COLLECTED POEMS. 1917 - 1939.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, (1940). 1st edition. INSCRIBED & SIGNED by the author. xi, [1], 195, [1] pp. 8vo. Blue cloth binding. Printed paper spine label. More
Literature
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The VERSE In ENGLISH Of RICHARD CRASHAW.; Together with a Critical Chronology Selected from the Writings of Various Commentators, from 1652 to the Present Day.
New York: The Grove Press, 1949. 1st Printing. 255, [1 (blank)] pp. 7-3/4" x 5-3/8". Buff paper covers printed in maroon. Onion skin wrapper. Crashaw "was an English poet, teacher, High Church Anglican cleric and Roman Catholic convert, who was among the major figures associated with the metaphysical poets in..... More
TRACKS In The WIDEST ORBIT. Collected Poems.
Sebastopol, CA: Russian River Writer's Guild, (1985). 1st printing. INSCRIBED by Edith Montrose, the author's wife. Unpaginated. 3 promotional pieces laid-in. 8vo. 9" x 6-15/16". Glossy whtie paper covers printed in black & blue. Inscribed to "Paul", who is presumed to be Paul Mariah, named on the Acknowledgements page... More
DECEMBER. A Magazine of the Arts and Opinion. Double Issue.; Vol. IX. Nos. 2/3.
Western Springs, Illinois: C. L. Johnson, (1967). 1st Printing. 267, [3] pp. Illustrated. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-7/16" Glossy white paper covers printed in green. More
The BELL And The ARROW. An English Love Story.
London: T. Werner Laurie. Clifford's Inn, 1905. 1st edition. [8], 258, [6 (publisher's catalogue)] pp. Crown 8vo. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt spine lettering & front board lettered in dark brown. Chesson [1871 - 1906] is primarily known as a Celtic Revivalist poet; this the author's sole novel..... More
BEFORE The CITY. Collected Poems & Prose Poems.; Foreword by Daniel Bourne.
San Diego: Lemon Shark Press, (2003). 1st Printing. x, 101, [1 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 8-1.2" x 5-3/8". White glossy paper covers printed in black with full color image to front cover. More
POETRY. February, 1954. Vol. 83. No. 5.
Chicago: 1954. 1st Printing. [2], 249 - 310 pp. 7-5/8" x 5-3-8". Red paper covers, with white lettering. More
POEMS
Trent Bridge, Nottingham: PUblished by the Tarasque Press from the Trent Book Shop, (n. d.). 1st Printing, ca 1960 [per OCLC]. Unpaginated, though 30 pp. Oblong format: 5-1/4" x 8-7/16" White paper wrappers, stapled. White paper dust jacket printed in black. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Contains first..... More
TAKE ME LIKE A PHOTOGRAPH. Writings by Chocolate Waters.
Denver, CO: Printing by Rainbow Press; Published by Eggplant Press, 1980. Second printing. 48 pp. Illustrated from photographs (some nudity). 8vo. 8-3/8" x 5-1/4". Textured tan paper covers printed in dark brown. More
The MARMALADE BIRD
London: The Hogarth Press, (1973). 1st Edition. 221, [1 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 7-1/2" x 4-7/8". Black cloth binding. Brown dust jacket printed in yellow & white. A collection of 16 stories. More
The ULCERATED MILKMAN.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1966. 1st Edition. 224 pp. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 4-7/8". Black cloth binding. White dust jacket printed in pink & purple. More
The WOMAN TURN'D BULLY. A Comedy. Acted at the Duke's Theatre.; Licensed, July the 5th 1675. Roger L'Estrange.
London: Printed by J[ames]. C[ottrell]. for T. Dring, at the Harrow at the corner of Chancery-lane in Fleet-street, 1675. 1st Edition (T.C. I. 219; Wing W-3322). [4], 83, [1] p. P. 33 mispaginated as 40; 36 as 33; 37 as 36; 40 as 37. Includes 4 songs. T.p. printer's ornament..... More
HENRY W. NEVINSON. The Augustan Books of Poetry.
