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N. Y.: Grossman, 1970. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed to Ted & Joan Wilentz by Zukofsky on verso of the half-title page: "Joan's and Ted's copy, all happiness, Louis Zukofsky, 4/29/70. Fine copy. 8vo, boards, dust jacket. Fine copy.
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Autobiography
by ZUKOFSKY, Louis
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Autobiographies: Reveries Over Childhood and Youth and The Trembling of the Veil
by YEATS, W. B.
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London: Macmillan and Co, 1926. First edition (2820 copies printed). Wade 151. Upper fore-tip of back cover bumped, a few foxmarks early and late, otherwise a fine, partly unopened copy in jacket with a very narrow band of darkening at the head of the spine panel. 8vo, frontispiece portrait by J. B. Yeats, four illustrations including one tipped-in colorplate, original green cloth stamped in blind on front cover, dust jacket. Upper fore-tip of back cover bumped, a few foxmarks early and late, otherwise a fine, partly unopened copy in jacket with a very narrow band of darkening at the head of the spine panel.
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Bangkok
by SALTER, James
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West Hartford, CT: Raven Editions, 2004. First edition, regular issue, of this short story, which was originally published in The Paris Review. One of 75 copies printed letterpress on mould-made Nideggen paper in Joanna type by Carol Blinn at The Warwick Press and signed by the author and artist. As new, at publication price. 8vo, illustrated with a reproduction of an etching by Robert Dente, original hand-dyed Nepali paper wrappers. As new, at publication price.
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Battle of Angels. A Play. With a note on the play by Margaret Webster and an account of its production in the City of Boston by the author. This publication being the first number of Pharos. A magazine dedicated to creative writing, which is published intermittently at the pleasure of its editor from Box 215 at Murray, Utah. This is a double number. Spring, 1945
by WILLIAMS, Tennessee
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Murray, UT: Pharos, 1945. First edition of Williams' first book. Crandell C67. Front cover with a few light indentations, yapped covers crushed along edges & a bit sunned, otherwise a fine copy. 8vo, printed wrappers. Front cover with a few light indentations, yapped covers crushed along edges & a bit sunned, otherwise a fine copy.
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Blackberry Winter. A Story Illustrated by Wightman Williams
by WARREN, Robert Penn
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(Cummington, MA): The Cummington Press, 1946. First edition. One of 280 numbered copies on Arches paper (out of a total edition of 330 copies). Grimshaw A8. Presentation copy, inscribed by Warren in the year of publication to his friend Wallace Fowlie, writer, teacher, and translator of Rimbaud, on the front free endpaper: "To Wallace Fowlie / with warmest regards / Cinina & Red Warren / Christmas 1946. Some light dust-soil, otherwise a fine copy, lacking the original plain, unprinted wrapper. WILLIAMS, Wightman.. Small 8vo, original cloth-backed patterned paper over boards, printed paper spine label. Some light dust-soil, otherwise a fine copy, lacking the original plain, unprinted wrapper.
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The Bottom Of The Harbor
by MITCHELL, Joseph
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Boston: Little Brown & Co, (1959). First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "for Daise Terry, with love, Joe Mitchell, June 9, 1960". Daisy Terry was the office manager at the New Yorker, where Mitchell was employed as a staff writer for most of his career; he continued to appear at the office daily until the end of his life, though in his last years he appears to have written nothing at all. This is Mitchell's third book, containing the story "Up at the Old Hotel", which would serve as the title piece of his collected works, issued by Pantheon in 1992. A tiny nick to the head of the spine, otherwise a fine copy in a slightly rubbed & chipped jacket.. 8vo, boards, dust jacket. A tiny nick to the head of the spine, otherwise a fine copy in a slightly rubbed & chipped jacket.
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Compression Wood
by BURROUGHS, Franklin
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(Haverford, PA): Green Shade, 1999. First separate edition of this essay which was originally published in The American Scholar in 1998 & selected for inclusion in The Anthology of Best American Essays for 1999. One of 85 specially bound copies signed by Burroughs & Gill, with an original frontispiece etching by Bryan Nash Gill, out of a total edition of 500 copies printed under the supervision of Martino Mardersteig at the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona, Italy. Franklin Burroughs is the author of Billy Watson's Croker Sack & Horry & the Waccamaw. As new.. GILL, Bryan Nash.. 8vo, with an original frontispiece etching by Bryan Nash Gill, original blue cloth, slipcase. As new.
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Concluding. A Novel
by GREEN, Henry
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London: Hogarth Press, 1948. First edition. Fine copy. 8vo, blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket by Mona Moore. Fine copy.
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Courrier Sud
by SAINT EXUPÉRY, Antoine de
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- First edition of St. Exupéry's first book, translated in Englis
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Paris: Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1929. First edition of St. Exupéry's first book, translated in English as "Southern Mail." One of only 9 lettered hors commerce copies, out of 109 copies on papier vergé pur fil Lafuma. Although best known for his classic Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince), most of St. Exupéry's work was inspired by his profession as a pilot. Courrier Sud is based on his experiences delivering mail to North Africa. St. Exupéry died when his plane was shot down over the Mediterranean near Marseilles in 1944. Small nick to lower part of spine, bookplate on verso of front free endsheet, otherwise a fine copy in tattered glassine of a rare issue of a rare book. 8vo, printed paper wrappers, glassine dust jacket. Small nick to lower part of spine, bookplate on verso of front free endsheet, otherwise a fine copy in tattered glassine of a rare issue of a rare book.
