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Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 50 numbered copies signed by the author and with an original thickly painted art piece by the author. The present copy is #19. The poems in the first three sections of this book were originally published in three volumes now long out of print. It Catches My Heart in Its Hands; Crucifix in a Deathhand; Terror Street and Agony Way.The author writes realistic poems about life in general .women, drinking, sex, work, family, death and more. A fine copy bound in 1/4 decorative cloth over orange paper covered boards lettered and ruled in blue and red, orange paper spine label lettered in black, in its' original acetate dust jacket. No names or bookplates.

247 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Third edition (Revised). Small bookplate of recipient's shop on rear pastedown; else a near fine copy in an attractive jacket with some light chipping to the head of the spine (not affecting any lettering). Frost inscribed this book to the owner of a Florida bookshop in 1938, and wrote out and signed the poem, "Spring Pools" above the inscription on the front free endpaper.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+, bound in 1/4 green cloth and green paper-covered boards, with a Very Good dust jacket. Minor rubbing and edge wear to jacket. Binding is strong, no markings to interior. 8vo, 9 1/4"h x 6 1/4"w. Signed and inscribed by the author, Mary Oliver, on the front end page. Inscription is dated 1992, year of publication. Rare signed, this selection won the National Book Award in 1992.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition, trade issue. Foredge soiled, boards a trifle bowed, very good in very good or better dust jacket with modest overall wear. Inscribed by Warren to his wife, the author Eleanor Clark on the front fly: "To Eleanor, my darling for ever & ever, Red. Feb. 20, 1985.".

First edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Mary Oliver on the front free endpaper, inscribed "For Shirley, with good wishes, Mary Oliver. Los Angeles. Nov. 1992." Likely signed at her event at the Center Green Theatre on Nov. 10, 1992; program from that event (containing two additional poems) laid in. xii, 255, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth and boards, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, spine red a little sunned, light shelf wear. An excellent copy. The first volume of Mary Oliver's new and selected poems, which won the National Book Award in 1992. Rare signed.

Decorative Cloth in Slipcase. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition NO AMZ. No. #69 out of 75 signed & numbered by Ted Berrigan, he actually wrote the numbers also This beautifully bound hardback was issued without a jacket, it actually comes in a box, so indication on this or other copies of the book having a fine jacket are actually indicating a fine case. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. 1st. This edition is printed in paper wrappers, 500 hardcover trade copies, 400 hardcover copies numbered and signed by the author, and 176 numbered copies hardbound in boards by Earle Gray, each with an original signed print by Charles Bukowski. This copy is one of 26 letteded copies from the 176 copies. The print is signed in the plate "BUK" and additionally signed and dated by the author. The colophon page is also signed by the author with his trademark drawing of a dog and of a man. In original acetate wrapper in fine condition. Bound in publisher's original quarter black cloth with paper label on spine and illustrated paaper boards.

XVII/30 COPIES (from an edition of 450 copies) printed on Zerkall mouldmade paper, 8 full-page colour printed wood-engravings and a tail-piece on the colophon page by Gaylord Schanilec, title printed in pink, pp. 71, folio, deluxe binding by Alan Wood of full calf with a blue wash to create a sky-effect, mountain landscape formed by onlays of different colour morocco with tooling in red, blue and gilt, a couple of tiny indentations to right margin of upper board, grey suede doublures with blue free endpapers, in lined drop-back box, near fine. A striking binding. Schanilec's wood-engravings are of his usual exemplary standard - laid in is a folder enclosing a further Schanilec wood-engraving intended for this volume, along with a letter an invoice from the Press.

