Milano: Dalla Società Tipografica de'Classici Italiani, 1822. 32mo (11cm.); full contemporary gilt-tooled morocco, gilt spine in five compartments, all edges gilt; 127pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece. Ex-British Embassy of Rome with their bookplate to front free endpaper, leather scuffed at extremities and joints significantly rubbed and cracked, 1cm. loss at spine..... More
![Ashby Manor: A Play [John Sparrow's Copy]. William Allingham](/pictures/thumb/8489.jpg?v=1611084136)
London: David Stott, n.d. but 1883. First Edition. 12mo (16cm.); publisher's pale blue card wrappers lettered and ruled in black and red; [12],102pp. Light toning to extremities, especially spine, else Very Good and sound. Publisher's advertisement tipped to half title verso. Small unobtrusive ex libris tipped inside upper cover of..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956. Later Printing [Code D-F, April 1956]. Octavo. 79p. Printed paper dust jacket showing $1.75 price. Black cloth-covered boards with silver lettering to spine. Dust jacket shows several long tears along bottom edge of spine and front flap. Bottom 2" portion of spine..... More
New York: Villard, 1996. First Edition, stated and with number line ending in "2" per the publisher's practice at the time. Octavo. 207 pages. Photographic dust jacket. Grey and black boards stamped in silver. Map endpapers showing the journey of Chris McCandless 1990-1992. Unclipped dust jacket shows just light..... More
Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1915. First Edition, First Issue. 12mo. 47 pages. Printed purple-gray dust jacket pasted into brown boards at spine, as issued, though now separated per notes below. Dust jacket lightly chipped at spine ends, toned along spine, and coloring of exterior has largely faded..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1929. Limited Edition of 367 copies, this being # 307. 12mo. 72 pages. Glassine dust jacket. Yellow boards stamped in brown. Chemise with paper title label to end panel. Housed in custom-made slipcase. Boards show light wear to extremities. Binding..... 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
Austin, TX: Mike & Dale's Press, 1999. First Edition. Octavo. 33 pages. Printed wraps. Wraps show light edgewear and curl slightly at fore edges. Binding sound and pages unmarked. 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: 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 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
![The Dust Which Is God [Signed]. William Rose Benet](/pictures/thumb/8479.jpg?v=1611005808)
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1941. Second Printing. Signed by Benet to fellow poet Helen Frith Stickney on front free endpaper. Large octavo. 559 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Beige boards stamped in brown. Price-clipped dust jacket is chipped along edges, heavily in spots. Slightly toned along spine..... More
![Stephen Vincent Benet on Writing [Inscribed from Abbe to writer Sarah Bridge Graves]. ed., intro,...](/pictures/thumb/8477.jpg?v=1611080324)
Brattleboro, VT: The Stephen Greene Press, 1964. First Edition. Octavo. 112 pages. Photographic dust jacket. White boards stamped in black. Signed on front free endpaper with inscription, "To Sarah Bridge Graves, My very special appreciation and praise for your award-winning contribution to our Maine Conference workshop in fiction..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1923. First Edition. Octavo. 292 pages. A.D. Rahn-illustrated dust jacket. Purple boards stamped in gilt. Black topstain. Dust jacket is lightly chipped and toned along edges with some general rubbing, but colors remain bright. Boards a touch worn along edges, but binding..... More
![Thirteen O'Clock: Stories of Several Worlds [with Louis Untermeyer Bookplate]. Stephen Vincent Benet](/pictures/thumb/8475.jpg?v=1611079189)
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1937. First Edition. Octavo. 305 pages. Blue cloth stamped in black. Charcoal topstain. Lacks dust jacket. Decorative bookplate of poet Louis Untermeyer to front pastedown. Untermeyer was on the Pulitzer Prize jury in 1942, the year Benet's The Dust Which Is God..... More
Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2009. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 237pp. Boards very slightly bowed, else a Near Fine copy. Bookplate signed by the author laid in. It should be noted that the signature was almost certainly produced shortly before Caspary's death in 1987..... More
London: Secker & Warburg, 1995. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [6],232pp. Very light shelf wear, front hinge very slightly loose, else Very Good or better. Signed by the author on title page. The concluding novel in the Irish author's triptych featuring recurring characters, starting..... More
![The Liars' Club: A Memoir [Signed]. Mary Karr](/pictures/thumb/8472.jpg?v=1611092073)
New York: Viking, 1995. First Edition. Octavo. 320 pages. Printed dust jacket. Grey and black boards stamped in gilt. Signed by Karr on title page without inscription. Additional yellow sticky note affixed to front flap and with inscription, "Dear Ms. Owens - Happy Birthday. Your husband sent me..... More
![Shroud [Limited Edition, Signed]. John Banville](/pictures/thumb/8471.jpg?v=1611091383)
London: Picador, 2002. First Edition, Limited to 80 copies signed by the author of which this is no. 54 of sixty bound in cloth. Octavo; publisher's black cloth, printed paper spine and upper cover labels; [6],407pp. Fine condition. Signed by the author on colophon. The second volume in..... More
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909. First Edition. Octavo. 71 pages, text on recto only + advertisements. Color frontispiece with tissue guard + 3 additional color plates. Blue pictorial cloth with dirigible design decorated in silver and gilt. Illustrated endpapers. Science fiction story of the world governed..... More
New York: Lenox Hill Bookstore, 2004. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's tan printed staplebound card wrappers; 9pp. Tiny spot at bottom margin of upper cover, else Fine. Forms part of the Lenox Hill Bookstore Chapbook series, published at the Stinehour Press. Uncommon and quite early appearance of an excerpt..... More
London: Mantle, 2012. First Edition limited to 300 signed copies of which this is no. 144. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [6],312pp. Just a hint of shelf wear to jacket extremities, ISBN sticker to rear panel (presumably as issued), else Near Fine. Signed by the author on colophon..... More
Old Castle, County Meath, Ireland: Gallery Books, 2005. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth in red pictorial dust jacket; 78pp. Just About Fine condition. Signed by the author on title page. One of a series of three adaptations penned by Irish author John Banville based on the tragedies of..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Stated First Edition. Bookplate signed by Ashbery loosely laid in at front. Small quarto. 422 pages. Black and white photographs and color plates. Illustrated dust jacket. Beige boards stamped in silver. Unclipped dust jacket is worn and creased along edges, with some..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1984. First Edition. Signed by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo. 89 pages. Illustrated dustjacket. Blue and black boards stamped in silver and copper. Price-clipped dust jacket is worn along top edge with some lighter wear to bottom corners. Some faint..... More