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Wien: Herbert Reichner, 1937. Hardcover. Very Good in red flexible cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Spine slightly faded. 91 pages. German Literature. GERLANG2/03301. Very Good. More
Wien: Herbert Reichner, 1937. Hardcover. Very Good in red flexible cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Spine slightly faded. 91 pages. German Literature. GERLANG2/03301. Very Good. More
London: Cassell and Co., and John Lane The Bodley Head, 1934. Hardcover. First Edition. An interesting and unusual presentation copy from the editor to Clementine Churchill, wife of Winston: "To Mrs. Churchill, these poems from the day when Fanny's First Play was written; and in memory of the pleasure of seeing it in her company. August 11, 1935 Desmond Flower." The inscription makes reference to Fanny's First Play, written anonymously in 1911 by G. Bernard Shaw. Desmond Flower (1907-1997) was a publisher, collector, and writer. He joined his father's publishing house, Cassell, and remained there until it was sold in 1966 following his father's death. Cassell's was the publisher for many major writers, but Flower's most important writer was Winston Churchill, editing and publishing his History of English Speaking People and the History of the Second World War. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with title and author in gilt to spine. Binding and text in near fine condition. In original dust jacket which is torn and tattered, and now protected by a mylar cover. 297 pages. POE/052913. Near Fine / Chipped and Torn. More
London: Henry J. Glaisher, 1909. Paperback. Inscribed: "To R.P.K., from D.J. F. March 19, 1912." Frontispiece portrait from a drawing by Dorothy Newill. Includes a poem inspired by Max Beerbohm's caricatures. Scarce volume by a minor but interesting modernist poet. Born in India, Dermot Johnston Freyer (1883 - 1970) was an Irish author and activist in England. Bound in original cream wraps. Title and author in red on front cover. Some soiling, chipping and small tears along spine. Foxing to endpapers. Very good condition. 48 pages. POE/061512. Very Good in Wraps. More
Stanford: Daniel Lawrence, 1805. Hardcover. 12mo. Very good in modern black buckrum covered flexible boards. Minor creasing and chipping to title page. Browning throughout though text remains bright. Poetry, Religion. POE110041. Very Good. More
New York: The Grolier Club, 2000. Hardcover. Number 207 of 250 copies signed and numbered by the author. This is the catalog for an exhibition held at The Grolier Club of books from the collection of William Butler Yeats scholar, Marion W. Witt, that Gatch expanded and built to include printed works by Yeats's father, brother and sisters. The catalog provides descriptions of all oIf the works exhibited, and has eleven color plates. Bound in gray cloth with tan cloth spine with a white title label. Printed in Founder's Caslon Type on Mohawk Ticonderoga paper at The Stinehour Press. In near fine condition. Measures 6 x 8.5 inches. v-vii, 82 pages + unnumbered plates. BOB/122723. Near Fine. More
Paris: La Connaissance, 1927. Softcover. [IN FRENCH] Théophile Gautier (1811-1872) was a French poet, journalist, and critic. He began publishing poetry in 1830, and he continued publishing poetry. novels, travel literature, and criticism throughout his life. Émaux et Camées, initially published in 1852, is considered one of his best works. The 1852 edition contained 18 poems; a second expanded edition was published in 1872. This publication contains 46 poems. A limited edition of 100 non-commercial copies on paper by Hollande van Gelder Zonen; 400 commercial copies on the same paper; and 5 copies on Japan for the publishers. This is copy 155 of 400. Small octavo. Grey paper wrappers, with title in black to front wrapper and spine. THG monogram in red to front wrapper. Wrappers are slightly bumped at edges. Pages are bright and clean. Poems printed in black; poem titles in red. 137 pages, plus colophon. FRELANG/022224. Very Good. More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. Hardcover. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Black cloth backed white paper covered boards with gilt title to spine. Pristine interior with author's signature to title page. Cream colored illustrated dust jacket with black title to front and spine panels. Slight fading to spine panel of dust jacket. 64 pages. POET/113011. Fine in Near Fine DJ. More
New York: Vantage Press, (2000). First Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. 8vo. Grey illustrated leatherette covered boards with silver title to spine. Inscription to front free end paper. Pristine interior. Grey illustrated dust jacket with black and white title to front panel and yellow title to spine panel. 57 pages. POE/112019. Fine / Near Fine. More
