Ballad of Reading Gaol by C.3.3. by Oscar Wilde - 1899

Milano: Aldo Martello Editore, 1965. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Edition published to celebrate the seven hundredth anniversary of Dante's birth and limited to 500 numbered copies. In three volumes. 361pp; 333pp; 345pp. Full deep green morocco ruled and lettered in gold on the spine, five raised bands, top edges gilt, others uncut, green endpapers; printed on special Ventura paper. The volumes come in sturdy green paper covered publisher's slipcases with leather inserts. With more than one hundred illustrations by fifty contemporary Italian artists including Giorgio de Chirico, Renato Guttuso, Emilio Greco, Aligi Sassu, Carlo Carrà, Remo Brindisi, Massimo Campigli, Carlo Corsi, Carlo Guarienti assembled for a special Quadriennale exhibition in 1960. Very mild wear to the spines but a superb set nonetheless. This copy, not numbered, is ad personam for Bruno Molajoli. ; Quarto.

Philadelphia: G. B. Zieber & Co, 1845. First Edition. Hardcover. iv, [5]-168pp. Brown quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine lettered and ruled in gold. With the armorial bookplate of E. Hubert Litchfield. Mild scattered foxing throughout. A near fine copy. Scarce. BAL 8085. In Van Winkle, p. 13. ; Twelvemo.

Basilae: Per Ioanem Oporinum [ 1558 ], 1558. Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. pp. 499, [13]. Bound in later full red morocco with gilt border fillets on front and rear covers. All edges of the book block are gilt. The binding contains areas of rubbing and wear; minor careful restoration is present to the head cap of the spine and to the corner tips of the boards. The upper corner tip of the front blank fly leaf is restored. Interior pages show some light age-toning and scattered mild foxing but are generally clean. This is a Latin translation from the Greek of the seven tragedies of Sophocles - Ajax Flagellifer, Electra, Oedipus Tyrannus, Antigone, Oedipus Coloneus, Trachiniae, Philoctetes. The translation and notes are by Thomas Kirchmeyer (Naogeorgus) 1508-1563, was an influential dramatist, humanist and Lutheran theologian. The preliminaries include a dedication to Johannes Jacob Fugger and also contain short verses by the educator Johannes Sturm, the Latin poet and theologian Johann Seckervitz… Read More

London: Faber and Faber, 1959. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First British edition, first printing. Signed by Robert Lowell and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's plum-colored cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with faint rubbing at the tips, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with minor shelf wear. This edition preceded the much more common American edition; quite scarce signed.

Here is the notorious original 1927 pamphlet that set the Pacific Northwest literary establishment on its ear. Status Rerum. A Manifesto, Upon The Present Condition Of Northwestern Literature, Containing Several Near-Libelous Utterances Upon Persons In The Public Eye. By James Stevens of Washington, H.L. Davis of Oregon. Privately Printed For The Craft. The Dalles, Ore. Small octavo. 8 pages with cover. Limited to 200 numbered copies privately printed in 1927. This is #73.
Only ten copies in libraries, according to WorldCat databases. When published, the pamphlet was sent to newspapers and magazines across the Pacific Northwest and probably a few select places in California and the East Coast; most were likely tossed into the proverbial round file. It has since taken its place in Pacific Northwest history, being reprinted in the six-volume Oregon Literature Series anthologies done by Oregon State University Press in the 1990s, and still considered controversial today. Most interested parties will… Read More

London: Edward Moxon 1854. (Leather binding) 375pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Gilt decorated fine leather binding with inner dentelles and marbled endpapers. All edges gilt, engraved frontispiece tipped in. Illustrated by 120 designs, original and from the antique, drawn on wood by George Scharf. Some rubbing at corners and outer hinges, and spotting on preliminary and final pages. Contributors include Monckton Milnes (A Memoir). Illustrations by George Scharf. (Poetry).

Blue Wind Press, Berkeley, 1980, 1980. Very Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Several pages bumped bottom edge, cover a bit dusty else very good. First edition. Inscribed presentation copy signed by the author "For ---and-----, my friends and constant support, blessings, Ted Berrigan". * Reportedly one of an unknown number of author's copies. for Ted's use.RM

London: John Murray, 1855. Autograph Letter Signed from Ticknor to noted British poet and man of letters Samuel Rogers tipped in front of Volume I. Inked notation front end page indicating "Sotherans March 1898 Literature" with the cut-out for the listing of this book, item no. 505, laid in. Finely bound in half crimson crushed Levant morocco extra over marbled boards, marbled end papers, tops gilt. From the private library of renowned British Dante scholar Paget Toynbee (1855-1932) with his engraved bookplate to front pastedowns. Near Fine, slight rubs at corners and edges, a bit of spotting at end papers only. The letter, on a single folded sheet, is headed "Clarendon Hotel, July 19-". runs roughly 70 words, and seems to be arranging a meeting with some American friends of Ticknor's. At bottom of letter in pencil "to Samuel Rogers". Ticknor's most important work, in fine binding and with distinguished provenance and with a wonderful ASSOCIATION ALS to Samuel… Read More

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1936. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Original red cloth with black lettering and publishers vignette. Binding is tight and square with light scuffing to upper spine end. Inside clean, only lightest spotting to first pages. No marks or inscriptions. In bright, original, first state dust jacket with expertly repaired large tear to front cover and neatly restored loss to top edge and spine extremities. Correctly priced at 7/6. 311 pp. and 8 pp. of advertisements at the end. 19 x 13,5 cm. Dust jacket now protected in removable sleeve. A very collectible copy. .

London: Gaberbocchus Press [Printed by Moll-Winter in Lubeck], 1949. First Edition. 8vo. 112pp. Publisher's grey cloth titled in dark red to the spine. Slight soiling and discolouration of the cloth, otherwise a very clean, sharp copy. Internally clean, although the poor paper stock has resulted in some uniform toning. One of the scarcest Gaberbocchus publications, and a fine collaboration from the wildly creative Kavan, one of the few authors to have constructed a nom-de-plume, and then adopted that pseudonym as their real name, amongst numerous other achievements, of course.