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."
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ALCESTIS. By Euripides.
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.
SECRET HISTORY OF PROCOPIUS.
Chicago: Pascal Covici, 1927. Quarto. Blue cloth, elaborately stamped and lettered in gilt, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Pictorial frontis. Boards and extremities with some light to moderate wear, each inner hinge with a 3cm to 6cm split; perhaps better than a good copy. First edition of this translation. One of 730.....
SECRET HISTORY OF PROCOPIUS.
Chicago: Pascal Covici, 1927. Quarto. Blue cloth, elaborately stamped and lettered in gilt, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Frontis. Some slight rubbing at edges, else a very good or better copy with original dust jacket fragments laid in. First edition of this translation. One of 730 numbered copies (of a total edition.....
MAPIRUNGA ... WITH EXPLANATORY PREFACE.
London: Heinemann, 1924. Small octavo. Quarter parchment and gilt boards. First edition, limited issue. One of 375 numbered copies printed on Japan vellum, specially bound and signed by the translator. Fine in near fine dust jacket with small chip near crown of spine. The tail of the author's signature extends.....
IGITUR BY STÉPHANE MALLARMÉ RENDERED INTO ENGLISH ....
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.....
IGITUR BY STÉPHANE MALLARMÉ RENDERED INTO ENGLISH ....
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.....
TWENTY POEMS OF GEORG TRAKL.
[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.....
TWENTY POEMS OF GEORG TRAKL.
[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.....
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR LORDSHIPS REPRODUCTIONS OF MODERN FRENCH POEMS.
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.....
WOLFS-BOHNE ... WOLF'S-BEAN.
[Birmingham &] New York: Delos Press / William Drenttel, [ca. 1997]. Cloth and marbled boards, printed label. Fine, with prospectus laid in. First edition, deluxe issue of Hamburger's translation, printed in parallel with the German text and with a substantive translator's note. Inscribed by the translator on the colophon to.....
WOLFS-BOHNE ... WOLF'S-BEAN.
[Birmingham &] New York: Delos Press / William Drenttel, [ca. 1997]. Cloth and marbled boards, printed label. Fine, with prospectus laid in. First edition, deluxe issue of Hamburger's translation, printed in parallel with the German text and with a substantive translator's note. One of fifty numbered copies, specially bound, signed.....
WOLFS-BOHNE ... WOLF'S-BEAN.
[Birmingham &] New York: Delos Press / William Drenttel, [ca. 1997]. Marbled wrappers, printed label. Fine. First edition, ordinary issue, of Hamburger's translation, printed in parallel with the German text and with a substantive translator's note. One of 200 numbered copies, from a total edition of 257 copies printed by.....
FROGS &. OTHERS. POEMS by Kusano Shimpei.
[ Tokyo & New York]: Mushinsha & Grossman, [ 1969]. Cloth and boards. Illustrations. First edition. Signed by Corman at the end of his Preface. Fine in slightly frayed dust jacket, in publisher's slipcase.
THE ODES, SATYRS, AND EPISTLES OF HORACE. DONE INTO ENGLISH.
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1684. [16],183,[1],369-432,449-570,[4]pp. plus frontis and inserted plate. Octavo. Contemporary unlettered calf. Spine darkened, shallow loss at crown and toe of spine, with short cracks at ends of joints, lower forecorners worn; plate ineptly handcolored at some early date; neat, early ownership signature on title ('Wm.....
SAPPHO: THE SECOND ODE.
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.....
MAPIRUNGA. By Gustavo Barroso.
London: Heinemann, 1929. Small octavo. Parchment and boards. Explanatory preface by the translator. First edition, limited issue. One of 375 numbered copies, signed by the translator. Trace of foxing to lower edges of boards, otherwise very good in darkened and slightly nicked dust jacket.
THREE PLAYS OF RACINE....
[ Chicago]: University of Chicago Press, [ 1961]. Cloth. First edition. Inscribed presentation copy from the translator. Fine in near fine dust jacket.
STAR AND OTHER POEMS.
Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1990. Large octavo. Quarter morocco and gilt lettered Fabriano over boards. Fine. First edition. From an edition of one hundred copies printed on Rives at the Firefly Press and signed by the author. This is designated as one of fifteen copies specially bound for the.....
STAR AND OTHER POEMS.
Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1990. Large octavo. Printed stiff wrappers. Fine. First edition. From an edition of one hundred copies printed on Rives at the Firefly Press and signed by the author. This copy is designated on the colophon as "hors commerce" and was for the author's use. Eminescu.....
OURIKA. By Claire de Durfort.
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1977. Quarto. Quarter morocco and boards. First edition of this translation, limited to 500 copies printed at the Bird & Bull Press, and signed by the translator at the end of his introduction. Fine.
DANTE PETRARCH CAMOENS CXXIV SONNETS.
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.....
THE PRESENT GREATNESS OF MOZART.
[Birmingham, UK]: Delos Press, [c. 1996]. Marbled wrapper over stiff wrapper, printed label. Fine. First edition in book form of this translation, printed in an edition of 150 numbered copies on Zerkall mould-made paper by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, all signed by Gascoyne.
POEM UPON THE LISBON DISASTER ... By Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire.
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......
POEM UPON THE LISBON DISASTER ... By Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire.
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.....