THE GHOST AT THE TABLE.
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2006. Boards. First edition. Inscribed and signed (first name only) by the author on the title page ("...with love..."). A few small spots to lower edge, otherwise near fine in dust jacket.
Inscribed Books
THE DISPOSSESSED.
New York: Sloane, [1948]. Cloth. Extremities a bit shelf-rubbed, else a very good copy, in spine faded, modestly chipped and used dust jacket. First edition of Berryman's third solo publication. Inscribed by him to his long- time friend and occasional editor, Catherine Carver: " Catherine John / 10 May 1948.".....
JOHN BERRYMAN.
Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers Number 85, [ 1969]. Printed wrappers. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed and signed by the author to the dedicatee. Fine.
THE INTERIM HANDOUT 12 POEMS.
[Ithaca, NY: Printed for Private Distribution by the Poet by the Stone-Marrow Press, ca. 1971]. Octavo. Stapled printed pale blue wrapper (a bit sunned at edges). A very good copy. First edition of this early publication by the poet, inscribed to another writer: "21 December 1971 For Kit [Reed], w/my.....
BREAD AND A STONE.
Novato, CA: Chandler & Sharp, [1983]. Stiff decorated wrappers. Wrappers a trace rubbed, but very good or better. A photo-offset reissue of Bessie's 1941 novel, signed and dated by him in his infirm hand in Dec. 1984 (he died the following July). Less than two years later, an independent film.....
SOLO FLIGHT SEVENTEEN SHORT STORIES & THE SERPRENT WAS MORE SUBTIL A NOVELLA.
San Francisco: Chandler & Sharp Publishers, [1982]. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Introduction by Gabriel Miller. A very good copy. First edition, wrapperbound issue. An excellent association copy, inscribed and signed by Bessie on the title-page in the year of publication: "for Sonja + Ed Biberman (+ remembering Herbert) with thanks for.....
SPAIN AGAIN.
San Francisco: Chandler & Sharp Publishers, [1975]. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Photographs. First edition, wrapperbound issue. Inscribed and signed by Bessie in 1976. Some creases from having been read, a couple spots of soiling to lower wrapper, otherwise a good copy.
ANGLO-FRENCH REMINISCENCES 1785 - 1899.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1900. Original medium green cloth, lettered in gilt. Light foxing and usual offsetting to endsheets, spine extremities a touch frayed, otherwise a very good, bright copy. First edition. An early presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet: "Mme. Thierry de la None.....
THE SHAPE OF APOCALYPSE IN MODERN RUSSIAN FICTION.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, [ 1989[. xix,[1],307pp. Gilt cloth. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. First edition. Inscribed and signed by the author (in Russian, first name only) on the title-page. Fine in dust jacket (one tiny nick).
HEADING WEST.
New York: Knopf, 1981. Cloth and boards. First edition. Review photo and flyer laid in. Inscribed and signed by the author in 1982, and with an a.pc.s. laid in, a warm response to a visit from an appreciative reader. Top edge dust marked, otherwise a nice copy in dust jacket.....
HEADING WEST.
New York: Knopf, 1981. Printed wrappers. Uncorrected page proofs of the first edition. Inscribed and signed by the author. Promo label taped to upper wrapper and promo sheet stapled in, spine a bit sunned, read perhaps once or twice; a good copy.
WRITERS IN RESIDENCE AMERICAN AUTHORS AT HOME.
New York: Viking Press, [1981]. Quarto. Cloth and boards. Frontispiece. Black & white photographic illustrations. Introduction by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt. First edition. Signed inscription by the author on the title page. Fine, in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with a small snag at the top edge of upper panel. A......
THE YES AND NO OF CONTEMPORARY ART AN ARTIST'S EVALUATION.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957. Large octavo. Gilt cloth. Plates. First edition. Inscribed and signed by the author in the year of publication. A very good copy, in rather worn and dust-stained dust jacket.
SEARCH FOR NEW ARTS.
