Two octavo volumes. Blue cloth hardcovers; dustjackets; xxiv,169,(1) + 314 (plates). Mild bump to upper board corner of v.I, else a fine set, free of markings or notable wear. In the original dustwrappers, lightly dusted, toned on spine panels, still attractive and Very Good. An unusually well-preserved set. Issued as.....
1. White Mule. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1937. First Edition, First Printing, one of 1,100 copies. Octavo (19.5cm); beige cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; black topstain; dustjacket; [viii],[1]-293,[3]pp. Hint of sunning to spine, some offsetting to endpapers, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket.....
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Two Volumes. Octavo. 20cm. French language. Publisher's printed and decorated card wraps, printed in black and brown. 344pp.; 416pp. Tight and handsome, some soiling to the pale cream wraps, a little wear to extremities; internally clean and fresh, unopened, inscribed by the author to the front flyleaf of volume I......
No. 451 of 525 signed copies. Quarto. Quarto morocco over marbled paper-covered boards in matching slipcase; [103] pp; 32 plates in color. Touch of wear to slipcase, but a lovely, Near Fine copy.
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Octavo. 20cm. Recent rebinding of subtle green marbled paper boards retaining original black leather and gilt title label. [14]; 416pp. Strong and handsome, very light wear to a late 20th century binding; internally clean, some heavy browning to prelims, title page, and final blanks, with some light toning in places.....
Octavo (19.5cm); grey paper and navy blue cloth-covered boards, with printed title label mounted to upper spine; xxii,95,[3]pp. Light wear to spine ends and extremities, with faint foxing to upper edge of textblock and endpapers, and some light rubbing to title label; Near Fine, lacking the scarce dustjacket. McKay's first.....
No. lxvii of 92 copies on Beauvais Arches paper (of a total edition of 246 copies in three issues). Light blue paper-covered boards; 37pp. Lacking the plain white paper dustjacket. Binding by Arno Werner; initial letters by Wightman Williams. Spine and edges faded, previous owner's name on front endpaper, else.....
Two Volumes in one, softcover. Quarto (25cm); white paper wrappers; [viii],[1],2-802,[8]pp; black-and-white photographic halftones and illustrations throughout. Text entirely in French. Some pages of text unopened. This copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his Ex Libris stamp to lower margin of.....
First Impression. Octavo (20.5cm); sage green cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and in dark green on upper front cover; dustjacket; [vi],[1]-202pp. Vintage Australian bookseller's ticket to lower front pastedown, contemporary owner's ink signature and date to upper front endpaper, with some offsetting from flaps onto endpapers, faint.....
Two thick quarto volumes (30.5cm); maroon cloth, titled in pale bluish-grey on spines and front covers, with with color pictorial onlays mounted to same; publisher's maroon cloth slipcase; [5],6-520; [5],6-488pp; illus. Both volumes Fine; slipcase is lightly dust-soiled, with some light finger-soil to one side and a few scuffs; sound.....
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One of 500 copies. This copy lengthily inscribed on front endpaper to Carol McGovern Cerf, daughter of the dedicatee (posthumous) Dr. William Montgomery McGovern (1897-1967). Quarto; blue cloth hardcover with silver foil stamping to spine and front cover; 476pp; illus. Also laid in is a substantial typed letter, signed, from.....
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Quarto (35cm); pictorial paper-covered boards, with titling in white on spine; [n.p.]; illus. Spine-faded, with modest shelf-wear, 4" split to upper front joint, rubbing to spine ends and board edges, and bumped corners (affecting upper margins of text); Very Good. In publisher's slipcase, with shelf-soil and residue, tiny cracks and.....
Original illustrated broadside, with text and pictorial elements offset printed in black on light brown wove stock, measuring 38cm x 61cm (15" x 24"). A few faint creases from storage at upper and lower edges; Very Good+. Broadside printing a poem Ginsberg wrote at midnight, February 12, 1966, on his.....
Three Volumes. Octavo. 22.5cm. Publisher's deep maroon ribbed cloth titled in gilt to spines and ruled in blind to boards. 869pp.; 618pp.; 1048pp. Generally strong and tight; mild scuffing and to spine ends and corners and a few minor exterior stains. Spine gilt is significantly oxidized to Vol II, as.....
First printing of the English-language edition (first published in Japan under the title Nihon no Minka, 1962). Quarto. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; wood veneer endpapers; 419pp; illus. Red ink remainder mark to bottom edge of text block, else a tight, Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $25.00 on.....
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Offset lithograph in colors, 43cm x 29cm (17" x 11"). Signed in image, lower right. Crease to left corner, with a single short, closed tear; Very Good+. Unbacked. A fiery photomontage poster advertising a rally that appears never to have taken place, perhaps because it was scheduled for the same.....
First printing, no. 447 of 700 numbered copies. Quarto (35cm). Cloth hardcover in dustjacket and publisher's card slipcase; 279pp; illus. A very fine copy, free of markings or wear, in like slipcase. Housed in publisher's original cardboard box with printed title label. Catalog raisonné of the painted works of the.....
One of 250 copies. Octavo; tan cloth hardcover; dustjacket; unpaginated [40pp]. A fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, clean and crisp with just a touch of fading to spine panel; Near Fine. Quite lovely edition of this late, meditative long poem, written by Neruda in 1969 and here translated by.....
Four Volumes. Extra Illustrated, Large Paper Edition. Imperial Quarto. 35cm. Bound in early 20th century full deep tan morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, titled and decorated in gilt to spines, gilt ruling to boards, gilt inner dentelles. 467pp.;[6] Index; 436pp.;[7] Index; 367pp.;[44] General Index; [8]; 507pp.; [1]; [24] Index. Complete.....
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Two volumes. Vol I octavo (24cm x 17cm); Vol II oblong quarto (24cm x 32cm). Blue cloth hardcovers; dustjacket; xvi,185; second volume (linguistic atlas and plates) unpaginated. Mild fading to jacket spines, else a fine set, free of markings or notable wear. From the library of noted poet, translator, and.....
More info about Phases of Pre-Pagan Burma: Languages and History (2 vols
Eight octavo (digest-size) issues. Pictorial wrappers printed in colors; each issue ca. 124-132pp; illus; ads. Gentle rubbing and soil to most issues, but in all a complete, attractive, and perfectly sound run, easily Very Good. Text entirely in French. Breton's final periodical venture, a continuation of sorts of his long.....
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12mo. (19.25cm); publisher's original dark brown cloth, with titling and decorations stamed in gilt on spine, and quintuple blind-ruled borders on covers; [vi],[3],4-223,[224] + [16]pp ads, with engraved title page and illustrations from life by Strother. Gilt-stamped red morocco leather bookplate of American bookseller Ernest R. Gee mounted to front.....
Octavo. Blue-green pictorial cloth, stamped in black and silver on cover and spine; 379pp. 8 inserted leaves of plates (halftones) by Glenn O. Coleman. A bright, Near Fine copy, with just a trace of rubbing to spine ends board edges; virtually free of soiling, with the pictorial design on front.....
Quarto. Comb-bound manuscript with clear acetate covers; variously paginated. Xerographically reproduced from typescript. Inscribed on cover sheet: "For Nathaniel / one of three copies of the uncorrected MS - " signed, dated 2/5/87. Fine, with Tarn's editorial markings throughout and occasional author's corrections in ink. Bartlett's magisterial study of William.....