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1934. Hardcover. Number 64 of 300 copies, signed by both Enid Clay and Eric Gill. This book was published to be uniform with Clay's Sonnets and Verses, published by the press in 1925. From Roderick Cave's History of The Golden Cockerel Press: "Were it not for his sister Enid Clay, Eric Gill might not ever have been tempted to work with Robert Gibbings. Gibbings had approached Gill in late 1924 with an offer of work as an artist for his newly procured Golden Cockerel Press, but Gill refused on the ground that the press was not Catholic. Their acquaintance might have ended there, but as it happened Gill’s sister was in want of a publisher for her first book. Gibbings volunteered to take her on, and Gill was induced to be her illustrator. Following Gill’s temporary refusal, Enid Clay’s Sonnets and Verses (1925) became the first Golden Cockerel publication he was to illustrate. It was the beginning of a prolific seven-year partnership." This second book of Enid Clay's poetry is elegantly printed in Caslon O.F. type on Batchelor handmade paper with a hammer and anvil watermark. There are six wood engravings by Gill including the title page. Bound in green paper boards with a cream linen spine and paper spine label. Boards are faded along edges, as is frequently the case. Interior pages are clean and bright, with evidence of a bookseller ticket having been removed from the rear pastedown. The top edge is trimmed with the other edges untrimmed. A nice copy in very good condition. Measures 6 x 8.5 inches. 44 pages. See Gill Bibliography 293. PRI/090123. Very Good. More
Moscow: Emile Goozairow, 2020. Hardcover. Emile Goozairow is a Russian artist who paints and draws, produces movies, and creates exceptional miniature handmade books that are printed on rare types of paper and published in limited editions. His techniques create unique designs that often are made with natural materials alone or in combination with relief decorations made from metal or polymeric clay. He creates books that he describes as "pop up," “kinetic carousel," “liporello” or “3D origami.” He also writes fairy tales, stories and mystical scenes. This small open edition miniature book offers the poem "The Prophet" by the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, printed in both Russian and English. The poems are digitally printed on each side of a "two-way" book and accompanied by 17 striking illustrations. This three dimensional binding in the shape of a chevron is embellished with faces and patterns on both sides. It is painted in gilt, black, and red. Something inside mysteriously rattles. Size: 3 x 1.5 x 1.5 inches. A stunning book in fine condition. ARTB/052323. Fine. More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press / Gelber, Lilienthal, Inc., 1931. Hardcover. Number 172 of 250 copies. Poetic thoughts on aging. Mary Ezit Bulkley (1856 - 1947) was best known for her work in fighting for women's suffrage. Bound in light brown cloth over dark green patterned paper covered boards with green paper title label to spine. Light wear to edges of boards, else fine. Clean and bright interior with light browning to margins. Printed in black with red passage numbers. Unpaginated. PRI/011623. Very Good. More
Ireland: Gallery Press, 2002. Hardcover. A review copy with slip taped to front free endpaper. Vona Groarke (1964 - ) is Irish poet that teaches at the University of Manchester. She has published six books of poetry including this one. She has won multiple awards for her poetry. In this book "everything is on the move - from Elvis to oranges, from blackbirds to love - in poems that listen hard and find in movement a kind of music that is as complex and as delicate as the language used to pin it to the page. Flight features two award-winning meditations on the troubled subjects of history and time ... Other shorter lyrics and love poems develop the book's distinctive resonances" (jacket). Fine in black cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Clean and bright. In grey jacket with blue title to spine and front panels. Minor wear to edges of jacket with minor rubbing to panels. 74 pages. POE/031221. Fine / Very Good. More
Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, (2004). Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Vona Groarke (1964 - ) is Irish poet that teaches at the University of Manchester. She has published six books of poetry including this one. She has won multiple awards for her poetry. In this book "everything is on the move - from Elvis to oranges, from blackbirds to love - in poems that listen hard and find in movement a kind of music that is as complex and as delicate as the language used to pin it to the page. Flight features two award-winning meditations on the troubled subjects of history and time ... Other shorter lyrics and love poems develop the book's distinctive resonances" (jacket). Turquoise cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine and gilt author's name to front board. Minor fading to top edge of boards and to spine. Author's signature to title page. Else is pristine. Includes paper from The Folger Poetry Series laid in. Translucent white dust jacket with slight edge wear and slight tonight to spine. 111 pages. POET/013112. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. More
Buenos Aires, Argentina: Imprenta Ideal, 2008. Hardcover. In a unique design binding by Sol Rébora. This letterpress printed collaboration on handmade paper is limited to 25 copies. The other 24 copies are in a case binding of cloth and paper. Features a frontispiece woodcut illustration by Lucrecia Ofloff. Printed on handmade paper by Viky Sigwald in type designed by Rubén Fontana. The book design and printing was done by Mariana Pariani and Patricio Gatti. The text (in Spanish) is poetry by Luis Gruss (1953 - 2021), an award-winning Argentinian poet, journalist, author, and professor. Gruss has contributed to most of the media publications in Argentina, from Clarín, La Nación and Página to the Latido and Los Inrockuptibles magazines. He has published the books Malos Poetas (1998) and La carne (2004), among others. In 2003 he received the Argentores special prize for his dramatic work Oscura Clarice. He also wrote the essay The Unreachable (Women in the life and work of Kafka, Pessoa and Pavese), first finalist in the essay contest organized by La Nación (Intellectual Capital, 2008). As a journalism teacher at the TEA school (Workshop, School, Agency) he has received a special distinction that rewards his career. Later in his career, Gruss edited books belonging to an academic collection sponsored in Argentina by the IDAES (Institute of Higher Social Studies). Bound in full dark grey leather covered boards printed with an embossed pattern. Both boards are decorated with relief inlays of white Japanese paper. The title is handstamped in grey to the front board. Handsewn white endbands and Japanese endpapers. The interior is clean and bright overall with a few scattered spots of foxing. The construction of the text block uses a reversible stub structure, which allows for easy access to the sewing threads, making any future repairs for a conservator simple. For more details about this reversible stub structure, see this page: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1afzoVW9qSzVaQchryT8gzpL9MRi4iGvC/view Housed in a custom-made clamshell box with white leather spine printed in matching embossed pattern over grey paper covered boards. The title and author's name are hand stamped in black title to spine. The book is hand-paginated in pencil on bottom corners. [48 pages.] Sol Rébora is a designer bookbinder working in Buenos Aires, Argentina, since 1999. She is a well-recognized practitioner, receiving awards both in Argentina and abroad. Her work encompasses innovative and experimental work in designer binding and contemporary conservation methods. She studied with Deborah Evetts, Monique Lallier, Pascale Therond, Edwin Heim, Helene Jolis, Sün Evrard and Kathy Abbott, among other teachers. She currently works and teaches courses out of her studio in addition to giving lectures and workshops in person and online at schools including the SF Center for the Book and Iowa University Center for the Book, American Academy of Bookbinding and Penland School of Crafts. She has participated in group exhibitions such us Epémère, Tomorrow’s Past and Les Pages Bien Gardees. Sol’s work may be found in many privet collections and inside of institution’s collections in USA, Mexico and UK such as Athenæum Library and British Library. PRI/052623. Fine. More
London: Basil Montague Pickering, 1858. Hardcover. Edited from notes collected by the late Mr. Nathaniel Hill of the Royal Society of Literature with Illustrations and an appendix. With black and white reproductions of period woodcuts and two pages of color reproductions. Rebound in modern blue cloth with gilt titling to spine. Interior pages are generally good with some chipping to fore-edges and light blue stains to several rear pages. Still a nice copy of the interesting work. Small octavo. lxviii pages. POE/011023. Very Good -. More
Edizioni del Gruppo Bibliofili Pratese, 1981. Paperback. Very good in wraps cream colored paper wraps with brown and black title to front wrap and black title to spine. Minor rubbing to exterior. Interior is clean and bright. In both italian and english. 93 pages. Poetry. POE111161. Very Good. More
