Search Results: Authors starting with L from Triolet Rare Books, ABAA

San Francisco: The Four Seasons Foundation, 1970. First edition. [12], 45, [6], pp. Gray paste-paper boards over green cloth backstrip, lettered and ruled in gilt. Slightest rubbing to corners, else fine. One of fifty numbered copies in boards, signed by the author. The uncommon limited edition of this collection. As a teenager Lamantia corresponded with Breton and published some of his first poems in Charles Henri Ford's View. Later associated with the Beats (he was on the bill at the famous 1955 Six Gallery reading which included Ginsberg's Howl), his was an idiosyncratic voice, a direct connection between the European surrealists and the later American movements. Ferlinghetti said of him, "Philip was a visionary like Blake, and he really saw the whole world in a grain of sand.".

San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1962. Second edition, i.e. first trade edition, one of 1250 copies, following a hardbound edition of fifty copies. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Cover collage by Bruce Conner. Some handling wear, slight foxing. Johnston, Auerhahn, 18.

San Francisco: Hermes Free Press, 1972. First edition. [8] pp. Stapled wrappers. Bottom corner toned on rear leaves. An early attempt by environmental activist Keith Lampe (later aka Ponderosa Pine) to disrupt the Republican convention in San Diego in August 1972. Johnston, pp. 27, 176.

London: Faber and Faber, 1974. First edition. 42 pp. Light blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. The last published collection of Larkin's verse to be published in his lifetime. 42 pp. Slight sunning to board edges, else fine. Bloomfield A10a. 6142 copies were printed.

Amsterdam: Uitgeverij de Arbeiderspers, 1983. First edition. Original Wraps. Fine. Original perfect-bound printed wrappers. 84 pp. A collection of Larkin's verse, selected from The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings, and High Windows, translated into Dutch by J. Eijkelboom, with the English text en face. A fine copy. WorldCat shows only one copy in the U.S. (Emory).

[Isla Vista, CA]: Turkey Press, 1985. Original Wraps. Near Fine. Photo-offset edition following the letterpress edition. Printed perfect-bound wrappers. 48 pp. A couple of stray marks to covers, else fine. Inscribed by Laughlin to Joanna and Michael McClure "for Joanna + Michael from J.

New York: Spring Street Press, 1975. First edition. Original wrappers. Oblong stapled wrappers. [12] leaves, printed on rectos only. Title and publication information rubber-stamped on front cover and inside cover, respectively. One of 100 numbered copies, signed by Lauterbach, and additionally inscribed by her, dated April 1975. Slight edgewear to wrappers, minor soft crease to last several leaves. OCLC locates nine copies, not all of which differentiate between this first edition and a second edition published the same year in a different format. One of Lauterbach's earliest publications, though despite the title, she had published a short pamphlet several years earlier in Ireland.

Flagstaff: The Peccary Press, 1980. First edition thus. ix, 29 pp. Brown paper boards with yellow paper cutout mounted outlined in orange, plain paper dust jacket. Minor handling wear to jacket, volume about fine. One of ten lettered copies printed on Rives Heavyweight (another 150 numbered copies were printed on Warren's Olde Style, see Roberts A122.5a, first separate edition). Lawrence's essay on the Hopi ritual, originally published in Theatre Arts Monthly in 1924 and later as a chapter in Mornings in Mexico. Foreword by Linda Laird and David Laird. Frontispiece serigraph by Mark Sanders. Here published along with a letter from Lawrence to Willard Johnson from 1924 revealing his unpolished opinions about the ritual.

Pencil drawing of D.H. Lawrence, 7 1/4 x 9 inches. Matted and framed, total size 16 x 17 3/4 inches. Fine condition, not examined out of frame. Robinson published a collection of Lawrence's poems, Tortoises, in 1983 through his private Cheloniidae Press. The press also published two exquisite editions of Poe's The Raven, among many other distinguished works, and Robinson is well-known for his interpretations of classic literature and nature, particularly as they intersect.

