Breckinridge County Suite. To a Young Kentucky Woman by Bolton, Joe - 1989

Los Angeles: Tina Modotti-Richey, 1923. First Edition . Striped Boards / Cloth Spine. Good. Frontispiece and Two Plates By Tina Modotti. 59 Pp. #152 Of 200 Hand-Numbered Trade Copies And Ten Author's Copies. Canvas Cloth Spine, Green And Brown Striped Batik Covered Boards; The Batik Was Handmade By Richey And Modotti. Original Illustrated Paper Label On Front Cover With Title And Author And A Small Design. Scarce. Light Dampstain In 1/2" X 3" Area Along Bottom Spine Edge Of All Pages; Tips And Spine Worn With A Little Fraying, A Little Pencil Scribbling On Rear Free Endpaper Which Is Mostly Erased.

Los Angeles: Privatdruck Der Pazifischen Presse / Plantin Press [Pazifische Press], 1944. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. 55 Pp. Black Leather Spine, Gilt; Violet Colored Boards. First Edition, Un-Numbered Presentation Copy From Felix Guggenheim. One Of An Undetermined Number Of Un-Numbered Copies, Signed By Doblin Below The Colophon. [There Were 150 Copies Numbered Signed Copies In The Subscriber's Edition, Half Leather, An Undetermined Number Of Lettered Copies, And 100 Copies Of The Trade Edition In Cloth, Some Of Which Were Also Signed.] Contents Fine, Boards Near Fine; The Leather Spine Is Near Fine But Had Become Partly Detached And Has Now Been Professionally Repaired At Heritage Bindery. This Is A Presentation Copy From The Publisher, Felix Guggenheim, With A 5 Line Handwritten Quotation From Goethe, Signed Below " G (Guggenheim's Insignia Actually) / 1944". [The Format Of The Inscription Is Similar (Quote And Signature And Date Below) To Another Copy Which Was Obtained… Read More

Jonathan Cape, London, 1926. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 284pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with a small gold-stamped decoration to the upper board. With decorated endpapers, a title page decoration, a frontispiece and twelve Henderson tailpiece decorations. Top edge lightly dust marked and spotted, others untrimmed. A narrow strip of browning to the free endpapers and a touch of soiling to the pastedowns. A very good copy in the most uncommon dust wrapper which reproduces a larger version of the frontispiece design; the wrapper is price-clipped, tanned at the spine panel, a little marked, spotted and stained in places with a tiny sliver of loss from the head of the spine panel, just a fraction of further loss from the tail and several more millimetres of loss from the corner tips and upper edge. A historical novel by the honorary Inkling, retelling 'The Tale of Styrbjörn the Swedish Champion', written between his… Read More

United Kingdom: Collins Harvill, 1960. Clean text. Unread. Toning to the edges of the text, Green top stain to the top edge. Light toning to the board edges else fine. Same dates to Title and CP as required for the true 1st British printing which preceded the American issue. Green cloth boards, green spine and gold lettering. Dustcover not price clipped. Light toning to the spine with light wear to the top and base. New mylar cover. Superb copy.. 1st Edition. Hardcover w/ jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Seattle: Chuckaberry Press, 1995. 30 leaves, unnumbered pages. The author is E. Gates Harris (see IMDB) who is known for The Last Rescue (2015) and G.P.S. (2007) has devoted his poems to Kurt Kobain and the lifestyle of drugs, drink, and Frontispiece is pastedown with picture of Kurt Cobain reading: *Dedicated to the Memory of KRT CBN 1967-1994. Pastedown label on limitation page notes: This book is enclosed in Maine Birch and is recycled. It is listed as #1 of 100 though it appears this is the only copy every produced since each poem, limitation note, image all are done by hand shortly after the death of Kurt Cobain.

Moscow: Molodaya Gvardia, 1964. First Russian Book Edition. 351,[1] pp., with several in-text illustrations. Cloth-backed pictorial paper over boards. Early Russian ink inscription and inkstamp on rear pastedown. A few small scribbles in blue ink on covers and ink stains on cloth. Edges of boards lightly worn, front hinge cracked. Contents lightly toned, but surprisingly fresh for the quality of the paper. A good copy. The pirated first Russian book edition, after a 1963 appearance in the periodical INOSTRANAYA LITERATURA ("Foreign Literature") and a 1964 special separate issue of ROMAN-GAZETA ("Novel as Newspaper"). Like other books by foreign authors published in the USSR at the time, this edition is a piracy, with no royalties paid to the author. Nevertheless, it was a major undertaking, engaging major Russian literary talents of the day, with the still-authoritative translation by Nora Gal (1912-1991) and Raisa Oblonskaya (1924-2010), an introduction by celebrated literary critic Raisa Orlova… Read More

New York. : Limited Editions Club., 1990.. Limited edition, #171 of 550 copies. . Hardcover, quarter black leather over green cloth boards, gilt spine title, in a black cloth slipcase. . Fine in slipcase. . Large folio. . Signed by the photographer on the colophon. Large book requires extra postage. LEC newsletter laid in. Six photogravure plates by Aaron Siskind.

New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1982. Signed by Kurt Vonnegut on the front free endpaper. First trade edition / First printing. Blue cloth. Near fine, slight fading to top and bottom board edges, in fine dust jacket.

Side and lower edges are untrimmed. Dust jacket is lightly soiled and sunned to degrees, heavier on the folds. Additional photos upon request.

(mm 187x121); pp. XII, 156. Legatura editoriale originale con sovraccoperta. Copia ben conservata. Provenienza: all'occhietto, nota manoscritta di possesso di Briano Castelbarco Albani, datata "Firenze, 13-I-44". Prima edizione (9 marzo 1943). "The experience of World War II affected the Italian reception of poetry in English, determining in significant ways the emergence of an antagonistic poetic style, colloquial, less cryptic, more syntactically plain than that adopted by the hermetic school. An event that can be considered crucial in this respect is Fernanda Pivano's translation of Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology […] commissioned by Cesare Pavese for the Turin-based Einaudi, and published in 1943" (Twentieth-Century Poetic Translation. Literary Cultures in Italian and English, Edited by D. Caselli and D. La Penna, London-New York 2008, [Chapter I, D. La Penna, Historicizing Value, Negotiating Visibility: English and Italian Poetic Canons in Translation, p. 18]. "I was just a kid when I… Read More