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“A GOLDEN AGE OF POETRY AND POWER OF WHICH THIS NOONDAY’S THE BEGINNING HOUR”: SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION OF FROST’S IN THE CLEARING
FROST, Robert.
In the Clearing.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962.
Signed limited first edition of Frost’s final book of poetry. Octavo, original cloth. One of 1500 copies signed by Frost on the limitation page, this is number 1302. Fine in the original slipcase which is in fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 146121
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Signed limited editions of Robert Graves' Beyond Giving, The Green Sailed Vessel, Timeless Meeting, and At The Gate
GRAVES, Robert.
Beyond Giving, The Green Sailed Vessel, Timeless Meeting, and At The Gate.
London: Privately Printed at the Stellar Press, 1969-1974.
Signed limited editions of four volumes of Graves' collected verse, written between 1969 and 1974. Octavo, four volumes, original stiff paper wrappers. Each volume is one of 500 numbered copies signed by Robert Graves. In near fine condition. An attractive collection.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 115104
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"Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere": First Edition of Seamus Heaney's Beowulf; Finely Bound by The Harcourt Bindery
HEANEY, Seamus.
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation.
London: Faber and Faber, 1999.
First edition, early printing of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Seamus Heaney 13 March 2002 Sutton House." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket painting by Barrie Cooke. Author photograph by Caroline Forbes.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 142416
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First Edition of Robert Frost: A Bibliography.; Inscribed by Him
FROST, Robert] Clymer W B Shubbrick; Green Charles R and David Lambuth.
Robert Frost: A Bibliography.
Amherst, MA: Jones Library Inc, 1937.
First edition of this bibliography on the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Frost. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Jack Gelchrist from his friend Robert Frost Boston November 1940." Foreword by David Lambuth.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 121028
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First edition, first printing of Sedrick Arlington Goldbeck's I Sing Sonnets & Other Forms: About Things Everywhere
GOLDBECK, Sedrick Arlington.
I Sing Sonnets & Other Forms: About Things Everywhere.
Bronx, NY: The Bird Press, 1996.
First edition of the poet's collection of sonnets. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "1996 to Gary, Regards Sedrick A. Goldbeck." In fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 115382
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Rare early separate edition of Rudyard Kipling's Soldiers Three
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Soldiers Three.
New York: The Minerva Publishing Company, 1892.
Rare early separate edition of Kipling's second collection of short stories. Octavo, original wrappers. The Marco-Botsaris Series No. 10. In very good condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 126908
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First edition of Andre Maurois' Byron; finely bound in full morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe
MAUROIS, Andre. [Lord Byron].
Byron.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1930.
First edition of Maurois' appreciation of Byron. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt tooling to the spine, quadruple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, illustrated, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Byron. In very good condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 136270
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Limited Edition of Tristram; Signed by Edwin Arlington Robinson
ROBINSON, Edwin Arlington.
Tristram.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927.
Signed limited edition of this popular Pulitzer prize-winning Arthurian narrative poem. Octavo, original publisher's half cloth, top edge gilt. One of three hundred and fifty copies signed by Edwin Arlington Robinson on the limitation page, this one is number 167. In near fine condition, bookplate to the front pastedown. From the library of Frank Irving Fletcher, a prominent freelance copywriter of advertising who famously wrote in his autobiography 'Lucid Interval,' “The aim of modern advertising is not to make people think, but to save them the trouble and effort of thinking."
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 145430
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First Edition of The Fourth in the Furnace; Gifted to Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
STANTON, Stephen B. [William T. Sherman].
The Fourth in the Furnace.
New York : Minton, Balch & Company, 1927.
First edition of this poetical book of philosophy; gifted by the author to Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Duodecimo, original black cloth. P. T. Sherman's bookplate to the front pastedown. Ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, "P. T. Sherman from Stephen Stanton Uncle Cump's first partner." Friends and family of General William Tecumseh Sherman often referred to him by the nickname "Cump." In very good condition with some rubbing to the spine, front and rear panels.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 145982
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First edition of Allen Ginsberg's Collected Poems 1947-1980; Inscribed by Him to his Cousin
GINSBERG, Allen.
Collected Poems 1947-1980.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1988.
First Perennial Library edition of this collection of poems. Octavo, original red wrappers. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by the author to his cousin Gene Levy and his wife on the title page, "for Ed [sic] & Lorraine Levy from Allen Ginsberg February 22, 1989," and the opposite blank, "Shalom with thanks for Under The Bamboo Tree, Memphis Minnie, & your book on J.W. Johnson from Cousin Allen," above a hand-drawn doodle of a sun with initials "AH" in the center and a Star of David with a skull in the middle, holding a flower over crossbones. In very good condition.…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 146470
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"Poetry, A bridge hanging between history and truth."; First Edition of Vuelta; Inscribed by Octavio Paz to friend and fellow writer Sergio Munoz
PAZ, Octavio.
Vuelta.
Mexico: Editorial Seix Barral, S.A, 1976.
