The Confidential Clerk
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"
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"
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.
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 6 pages, 4to; and 2 1/2 pages, folio, two of the manuscripts on stationery with engraved vignettes. (BA).
London: Faber and Faber, [1963]. 8vo. 46 pages. Illustrated by R. A. Brant. Original blue cloth; pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. One of 3,000 copies of Hughes' third book for children. Sagar and Tabor A7.
New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1899. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Frontispiece. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered. First combined edition, first issue. Presentation copy, inscribed by Markham: "My dear Norbert Hyatt: If all men were like you, poets would live in palaces and kings would do them reverence. All good.....
New York: Nadja, [1984]. 8vo. 12 pages. Laced in original blue printed boards, with the publisher's mailing envelope. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 47 of 150 copies signed by Merrill from an edition of 176. This is the fifteenth publication of the Nadja press. Bronze originally appeared in Grand Street.....
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.
Vancouver: William Hoffer, 1982. 20 x 9 inches. Mounted as issued in cloth portfolio with spine label. One of 26 lettered copies (this letter "H") signed by the poet, from an edition of 330. Printed on Carlyle Japan and tipped into a binding by Courtland Benson. Designed by Robert Bringhurst.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 8vo, integral blank leaf, on gray paper. "I am much obliged to the loan of Swedenborg’s(?) volume, which is the one I wanted. Also for the pamphlet. I will return them shortly." (BA) Patmore (1823-1896), English poet and literary critic, is best known.....
Dublin: William Porter, 1802. 12mo. 62 pages. Two engraved plates. Contemporary Irish binding, full mottled calf, gilt flortiate roll on sides. Scarce Dublin edition, published the same year as the London and New York editions.
[San Francisco]: [Four Seasons], 1964. Broadside. 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. Matted. FIRST EDITION. The broadside reproduces Snyder's calligraphy and includes his date and signature in the print. One of 300 copies sold at a reading by Snyder, Lew Welch and Philip Whalen at Longshoremen's Hall is San Francisco.....
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.
Cambridge: University Printing House for The Limited Editions Club, 1973. Tall octavo. Color reproductions on Blake's illustrations from the illuminated books, mounted. Original black morocco-backed red cloth, the front cover with an oval relief bust portrait of Blake; original slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 605 of 1,500 copies.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1884. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original cloth, top edges gilt. First edition. Inscribed with a poem: the 16-line poem "Comedy" (on pp. 89-90 in the book) has been written out and signed by Aldrich on the front flyleaf. Inscribed by him on the opposite blank.....
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.
Buffalo, NY: Intrepid Press / PulpArtForms Unltd. 1975. 11 x 8.5 inches. [16] pages. "Fertile Donation Box", rear wrapper with ads and half-tone portrait of the author. Illustrated wrappers, stapled, showing a sculpture by Suzanne Benton. Presumed first edition. This is The Beau Fleuve Series no. 9. "In 1960, aged.....
Brooklyn: Jordan Davies, 1979. 8vo. [11] pages. Sewn in original wrappers, printed paper label on cover. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 191 of 200 signed copies. Bertholf A53a.
New York: The Now & Then Press, 1961. 12mo. Hand-colored woodcut of a pine cone on title. Original printed wrappers, repeating the woodcut at center. A near-fine copy with slightest soft creasing. SCARCE FIRST EDITION of this privately-printed collection of Hortense Flexner's verse.
[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]: 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, 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.
Philadelphia: J. Crissy, 1834. First edition. 8vo. 156 pages., including 4pp. list of subscribers at end. Original muslin. Provenance: F. L. Beeby (inkstamp on flyleaf). A scarce volume of early American poetry. Among the subscribers listed at end are Henry Clay, Mathew Carey, and James Fenimore Cooper, OCLC 8515494.
N.p. Juxtaposition Press for the Author, 1992. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards, edges untrimmed, by Carolyn Chadwick and Kiki Bourneuf; printed acetate jacket. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION, one of 50 copies printed by Jennifer Magee-McGovern, this copy unnumbered out-of-series. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed to Charlotte Ricks "In memory of words and.....
[New York]: Grenfell Press, 1984. Tall 8vo. Title design drawn by Louisa Chase. Original cloth, printed paper label on spine. FIRST EDITION, number 13 of 115 copies signed by Lauterbach and Chase from an edition of 130.
Halifax, Nova Scotia: [Cambridge: Thurston and Torry for] E. G. Fuller, 1857. First edition. 8vo. 237pp. Two lithographed frontispieces by Sarony, Major and Knapp, New York. Contemporary black hard-grained morocco, gilt-lettered on spine, edges gilt. A fine Nova Scotia imprint, from two sisters who had emigrated from Ireland as young.....