biography
Walt. The Good Gray Poet Speaks for Himself
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1928. Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: [14], 330, [1]. Original full tan pebbled cloth, spine and front board lettered in brown, yellow endpapers decorated with publisher’s seal, top edge stained brown. Original unclipped pictorial dust jacket in brown and tan. Small presentation...
Price: $75.00
Boy-Princes. The Story of Their Lives
Edinburgh and London: Gall & Inglis, circa 1884. Octavo, original full blue cloth elaborately blocked in gilt, black and blind with decorative fern design, beveled boards, cream coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Color frontispiece and seven full-page wood engravings. Ink prize gift inscription dated 1884 to verso of front fly...
Price: $40.00
Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties
London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1938. Octavo, first state binding of blue cloth with black lettering, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket designed by Robert Medley. Light wear to spine of jacket, tiny chips to jacket corners, bookplate to front free endpaper. Pencilled index to...
Price: $250.00
The Cosmobiography of Sun Ra: The Sound of Joy Is Enlightening
(Somerville, MA): Candlewick Press, (2014). Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 7.5 inches, original color pictorial glossy paper boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, calligraphic endpapers. Color illustrations on every page. Signed by the author, with a doodle of Saturn, on the title page.
Price: $75.00
The Magnificent Idler: The Story of Walt Whitman
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.5 inches: [12], 312. Original full green cloth, yellow pictorial pastedowns to front board and spine, yellow pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated title page printed in green and black. Black and white frontispiece and...
Price: $75.00
Our Untitled Nobility
London and Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, circa 1880. Octavo, original full red cloth elaborately blocked in gilt, black and blind with decorative fern design, beveled boards, pale yellow endpapers, all edges gilt. Color frontispiece and seven full-page wood engravings throughout text. Front free endpaper neatly excised.
Price: $40.00
Mishima: A Vision of the Void
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1986). Octavo, original black cloth spine lettered in silver, pink paper boards with blind-stamped flower design to front board, original unclipped photographic dust jacket featuring a portrait of Mishima by Eikoh Hosoe.
Price: $40.00