![Bees in Amber: A Little Book of Thoughtful Verse [Signed]. John Oxenham, pseud. William Arthur...](/pictures/thumb/001053.jpeg?v=1599080958)
London: Methuen & Co., 1913. Later Printing. Signed by the author on flyleaf with inscription "Mrs Baldwin, with all good wishes from John Oxenham. Aug 20, 1932." 24mo (6" x 3.75"); [x], 117pp. Printed dust jacket over somewhat limp card boards. Illustrated bee endpapers. Jacket glued to boards down..... More
![Cannibals and Other Poems [Limited Edition, Inscribed and Signed]. John Ruyle](/pictures/thumb/7132.jpg?v=1601463046)
Berkeley: Pequod Press, 1983. First Edition, Limited to 30 copies of which this is no. 17. Slim octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's batik cloth, paper spine label printed in red (faded to pink); 35pp. Fine condition. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper: "For Helen Lee -- I...... More
![Zen Nudism: Obvious Poems [Limited Edition, Inscribed and Signed]. John Ruyle](/pictures/thumb/7134.jpeg?v=1599607229)
Berkeley: Pequod Press, 1985. First Edition, Limited to 50 copies of which this is no. 23. Slim octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's decorative cloth, printed paper spine label; 35pp. Spine label chipped, else Fine, original prospectus laid in. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper: "For Helen Lee..... More
![Broadsheet] My First Thought About Art... [Limited Edition, With Signed Bookplate]. John Updike](/pictures/thumb/7963.jpg?v=1606238870)
[Ontario]: Aliquando Press, 1993. First Edition, Limited to 50 copies of which this is an unnumbered copy. Broadsheet (33.5x23cm.); hand printed letterpress in purple, blue, and green on stiff dark mauve stock. Fine condition. Offered with bookplate signed by the author. Uncommon fine press broadside featuring a quote..... More
![Collected Poems 1953 - 1993 [Signed]. John Updike](/pictures/thumb/10918.jpg?v=1631897921)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. First Edition. Signed by Updike without inscription on title page. Octavo. 387 pp. Printed dust jacket. Blue and gray boards stamped in silver. Red topstain. Unclipped dust jacket gently rubbed along edges. Boards show light shelfwear. Binding is sound and pages clean and unmarked. More
Dallas, TX: Texas Arts Journal, 1977. First Edition. Quarto (27.5cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; [4],109pp.; illus. Long shallow crease along front wrapper fore-edge, very light edge wear from handling including tiny chip at spine crown and small soil spot to rear cover, else Very Good and sound. Inaugural..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992. Stated First Edition. Small octavo; [viii]. [1-2], 3-135pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $15.00 price intact; book in black cloth with blindstamped initials to front and gilt lettering to spine. Jacket is clean and crisp with very light rubbing along bottom edge. Boards are..... More
Washington, D.C. and Boulder: Freer Gallery of Art and Weatherhill, Inc. (Shambhala), 2003. First Edition. Quarto (28x23x2cm); xx + 203pp, including maps, seals, chronology, and bilingual glossary, bibliography, concordance, with index. Exhibition catalog with multiple images of 33 exhibited items throughout, many additional images in color and B&W. Principally in..... More
London: Julian Symons, 1937. First Edition. Octavo. Unpaginated. Printed wraps. Remnants of blue wrap-around to interior wraps. Includes T.S. Eliot's review of The Lion and the Fox. Wraps toned and creased along edges. Binding holding. Bookseller pencil annotations to contents page. Interior otherwise unmarked. More
London: Frederick Warne & Co., ca. 1900. Small square 16mo (9.5cm.); full contemporary reddish-brown gilt-tooled morocco by Bayntun-Rivière, elaborate gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers; [4],126pp.; color frontispiece, eleven leaves of plates, illus. throughout text printed in brown within green border. Front cover leather a bit discolored, brief ink..... More
New York: Hastings House, 1944. First Edition. Octavo; 324pp. Illustrations throughout, 48 in color. Printed red, white, and blue dust jacket with $5.00 price intact; book in yellow cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket chipped at head of spine, with a few closed tears along edges and some general..... More
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1936. First Edition. Octavo. 77 pages. Decorative dust jacket. Purple boards with paper labels to front and spine. Dust jacket is worn along edges with a cashew-sized chip to rear panel. Toned and stained along edges with general smudging throughout. Boards are sunned along edges..... More
