N.p. [1934]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 4to. 12 pages. Frontispiece after Edward Burra. Original quarter red cloth and tartan boards, printed label on front cover. First edition, believed to have been privately printed in an edition of about 100 copies, and a dedication copy. The printed dedication, which occupies.....
San Francisco: W. E. Wood, 1903. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait of Bierce. Original dark green cloth, gilt pictorial stamping and lettering, top edges gilt, others uncut; black cloth folding case. First edition, state 1 (BAL). This is the dedication copy to the designer of the binding.....
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. 8vo. xix, 58 pages. Original quarter blue cloth, decorated paper boards; printed blue dust jacket. First edition of Crane's first book, first issue with Allen Tate’s name misspelled (“Allan”) on the title-page. One of only 500 copies printed of the total edition (inclusive of.....
London: Richard Griffin and Company, 1861. 8vo (21.8 x 15.7 cm). Publisher’s original green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to the upper board and spine, gilt to all page edges. Illustrated with 20 mounted albumen prints. FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest works of poetry to be illustrated.....
Northampton, MA: The Gehenna Press, 1956. Folio (13 x 10 inches). Wood engraved portrait of Owen by Baskin after a drawing by Ben Shahn (with an extra proof copy, see below), and illustrations by Shahn in text. Half brown morocco, gilt-lettered on spine; board slipcase. One of 35 copies with.....
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.....
[Cleveland]: [1964]. Typescript, two pages, 4to (11 x 8.5 inches). With mailing folds. Two inked corrections. Published in 'The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle' and anthologized in 'The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry,' ed. Alan Kaufman, New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1999. This typescript shows two corrections made in levy's.....
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.
Cleveland: 1966. 11 x 8.5 inches. Title leaf of translucent paper with an original drawing by levy. Mimeographed. 12 pages, on rectos only. Stapled wrappers, front cover with original ink scarab drawing by the author mounted. One of 33 copies. A scarce publication by one of levy's unnamed presses, being.....
London & New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1929. 8vo. [10], 95, [1] pages. Original black quarter cloth, decorated boards, gilt-lettered on spine, edges untrimmed. FIRST EDITION. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front flyleaf in the year of publication: "To John Trounstine, With the good wishes of his friend, /.....
New York: George H. Doran, [1919]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original gray boards, printed paper labels, uncut; brown cloth slipcase. First edition of the twenty-three-year-old poet's first book. The dedication copy to her mother, inscribed by Deutsch on the front free endpaper: "For dearest Mamma, with love from.....
London: David Nutt, 1913. Small, thin 8vo. ix, [3], [1]-50, [2] pages. Original tan printed wrappers (Binding D); cloth folding box. FIRST EDITION, second issue. The author's first book, preceded only by the legendary Twilight [1894] of which only one copy is known. Frost has the distinction of being one.....
London: The Sunday Referee, 1934. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 12mo. Frontispiece portrait. Original green cloth. First edition of the author's first book, the first title issued in the Sunday Referee Poets Series. The dedication copy ("Dedicated Gratefully to Victor B. Neuburg"), inscribed by Johnson on the front free endpaper.....
London: Duckworth; New York: George H. Doran, 1927. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Tall 8vo. Original buff buckram, untrimmed. First edition, one of 15 copies for presentation of 165 copies (150 for sale) on handmade paper numbered and signed by the poet (this is number 155). The book is dedicated.....
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.....
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1870. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original blue cloth, blocked in blind, spine gilt-lettered. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed by Sylvester on the half-title to "Mathew [sic] Arnold Esq from the Author." The printed dedication to Arnold is "in grateful recognition of much.....
New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1918. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo . O riginal cloth-backed boards, uncut. First edition of the poet's first book. The dedication copy to her husband, the poet and critic Louis Untermeyer, inscribed on the front flyleaf by Jean with eight lines of verse: "To.....
London: Brendin Publishing Company, 1936. 8vo. Illustrated by George Plank. Decorated paper over boards. First edition, one of 120 copies. Abbott.
Bruxelles: Edmond Deman, 1888. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Folio. Portrait and decoration by Edouard Manet. Half brown morocco, patterned boards, top edges gilt, other untrimmed. First edition of Mallarmé's translation and with the Manet portrait of Poe. No. 750 of 800 copies on papier de Collande, of an edition.....
Boston: S. G. Goodrich and Co., 1829. Three volumes, 8vo (19.9 x 12 cm). Original muslin-backed boards, printed paper spine labels, uncut. Provenance: Samuel Wagner (contemporary ownership signatures on flyleaves). FIRST EDITION of the first comprehensive anthology of American poetry, euphemistically called "Goodrich's Kettle of Poetry." This important and thorough.....
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. 10 pages. Stapled undersized wrappers printed in black, newsprint endpapers offset to facing pages. First edition, one of 75 copies. Letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Cover variants exist in two different sizes and two different colored cover stocks. Taylor & Horvath P-63.....
Paris: Three Mountains, 1924. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Small 8vo. Original printed red wrappers, untrimmed, tissue overlay; in a brown cloth slipcase. First edition, one of 400 ordinary copies, of an edition of 440. Inscribed in the year of publication by the American composer (and subject of Pound's book).....
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.....
Venice: Paolo Colombani, 1760. 4to (204 x 160 mm). 4 full-page engraved plates after Pietro Antonio Novelli (3) and Francesco Bartolozzi (1) by Antonio Baratti, title-page vignette, one head-piece and 5 tail-pieces, 5 ornamental initials. 19th-century quarter vellum, decorated paper boards. Some pale dampstaining to lower corners, generally crisp. Provenance.....
Canterbury: H. J. Goulden, [1935]. 8vo. 38 pages. Original printed wrappers. FIRST (ACTING) EDITION. One of 750 copies printed and distributed at performances at Canterbury Cathedral in May 1935. The text is slightly abbreviated and altered from the text of the complete edition published in June. Gallup A29a.
