![Venus Invisible and Other Poems [Signed]. Nathalia Crane, Ruth Jonas](/pictures/thumb/9088.jpg?v=1616532802)
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1928. First Edition. Signed by Crane on front free endpaper with inscription, "For Alice Woodward - The rose dissolved. Is Nearer than a star; Nathalia Crane. Brooklyn, Jan 31, 1935." Possibly inscribed to the illustrator Alice Woodward, though we have not been able to verify this..... More
![Maple Mansion Melodies [Inscribed and Signed]. Nellie Sumner Brooks](/pictures/thumb/6842.jpg?v=1596745343)
Dayton, OH: Otterbein Press, 1930. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's green moiré pictorial cloth stamped in gilt; 106pp.; 11 leaves of photographic illus. Just About Fine condition. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper: "With cordial Greetings from Nellie Sumner Brooks. Christmas, 1939." Collection of poems by..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press, 1908. First Edition. Octavo. 191 pages. Photogravures by Coburn. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt. Worn at spine ends and corners with some very light scuffing to rear board. Tight in binding. Ownership inscription in pencil to second..... More
London: Collins, 1954. Revised Edition. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth with black title square and gilt lettering to front and spine. Octavo; 224pp. Color illustrations throughout. Jacket edgeworn with a few shallow chips and tears, along with some scuffs and smudges to surface and some foxing to inner flaps..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. First American Edition [Author's Edition]. 16mo; 352pp + 15 pages of Ticknor and Fields adverts at back. Blue cloth on boards with blind-embossed front panel and gold-stamped spine lettering set within an elaborate gilt surround. Brick endpapers. Gilt on all edges of textblock. Binding..... More
![With Double Pipe [Inscribed and Signed]. Owen Seaman](/pictures/thumb/8400.jpg?v=1610743946)
Oxford: B.H. Blackwell, 1888. First Edition. Small, slim octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's blue-green gilt-embossed cloth; [8],88pp. Corners a bit bumped, brief bubbling to cloth, first and last couple leaves browned, else a Very Good, unopened copy, gilt still quite brilliant. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper: "Tom..... More
Denver: Chango Press, 1977. First Edition. Octavo. 49 unnumbered pages. Black and white photo reproduction of Neruda. Side-stapled printed wraps. Spanish text with English translation on facing pages of the eighth canto from Neruda's Canto General. Wraps lightly worn along edges with some light foxing and one larger stain..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1945. First American Edition. Small, slim octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; [8],152pp.; photographic frontispiece, three leaves of plates, text illus. Jacket extremities rather chipped and wrinkled from exposure to damp, small loss at spine crown touching text without loss of..... More
![The Middle Passage (A Triptych of Commodities) [Signed]. Paul Metcalf](/pictures/thumb/8482.jpg?v=1611077301)
Highlands, NC: The Jargon Society, 1978. First Edition. Signed by Metcalf on title page without inscription. Octavo. Unpaginated. Printed wraps. Light toning and a touch of wear to edges of wraps. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More
New York: Urizen Press, 1976. First American Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 92pp. Light chipping and wear to jacket extremities, textblock a shade toned, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Bilingual (German-English) poetry collection by the controversial 2019 Austrian Nobel laureate, the upper jacket..... More
![The Works of Peter Pindar, Esquire: Volume II [William Safire copy]. Peter Pindar, pseud. John...](/pictures/thumb/6317.jpg?v=1593098977)
Dublin: William Porter, 1795. Volume Two only. Octavo. 542 pages plus index. Full contemporary tree calf with red and black leather labels and gilt lettering to spine. Pindar was the pseudonym for John Wolcot, the English satirist. Worn at edges, joints, and along spine, but binding is sound..... More
New Edition. London / Edinburgh: H.D. Symonds / Robertson and Berry, 1792. New Edition. Quarto; [ii], 77pp +1 ads. Green paper-covered boards with white cloth spine. Front board and endpapers completely detached, with back board becoming so but still holding by a few inches of cloth. Covers edgeworn, scuffed, smudged..... More
![New and Selected Poems [Signed to William Safire]. Peter Viereck](/pictures/thumb/5586.jpg?v=1571075796)
