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  • The Little Review: Quarterly Journal of Art and Letters (Miscellany Number, Winter, 1922. Margaret ANDERSON.
    ANDERSON, Margaret (editor)

    The Little Review: Quarterly Journal of Art and Letters (Miscellany Number, Winter, 1922)

    Small quarto (24.75cm); original printed card wrappers; [1]-63,[1]pp, with 18pp of inserted halftone plates. Wrappers toned, edgeworn, and creased, with a few tiny stains and some bleed-through onto front cover from oxidized staples; a few pages roughly opened, text edges foxed, encroaching into margins; a complete, Good to Very Good.....

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  • The Sounds of Rain [Signed. Seamus HEANEY.
    HEANEY, Seamus

    The Sounds of Rain [Signed]

    One of 300 copies. Slim octavo (19.75cm); letterpress printed sheets, hand-sewn into bluish-grey card wrappers, with printed title label mounted to front cover; [16]pp. Signed by Heaney on the preliminary blank, dated 10.iv.88. A Fine copy, together with the original printed envelope, showing light wear to extremities and some creasing.....

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  • The Prisoner of Chillon. Lord BYRON.
    BYRON, Lord

    The Prisoner of Chillon

    Softcover. Octavo (20.5cm); marble printed wrappers, with title label on front cover; 60pp. Tanning to edges of textblock, with interior foxing and finger-soil; Very Good+. Collection of verse focused on the imprisonment of François Bonivard, a Genevois monk. Concludes with 4pp. of Mr. Murray ads dated November 1816. [84276].

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  • The Boston Eagle #3 [Inscribed by Warsh to Ted Berrigan & Alice Notley. William CORBETT, Lee Harwood, Lewis Warsh.
    CORBETT, William, Lee Harwood, and Lewis Warsh (editors)

    The Boston Eagle #3 [Inscribed by Warsh to Ted Berrigan & Alice Notley]

    Quarto (18cm); mimeographed sheets (rectos), saddle stapled into pictorial card covers; [58]pp. Inscribed by Lewis Warsh on the title leaf to Ted Berrigan and Alice Notley: "For Ted + Alice / Bappy B'days / Lewis." Contents clean, but for a tiny stain to right margin of one page; covers lightly.....

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  • Visionary Experience and How To Change Behavior. DRUGS, Aldous HUXLEY, Timothy Leary.
    [DRUGS] HUXLEY, Aldous and Timothy Leary

    Visionary Experience and How To Change Behavior

    One of appoximately 100 copies printed for distribution to members of the International Federation for Internal Freedom in 1963. Slim octavo (23cm); white wrappers printed in black, stapled; 40pp. Gentle sunning along spine-fold and upper edge of front wrapper, with a faint, tiny scuff beneath Leary's name, else a fresh.....

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  • Hawthorne's First Diary: with an Account of its Discovery and Loss [Inscribed. preface, disclaimer, Nathaniel HAWTHORNE, Samuel T. Pickard, William Symmes, recovered by.
    HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel; Samuel T. Pickard (editor; preface; disclaimer); William Symmes (recovered by)

    Hawthorne's First Diary: with an Account of its Discovery and Loss [Inscribed]

    Inscribed by Pickard on front endpaper: "Rev. Herbert Loubard with regards Samuel T. Pickard", dated July 25, 1904, and 3pp. A.L.s. from Pickard to Loubard and printed "Note to page 61" adhered to rear pastedown. Octavo (18.5cm); brown cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover;.....

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  • Michael Angelo, A Dramatic Poem. Illustrated. Henry Wadsworth LONGFELLOW.
    LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth

    Michael Angelo, A Dramatic Poem. Illustrated.

    First printing; 3,472 copies printed. Quarto. Deluxe binding of full pebble-grained morocco over beveled boards, bound in Japanese style with silk cord; all edges gilt; 184pp; illus. A pretty copy, with minimal rubbing to the fragile leather binding at spine ends and board corners; small loss to silk endcap at.....

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  • Ten original posters from the series Кровавые дела империализма [= Bloody. Viktor Borisovitch KORETSKY, Viktor Pavlovich Sokolov.
    [KORETSKY, Viktor Borisovitch & Viktor Pavlovich Sokolov]

    Ten original posters from the series Кровавые дела империализма [= Bloody Deeds of Imperialism]

    Ten posters. Offset lithography on medium-weight stock; each approximately 65cm x 43cm (ca. 26" x 17"). Professionally cleaned and archivally mounted on linen; Fine (A+/A). Caption titles include: 1. "Angola: Racism in Action" 2. "The Apotheosis of the Dictator" [Augusto Pinochet] 3. "Lebanon: Love to the Middle East" 4. "Mr.....

