Miriam and Other Poems
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1871. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover in green cloth stamped in gilt. 170 pp. Frontispiece illustration. Very good.
Literature
Norwalk, Ct: Easton Press, 2003. Limited ed. Leather_bound. As new. Bound in full red leather decorated and littered in gilt, all edges gilt, color illustrtion on Snoop kissing Lucy on the nose tipped onto the front cover. Silk moire pink endpapers and silk marker ribbon. Original unused publiser's bookplate laid.....
The Albatross Amanac for 1935
Hamburg, Paris, Bologna: The Albatross, 1935. Softcover. Illustrated stiff wrappers. 190 pp. About very good, soiling to the covers and some spotting to the edges of the text block. Ownership signature on the title page. Scarce literary magazinefrom the 1930s containing, in this issue, pieces by Bromfiled, Bolitho, Katherine Mansfield.....
The Books of Ruth and Esther with Photogravures After Gilbert James
London: George Routledge & Sons. James, Gilbert. Hardcover. Hardcover. 94 pps with illustrations. The Biblical stories of Ruth and Esther illustrated with a series of fine photogravures, based on the original engravings by Gilbert James. Brilliant piece of turn of the century spiritual literature. Fine, tight copy in fine, crisp.....
Hemingway (Collection Genies et Realites)
Paris: Hachette, 1966. Hardcover. Dark tan leather lettered and decorated in gilt and red. Illustrated endpapers. 283 pp. plus index of illustrations. Text in French. Illustrated throughout with color and black and white photographs and reproductions. Handsomely assembled collection of biographical and critical essays on author Ernest Heminway. AS NEW.....
Lines of Battle: Letters from American Servicemen 1941-1945
Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A. Times Books, 1987. First Ed. Hardcover. Hardcover. 297 pps with index, illustrations. A beautiful collection of letters written by American servicemen to their loved ones during World War II. Includes letters written by then-future President John F. Kennedy. Fantastic resource and glimpse into the human side of.....
A Maid for All Seasons Volume 3
Garden City, NY: Venus, 2005. Hardcover. Hardcover. 255 pp. The third installment in this erotic series in which Naughty Lisa returns for more paddle punishments. "...Her employer insists she attend a college for women where students are made to wear degrading schoolgirl uniforms and are put under strict supervision...What will.....
Oriental Literature (Edition de Luxe) in four volumes
New York: Colonial Press, 1900. Revised. Hardcover. Four volumes. Dark brown cloth hardcovers with paper spine labels. Top edges gilt, other edges uncut. Title pages printed in red and black. Frontispiece gravure engravings with tissue guards. A tight, generally fine set, labels a bit embrowned, small tasteful bookplate front pastedowns.....
"TWICE A YEAR - A book of Literature, The Arts and Civil Liberties".
NY: Twice A Year Press, 1941. Number VII, Fall - Winter. Very good in printed paper covered boards and flaps. Perfect bound spine cracked, small chip. Photographic illustrations by Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keefe as well as the first American publication of a story by Proust, "A Young Girl's Confession".....
Nixey's Harlequin: Tales
London: Jonathan Cape, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Hardcover in multi-colored paper covered boards over black cloth, paper spine label. Very good, modest sunning to the spine strip and a small chip to one corner of the label. Vintage bookplate front free endpaper. no dust jacket. Collection of ten.....
When Thou Hast Shut Thy Door (inscribed by the author)
Portland, ME: Falmouth Publishing House, 1939. Hardcover. Hardcover. 49 pp. Warmly inscribed with references to St. Christopher and signed by the author on the front free endpaper with notation "Stracuse, N.Y./ Good Friday/ 1940". Fine in near fine dust jacket with a small smudge front panel. "This volume of exquisite.....
A Heavy Feather (inscribed first edition)
London: Hogarth Press, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Fine (bit of light foxing to the edges of the text block) in fine, lightly toned dust jacket. Hardcover. 234 pp. Fiction. "This is the storyh of Almayer Jenkin's progress through life...[a].....
