![Hotel Fiesta: Poems [Inscribed and Signed]. Lynn Emanuel](/pictures/thumb/7709.jpg?v=1604090488)
Athens: University of Georgia Press, [1984]. First Edition, Wrapper Issue. Slim octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's red and white glossy card wrappers; [10],42pp. Light soil to wrappers, else Very Good or better. Inscribed and signed on title page: "For Robert with very best wishes / Lynn Emanuel / February 15, 1985." More
Birmingham: Thunder City Press, 1981. Stated First Printing. Limited to 300 copies. Octavo; 56 pages. Photo-illustrated paper wraps. Covers lightly edgeworn with a few scuffs, smudges, and one small dent to surface, but with no chips or tears. Dent extends to first seven or so pages, but not involving..... More
New York: J.A. Wilmore & Company, 1897. First Edition. Quarto. 604 pages. 41 black and white illustrations, all present. Drab olive cloth stamped in red and gilt. All edges stained red. Decorative endpapers. Ex-library copy. Light wear to extremities and joints, with some fraying at corners. Bottom corners..... More
Vancouver: UBC Pres, 1992. First Edition. Large octavo. 418 pages. Photographic dust jacket. Black boards stamped in silver. Dust jacket shows light edgewear and some faint creasing. Boards are a trifle worn at spine ends. Otherwise sturdy and square in binding and pages unmarked. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Co: The Riverside Press, 1894. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 114 pp. Color illustrations throughout. Color pictorial boards. Illustrated floral endpapers. Green topstain. Pages printed on one side only. Boards show general rubbing and bit of scuffing. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription dated "Christmas 1893"..... More
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: The Macmillan Company / Viking Press, 1967. First Edition. Octavo (9.25" x 6.5"); xiv, 305p. Printed dustjacket with original $8.50 price; book in light blue cloth with blindstamped "M M" and dark blue buckram spine with gilt lettering. Jacket shows a few clean tears along..... More
![Sphinx of Flight [Signed]. Marion Couthouy Smith](/pictures/thumb/000995.jpg?v=1591733963)
New York: Harold Vinal, 1925. First Edition. Signed by the author on front free endpaper with inscription "To Stanton Lindsey Dorsey from the author, Marion Couthouy Smith." Small octavo; 43 pages. Black boards with green title card to front. Spine backing separated along bottom half of joints and..... More
![The Late Hour [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. Mark Strand](/pictures/thumb/8480.jpg?v=1611090889)
New York: Atheneum, 1978. Stated First Edition. Bookplate signed by Strand loosely laid in at front. Octavo. 48 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Green boards stamped in gilt. Red topstain. Price-clipped dust jacket is rubbed with some toning along edges and heavier wear to spine ends. Neat tape repair to..... More
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: The Ecco Press, 1978. First Edition. Signed by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo; 52pp. Illustrated dustjacket with original $7.95 price; book in off-white cloth with black lettering to spine. Jacket is clean and crisp with no chips, tears, or marks. Boards are..... More
![Selected Poems [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. Mark Strand](/pictures/thumb/8481.jpeg?v=1613079697)
New York: Atheneum, 1980. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Strand loosely laid in at front. Octavo. 152 pages. Photographic dust jacket. Purple boards stamped in gilt. Orange topstain. Unclipped dust jacket is toned along edges with some creasing. Boards gently worn along bottom edges. Binding is sound. Stain to..... More
![The War Prayer [Signed by Groth to Nathaniel P. Steinberg, with sketch]. Mark Twain, John Groth](/pictures/thumb/10065.jpg?v=1625494001)
New York: St. Crispin Press / Harper & Row, 1951. First Thus. Signed by illustrator John Groth to artist Nathaniel P. Steinberg, with sketch and inscription "To Nat P. Steinberg, fellow artist -- and damn good one! John Groth, Feb 11, 1969." Steinberg's bookplate opposite on front pastedown. Tall..... More
![That Shining Place [Signed Limited Edition]. Mark Van Doren](/pictures/thumb/11048.jpg?v=1633021475)
