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n.p. Tarasque Press, 1968. First edition. [20] pp. Stapled wrappers with printed dust jacket. Slight foxing to jacket, slight creasing to spine. Drawings by Robert Frame. Murray 3.27.
n.p. Tarasque Press, 1968. First edition. [20] pp. Stapled wrappers with printed dust jacket. Slight foxing to jacket, slight creasing to spine. Drawings by Robert Frame. Murray 3.27.
[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.....
Basel: Edition Fanel, 1981. First edition. [16] leaves, folded once. Unbound leaves, laid into a chemise, housed in publisher’s slipcase, as issued. Fine copy. One of 200 numbered copies, signed by Oppenheim. Sixteen poems, written between 1933 and 1957, accompanied by fifteen color serigraphs on embossed sheets, one with.....
Oxford and Tehran: The Amate Press, 1976. First edition. vi, 40 pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Some minor cover wear and toning. One of 350 numbered copies. Mirrlees is best known for her 1926 fantasy tale Lud-in-the-Mist and the modernist poem Paris, published by the Hogarth Press in 1919. Much.....
New York: Julien Levy Gallery, 1945. Single sheet, folded once to form [4] pp. Slight edgewear, minor staining to center crease. Slight transfer ghost to rear cover, as often seen. Exhibition brochure designed by Marcel Duchamp, cover image based on a photograph by Czech filmmaker Alexander Hackenschmied. Includes.....
Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1913. First edition. 15 pp. Black wrappers with printed paper label on front cover. Some handling wear, slightest chipping to spine. The first book by one of the founders of the Dada movement. Together with her partner and future husband Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara.....
[Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943. First edition. [36] pages. Stapled printed wrappers. Slight toning to covers, very minor spotting to lower edge of front cover. Contents clean and bright. “In 1942, Geisel joined the United States’ efforts in World War II. As commanding captain of the animation.....
Paris: [Les Presses du Montparnasse], 1923. First edition. [57] pp. Printed wrappers. Inevitable toning to leaves, else a fine copy of a fragile production. 180 copies were printed; this one of the 100 copies on vergé, unnumbered and unsigned. Frontispiece by Max Ernst, drypoint on chine, mounted, signed in.....
Paris: Éditions Cahiers d’Art, 1947. First edition. [48] pp. Plain wrappers with attached dust jacket. Some toning to cover extremities, minor handling wear, near fine. One of 500 numbered copies, although Eluard noted that only 258 copies were printed due to a lack of paper. Eluard’s poignant tribute to.....
Paris: Editions Narcisse, 1928. First edition. [96] pp. Printed wrappers with French flaps. Some toning to extremities, spine a little browned. One of 200 numbered copies printed by Roger Lescaret for Harry and Caresse Crosby. Raised in Wyoming, Gerard Vernon Wallop, 9th Earl of Portsmouth, Viscount Lymington, fell in.....
The Hague: The Servire Press, 1934. First edition. 77, [3] pp. Publisher’s printed wrappers, with the original glassine, plain cardboard slipcase. Slight foxing to wrappers, spine slightly browned, else fine. Illuminated initial, tailpiece and cover designs are by Lucia Joyce. With the Servire Press imprint only on the title-page. Slocum.....
Lexington, KY: Gnomon Press, 1970. First edition. Brown cloth boards, paper spine label lettered in black, photograph mounted on front board. According to Jonathan Williams, from whose collection this copy came, one of fifteen copies bound in boards, signed by Meatyard on the half-title and by Wendell Berry at his.....
Black Mountain, NC: Sad Devil Press/Jargon, 1952. First edition. Single folio sheet folded into sixths, printed by Joel Oppenheimer at Black Mountain College, with four tipped-in plates of drawings by Paul Ellsworth tipped in. As usually seen, the poor adhesive has meant that the plates have come loose from the.....
Key West: no publisher, 1986. First edition. One of one hundred copies printed (none of which were for sale). Single sheet, folded and laid into an unprinted green wrapper. Inscribed by Merrill on the title-page to Richard Howard. Fine copy. Hagstrom and Morgan A64.
London: Bloomsbury, 2000. First U.K. edition. 525 pp. Black boards, spine lettered in silver, with the dust jacket. Mild rubbing to head and tail of spine, slight wear to jacket corners and extremities. Signed and dated 28.9.2000 by Atwood on the title-page. Winner of the Booker Prize.
New York: Horizon Press, n.d. [1967]. First edition. 264 pp. Oatmeal cloth, lettered in black on the spine and blind on the front board, with the dust jacket. Slight browning to board edges, minor edgewear to jacket. Inscribed by Boyle on the title-page, with a further holograph note by her.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1974. First edition. 42 pp. Light blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. The last published collection of Larkin's verse to be published in his lifetime. 42 pp. Slight sunning to board edges, else fine. Bloomfield A10a. 6142 copies were printed.
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.
[Mt. Horeb]: The Perishable Press, 1966. Broadside. 8 1/4 x 11 inches. Slight softening to upper left corner, else fine. One of eighty-five copies, printed on variegated papers handmade from rags by Walter Hamady for Joel and Helen Oppenheimer on the occasion of their marriage, 6 June 1966.....
London: The Egoist, 1916. First edition. [6], 7-19, [3] pp. Printed wrappers, single staple. Minor foxing, staple rusted. A scarce collection of pacifist poetry. OCLC locates six copies in the US.
[Chicago]: Ken Nordine, 1956. Single sheet, printed on recto and verso and folded four times to create sixteen panels. Light wear, else fine. Ken Nordine is best known for his “word jazz” recordings, first issued on Dot Records in 1957. A prolific voice-over artist whose career spanned decades.....
Boston: Privately Printed [Merrymount Press], 1923. First edition. [4], 5-11, [1] pp. String-sewn printed wrappers. Some handling wear, spine beginning to split slightly at head and tail. One of one hundred copies printed by D.B. Updike. Mary Byers Smith was the co-founder of the Hampshire Bookshop in Northampton, Massachusetts, and.....
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.....