The Transparent Sea by Dudek, Louis ( SIGNED ) - 1956

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.

First edition thus. Routledge, Warne and Routledge. London. 1864. Small Octavo. x, 610pp. Engraved frontispiece, and 7 further tissue guarded engraved plates. Full green morocco, spine in five compartments with raised bands and gilt double boxing, dotted rules and foliar embellishment. Gilt rules and embossing to covers, inner gilt curlicues. Corners slightly rubbed.. All edges gilt. Endpapers lightly toned. Charles Thurnam and Sons Carlisle bookseller plate to verso ffep.

Inscribed "Second Music Prize Presented to Miss Browne by H. E. Ford Abbey Street Xmas 1865." [Miss Harriet Emma Ford, of Abbey Street School in Carlisle.] Emma Browne of Tallantire Hall, later Mrs Emma Moorsom, wife of James Marshall Moorsom.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) poet. First published edition in the UK to include Tales of a Wayside Inn and Birds of Passage.

Seventeenth Edition, but the first edition of the completed work. Embellished with a Characteristic Frontispiece. John Joseph Stockdale. London. 1807. Octavo. xxiv, 152pp. Rowlandson engraved frontis. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards. Toning to title and frontis.
Provenance: Bookplate of B. Haigh Allen to fep. Signature of Bn. Haigh to title. Yorkshire financier, Benjamin Haigh Allen (1792-1829) was a personal friend of William Wilberforce and campaigner for abolition.
Barrett, Eaton Stannard (1786–1820) poet, satirist. 'All the talents' is a political satire of the Whig coalition. Published parts, the later 'editions' were augmented by further dialogues. This is the first edition of the complete work.
"The coalition government formed in February 1806, following Pitt's death. Supposedly embracing 'All the Talents', it was composed of the followers of Lord Grenville and Charles Fox, bolstered by those of Lord Sidmouth (Addington). The resignation of the Talents in March 1807 was precipitated… Read More

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 .

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.