London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1911. 8vo. viii, 87, [1] pages. Publisher's blue cloth, printed paper spine label. FIRST EDITION, one of 500 copies of Brooke's first collection of poetry, published when he was only 23 years old. The book was issued without a jacket. With his second book, 1914 and.....
Venice: Paolo Colombani, 1760. 4to (204 x 160 mm). 4 full-page engraved plates after Pietro Antonio Novelli (3) and Francesco Bartolozzi (1) by Antonio Baratti, title-page vignette, one head-piece and 5 tail-pieces, 5 ornamental initials. 19th-century quarter vellum, decorated paper boards. Some pale dampstaining to lower corners, generally crisp. Provenance.....
London: David Nutt, 1913. Small, thin 8vo. ix, [3], [1]-50, [2] pages. Original tan printed wrappers (Binding D); cloth folding box. FIRST EDITION, second issue. The author's first book, preceded only by the legendary Twilight [1894] of which only one copy is known. Frost has the distinction of being one.....
Northampton, MA: The Apiary Press, 1964. 8vo. [15] pages. Wood-engravings by Thomas Bewick in text. Hand-bound in marbled wrappers over stiff card. Scarce first book designed and printed by Ronald Gordon, whose future Oliphant Press would print many celebrated fine press books of the 1970s-90s. One of only 25 copies.....
New York: The Grenfell Press, 1986. 8vo. Sewn in wrappers; dust wrapper with woodcut by Joel Shapiro. FIRST EDITION, number 13 of 150 copies signed by Cole and Shapiro.
Boston: S. G. Goodrich and Co., 1829. Three volumes, 8vo (19.9 x 12 cm). Original muslin-backed boards, printed paper spine labels, uncut. Provenance: Samuel Wagner (contemporary ownership signatures on flyleaves). FIRST EDITION of the first comprehensive anthology of American poetry, euphemistically called "Goodrich's Kettle of Poetry." This important and thorough.....
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. 10 pages. Stapled undersized wrappers printed in black, newsprint endpapers offset to facing pages. First edition, one of 75 copies. Letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Cover variants exist in two different sizes and two different colored cover stocks. Taylor & Horvath P-63.....
Toronto: Aya Press, 1979. 8vo. 23 illustrations in text, being full-page line drawings or engravings with text superimposed on images. Original morocco-backed boards; slipcase. FIRST EDITION, DELUXE LIMITED ISSUE, letter "u" of 26 lettered copies signed by the authors and containing a leaf of original manuscript in three ink colors;.....
4to (11 x 8.5 inches). One page. Fair copy transcribed, signed and dated May 3, 1942 by Moore. Moore titles the poem at head, and writes its complete 27-lines in her characteristic neat, sinuous hand. She notes that it was made at the request of Thomas Brumbaugh of Greencastle, PA.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951. 8vo. 85 pages. Original salmon boards; printed dust jacket. FIRST EDITION of Rich's first commercially published book, issued in an edition of 551 copies as volume 48 of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, edited by W. H. Auden, the judge that year. PRESENTATION.....
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947. 8vo. 55 pages. Original tan cloth; printed dust jacket. Provenance: William Targ, American author, editor, and publisher. FIRST EDITION of Wilbur's first book of poetry, published in an edition of 750 copies. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed to William Targ on the title: "For William Targ.....
