New Arrivals
MISGIVINGS
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2000. First edition. Uncorrected proof in peach wrappers with publisher printed material laid in. Memoirs in short takes. Fine. More
A DREAM OF MIND
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1992. First edition. An uncorrected proof copy in orange printed wrappers. Spine faded, light wear, still at least very good. More
FLESH AND BLOOD
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1987. First edition. An uncorrected proof in red printed wrapers of his NBCC winning collection. Pub date and price written in otherwise unmarked. With publisher information sheet laid in. Front corners lightly bumped; quite tight and clean. More
POEMS 1963-1983
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1988. First edition. An uncorrected proof copy in blue plain printed wraps. More
A DREAM OF MIND
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1992. First edition. An uncorrected proof copy in orange printed wrappers. A light crease to the front covers, otherwise quite fine. More
A DREAM OF MIND
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1992. First edition. Black cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 100 pp. Signed (with his characteristic initials) on the ffep. This copy has a very slight bump to the head of the spine, affecting the jacket, still Fine. More
FEDERIGO
Boston: Atlantic-Little Brown, 1954. First edition. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; 8vo. 265 pp. A Review copy with the review slip laid in of his second novel, and fourth book. In addition this copy is signed on the title page by the author. Previous owner's name in ink on the..... More
The Balzac Library
New York: The Tucker Publishing Company, 1900. Only 7 titles from this series appear in institutional libraries worldwide. 50 Issues. 20cm x 14cm. Issues varying between 12pp and 20pp. Publisher's olive paper wraps, titled and decorated in dark red, in an art nouveau style frame and border by Edward Dewson..... More
Boss Tom: The Annals of an Anthracite Mining Village
Akron, OH: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1904. First Edition. Labor novel set in the anthracite regions of Pennsylvania during the 1890's, depicting "the exact living status of the parties concerned, who the miner is and what his home life is like, the opinions and lives of honest officials, the ruling..... More
Bomba, The Jungle Boy (20 volumes, complete series)
New York: Cupples and Leon, 1926-1938. First Edition. An uncommon complete run of this popular juvenile boys' series, all early issues in the uncommon pictorial dustwrappers. The first half of the series takes place in South America, the latter in Africa. One theme that runs through the entire story is..... More
Archive of Eighty-two Photographic Images of the Mexican-American Border Wars in Texas, California and Mexico, 1908-1915
[Various publishers & dates]. The refusal of Mexican President Porfirio Dîaz to cede power to his rival Francisco Madero in the elections of 1910 resulted in a violent, large-scale revolt by campesinos and leftists, setting off the thirty-year long Mexican Revolution. American involvement in the conflict began in 1911, when..... More
Lord of the Flies
London: The Folio Society, 2009. First Folio Society Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23cm); original pictorial cloth, titled in black and silver on spine; publisher's original black paper-covered slipcase; xvi,225,[7]pp, with frontispiece and five illustrations by Sam Weber. Fine in a Fine slipcase, with the publisher's partially opened shrinkwrap mostly intact..... More
Philosophia Botanica, in qua Explicantur Fundamenta Botanica cum Definitionibus Partium, Exemplis Terminorum, Observationibus Rariorum, Adiectis Figuris Aeneis
Vienna: Ioannis Thomae Trattner, 1755. Octavo. 20cm. Contemporary full vellum, titled and decorated in gilt to spine. [iv], 364pp., [ix] engravings to rear. Abrasion and loss to upper corner front board, some wear and chipping to extremities, remains of old paper label to base of spine. A very good solid..... More
Book of the Cranberry Islands [Deluxe Issue, Signed]
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. First Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy 'I'. Octavo (23cm); printed paper-covered boards and paisley-patterned cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [8],x,308,[6]pp. Fine in a lightly..... More
Literary Essays of Ezra Pound
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1954. First American Edition. First Printing, one of 2,000 copies. Octavo (22.25cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; xvi,[2],3-464pp. Light wear along the lower board edges, else a fresh, very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $6.00), lightly edgeworn, gently sunned..... More
"Famous Boy Tenor Soloist"
c. 1940's. Single sheet flyer or broadside, 19.5cm. Black and white photographic portrait of Bobby Parkes Cossey [Born 1926], in an elaborate striped bow tie above the legend "The Future Roland Hayes of The Negro Race." Clean and sharp, very good condition, old flattened crease to upper left corner. Inscribed..... More
The Orange in The Orange: A Novella & Two Stories [Limited Edition, Signed]
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1995. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 100 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.50. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and light pink cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [10],11-172,[4]pp. Trivial wear to..... More
The Trick: New Stories [Limited Edition, Signed]
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1991. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 125 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.116. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and orange cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [8],9-155,[5]pp; illustrated throughout with photos..... More
Printed "Rational Money" Postal Envelope, ca. 1870, Addressed to Josiah Warren from E.D. Linton
[Massachusetts: ca 1870]. Original postal envelope, 3" x 5-1/4". Postally used, with Charlestown, MA cancellation and cancelled 3¢ stamp affixed to recto. Addressed to Warren, presumably in Linton's hand, in blue ink; Linton's name written, likely in a secretary's hand, below address. Light soil and wear; Very Good. Envelope only;..... More
Poems of Struggle and Resistance in Iran
College Park, Maryland: Iranian Students Association, 1975. First Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Publihser's cream coloured card wraps, staple bound, titled and decorated in black and red to front and rear wraps. 31pp. Clearly a rather home-made production, some soiling to the off-white wraps, fore-edge untrimmed, a little isolated creasing and dog-earing..... More
A VERY PARTICULAR HILL
Edinburgh: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1963. First Edition. Illustrated wraps over stapled card covers; oblong 8vo. Illustrations by Alexander McNeish. Near fine. More
AWAKEN, BELLS FALLING
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1968. First edition. Original wrappers; small 8vo. The poet's signed "With the Compliments of" card laid in. The third collection by this important critic and professor of poetry maybe best known for his Book Of Forms, published in the same year and still in print..... More
[Postcard]: “They had the Boston Bull before I was born…”
[New York]: Knopf, [1990s]. First Edition. Van Duyn was an Iowa poet who won the Pulitzer Prize and served as the first female U.S. poet laureate. Postcard from Knopf Poetry’s Poems to Go! Series. 4” x 6” loose/unbound glossy postcard. With a photo of the poet and the poem on..... More