Search Results: Titles starting with A from William Ramsey Rare Books & Manuscripts

New York: Morehouse-Gorham Co., 1956. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Near Fine cloth second printing of first edition (stated) SIGNED by author on half-title page with black lettering on spine and Near Fine DJ. Binding is straight and tight, all corners sharp, lettering crisp and clear. I classify this book as Near Fine rather than Fine only due to foxing of front and rear end papers (only to endpapers, nowhere else) and uniform mild age toning to all pages commensurate with age. DJ shows edgewear and chipping along top and bottom, two closed tears at bottom of front cover (1/2 inch each), minor sun-fading to spine of DJ. No markings, creases, or tears. Not ex lib, not clipped, no remainder marks. 184 pages.

U.S.A.: New Directions, 1963. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine cloth first edition with brilliant gilt lettering on spine and Near Fine DJ in protective Brodart mylar cover. The volume is flawless. Cloth seems factory fresh, gilt lettering sparkles. No markings, creases, or tears. DJ is classified as only Near Fine due to what I perceive to be minor sun fading on spine (not in the lettering but in the gray background, so imperceptible that I may be wrong about it. But better safe than sorry) and three small chips at the top of the back cover. Not ex lib. Not price clipped. Not remaindered. A pristine collectible. 99 pages.

USA: Free Press, 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine cloth first printing of first edition with gilt lettering on spine and Fine DJ. The volume is flawless: binding is straight and tight, gilt lettering brilliant, all corners sharp, no creases, markings, or tears. Light shelf wear to top of DJ. Not ex lib, not clipped, no remainder marks. Notes. Index. 256 pages.

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1879. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Good cloth first edition ex-library with gilt lettering on spine and cover. Residue of library call number sticker on spine, rebound sometime in the late 1800s to early 1900s. Front end papers are torn along spine but spine is straight and tight. No markings, creases, or tears. Age toning to all pages commensurate with age. 352 pages.

Atlanta, GA: Peachtree Publishers, Ltd, 1988. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. As New cloth first printing of first edition with gilt lettering on spine and As New DJ. SIGNED by Philip Lee Williams with inscription "For Klon- With best wishes..." on interior of front endpaper. Slight crease at upper front of DJ, but otherwise I am unable to locate any imperfections. A pristine collectible.

New York: Metropolitan Books, 2000. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine cloth first printing of first edition with silver lettering on spine and Fine DJ. Minor wear to top of DJ but otherwise flawless. No markings, creases, or tears. Not price clipped. Not ex lib. Not remaindered. Illustrations, notes, index, 432 pages.

na: na, 1984. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Very good, softcover, saddle stapled. Fading on cover, light tanning around outside edges of pages, hole punched in upper left corner (standard for all almanacs) so it can be hung on a nail. 96 pages.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merril, 1976. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Very good, softcover, no cracks in spine or major flaws in cover, aside form slight rubbing at bottom of spine, no markings on pages or bent pages. Top corner of frontispage has been cut. Includes brief bios followed by lengthy self reflections from each poet, as they understood themselves in 1976. Shake, Shake, Shake! Shake your booty! One wonders how many of these poets still living now wish they could burn all copies of this book. Bly, Creeley, Hugo, Ignatow, Matthews, Meredith, Pastan, Plumly, Reed, and on and on.

New York : Abelard Press, 1953. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Near Fine cloth first edition with gilt lettering on spine and Good DJ. Binding is straight and tight. Gilt lettering is slightly faded but still crisp and clear. Bottom rear corner slightly bumped; all other corners sharp. No creases, markings, or tears. Age toning commensurate with age throughout the volume, including endpapers. 200+ black and white plates. 17 chapters, ending with a study of the boxes of Faberge in Russia. Bibliography. List of known makers by date and nationality. 223 pages. Not ex lib, not clipped, no remainder marks.

New York: PublicAffairs, 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine cloth first printing of first edition with silver lettering on spine and Near Fine DJ. The book is flawless: binding is straight and tight, all corners sharp, silver lettering brilliant, no markings, creases, or tears. The DJ has a 1/4 inch abrasion to the top rear edge of the spine but is otherwise is great shape (but for that one abrasion I would classify the DJ as Fine as well). Not ex lib, not clipped, no remainder marks. Notes. Index. 512 pages.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1905. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fair first edition cloth with gilt lettering on Spine. No DJ. Two volume set. The spine on volume I is loose and has separated from the endpapers, though not yet shaken. Considerable shelf wear and rubbing to bottom and top of spines for both volumes. There is also some discoloration of the green cloth cover around the edges of the covers on both volumes where it has become a bit yellowish. Foxing to front endpapers of volume I where a newspaper clipping was included for many years. Also typical foxing associated with frontispiece engravings. Otherwise the text and illustrations (which are legion) are flawless throughout both volumes. No markings, tears, or creases. 666 pages total, with pagination running straight through from vol. I to vol. II.