Psalms of the Prodigal and Other Poems (inscribed by the author)
New York: P.J. Kenedy, (1956). Hardcover. Presumed first edition. N.d. (1956). Warmly inscribed and dated June 26, 1956 by the author on the front free endpaper. Hardcover. xv+ 112 pp. Fine in very good dust jacket. Poetry. Collection of metaphysical and religious-themed poems, introducing many moving ideas based on Biblical.....
Nepenthe (inscribed with a poem by the author)
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1926. Hardcover. Presumed first edition. Slim hardcover in light gray paper covered printed boards over buff cloth spine. Inscribed but not personalized on the front free endpaper with an 8-line poem, dated Dec 9, 1927 and signed "A.W.G." 60 pp. Poetry. Very good, small stain.....
Bringing Him Home: A Memoir (inscribed by the author)
Chicago: Late August Press, 2008. First edition. Paperback. Presumed first edition (no statement), no issued oin hardcover. Inscribed on the half-title page "To _____/ Best wishes on your 75th birthday/ Aaron Cooper". Fine. 297 pp. "After years of condemnation from a father convinced that gay men live "lonely and wated.....
Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology
Library of America, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. New in dust jacket. First edition/ printing. Hardcover. xxxiii+ 613 pp. Covering a period form American colonial days to the 21st century, an anthology of pieces written by American authors while they were in Paris. The collection begins with pieces by Frankin, Jefferson.....
Paradise Kiss 3 (Korean version)
2001. Softcover. Softcovers. Fine. Graphic novel translated from the original Japanese into Korean.
The Collected Novels of Conrad Aiken
NY: Holt, Reinhardt & Winston, 1964. Second. Hard Cover. Cloth, 575 pps. Introduction by R.P. Blackmur. Contains "Blue Voyage", "Great Circle", "King Coffin", "A Heart for The Gods of Mexico", and "Conversation. Second printing. A fien, tight copy in bright, crisp dust jacket.
The Soldier: A Poem
London: Editions Poetry, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. First editon. Slim 12mo. in glossy dark tan hardcovers. 40 pp. A tight, fine example. In original dust jacket with a tiny chip at the spine extremities. Quite a nice copy indeed. (Reduced international shipping available on this item. Please inquire.).
The Pleasures of the Imagination and Other Poems
New York: R & W.A. Bartow & Co., 1822. Leather_bound. 24mo. (3 7/8" x 5 1/2") in original three quarter red morocco over dark green paper covered boards. Spine lettered and ornately stamped in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece engraving of Akenside. 144 pp. Early American printing containing the title work.....
The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems 1937-1952
New York: DaCapo, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. xviii+ 523 pp. with index. Illustrated with photographs. Alan Ginsburg kept a journal his entire lifem beginning at age eleven. This collection covers the most important and formative years of the poet's life, from his childhood in.....
The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C.S. Lewis
New York: Harper Collins, 2005. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket (jacket has the announcement sticker for the 2005 film "The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe". Hardcover. xxvi+ 342 pp. with index. Illustrated with photographs. Third printing of the first edition (stated). A masterful telling of the life story.....
Camus (Collection Genies et Realites)
Paris: Hachette, 1966. Hardcover. Full turquoise leather lettered and decorated in gilt and black. Marker ribbon. 286 pp. plus index of illustrations. Text in French. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs and reproductions. Collection of biographical and critical essays on Albert Camus. AS NEW in clear dust wrapper.....
Union Square (in original dust jacket)
New York: Literary Guild, 1933. Reissue. Hardcover. Hardcover in red cloth lettered in black and with blindstamp design. Illustrated endpapers. Early reissue, published same year as the Viking Press first. A tight, near fine example, with a three small spots to the top edge of the text block. In original.....
The Natural History Of The Flirt (with) The Natural History Of The Ballet- Girl (with) The Natural History of the Tuft Hunters (with) The Natural History of "Bores"
London: D. Bogue, 1847. Leather_bound. 32mo. (3" x 5") in contemporary mid-19th century three quarter dark brown leather over marbled paper covered boards, marbled endpapers and text edges. 1847 and 1848. Engraved frontispieces for each book. Illustrated with black and white engravings by Henning, Hine, Gavarni and Gilbert. 107, 103.....