Elephants Mothers & Others by Newlove, John - 1963

London Printed at Chiswick Press, 1892. HB NODJ ISSUED, 1892, 1st edition, with colophon on Last page,Soft Light Brown Tweed with White Vellum Leather Spine with Gold Gilt Decorations & Titles, NF/VG+, AS-IS, NODJ, Minor Cover Rub & Scuff, Minor Soil Spine, Some Fox, 194 pgs, Interior Nice, Tight, Clean, . First Edition. Hard Cover.

Robert Chambers, Boston, 1917. Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Paper spine label little worn and chipped, head of spine little frayed, heal of spine slight rub. Back cover ink splotches. Tips little bumped. Digital photo of book available. This is the second edition revised and expanded and best edition. Rare.rm

Henry Z. Walck, Inc NY, 1965. HBDJ, 1965 ON TITLE & COPYRIGHT, 1st edition, with markout btm Title pg,Possible Ex-library Usual flaws, Tape residue, Markouts Etc, GOOD+/GOOD+ Blue Cloth with Gold Gilt titles & Tape Residue at Edges,,In many ways the book is in very nice condition. The binding is straight and tight, the corners are sharp, the gold lettering is bright. The book has a mylar protected dust jacket, and looks as if it has seldom been read. But it does have these two notable flaws: The mylar protected dust jacket was taped to the boards many years ago. The tape has disintegrated leaving a residue on the boards. I was able to remove a little of it, but I would prefer leaving that task to someone who is more skilled at it. There are no book pocket or anything else pasted into the book., LOIS LENSKI, written & Illustrated, Inner Flap Priceclipped but 30-80 CODE, Possible Ex-library Usual flaws, Tape residue, Markouts Etc,Index in Back, foreword. There are also the names… Read More

Mt. Carmel, Connecticut: Ives Street Press. Near Fine. 1984. Limited & Numbered. Hardcover. Clean red cloth with a front cover paper title label. Signed by the author on last page. Illustrated with 2 (tissue protected) photographs by T. S. Bronson produced directly from the original glass negatives.130 copies of this book were printed on Mohawk Superfine paper: this is # 88. Accordian style pages with three folds. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Poetry ; Photographs; Narrow 4to 11" - 13" tall; Unpaginated pages .

Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan Univ. Press, 1959. 56 pages. First printing of Wright's relatively scarce second book. The title poem is a sonnet that makes clear this comment by poet and critic Ben Friedlander: "One does not turn to James Wright for laughter." The poem begins: "When I went out to kill myself, I caught a pack of hoodlums beating up a man." After this book Wright eschewed the use of rhyme, but the dark themes stayed with him. The book is in better than very good condition: clean and tight, with Just a hint of toning to spine; toning to endpapers, with previous owner's name/city/state written on ffep. A smattering of foxing to top and fore edges of textblock. DJ is toned, especially at spine; hint of soiling to front and rear; in new mylar. Three sections: Lunar Changes, A Sequence of Love Poems, The Part Nearest Home.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968 First printing of the stated first edition. Author's first book. Bookplate of "The Ed Sullivans" to front fly leaf and mild shelf wear to boards, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with chips, tears and creasing, rubbing along folds, light tanning/offsetting to front cover.

Elkin Mathews. London.,1903. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo.5 6pp booklet. Fine, unopened copy in publishers printed wraps. Housed in an early chemise and quarter blue morocco slip case, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering. Fine copy.:

Monterey, Kentucky:: Larkspur Press,, 2005.. Special Edition of 45. 6.5 x 9.75"; 100 pages. Handset in Garamond type designed by Morris Benton for ATF after the work of Jean Jannon, a master printer in 17th-century Paris. Ratdolt type, designed by Victor Hammer, was used for display. Printed on a hand-fed C & P. Printed on Magnani Velata paper. Handbound by Carolyn Whitesel. Design, composition, and printing by Leslie Shane and Gray Zeitz. Signed by the artist and poet. Numbered. Poetry by Susan Starr Richards accompanied by Richard Wooten's drawings. Prospectus: "The drawings, by Richard H. Wooten, are based on a Chinese jade horse's head from the Han Dynasty, and a cave painting for Lascaux, France, ca. 17,000 - 12,000 B.C. Richard Wooten is a native of Harrison County with an avid interest in ancient art. He now lives in Maine. "Susan Starr Richards's short stories have been anthologized in Prize Stories, The O. Henry Awards, and in New Stories from… Read More

Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 1986 First printing of the first edition, with Spanish/English text. Book and dust jacket in fine condition.

Berkeley: Tree, 1974. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Fine. 8vo, [iv]+204pp, printed wrappers. Beautiful as-new copy of the fourth issue of this groundbreaking literary and Kabbalistic magazine edited by David Meltzer. Includes Image of the Wall by Wallace Berman, a lengthy 1964 letter from Lenny Bruce to a judge, a number of Kabbalistic pieces from traditional authorities, and other material from writers associated with the Semina scene. Unmarked copy, as new.