San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1925. 1st Edition. Hardcover. We are pleased to offer this anthology of California poets which includes works from notables such as Mary Austin, Maynard Dixon, Stephen Vincent Benet and Robinson Jeffers. This book was printed for the club by John Henry Nash. This.....
San Francisco: The Porpoise Bookshop, Peregrine Press, 1955. Soft cover. This illustrated collection of poems, was published in 1955 by the Porpoise Bookshop, a San Francisco based shop that had a small press dedicated to printing original contemporary work. Description: Cream softcover portfolio with title printed in black on cover.....
London, UK: Golden Cockerel Press, 1950. Hardcover. This is book 499/500 of a limited printing of this lesser known poem by the esteemed Victorian era poet A. C. Swinburn. The book is cloth-bound with the front and back painted half in navy blue and half in yellow. The center front.....
The Club of Odd Volumes, 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Limited edition of 500. A presentation copy from Adams to the collector George Fitch, with a laid in Christmas card (from the Pierpont Morgan Library) to "George and Muriel" from "Betty and Fred". Fine in slipcase. $75.
Chapman & Hall, 1922. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Volume 1, no.1-4, of the literary magazine edited by Clifford Bax and Austin Osman Spare, bound the publisher's boards. While the boards show a century of wear, they have protected the interior wonderfully, including the original front wrappers of each number and the.....
Black Sparrow Press, 1995. Montfort, Michael. 1st Edition. Hardcover. No. 269 of 326 deluxe copies signed by photographer Michael Montfort, with a laid in original photographic print. Bukowski's account of his 1978 European trip, blending travelogue, poetry and photography. 9 x 10.75"
London: John Murray; John Hunt; James Cawthorn. Hardcover. Three volume 'set' of Byron's works assembled by the nineteenth-century English politician John Hodgetts Hodgetts Foley. Having acquired the third volume of John Murray's 1819 three volume 'Works of Lord Byron' he bound later works (and one earlier) to almost match. While.....
University of Toronto Press, 1997. Soft cover. The comprehensive reference work to Spenserian scholarship. Minor wear to the exterior, interior is clean and unmarked, making this a useful addition to any library. 12 x 9". As a large and heavy book this order may incur additional shipping charges.
Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Company. Dore, Gustave. Hardcover. Ornate early twentieth-century edition of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'. In addition to Dore's illustrations, each ruled page is adorned with appropriately nautical marginal illustrations. Leather covers with gilt embellishments. Corners worn, joints starting, wear to the covers. Marbled endpapers, all.....
Berkeley: Twowindows Press, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Beautifully printed selection of the poetry of Harry Crosby (1898-1929), who contributed to early modernist poetry both as a poet and the founder of the Black Sun Press, before dying in a suicide pact with his mistress. With an Introduction by Sy M......
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1980. Burkert, Nancy Ekholm. Hardcover. Deluxe edition in slipcase, limited to 750 copies signed by Jane Langton and Nancy Ekholm Burkert, of which this is no. 203. A lovely collection of Dickinson's poems, paired with paintings and drawings by Burkert, beautifully printed by the New.....
San Francisco: The California Historical Society. Hardcover. The definitive edition of Maynard Dixon's poetry, beautifully published in a limited edition of 1300 copies, introduced by Kevin Starr. The cream dust jacket is now protected in mylar. [i]-xxxiii, [1]-125pp. 10.25 x 6.75"
Jonathan Williams, 1958. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 'This is copy 126 of 'Letters' by Robert Duncan, with five drawings by the author of the ideal reader; set & printed by Claude Fredericks in Pawletl (Vermont); published by Jonathan Williams in Highlands (N.C.) as Jargon fourteen; copyright by the author mcmlviii.'.....
London: Newcomb, 1652. 1st Edition. Hardcover. ESTC R202008. Fisher Payne's effusive ode to Oliver Cromwell, with engraved plates offering unusually flattering portraits of the Protector. Cut down, effecting the running titles of the text. The title page, the page beginning "accedite lectores & docemini" printed in red and black, the.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A handsome copy of Gibran's fifth work. Spine slightly faded; previous owner's name on front fixed endpaper; bookseller's label to rear endpaper (Post Steet Book Shop); slight toning of pages with age. Single line on the copyright page, without indication of.....
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2014. Lethbridge, Julian. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Publication number 101 of the Arion Press, collecting 55 poems by Jorie Graham, with an introduction by Helen Vendler and 16 prints by Julian Lethbridge. 'The edition is limited to three hundred numbered copies for sale and twenty-six lettered copies.....
London: Old Bourne Press, 1902. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The complete second series of the Elf magazine, written, illustrated and printed by James Guthrie, using the 'Myrtle' type he would later use in his Pear Tree Press books. Four small quarto volumes, all numbered 250 (of 250), printed rectos only in.....
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899. Hardy, Thomas. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8.25" x 5.75". The first American edition of Hardy's first volume of verse, with 30 illustrations by the author. The green cloth binding with gilt lettering and image of the countryside is clean and bright, with.....
New York, NY: Bantam, 1974. Soft cover. An early printing of collection of eclectic philosophical poetry and prose. 150pp, off-white front cover with pictorial, black type for titles on cover and spine, rear is split between a pictorial and book reviews. Condition: Mild rubbing around edges and spine, moderately scuffed.....
Princeton University Press, 1982. Soft cover. 'Challenging the established history of sixteenth-century English literature, John N. King demonstrates the presence and significance of a native Protestant literary tradition that emerged out of the radical Reformation during the reign of Edward VI (1547-1553). Standard authorities have assumed a hiatus between the.....
Oyama, 1934. Giles Greenfield. Hardcover. A collection of Lafcadio Hearn's poetry designed by his son to include notes and illustrations from his father's notebook. From the Preface: "Among my father's relics I have found a note-book which contains Japanese comic poems about goblins and monsters and other odd subjects rendered.....
Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Parnassian Press, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A slim book of poetry. The limitation page declares: "This book is put forth in the Moon of the Falling Leaf, Nineteen Hundred & Thirty-Secen. From the Parnassian Press of Maurice Taylor. With Fronticepiece & Embellishments by Marceil Taylor, in an.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 8.5" x 5.5" SIGNED by author. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Robert Lowell American poet continues to astonish with the variety of his work. Dust jacket is price clipped and is chipped near head of spine and has a 1 cm tear.....
Cambridge University Press, 1993. Hardcover. Hardcover copy in an unclipped dust jacket of Martindale's work applying the procedures of modern critical theory to Latin poetry. [1]-xii,1-117 pages. 8 x 5.25"
London: Chatto & Windus, 1920. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8.5" x 7". Repaired first edition of the Poems of Wilfred Owen, with the 1920 title page. Unfortunately a previous owner cut out the frontispiece portrait of Owen. A high-quality reproduction has been professionally inserted, with a neat, clear line indicating the repair.....