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Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2005. First edition. Original Wraps. Uncorrected proof copy. Original printed wrappers. 134 pp. Small bump to lower corner, still a just about fine copy.
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2005. First edition. Original Wraps. Uncorrected proof copy. Original printed wrappers. 134 pp. Small bump to lower corner, still a just about fine copy.
Maidstone (Kent): 1935. Single sheet broadside, printed in two columns. One of fifty numbered copies printed, reprinted from the Kent Messenger, March 23rd, 1935. Single old fold line, overall near fine. Inscribed by the author in his miniscule hand at the top left corner, dated Easter 1935.
New York: Lustrum Press, 1984. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition of this typically beautiful and emotional photographic tone-poem. 64 pp. Original glossy printed wrappers, as issued. Lower front corner of cover very slightly bumped, else a just about fine copy. Inscribed by Michals on the half-title, "wake up!"
Brooklyn: n.d., c. 1954. Original Wraps. Single sheet, folded to make [4] pp. Leaflet for an exhibition of "former Brooklynite" Henry Miller's paintings at the Montague Branch, Brooklyn Public Library November 1-13. Date from Shifreen & Jackson, A91n. Presents a bio, artist statements, and a list of books by Miller.....
1946-1980. Original Wraps. Four Henry Miller bibliographies, published between 1946 and 1980. Included are: Bern Porter. Henry Miller: A Chronology and Bibliography. Bern Porter, 1945. One of 500 numbered copies. Thomas H. Moore. Bibliography of Henry Miller. Henry Miller Literary Socity, 1961. One of 1000 numbered copies. Maxine Renken. A......
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 212 pp. Red boards over black cloth backstrip, spine lettered in red and silver, with the dust jacket. Minor rubbing to head and tail of spine and corners; the jacket shows heavier rubbing with a couple of small chips and.....
Bologna: Edizioni della Lanterna, 1960. First edition. Original Wraps. Red printed wrappers. [56] pp. One of 550 copies printed. Head of spine very slightly bumped, else a fine copy. Text in Italian with English translations of the poems by Lowell.
Sudbury, MA: Water Row Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, one of 3000 copies printed. 111 pp. Original printed boards, no jacket as issued. Thurston Moore's first major collection of poems, song lyrics, memoirs, observations, old photographs, &c. Very slight spotting to page edges, and extremely minor handling wear.....
New York: Printed for Marshall Ayres Best, 1927. First edition. 24 pp. Parchment backstrip over paper boards, front board lettered and decorated in gilt. Top edge gilt. Some minor surface wear, near fine. One of twelve numbered copies printed for private distribution, this is number 8. Morrison was a longtime.....
Northampton, MA: Hampshire Typothetae, 1979. Single sheet, folded, with printed leaf laid in. Wood engraving by Moser, printed by Harold McGrath. A keepsake issued on the occasion of Moser's address to the Typophiles Luncheon, March 21, 1979. Fine copy.
Dublin, Ireland/Old Deerfield, MA: The Deerfield Press/The Gallery Press, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, one of 300 copies printed. Hand-colored woodcut by Timothy Engelland. Printed by Harold McGrath at the Hampshire Typothetae, in Hatfield, Massachusetts, and bound by hand at Antiquarian Bookcrafts, Ltd., in Dublin. Signed by Muldoon on.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. Paperback. Advance issue of chapters 1 and 11-13 of Murakami's magnum opus. Printed wrappers reproducing Chip Kidd's iconic design for the dust jacket. A fine copy.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1947. First edition. 145 pp. Light blue paper boards, lettered and blocked in black, with the dust jacket. Minor toning to board edges, jacket shows some minor rubbing to extremities. Edited by Grant Code, with a foreword by W.H. Auden, the first volume he selected.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First American edition. Two volumes. x, 725; [726]-1774 pp. Black paper boards over black cloth backstrip, spine stamped in gray, with the dust jackets, in publisher's slipcase. The first English translation to present the complete text. Translated by Sophie Wilkins and Burton Pike. Some.....
New York: Henry Holt, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. First edition of Nemerov's first book. 71 pp. Black cloth, spine gilt, with the dust jacket. Lower corner bumped, jacket has some minor toning and slight rubbing at the head of the spine.
Boone Tolliver Press, 1977. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition, self-published, of this collection of poems and song lyrics by the noted composer, singer, balladeer, and collector of traditional songs. Original printed wraps. Text printed letterpress. Some surface wear to exterior of wraps, interior clean and tight.
Paris: Edward W. Titus, at the Sign of the Black Manikin, 1932. First edition. 146 pp. Deep blue buckram, spine and front board lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. The jacket shows some edgewear with some very minor chipping, lower corners very slightly bumped, but overall a very clean.....
New York: NO, 1977. First edition. [28] pp. Stapled wrappers. Second issue (of four) of the infamous punk zine; this issue is credited with giving the no wave movement its name. Fine copy, scarce thus.
[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.....
Ann Arbor: Bear Claw Press, 1976. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition of Norman's scarce first book, preceding The Wishing Bone Cycle, which the author's note states is to be published in the spring of 1976. Norman went on to great acclaim for his further translations from the Algonquin, Cree.....
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. First edition of this posthumously published collection of stories by the great California author. Maroon cloth decorated and lettered in gilt on the front board and spine. 272 pp. Illustrations by Remington, Leyendecker, Hitchcock, and Hooper. BAL 15039, state A......
Portland: Breitenbush Publications, 1980. First edition. 61 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Some surface wear, lower rear corner slightly creased. Prices blacked out on rear cover. The first full-length collection by an acclaimed poet.
New York: W.W. Norton, 1977. First edition. 149 pp. Blue cloth backstrip over blue paper boards, with the dust jacket. Slight edgewear to jacket spine head and tail, bottom corner of front flap clipped (as common with Norton books from the era). Board edges a little sunned. O'Brien's first book.....
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1964. First edition. 74 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Pocket Poets Series 19. Slight edgewear, spine slightly darkened, a couple of small stray ink marks to front cover; a bright near fine or better copy. A much-loved modern classic. Smith A8. Cook, Pocket Poets, 55-56. Smith.....
Millerton, NY: SADEV, 1998. First edition. [23] pp. Sewn wrappers with attached dust jacket, front cover lettered in gilt. Frontispiece portrait. One of 250 copies printed for private distribution at the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona. O'More’s elegy to his wife, Lorea Honeycutt O'More (1936-1997). O'More is the enigmatic figure best known.....