POEMS.
Norfolk: New Directions / Poet of the Month, [1942]. Plain wrappers. First edition, first book, issue in wrappers (one of 1500 thus, from a total of 2000 copies). A couple minor foxmarks, else fine in very good, edge-tanned dust jacket.
First Books
POEMS.
Norfolk, CT: New Directions / The Poet of the Month, [ 1942]. Printed boards. Boards lightly rubbed along edges and with some occasional faint discoloration, otherwise very good, without dust jacket. First edition, boardbound issue, of the author's first separate book. One of five hundred copies thus, from a total.....
THE FIEND'S DELIGHT. By "Dod Grile."
London: John Camden Hotten, [1873]. Plum-brown cloth, decorated in gilt. Rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down, fore-corners a bit worn and cloth a bit rubbed, small spot to fore-edge in latter portion of text (mainly in the 32pp. catalogue), early ink inscription on half- title, once tipped-in bookplate now.....
PRIMAVERA: POEMS BY FOUR AUTHORS.
Portland: Published by Thomas B. Mosher, 1900. Small octavo. Decorated wrapper over boards. Wrapper rather chipped and wanting rear flap, signs of mends to spine, ink ownership inscription, otherwise internally about fine. First US edition of Binyon's first book, albeit a joint collection with Stephen Phillips, Arthur S. Cripps and.....
YOUNG MR. KEEFE.
Boston: Little, Brown, [ 1958]. Cloth. First edition of the author's first book. Usual tanning to endsheet gutters, with several black smudges to the spine, otherwise very good in spine-sunned dust jacket.
GREEN FRUIT.
Boston: Sherman, French & Company, 1917. Cloth and boards, stamped in gilt. Light rubbing at top and bottom edges, otherwise near fine in slightly chipped glassine. First edition of the poet's uncommon first book.
A STRETCH ON THE RIVER.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1950. Cloth. First edition of the playwright's first book. Top edge dust marked, small, faint discoloration at upper fore-tip of lower board, corner fold in one leaf, but a very good copy in lightly frayed dust jacket with some darkening around the spine panel...
THE DISSOLVING FABRIC.
[Palma de Mallorca]: The Divers Press, 1955. Small quarto. Silk-screen decorated newsprint over plain wrappers. Usual offset from the newsprint flaps to the endsheets, otherwise about fine. First edition of the poet's first collection of original poetry, preceded by his esteemed volume of translations, PROENSA. The wrapper design is by.....
THE DISSOLVING FABRIC.
Toronto: Mother/Island, 1966. Small quarto. Printed wallet-style wrapper, with remains of original wax seal on flaps. Small shadow of darkening at one corner of the wrapper, otherwise near fine. Second (and first Canadian) edition of the poet's first collection of original poetry, first published by the Divers Press in 1955.....
JOHNNY CHRISTMAS.
New York: William Morrow Co., 1948. Cloth. Very good or better in lightly edgeworn dust jacket with a short closed tear at the bottom edge of the front panel and a few smaller nicks. First edition of the author's first novel. It is also the first novel accepted for publication.....
WHICH WAY TO MECCA, JACK?
[ New York]: Bernard Geis, [ 1960]. Cloth and boards. First edition of the author's first book. Illustrated by Gil Miret. A fine copy in a price-clipped, faintly rubbed dust jacket with minor wear to the extremities.
WHICH WAY TO MECCA, JACK?
[New York]: Bernard Geis, [1960]. Cloth and boards. A very good copy in a good, lightly sunned and soiled dust jacket with a number of short edge-tears to the extremities. First edition of the author's first book. Illustrated by Gil Miret. Inscribed and signed by the author, the inscription opening.....
THE SWELLING UNDER THE WAVES [wrapper title].
[Westport: Tiger's Eye, 1948]. Quarto. Printed wrappers. Wrappers faintly dusty, else near fine. First edition, issued as the first of the intended series of "Tiger's Eye Pamphlets." The first separate publication by the legendary Greenwich Village craftsman and musician.
A HARD SAYING STORIES.
[NP but probably Middletown, CT: The Author, April 2013]. Pictorial wrappers. Slight at upper fore-tip, a small squiggle of ink on final text page, else about fine. First edition. The published form of the author's senior thesis, warmly inscribed on title page "Dear Kit [Reed], thanks so much for making.....
WHAT'S WRONG POEMS.
Cleveland: Published for the Rowfant Club by The Cobham and Hatherton Press, 1987. Cloth and boards, paper label. Edges and endsheets a bit foxed, otherwise very good or better without dust jacket, as issued. First edition, limited issue, of the poet's first substantial collection, preceded by a chapbook. One of.....
THE POLITICAL NOVEL.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1955. Pictorial wrappers (after a design by Gorey). First edition (printing not identified) of the author's first book. Issued in the Doubleday Short Studies in Political Science series. Wrappers modestly dust-smudged and lightly rubbed at edges, but a very good copy.
PASTORALS: A BOOK OF VERSES.
London: Erskine MacDonald, 1916. Printed wrappers. Modest use at overlap edges of wrappers, else near fine. First edition of the poet's first commercially published volume, issued in the Little Books of Georgian Verse, Second Series, in an edition of 1050 copies.
SILENCE IN THE SNOWY FIELDS.
Middletown: Wesleyan Univ. Press, [ 1962]. Pictorial wrappers. First edition, wrapper issue, of the poet's first solo book. White portions of wrappers tanned, as often, else a very good copy.
MINNA AND MYSELF.
New York: Pagan Publishing Company, 1918. Gilt cloth. Backstrip worn and frayed at head and toe, inner hinges cracking, else a good copy of a cheaply made book. First edition of the author's first book, in the so-called "first issue," with page 67 in its uncorrected state (we've yet to.....
MINNA AND MYSELF.
New York: Pagan Publishing Company, 1918. Gilt cloth. Crown of spine and tips somewhat worn, but a good copy of this poorly made book. First edition of the author's first book, in the so-called "first issue," with page 67 in its uncorrected state (we've yet to see a copy of.....
MINNA AND MYSELF.
New York: Pagan Publishing Company, 1918. Gilt cloth. Spine a bit dull, with some light flecking to the upper corner of the upper board, morocco bookplate (offset opposite) of a noted collector, but an unusually good copy of a poorly made book. First edition of the author's first book, in.....
BODY OF THIS DEATH. POEMS.
New York: Robert M. McBride, 1923. Linen and boards, printed paper spine label. Top edge slightly dusty, else about fine in a very good example of the uncommon dust jacket (a bit darkened at extremities, with modest wear around the head and toe of the spine). First edition of the.....
BODY OF THIS DEATH. POEMS.
New York: Robert M. McBride, 1923. Linen and boards, printed paper spine label. Darkened at edges, otherwise a very good copy in rather darkened and modestly nicked and chipped dust jacket. First edition of the poet's first book, printed in an edition of one thousand (or fewer) copies according to.....
LETTER FROM A DISTANT LAND.
New York: Viking, 1957. Cloth and boards. First edition, first book, inscribed by the author in the year of publication. Light soiling, but very good in bit used dust jacket.
THE ZINCALI; OR, AN ACCOUNT OF THE GYPSIES OF SPAIN. WITH AN ORIGINAL COLLECTION OF THEIR SONGS AND POETRY, AND A COPIOUS DICTIONARY OF THEIR LANGUAGE.
London: John Murray, 1841. Two volumes. Original cloth, paper spine labels. Cloth a bit rubbed and with a few minor spots, labels chipped, but with titles intact, otherwise a very good, tight set. First edition of Borrow's first original prose book publication, preceded by translations, editing jobs and the like.....