Subterranean Press, 2021. Limited Edfition. Octavo. Limited to 350 numbered and signed copies. Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. It became an instant science fiction classic. The story of Kivrin Engle, a historian ewho would like to travel back in time to visit her chosed period of expertise..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1942. Octavo. 540pp. illustrated in color by Mead Schaeffer. Moby Dick had far surpassed every other work created by an American from the Scarlett Letter to the Golden Bowl. First published in 1851, Moby Dick has been reprinted ever since.Bound in black cloth stamped..... More
Boston: James R. Osgood and Co, 1873. First Edition. Octavo. First issue. Frontispiece (inserted) One of only 5000 copies published. 143(1)pp. A fine copy bound in green cloth over beveled boards central gilt design of wheat and a sickle, spine gilt, rar board stamped in blind, darked brown coated endpapers..... More
London: The Haymarket Press, 1929. Limited Edition. Small Quarto. Limited to only 100 copies. Unopened. The present copy is number 45., Reprinted from the revised version of The Apocrypha with an introduction by Dr. Montague R. James, and four tipped in color plates affter drawings by W. Russell Flint. This..... More
New York: The MacMillan Co, 1924. First Edition. Tall Octavo. Limited edition #273 signed by the author.(no limitation stated). Robinson won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1925. The poem begins.... while bumping into an old acquaintance, Fernando Nash, playing in a Salvation Army band in NYC. Nash had once..... More
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London; 1929 and 1924. Macmilland and Co. Octavo. Two volumes decorated and illustrated by J. Lockwood Kipling and W.H. Drake. 276 and 299pp. The story of Mowgli who was raised by a family of wolves since birth. He now must leave the only home he's ever known when the fearsome..... More
London, Nd(ca.1850): Dickinson & Co., Quarto. No pagination. An account of all the English knights who formed part of the expeditions for the recovery of the Holy Land. Illustrated with three hundred coats of arms and various embellishments, illuminated in gold, silver and other colors on 31 full pages plates..... More
Firenze: Dalla Tipografia, 1821. Octaov. In two volumes. 366 (9 pp.) and 470pp. Each with a fore-edge painting. Volume 1 with a fore-edge painting dfepicting Ducal Palace and volume 2 depicts a painting of The Rialto Venice.....From the publisher....."So that this reprint of ours is in no way less valuable..... More
New York City: for the Freinds of Bauer Alphabets, 1961. First Edition. Square Small Quarto. no pagination, Black Cat by Rainer Maria Rilke translated by Heinze Norden. She-Cat by Pierre_jean de Beranger translated by Barrows Mussey. Mice Cat and Bell by Hans Sachs translated by Sir Roger L'Estrange. Concerning Love..... More
Chicago: Np. By the Author, 1931. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 1000 copies. A moderately scarce item of this author of the Harlem Renaissance. Book designed by Jean Toomer and printed by the Lakeside Press. Jean Toomer [born Nathan Pichback Toomer] whose novel Cane (1923) was an important work about..... More
Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon, 1986. First Edition. Octavo. 79 pages, winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, with a book of poems that the writer intends to be read chronologically (a chronological index appears on pages 78-79). Often compared with Faulkner, she has introduced complex themes of black life in the..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. First Edition. Small Octavo. 107 pages.Illustrated. Her poems are mostly highly devotional. Later she wrote on some women's issues but after receiving extensive criticism, she retreated to more day-to-day topics. This item was issued in a small print run of only 2,046 copies which is..... More
London: John Lane and the Bodley Head, 1895. First Edition. Small Octavo. English Issue. One of 750 copies printed, of which 270 were issued in America. xix, 122 pages, 16 pages of ads (1895 date). The art nouveau title page was designed by Patten Wilson with his initials in the..... More
Oxford: Daniel, 1895. Limited Edition. Small Quarto. 83 pages, engraved portrait frontispiece of Keats. This limited edition was printed as a memorial of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Keats. The portrait of Keats was by Joseph Severn, the devoted friend of Keats. This reproduction never before printed is..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1922. First Edition. Octavo. 71 pages. Illustrated by Gordon Grant, decorations by Lee Thayer. The poem is a Native American tragedy and was the first of her long narrative poems to be published in book form. A fine copy in a good..... More
London; (1937): Faber & Faber. First Edition. Small Quarto. No pagination. Illustrated in color by Harold Jones. One of Walter de la Mare's most delightful children's books of poetry with the rich color illustrations of Harold Jones. Besides the marvelous readable poetry of the author, it was this book that..... More
Boston: John W. Luce and Co., 1909. First Edition. Octavo. 51pp., illustrated boards and head pieces. David A. Randall noted that Landon Smith was a sportswriter, but should most be noted for this classic poem on evolution. Martin Gardner traces the difficult early printings of the poem in newspapers and..... More
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San Francisco: Limestone Press, 1988. Limited Edition. Octavo. 36 unnumbered pages. One leaf cut in shape of a bird. No. 3 of 60 copies. Front cover has image of bird from a woodblock carved by the artist. Aviary was printed from linoleum blocks cut by Kate Delos, each impression was..... More
San Francisco; (1916): By the Author/Sunset Publishing House. First Edition. Small Octavo. 94(4) pp. Illustrated. The verses are highly colored with Oriental imagery. Many of the lines are spirited and picturesque. The stress is on the sensuous aspect of intoxication rather than the "morning after" effect. A near fine copy..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1900. First Edition. Octavo. 403 pages with a 3 Page Autographed Letter F.W. Halsey to Book Editor of the New York Times. Illustrated by Howard Pyle, E.B. Thompson, and A.W, Betts. Kunitz and Haycraft wrote that "a whole generation formed its picture of early days..... More
New York: Stone Street Press, 1982. First Edition. 12mo. Pansur Bawn, 9th Century Irish Poem / trans. by Malachi McCormick -- Of Jeoffry, My Cat / by Christopher Smart -- On the True Name of the Cat / From the Hsien-i [by] Liu Yuan-Ch'ing -- Three Cat-Poems / by Charles-Pierre..... More
New York: The Fountain Press, 1931. First Edition. Octavo. First edition. Limited to 842 copies. The present copy is #795 signed by Aldous Huxley. 46 pages. One of his most scarce earlier works which shows his great relationship between music and poetry. He had also been the music critic for..... More
New York: Nelson & Phillips, 1877. First Edition. Octavo. Frontispiece, 229 pages. Final chapter: "Going to Mormondom to tell of the conqueror," p. [5]-10, 221-228. She writes of her concern to help rescue the Mormon wife under the curse of polygamy. Bound in brown cloth central pictorial gilt stamped within..... More
London; nd: J & N Brown. Small Octavo. xxx, [4], [35]-185 [3], [4] pages of ads. Illustrated by E.H. Wehnert; James Godwin; F.W. Hulme; Harrison Weir and Anelay. Known as the "complete edition" it includes all his poems including "Fairy-Land", "Tamerlane", "The Bells" and "The Raven". Exquisitely bound by Bayntun..... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1846. Quarto. 280 pages, appendix, notes, index. Beautifully illustrated by D. Maclise. Moore is known for his Irish patriotism and hatred of the British suppression of Ireland. Besides his careful history of Ireland, he is primarily known as a poet and had an association..... More