The Sun Rises Into the Sky and Other Stories 1952-1966
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. 8vo. 134 pages. Original pictorial boards; acetate wrapper. First edition. Number 86 of 200 signed copies, from an edition of 1500.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. 8vo. 134 pages. Original pictorial boards; acetate wrapper. First edition. Number 86 of 200 signed copies, from an edition of 1500.
New York: New York Public Library, 1986. 8vo. Original parchment-backed boards; acetate wrapper. First edition, one of 222 copies. Introduction by Edward Mendelson. With facsimiles of Auden's manuscript poems.
Fredericton, NB: Fiddlehead Books, 1972. 8vo. 23 pages. Stapled in original printed wrappers. First edition, one of 500 copies. Presentation copy, inscribed on the title: "For Sandy Taylor, In friendship + respect – Brendan Galvin." The Salt Farm was Galvin's first volume of poetry.
London: William Heinemann, 1930. 8vo. Original vellum, gilt-lettered; cloth slipcase. Number 756 of 1050 numbered and signed copies.
Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1980. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; acetate wrapper. Number 142 of 250 numbered and signed copies.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; acetate wrapper. Number 26 of 50 numbered and signed copies.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; acetate wrapper. Number 102 of 150 numbered and signed copies.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; acetate wrapper. Number 186 of 200 numbered and signed copies.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1980. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; acetate wrapper. Number 45 of 294 copies signed by Hughes and Faas. Includes critical writings by Ted Hughes and two interviews.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1985. 8vo. Original cloth-backed-boards; acetate wrapper. First edition, one of 500 hardcover trade copies.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. 8vo. 308 pages. Original black cloth; pictorial dust jacket designed by A. Ivancich. FIRST EDITION. Hanneman A23.
Florence: G. Orlioli, 1929. 8vo. Frontispiece. Original boards, printed paper label on spine. Number 279 of 750 copies, of which 700 were designated for sale. Edited by Richard Aldington and Giuseppe Orioli.
New York: W. W. Norton, 1929. 8vo. ix, 275 pages. Original black cloth, printed red paper labels on cover and spine; printed dust jacket. First edition. Signed by Powys on the front free endpaper and dated Oct. 17 1929 [in the year of publication].
London: Faber and Faber, [1954]. 8vo. 134, [2] pages. Original blue cloth; printed yellow dust jacket. First edition, first issue with misprint "Ihad" [for "I had"] on p. 7; first issue jacket priced "10s 6d"
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1959. 8vo. Original cloth; dust jacket. First edition, presumed second state with "A26" on verso of p. [44] (though appearing to have been effaced to make it look like A25). Containing 14 poems by Nabokov written between 1942 and 1957.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1951. 8vo. Original black cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition. Best known for containing the first book appearance of the Frank Rooney story, "Cyclists' Raid" (originally publisher in Harper's). It was the basis for the first biker movie, "The Wild One," produced by Stanley Kramer, directed by.....
London: Cassell & Company, 1932. 8vo. 308 pages. Original red cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition in the first binding, and with the scarce jacket that is almost always faded in this way. Pound & Grover A18a; Morrow & Lafourcade A18.
New York: Harper & Row, [1971]. 8vo. Original maroon quarter cloth; printed dust jacket designed by Amy Isbey Duevell, unclipped with $6.95 price preserved. First American edition of Plath's only novel, a semi-autobiographical roman à clef. It was originally published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. It was published.....
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988. 8vo. Original cream linen, red leather lettering-pieces; original blue slipcase with image mounted. First edition, limited issue, number 187 of 250 specially printed and bound copies signed by Carver. One of the greatest American writers of the 1980s, and one of the greatest short.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. 8vo. 534, v, [1] pp. Original maroon cloth, abstract design on front cover and spine in gold, silver-lettering on front cover and spine; printed dust jacket. In a later board slipcase. First edition, limited issue, number 1843 of 2,500 copies. With the exception of.....
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1962. 8vo. Original grey cloth; printed dust jacket. First UK edition of the first collection of Borges's work translated into English. After Anthony Kerrigan's introduction are the sections 'The Garden of Forking Paths' (1941) and 'Artifices' (1944).
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. 8vo. 339 pages. Original blue cloth; dust jacket. First edition. Presentation copy, signed by Merrill on the title-page (crossing out his printed name) and inscribed: "For Joe McCrindle generous friend of the Yale Review with the editor's compliments and every good wish from the.....
Deya, Majorca: The Seizin Press, 1930. Small folio (283 x 210 mm). [6], 27 pages. Quarter cream calf, gilt-decorated paper cover boards. First edition, one of 200 copies signed by Len Lye (this copy unnumbered), hand-set and printed on hand-made paper by Robert Graves and Laura Riding, and issued as.....
Chicago: Big Table Inc., Spring 1959. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. First edition of this infamous first issue of Big Table – founded after editors Irving Rosenthal and Paul Carroll resigned from The Chicago Review in protest to harsh criticisms of their printing portions of the then-unpublished novel Naked Lunch by.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. 8vo. Original black cloth, printed gold paper labels on front cover and spine; printed dust jacket. First edition of Hemingway's second collection of short stories. Among the fourteen stories are some of his finest: "In Another Country," "Hills Like White Elephants," and "The Killers.".....