Condition: As New. First Edition. Limited Issue. #63/75 copies, bound in rough deep red linen cloth stamped in gilt, in publisher's maroon-brown cloth covered slipcase, without jacket as issued. Very Fine. 403pp., with Author's Note by Berrigan. In the publisher's selected works series. Berrigan would only live another three years after this book was published. Q15197 Hardcover in publisher's slipcase.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. softcover book in very good shape, very light wear to cover and book edges.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 101pp. Pictorial soft cover with picture of author and title. Title on spine. Inscribed: "to brother Gayle Addison you are a beautiful Black man--Continue to B My brother, you are needed and loved! Your sister in love, Sonia." Laid in a note from "Sonia" dated 9/30/81. "Dear Addison- Just a note to say a quite hello---Send you a couple of my latest books. Hope things are going well for you. Yes. It would be good seeing you --I am due in NYC the weekend of Oct 10th --Am/writers Congress. I may or may not make it. The children and I are strong, hanging on. They are growing tall & long in some hidden resource that they have. They keep me going-- Will call you within the next week--Love Sonia." Written on Temple University stationery. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition thus. 4to. Color frontispiece and numerous sepia plates by Flint. Full white sheepskin by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, gilt decorations, t.e.g., uncut. Fine. Original publisher's marbled cloth slipcase. 138 pages. Bookplate of Irish prelate Vincent Lloyd Russell on the front pastedown. Number 37 of 105 copies, signed by Flint; with an extra suite of 8 sepia plates by Flint laid in loose in a paper sleeve. Cock-a Hoop 199.

Small 8vo, pp. 141, [3], photographic portrait frontispiece; small light stain to lower outer corner, but generally a very good copy in the original cloth, with the original printed dustjacket (restored with some loss); in a folding cloth box.First edition in Russian of the first book by the Soviet Yiddish poet and novelist Peretz Markish (1895-1952), a collection of poems, Shveln (Threshold, Kiev, 1919) which established his reputation as one of the most important Yiddish poets of his time. A supporter of Soviet Russia and the Russian Revolution of 1917, Markish was awarded the order of Lenin in 1939, but he was arrested in 1948, accused of Jewish nationalism, and in 1952 he was shot along with many of his fellow writers. His poetry was rehabilitated in the 1950s when collections of his poems were published in both Russian and Ukrainian translation. Anna Akhmatova was among those writers who later translated his poetry; the translators of the present collection are P. Antopolsky, E. Bagritsky, D. Brodsky, O. Kolychev, and L. Penkovsky.Extremely rare: OCLC records a single copy, at the University of Haifa; not found in any of the bibliographies consulted. Language: Russian.

First edition, first impression, trade issue, rare in the dust jacket. The trade issue was published on 23 November 1928; there was also a signed limited issue, published on 10 December the same year. In his introduction to this important edition of Pound's poetry, T. S. Eliot gives an extended commentary on the originality of Pound's work, his influences ("Browning and Yeats. Swinburne and William Morris", p. ix), and the ways he has been read and misread by some of his contemporaries. Gallup, Pound, A30a; Eliot, B10a. Octavo. Original green cloth, top edge green, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom quarter vellum folding box. Bookseller's ticket to front pastedown. Head of spine sunned; jacket lightly toned, some loss to head of spine and front panel, a couple of closed tears and creases to front panel touching text, price-clipped: a very good copy in very good jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Poems of W.B. Yeats (with 6 Etchings by Richard Diebenkorn) | Year: 1990 | Size: 10.5 x 8.25 (26.67 x 20.95 cm) (each) | Edition: 314 of 400 | Numbered in pencil | Signed in pencil "R Diebenkorn" | COA provided (gallery issued) | Publisher: Arion Press Condition: Fine | | Quarter red goatskin with evergreen cloth boards, gilt lettering on the spine, limitation statement at the front with artist's signature in pencil, title page in red and black, poem titles in red; quarto size (10.5" by 8.25"), pagination: [i-vi] vii-xxv [xxvi-xxxi] [1-2] 3-171 [172] [1 colophon]. Housed in a slipcase covered on the top, bottom, and spine with matching green cloth, paper spine label with gilt lettering. 6 etched plates by Diebenkorn. Original red Morocco-backed green cloth; original cloth slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, copy 314 of 400 numbered copies SIGNED BY DIEBENKORN and printed for distribution among the contributors to the publication. Yeats's poems, printed with red titles and black Baskerville monotype, are paired with six of Diebenkorn's figurative etchings, the first book illustrations he has completed. Helen Vendler describes the synthesis of the two: "The Yeatsian metamorphoses of the coat of the body and the coat of its art are re-embodied in Richard Diebenkorn's etchings here, in which the coat changes from a real garment to a metaphysical form." As new. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. A Fine copy in goldenrod ("yellow"?) cloth stamped in brown and red, in a Near Fine dull pale green dustwrapper printed in tan, maroon and black, price-clipped. The jacket, which is trimmed about an 1/8th of an inch too tall, has very slight toning to extremities, and tiny loss to the crown. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. Unpaginated. 31 poems. Scarce. Q14375.

