BLACK SUN THE BRIEF TRANSIT AND VIOLENT ECLIPSE OF HARRY CROSBY.
New York: Random House, [ 1976]. Cloth. Photographs. First edition. Very good in dust jacket.
War Literature
BLACK SUN THE BRIEF TRANSIT AND VIOLENT ECLIPSE OF HARRY CROSBY.
New York: Random House, [1976]. Large octavo. Cloth. Photographs. Near fine in dust jacket. First edition. A cultural history, and literary biography, of a short and excruciatingly fascinating life.
WAR POEMS BY "X."
London: Martin Secker, [1916]. Printed light green wrappers. Second impression (7th thousand), published the month after the first impression (in cloth). Old external tape mend at toe of spine, a few nicks, otherwise about very good.
LA STANZA ENORME [THE ENORMOUS ROOM].
[Milan]: Baldini & Castoldi, [2014]. Decorated wrappers, publication band. Italian language edition of this 1922 autobiographical novel concerning Cummings' temporary imprisonment in France during WWI. Edited, with a prefatory essay, by Patrizia Collesi. Bumped at foretip, else near fine, with printed bellyband.
RELÈVE INTO MAQUIS.
Derby: The Grasshopper Press, 1944. [4]pp. Folded leaflet. About fine. First edition. One of 250 copies printed by Kenneth Hopkins. A second, close-to-facsimile printing was made in 1979,
RELÈVE INTO MAQUIS.
Derby: The Grasshopper Press, 1944. [4]pp. Folded leaflet. About fine. First edition. One of 250 copies printed by Kenneth Hopkins. A second, close-to-facsimile printing was made in 1979,
CARTAGENA AND THE BANKS OF THE SINÚ.
London: Heinemann, 1920. Large octavo, Red cloth, lettered in black. Frontis. Usual slight tan offset to blanks at front and rear, but a very good copy, clothed in a significantly chipped (but uncommon) printed dust jacket. First edition of Cunninghame Graham's account of his special wartime mission to Cartagena and...
FATAL LIGHT.
New York: Dutton, [ 1988]. Cloth and boards. First edition. Fine in dust jacket.
FATAL LIGHT.
New York: Dutton, [ 1988]. Cloth and boards. First edition. Fine in dust jacket.
FATAL LIGHT.
New York: Dutton, [ 1988]. Cloth and boards. First edition. Review flyer and photo laid in. Fine in dust jacket.
CAPTAIN MACKLIN HIS MEMOIRS...ILLUSTRATED BY WALTER APPLETON CLARK.
New York: Scribner's, 1902. Frontis. Plates. Gilt pictorial cloth. First edition, first binding. A good, bright copy.
REAL SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE.
London: Heinemann, 1907. Cherry red cloth, stamped in black and gilt. Illustrated. First edition, British issue, comprised of American sheets with a cancel title leaf and British binding. Upper edge of front board faded, else a nice, bright copy. Includes chapters on Churchill and William Walker.
... THE REPORTER WHO MADE HIMSELF KING ... FROM A STORY BY ....
Hollywood: ZIV Television, Inc., 20 November 1953. 7,[2],43 leaves, plus lettered inserts. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only of blue and white stock. Bradbound in production company wrappers. Some annotations, otherwise a very good copy. A "Final Master Script" of this adaptation for the FAVORITE STORY series (production 43b)...
CUBA IN WAR TIME.
New York: R. H. Russell, 1897. Printed boards, t.e.g, others rough trimmed. Frontis and 23 plates by Frederic Remington and from photographs. First edition. Some rubbing at extremities, 1897 ownership inscription; an otherwise very good, sound copy, without the printed dust jacket.
NOVELS AND STORIES OF RICHARD HARDING DAVIS.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916. Twelve volumes. Large octavo. Elegantly bound in full red crushed morocco, elaborately gilt extra, t.e.g., others untrimmed, silk endsheets, by Stikeman for Scribner. Portraits and frontispieces. Bookplate in each volume on preliminary blank, spines very slightly darkened, with slight rubbing at tips, otherwise a......
CARRY ON LETTERS IN WAR-TIME.
New York, London & Toronto: John Lane / S.B. Gundy, 1917. Gilt cloth. Portrait. First (U.S.) edition of this series of letters by the Anglo-American novelist, then serving with the CEF. Later ink inscription, otherwise a very good copy with panels of the dust jacket laid in.
CARRY ON LETTERS IN WAR-TIME.
New York, London & Toronto: John Lane/S.B. Gundy, 1917. Gilt tan cloth. Portrait. Introduction by W.J. Dawson. First edition. Front free endsheet excised, else a good copy.
THE TEST OF SCARLET A ROMANCE OF REALITY.
New York & London: John Lane Company, 1919. Red cloth, stamped in black. Edges lightly foxed, else near fine in pictorial dust jacket with small nicks at corners. First edition of this novel about a "sacrifice battery" in the final days of the war. Uncommon in dust jacket.
THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER.
Newark, DE: The Press of Kells, Inc., 1929. Large octavo. Cloth and decorated boards, foil label. Frontis. First edition. Inscribed presentation copy from the author in the year of publication. Corners bruised, otherwise a very good copy, without dust jacket (as issued?).
THE WAR EAGLE A CONTEMPORARY NOVEL.
New York & London: John Lane Co. / John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1918. Gilt pictorial cloth. Fine and bright, in very good, slightly worn pictorial dust jacket with several short creased edge-tears and a minor chip. First edition. Inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet to his...
POEMS 1943 - 1947.
New York: Oxford, 1948. Cloth. First U.S. edition. Fine in trifle darkened dust jacket.
NEW FACE IN THE MIRROR.
Cleveland: World, [1959]. Cloth and boards. Second printing, but inscribed and signed by the author in Hebrew in the year of publication. Fine in bit nicked and worn dust jacket graced by a photo of the author (daughter of General Dayan, by Man Ray.
THE BURNING GLASS AND OTHER POEMS INCLUDING THE TRAVELER.
New York: Viking, 1945. Cloth. First U.S. edition. About fine in a very good, lightly rubbed dust jacket with a small closed tear and a small chip from the upper edge of the lower panel.
INWARD COMPANION POEMS.
London: Faber and Faber, [ 1950]. Cloth. First edition. Fine in very good dust jacket with fraying along top edge.
FOR THE SAKE OF ALL LIVING THINGS.
New York: Bantam, [ 1990]. Cloth and boards. First edition. Fine in dust jacket.