Tuscaloosa: INK-A! Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, one of 50 copies printed, signed by the author. Bound signatures sewn into cloth boards, printed label on spine, cassette (!) laid in integral traycase. An early production of the press, nicely printed on hand-dyed paper, with several illustrations and fold-outs, and cassette of the author reading. Fine copy.

New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1887. First edition. xiv, 171 pp. Blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the front board and spine. Top edge gilt. Slight rubbing to the head and tail of the spine, corners slightly bumped. The first translations of Leopardi into English, by Frederick Townsend. Introduction by O.B. Frothingham.

Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2010. First edition. Original Wraps. Fine. First edition of Lerner's third book of poems. 66 pp. Glossy printed wraps, no hardcover edition as issued. Slight bump to top edge of front cover, else a fine copy. Lerner's novel Leaving the Atocha Station received wide critical acclaim upon its publication in 2011.

Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2004. First edition. 53, [3] pp. Publisher's perfect-bound glossy printed wrappers. Minor surface wear, laminate bubbling slightly at fore-edge of front and rear covers. The first book, a collection of poems, by a young writer who has gained much attention with his novels Leaving the Atocha Station, 10:04, and The Topeka School.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. First edition. 77 pp. Full deep rose cloth, lettered in gilt and blind, with the dust jacket. Slight toning to jacket verso, small crease to top edge of rear jacket panel, near fine. An important collection, winner of the National Book Award. Inscribed by Levine on the half-title and signed on the title-page.

[n.p.]: Privately Printed, 1945. First edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. [4, 5 [facsimile], 3] pp. Tall sewn green printed wrappers. One of 25 copies, printed for Nathan van Patten (likely by the Grabhorn Press but unconfirmed). Reproduces in facsimile a five-page letter from Lindsay to Paul Powell, dated July 24, 1916. Nathan van Patten was the longtime director of the Stanford University Libraries (1927-1947) and later professor of bibliography. Tape residue at spine (apparently removed from housing), small withdrawal stamp of the Bancroft Library on the first text page. Lower corner slightly creased. WorldCat locates fifteen copies, so if the limitation is to be believed, quite scarce outside of institutions.

Florence: The Olive Press, n.d.. [10], 37, [3] pp. Vellum over boards, title stamped in gilt on the front board. Some discoloring to the vellum, small chip at head of spine. A collection of poems published posthumously and anonymously by the author's husband, the Australian writer Arthur Maquarie. Mary Lintner was a sculptor and printmaker, and as alluded to in Maquarie's anonymous introduction, was the daughter of Joseph Lintner, a scientist and professor who was the first to hold the post of New York State Entomologist, and who had died in Rome in 1898. An image of her portrait bust of her father is on p. [5]. Arthur Maquarie (1874-1955) "worked in England as a freelance writer, in Italy as a teacher of English, and also lived in France and Spain; he was active in the Royal Society of Literature and organised the British committee which promoted intellectual harmony among the Allies in the First World War. He wrote several plays on medieval subjects and several volumes of lyrical verse, but is most… Read More

Portland/Denver/Omaha: Octopus Books, 2012. First edition. 87 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Slight handling wear to covers and lower edge, near fine or better. The first book by an acclaimed young poet and memoirist, author of "Rape Joke" and Priestdaddy.

Northwood: Scorpion Press, 1960. First edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. Stapled printed wrappers. 32 pp. Spine a bit chipped and chipped at bottom edge, some minor surface wear. Songs written in collaboration with Lindsay Anderson, Charles Fox and Oscar Lewenstein for Harry Cookson's play The Lily-White Boys.

n.p.: Press of Robert LoMascolo, 2011. First edition. Half cloth over paper-covered boards, printed spine label. [8] pp. One of forty numbered copies, signed by LoMascolo on the colophon. A brief essay on a staircase at Loretto Chapel, Santa Fe. Endpapers and illustration in the form of a stained glass window. Fine copy.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. Second edition, with textual changes, of Lowell's first trade book, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1947. A very good or better copy in black cloth, with some rubbing at the head of the spine, in a very good jacket which shows some edgewear at the top edge with a closed tear at the head of the spine. Bright red wraparound band advertising the winning of the Pulitzer Prize, with remnants of another band in two pieces laid in.