New York. Autumn 1952. V:3. Printed wrapper. A handful of minute spots on upper wrapper, but about fine. Signed by Stevens on p.334 at the conclusion of his appearances. With the pencil ownership inscription and bibliographic citations of Stevens editor and curator, Daniel Woodward.
Urbana, IL. Spring 1950. X:3. Printed wrapper. Wrapper lightly soiled and dust-smudged, array of faint spatter marks on upper wrapper, otherwise very good. Signed by Stevens at his appearance on p.156. With the pencil ownership inscription and bibliographic citations of Stevens editor and curator, Daniel Woodward. Carrier, Klein, Svevo, Rosenthal.....
Urbana, IL. Summer 1941. I:4. Printed wrapper. Wrapper lightly soiled and dust-smudged, but very good. Signed by Stevens at his appearance on p.229. With the pencil ownership inscription and bibliographic citations of Stevens editor and curator, Daniel Woodward. Davidman, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Dos Passos and others also appear.
New Haven. Summer 1941. Printed decorated wrapper. Wrapper lightly soiled, with small rust spot on rear wrapper. Signed by Stevens at the end of the sequence of "Les Plus Belles Pages," "Poem with Rhythms," "Woman Looking at a Vase of Flowers," and "The Well Dressed Man with a Beard." With.....
Norfolk: New Directions / Poet of the Month, [1941]. Pictorial boards. First edition, boardbound issue. Spine sunned, a properly deaccessioned CT State Library copy, with a variety of markings. A sound reading copy, without dust jacket.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1952]. Blue cloth textured paper over boards, stamped and lettered in red. A fine copy in highly pictorial dust jacket with a shade of tanning to spine, a short closed tear at the top edge and some minuscule nicks at the spine ends. First UK edition, in.....
[Minneapolis: Edmund D. Brooks, 1902]. Quarto. Paper backed faux wooden boards, printed spine label, all edges untrimmed. Spine ends chipped, upper outer joint partially cracked, some foxing, particularly to the endsheet gutters, internally very good, without the dust jacket, First edition. An unnumbered out-of-series (or unsold) copy, from an edition.....
New York: G. P. Putnam & Co., 1854. iv,654pp. Large, thick octavo. Contemporary three- quarter gilt calf and cloth. Illustrations. Cloth modestly soiled, scattered foxing and occasional browning (chiefly to the first two numbers), lower fore corner torn from terminal binder's blank but generally very good. The first appearance of.....
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, [1959]. Cloth. Some scattered small paper adhesion marks on upper board, small ink name on free endsheet, otherwise a very good copy in imperfect dust jacket. First U.S. edition, preceded by the somewhat abbreviated UK edition. Signed by Lowell at the top edge of.....
London: Jonathan Cape, [1921]. Large octavo. Gilt light brown buckram. Frontis. First edition. Modest tanning, bookplate on pastedown, shallow snags at crown of spine, otherwise very good in tanned dust jacket with shallow loss at crown. Of course, Butler features in some of the essays.
[Manila. February 27, 1953]. [9],8,22,6,3,3,3,1,2,9-36,[10],6pp., printed rectos only, including twenty-five mounted vernacular photographs (4 x 5 inches on average), plus thirty-three folding tables. Quarto. Contemporary red cloth, front board gilt. Minor edge wear, spine somewhat worn. Mild foxing to text. Overall, very good. A unique presentation typescript documenting the Firestone.....
London: The Hogarth Press, 1932. Pictorial wrapper. First edition, issued as Hogarth Letters No. 8. Wrapper a bit tanned and rubbed near spine with short closed tear into front wrapper near top thread hole, tiny corner crease, otherwise good and sound.
[London: Faber & Faber, 1928]. Sewn pictorial wrapper. First edition, trade issue, of Ariel Poem 12. Spine neatly split along fold, otherwise very good.
London: Robert Hale, [1946]. Gilt cloth. Photographs. First London edition, a revised form of the text originally published in the U.S. in 1939. Ink ownership inscription, top edge dusty, spine gilt faded, else a good or better copy in a defective dust jacket.
Rochester, NY. 1955. Pictorial wrapper. Photographs. Faint dust offsetting at wrapper edges, shallow crease at lower fore-tip of lower wrapper, otherwise about fine. Prints Norman's "Alfred Stieglitz - Seer," Dearstyne's "The Photographer's Eye," etc.
London: The Grey Walls Press, [1951]. Gilt lettered cloth. About fine in faintly darkened dust jacket. First British edition. Tipped to the front free endsheet is one of the small "Not For Sale Sample Complete Copy" labels characteristic of copies sent by UK publishers to their US colleagues who have.....
[Norfolk]: New Directions / New Classics, [1950]. Green cloth-textured boards, lettered in black. Fine in very good dust jacket by Lustig exhibiting the almost inevitable fading to the flesh-colored spine panel. First or second printing in this format, with an introduction by Richard B. Gehman. Published as New Classics 29.....
Baton Rouge: LSU, [1980]. Gilt lettered wrapper. Photographs. First edition. Prints tributes by Welty, Warren, Brooks, Lytle, Burke, et al. Three small smudges on upper wrapper, otherwise fine.
[Np]: Essays in Criticism, April 1951. [95]-120pp. Author's separate from I:2, sewn into plain wrappers. Inscribed on the upper wrapper from the author to Richard Curle, dated 1955. Very good.
Universal City: Universal City Studios, 6 April 1983. [1],103 leaves. Quarto. Photomechanically reproduced typescript, printed on rectos only of pale green stock, bradbound in printed studio wrapper. Dated receipt stamp (April 7 ... 4pm) on upper wrapper, along with an ink signature ("K. Justice"); scattered annotations, underscores and turned down.....
Universal City: Universal City Studios, 6 April 1983. [1],103 leaves. Quarto. Photomechanically reproduced typescript, printed on rectos only of pale green stock, bradbound in printed studio wrapper. Title hand-lettered on spine, otherwise fine. Denoted a "third draft" of this screenplay adaptation of Bruce Jay Friedman's 1978 novel, THE LONELY GUY'S.....
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Stockholm: Imprimerie Royale, 1904 - 1961. Forty-two numbers, in forty volumes. Quarto. Numbers for 1901-4 bound up in two volumes, handsome three-quarter gilt calf and marbled boards, wrappers bound in; numbers for 1907, 1908, 1909 each bound up in three quarter morocco and marbled boards, original wrappers not bound in;.....
New York: Clark and Edson, 1839. 554pp. Contemporary three quarter calf, spine gilt extra, and pastepaper over boards. General title, frontis, indices and engravings bound in. Map. Hinges cracking but remain sound, 19th century bookseller's stamp on front free endsheets, offset from calf turn-ins to endsheets and adjacent leaves, otherwise.....
[New York]: The Limited Editions Club, 1943. Two volumes. Small quarto (26 x 19 cm). Publisher's black sheepskin, spines lettered in gilt. Plates, some in color. Tiny nick at crown of spine of first volume, very slight rubbing to the spines, otherwise an uncommonly nice set. The slipcase is present.....
[New York]: Frontier Press, [1969]. Cloth and boards. One of 4000 copies of this attractive edition of the author's chef d'oeuvre. Light soiling, but very good in printed acetate jacket.