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Death of a Hero. A Novel
by ALDINGTON, Richard
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Paris: Henri Babou and Jack Kahane, 1930. First unexpurgated edition. Limited to 300 numbered copies (the entire edition), ordinary issue. The authoritative text of Aldington's bitter World War I novel, restoring the expurgations made to the previously published British and American trade editions, which were both bowdlerized owing to obscenity laws, although the American text was less sanitized than the British. Kershaw 56. Slipcase broken, otherwise a fine copy. 2 vols., 4to, original paper wrappers, glassine outer wrappers, in publisher's matching marbled paper chemise and slipcase. Slipcase broken, otherwise a fine copy.
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The Devils of Loudun
by HUXLEY, Aldous
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1952. First edition. A fine copy in a slightly rubbed dust jacket. 8vo, illustrated, original boards, dust jacket. A fine copy in a slightly rubbed dust jacket.
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The (Diblos) Notebook
by MERRILL, James
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N. Y.: Atheneum, 1965. First edition. Hagstrom & Bixby A17a. Presentation copy, inscribed by Merrill to his close friends, the Summers: "for Joe, U. T., Mary, Hazel & Joseph - ever affectionately, Jim. March '65. A little light foxing, otherwise a fine copy in jacket a trifle rubbed at extremities. 8vo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. A little light foxing, otherwise a fine copy in jacket a trifle rubbed at extremities.
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Doting. A Novel
by GREEN, Henry
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London: Hogarth Press, 1952. First edition of Green's last novel. Green stopped writing at the age of forty-seven because "I find it so exhausting now I simply can't do it any more." He lived another twenty-one years, increasingly eccentric and reclusive, refusing to leave his London house for the last seven years of his life. He died in 1973 at the age of sixty-eight. Endpapers lightly foxed, otherwise a very fine copy in jacket with the Book Society wraparound band. Small 8vo, blue-green cloth, dust jacket designed by Lynton Lamb. Endpapers lightly foxed, otherwise a very fine copy in jacket with the Book Society wraparound band.
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Early Poems and Stories
by YEATS, W. B.
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London: Macmillan and Co, 1925. First edition (2908 copies printed). Wade 147. Some foxmarks early and late, front hinge strained, otherwise a very good copy in a rubbed dust jacket with a short sliver chip in the upper spine portion of the back panel. 8vo, original cloth, front cover stamped in blind, dust jacket. Some foxmarks early and late, front hinge strained, otherwise a very good copy in a rubbed dust jacket with a short sliver chip in the upper spine portion of the back panel.
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Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. A Lecture
by ALDINGTON, Richard
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(Berkshire): Peacocks Press, 1954. First edition. One of only 10 numbered copies printed on Chatham paper & signed by Aldington. This is Copy No. 1. Light offsetting to endpapers from leather turn-ins, otherwise a very fine copy in red cloth chemise & marbled board slipcase. 8vo, full golden brown morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, card slipcase. Light offsetting to endpapers from leather turn-ins, otherwise a very fine copy in red cloth chemise & marbled board slipcase.
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Ghost of Chance. Written by William S. Burroughs. Illustrated by George Condo
by BURROUGHS, William S.
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(N. Y.): Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1991. First edition. One of 160 copies printed on Hahnemuhle etching paper by Leslie Miller at The Grenfell Press and signed by Burroughs and Condo. As new.. CONDO, George.. Folio, with 3 original etchings & several tipped-in color illustrations, pictorial endpapers, black cloth, matching slipcase. As new.
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The Grass Harp. A Play
by CAPOTE, Truman
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N. Y.: Random House, (1952). First edition. One of 500 copies printed. Covers a little rubbed, otherwise a fine copy in lightly dust-soiled & worn jacket. Scarce.. 8vo, illustrated with scenes from the 1952 production, original boards, dust jacket. Covers a little rubbed, otherwise a fine copy in lightly dust-soiled & worn jacket. Scarce.
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The Great American Novel
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
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Paris: Three Mountains Press, 1923. First edition, one of a series of books edited by Ezra Pound. One of 300 copies. Wallace A6a. A fine copy. Tall 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, printed spine label. A fine copy.
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House of Flowers
by CAPOTE, Truman & Harold ARLEN
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N. Y.: Random House, (1968). First edition of this musical comedy, based on the book by Capote, with lyrics by Capote & Arlen, who wrote the music. Fine copy in lightly discolored white jacket. 8vo, frontispiece, original cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. Fine copy in lightly discolored white jacket.
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(I) Memoirs Of A Fox-Hunting Man. (II) Memoirs Of An Infantry Officer. (III) Sherston's Progress
by SASSOON, Siegfried
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London: Faber & Gwyer; Faber & Faber, 1928, 1930, 1936. First trade editions of each of the three volumes in Sassoon's celebrated World War I trilogy, the first volume in the "bibliographically preferred" first state with untrimmed edges. Keynes A30a, A33a, A40a. Some foxmarks on edges of text block of two volumes, signature on rear pastedown of Memoirs of An Infantry Officer (nick in the top of the spine panel of the dust jacket), but a fine set of Sassoon's semi-autobiographical memoirs. 3 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth, dust jackets. Some foxmarks on edges of text block of two volumes, signature on rear pastedown of Memoirs of An Infantry Officer (nick in the top of the spine panel of the dust jacket), but a fine set of Sassoon's semi-autobiographical memoirs.
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