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  • Bananas - No.3. Emma TENNANT, Ian MCEWAN, Sylvia Plath, Hilary Bailey, contributors.
    TENNANT, Emma (editor); MCEWAN, Ian, Sylvia Plath, and Hilary Bailey, et al. (contributors)

    Bananas - No.3

    Tabloid (43.75cm); original newsprint wrappers; 40pp; illus. Horizontal fold smoothed out at center, light wear and toning to wrapper extremities, with light dust-soil to covers and a few tiny edge tears; contents clean, complete; Very Good+. Third issue of this innovative British literary magazine published by Emma Tennant, which ran.....

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  • The Naked Lunch. William S. BURROUGHS.
    BURROUGHS, William S.

    The Naked Lunch

    First Impression, one of 4,000 copies. Octavo (21cm); beige paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [iv],[1]-251,[1]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, tiny indentation to upper edge of front board, with a faint, tiny stain at upper edge of textblock; contents clean and without foxing; Near Fine. Dustjacket.....

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  • The Siege of Vicksburg from the Diary of Seth J. Wells. Including Weeks of Preparation and of. Fay Wells Bliss, eds Sarah Ewell Krolik.
    WELLS, Seth J [Fay Wells Bliss and Sarah Ewell Krolik, eds]

    The Siege of Vicksburg from the Diary of Seth J. Wells. Including Weeks of Preparation and of Occupation After the...

    First printing. Small, square octavo (18.5cm). Publisher's khaki-brown cloth, titled in black on front cover; [11]-101pp; frontispiece portrait. Tight and generally clean, with mild rubbing to board edges and corners; bookplate shadow to front pastedown; Very Good. A scarce, privately-published account of the Siege, from the diary of a Private.....

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  • An Evening Contemplation in A College; Being a parody on the Elegy in A Country Church-Yard, By. John DUNCOMBE.
    [DUNCOMBE,John]

    An Evening Contemplation in A College; Being a parody on the Elegy in A Country Church-Yard, By another Gentleman of...

    Quarto. 23cm. Functional buff card wraps. 12pp. Clean and sharp; internally clean, large margins, some very light soiling in places. A very good, bright copy. A popular (and rather swift) parody by a witty clergyman and poet, of the incredibly popular "Elegy in A Country Church Yard" by Gray. The.....

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  • Why Ireland Is Not Free. A Study of Twenty Years in Politics. T. M HEALY, Timothy Michael.
    HEALY, T.M. [Timothy Michael]

    Why Ireland Is Not Free. A Study of Twenty Years in Politics

    Octavo (21cm x 17cm). Printed paper wrappers; 187pp; text printed in two columns. Externally worn, with lower wrapper lacking, front wrapper partially detached, conspicuously chipped and toned at edges. Text complete and clean. Private library stamp (in Gaelic) to title page, "Leabharlann Ard-eaglaise Concaise" (LIbrary / Cathedral of the Immaculate.....

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  • Otvírání Studánek [Signed. Miloslav BURES.
    BURES, Miloslav

    Otvírání Studánek [Signed]

    12mo (13cm); beige cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in black on spine, and illustrations stamped in pink on covers; red topstain; cloth bookmark; dustjacket; 46pp; illustrations. Text in Czech. Signed by poet at publisher's copyright page. Light shelf-wear and -soil, with bookmark slightly frayed; Very Good+. Dustwrapper, lightly tanned, with.....

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  • Boxkite: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics; nos. 1, 2, 2, 3/4 [Four Issues. James TAYLOR, Nathaniel Tarn Robert Creeley, James Tate, Michael Basinski, contributors.
    TAYLOR, James (editor); Robert Creeley, Nathaniel Tarn, Michael Basinski, James Tate (et al) (contributors)

    Boxkite: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics; nos. 1, 2, 2, 3/4 [Four Issues]

    Cloth issue of no. 1, softcover issue of no. 2, cloth issue of no. 2, and cloth issue of no. 3/4, with signed illustration by Pierre Jorris (23 of 26) and publisher's pictorial subscription form laid in no. 1. Four Octavos (25.5cm); no. 1 has blue cloth-covered boards with paper.....

