Anil's Ghost [first edition, signed]
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2000. First edition. 311 pp. Black boards, lettered and decorated in silver, with the dust jacket. Fine copy, signed and dated (30.5.00) by Ondaatje on the title-page.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2000. First edition. 311 pp. Black boards, lettered and decorated in silver, with the dust jacket. Fine copy, signed and dated (30.5.00) by Ondaatje on the title-page.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2007. First edition. 276 pp. Black boards, spine lettered in copper, with the dust jacket. Fine copy, signed by Ondaatje on the title-page.
Basel: Edition Fanal, 1985. First edition. 25 folded sheets ([50] leaves), issued unbound, in publisher’s printed chemise and slipcase. Very slightest sunning to edges of slipcase and spine of chemise, else fine, contents fine. One of eighty-nine numbered copies, signed by Oppenheim, of a total edition of 103 copies.....
[Alès]: PAB, 1955. First edition. [16] pp. Unprinted string-sewn wrappers, with dust jacket. Head of spine and top corner a little bumped. One of 111 numbered copies initialed by the publisher Pierre-André Benoit. Illustration by Elie Lascaux. Inscribed on the front free endpaper by Lascaux to bibliographer, curator, and collector.....
New York: Viking Press, 1936. First edition. 210 pp. Publisher's red decorated paper boards over black buckram backstrip, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Edges and boards rubbed, endpapers browned, some offsetting to title-page color printing. One of four hundred and eighty-five numbered copies, signed by the author. Parker's collected.....
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. First edition. 75 pp. Publisher's purple boards over white cloth backstrip, spine lettered in gilt. With the publisher's slipcase with printed label on the front board. Boards faded at the spine and edges, slipcase worn and lacking sections from the top and bottom edges.....
New York: Padell, 1948. Second edition, stated. 117 pp. Green cloth, spine lettered in white, with two dust jackets, one a variant unrecorded by the bibliographer. Top edge of jackets a little rubbed, a couple of scrapes to the lower portion of the spine of both jackets. Slight foxing to.....
London: London Gallery Editions, [1939]. First edition. Publisher’s wood-grain boards, lettered on the front board and spine (design by Hans Bellmer). Photographic endpapers. Photomontage frontispiece; 37 black and white photographs and a drawing, text in black and red. Some minor foxing to boards, slight chipping to head of spine...
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.
[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.
Tucson: Books West Southwest, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. First trade edition, one of 1000 copies printed. Although written in 1943, Powell did not publish the book until after the death of his wife Fay. A fine copy in a fine jacket, signed by Powell on the half-title.
New York: Uranian Press, 1960. First edition. [24] pp. Printed stapled wrappers. One of 300 numbered copies, signed by the author. A bit of rubbing to covers and spine. Set by hand in Caslon Old Face and Priory text, with seven original woodcuts by R.O. Tyler.
Prairie City, IL: The Decker Press, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. 117 pp. Light green paper-covered boards over brown cloth backstrip, spine lettered in silver and front board lettered in brown. Corners heavily rubbed, minor general edgewear. An uncommon Rexroth book- although 500 copies were slated to be published, far less.....
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: Grove Press, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. 84 pp. Paper-covered boards, spine lettered in black, with the dust jacket. Extremely slight wear to the head of the spine and top front corner, else a fine copy. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. The uncommon hardcover issue.....
New York: Grove Press, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. 64 pp. Yellow paper boards over blue cloth backstrip, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Head and tail of spine a bit bumped, slight edgewear to jacket. Kay Ryan was U.S. Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2010, won the Pulitzer.....
Providence: Copper Beech Press, 1994. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition of Ryan's third book. 64 pp. Glossy printed wraps, a paperback original. Some evidence of pencil erasures throughout, slight smudge over price on rear cover, else a fine copy. Kay Ryan was U.S. Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2010.....
Boston: Da Capo Press, 2011. First edition. 424 pp. Blue boards over red backstrip, spine lettered in white, with the dust jacket. Slightest rubbing to jacket corners, else fine. Review slip laid in. Signed by Sanders on the front free endpaper. An indispensable history of the scene, by one of.....
Geneva: Kundig, 1949. 137 pp. Illustrated printed wrappers. A little wear and minor soiling. Sandoz's classic gothic horror novel, with illustrations by Dali. Text in French. Inscribed by Sandoz on the half-title and dated in 1965.
New York: Pantheon, 2003. First American edition. 153, [1] pp. Printed matte boards, with the die-cut dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the title-page. Fine copy.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. First edition. One of 500 copies printed, signed by Seidel on the half-title. 55 pp. Matte black perfect-bound wrappers, stamped in silver on the front cover. Very minor handling wear, near fine or better. Seidel's signature is very rare. As Jonathan.....
Bowling Green: Doones Press, 1973. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition. [32] leaves, printed on rectos only. Side-stapled wrappers, cover by Elisabeth Brandfass. Slight surface wear and rubbing to corners, near fine. A high-order association copy of an early Silliman publication, inscribed on the title-page "for Jackson [Mac Low] /.....
Fredonia: The Basilisk Press, 1973. First edition. Original Wraps. Original printed wrappers, one of 600 copies printed. 71 pp. Dave Smith's second book. A near fine copy, signed on the title-page by the author.