Pittsburgh and London: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1976. 8vo. 66 pages. Pictorial wrappers. First edition, paperback issue, of the poet's first book. Presentation copy, inscribed by Meek to the poet John Allman and his wife Eileen on the half-title: "For Jack and Eileen, with love, Jay. June 15, 1976)," below which.....
Providence: Burning Deck, 1991. 8vo. 62, [2] pages. Printed wrappers. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Rodefer to a fellow poet on the half-title, 7/91. One of 1000 copies designed by Rosemarie Waldrop (there was also an issue of 50 number and signed copies.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. 8vo. 52, [3] pages. Quarter tan linen, ochre boards, printed paper label on spine; acetate dust wrapper. First edition, one of 300 copies signed by Celia and Louis Zukofsky (this is no. 126). Designed by Barbara Martin, bound by Earle Gray.
Lenox, MA / New York: Angel Hair Books, 1977. Tall 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers, the cover design by Rosemary Mayer. First edition, printed in Berkeley, CA at the West Coast Print Center, and limited to 1000 copies. The text comprises Warsh's "Letters", 1960-65.
Catskill, NY: Lunar Chandelier Collective, 2018. 8vo. 322 pages. Printed wrappers. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed to another poet on the title-page by Kelly. This is the fifth and final volume in a cycle of long poems, collectively forming The Island Cycle.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2010. 8vo. 300 pages. Black boards; printed dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by Bernstein on the title-page at the Zinc Bar, NYC, 3/28/2010.
St. Louis: Time Being Books, 1994. 8vo. 185 pages. Green cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by Heyem on the title-page to the poet John Allman: "For the fire in you, John – with admiration and in friendship – Bill / Brockport / 1994 /.....
Pittsburg, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1994. 8vo. 63 pages. Pictorial wrappers. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by Meek to the poet John Allman and his wife Eileen on the half-title: "January 24, 1994. To Jack and Eileen – These travelogues, for all the years our lives have.....
New York: Penguin, 1994. ix, [3], 78, [5] pages. Printed wrappers. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed to the poet John Allman on the half-title: "For John Allman - in admiration of the arc of his work. From an earliest snowplow poem to the latest fiction – Philip. Castine.....
Wakefield, RI & London: Moyer Bell, 1994. 8vo. xxxi, 574 pages. Printed wrappers; dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by James Laughlin on the half-title: "For Jack from J / all 2 1/2 lbs of it." The recipient was the poet John Allman.
Moorehead, MN: Moorehead State University, 1996. 8vo (21cm). [4], 34 pages. Grey wrappers with a photograph by Wayne Gudmundson, stapled. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title to the poet John Allman: "For Jack – Among fields of amber grain, these crop circles recently found yesterday!.....
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Hartford: S. S. Scranton and Company, 1866. 8vo. 48 sample pages; 4 page Testimonials; 1 page "Names of Women" (see below); 1 double-page printed synopsis; 13 lined sheets for entering subscribers names (with others at end torn out). Engraved frontispiece titled "Before the Battle" with tissue guard, 5 engraved portraits.....
New York: New Directions, 1955. 8vo. 197 pages. Original tan cloth; pictorial dust jacket designed by Alvin Lustig. First edition, jacket marked third printing (with mention of The New York Times on the copyright page and with credits to Mielzinger & Ballard on page xii). A fine example of Lustig's.....
New York: New Directions, 1950. 8vo. Original black cloth; pictorial dust jacket designed by Alvin Lustig. First trade edition. Despite its flaws, the front panel of the jacket is very presentable and is a good example of Lustig's design skills.
New York: Equinox Cooperative Press, 1934. 8vo. 61 pages. Illustrated with reproductions of lithographs by Lynd Ward. Original blue cloth, printed paper label on spine. Number 274 of 1000 copies numbered and signed by Thomas Mann (990 were for sale).
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. 8vo. 174 pages. Original black cloth; pictorial dust jacket incorporating Magritte's "The Listening Chamber," designed by R. Scudellari. First edition of this collection of short stories, signed by Cheever ("John Cheever") on the front free endpaper.
New York: [The Spiral Press for] The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1958. 8vo. Wood engraved plate by Leonard Baskin. Original gilt-lettered cloth-backed boards; original slipcase. FIRST EDITION, one of 550 copies. Abbott A16.
New York: Covici-Friede, 1929. Translated by Max Eastman. 8vo. x, 33, [1] pages. Woodcuts by Rockwell Kent. Original parchment, gilt-decorated with a small dove designed by Kent on cover, gilt-lettered on spine; plain glassine wrapper; acetate. Number 105 of 750 copies. Typography by S. A Jacobs, printed at the Stratford.....
London, New York, Bombay and Calcutta: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907. 8vo. Half-title. xiii, [1], 309, [1] pages. Original cloth-backed brown boards, printed paper spine label, top edges gilt. First British edition, using American sheets but with the address of "39 Paternoster Row." "Truths emerge from facts, but they dip.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1845. Small 8vo. Preliminary advertisement leaf, engraved frontispiece and additional title after D. Maclise, 11 wood-engravings after R. Doyle, J. Leech, and C. Stanfield. Publisher's red cloth gilt, edges gilt. First edition, second state of the additional title with publisher's name outside the engraved border. Dickens's.....
London: printed for T. Thomson, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1729. 8vo. ix, [1], 62 pages; 16 pages engraved music. Three-quarter red morocco, red cloth boards, all edges gilt, by Riviere. Pirated edition published in the same year as the first, with p. 9, 44 lines;.....
London: Sold by J. Morphew, 1715. 8vo. 24 pages. Modern quarter calf, cloth boards. First edition. Sometimes attributed to William Oldisworth (1680-1734), a miscellaneous writer, but also to Defoe (by Trent, Hutchins, Moore and Novak; disputed by Furbanks and Owens). It is a reply to Thomas Burnet's ’The necessity of.....
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1955. 8vo. Unpaginated. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, a copy from Gropper's own library with his Croton-on-Hudson inkstamp. Gropper was a Leftist illustrator, and this work an early graphic novel about a tailor's pursuit of success.
New York: Random House, 1967. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine, top edges stained blue; acetate wrapper (with some chips and losses); publisher's board slipcase. Special limited tenth anniversary edition, number 18 of 2000 copies signed by Rand on the limitation page at front.
New York: Gotham Book Mart & Gallery, 1977. 8vo (8.5 x 5.25 inches). [16] pages. Duotone portrait frontispiece, and seven images in text. Stapled as issued in printed stiff wrappers; with the original hole-punch along the foremargins (with clean tear through, evidently from pulling the lock out), original lock and.....