London: Ernest Benn Ltd., Bouverie House, Fleet Street, (n. d.). 1st Printing, ca 1920s. iii - iv, 5 - 31 pp. 8vo. 8-5/8" x 5-1/2". White paper covers, printed in black, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
The POETICAL WORKS Of SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. Now First Collected in One Volume.
London: Printed for the Editor, and Sold by G. Kearsley, No. 46, Fleet Street, 1785. 1st edition, 1st issue (Fleeman 85.2PW/1). viii, 196, [4 (publisher adverts)] pp. Printer's ornament [ornate G. K.] to t.p. 8vo. 6-5/8" x 4". Period full brown calf binding. More
A GEOGRAPHY Of POETS. An Anthology of the New Poetry.
New York: Bantam Books, (1979). 1st pb edition. xlvi, 560, [2] pp. 7" x 4-1/8". Printed gold paper covers. More
COLLECTED POEMS.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1941). 1st edition. xvi, 327, [7 (blank)] pp. 8vo. Hardback. Dust jacket. More
A SIMPLE STORY. In Four Volumes. By Mrs. Inchbald.
London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, Paternoster Row, 1791. 2nd Edition (ESTC T128226). Cf NCBEL II, 843. vii, [1 (blank)], 232; [2], 255, [1 (blank)]; [2], 212; [2], 157, [1 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 6-3/8" x 3-7/8". Period full brown calf bindings. Brown marbled paper eps. Elizabeth Inchbald..... More
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The FRIEND Of WOMEN: Translated from the French of Bourdier [sic] de Villemert, by Alexander Morrice.
Philadelphia / Baltimore / Washington City / Norfolk / Petersburg: John Conrad & Co., No 30 Chesnut Street / M & J Conrad, & Co., No. 138 Market Street / Rapin, Conrad, & Co. / Bonsal & Conrad and Somervell, Conrad & Co., 1803. 1st Edition of this Translation (American..... More
"Black Mountain and Since: Objectivist Writing in America." CHICAGO REVIEW. Volume 30, Number 3. Winter, 1979.
Chicago: University of Chicago Printing Department, 1979. 1st Printing. 175, [5] pp. 8-7/8" x 6". Black glossy stock paper covers. More
AUTOGRAPH NOTE, SIGNED (ANs). Monday, March 23 / 40.
[London]: 1840. SIGNED by Lover. Small bifolium. 12 lines, plus close & signature. With typed transcription. 4-3/8" x 3-1/2". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Samuel Lover, also known as "Ben Trovato" ("well invented"), was an Irish songwriter, composer, novelist, and a painter of portraits, perhaps best known today..... More
CIVIL POEMS
[Berkeley]: Oyez, (1966). 1st edition (Lepper p. 323; Oyez Checklist, p. 22). Unpaginated, though 20 pp. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Original off-white paper covers, printed in red & black, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Miles "was an American poet and literary critic; the first woman tenured in..... More
The WRITINGS Of J. M. SYNGE.
Indianapolis • New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Inc., (1971). 1st Edition. 190 pp (including Index). 9-1/2" x 6-1/4". Green cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. Green dust jacket. Issued in the centennial year of Synge's birth. More
SELECTED POEMS. 1947 - 1967.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, (1968). 1st Edition. 127, [1 (blank)] pp. 9-1/2" x 5-3/4". Maroon cloth spine over pink patterned paper wrapped boards. Pink eps. Pink dust jacket. More
SLAIN By The DOONES and Other Stories
New York: Dodd Mead and Company, 1895. 1st US edition (Wolff 542b). The UK edition issued with an 1896 date of publication. iii, [3], 244 pp. Printed by the Caxton Press, New York. 12mo. 7-1/4" x 4-3/4". Decorative brown cloth binding with green & gilt stamping. TEG... More
QUIET LIVES. Poems.; Foreword by Allen Ginsberg.
Clifton, New Jersey: Humana Press, (1983). 1st PB Printing. SIGNED by the author, to Mariah, on the half-title page. 88 pp. With ANs laid-in, written to Paul Mariah presenting him with the book, and recommending publication of one "Antler's" unpublished works. 8vo. 8-3/16" x 5-3/8". Green glossy paper covers... More