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London: The Fortune Press, [n.d.]. Later printing. Important anthology of prose, poems, and criticism by a group of young British writers who called themselves "Poets of the Apocalypse." This was the first collection of the group and featured writing by Dylan Thomas, Dorian Cooke, J.F. Hendry, Norman McCaig, Robert Melville, Nicholas Moore, Philip O'Connor, and Henry Treece. The frontispiece shows… Read more about this item

New York: David Lewis, Inc., 1970. First Edition Thus. Small Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches; 250 x 157 mm), 196 pages, in publisher's brown cloth, titles in gilt to spine, in an illustrated, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by Edward Dahlberg on the half title, a Festschrift celebrating the life of the prolific essayist and novelist, who lived from… Read more about this item

Small Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches; 240 x 160 mm), 304 pages, in half cloth over boards, titles in gilt to spine, in an unclipped dust jacket (hard cover). Life among the intellectuals of Paris and New York by the playwright, theatre critic and translator, Lionel Abel (1910-2001). He was close to the Surrealists and translated the works… Read more about this item

Urbana, Chicago, London: University of Illinois Press, 1973. Second Printing. Small Quarto (9 1/4 x 6 1/8 inches; 235 x 155 mm), [8], 200 pages in orange cloth, titles to spine, in an illustrated, unclipped dust jacket (hard cover). A look at Richard Wright's life and literary career up to the publication of Native Son in 1940 and his eventual disenchantment… Read more about this item

SIGNED on the title page by the editor, John Updike, as well as all the other contributors: Louis Auchincloss, Jack Beeson, Hortense Calisher, Ada Louise Huxtable, Wolf Kahn, R.W.B. Lewis, Richard Lippold, Norman Mailer, Cynthia Ozick, and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Copies signed by all 11 contributors are scarce to the market. This volume is a history of the National Institute of… Read more about this item