Sausalito, CA: The Post-Apollo Press, 1988. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Paperback. Book is in very good condition, with some very minor thumbing to first and last group of pages, and faint spotting to bottom edge. Originally published in French, and here translated to English by Joseph Simas along with Anthony... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1925. Numbered, Limited Edition. Hardcover. Numbered, limited edition (#488/1000). Poet's first book. Bluish-gray boards with minor rubbing to extremities. Corners a bit nudged, but clean and tight elsewise. Paste-on label (title, author, year) to front board. and title label to spine. Stained, edgeworn and chipped... More
London: Rivington, Payne, Walker, et al, 1811. Leather_bound. xxxiv, 216 pages. Frontis of Beattie, three plates. Tan calf with gilt decorations to cover and spine compartments. Small octavo. All edges gilt. Spine title in gilt. Corners bumped, edgewear and outer front hinge chafed. Interior bright, clean. Nice copy. Beattie [1735-1803]... More
![LEAVES FROM A GRASS HOUSE [SIGNED]. Don Blanding](/pictures/thumb/75567.jpg?v=1543439388)
Honolulu, Hawaii: DeGroat Publishing, 1923. 5th. Signed in ink "Aloha, Don Blanding". 1923. Stated Fifth Edition. Bound in tan grass weave binding. Paperback copy with the front wrap attached to the grass weave with two cutouts for the Title and also Don Blanding's name to show through. Thus, the front... More
Kilmarnock: M'Kie & Drennan, 1876. Hardcover. REVISED AND EXTENDED. Corners nudged and rubbed to cardboard. Spine caps rubbed and gently folded under. A few worn spots to both volumes' boards. Mild spine leans. Age-tanning. Frontispiece, Vol. First, portrait of Robert Burns with tissue guard. Gilt titles, illustrations and rules to... More
Waldron Island: Brooding Heron Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. One of 274 copies printed on Mohawk Letterpress. 37 pages. Brown linen cloth with paper label to cover and spine. Bump to top corner. Interior fine. More
Cambridge, Mass: Richard Brukenfeld, 1955. First Edition. Paperback. Scarce first edition of Corso's first book in staple-bound wraps with white covers titled in black and blue on front and priced "one dollar" in black on back. Sunning and light staining as is common for this edition. A small tear to... More
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1977. Paperback. 72 pages. Illustrated wraps. Interior clean and bright in sound binding. Cover has light edgewear and a small ding at bottom of spine, General wear along the spine, and some scratches or light flecking to front wrap. Rear wrap has tiny tear at bottom. More
New York: New Directions, 1942. Henri Matisse. Hardcover. 8vo. 8.75" x 6". Several loose and detached pages. "Charles Ford looks in the mirror of certain poems of Baudelaire and writes what he sees. These adaptations are not translations in the strict word-for-word sense." (From front flap). More
Paris: Librairie Alphonse Lemerre, 1929. Hardcover. IN FRENCH. Moderate rubbing to spine and board edges. Spine caps with 3, .25" or smaller open tears to top and bottom. Bottom spine cap, 3/8" x .25" open tear. Corners bumped. Front hinge professionally reinforced. Faded gilt top edge. Foxing to front and... More
London: Blackwood, Le Bas and Co., 1902. Hardcover. TOP EDGES GILT. Very light rubbing to extremities. Acid transfer to endpapers. A few nudged corners. Slight spine leans. Text and edges age-tanned. Some spotting to text edges. Gilt titles and crest to spines with gilt titles and portrait to fronts of... More
![THE CANDLE IN THE CABIN : A WEAVING TOGETHER OF SCRIPT AND SINGING [SIGNED COPY]. VACHEL LINDSAY](/pictures/thumb/76165.jpg?v=1559242095)
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed, dated [November 6, 1929] and signed by Vachel Lindsay on the front endpaper with the whole page filled with a poem written in his hand. 130 pages. Illustrated throughout with pen and ink drawings by the author. Nore: The... More
New York: H. Ingalls Kimball, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (7 7/8" x 5 3/8"). Yellow, cloth-covered boards with spine label with black lettering faded, and paste-on label with title and author, to front board. Boards smudged all around. All edges untrimmed. Tightly bound, no markings. 210 pp. Printed by... More
New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1923. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 54 pp. Green paper boards with front board paste-on label, buff with mathing green border and delicate script stating "A Dinner of Herbs"/Poems by/Nancy Barr Mavity. The nine or so decades since publication have washing away much of the green color on... More
Boston: Roberts Bros. 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. 205 pages plus 8 pages of reviews of Miller's work. Terra cotta cloth, octavo. Gilt decoration of cover and spine titles in gilt. Some light wear at head and tail of spine, bit of edgewear, textblock square, binding tight. Interior clean... More
Boston, Mass: Peirce and Parker, 1833. Hardcover. 6” x 3.75”. Tan, cloth, covered. Boards debossed with floral/leaf pattern. 4", straight, closed tear to spine and .25 inch missing cloth from top and bottom. 30 pp. Quite scarce. OCLC only lists two copies of the actual book in any library. Contains... More
Norfolk, Virginia: New Directions, [1926] 1946. Hardcover. No Date. 1946. 231 pages. Blue cloth with titles in gilt on cover and spine. Corners bumped, light wear to head and tail of spine, cover bright. Some offsetting to endpapers, text clean and bright. Gift inscription [see below] and small sticker from... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1958. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. STATED FIRST EDITION. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Very light shelfwear. Gilt lettering on spine of black, cloth-covered boards. Sunning to jacket spine. White lettering on spine and front of apple green colored front. Jacket now Mylar protected... More
Glen Echo, Maryland: Lock Seven Books, 1995. Paperback. First published in 1984, this is the twelfth edition, 1999. 141 pages, index. Stiff paper wraps, stringbound. Octavo. Paper label on front wrap and spine. Light soiling to wraps. Photo Blue Ridge Mountains on Appalachian Trail. Preface states that these are poems... More
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1854. Leather_bound. xx,372 pages. Full calf binding with ruled borders, five raised bands with gilt decoration to spine and black spine label with title in gilt. Octavo. Corners bumped, edgewear, small tear at head of spine, label bright, spine decorations dulled. Light wear to... More
Buffalo, NY: Charles Wells Moulton, 1898. Hardcover. Corners nudged, minor staining to boards, and some rubbing to extremities. Top edge gilt, fore-edge and bottom trimmed. Bound in green boards, with gilt lettering and decoration. 288 pp. A compilation of poems by, of and about doctors. More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Binding "B", featuring a blue and silver city skyline repeating within grids across boards, is generally agreed to be the less common of the two bindings, and was issued in a run of only 1392 copies. Previous owner's bookplate -- graphic... More
Holyoke, Massachusetts: Elizabeth Towne, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Green half-leather (possibly later?) over olive-green suede boards. Laid in frontispiece photo of author with holographic inscription ("Send forth thy thought - create - Create!) and signature on glossy leaf. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper with 1906 date. Lovely red... More