Condition: Fine. The book is in fine condition.

Condition: Fine. The book is in fine condition.

Stiff Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Decorated wraps with wraparound dust jacket. Original $5 price on rear panel. Multi layered and coloured interior terraced printing. Edition limited to 777 copies only, signed and dated by the author in silver ink on front ednpaper. In this case 8-3-63. A very sharp copy with no obvious faults except a little edgewear. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. [Fine Binding, The Complete Works of Victor Hugo] 41 volume set. Uniformly bound in full crushed red morocco. Gilt spine compartments, gilt spine ruled covers, gilt turn-ins. Top edges gilt. Handsome bindings, with minor rubbing. Includes three sets comprising: The Novels of Victor Hugo (23 volumes, Philadelphia: George Barrie, 1893-1897); The Dramas of Victor Hugo, complete and unabridged (10 volumes, New York: George Richmond, 1896); [AND] Selected Poems of Victor Hugo (3 volumes, Philadelphia: George Barrie, 1897.) The Novels of Hugo is the limited, Cabinet Edition. One of only 100 Numbered sets, printed on Japan Paper. Double illustrated with mounted plates in two states. List of novels: V. 1-2. Han of Iceland; v. 3-6. Notre Dame of Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame); v. 4-10. The toilers of the sea; v. 11-20. Les Miserables; v. 21-24. The laughing man; v. 25-26. Ninety-three; v. 27. Bug-Jargal; v. 28. Last day of a condemned. Claude Gueux. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.

ANGELOU, Maya; LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB (illustrator). ANGELOU, Maya, [contributor]. LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Sunrise is Coming After While [LEC]. Poems Selected by Maya Angelou. Silkscreens by Phoebe Beasley. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1998. Full Description: HUGHES, Langston. ANGELOU, Maya, [contributor]. LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Sunrise is Coming After While [LEC]. Poems Selected by Maya Angelou. Silkscreens by Phoebe Beasley. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1998. Limited to 300 copies, signed by Maya Angelou and the artist Phoebe Beasley on limitation page. This being number 67. Folio (20 3/8 x 15 1/2 inches; 515 x 395 mm). With an introduction and afterword by Maya Angelou and six color silkscreen prints by Phoebe Beasley. With publisher's prospectus. Bound in publisher's purple cotton cloth. Black morocco label on front board, lettered in gilt. Fore-edge uncut. Housed in a purple cotton cloth, velvet-lined clamshell. Clamshell with black morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Back of clamshell lightly sunned along top edge. Still a fine copy. "From the beginning of 'Mother to Son' Please read on, 'The Weary Blues', 'Dream Variation', 'Daybreak in Alabama', and 'I, Too'. From these glorious poems it is easy for us to see why Langston Hughes is so beloved and admired. As is Phoebe Beasley, the painter chosen by Dr. Maya Angelou to illustrate these poems with her six colorful silkscreen prints. Phoebe Beasley is the only artist whose work has twice been awarded the Presidential Seal (Bush and Clinton). Her silkscreen prints express "the love and humor that come out of Black family life" in compositions that range from "wit to subtle beauty and tenderness, at times, reflecting the influence of Picasso, Lawrence and Bearden." Dr. Angelou not only selected the poems and the artist, she also wrote the illuminating Introduction and the Afterword!" (From the Publisher). LEC Bibliography. HBS 69356. $2,000.

First edition. Small 4to. 97 pp. Light bump to one upper corner, else very near fine in printed wrappers. Introduction by William Corrington. A letterpress extravaganza. One of 777 copies. Dated 8-3-63 and SIGNED by Bukowski. Additionally INSCRIBED by Bukowski in two ink colors, "My poems / and / your life, / Let's / Have / Fun. / Charles / Bukowski / 4-17-63." Laid into this copy is a letterpress facsimile of a Bukowski letter to the Webbs and a holograph note from Jon Webb to Marvin Malone, "Dear Marvin - Busy binding - can only do 3 an hour, hundreds to do. Fabulous praises coming in, the book's just starting to go out. If by chance you want 1, or 2, more - let you have them for 3.50 each. Best Jon Webb." Gypsy Lou Series No. 1. Krumhansl 12.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First American edition. Forewords by William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Rexroth, and Denise Levertov. Flexible illustrated wrappers. Wrappers a little bent and with some modest toning, else near fine. One of 450 copies of the regular edition. A nice copy.