First edition of this collection of poems that were written between 1969 and 1975. Octavo, original wrappers. Association copy, inscribed on the half-title page to his good friend, "A Sergio Muñoz Bata, cordialmente Octavio Paz." With Sergio Muñoz Bata's ownership inscription on the title page with the words Mexico 76. Sergio Muñoz Bata writes a weekly syndicated column published in 18 newspapers across 11 countries in the hemisphere. He is also both a former Los Angeles Times editorial board member and Executive Editor of La Opinión. In near fine condition. A wonderful association.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 133281
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First Edition of Stephen Berrien Stanton's Soul and Circumstance; Philemon Tecumseh Sherman's Copy
STANTON, Stephen Berrien [William Tecumseh Sherman].
Soul and Circumstance.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910.
First edition of this philosophical work; gifted by the author to Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Duodecimo, original navy blue boards. P. T. Sherman's bookplate to the front free endpaper beneath his ownership inscription, "P. T. Sherman from Stephen Stanton." In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities and crown of the spine.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 145984
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Signed Limited First Edition of A Masque of Mercy; signed by Robert Frost
FROST, Robert.
A Masque of Mercy.
New York : Henry Holt & Company, 1947.
Signed limited edition of Frost's play of the purported last chapter in the book of Job. Royal octavo, original half cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. One of 751 numbered copies boldly signed by Robert Frost in black ballpoint on the limitation page, this is number 177. In fine condition in the original publisher's slipcase which is in near fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 147534
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First Edition of Without End; Inscribed by Adam Zagajewski to fellow writer Peter Matthiessen
ZAGAJEWSKI, Adam.
Without End: New and Selected Poems.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
First edition of this collection of poems. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to fellow writer Peter Matthiessen, "To Peter Matthiessen- most amicably- Adam Zagajewski Houseton, February 2005." Also, laid into this book is a note to Matthiessen stating that "Adam was pleased to inscribed this copy..." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rodrigo Corral. Translated by Clare Cavanagh, and Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, and C.K. Williams.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 4688
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The Collected Poetry of W.H. Auden; from the library of master of detective fiction Raymond Chandler
AUDEN, W.H. [Raymond Chandler].
The Collected Poetry of W.H. Auden.
New York: Random House, 1945.
First edition, fifth printing of the collected poetry of W.H. Auden. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of Raymond Chandler with his library stamp to the front free endpaper: Raymond Chandler 6005 Camino de la Costa La Jolla, California. Subsequently from the library of Chandler’s personal secretary, fiancé, and muse Jean Vounder-Davis, with her ownership inscription to the front free endpaper beneath Chandler’s library stamp. Raymond Chandler was a pivotal figure in 20th-century American literature, renowned for his contributions to the hardboiled crime genre. His work, particularly through the chronicles of private detective Philip Marlowe, provided a nuanced examination of…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 147729
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First Edition of Ethel King's The Calendar In Rime; Signed by Her
KING, Ethel.
The Calendar In Rime.
Portland, Maine: Falmouth Publishing House, 1947.
First edition of this collection of poems. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "With my compliments- Ethel King." Near fine in the rare original glassine.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 114523
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"We find comfort only in another beauty, in others music": First Edition of Adam Zagajewski's Another Beauty; Signed by Him
ZAGAJEWSKI, Adam.
Another Beauty.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
First edition of the author's memoirs. Octavo, original half cloth. Lengthily signed by the author on the title page with the following line from this work, which reads, "We find comfort only in another beauty, in others music Adam Zagajewski." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Marc J. Cohen. Translated by Clare Cavanagh. A unique example.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 84787
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"The craft that we call modern, the crimes that we call new, John Bunyan had 'em typed and filed in sixteen eighty-two": First separate edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Holy War
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Holy War.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, [1917].
First separate British edition of Kipling's homage to John Bunyan which first appeared in Land and Water Magazine, December 1917, printed by Methuen and Co. to secure copyright protection. Small octavo, original wrappers with elaborate woodcut borders to the front panel. In fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case. A superior example.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 121059
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Complete Collection of The Poetry Quartos with First Edition Poem Brochures by Robert Frost, Edwin Arlington Robinson, and Ten Others
TAGGARD, Genevieve; Robert Frost; Vachel Lindsay; Edwin Arlington Robinson; Louis Untermeyer; Alfred Kreymborg; 'H. D.'; Elinor Wylie; Theodore Dreiser; William Rose Benét; Conrad Aiken; Witter Bynner.
The Poetry Quartos: Monologue for Mothers, The Lovely Shall Be Choosers, Rigamarole Rigamarole, The Prodigal Son, Adirondack Cycle, Body and Stone, Red Roses for Bronze, Birthday Sonnet, The Aspirant, Sagacity, Prelude, and Roots.
Silvermine, Connecticut: Random House, May, 1929.
Complete collection of The Poetry Quartos, containing twelve first edition poetry brochures, each a new poem by an American poet. Octavo, twelve brochures, original illustrated wrappers by Paul Johnston. One of 475 copies printed for Random House. Fine in the original folding box cover also designed by Paul Johnston which is in very good condition. Some toning and closed tears to the spines of the box cover. An exceptional example, rare in such fine condition and complete with all twelve poems.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 145429
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First Edition of Rabindranath Tagore's The Hungry Stones and Other Stories
TAGORE, Rabindranath.
The Hungry Stones and Other Stories.
New York : The Macmillan Company, 1916.
First edition of this collection by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition, name to the front free endpaper. Translated from the Original Bengali by Various Writers. First editions are uncommon.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 143008