Paris: Hachette, 1901. First edition. Folio (12 1/4 x 8 1//2 inches). 436 pp. 19 plates, some printed in color, black-and-white illustrations in text. Fine French binding by P. Affolter, three-quarter red morocco, marbled boards, smooth spine richly gilt with floral and other tools, top edges gilt. Slight touches to.....
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Student Publication Board, [1972]. 12.5 x 8.5 inches. 22 pages. Stapled as issued in self-wrappers. A journal of poems, music, cartoons, and a wall poster. With contributions by Neil Macdonald, G. D. Trevelyan, Brian McCabe, James Wilkinson, Kenneth Ross, and others. Scarce: Worldcat/OCLC list only four copies.....
Salt Lake City: Dream Garden Press, 1985. 8vo. 356, [1] pages. Illustrated by R. Crumb. Special edition bound in red cloth; slipcase with mounted picture. Limited edition, one of 250 copies, but this copy out-of-series and lettered "A" with designation as "Publisher's Presentation Copy." Signed by Abbey. With an unpublished.....
New York: Ridd & Carleton, 1858. 12mo (18 x 11 cm). 41 pages. Frontispiece, with tissue guard, half-title printed on recto; tailpieces, including Arabic quotations. Advertising leaf at front for Aldrich's 'A Collection of Poems." Publisher's plum blind-ruled and -monogrammed cloth. Provenance: C.B. Tillinghast (bookplate, his book number 1175). FIRST.....
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1903. 8vo (19.2 x 11.7 cm). 195 pages. Half-title, initial advertisement leaf. Original cloth, printed paper label on spine, uncut. Provenance: Collin Armstrong (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, one of 200 copies bound uncut and with the paper label. Typography by Bruce Rogers. BAL.....
New York: Random House, 1953. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Photographs by Slim Aarons. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket by Clifford Strohl Associates. First edition. Inscribed on the front free endpaper to Alan and Phyllis Sues: "For Alan & Phyllis – Two more loyal supporters a playwright never had.....
Aralia Press, 1988. Separate folded items, in the publisher's printed wrapper. One of 60 numbered sets with a signed item, from an edition of 200.
Paris: Librarie de Firmin Didot, 1872. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Text in French. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Contemporary brown half morocco, top edges gilt; in a greyish-tan cloth slipcase. Matthew Arnold's copy, with 51 penciled annotations – totaling 590 words – by him on 31 pages, plus marginal markings.....
Jamaica, Queens: The Marion Press, 1901. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 125 pages. Contemporary red quarter roan, green cloth boards. Bookplate of the William L. Clements Library (withdrawn stamp). One of 1500 copies. 411 lots, priced in ink by C. Gerhardt (note on p. 125). The auctions were held.....
New York: The New York Public Library, 1944. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 377 pages. Printed in double-columns. Original printed tan wrappers. A similar volume to George L. McKay's 'American Book Auction Catalogues, 1713-1934'. Fine copy. (BA).
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, [1995]. 8vo. 175 pp. Original cloth-backed boards; dust jacket. Fine. FIRST EDITION of Ashbery's seventeenth collection of poems.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982. 8vo. 266, [1] pp. Original cloth-backed boards; dust jacket. Near-fine with slightest shelfwear. FIRST EDITION.
New York: The Fuck You Press, 1965. Square 8vo. [12] pp. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION. One of 300 copies of the "Trade edition" (there was also the "Rough Trade Edition" of 5 copies; an edition of 3 unnumbered copies; and the "Turkey Edition" of two copies). "According to persistent.....
New York: Fuck You Press, [1965]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Square 8vo. Original printed white wrappers. First edition, one of 300 copies, of this sexually explicit homoerotic poem. In very good to fine condition. Bloomfield & Mendelson, Appendix II. WITH: Another edition. Washington: Guild Press, [1970]. 8vo. Original pictorial.....
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New York: Syrian-American Press, [1928]. 8vo. Frontispiece by Kahlil Gibran. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front flyleaf in Arabic: "Ila Akhiy Jawaad ‘Arid [To my brother Jawaad ‘Arid] Rashid Ayyub." This is the second of the three volumes of verse published by the Lebanese-born poet.....
London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1903. Small 4to. vii, 323 pages. Original half black morocco, marbled boards, gilt-lettered on spine, top edges gilt, red silk page markers.
Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1656. 12mo. 404pp. Engraved title. Contemporary vellum, manuscript lettering on spine. Provenance: Princes of Liechtenstein (bookplate). Willems 1193; Copinger 186; Brunet I, 633; Berghman 1408; Berghman Supplement 332; Rahir 1216; Tchemerzine I, 427.
One page, 8vo (8 x 5 inches). On Barnes's printed letterhead, with original matching envelope. In fine condition. The Chicago author replies to a request for an autograph: "I was delighted to receive your friendly note telling me that you enjoyed reading 'Within This Present'. It is always a pleasure.....
London: Writers Forum, 1987. 4to. [40] pp. Stapled as issued in printed wrappers. Wrappers slightly cockled, otherwise fine. FIRST EDITION of this scarce early Barone work.
[London]: [1931]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Folio (18 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches). 8 pages. Original printed wrappers, tied. First edition, issued as a Christmas supplement and preceding the book edition. (BA).
London: The Scholartis Press, 1929. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. First edition, limited to 1000 copies (of which this is one of 950 for sale). The dedication copy, inscribed by Bates beneath the printed dedication ("To Constance Garnett"): "who by her poetic genius began to influence.....
Chicago: Reilly & Britton, 1907. 8vo. Complete with 8 color prints (including frontispiece) and black-and-white illustrations in text by Maginel Wright Enright. Original gray cloth, both covers with color-printed illustrations mounted. First edition, first state, with identical full-color designs on front and back covers.
London: Home & Van Thal, Ltd., 1946. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original blue cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author beneath the printed dedication "To Eric Gillett": "from his old and affectionate friend Clifford Bax." Bax was a prolific playwright, poet, editor.....
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, [1980]. 8vo. 87, [5] pp. Original white printed wrappers, entirely unopened; original glassine. Front panel of glassine with tear at head, otherwise fine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 87 of 99 copies from an edition of 106 (there were 7 hors commerce) on Alfamousse, publisher's.....
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, [1965]. 8vo. 18, [1] pp. Original white printed wrappers, entirely unopened. Slightest soiling to wrappers, near-fine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 52 of 450 copies on Rives from an edition of 612 (there were 50 hors commerce and 112 reserved for the publisher).