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1967. First Edition with no additional printings listed. Signed by the author on full title to journalist William Safire with inscription "To Bill Safire, fellow wordsmith. Peter Viereck Feb 19 '79." Photocopy of Viereck's "To My Underwater Moon" from the Winter 1979 issue of The Kenyon..... More
First Edition. Hardcover. Washington, D.C.: Rufus H. Darby Printing Co., 1942. First Edition with no additional printings listed. SIGNED by Mary Adams Johnson (the editor and widow of the author) to "D.H.C Byrd" (Dr. Henry Clifton "Curley" Byrd, then-president of the University of Maryland) on front free endpaper. Green cloth..... More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux and The Marvell Press, 1989. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 330 pages. Unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Green boards with black spine label lettered in gilt. Dust jacket shows a touch of wear at corners and some very light spotting to rear panel. Rear board slightly..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. Stated First Edition. Signed by author on title page without inscription. Octavo; x, 82p. Original dust jacket with $23.00 price. Speckled creme and gray boards with silver lettering to spine. Jacket is very lightly rubbed at corners, but with no chips, tears..... More
First Edition. Calcutta: Writers Workshop, 1998. First Edition. Signed by the author with brief inscription on full title. Octavo; 45pp. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering/ornamentation and patterned fore-edge. No dust jacket, as issued. Slight bow to front board, with a small spot at bottom front. Binding is sound. Author..... More
London: Dead Language and Matrix Presses, 1959. Long, narrow quarto (27.5cm.); publisher's white pictorial staple bound card wrappers, yapp edges; [20]pp.; text printed on white and lavender stock. Extremities a bit rubbed and toned, light soiling to wrappers, else Very Good, internally fine. One of the English-Italian underground filmmaker's..... More
Bononiæ [Bologna]: Typographia Instituti Scientiarum, 1788. 16mo (6" x 3.5"); 430pp. Stained brown paper-covered boards with green paper spine. Boards lightly warped with a number of chips and scrapes to paper. Front hinge cracked and book falls open easily to between a few gatherings, with binding feeling as if it's..... More
![The Cycle of Spring [Josephine Beverley Mason copy]. Rabindranath Tagore](/pictures/thumb/7474.jpg?v=1602001046)
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917. First Edition. Octavo; 139pp +8pp ads. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Spine lightly rolled, with rubbing at head and tail. Boards show a few light specks at bottom front. Heavy toning on pp 138-139 from previously laid in object, else pages unmarked. Binding is..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. First Edition. Octavo; 206pp +9pp ads. Illustrated blue cloth with gilt lettering. Covers bumped at corners and spine ends, with fading along edges, some superficial scuffs and smudges, and darkening to spine with a small stain toward tail. Opens easily but binding is holding..... More
London: Allan Wingate, 1958. First thus. Octavo. 32 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Red boards stamped in gilt. Cornet was one Rilke's more popular titles during his lifetime. The prose poem tells the story of Christoph Rilke and his experiences with love and death as he ventures to Turkey..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1932. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 38 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Black and gray boards stamped in gilt and red. Cornet was one of the more popular titles of Rilke's during his lifetime. The prose poem tells the story of Christopher Rilke..... More
Boston: James W. Burditt, 1833. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); removed; 32pp. Light foxing throughout, else Very Good and fresh. Contents include the second appearance of Ralph Waldo Emerson's early hymn "We love the venerable house," first published as a broadside and preceding "Nature" by three years. SABIN 101395; STREETER 4182. More
![That Son of Richard III: A Birth Announcement [Signed]. Ray Bradbury](/pictures/thumb/8552.jpg?v=1611955098)
[Glendale, CA]: Roy A Squires, 1974. Limited Edition of 400 copies, of which this is #181. Octavo. Unpaginated. Brown string-tied stiff card wraps stamped in black. A poem concerning the influence of Shakespeare upon Herman Melville and the inception of Moby Dick. Signed by Bradbury on front free endpaper..... More