Quotables From 1978.
Mt. Horeb, WI: The Perishable Press, 1979. First edition. [12] pp. Unprinted sewn wrappers with dust jacket. One of 150 copies printed. Fine copy, publisher's prospectus laid in. Hamady 93.
Mt. Horeb, WI: The Perishable Press, 1979. First edition. [12] pp. Unprinted sewn wrappers with dust jacket. One of 150 copies printed. Fine copy, publisher's prospectus laid in. Hamady 93.
Springdale Township, WI: Perishable Press, 1969. First Edition. Original wrappers. Sewn brown wrappers with blind-embossed jacket. One of 167 copies printed, signed by Hamady. Very slight rubbing to corners. Hamady 26.
Verona: Privately Printed by Gabriel Rummonds, 1971. First edition. Tan paper boards, lettered in red on the front board, publisher's cardboard slipcase. Slipcase shows some minor handling wear, book fine. One of 80 numbered copies, signed by the authors. Ten poems in Italian, French, English, and Latin by Max [Paolo].....
New York: James Laughlin/New Directions, 1958. First edition thus. 76 pp. Brown paper boards lettered in gilt on the front board and the spine, with the publisher's slipcase with printed label. One of 200 numbered copies, signed by Pound. Gallup A75.
New York: New Directions, 1969. First edition. 41 pp. Red cloth boards, printed paper label on the spine, in publisher's slipcase with label. One of 310 copies printed, signed by Pound. Gallup A91c.
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]: 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: 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.....
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.
Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press, 1975. First edition. Original wrappers. First edition, one of 200 copies printed. Stiff card wrappers with folded-on dust jacket. Title and colophon by Reynolds Stone. The first in a series of collections of Latin inscriptions assembled by Sparrow and John Gere. Some toning to covers, front.....
San Francisco: Twowindows Press, 1970. First edition. Original Wraps. [12 pp]. Red printed wrappers, sewn. One of 300 copies, of a total edition of 350. Extremely slight sunning to spine, still a fine copy.
Paris: Hours Press, n.d. [1930]. First edition. 50, [3] pp. Decorative paper boards over brown leather backstrip, spine lettered in gilt. Touch of rubbing to head and tail of spine and corners, else fine. One of 200 numbered copies, signed by the author. Cover photomontage designs by Len Lye.....
Deyá, Majorca: The Seizin Press, 1935. First edition. Single sheet of cream laid paper, folded twice, unbound, to form [8] pp. [1], title-page, [2], blank, [3-6], text, [7-8], blank. Top edge cut. Some edgewear and minor browning and spotting. A poem which later became part II of "Disclaimer.....
Locust Valley: The Four Winds Press, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. One of 75 copies printed by Henry Schniewind. Marbled paper boards over red morocco spine, lettered in gilt. Presents a hitherto unpublished letter from 1948 from Bruce Rogers to Winifred Howe, secretary to his good friend Henry Watson Kent of.....
New York: William E. Rudge's Sons, 1955. First edition thus. Hardcover. Decorated paper boards over cloth, top edge gilt. Designed by Bruce Rogers and printed at the Stinehour Press. Of a total edition of 600 copies, one of 100 copies with special imprint, signed by Bruce Rogers. A fine copy.....
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.....
Iowa City: The Windhover Press, 1969. First edition. 50 pp. Burgundy cloth, lettered in gilt on the front board and spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Spine a bit faded, as usually seen, else fine. One of 280 numbered copies, signed by the author. One of Snyder's most beautiful and.....
Berkeley: Sombre Reptiles, 1981. First edition. Original Wraps. [12 pp]. Sewn wrappers with narrow printed cover label. One of 26 copies printed. A fine copy of a typically mysterious and elegant Sombre Reptiles production.
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.....
New York: George Wittenborn, 1969. First American edition. 368 pp. Full green buckram, lettered and decorated in gilt, with the dust jacket and publisher's slipcase. Mild edgewear to jacket, top jacket corners slightly bumped with some fraying; slipcase bumped at top corner with thumb nick to front edge; book fine.....
Berkeley: Tangram, 2001. First Edition. Original wrappers. One of 150 copies printed. [15] pp. String-sewn Japanese paper wrappers with mounted printed label. Inscribed by the author to Adrienne [Rich], and signed by him on the copyright page. Minor handling wear, near fine copy.
Winona: Sutton Hoo Press, 2003. First edition. Unpaginated. Full gray cloth with printed label on front board wrapped to spine. One of 200 numbered copies, signed by the author and illustrator. Extremely slight sunning to spine, else fine.
Iowa City: The Stone Wall Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. First ediiton, one of 230 copies printed, of this early collection. 48 pp. Salmon-colored paper boards, lettered in gilt on the front cover. Spine very slightly sunned, some rubbing to head of spine. Interior fine.
Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Full linen. One of only 30 numbered copies, case bound by Donald Rojo in an original fabric by Joe & Anna Burgess and signed by Tate; there were also 1030 copies bound in wrappers & 250 in boards in the edition. Fine.....
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.....