New York: Hill and Wang, 1969. Limited Edition, signed by the author and numbered 112 of 200 copies on colophon at back. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering, housed in green paper-covered slipcase. Maroon topstain. Faintly smoked. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Slipcase is sturdy..... More
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1987. Stated First Edition (hardcover issue). Octavo. 54 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with original $17.00 price present. Maroon boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket is gently rubbed along edges with some light toning. Trace of a 1" shallow abrasion to front panel near..... More
Buffalo, NY: Whitney Printing Company, 1935. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's buckram in pictorial dust jacket; 158pp. Shallow chips and small losses along jacket extremities, none approaching text, the whole rather dust-soiled and lightly toned; preliminaries a bit browned, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Uncommon anthology of..... More
Berkeley: Kelsey Street Press, 1993. First Edition of 2000 copies. Quarto (23x21.5x05.cm); 44pp. Seven illustrations by Richard Tuttle. Illustrated wrappers. Wrappers and textblock impeccable, As New. Poet Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, of Chinese and Dutch ancestry, has twice won American Book Awards. This volume of her poetry includes drawings by..... More
Belfast: Co-operative Publishing Resource, [1979]. Assumed First Edition with no additional printings listed. Signed by the author on title page with inscription "With my love, respect, and fun, you are far greater than sometimes you can imagine." Side-stapled chapbook; 28pp. Printed paper covers with yin-yang illustration. Covers lightly edgeworn with..... More
![The Phoenix, Vol. 1, nos. 1-6, June-November, 1914 [Inscribed and Signed]. Michael Monahan, ed](/pictures/thumb/8305.jpg?v=1610655812)
South Norwalk, CT: Michael Monahan, 1914. First Edition. Six volumes bound in one; contemporary maroon cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered spine, original pictorial wrappers bound in. Spine ends a bit rubbed, corners bumped with brief exposure, contemporary gift inscription to front pastedown, else Very Good, contents fine. Inscribed and signed by the..... More
Baile Átha Cliath [Dublin]: An Clóhomhar Tta, 1971. Stated First Printing (An Chéad Chlo). Irish-language throughout. Signed by the author with inscription "who understands / before communicated with / knows / as only the oppressed / know. Michael, Baile Átha Cliath '73." Additional handwritten, folded note laid in reads "Rona..... More
Bethesda: Private Edition [Decatur Press], 1998. Octavo; 127pp. Celadon paper binding with black lettering on face. Haiku verses printed in three parallel formats: original Japanese script; romanized Japanese; and English. Slight fading to spine. Half-dollar-sized light water mark on back cover; goes through to back couple pages. Textblock clean, square..... More
[St. Paul, MN]: New Rivers Press, 1984. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's green pictorial card wrappers; 76pp.; illus. throughout. A hint of shelf wear, else Fine. Minnesota Voices Project no. 22. Minnesota author's first poetry collection. More
First Edition. Hardcover. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994. First Edition. Signed by the author on full title, with inscription opposite:"For Russell with affection and the hope that we'll alwyas be friends. N." Octavo; 75pp. Black boards with stamped red lettering. No dust jacket, with UPC sticker on bottom back..... More
New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1925. Later printing. Signed by Crane to a Gladys Jacobson on front free endpaper. Octavo. 76 pages. Red-orange boards stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Boards worn along extremities with brief exposure, spine toned, general rubbing and scuffing. Binding is sound. Pages toned but unmarked... More
![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
Athens: New Home, 25 December 1959, Issue 779. First and Sole Edition Thus. Octavo (25x18x2cm); 262pp + 10pp of terminal advertising. Tipped-in frontispiece photograph of Kazantzakis on coated stock; over a dozen other B&W documentary photographs printed within the articles, including one spread of sheet music. Illustrated broché cream wrappers..... More