poetry
Orlando Furioso Di Ariosto. With Memoirs and Notes by Antonio Panizzi
London: William Pickering, 1834. Four octavo volumes, measuring 7.5 x 4.5 inches: [vii]-viii, clxxvi, 198; [4], 436; [4], 424; [4], 330, 79, [1]. Original publisher’s morocco-grain plum cloth, printed paper spine labels, text uncut and partially unopened. Woodcut frontispiece portrait after Titian; woodcut publisher’s device to title pages. Bookplates of.....
Price: $2,200.00
“Swift, Swift the Great Twin Brethren Came Spurring from the East”
England: 1911. Watercolor and graphite on board, image measuring 12 x 9 inches, board 13.75 x 9.75 inches. Tipped to mat, 16 x 12 inches.
Price: $850.00
American Critical Essays: Twentieth Century
London: Oxford University Press, 1959. Pocket volume, measuring 6 x 3.5 inches: xvi, 364, [2]. Original blue blindstamped boards, spine lettered in black, original unclipped dust jacket printed in red and black. Signed by Robert Penn Warren on the title page. Printed Oxford UP slip laid in: “With the Publisher’s.....
Price: $350.00
Tales
(Johannesburg): Gryphon Poets, (1972). Single volume, measuring 10.75 x 8.5 inches: 46. Original color pictorial card wrappers with unclipped French flaps, upper wrapper lettered in black with brown and black woodcut design, spine lettered in black, photographic portrait of Beiles on lower wrapper. Six full-page color woodcuts. Errata slip laid.....
Price: $275.00
Calligraphic exercise featuring neoclassical French poets
Laval, France: late nineteenth century. Single calligraphic leaf, measuring 8.75 x 13.75 inches, executed in ink and watercolor, matted to 16 x 20 inches. Numeral “6” at top righthand corner. Paper toned.
Price: $300.00
Jazz on a Saturday Night; with: signed publisher’s poster
New York: The Blue Sky Press / Scholastic, (2007). Single volume, measuring 11 x 8.5 inches: [34]. Original glossy color pictorial boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, color pictorial endpapers. Color illustrations on every page. Compact disc recording in rear pocket, as issued. Signed by the Dillons on title.....
Price: $175.00
No Dress Rehearsal, Baby
New York: Ink, Inc., no date. Five loose broadside sheets, measuring 18 x 13 inches, wrapped in original glassine and mylar wrapper blindstamped “Ink, Inc. / New York.” Woolf, Chandler, and Nabokov broadsides printed in two colors. Glassine split at fold and chipped at edges, broadsides fine.
Price: $450.00
Heroes and Heroines
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., [1933]. Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 7 inches: [4], 5-79, [1]. Original color pictorial paper boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Gift inscription and child’s bookplate to front pastedown. Light wear to jacket, with one short closed tear and.....
Price: $125.00
The Rhyme Sheet, Second Series No. 4: There Is a Lady Sweet and Kind (Poetry Bookshop broadside)
[London]: The Poetry Bookshop, [1919]. Single-sided broadside, measuring 14 x 7.25 inches. Two illustrations printed in black and salmon.
Price: $50.00
The Rhyme Sheet, Second Series No. 6: Song (Poetry Bookshop broadside)
[London]: The Poetry Bookshop, [1919]. Single-sided broadside, measuring 14 x 7.25 inches. Two illustrations printed in black and orange.
Price: $50.00
The Rhyme Sheet, Second Series No. 7: The Parting (Poetry Bookshop broadside)
[London]: The Poetry Bookshop, [1919]. Single-sided broadside, measuring 14 x 7 inches. Two illustrations printed in black and green.
Price: $50.00
Hanging Loose 2
Brooklyn: Hanging Loose, winter/spring 1967. Forty-four mimeographed typed pages, measuring 9 x 6 inches. Loose as issued in original pictorial mailing envelope, with address label; index card inscribed “compliments of the editors,” initialed by Dick Lourie, laid in. Light shelfwear.
Price: $150.00
Looking for Luck
New York: W.W. Norton, 1992. Single volume, measuring 8.25 x 5.5 inches: 94. Original color pictorial wrappers. Inscribed on title page: “for Gregory and Emily / Maxine Kumin / 15 Apr 93.” With: printed invitation to Kumin’s April 1993 reading at Bryn Mawr College, and handwritten invitation from Bryn Mawr.....
Price: $65.00
The Queen of Dolls
(London and New York): (Sockl & Nathan), [1889]. Single volume, measuring 7 x 5.75 inches: [20]. Original color pictorial boards, blue cloth spine, original pictorial dust jacket. Tinted frontispiece and vignettes throughout text, two chromolithographed plates, two sepia plates. Endpapers discolored from binding glue, some chipping and mild toning to.....
Price: $400.00
The Nightingale Warbling Forth Her Owne Disaster: or, The Rape of Philomela
London: Printed by G.P. for William Cooke [but privately printed by J. Moyes for Amos Strettell], [circa 1820]. Octavo, measuring 7.75 x 4.75 inches: [18], 25, [1]. Nineteenth-century black morocco spine lettered in gilt, red paper boards, text block uncut. Engraved device to title, eight engraved headpieces throughout text. Ink.....
Price: $1,250.00
Four original literary-historical illustrations for The New York Times Book Review
New York: New York Times, 1925-1926. Four oblong illustrations, measuring between 7.75 and 8.5 inches high x 22.25 inches wide. Watercolor, ink, and wash, with graphite tracing on artist’s paper. Signed in ink at upper corners; captioned at lower left; publication stamps, measurements, and printing notes in margins. Preliminary sketches.....
Price: $1,750.00
Super-Duper Zuppa Inglese (and Other Trifles from the Land of Stodge)
(Belper, Derbyshire): Aggie Weston’s Editions, 1977. Side-stapled pamphlet, measuring 5.75 x 4.25 inches: [32]. Original stiff green wrappers, unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Black and white line drawings throughout text. Signed by Jonathan Williams in purple ink on opening page. Housed in lightly foxed original mailing envelope.
Price: $75.00
Broadsides. A Collection of Old and New Songs 1935
Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1935. Single volume, measuring 11.5 x 8.25 inches: [56]. Original linen-backed blue paper boards, printed pastedown title label to upper board, blue endpapers. Foreword signed by W.B. Yeats and F.R. Higgins; engraved musical staves and twenty-four hand-colored line block illustrations throughout text. Pencil inscription to front.....
Price: $3,500.00