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Praha: Zádruha, 1946. First edition. Unpaginated. Unprinted wrappers with dust jacket. Some toning, as always seen with this fragile production. The jacket has been reinforced on the verso at the edges and creases, with a chip missing from the bottom edge of the rear panel, now filled in by the.....
[New York]: New Directions, 1967. First edition. [11] leaves. Blue paper boards over tan linen backstrip, printed paper label on spine. Introductory note by Noel Stock. One of 110 copies, printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem in San Francisco, all signed by the author. Gallup A90. Fine copy.
New York: The Fuck You Press, 1967. First edition. [14] leaves. Side-stapled wrappers, front cover illustration by Joe Brainard. Some toning to extremities, else a fine copy, with a bit of offsetting from the printing process to the front cover and verso of front cover. One of 300 numbered copies.....
Paris: Contact Editions/Three Mountains Press, 1925. First edition. 925 pp. Thick large octavo. Red buckram, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, original wrappers not bound in. One of 500 copies, printed by Darantière, of which 100 sets of sheets were sent to Boni for the American edition. Spine sunned, some.....
London: Left Review, 1937. First edition. [32] pp. Original stapled printed wrappers. Covers detached and browned, small chip missing from top right corner of rear cover. Compiled by Nancy Cunard, with contributions from hundreds of authors, including Auden, Beckett, Ford, Spender, Huxley, Pankhurst, Waugh, Rebecca West, Pound, Eliot, Sackville-West, Blunden.....
Iowa City: The Windhover Press, 1982. First edition. 22 pp. Light brown patterned paper boards over brown cloth backstrip, printed paper label on spine. All edges slightly browned, else fine. One of 250 copies printed. Berger, Printing and the Mind of Merker, 79.
London: The Egoist Ltd, 1919. First edition. 51 pp. Deep gray-green paper boards over green cloth backstrip, printed paper label on spine. Text block edges foxed, else about fine. The error on p. 34 is not corrected in manuscript in this copy. Gallup A17a, one of 500 copies.
Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1912. First edition. 119 pp. Grey paper boards over parchment spine and corner tips, spine lettered in gilt. Exterior front hinge cracked, with corresponding tear on front pastedown, but holding; exterior rear hinge separating for several inches from top edge. A fragile book. Gallup B4a.....
Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 1981. First edition. 8, [28] pp. Full black cloth, printed paper label on spine. Edited with an introduction by Robin Skelton. An adaptation of a Provençal poem by the troubadour Peire Bremon. The adaptation was published in Pound's first two editions of Personae (1909 and.....
New York: Dim Gray Bar Press, 1994. First edition. [20] pp. Handmade paper wrappers, printed on the front cover, string-sewn. Minor sunning to edges, else fine. Cover illustration, repeated on title-page, by Guy Davenport. One of 100 numbered copies printed by Barry Magid at the Center for Book Arts, signed.....
Fairfax, CA: Taylor Street Press, 1983. First edition. 64 pp. Original printed wrappers. Kay Ryan was U.S. Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2010, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for her new and selected poems The Best of It, and in September 2011 was named a MacArthur Fellow. Her first.....
New York: The Gotham Book Mart, 1947. First edition. 44 pp. Printed paper boards over quarter cloth backstrip. Rubbing and browning to edges, corners bumped. Edel's brief and poignant account of his visit to Zurich and Joyce's grave. Inscribed by Edel on the front free endpaper and dated March 1947.....
[London]: [The Corvinus Press], 1937. First edition. [56] pp. Publisher’s flexible orange vellum, lettered in gilt on the front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. One of 175 numbered copies printed on Arnold handmade paper. Flaking to top edge of boards, occasional light spotting throughout, as always seen, due to.....
Foss, Pitlochry [Perthshire]: K.D. Duval [and] C.H. Hamilton, 1982. First edition thus. [8], 9-72], [10] pp. Quarter green morocco over laid paper boards, ruled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Publisher's slipcase. One of 150 copies for sale, of a total edition of 170 copies. Spine sunned.....
The Hague: The Servire Press, 1934. First edition. One of 1000 copies printed on Old Antique Dutch paper. Publisher’s printed wrappers, silver slipcase with pink printed label. Spine browned, else a fine copy, pages unopened, in a slipcase which is worn at the edges and lacking an inch-long piece from.....
Paris: Black Sun Press, 1929. First edition. xvi, 64 pp. Original printed wrappers, in publisher’s slipcase. One of 500 copies on Holland Van Gelder Zonen paper, of a total edition of 650 copies. Frontispiece portrait of Joyce by Brancusi. A fine copy with supplied later acetate wrapper, in the original.....
New York/Philadelphia: Octagon Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux/The Philip H. & A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation, 1975. First edition. One of 1775 numbered copies. Three volumes in publisher's slipcase. Full blue cloth lettered in white. Some rubbing to slipcase, volumes about fine. Critical introduction by Harry Levin, bibliographical preface by Clive Driver. Volumes.....
Galveston, TX: Energy Earth Communications, Inc., 1981. First edition. 66 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Slight abrasion to lower spine, likely from label removal, lower rear corner slightly creased. The uncommon first book by this important African-American poet, published ten years before her second collection.
London: Faber and Faber, 1964. First edition. 48 pp. Red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to top edge of jacket and spine creases, near fine. Collects Beckett's pieces Play, Words and Music, and Cascando. Federman & Fletcher 42.
n.p. M. Gira/Young God Records, 2012. First edition. Velo-bound cardstock covers. One of 1000 copies, numbered and signed on the cover. Of the eight stories, three were previously published in Gira's collection The Consumer. With the Somniloquist CD mounted on the inside rear cover, as issued. Fine copy. "I wrote.....
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989. First English language edition. 199 pp. Rose paper boards over black cloth backstrip, spine lettered in silver, with the dust jacket. Some minor toning to jacket, top and fore-edges slightly foxed. Translated by Michael Henry Heim, who has signed this copy on the.....
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990. First English language edition. 274 pp. Tan paper boards over black cloth backstrip, spine lettered in red, with the dust jacket. Fine copy.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. First English language edition. 135 pp. Dark gray paper boards over black cloth backstrip, spine lettered in red, with the dust jacket. Some minor handling wear to jacket, still about fine.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. First English language edition. 170 pp. Black paper boards over gray cloth backstrip, spine lettered in silver and copper, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to head and tail of spine, previous owner name on front free endpaper. Small stamped star on rear pastedown.....
New York: New Directions, 1998. First English language edition. 118 pp. Gray boards over black cloth backstrip, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Translated by Michael Henry Heim, who has signed this copy on the title-page. Fine copy.