Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1940. 8vo. 382 pages. Original blue cloth, silver lettering on spine; printed dust jacket, designed by James Laughlin. First edition, first printing, one of about 1500 copies printed. Signed by Williams on the front free endpaper. A much finer than usual copy of this novel, the.....
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966. 14 x 8.5 inches. 68 pages. Tall wrappers, silkscreen print laid down to front wrap (duplicate within contents), various sized and colored papers, collage elements. First edition, one of 108 copies. Taylor & Horvath P-110.
N.p. s.n., n.d. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Broadside, 9 3/4 x 8 inches. A song sheet printing of Pierpont's celebrated temperance song. Published in his 'Airs of Palestine', it was often sung and reprinted, as on the celebration of Independence Day, 1839, when it was sung at Faneuil Hall.....
Salisbury, CT: The Cantina Press, [1938]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 12mo (5 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches). Printed on tissue, on one side only of leaves. Original plain salmon wrappers; in a quarter morocco folding case. Scarce and fragile bookseller's catalogue of 28 first editions of T. S. Eliot's.....
Cambridge: Stone & Kimball, 1893. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original lavender cloth, paper label on spine, untrimmed. First edition of the first hardcover Stone & Kimball book and the first work with that imprint on its title-page. Number 47 of 50 large-paper copies signed by the publishers. The.....
Providence: s.n., 1886. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Tall 8vo. Portrait of Henry B. Anthony. Contemporary blue half morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, by B. P. Sanford. Presumably a large paper copy (measuring 10 3/4 x 7 1/8 inches). With cut signature of Anthony affixed to verso of.....
Providence: Tibbitts, 1883. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Small 8vo. Original blue printed wrappers. Tibbitts' name, etc. is on a label pasted over "For sale by Tibbitts, Shaw & Co," on title-page and on front cover. "Very scarce" (Hill). Hill, cat. 42: "The earliest bookseller's catalogue devoted entirely to American.....
New York: Leon & Brother, 1885. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Engraved title (as used on the front cover of the original wrappers.) Maroon half morocco gilt, marbled boards, gilt edges. The first catalogue devoted totally to American literary first editions. As it listed all of the known works.....
New York: Leon & Brother, 1885. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers, blue cloth spine. The first catalogue devoted totally to American literary first editions. As it listed all of the known works of the selected authors, it was also the first bibliography of American first editions.....
New York: William Evarts Benjamin, 1885. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Small 8vo. Original white parchment spine and lemon glazed boards, unopened. First edition, limited to 250 copies numbered and signed (with initials) by Benjamin (this is no. 95). The first separate bibliography of an American author, compiled by Beverly.....
Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1927. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 12mo. Original pale green boards. First trade edition of Joyce's second collection of poetry; errata slip tipped in at rear. Contains thirteen poems. Actually a very good copy. Slocum & Cahoon A24.
London: Selwyn & Blount Ltd, 1926. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original mottled paper printed wrappers; in a cloth folding case. One of 11 copies on Japan vellum. Presentation copy, inscribed by the poet on the half-title: "XI copies have been printed on Japan Vellum. This is Number II.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Two volumes, large 8vo. Frontispieces and engraved titles. Original boards, printed paper labels, untrimmed; in a red quarter morocco slipcase. First edition, limited large-paper issue, no. 35 of the 'Author's Autography Copy" edition signed by Stedman. Bookplates of Frederick W. Skiff.....
[Hurst, Reading, Berkshire]: Privately Printed [by the Tragara Press], 1991. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original black cloth. First edition. One of 200 copies on Abbey Mills laid paper printed by Alan Anderson at the Tragara Press in Edinburgh. This copy from the library of George Sims, with his.....
Cincinnati: Elliston Poetry Foundation / University of Cincinnati, [1964]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Facsimile edition. Original green buckram. Number 25 of 500 copies. "I think I must have printed NINE EXPERIMENTS before the Auden POEMS, which I also did in 1928. I gave up printing the latter halfway.....
New York: Macmillan, 1921. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original red cloth-backed boards, printed paper label; printed dust jacket. First edition.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1913. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Inscribed with four lines of verse from the poem "A Coiner of Angels" (on p. 38 in the book): "From 'The Little Red Ring' / What will.....
New York: Macmillan, 1962. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original maroon cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Fred Dannay with great respect (and affectionately) Charles Norman." Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee famously wrote under their 'nom de.....
London: 1939. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 28 pages, 8vo, and 4 holograph preliminary pages and manuscript cover. Greenish-blue wrappers. John Gawsworth (1912-1970) had an active career as a literary editor, bibliographer, lecturer, archivist, and most of all, poet. He also served in the RAF in various European, North African.....
New York: Doran, [1923]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original pictorial black cloth, lettered and decorated in silver; in the metallic finish dust jacket; in a black half morocco slipcase. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the poet on the front free endpaper: "For Vincent Starrett [American 'bookman' and.....
London: F. S. Ellis, 1870. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original printed tan wrappers, unopened. First edition. Tinker 2017; Wise, Swinburne, 52. (BA).
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[New York]: [The Gotham Book Mart], [1948]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 2 leaves, on pink and green paper. Original blue wrappers, printed in black and red, stitched. First edition, no. 33 of 205 copies of the private issue for Fania Marinoff and Carl Van Vechten. Printed at the.....
London: Macmillan, 1949. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered; dust jacket; in a red cloth folding case. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper to the bibliophile and writer "... John Hayward with love from Edith Sitwell." Other than the bowing, a......
Oxford: B. H. Blackwell; Cambridge: Elijah Johnson; London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1888. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Square 8vo. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt, blind and gilt-ruled, untrimmed. First edition of the second book of poetry by the poet, satirist, and editor of 'Punch'. Laid in is an ANS, one.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 pages, 4to. In the first letter, Rukeyser writes: "Once you asked me to send you some short poems, saying you did not know I had written any. – Here are four:" In the second: "And three more (all of yesterday's and today's have been.....
