Cardinals/The Cardinal
Derry, PA: Rook Press, 1976. Folded sheet, 9 x 4 inches. Illustration by William Lint. Original red printed wrappers; publisher's envelope. Fine. FIRST EDITION, number 36 of 96 copies signed by Heyen.
Derry, PA: Rook Press, 1976. Folded sheet, 9 x 4 inches. Illustration by William Lint. Original red printed wrappers; publisher's envelope. Fine. FIRST EDITION, number 36 of 96 copies signed by Heyen.
Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1988. 4 1/2 x 6 inches. Color illustration by Gino Lee. Single sheet folded twice. Original printed wrappers. Fine. FIRST EDITION, letter V of 26 lettered copies signed by Heyen (there were an additional 10 copies for the author).
Worcester, MA: Metacom, 1981. 8vo. [21] pp. Original wrappers, printed label on cover. Fine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 49 of 150 copies signed by Heyen from an edition of 176 copies. Designed and printed by Nancy King and William Ferguson, printed on Rives.
Kansas City, MO: The Book Makers, 1979. 8vo. 64 pp. Original printed wrappers. Some minor soiling. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED by Higgins on the title-page.
London: Faber and Faber, [1963]. 8vo. 46 pages. Illustrated by R. A. Brant. Original blue cloth; pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. One of 3,000 copies of Hughes' third book for children. Sagar and Tabor A7.
Knotting, Bedfordshire: Christopher Skelton for Sceptre Press, 1979. Square 8vo. 4 pages. Stapled in original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 46 of 100 copies signed by Hughes from an edition of 450. The colophon states that Hughes retained 50 of the signed copies for himself. With errata slip.....
Knotting, Bedfordshire: Christopher Skelton for Sceptre Press, 1977. Square 8vo. [8] pages. Sewn in original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 7 of 100 copies signed by Hughes from an edition of 450. The colophon states that Hughes retained 50 of the signed copies for himself. Sagar and Tabor.....
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1927. Two volumes, 8vo. Plates. Original cloth; dust jackets. Owner's inkstamp crossing text on title, wear and chipping at extremities of jackets. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Scarce with jackets.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin/The Riverside Press, 1960. 8vo. 83 pages. Original cloth-backed boards; printed dust jacket with photographic portrait of the author by Betty C. Brown on the front cover. FIRST EDITION, first printing of the author's first book.
Vancouver: Standard, 1978. 4to. [11] pp. Illustrated by Bryan Wert. Original printed wrappers. Fine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 40 of 40 copies signed by the author and illustrator from an edition of 350 copies.
Norman, OK: Point Riders Press, 1978. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Nearly fine with some age darkening. FIRST EDITION, signed by Levendosky on the title-page.
Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1971. 8vo. 12 leaves. Photographic illustrations. Original printed wrappers. Small bump at foot of spine. FIRST EDITION, one of 550 copies in wrappers (there were also 200 casebound and 50 signed/numbered copies). PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED by Levine to fellow poet Michael Waters: "For Michael Waters with.....
Providence: Burning Deck, 1996. 8vo. 14 pp. Original blue printed wrappers. Fine. FIRST EDITION, one of 500 copies from an edition of 526. With publisher's press slip laid-in.
New York: The Alcestis Press, 1935. 8vo. Original printed wrappers; glassine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, an unnumbered copy from the edition of 165 signed by Maas. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED in pencil on the front free endpaper to the playwright and poet Jane Dransfield: "To Jane Dransfield / belatedly but no.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1954. 8vo. [4] pp. Full-page color illustration by Michael Ayrton. Sewn in original printed wrappers, most of original mailing envelope preseved. Near-fine. FIRST EDITION. From the Ariel Poems new series.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. 8vo. 43 pp. Original blue cloth; printed paper labels on cover and spine. One spot on front cover, else fine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 71 of 200 copies signed by McClure from an edition of 1,226.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. 4to. [32] pp. Original cloth-backed printed boards; acetate jacket. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 76 of 250 copies in boards signed by McClure. Designed and printed by Noel Young and Graham Mackintosh.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. 4to. [32] pages. Original cloth-backed printed boards; acetate jacket. First edition, limited issue, number 126 of 250 copies in boards signed by McClure. Designed and printed by Noel Young and Graham Mackintosh.
Brooklyn: Jordan Davies, 1978. 8vo. [22] pp. Full-page illustration by Jordan Davies. Original white printed wrappers. Lightly soiled. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 67 of 200 copies signed by McClure. Printed by Ronald Gordon at the Oliphant Press.
Brooklyn: Jordan Davies, 1978. 8vo. [22] pp. Full-page illustration by Jordan Davies. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 200 copies. Printed by Ronald Gordon at the Oliphant Press. This copy unnumbered and unsigned, out-of-series, and from the printer's personal collection.
Berkeley, CA: Oyez, 1974. 8vo. [32] pp. Original blue cloth; dust jacket. Slightest shelfwear to jacket. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 39 of 100 copies printed and bound by Graham Mackintosh and signed by Meltzer from an edition of 1,350.
Berkeley, CA: Oyez, 1973. 8vo. [16] pp. Sewn in original plain wrappers. Nearly fine with some faint smudging on covers. FIRST EDITION, one of 250 copies signed by Meltzer. Designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh.
New York: Nadja, [1984]. 8vo. 12 pages. Laced in original blue printed boards, with the publisher's mailing envelope. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 47 of 150 copies signed by Merrill from an edition of 176. This is the fifteenth publication of the Nadja press. Bronze originally appeared in Grand Street.....
New York: Atheneum, 1982. 8vo. 362, [1] pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. A very good copy with two short tears and one small crease to jacket. FIRST EDITION. Hagstrom & Morgan A44a1.
Brooklyn: Jordan Davies, [1980]. 8vo. 10 pages. Original salmon printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 56 of 200 copies signed by Merrill.