New York: Macmillan, 1916. Hardcover. Author's has handwritten several lines from The Great Maze on ffe that compare the beauty of Helen to that of Clytaenestra (p. 5 of book). along with an inscription dated March 19, 1924. Very good dark red cloth boards with gilt-lettering. Hagedorn is perhaps best known as a biographer of Theodore Roosevelt. 8vo. Poetry. POE12171. Very Good. More
Portland, OR: Anne Greenwood, 2016. Softcover. One of 138 copies. Book artist Anne Greenwood celebrated the life and poetry of Hazel Hall (1886-1924) in a special edition portfolio n with the same title, limited to twelve copies. The portfolio and this chapbook republish Hall's Needlework Poems. This chapbook is laser printed and handbound. The chapbook cover art Tapestry of Hours is the republished Needlework Poems by Hazel Hall, made in an edition of one hundred and thirty-eight laser printed and hand-bound. The cover art is machine sticking in crinoline: the under print is pressure printed, hand=stitched embroidery with pochoir. In fine condition. Measures 6 x 10 inches. 22 pages. PRI/053020. Fine. More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1879. Hardcover. Inscribed by the Author. C. Harlan (1814 - 1902) was a physician that promoted homeopathic remedies. He wrote poetry as well as books on medicine. He practiced in Pennsylvania and Delaware, but was heavily criticized by his contemporaries for his homeopathic remedies. Very good in green cloth covered boards with gilt title to front board and gilt decoration to head and foot of spine. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners. Front free end page is loose at the top, rear free end page has been removed. Author's inscription written in pen on the second front end page reads "Charles E. Smith, With the kindest regards of the Author, June 6th 1879." Else is clean and bright with very light foxing throughout. 84 pages. Dimensions: 7 x 4 3/4. Poetry. POE306030. Very Good. More
Philadelphia: Ferris Bros. 1890. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. 2nd edition. Very good in maroon cloth with gilt lettering. Upper third of top board a bit faded. Light wear at corners and ends of spine. Minor rubbing to boards. Author's inscription to front free end page reads "Clara L. (illegible last name), with the kindest regards of the Author, June 13 1891." Tissue guard frontis. Light finger prints to front free end page and paste down. Else is clean and bright. 101 pages. Poetry. POE1/5170. Very Good. More
Baltimore: Contemporary Poetry, 1963. Hardcover. 1st edition presentation copy, signed by author inside cover. Near fine blue boards with gilt title to front board and to spine. Minor fading to spine. Author;s inscription reads "For John, Loyal friend and best of companions in grim times and in gay. Richard, May 26, 1986."47 pages. Poetry. POE/9262. Very Good +. More
Baltimore: Contemporary Poetry, 1945. Hardcover. Signed presentation copy. One of only 30 copies numbered and signed by the author. Very good in peach cloth covered boards; some sunning along spine. Poetry. POE/7292. Very Good. More
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1934. Hardcover. A very good plus copy of the trade edition of this work, originally published in a limited edition of 500 copies. Harte's satirical poem is illustrated in exuberant fashion by Phil Little. In an introduction, Ina Coolbrith details the context and effects of Harte's satire in which he sought but failed to combat perceptions that he was racially prejudiced. This folio volume was designed by John Henry Nash in Asian fashion with string binding over blue paper boards, and a paper title label of mock Chinese calligraphy. Housed in orange slipcase with slight soiling and wear to spine and edges. Unpaginated. Very Good. More
Paperback. SCARCE. White side stapled paper wrappers with grey title to front wrapper. Minor soiling and foxing to exterior. Interior is clean and bright. Poetry. POET/052815. Very Good. More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1984). Hardcover. First American trade edition. INSCRIBED and signed by the author, dated May 1985. "This version of 'Buile Suibhne' is based on J.G. O'Keeffe's bilingual edition, which was published by the Irish Texts Society in 1913" (jacket). Bound in tan cloth over light green paper covered boards wiht gilt title to spine. Minor browning and wear to edges of boards. Clean and bright interior. In light green dust jacket with red title to spine and front panels. Fading to jacket on spine panel and along top edges of front and rear panels. Minor wear to edges of jacket and minor rubbing rubbing to panels. 85 pages. POE/070522. Very Good / Very Good. More