London: Constable, [1947]. xiv,41pp. Small octavo. Gilt cloth. Boards slightly bowed otherwise a very good copy in dust jacket. "Twelfth printing." Formerly Siegfried Sassoon's copy, with the posthumous library dispersal monogram label affixed to the front pastedown. Laid in is a one page a.l.s. from Sister Marcella van Bruyn to.....
London: The Cresset Press, [1937]. xvi,91,[1]pp. Cloth. Milod soiling, but a very good copy, without dust jacket. First edition. Preface by James Stephens. Formerly Siegfried Sassoon's copy with the posthumous library dispersal monogrm label. Sassoon has affixed a printed copy of Mervyn Peake's portrait of Pitter to the front free.....
London: Jonathan Cape, [1933]. Small octavo. Two-piece cloth over boards, printed spine label, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Decorations and frontis by Elizaneth Montgomery. Scattered foxing, cloth a bit soiled; a good copy, without dust jacket. First edition. Sassoon's poem, "A Premonition," appears herein. This was formerly one of Sassoon's.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1899. Cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Undated [4],32pp. inserted terminal catalogue. Modest foxing early and late, front free endsheet neatly excised, otherwise good, unopened. Second "edition." Formerly Siegfried Sassoon's copy, with the posthumous library dispersal monogram label on the front pastedown.
London: London: Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe..., PRinted for B,. and R. Crosby ... 1806. 1813. x,132pp. vii,[1],133pp,. plus frontis and three engraved plates. Small octavo. Frontis and plates. Contemporary calf. spine and boards gilt extra. Binding somewhat worn, but sound, internally some light marginal finger smudges, but a......
Southbury, CT;: Chiswick Book Shop, 1991. xii,[2],18pp. Large quarto (31 x 25.5 cm). Gilt decorated brick red cloth. Illustrated, with text rendered in calligraphy, in color. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued. First edition in this format, designed and illustrated by Ismar David, with an introduction by Chaim Potok. One.....
[Toronto:]: The Aliquando Press, [2013]. Quarto (28.5 x 18 cm). Cloth backed marbled paper over boards, printed spine label. Illustrations and typographic ornaments and displays. Fine in publisher's stiff paper chemise with printed label. First edition of this gathering of essays by Leonard Bahr, Paul Hayden Duensing, Rollin Milroy and.....
[New York]: New Directions, [1969]. Pictorial wrapper. A bit of slight tanning at edges, but a very good or better copy. First edition, issue in wrappers, of these translations by Levertov. With fellow ND poet/translator Cid Corman's 1970 ownership inscription.
New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1970. xxii,283pp. Large octavo. Cloth. Offset to front endsheets from a multitude of laid-in (or one tipped-in) clippings, edges a bit foxed and dusty, but a good copy in pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Poet / translator / publisher Cid Corman's copy, with.....
Garden City: Doubleday / Anchor Books, [post 1958]. xvi,183pp. 12mo. Stiff pictorial wrapper by Frasconi. Wrapper somewhat tanned and slightly stained; just a good copy (but see below), A later printing of the Anchor Books 'edition' of the text edited by Waldo Frank, denoted the third edition by Schwartz and.....
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1972]. [8],622pp. Large, thick octavo. Gilt cloth. A very good copy (but see below) in dust jacket. First edition, trade issue, of this translation by Michael Glenny. With the 1973 ownership inscription of poet / translator / publisher Cid Corman, with his marginal highlighting.....
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969. xiv,349pp. Gilt cloth .Very good or better in dust jacket. First edition. Poet / translator/ publisher Cid Corman's copy with his 1970 ownership inscription, marginal highlighting and occasional substantive annotations.
[London]: Tavistock Publications, [1969]. [8],169pp. Black cloth, lettered in silver. Spine slightly cocked, otherwise very good, without dust jacket. Second UK edition, extensively revised, and with a new Preface. Poet / translator / publisher Cid Corman's copy, with his 1970 ownership inscription and quite extensive and substantive annotations and highlights.....
Tokyo: Sanseido, [1964]. xii,193pp. Quarto. Cloth. A bit used, but very good, with poor dust jacket. With the 6 May 1965 ownership inscription of poet / translator / publisher Cid Corman on the front endsheet and some scattered highlights and annotations in the text. An association copy some significance given.....
[Paris]: Gallimard, [1957]. 212,[3]pp. Large octavo. Printed wrapper. Wrapper a bit handsoiled and lightly used, faint tidemark to upper forecorner of a few early leaves, but a good copy. "4e édition." Poet / translator/ editor Cid Corman's copy with his 1971 ownership inscription, marginalia and occasionally substantive annotations throughout.
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[Np]. [ca. 1938]. Folio broadside (35.5 x 25.5 cm; 14 x 10") printed on recto only. Pictorial vignette. Horizontal fold and a few small edge nicks and creases, otherwise very good. A promotional poster associated with one of the earliest productions of Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, produced by Jed Harris.....
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[Np]. [ca. 1938]. Folio broadside (35.5 x 25.5 cm; 14 x 10") printed on recto only. Pictorial vignette. Horizontal fold and some tan offsetting along portion of one margin, otherwise very good. A promotional poster associated with one of the earliest productions of Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, produced by Jed.....
New York: Parke-Bernet, 1960. Boards. Frontis. Illustrations. The sale catalogue of this selective collection of 19th-20th century highspots, more often than not in stellar condition. A fine copy.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, November 1890. [4],20pp. Large octavo. Printed wrapper. Modest soilng to upper wrapper, with small chips at corners, neat splt up from top staple to spine fold, but a good copy of an uncommon and very fragile number. First edition thus, preceding the publication of the full novel.....
Los Angeles: Dawson's Bookshop, [1989]. 189,[2]pp. Large octavo. Grey cloth and printed board, the upper cover featuring a large stylized 'R' cutaway revealing portions of the printed paper board beneath. Private bookplate on half-title (with tiny adhesion mark opposite), otherwise about fine in matching cloth and boards slipcase. First edition.....
[Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press, 1970]. [24]pp. Quarto (29 x 22 cm). Sewn printed wrapper. Light use and two nicks at extended overlap wrapper edges, internally fine. With the small bookplate of Pamela and Raymond Lister on the verso of the front wrapper. First and only edition of this memento marking.....
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[New York]: United Artists / Transamerica, [1969]. 11,[1]pp. Folio (43 x 28 cm). Pictorial wrappers. Heavily illustrated. Horizontal fold, else near fine. An original studio press book promoting John Schlesinger's superb film adaptation of Herlihy's 1965 novel, based on Waldo Salt's Academy Award winning screenplay, starring Dustin Hoffman and John.....
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[Presidio, TX: Privately Published, 1971]. Approximately 35 separate printed and occasionally pictorial broadsides or folded leaflets on colored stock. Quarto (32 x 24 cm; 12.5 x 9.5 "). Enclosed in pictorial folder with printed back panel. Fine, in somewhat worn printed plastic bag (which is the sole location of the.....
Chicago: The Open Court Pub. Co., 1909. Small octavo. Elaborately gilt decorated cloth, t.e.g. Slight fraying at crown of spine, otherwise a bright, very good or better copy. Later printing of the original edition of the author's first book, published under the imprint of the periodical which frequently hosted her.....
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[Np: The Artist, nd]. Folio broadside (15 x 12.5 cm), folded to quarters. About fine. A simple geometric composition, made up of overlaid diagonal strips printed in shades of metallic olive and brown, creating a 12-point star. Inscribed and signed by the artist to Tony Zwicker, fierce champion of artists.....
