The Descent
Viking, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A very good copy in very good dust jacket. 8vo with DJ xi+83pp Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by Stanford warmly on front endpaper. More
Viking, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A very good copy in very good dust jacket. 8vo with DJ xi+83pp Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by Stanford warmly on front endpaper. More
Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall (tall). Slight wear to head of spine (nicking); slight rubbing and browning to covers (boards; chiefly at edges); slight internal browning to edges and endpapers. Half-title: The Idylls of Theocritus. Contains 54 poems and poetic..... More
Doubleday, Page & Company, 1918. Hardcover. VG in cloth (head of spine frayed; corners bumped; tight split at title page). 8vo xxxviii241[1]+ Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Thomas B. Harned. Contains 76 letters in all; only 6 by Whitman. BAL #21463. Exterior as noted; few slight stains and/or..... More
Smith, Elder and Company, 1871. First Edition. Leather Binding. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall (tall). Slight rubbing to extremities; slight internal browning and/or foxing (chiefly to edges and preliminaries). [4], 148 pages. Supposed musings of the German prince, in free verse format. Bound in modern 3/4 tan polished..... More
Gallery books, January 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed By Author on title page. A fine copy of the first edition hardcover in a fine jacket. More
Printed Exclusively for Members of The Bibliophile Society, 1914. First Edition. Unknown. Tall 8vo. 53 pages. Upper cover title: Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Half-title: The Poets' Enchiridion, Address to Uvedale Price, An Invocation to Sleep, Catarina to Camoens. First publications from the original manuscript copies, included in the famous sale of..... More
Ohio State University Press, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 85 pages. Editors' preface, introduction by William L. Graves. Notable for contributions by Kenneth Burke and Malcolm Cowley, among others. One of an unspecified number of copies, 'privately printed' in June, 1926. A very good..... More
Pantheon Books, January 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Bilingual German & English edition. A Very Good copy in a Very Good dustjacket. Book has shelfwear, a cocked spine, bumped cornesr, & toning to pages; DJ has shelfwear, edgewear, bumped corners, rubbing, a couple of scattered nicks, & has been price clipped..... More
Pangloss Press, 1975. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Printed letterpress in a tiny edition by Deborah L. Martin. Original black wraps (some glue offset to gutters and endpapers). Entirely unrecorded, no copies in Worldcat, no references found. More
ACTES SUD, June 1999. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" SUPERB PRESENTATION COPY, signed and inscribed with a half-page inscription from author Joubert to noted American poet Denise Levertov, who also translated several of Joubert's books into English. The inscription is dated December 6, 1997, a...... More
Jonathan Cape, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. A presentation copy inscribed by the author to 'Margaret Fry / from the author / May 48; as well as the publisher's compliments card tipped in on front free endpaper, which makes mention of he disablement. 191pp. Blue cloth with title stamped in silver..... More
Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" One of 275 copies signed by the author. Very Good condition in Good dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Jacket is lightly scuffed and edgeworn, with several shallow chips. Offsetting to first two and last two pages..... More
Hit & Run Press, 1983. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 8vo. Unpaginated. Bound in full brown leather, with dust jacket. One of 26 lettered copies signed by Tulley and Chavex; this is copy 'u' About Fine in dust jacket. Illustrated by Chavez with line drawings..... More
Wayne State University Press, July 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" From the librsy of poet Denise Levertov, and is inscribed to her by the author on the half title page. A Fine copy in dust jacket. More
Chatwin Books, April 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Brand new. The Special Hardcover Limited Edition of 250 signed and numbered copies, with inserted page of text hand-written by the author, More
Chatwin Books, April 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Brand new. The Special Hardcover Limited Edition of 250 signed and numbered copies, with inserted page of text hand-written by the author, More
Vatic Hum Press, January 1998. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall ( square). New. Signed by author on title page. More
S P D-Small Press Distribution, January 1970. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Slight rubbing and browning to wrappers (chiefly at edges); slight internal browning to edges. 80 pages. Author's first book of poems (including one poem each by Julio Hernandez, Peter Boone and Alice..... More
Whitaker and Co., 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Quite scarce (Worldcat records a handful of copies). Original cream cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt (heavy wear and tears to spine, wear to boards; stains and soiling to cloth; heavy foxing to plates). The frontis..... More
Newman-Burrows Company, 1937. Paperback. Brown marbled wraps. Quite scarce; zero surviving copies in Worldcat. 8vo. A Very Good copy. Book has edgewear, bumped corners, shelfwear, toning to pages, and '213' in ink on front endpaper. Interior is otherwise clean & unmarked; binding remains quite firm & tight. More
Oates and Roberts Press, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Original dark red cloth stamped in gilt (slight wear). A nice copy. More
University of Chicago Press, November 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition w/ complete number line. 8vo. - over 7¾' - 9¾'. A Good copy. NO DUSTJACKET. Book has edgewear, bumped corners, shelfwear, some folding & tearing to scattered pages, toning to pages, and a slightly cocked spine. Interior is tight..... More
George Bell and Sons, 1892. Leather Binding. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" 2 volumes, complete as issued. Attractively bound in 3/4 light brown calf over matching cloth, by H. Sotheran, spines with raised bands and trhe brown morocco labels, and gilt floral devices, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers (spines..... More
Copper Canyon Press, June 1994. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by author on half-title page to noted American poet Denise Levertov: 'For Denise Levertov - with appreciation & admiration...' Laid in is a typed letter signed from Copper Canyon Press..... More
The Pequod Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" One of 40 hand-numbered hardcover copies signed by author. Printed letterpress by hand by John Ruyle at Pequod Press. Hand-bound in cloth by the printer, paper spine label. A nice copy, as issued, appearing never read. Ruyle's..... More