Robert Middleton Editor (14 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stiff pictorial wraps. Notations and brief underlinings in pencil scattered through interior, most relatively minor, otherwise as issued. x,128 pp. 1st ptg. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Second Printing. Light bumping of fore corners; A bright, solid book; Trade PB; B&W Photographs; 0.39 x 8.66 x 5.83 Inches; 91 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible; Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. This hardcover book is square and tight. The boards and spine have no wear with pristine gilt. The pages and endpages are clean, with no markings or folds. The dustjacket is As New. Original Price is intact. Not ex-lib. No remainder mark. Collection of Short Stories with Notes on the Authors.…

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the October 13, 1892 (Vol. IX No. 15) issue of "Twentieth Century: A Weekly Radical Magazine" edited by Joseph Fitzgerald (J. [James] W. Sullivan served as Associate Editor) and published by The Humboldt Publishing Company out of New York City. A magazine measuring 9" by 12-1/4" and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. With eight pages of vintage advertisements, contents of this issue include: Editorial by Joseph Fitzgerald (on various subjects); "Relations of Labor and Capital" by S. R. Beckwith, M.D.; "The Single-Tax Delusion" by Robert H. Cowdrey; "Taxation of Land Values - II." by James Middleton with reply from Associate Editor J.W. Sullivan ("Brother Middleton will forgive me if I smile on him with a smile somewhat incredulous of his candor"); "Is Homestead Portentous of a General Class War?" by J. W. Sullivan ("IV. - What Can the Trades-Unions Do?"); Correspondence; column Science and the Useful Arts; column "In and Out of the Church" (the topic: "The Priest-Ridden French Canadians: Clerical Corruption as Seen by the Catholic Press of Canada"); column Our Weekly News-Letter. A complete issue; former owner's name to upper right corner of front cover; covers lightly soiled, particularly along edge areas; pages lightly age-toned. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. Robert Graves "A Mantleful Of Northwind" / Iain Fletcher "The Fair Circassion" / Peter Russell "Gavin Douglas And His Eneados" / Ian Scott-Kilvert "Thomas Middleton".

Card Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 204pp. (pp.5-67 devoted to innovative contemporary British poetry). Covers a little foxed & soiled.

Side-stapled Wraps/Dust Jacket. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 98pp. Printed on different coloured stock. Dust jacket very lightly soiled. Bill Griffiths (illustrated cover poem) (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good. See scans and description. New York, 1996: Harper's Magazine issue for November, 1996. Quarto, illustrated wraps, 84 pp. Very Scarce genre issue. A medium Very Good example. Spine slit at bottom, mailing label, small fairly numerous spots of soil on front cover. See scans. Wedded to an Illusion (Fenton Johnson); The Morning After (Robert Stone); Tony Hendra; Man and Bull; On Earth As it is In Heaven (Jack Hitt); Thomas H. Middleton Acrostic (Anacrostic). Middleton is widely regarded as the best constructor of acrostics - ever. His offerings were unique in that field. One such acrostic is within. This November,1996 issue of Harper's is, for whatever reason, extraordinarily scarce. Ships in stout protection, of course. LPR19.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Nine Volumes, Very Good + To Near Fine, As Issued; Note: January 1957 With Loose Index To Volume Three; March 1957, No. 3, In Publisher's Wrap-Around Band And With Publisher's Order Card.

Stapled Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (72pp) Including printed covers. Staples slightly rusty.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 48pp + 4pp card covers. The twenty-first issue of Ambit - a quarterly collection of poetry and short stories. Drawings by Laurie Preece and Robert McAuley. Mike Foreman has designed the cover. This issue contains seventeen poems. Purple, white and black covers. Staple bound. Touch of shelf wear to top and tail of spine. Dusty fore edge of front cover and also dusty margins of rear cover. Otherwise in VG condition with clean inside pages. The magazine is printed by The Lavenham Press Ltd., Suffolk. Laurie Preece; Robert McAuley (illustrator). …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. White cover paperback in green french wraps. Very Good/Very Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Vol. 87, No. 4 from Poetry magazine. Wraps. Themed "First Appearance Number," it appears that all the contributors in this issue are making their first appearance in the magazine. Further notable because it includes Michael McClure's first publication in general, "2 for Theodore Roethke." As his contributor note says, "Michael McClure is twenty-three years old and lives in San Francisco. His two poems this month mark his first publication anywhere." The famous Six Gallery Reading, during which Ginsberg read "Howl" for the first time, and Gary Snyder read "A Berry Feast," and Michael McClure read as the youngest, was only in October of the preceding year, 1955. In this issue William Carlos Williams also writes on Wallace Stevens. And much more. Very good with sunning to spine and some minor stains to rear cover. Front cover is clean, a nice shade of blue.…

Condition: Very Good. ([London: Printed by J. Nichols; for J. Dodsley, 1780]) 556 pp. Volume 6 (of 12) only, lacking two preliminary leaves (table of contents and volume title page). (180 x 104 mm.) Second Edition. Modern retrospective calf, raised bands, red morocco label with gilt lettering. With two title vignettes. Spine slightly sunned, otherwise fine; contents with scattered small stains, toning, and creases, one leaf with marginal repair, last three leaves with more noticeable stains and soiling. The vast majority of leaves quite clean, and a very good copy overall. An attractively bound collection of plays by two Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights. This is Volume VI from the 12 volume anthology "A Select Collection of Old Plays," originally compiled and published by Robert Dodsley in 1744. This copy appears to be from the second edition published in 1780, and includes the following works: The Roaring Girle: or, Moll Cut-Purse The Widow's Tears The White Devil: Or, Vittoria Corombona The Hog Hath Lost His Pearl The Four Prentices of London (1051).…