First edition, first printing, letter O of 26 specially bound copies signed by Ginsberg and Orlovsky. This is publisher and editor Winston Leyland's own copy of the deluxe issue, additionally signed by him on the title page, and with two unpublished autograph letters signed from Ginsberg to Leyland laid in. The first letter, dated 26 November 1982, praises the present publication, mentions meeting John Rechy, and discusses other matters of gay publishing. The second, with the signed envelope dated 7 September 1990, sends Leyland a postcard of the famous photograph Ginsberg took of Neal Cassady and Natalie Jackson in 1955. Winston Leyland (b.1940) was a leading figure in American LGBT publishing and won the Stonewall Book Award in 1980. He established the Gay Sunshine Press in 1975, which was notable for its pioneering anthologies of gay writing from other cultures, and his Gay Sunshine Journal (1970-82) was particularly influential for its interviews with prominent gay writers of the era, including Ginsberg himself. Gay Sunshine A14c. Octavo. Photographic portrait frontispiece, and other illustrations. Original blue patterned quarter cloth, title label to spine with titles in orange, light brown paper sides with titles to front in orange, dark blue endpaper. With the original acetate jacket. But for some minor marks to acetate, fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Poems Selected and Printed by a small Party of English, Who made this amusement a substitute for Society, Which the disturbed situation of the country prevented their enjoying. At Strasburg, In the Month of February 1792. Paginates: [4], 91, [1] p. First and only edition. Complete with the half-title. Bound in contemporary tree calf, expertly re-backed. Smooth back-strip divided by gilt straight and scalloped rules, with flower ornaments to center. Red leather label in the second compartment from the top. Minor wear to boards and spine. Marbled endpapers. Half-title with small paper repair at head. With inscription to the half-title; The gift of Sir John & Lady Legard June 1797 , probably the 6th Baronet, Sir John Legard and his wife Jane. The disturbed situation of the country , the anthology refers to is the French Revolution. Strasbourg had recently become a French possession and when news of the Storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 arrived, on July 21 the city hall was sacked. Strasbourg lost certain possessions, such as the towns of Wasselonne and Barr. In 1790 the property of the clergy was seized, and the university (Lutheran at the time), lost most of its revenues. Things quickly settled down until 1792, when France went to war against Prussia and Austria. The mayor of Strasbourg, Philippe-Frédéric de Dietrich, was decapitated by guillotine in December 1793. Women were not allowed to wear traditional costumes and Christian worship was forbidden. Many English nationals caught there during these troubles became de facto prisoners. The identity of this group remains unknown. The work contains pieces by Goldsmith, Gray, Lyttleton, Sheridan and Pope, among others. Scarce in institutions, rare at auction. The volume measures 29.5 x 23.4 x 1.6 cm. Each leaf measures 287 x 222 mm.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 8 books.

Condition: Fine. The book is in fine condition.

Hardcover. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. This copy is INSCRIBED "Garnett F. Colgan" and SIGNED by the poet on the title page with one of his most famous first lines, from "Mending Wall" from his collection NORTH OF BOSTON: "Something there is that doesn't love a wall." Two facing pages tanned from a previously laid in newsclipping, another two facing pages with old adhesive stain at the gutters; slightly shaken. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. One of 777 copies, signed and dated by Bukowski in silver ink. Softcover, bound in stiff wrappers with over wrap. The corners lightly rubbed, else fine. Signed by Author(s).

First edition, first impression, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR; 8vo; publisher's red cloth, white paper title label to spine printed in black, browning to the half-title leaf from loose inserts, spine faded, otherwise very good. A major publication at the time which was included by Cyril Connolly as one of the Key 100 books of the modern movement. A slightly surprising literary association copy with the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, 'Inscribed fro Brian Aldiss the brilliant fellow J Betjeman V.X.MCMXLVIII'. The recipient would later become one of Britain's most celebrated writers of Science Fiction. At the time of the inscription, he was working in an Oxford bookshop that Betjeman patronised. Literary associations of Betjeman's major collections are rare.