London: Peter Owen, [ 1965]. Cloth boards. Fine in lightly rubbed and smudged dust jacket. First U.K. edition. Inscribed by Jane Bowles to the publisher ("love to Peter from Jane Bowles") on a slip affixed to the free endsheet by Owen. Bowles was, of course, in Tangier on the occasion...
New York: John Lane, 1918. Cloth and boards, paper labels. First edition, U.S. issue, comprised of sheets printed at the Talbot Press, in a Lane binding, and with the chipped panels of the Knopf dust jacket laid in. Inscribed and signed by the author. Front inner hinge cracking very slightly...
Pembroke, NC. 1980. Printed wrappers. Wrappers a trifle tanned at spine and edge, but very good. A special Norman Macleod issue of the distinguished periodical for which he was founding editor, including work by him as well as tributes to him. This copy carries across the front wrapper Macleod's lengthy...
New York: Knopf, 1962. Large octavo. Cloth. First edition. Inscribed by the author in 1982, with reference to the "selective" nature of the "collected" edition. Fine in lightly tanned and faintly worn dust jacket.
New York: Knopf, 1960. Cloth and boards. First edition. Inscribed by the author in 1982. Fine, in bright, untanned white dust jacket.
Chicago: The Dial Press, 1894. Ornately gilt decorated green cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Decorative title-page. About fine, in oversize half morocco clamshell box. First edition, this being the primary binding. One of two hundred copies only. Inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet: "To my dear sister Mollie.....
Chicago: The Dial Press, 1894. Tan cloth, decorated in blue. Decorative title-page. Binding darkened and a bit soiled, internally very good. First edition, this being the secondary binding. One of two hundred copies only. Inscribed on the front endsheet by Smith's son to his daughter ("...this book of her grandfather's...
London: Printed for James and John Knapton, 1730. 32pp. Quarto. Extracted from bound volume. Light foxing and dust soiling early and late, else a very good, crisp copy, with the half-title. First edition, the rare printing in quarto format. Inscribed on the half-title in a contemporary hand: "To His Grace...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900. Gilt decorated olive green pictorial cloth. Frontis and plates by George Gibbs. Slight bump to upper fore-tips, a bit of marginal offset and foxing from frontis, otherwise very good and bright. First edition, trade issue. Inscribed presentation copy from the author in his capacity...
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[New York]: Poets' Guild, [nd]. Four small octavo sheets (ca. 190 x 125 mm), printed rectos and versos, plus three related items in the same format. A bit of foxing and tanning, margins of one item slightly frayed; very good. Four of Branch's contributions to this series of small broadsides...
London: Secker, [ 1961]. Cloth. First edition. Inscribed by the author to Van Wyck Brooks in 1963. A bit dusty, but a nice copy in dust jacket.
[ New York: Paperbook Galley, 1965]. Printed wrappers. Spine a trifle sun-tanned, as usual, else near fine. First edition of the poet's first book, inscribed and signed by him "For Sweetie Joel [Oppenheimer?], with Best love Ray."
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., [ 1969]. Gilt red cloth. Fine in lightly sunned dust jacket with minor nicks to spine ends. First edition of this translation. Edited by Oskar Kraus; English edition edited and translated by Roderick M. Chisholm and Elizabeth H. Schneewind. Inscribed to Wilmarth S. Lewis...
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1942. Cloth. First edition. Inscribed presentation copy from Fuller. Bookplate, slight darkening of endsheets, else about fine in slightly used and chipped dust jacket. Welty, Stegner, Boyle, Clark, Faulkner, Johnson, McCullers, et al.
Chicago & New York: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1898. Gilt forest green cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Foretips a bit bumped, else near fine. First edition of the author's first book, inscribed and signed by him in 1900. The author, a Chicago physician and financier, proved an important benefactor to...
Markesan, WI: Pentagram, [ 1980]. Sewn printed wrappers. First edition. One of 325 hand-printed copies. Inscribed and signed by the author to poet/publisher Cid Corman. A fine copy.
[Paris]: Les Francs-Bibliophiles, 1961. 109,[8]pp. Large octavo (24.5 x 16cm). Loose gatherings laid into printed wrappers. Frontis and 24 illustrations in mezzotint, with supplementary plate laid in. Fine in lightly worn chemise and velvet covered slipcase. First edition in this format, illustrated with original mezzotints by Mario Avati. One of...
Norfolk: New Directions / Poet of the Month. 1942. Printed wrapper over stiff wrappers. First edition, wrapper issue. Inscribed by the author at a later date. Fine in very good, slightly nicked dust jacket.
New York: Knopf, 1945. Cloth. First edition. Inscribed and signed by the author. Ink ownership inscription, otherwise very good in tape repaired dust jacket.
[ London]: Scorpion Press, [ 1963]. Cloth. With J. Laughlin's pencil inscription and scattered notes. Good, in defective dust jacket. First edition, trade issue (after twenty-five signed copies). One of the author's own marked up copies, inscribed "Sorry about the marks in the index - this was the copy I....
[ Stockholm]: Wahlkström & Widstrand, 1997. Boards. First edition of this translation into Swedish of ON GRIEF AND REASON, translated by Bengt Jangfeldt. This copy bears the translator's warm presentation inscription. Fine in dust jacket.
[Nottingham]: Solaris, [2009]. Stiff wrappers. First edition, wrapper bound issue. Inscribed and signed by the author ("Keith B."). About fine.
Gillette, NJ, etc: Cosmos Books / Wildside Press, [2001]. Pictorial wrappers. First edition, wrapperbound original. Warmly inscribed and signed ("Keith B") on the title page. Very slight curl to glossy wrapper, otherwise fine.
Denver: Alan Swallow, 1947. Large octavo. Cloth. Fine in lightly worn dust jacket. First edition of the author's first book, warmly and lengthily inscribed by him to a newspaper colleague.
New York: Dutton, 1957, Cloth and boards. Endsheets tanned, edges dusty, else a very good copy, without dust jacket. First edition. With a presentation inscription from the author on the free endsheet: "For Leon Edel with the regards of Van Wyck Brooks / February = 1957." With numerous pencil notes...