Red Wing, MN: Art History [i.e. the Author], 1979. 144,[2]pp. Quarto. Cloth. Photographs (including a few in color of his own works). Fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket with a bit of dust at the edges. First edition, clothbound issue. Inscribed and signed by the author. Biederman's observations on innovators.....
THE MONK AND THE HANGMAN'S DAUGHTER.
Chicago: F.J. Schulte & Co., 1892. Gray cloth, printed in black. Frontis and plates by Theodor Hampe. Text printed in black and red. Cloth a bit foxed and lightly soiled, otherwise a very good copy. First edition, clothbound issue, preceded by the copies in the two forms of printed wrappers.....
STAGE EXITS.
[Santa Cruz: Cowell College Press, Summer 1974]. Quarto. Open-sewn printed wrappers, with wallet flap. Wrappers somewhat spotted and soiled, a bit bumped and creased, flap a bit frayed along the fold, else a good copy. First edition of this apprentice work by the noted printer, printed in an edition of.....
THE IDOLS AN ODE.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1928. Small quarto. Cloth and boards. Moderate foxing early and late, foretips bumped, but a very good copy in lightly worn dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed by the author to his wife in the year of publication: "Cicely from Laurence 12 October 1928." Binyon and Cicely.....
NAGASHIZUKI THE JAPANESE CRAFT OF HAND PAPERMAKING.
North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1979. Small quarto. Quarter morocco and decorative Japanese paper over boards by E.G. Parrot. Illustrations by Robert Flavin. Fine, with prospectus laid in. First edition. An unnumbered copy, in addition to three hundred numbered copies printed on B&B Nagashizuki paper. In place of.....
BIRD & BULL PEPPER POT...CHOICE BITS OF UNCOMMON PAPERMAKING, PUBLISHING AND PRINTING HISTORY....
North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1977. Quarto. Quarter morocco and pastepaper boards. Plates and paper specimen. Fine. First edition. One of two hundred and fifty numbered copies, printed on handmade paper and bound by Gray Parrot. Inscribed by Morris at length in 1982 on the colophon denoting this.....
DILDOIDES.
[Kingston, RI]: Biscuit City Press, 1980. Octavo. Violet cloth over boads, gilt label. Illustrations. Fine in faintly shelf-soiled slipcase. First edition in this format. Illustrated with two original full-page handcolored etchings, and an etched tail-piece, by Gerrard Charrière. Preface by Roger Thompson. One of 88 numbered copies handprinted in Rives.....
ACT OF DARKNESS.
New York: Scribner, 1935. Decorated cloth. About fine in lightly edgeworn, very good dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed by the author: "To Thomas Thompson with confidence that he has a career as a novelist before him. John Peale Bishop. Boulder July 29, l937." The recipient may have been the prolific.....
MINUTE PARTICULARS.
New York: The Alcestis Press, 1935. Printed wrappers. Near fine in lightly chipped glassine dust jacket. First edition. One of 135 numbered copies on rag paper, signed by the author, from a total edition of 165 copies. A good association copy, bearing Bishop's presentation inscription dated a couple of years.....
THE PANIC, AS SEEN FROM PARNASSUS; AND OTHER POEMS.
New York: T.J. Crowen, 1860. Brown cloth, ruled in blind, lettered in gilt. First edition of this collection by the editor of THE WHIG REVIEW. Inscribed presentation copy from "the author," in the year of publication. Crown of spine chipped, a couple light spots to upper board, neatly and properly.....
PIRATES OF THE UNIVERSE.
New York: TOR, [1996]. Gilt lettered boards. Fine in near fine dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed by the author: "For ... admired colleague & valued friend. Terry B."
DARIEL A ROMANCE OF SURREY.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1897. Original navy blue cloth, lettered in gilt, ruled in blind. Frontis. Inner hinges slightly cracked, some foxing early and late and at edges, cloth a trifle worn, but a good copy. First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title: "To.....