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HARMONIUM
by STEVENS, Wallace
- Condition
- Used - Having been protected by a dustwrapper for the past 100+ years, the book is in brilliant condition. The scarce dustwrapper has m
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1923
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$5,000.00
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Having been protected by a dustwrapper for the past 100+ years, the book is in brilliant condition. The scarce dustwrapper has minor edgewear, a chip at the spine head extending slightly to the rear panel. Fine bright copy in a scarce Very Good dustwrapper. The third issue of Stevens's… Read more about this item Item Price
$5,000.00
THE LOST PILOT
by TATE, James
- Condition
- Used - Minor crease to cover. Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1967
- Binding
- Softcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$937.50
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New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1967. First Edition. Softcover. Minor crease to cover. Near Fine. The more common softcover issue of Tate's first trade book, the title poem a tribute to his father who was lost during World War II over Germany five months after Tate was born. A superb Association Copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by… Read more about this item Item Price
$937.50
THE 1934 VASSARION
by BISHOP, Elizabeth (Editor-in-Chief)
- Condition
- Used - Minor foxing to first and last few pages, no writing within. The velvet is only lightly marked. A Fine, fresh copy
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- [1934]
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$2,500.00
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Poughkeepsie: Senior Class/Vassar College, [1934]. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor foxing to first and last few pages, no writing within. The velvet is only lightly marked. A Fine, fresh copy. Quarto (7-3/4" x 10-3/4") bound in velvet-covered boards. Elizabeth Bishop's senior yearbook at Vassar, of which she was the editor-in-chief. This can certainly be considered, as anyone who has… Read more about this item Item Price
$2,500.00
THE TERRIBLE CHILDREN
by HACKER, Marilyn
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine and quite scarce
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1967)
- Binding
- Pictorial wraps
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$937.50
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n.p.: (Samuel R. Delaney), (1967). First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Near Fine and quite scarce. Twenty-six mimeographed 8-1/2" x 11" pages bound with two staples with photo-illustrated front and rear covers. Poet's extremely scarce first book, preceding her first regularly published trade volume--PRESENTATION PIECE, which won the National Book Award--by seven years. Published by Hacker's then-husband, science fiction writer… Read more about this item Item Price
$937.50
A BEGINNING
by [AUDEN, W. H.] HORAN, Robert
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- Used - Covers foxed with small tear to spine. Very Good in a Very Good dustwrapper with chipping at the spine tips and corners
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1948
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$562.50
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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1948. First Edition. hardcover. Covers foxed with small tear to spine. Very Good in a Very Good dustwrapper with chipping at the spine tips and corners. Bloomfield & Mendelson B36: 1014 copies. Horan's first book, with a 4-page foreword by W. H. Auden. This copy SIGNED by Auden on the front endpaper and… Read more about this item Item Price
$562.50
THE DEATH OF THE NARCISSUS. Eleven Botanico-Erotic Etchings
by MOSER, Barry
- Condition
- Used - Fine in a Near Fine box
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1970
- Binding
- Loose Etchings
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$5,625.00
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(Easthampton, MA): [Castalia Press], 1970. First Edition. Loose Etchings. Fine in a Near Fine box. Barry Moser. Folio consisting of 14-1/2" x 11" sheets including 4 text leaves and 11 pencil-SIGNED and numbered circular etchings. Copy #35 of only 35 of Moser's first illustrated book, SIGNED additionally on the colophon page. Housed in a cloth clamshell box lettered… Read more about this item Item Price
$5,625.00
THE TEMPERS
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
- Condition
- Used - Some soiling and wear with slight loss of paper on spine. Very Good, lacking the uncommon glassine dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1913
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$937.50
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London: Elkin Mathews, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Some soiling and wear with slight loss of paper on spine. Very Good, lacking the uncommon glassine dustwrapper. Original cream boards, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine (3-3/4" x 5"). Williams's second volume of poetry, and the first by a commercial publisher, after POEMS, published privately in 1909 in a very… Read more about this item Item Price
$937.50
THE GHETTO and Other Poems
by RIDGE, Lola
- Condition
- Used - Pencil name on front endpaper and pencil markings by titles of many poems; inch chip at base of spine with some loss. Very Good,
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1918
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$625.00
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New York: B. W. Huebsch, Inc., 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Pencil name on front endpaper and pencil markings by titles of many poems; inch chip at base of spine with some loss. Very Good, lacking the scarce dustwrapper if there ever was one. Brown boards with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Her scarce first book.… Read more about this item Item Price
$625.00
I'LL LEAVE IT TO YOU." A Light Comedy in Three Acts
by COWARD, Noel
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- Early Edition
- Published
- 1920 [1925]
- Binding
- Wraps
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$937.50
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London & New York: Samuel French, Ltd., 1920 [1925]. Early Edition. wraps. Near Fine. Printed green-blue wraps (5-1/2" x 8-1/2"); 71, [1] pages plus covers. Coward's First Book and his first play produced in the West End. At the age of 20, he also performed in the role of Bobbie. The play ran for a month at the… Read more about this item Item Price
$937.50
WHAT THE GRASS SAYS
by SIMIC, Charles
- Condition
- Used - Slight foxing to covers; toning to text. Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- [1967]
- Binding
- Decorated wraps
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$125.00
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San Francisco: Kayak, [1967]. First Edition. Decorated wraps. Slight foxing to covers; toning to text. Very Good. Joan Abelson. Decorated wraps. Poet's first book, issued in an edition of 1000 copies, this in the first state binding. Illustrated with 12 color prints by Joan Abelson.
