SCEPTICISMS NOTES ON CONTEMPORARY POETRY.
New York: Knopf, 1919. Cloth. First edition, second binding. Bookplate, cloth sizing a bit flecked, but a good, sound copy with heavily chipped and torn dust jacket laid in.
Literature & Fine Books
SELECTED LETTERS OF CONRAD AIKEN.
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, [1978]. Large octavo. Cloth and boards. First edition. Edited by Joseph Killorin. Ink ownership inscription, else about fine in price-clipped dust jacket with new price sticker on the inside flap.
SELECTED LETTERS OF CONRAD AIKEN.
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, [1978]. Large octavo. Cloth and boards. First edition. Edited by Joseph Killorin. Light finger smudge on fore-edge, else about fine in near fine dust jacket.
THE SOLDIER A POEM.
Norfolk: New Directions / Poets of the Year, [1944]. Printed boards. First edition, boardbound issue. Near fine in a spine-sunned, lightly tanned dust jacket with a small chip from the toe of the spine. A nice copy.
THE SOLDIER. A POEM.
Norfolk: New Directions / Poets of the Year, [ 1944]. Plain wrappers. First edition, wrapper issue. Faint ownership stamp in blind on half title, otherwise fine in dust jacket. Only 1000 of the 2500 copies appeared in wrappers in this case.
THEE A POEM BY ... DRAWINGS BY LEONARD BASKIN.
New York: Braziller, [ 1967]. Large octavo. Printed paper boards. Slight darkening to boards at extremities, otherwise near fine, without slipcase. First edition, limited issue. According to the colophon, one of one hundred numbered copies, signed by the author and the artist, from a total of two hundred copies printed.....
THEE. A POEM ... DRAWINGS BY LEONARD BASKIN.
New York: Braziller, [1967]. Boards. First edition, trade issue. Fine in near fine dust jacket.
TURNS AND MOVIES AND OTHER TALES IN VERSE.
Boston: Houghton, 1916. Printed wrapper over boards. First edition of the author's second book (1000 copies printed). Ink name, dated 1919, head and toe of spine chipped, but a good copy, internally fine.
USHANT AN ESSAY.
New York & Boston: Duell, Sloan and Pearce / Little, Brown and Company, [1952]. Cloth. A rather used and edgeworn copy, in slightly worn supplied dust jacket. First edition of Aiken's autobiography, a work many regard as his most significant prosework. An inscribed presentation copy from Aiken to the daughter.....
A HARP OF FISHBONES AND OTHER STORIES.
London: Cape, [ 1972]. Gilt cloth boards. Paperclip rust mark on pastedown, otherwise a very good copy in dust jacket. First edition. Louis Untermeyer's copy, with a t.pc.s. ("Joan A.") from Aiken to him laid in, responding to his praise for the books and expressing hopes for a visit either.....
THE HAUNTING OF LAMB HOUSE.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1993]. Boards. First U.S. edition. Three ghostly, interconnected novellas, featuring Henry James and E.F. Benson as characters. About fine in dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to the tips.
THE SKIN SPINNERS POEMS.
New York: Viking, [1976]. Small quarto. Cloth and boards. Illustrations by Ken Rinciari.A very good copy in somewhat faded dust jacket with short, internally mended tear. First (U.S.) edition. With the author's signed inscription to Louis Untermeyer (followed by a street address in the recipient's hand).
EVENINGS AT HOME, OR, THE JUVENILE BUDGET OPENED: CONSISTING OF A VARIETY OF MISCELLANEOUS PIECES FOR THE INSTRUCTION AND AMUSEMENT OF YOUNG PERSONS.
Philadelphia: Printed for A. Bartram, 1802. Three volumes in one (only, of 6 volumes in two). iv,330pp. Small octavo. Old calf. Joints rubbed, 2cm chip from crown of spine, some browning, light staining and foxing; an odd volume, in second hand condition. Denoted the "Second Edition" of this serial for.....
ESSAYS ON SONG-WRITING WITH A COLLECTION OF SUCH ENGLISH SONGS AS ARE MOST EMINENT FOR POETICAL MERIT ....
Warrington: Printed by William Eyres, 1774. xix,[1],286pp. Octavo. Disbound, but sewing still sound. Light foxing early and late, residue of earlier binding on spine, otherwise very good. The second edition, with additions and corrections, of this popular compendium assembled by the physician and litterateur. First published in 1772, and reprinted.....
