One of 300 numbered copies, this being copy no.211. Tall octavo (27cm); grey paper-covered boards and sage green cloth backstrip, with printed title label mounted to spine; [8],9-79,[1]pp. Light wear to corners, some of the usual darkening to board edges, with the usual offsetting to endpapers; there is no rectangular.....
One of 500 copies, this being copy no.327. An elaborate folding object, resembling a narrow chapbook while closed (measuring 23.5cm x 11.5cm), with the upper half opening into a line drawing of a cryptic figure by Franciszka Themerson, and the lower half opening into a concrete poem ("Shooting at doves.....
First printing. Small octavo; brown cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 182pp; illus. Square, tight copy, free of markings or notable wear - fully Fine. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $5.95 on front flap), mild diagonal crease to rear flap; Near Fine. Classic account of communal farm-life in New England during.....
Three volumes, all softcovers. Three Octavos (22.5cm); white paper wrappers; 535pp; 578pp; 563pp. Text in French. All three volumes from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his embossed pictorial bookplate to half-title page of vol. 3. Vol. 1 has light shelf-wear, with soil to.....
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Quarto. 25cm. Pulisher's pictorial paper covered boards. Dustjacket. 132pp. Very light wear to corners and spine ends; internally clean, signed by McCulling to the title page; in a clean, strong example of the dustjacket with some very light cosmetic edgewear. A near fine signed copy. McCullin's relationship with India has.....
Second edition (first published 1777). 12mo. Full 18th-c. tree calf with contrasting title label and ornament to spine; [ii],xxxvi,192pp; frontispiece portrait; wanting half-title. A pretty copy, joints and boards firm and free of notable wear; internally fresh and free of foxing; Very Good indeed. Early presentation to front endpaper, "N.S.[?].....
Enveloped A.L.s. by photographer to Harlan Kleiman laid in. Quarto (33.5cm); white cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-183,[1]pp; black-and-white photographic (halftones) and illustrations throughout. Inscribed by photographer on front endpaper: "For Harlan Kleiman / Irving Penn". Enveloped autographed letter printed, with Irving Penn Studios blind.....
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Three Volumes. Octavo. 19cm. Publisher's olive green cloth titled in gilt to spines. 236pp.; 273pp.; 289pp. Strong, handsome and uniform, bumped to spine ends, with some light scuffing and rubbing to extremities (most visible on vol II), but free of anything other than fairly light wear; internally clean, patterned pale.....
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.....
First Impression, one of 5,000 numbered copies this being copy no.805. Thick quarto (32cm); tan faux leather, titled in gilt on green leather labels mounted to spine, with gilt-stamed Mayan decorations at mid-spine and spine ends; map endpapers; [1-72a],1-984; [1-6b],1-360,[2]pp. Pictorial bookplate of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn.....
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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.....
Two T.L.s, T.n.s, and telegram adhered to front pastedown from R.E. Simpson to J.S. Walker. Quarto (30.5cm); black cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; 129pp; black-and-white photographic halftone illustrations throughout, with fold-out map illustration. Inked ownership of J.S. Walker Jr., of the Winston-Salem division, to front endpaper.....
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One of 1,000 copies. Octavo (23.25cm); original pictorial card wrappers; [vi],[4],5-51,[7]pp; illus. Lower corners gently tapped (though still sharp), a few very faint patches of soil to front wrapper, else an internally clean, Near Fine copy. A collaborative work between Burroughs and Gysin, collecting poems, cut-up texts, and illustrations. An.....
First Printing, with publisher's "A-6.66" code on copyright page. Octavo (21cm); russet cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-254,[2]pp. Small rectangular label discreetly removed from front endpaper, else a clean, Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $3.95), with a 1" tear to upper.....
12mo. (19.5cm); publisher's original dark green vertically-ribbed cloth titled in gilt on front cover, with embossed decorations within triple blind-ruled border on covers; viii,[9]-238,[4]pp, with pictorial frontispiece of an eight-point buck by Wightman, and woodcuts at the end of Chapters 14 and 16. Touch of softening to spine ends, light.....
First printing. Issue for Great Britain, with sticker price in pounds pasted over printed price on jacket. Square octavo. Tan cloth hardcover; dustjacket; [48]pp. A fine copy of the book, free of markings or noticeable wear. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped but with publisher's price stickered over with price of.....
Quarto. 31cm. Publisher's original buff decorated card wraps. 99pp.; [1]. Light wear and creasing to corners and spine ends, minor chipping and a small closed tear to the foor of the spine, a little soiling of the pale wraps in places; internally clean, signed on the limitation page (#185 of.....
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Five Softcover Issues. Five Quarto softcovers (35.5cm); black pictorial paper wrappers; 125pp; 128-276pp; 127pp; 116-251pp; 252-387pp; black-and-white photographic halftones and colorful illustrations throughout. Each issue has Robert M. Johnson's ownership inked to recto of front wrappers, with lower margins of each half-title page including his embossed bookplate. Modest shelf-wear and.....
First Printings, most between 1,500-2,000 copies per issue. Fifteen octavo volumes (23.25cm); original pictorial card wrappers; [2]-166 + [6] ads; [5]-217 + [3] ads; [7]-275 + [1] ad; [7]-292,[4]; [9]-276,[2]; [13]-261,[3]; [11]-288,[2]; [7]-369,[5]; [9]-293,[7]; [9]-441,[7]; [ii],[5]-47,[1]; [9]-392,[8]; [9]-382,[2]; [7]-314,[6]; [7]-445,[7]pp, with black & white illustrations, half-tone plates, and folding charts;.....
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Second edition. 12mo. Publisher's pictorial blue cloth; ii,[1]-306,[6] pp; includes half-title. Straight, well-preserved copy, foxed at prelims and rear-matter, but text remains mostly unaffected. Indecipherable ownership signature in ink to front endpaper and title page; Very Good. One of two contemporary printings, both quite rare, of this collection of weird.....
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Octavo (in 4's). 24cm. Stab bound pages, with the title page serving as the front cover, and no trace that the pamphlet was ever bound. 35pp. Some mild chipping to edges and extremities, most notably the upper right corner, toning and soiling to wraps; internally clean but uniformly toned with.....
No. 69 of 200 copies (of which 150 were for sale), hand-numbered and signed by the poet. 12mo. Bound in Japanese grasscloth; printed dustwrapper; 27,(1)pp. Jacket very mildly spine-faded (with printed title still perfectly legible), otherwise a fine copy of a scarce and lovely book.
One of 75 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.36. Broadside, with text and illustrations hand press printed in black and red on white handmade paper (all edges deckled), measuring 28.5cm x 40cm (11.25" x 15.75"). A Fine copy of this broadside poem by Hughes, printed by.....
Deluxe issue, one of only 25 copies, specially bound and signed by Cahan. Quarto. Quarter morocco over tan cloth; gilt titles to spine and front cover; unpaginated. Fine, fresh copy. With engraved bookplate to front pastedown of David Enderton Johnson. A poem written by Crane in 1920, during a brief.....