U.S.A.: Knopf, 2000. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New cloth with embossed lettering on spine and New DJ. No creases, tears, or markings. A pristine copy with no visible imperfections. 288 pages.

New York: Random House, 1981. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Near Fine cloth first edition (stated) second printing SIGNED by Lili Meier with gilt lettering on spine and Good DJ in protective mylar cover. Binding is tight and straight, gilt lettering clear and bright (though the Random House mark at bottom of spine is faded), minor edge wear, all corners sharp, no markings, creases or tears. DJ shows significant edge wear and chipping, 5 closed tears along top and bottom edges and 1/2 inch tear at bottom of spine. Not clipped, not ex lib, no remainder marks. Signed and inscribed by Lili Meier, the discoverer of the album. 167 pages.

India: Navajivan Publishing House, 1940. 5th or later Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Near Fine cloth 14th edition with gilt lettering on spine and black lettering on front cover and Fair DJ in protective mylar cover. Dated 1940 at the end of the preface, this is the 14th edition. Spine is straight and tight, gilt lettering darkened but clear and legible, shelf wear to top and bottom of spine, all corners sharp. No markings, creases, or tears. DJ is Fair, with significant tears, some closed, others not (1 inch V shaped tear at top of front cover, three inch tear at bottom of back cover, plus two creases across front DJ cover. Not ex lib, not clipped, no remainder marks. 420 pages.

London: Grant Richards, 1901. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near fine, cloth, first edition. No DJ. Gilt lettering on spine is clear and bright. Some spotting visible on spine of volume I when held at an angle. Tissue over frontispiece has a 1/4 inch closed tear in volume I. Tissue is shaken and creased in volume II. Shadowing of tissue on title page in both volumes. Inscription and bookplate inside front covers of both volumes. Light creasing to top and bottom of spine on volume II. Otherwise pristine. Pages still uncut. No creases or markings. Private owner, not ex-library. To the best of my knowledge, this is the only complete 2 volume set of the first edition available anywhere at present.

UK: na, 1923. 1st Edition 1st Printing. No Binding. Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Handwritten (fountain pen) letter signed by Nobel prize winning poet Alfred Noyes on personal stationery, Nov. 21, 1923. The telephone number is angled at the left upper corner and original staple holes are parallel to that phone number, so I assume this note was stapled to other pages (probably the poems to be published). The note is a response to an editor (Deighton) agreeing to publish poems in an anthology. The note was folded once in the middle and once on the right edge. Some light penciled notes appear on the back. 5 x 7 inches.

na, 1879. No Binding. Fine/No Jacket. Autographed, handwritten poem by Lydia Maria Child, 1879. Excellent condition. 3" X 4 1/4". No tears or creases. Paper is in good condition and ink is still crisp and clear. Child was one of the most significant reformers of the nineteenth century U.S., writing and advocating for a number of causes, principally abolitionism, women's rights, and Native American rights. Born in 1802, she reached the height of her influence in the 1830s-50s. She died one year after signing this poem. Provenance of this document can be traced back to the early 1900s, when it was in the ownership of the inventor Harold Tifft. Tifft wrote copious notes in pencil on the back of the document (please see image) before selling it to a rare book dealer in the mid-1900s. A receipt of that dealer's sale of the poem to the family from whom I purchased it will be included with this sale.

No Binding. Fine/No Jacket. Autographed typed poem, "The Mushroom Gatherers." 6 ¼ x 9 inches. Beige-orange paper. Excellent condition. Davie (1922-1995) was one of the British "Movement" poets in the mid-twentieth century.

1978. No Binding. Near Fine/No Jacket. Original, signed letter, from poet James Wright, dated August 23, 1978. Excellent condition. James Wright (1927-1980) won the Yale Younger Poets Prize in 1956 for his first collection of verses, The Green Wall. With The Branch Will Not Break (1963), he abandoned traditional meter for a more experimental poetry. Wright won the Pulitzer in 1972 for his Collected Poems. The confessional themes of his poetry were influenced by his friendship with Robert Bly, leader of the self-help Men's Movement. In 2004, Wright's son Franz won the Pulitzer in Poetry, making the Wright's the only father/son pair to win a Pulitzer in the same category.

1917. No Binding. Fine/No Jacket. Autographed, typed letter on McClure's Magazine letterhead, January 16, 1917. This is a letter to Lillie Kellam written in his capacity as Managing Editor. 6 ¾ x 9 ½ inches. Tanning to paper is uniform and, in fact, quite attractive. Perhaps the paper was originally off-white. Three creases where it was folded for mailing plus a small crease in the lower left corner. Otherwise it is in excellent condition. Towne (1877-1949) was an able poet, editor, memoirist, essayist, etc. He wrote in many genres and achieved considerable acclaim in his lifetime.