LETTERS FROM A FATHER TO HIS SON, ON VARIOUS TOPICS, RELATIVE TO LITERATURE AND THE CONDUCT OF LIFE. WRITTEN IN THE YEARS 1792 AND 1793.
Dublin: [P]rinted by Robert Marchbank, for John Millken, 1795. xi,[1],249,[1]pp. 12mo. Early 20th century library buckram. Faint old stamps and plate of a defunct mercantile library, early ink name on title, occasional minor spotting, crown of spine a bit frayed; just a good, sound copy. First Dublin printing of this.....
THE INDIAN SCOUT. OR LIFE ON THE FRONTIER.
Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, [nd. but ca. 1862 or 3]. Large octavo. Original cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. A very good copy. First American edition, first or very early impression, of L'ELAIREUR, probably based on the Ward, Lock yellowback edition published in Britain. Includes a prefatory essay about Aimard, popularly.....
OF DANDYISM AND OF GEORGE BRUMMELL TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF J. A. BARBEY D'aUREVILLY.
London & Boston: J. M. Dent & Co / Copeland & Day, 1897. 12mo. Limp vellum, lettered in gilt, t.e.g., others untrimmed. First edition of this translation. Vellum a bit bowed, with small nicks at yap fore-edges, mild tanning; just a good copy.
SAINT JAMES'S OR THE COURT OF QUEEN ANNE.
[ London: AINSWORTH'S MAGAZINE, 1843]. Plates by Cruikshank. Three quarter gilt red morocco. Slight darkening, upper joint rubbed, but very good. The serial appearance of the novel, extracted and bound up with a hand-lettered title-leaf.
CRICHTON.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1849. vi,353,[1]pp. Large octavo. Gilt decorated green cloth. Frontis, engraved title and plates by Hablot K. Browne. Spine faded and with some spotting to cloth, occasional marginal smudges, but a good copy, the plates generally clean and the binding sound. Third edition, revised, and first illustrated.....
THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION. A POEM. IN THREE BOOKS.
London: Printed for R. Dodsley... 1763. xi,[3],15-136pp. Small octavo. Contemporary calf and marbled boards. Engraved title vignette. Sixth edition. Lacks the half-title, some soiling of last three leaves, binding a bit edgeworn; a good, sound copy. Sixth edition. Bowyers ledger records the edition consisted of 500 copies.
THE ADOPTED SON; A LEGEND OF THE REBELLION OF JACK CADE. By "Paul Pindar" [pseud].
New York: Wilson & Company, 25 July 1842. xlviii pp. Quarto. Extracted from pamphlet volume. Illustrations. A few small spots, short tear at gutter, otherwise a very good copy, without wrappers (copies sent through the post did not bear wrappers in order to qualify for the newspaper rate). The NUC.....
INTERPRETATIONS. A BOOK OF FIRST POEMS.
London: Grant Richards, 1912. Quarter vellum and boards. First British edition of the future Pulitzer Prize winning dramatist's first book. Modest darkening, but a good copy.
TREADING PAGES OF WATER.
[Detroit: Suburban Wilderness Press, 1992]. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Illustrations by H. E. Knickerbocker. First, "limited" edition. Fine.
KAPPA TRANSLATED FROM THE JAPANESE....
[Tokyo]: Hokuseido Press, [1949]. Pictorial boards. Portrait. New (revised) edition of this translation by Seiichi Shiojiri. Slight offset to endsheets, else a very good or better copy in dust jacket, and tanned and slightly foxed tissue outer wrapper.
AKZENTE ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR DICHTUNG.
München: Carl Hanser Verlag, February 1954 through December 1983. I:1,3,4 (1954); II:1,4 (1955); VI:1-4 (1959); VII: 2-6 (1960); VIII:1-6 (1961 bound); IX:1- 6 (1962, bound); X:1-6 (1963); XI:1 - 5/6 (1964); XII:1-6 (1965); XIII:1-6 (1966); XIV:1-6 (1967); XV:1-6 (1968); XVI:1-6 (1969); 1970:1-6; 1971:1-6; 1972:1-6; 1973:1/2-6; 1974:1-6; 1975:1-6; 1976:1-6; 1977:1-6; 1978:1-6.....