Life on Mars [first edition]
Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2011. First edition. 75 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Very slight edgewear, else fine. The breakthrough third book by the future U.S. poet laureate, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2011. First edition. 75 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Very slight edgewear, else fine. The breakthrough third book by the future U.S. poet laureate, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Tujunga, CA: Peter Holland, Christopher, Louise and Robert Haas, 1947. First edition. Single sheet, folded twice to form [4] pages, printed in black and red. Slight handling wear, slightly musty, near fine. One of about 100 copies distributed to friends by Robert and Louise Haas. A previously unpublished extract from.....
New York: Albondocani Press, 1968. First edition. [8] leaves, double folded, sewn into Florentine decorated paper wrappers, printed paper label on front cover. Fine copy. One of 150 numbered copies in wrappers, this is number 1. The play is here printed from Stein’s original manuscript in the Beinecke Library at.....
[Firenze: Tip. Galileiana propr. Cappelli], n.d. [1912]. First edition. [1], 2-11, [12] pp. Original Florentine wallpaper sewn wrappers, printed label on front cover. Slight edgewear all around, otherwise an unusually bright and clean example of a fragile item normally found in much lesser condition. This copy with the publisher’s imprint.....
New York: The Grafton Press, 1909. First edition. 279, [1] pp. Publisher’s navy cloth, lettered in gilt on the front board and spine. No dust jacket, as issued, per Wilson. Mild rubbing to head and tail of spine and corners, a bright, square copy. One of 1000 copies, of.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. First edition thus. Original Wraps. String-sewn pictorial wrappers. Drawings by Herbert F. Roese. Issued as No. 4 of the Borzoi Chapbooks. Small bump to rear panel, else a fine copy with the original envelope, which is slightly tanned.
Philadelphia: J. & A.Y. Humphreys, 1812. First American edition. Hardcover. First American edition. 12mo. 230 pp. Full polished calf, lettered and decorated in gilt and blind. Gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Portrait frontispiece. Corners and edges rubbed, foxing to preliminaries. Ownership inscription dated 1815 on title-page. One leaf.....
Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, 2002. First edition. Original wrappers. 48 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Minor surface wear, near fine. The second collection by the former Poet Laureate.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. 49 pp. Black paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. 49 pp. Slight bump to head of spine, else fine. Trethewey's third collection of poems, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Later reissued with a different cover design, Pulitzer seal, and.....
Cumberland, IA: Pterodactyl Press, n.d. [c. 1984]. First edition. Original Wraps. String-sewn printed wrappers. "This poem, written for Oliver H. Lowry, was privately distributed by the author.... handset in Garamont [sic] and printed letterpress in an edition of 125 copies" --OCLC (four copies located). Fine with slightly toned original envelope.....
New York: United Artists Books, 1982. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition. 43 pp. Printed perfect-bound wrappers. Fine copy. Journals originally written in 1970 by a poet who was an important associate of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E movement. Charles Bernstein wrote of her, "Weiner is one of the great American linguistic inventors.....
San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, 1958. First edition. Original wrappers. Drawings by Jess Collins. Unpaginated. String-sewn printed wrappers. Text lithographed from Jess' holograph. A remarkably fresh, fine copy of one of the earlier White Rabbit imprints. Johnston A9.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1994. First edition. 72 pp. Tan cloth, lettered in purple on the spine and decorated in blind on the front board, with the dust jacket. Photographs of Wood interspersed with quotations by her reflecting the wisdom of decades. Signed by Wood on the title-page and dated.....
Zurich: Scalo, 1998. First edition in English of this monograph on Woodman and her short career, with beautiful reproductions of her haunting photographs. Preface by Hervé Chandès, texts by Philippe Sollers, David Levi Strauss, Elizabeth Janus and Sloan Rankin. Originally published in French by Actes Sud/Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain.....
San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art/D.A.P. Distributed Art Publishers, 2011. First edition. 224 pp. Full maroon cloth, lettered in blind on the front board and the spine, with the dust jacket. Published in conjunction with the major exhibition of Woodman's work at SFMOMA and the Guggenheim Museum. Essays.....
London: Hogarth Press, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Gilt-stamped purple cloth. 15 pp. Illustrated with six black & white drawings by Duncan Grant. A children's story written by Woolf for her niece Ann Stephen, discovered within the text of the manuscript of Mrs. Dalloway at the British Museum and first published.....
New York: The Ecco Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 60 pp. Gray paper boards over blue cloth backstrip, spine lettered in silver, with the dust jacket. Slight wear to lower edge of jacket, else fine. Wright's eighth collection, and first to be published by a major commercial publisher.
New York: Macmillan, 1937. First edition. 63 pp. Yellow cloth, lettered and blocked in brown, with the dust jacket. Pastedowns browned from binder's glue, endemic to this title, with minor darkening to exterior hinges. Jacket spine a bit browned with slight chipping at head, top corner clipped with new price.....
[n.p.]: Transitions, 1982. First edition. 96 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Spine slightly faded, near fine. Contains 63 of Zürn’s anagrammatic poems, with the original German and French translations, along with illustrations and reproductions of her original texts. Preface by Françoise Buisson; commentary and medical documents assembled by J.F. Reverzy;.....
Paris: Le Point Cardinal, 1962. First edition. Single sheet, folded three times. Slight toning, small stain to head of rear panel, else fine. Reproduces a drawing by Zürn, with an indecipherable calligraphic text by Max Ernst. A limited edition with an original print was published in an edition of.....