A Cabin in the Clearing
[New York]: The Spiral Press, 1951. 16mo. 8 leaves. Decorations by Leo Manso. Original printed wrappers. First edition, issue for Theodore Amussen, one of 150 copies with his imprint. Crane B23.
[New York]: The Spiral Press, 1951. 16mo. 8 leaves. Decorations by Leo Manso. Original printed wrappers. First edition, issue for Theodore Amussen, one of 150 copies with his imprint. Crane B23.
[New York]: The Spiral Press, 1952. 16mo. 8 leaves. Decorations by Howard Cook. Original printed wrappers. First edition, issue for William E. Buckley, one of 150 copies with his imprint. Crane B24.
[New York]: The Spiral Press, 1953. 16mo. 8 leaves. Decorations by Philip Grushkin. Original printed wrappers. First edition, issue for William E. Buckley, one of 209 copies with his imprint. Crane B25.
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.
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". With printed Author's Compliment's slip on green paper laid-in. Gallup A24.
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". With a TLS from the bibliographer Donald Gallup laid-in detailing the issue points of the.....
[New York]: The Spiral Press, 1954. 16mo. 8 leaves. Decorations by Thomas W. Nason. Original printed wrappers. First edition, issue for William E. Buckley, one of 200 copies with his imprint. Crane B26.
New York: Viking Press, 1954. 8vo. x, 342 pages. Cloth; printed dust jacket. First trade edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Marianne Moore: "M.M. from M M with love / Dear Margaret, I I hope I am right in feeling that you would care to have this. Diffidantly, Marianne." Moore has.....
New York: Viking Press, 1954. 8vo. x, 342 pages. Cloth; acetate wrapper; slipcase. First edition, limited issue, number 220 of 400 copies signed by Moore (300 were for sale). Abbott A11.a1a.
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: 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"
New York: Random House, [1954]. 8vo. 90 pages. Original pale green cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition of Williams's late lyrical masterwork, collecting five-years of work. The Desert Music shows William's continued evolution of the variable foot, his triadic "step-down-line" developed in the 1940s (particularly in Paterson). He based the.....
[New York]: The Spiral Press, 1955. 16mo. 8 leaves. Decorations by Philip Grushkin. Original printed wrappers. First edition, issue for Henry Holt and Company, one of 2,000 copies with their imprint, signed by Barbara Emerson. Crane B26.
[New York]: The Spiral Press, 1955. 16mo. 8 leaves. Decorations by Philip Grushkin. Original printed wrappers. First edition, issue for William E. Buckley, one of 250 copies with their imprint. Crane B26.
New York: Exposition Press, 1955. 8vo. 64 pages. Green cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Joe, One who believes. 1956. From us Jim & Poca." Scarce book by this African American poet and educator originally from Talladega, Alabama.
[New York]: The Spiral Press, 1956. 16mo. 10 leaves. Decorations by Antonio Frasconi. Original printed wrappers. First edition, issue for Howard Cady, one of 100 copies with their imprint. Crane B28.
[New York]: The Spiral Press, 1958. 16mo. 8 leaves. Decorations by Stefan Martin. Original printed wrappers. First edition, issue for Henry Holt and Company, one of 4,550 copies with their imprint, inscribed by Maureen. Crane B30.
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.
Igal Roodenko for New Directions, 1959. Single folded sheet, folding to 5.5 x 3.5 inches. FIRST EDITION, one of 100 copies, of this poem written by the poet "To be Recited to [his wife] Flossie on Her Birthday." Wallace D18.
New York: Viking Press, 1959. 8vo. 37 pages. Original two-toned cloth; dust jacket. First edition, first impression. Signed by Moore on the front free endpaper, and dated Sept. 17, 1959 [the date of publication] on the copyright page. Abbott A17.1.
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.....
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.
London: Faber and Faber, [1960]. 8vo. 126 pp. Original red cloth; printed dust jacket. FIRST UK TRADE EDITION. One of 2,290 copies. This was published after the Milan, 1959 signed limited edition and the American edition of the previous year. Gallup A77.
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.
[New York]: The Spiral Press, 1960. Oblong 16mo. 8 leaves. Original printed wrappers. First edition, issue for Henry Holt and Company, one of 6,600 copies with their imprint, inscribed by Maureen and Sybil. Crane B32.