Darien, GA: Privately Printed, 1970. First Edition. Octavo. 45 pages. Black and white illustrations. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Boards show some light scuffing and edgewear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Scarce in retail and no copies in OCLC at time of this writing. More
![The Hollow Hill and Other Poems, 1960-1964 [Signed]. Kathleen Raine](/pictures/thumb/8484.jpg?v=1611006732)
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1965. First Edition. Signed by Raine on front free endpaper with inscription, "To Margaret Hitchcock, remembering ___ (?) kickers (?) at New Haven - From Kathleen Raine." Octavo. 70 pages. Printed dust jacket. Magenta boards stamped in silver. Unclipped dust jacket is rubbed and toned along..... More
First Paperback Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Stated First Edition. Signed by the author with brief inscription on full title. Octavo; 324pp. Illustrated paper wraps. Covers lightly bumped at corners and spine ends, but with no chips or tears. Dust and spotting to top and page..... More
Cambridge, MA: Pym-Randall Press, 1967. Limited First Edition of 300 clothbound copies (700 issued in paper). Octavo. 48 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with original $4.00 price present. Green boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket is moderately worn and toned along edges with some light general rubbing. Boards show..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1940. First Edition. Octavo. 83 pages. Printed dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in gilt. Price-clipped dust jacket is chipped along extremities with a few small closed tears along edges. General rubbing and light toning. Boards are faded at spine ends and top and bottom..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1957. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 72 pages. Dust jacket prinetd in red and black over black boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket is clipped at bottom of front flap, with "$3.50" stamped at top. Jacket is rubbed with light shelfwear and some..... More
[Pittsburgh]: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1972. First Edition. Octavo; [viii], 62p. Missing dustjacket. Orange cloth-covered boards. Covers are square with a small fingerprint smudge to front and some dulling to spine. Vertical run to front pastedown. Opens easily but binding is holding soundly. Pages unmarked. Not an ex-library copy. Author's..... More
Budapest and London: Corvina Press and Oxford University Press, 1973. First Edition Thus. Octavo (22x14.5x1cm); xiv + 84pp. Photographic dustjacket. Beige cloth with black spine lettering. Some slight shelving wear to jacket, and a minimal roll to spine. Textblock unmarred and unmarked. Twenty-nine of the most celebrated poems by..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1929. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards, gilt printed paper labels to front cover and spine, pink price-clipped dust jacket lettered in blue; xxxviii,228pp. Chipping and short closed tears to jacket extremities including shallow loss at spine foot and larger loss at..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933. First Thus (preceded in the US by a 1929 E.P. Dutton & Co. edition). Octavo; xiv, 445pp. Gray dust jacket with blue and black lettering over blue cloth with gilt to front and spine. Jacket price present but blacked out, with jacket showing a...... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. First Edition with "Baker" on page 83. Octavo. 83 pp. [84-85], 1 p. ads. 9 plates. Rebound by Bayntun in full red morocco, ruled and lettered in gilt with marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Original front and back covers and spine bound at rear. Housed..... More
![White April and Other Poems [Signed]. Lizette Woodworth Reese](/pictures/thumb/003101.jpg?v=1602855754)
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1930. First Edition with FR symbol on copyright. Signed by the author without inscription on front free endpaper. Small octavo; [xii], 67pp. Printed green dust jacket with original $1.50 price intact; book in green cloth with blue lettering. Jacket heavily faded and split..... More
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1941. First Edition. Octavo; 128 pp. One full-color watercolor illustration by Roland Schweinsburg opposite p. 44. Illustrated dust jacket with original $1.25 price intact; book in burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket rubbed along edges with a few shallow chips and tears..... More