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  • Notes for Speech at Dinner October 11 1855 by W.M. Thackeray on the Eve of His Departure for. W. M. THACKERAY, George Hodder, W H. Lambert.
    THACKERAY, W. M.; George Hodder; W.H. Lambert

    Notes for Speech at Dinner October 11 1855 by W.M. Thackeray on the Eve of His Departure for America: Letter...

    One of 40 copies privately printed by James Beale for W.H. Lambert. The Compliments of William H. Lambert card tipped in at front flyleaf, and William H. Lambert's The Critic (January 3, 1891) review on Thackeray's The Yellowplush Correspondence laid in. Quarto (31cm); parchment spine over tan paper-covered boards, with.....

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  • Broadside: Entering Kansas City High. Allen GINSBERG.
    GINSBERG, Allen

    Broadside: Entering Kansas City High

    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.....

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  • The Great Stupa of Gyantse. A Complete Tibetan Pantheon of the Fifteenth Century. TIBET, Franco RICCA, Erberto Lo Bue.
    [TIBET] RICCA, Franco & Erberto Lo Bue

    The Great Stupa of Gyantse. A Complete Tibetan Pantheon of the Fifteenth Century

    First impression. Quarto. Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 319pp; illustrations in color and b/w. A fine, unworn copy. In the original dustwrapper, similarly Fine. From the library of noted poet / translator / Buddhist scholar Nathaniel Tarn, with his printed bookplate inside front cover.

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  • High Country. SPORT, Rutherford G. MONTGOMERY.
    [SPORT] MONTGOMERY, Rutherford G.

    High Country

    Octavo. 24.5cm. No. 216 of 950 copies. Publisher's tan heavy grain cloth ruled and titled in maroon and gilt with leather title labels to spine and front board. Publisher's glassine dustjacket. 248pp. Strong and solid, very light wear to extremities; internally clean and fresh, large sections of the book unopened.....

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  • Obra Poetica, 1920-1958 - Tomo I [Inscribed to Roberto Márquez. Nicolás GUILLÉN.
    GUILLÉN, Nicolás

    Obra Poetica, 1920-1958 - Tomo I [Inscribed to Roberto Márquez]

    First Impression, one of 20,000 copies. Thick octavo (23.5cm); grey cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; lxxxvi,[3],4-568,[4]pp; illus. Inscribed by Guillén on the half-title page in January, 1974, to Puerto Rican editor, translator, and literary critic Roberto Márquez and his wife, with drawings of an.....

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  • Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents, &c. in the First Half Century of the Republic. By a. GEORGIA, Augustus B. LONGSTREET.
    [GEORGIA] [LONGSTREET, Augustus B.]

    Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents, &c. in the First Half Century of the Republic. By a Native Georgian

    First printing. 12mo. Publisher's plain linen-backed boards; printed spine label; iv,[5]-235pp. Boards spotted, with slight edgewear; vertical cracks to spine, but holding; spine label rubbed and mostly illegible. Internally complete and clean, with mild and scattered foxing. Later (19th-c.) holograph ex-libris of a Philip La Tourette, undated. A sound, Good.....

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  • Reflections Concerning Innate Moral Principles Written in French by the Late Lord Bolingbroke and. FREETHOUGHT, LORD BOLINGBROKE, Viscount Henry St. John.
    [FREETHOUGHT] LORD BOLINGBROKE [Henry St. John, Viscount]

    Reflections Concerning Innate Moral Principles Written in French by the Late Lord Bolingbroke and Translated into English

    Octavo. 12mo; 83,[1]p., sewn sheets bound ito modernn paper wrappers with printed spine and title labels. Some mimld darkening and soil to title page, else a clean, Near Fine copy. The French text and English translation are on facing pages. A posthumously-published work by the Parliamentarian, freethinker, and self-styled philosopher.....

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  • Poster: Faust – L'Hypnotiseur, Le Plus Grand Spirite et Magicien Du Mond. MESMERISM.
    [MESMERISM]

    Poster: Faust – L'Hypnotiseur, Le Plus Grand Spirite et Magicien Du Mond

    63cm x 43cm. Printed in red, white and black, depicting a grinning, skull faced figure in a tuxedo. Clean and bright with some fold creases, pinholes to corners, a touch of light soiling to the margins, and a small fingernail sized chip out of the lower left white border, not.....

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