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.....
London: Printed for Jordan Hookham, 1800. 56pp. Octavo. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. Early institutional stamp on verso of title, residue of former binding along spine, else a very good copy. Second edition. A somewhat uncommon translation by the Jamaica-born future novelist, pamphleteer and anti-Jacobite. Dallas is also remembered for.....
Norfolk: New Directions / Poet of the Month, [1942]. Pictorial boards after a drawing by Matisse. First edition, boardbound issue. 1943 gift inscription on free endsheet, some foxing to the endsheets, but a very good copy in lightly foxed dust jacket with small smudge on the rear panel. The issue.....
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......
London: Printed for A. Millar, and J. Nourse...[et al], 1757. Five volumes. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spines gilt extra, contrasting labels. Early ink ownership inscription on each title ["James [indecipherable]lough, Tintern Abbey"], bindings worn, with several labels absent and two boards detached and volume one split, small spot on fore-edge of.....
Sewanee: The Sewanee Review, 1945. Large octavo. Printed cream wrappers. Lower fore-tip bumped, otherwise very good to fine. First edition, trade issue, of this modestly early separate publication by Devlin, issued as a supplement to the April 1945 issue of the SEWANEE REVIEW, with the French text printed parallel with.....
New York: Macaulay, 1929. Green cloth, stamped in gilt (the primary binding). First edition of this translation, with a prefatory Note by Matthew Josephson. Small ink name and date on somewhat tanned endsheets, spine dull, with some flaking to gilding, a few old small tape shadows to endsheets; a good.....
