
Dublin: Maunsel and Company Ltd., 1917. Vellum and boards. Slight wear and darkening at edges, else very nice in defective dust jacket. First edition of this collection of translations of (largely) symbolist poets. One of 560 numbered copies, printed on fine paper. This copy bears the author/translator's later signed presentation.....
New York: George Braziller, 1964. Narrow quarto. Spiral bound plain wrappers, printed label. Uncorrected original trimmed galley proofs of the first edition. Old tape mark on rear wrapper, else near fine.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. Quarto. Plain wrappers, printed label. Uncorrected page proofs of the first edition. Title label at lower edge, else fine.
New York: Corinth Books, [1964]. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Introduction by Walter Lowenfels. Near fine. First edition in book form, originally published as a supplement to the June 1964 issue of THE LITERARY REVIEW (Fairleigh Dickinson University).
[Austin]: University of Texas, [1967]. Cloth. First edition. Illustrations by Cyril Satorsky. One of 750 copies designed by Kim Taylor. Top edge dust darkened, otherwise very good in somewhat nicked and smudged dust jacket.