New York: Editions for the Armed Services Inc. / Council on Books in Wartime, [1942-1945]. All First Editions Thus. Small oblong 12mos (ca. 10x14cm. to 11.5x17cm.); pictorial wrappers; occasional illus., chiefly found in the volumes of cartoon collections and "Soldier Art." Most volumes show some edge wear and soil, occasional..... More
![Item #25949 Slow Coins Minted by Julia Fields [Inscribed and Signed with Autograph Note Laid in]....](/pictures/thumb/25949.jpg?v=1678825262)
[Washington, DC]: Three Continents Press, [1981]. First Edition, Wrapper Issue. Octavo; publisher's glossy grey pictorial card wrappers; [10],206pp.; illus. throughout. Light wear and soil from handling, else Very Good. Substantial poetry collection by the Alabama-born author, inscribed and signed inside upper cover: "To Joe Johnson with respect and honor..... More
Brattleboro': William Fessenden, 1805. First American Edition. 12mo; full contemporary calf, gilt-ruled spine; iv,[5]-352pp. Light scuffing to leather extremities, lacking spine label and endpapers, dark dampstaining to margins of first twenty and final ten leaves, 20th century ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown; nevertheless, a Very Good, still quite attractive and..... More
New York: Published by the Compiler, 1903. First Edition, Limited to 150 copies of which this is no. 64. Octavo; publisher's grey paper-covered boards, printed paper labels mounted to upper cover and spine; vii,[8]-86pp.; frontispiece, four leaves of plates. Light wear to spine ends, later ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown..... More
Boston: Carter and Hendee, 1832. Reprint. 12mo; contemporary calf over marbled boards, gilt-tooled spine; 405,[1]pp.; engraved frontispiece (tissue guard). Leather rather scuffed, especially at corners, marbled paper toned at extremities, front free endpaper separated but present, contemporary armorial ex libris to front pastedown of a G. Washington Warren, along with..... More
![Item #25791 Elegy for Sita [Signed Limited Edition]. Kate Millett](/pictures/thumb/25791.jpg?v=1677269113)
New York: Targ Editions, 1979. Limited Edition of 350 copies signed by Millett at colophon. Large oblong octavo. 109 pp. Black and white illustrations. Beige boards with gilt lettering to spine. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Author's remembrance of her partner, who..... More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1931. First Edition. Tall quarto (12" x 7.5"); [70]pp. Loose association copy, with gift inscription by "a good friend" of Cummings on back free endpaper (see below). Brown paper-covered boards with tan buckram spine and small spine label. Missing dust jacket. Boards rather heavily rubbed and..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1884. Later Printing. 12mo; full brown morocco by Suttaby, gilt-lettered spine in six compartments, elaborate gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, floral endpapers; [12],346pp. Some foxing to preliminaries, most heavily to title page and tissue guard, 20th century ownership rubberstamp to front free endpaper, else a Very..... More
![Item #25763 Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-1960 [Black Inside Covers]. Allen Ginsberg](/pictures/thumb/25763.jpg?v=1677088804)
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1961. Apparent (per Dowden) intermediary between the Fifth and Sixth Printings, with black inside covers (instead of the usual white), seven-line publisher's statement on back, and no printer's statement. 16mo (6.25" x 4.75") 100pp. Printed black and white wraps with $1.50 price on back. Covers..... More
Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, for the Author, 1787. Second Edition. 12mo; full contemporary flame calf, black gilt-lettered spine label; xxi,[22]-258,[6]pp. (A-Y6). Leather a bit dried and scuffed along spine margins, bottom textblock edge speckled, 1802 gift inscription to front free endpaper, else a Very Good copy, internally clean and sound..... More
Hartford: Printed for Samuel G. Goodrich, by Lincoln & Stone, 1820. First Collected Edition. Two volumes in one; octavo; full contemporary calf, red gilt spine label; 177; 235pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece at head of Vol. I, added title pages to both volumes, four leaves of plates. Textblock rather soiled throughout..... More
New-York: Published by James Eastburn / Clayton & Kingsland, Printers, 1820. First Edition. 12mo; full contemporary calf, maroon gilt-lettered spine label, all edges speckled blue; xii,339pp.; engraved frontispiece and added title page. Some brief peeling to leather, most notably at upper cover, front joint starting to crack but holding, preliminaries..... More