HERMIONE. By "H.D."
[New York]: New Directions, [1981]. Cloth. First edition, clothbound issue (2000 copies thus). Introduction by Perdita Schaffner. Fine in dust jacket. Her autobiographical novel, posthumously published.
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HIPPOLYTUS TEMPORIZES A PLAY IN THREE ACTS.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1927. Large octavo. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition. One of 550 copies. Minor scattered flecking to the spine cloth sizing, otherwise fine in unprinted dust jacket (chipped) and defective slipcase.
PALIMPSEST:-
[Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1926]. Cloth and batik paper over boards. Edges shelfworn and foretips bumped, as often, small private name stamp on free endsheet, but a good, sound copy, without dust jacket. First edition, American issue. One of 700 copies bound up from the Paris Contact Editions sheets with a......
RED ROSES FOR BRONZE.
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1931. Cloth and brocade paper over boards. First edition, U.S. issue. One of 520 copies thus, bound from British sheets, from a total printing of 2024 (1004 sets of unbound sheets were used for scrap in later years). Lower edge shelf worn, otherwise very.....
SELECTED POEMS.
New York: Grove Press, [1957]. Cloth and boards. Spine stamping a shade patinated, otherwise about fine, without printed dust jacket, as issued, in torn acetate wrapper. First edition, limited issue. One of fifty numbered copies, specially bound, and signed and dated by the author in Zurich on 17 March 1957.....
SELECTED POEMS. By H.D.
[New York]: New Directions, [1988]. xiii,77pp. Cloth. First edition, clothbound issue (1500 copies thus). Edited, with an Introduction, by Louis L. Martz. Fine in dust jacket.
TRIBUTE TO FREUD WRITING ON THE WALL ADVENT.
Boston: Godine, [1974]. Cloth. Portrait. A bit dusty at edges, but a nice copy in corner worn dust jacket with short tear. Second, revised and enlarged edition, with a Foreword by Norman Holmes Pearson and an Introduction by Kenneth Fields. Inscribed by Pearson to poet/editor/translator Cid Corman, and with the.....
TRILOGY THE WALLS DO NOT FALL TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS THE FLOWERING OF THE ROD. By "H.D."
[New York]: New Directions, [1973]. Gilt cloth. Lightly dust speckled at top edge, else about fine in faintly speckled dust jacket. First collective US edition, clothbound issue (1500 copies). Foreword by Norman Holmes Pearson. H.D.'s three long poems, written during and under the impact of World War II. Although copies.....
ETUDES FREUDIENNES NOS. 3-4.
[ Paris]: Denoel, [ 1970]. Large octavo. Printed wrappers. A nice copy. Includes the first translation into French of a substantial selection from TRIBUTE TO FREUD, as well as two poems. This is a 'S.P.' copy, and includes the publisher's compliments card.
NORMAN HOLMES PEARSON ON H.D.: AN INTERVIEW.
[ Madison]: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969. 12pp. Printed self wrappers. An offprint from CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE X:4. Fine.
H.D. A BIBLIOGRAPHY 1905-1990.
Charlottesville: Univ. Press of VA. [ 1993]. 229pp. Cloth. First edition of the first descriptive bibliography of H.D.'s works. As new in dust jacket, at published price.
OUT OF LINE HISTORY, PSYCHOANALYSIS, & MONTAGE IN H.D.'S LONG POEMS.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994. Cloth. First edition. Inscribed and signed by the author. Fine in dust jacket.
PSYCHE REBORN THE EMERGENCE OF H.D.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, [ 1981]. Large octavo. Gilt cloth. Portrait and illustrations. First edition. Near fine in dust jacket with small nick. Laid in is a brief a.n.s. forwarding this copy to James Laughlin, as his "permissions copy."
H.D. THE LIFE AND WORK OF AN AMERICAN POET.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982. Large octavo. Cloth. Portrait and plates. First edition. Dust-marked, spot of discoloration on fore-edge, otherwise near very good in worn dust jacket.
H.D. THE LIFE AND WORK OF AN AMERICAN POET.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. Large octavo. Cloth. Portrait and plates. First edition. Very good in spine-sunned, edgeworn dust jacket.
H.D. THE LIFE AND WORK OF AN AMERICAN POET.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. Cloth. Frontis, photographs. First edition. New Directions publisher James Laughlin's copy, with his ownership signature and a few annotations. Small squashed object stuck to rear endsheet, else near fine in an edge- worn, ill-fitting dust jacket with a few small closed tears.
THE FOURTEENTH CHRONICLE LETTERS AND DIARIES OF....
Boston: Gambit, 1973. Cloth and boards. Edited by Townsend Ludington. First edition. Fine in faintly edgeworn dust jacket.
UNPROFESSIONAL TALES. By "Normyx."
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1901. White cloth, with pictorial upper panel and decorations. Binding a trifle rubbed, with some modest dulling to the spine, long pencil bibliographic commentary on free endsheet, but a very good copy of a book difficult to locate in fine condition. Half morocco slipcase and chemise.....
UNPROFESSIONAL TALES. By "Normyx."
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1901. White cloth, with pictorial upper panel and decorations. Binding rubbed, spine darkened and dull, some soiling to cloth, several leaves roughly opened, with marginal loss; an average copy of a book difficult to find in agreeable condition. First edition of Douglas's pseudonymously published sixth book.....
AN ALMANAC.
[ London]: Chatto & Windus / S&W, [ 1945]. Cloth. Decorations by Enid Marx. First trade edition, with additions. Yellow cloth a bit darkened at edges, pencil erasure from endsheet, but a good copy in bit dust darkened and edgeworn dust jacket.
AN ALMANAC.
[ London]: Chatto & Windus /S&W, [ 1945]. Cloth. Decorations by Enid Marx. First trade edition, with additions. A few pale marks in front endsheet gutter, otherwise very good in nicked and modestly soiled dust jacket.
THE ANGEL OF MANFREDONIA.
San Francisco: The Windsor Press, 1929. Cloth and marbled boards. Spine a shade sunned, neat bookplate on front pastedown and strip of residue of another, else a nice copy without slipcase. First separate edition of this excerpt from OLD CALABRIA. One of 225 numbered copies, printed by hand, and signed.....
THE ANGEL OF MANFREDONIA.
San Francisco: The Windsor Press, 1929. Cloth and marbled boards. Spine a shade sunned, otherwise about fine in slipcase (with short cracks in top and bottom joints). First separate edition of this excerpt from OLD CALABRIA. One of 225 numbered copies, printed by hand, and signed by the author. Decorations.....
BIRDS AND BEASTS OF THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY.
[ Florence]: Privately Printed, 1927. Boards, paper label. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies, signed by the author. Fine in dust jacket with a few edge nicks and a small chip.
BIRDS AND BEASTS OF THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY.
[ Florence]: Privately Printed, 1927. Boards, paper label. Endsheets darkened, bookseller's label on rear pastedown, otherwise a very good copy in lightly worn dust jacket with several internally mended tears along top edge. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies, signed by the author. With the uncommon author's price-slip tipped.....