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$125.00
IT'S UP TO THE WOMEN
by ROOSEVELT, Eleanor
- Condition
- Used - Sunning to spine tips. Near Fine in a Fair to Good dustwrapper with rubbing and some losses, without the slipcase
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1933
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$3,125.00
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New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Sunning to spine tips. Near Fine in a Fair to Good dustwrapper with rubbing and some losses, without the slipcase. A book of nationwide appeal to the women of America. It answers the questions of millions of women." This is copy #138 of only 250 numbered copies SIGNED… Read more about this item Item Price
$3,125.00
OUTCROPPINGS: BEING SELECTIONS OF CALIFORNIA VERSE
by HARTE, Bret (editor)
- Condition
- Used - Occasional minor soiling to text. Binding about Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1866
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$312.50
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San Francisco/New York: A. Roman and Company/W. J. Widdleton, 1866. First Edition. Occasional minor soiling to text. Binding about Fine. Twentieth century 3/4 navy morocco binding signed by Blackwell. BAL 7238: Form A or B. Harte's first book, an anthology of poetry edited anonymously by him. Contributors include Ina Coolbrith and Charles W. Stoddard.
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$312.50
Forty Three Days in an Open Boat" in HARPER'S MONTHLY, December 1866 - May 1867, Volume XXXIV
by TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]
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- Used - A clean, Fine copy
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1866-1867
- Binding
- Wraps
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$437.50
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866-1867. First Edition. Wraps. A clean, Fine copy. Half dark brown morocco with marbled boards and matching morocco corners. Notable for containing Mark Twain's first appearance in print in a national magazine, predating his first book. Published anonymously in the individual issues, the story is attributed in the table of contents to "Mark… Read more about this item Item Price
$437.50
NEW DIRECTIONS IN PROSE & POETRY 1941
by (KEES, Weldon) LAUGHLIN, James (editor)
- Condition
- Used - Paper spine label wrinkled, spine a bit sunned. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1941
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$1,250.00
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Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Paper spine label wrinkled, spine a bit sunned. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. Red cloth with paper spine label. A thick volume with over 700 pages, the red cloth is considered the second issue, but it's possible that this is a contributor's copy as it belonged to the poet Weldon… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,250.00
NORTH & SOUTH
by BISHOP, Elizabeth
- Condition
- Used - Close to Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with minor edgewear, a small chip on the front panel near the spine and a larger chip a
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1946
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$1,250.00
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Close to Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with minor edgewear, a small chip on the front panel near the spine and a larger chip at the rear lower corner with a closed tear extending a few inches. Bishop's first book, of which only 1000 copies were printed. Winner of… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,250.00
DAILY HOROSCOPE
by GIOIA, Dana
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1982)
- Binding
- Wraps
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$187.50
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Iowa City: The Windhover Press, (1982). First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Original gray wraps with title page illustrated with a linoleum cut by Thomas Kovacs. Acknowledgement slip laid in. One of 225 copies on Windhover paper of the poet's first book (following a two-poem pamphlet published by the Bowery Press) preceding the trade collection of the same title by… Read more about this item Item Price
$187.50
DISMANTLING THE SILENCE. POEMS
by SIMIC, Charles
- Condition
- Used - Small stain at very bottom of corner of front cover; light wear. Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1971)
- Binding
- Softcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$125.00
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New York: George Braziller, (1971). First Edition. Softcover. Small stain at very bottom of corner of front cover; light wear. Very Good. Printed wraps. Poet's first trade book of poetry, published after two limited editions and a few translations. Issued in softcover only. SIGNED by the poet on the half-title page. There is also a 1971 signature "William… Read more about this item Item Price
$125.00
REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
by YATES, Richard
- Condition
- Used - Just about Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper with the spine tanned but in this case much less severely than typically found
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1961)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$1,250.00
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Boston: Little, Brown & Company, (1961). First Edition. Hardcover. Just about Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper with the spine tanned but in this case much less severely than typically found. Advance Copy in plain printed white dustwrapper with praise from the publisher on the front and rear panels, including a blurb by Alfred Kazin. Yates's powerful… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,250.00
IN A FATHER'S PLACE
by TILGHMAN, Christopher
- Condition
- Used - Fine in a Fine dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1990)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$62.50
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New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1990). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. His first book, a fine collection of stories. Blurbs by Andre Dubus and Richard Ford. SIGNED by the author on the title page and additionally INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the half-title page in the year of publication: "with deep gratitude/for your enthusiastic/reading and… Read more about this item Item Price
$62.50
DAILY HOROSCOPE. Poems
by GIOIA, Dana
- Condition
- Used - Livingston's bookplate, designed by Antonio Frasconi, tipped to the front pastedown. About Fine in a Fine dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Trade Edition
- Published
- (1986)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$187.50
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St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, (1986). First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Livingston's bookplate, designed by Antonio Frasconi, tipped to the front pastedown. About Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Poet's impressive first full-length book of which apparently only 750 copies were bound in hardcover. There was a Windhover Press publication with the same title published four years earlier. INSCRIBED and… Read more about this item Item Price
$187.50
