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UNDER A GLASS BELL.
Edition: Second edition.
New York: Gemor Press, (1944). Hardcover - A slim collection of stories, illustrated with line engravings on copper by Ian Hugo. Both the cover and the nine illustrations were printed relief directly from the plates. Composed in Light Vogue Italic. Design, typography and printing by the Gemor Press. Second edition, limited to 800 copies. 85 pp plus colophon.
Condition: Fair condition only in the fragile paper covered boards, with some cracking to the paper near the spine, previous owner's name on front endpaper.
Book ID: 68634More details Price: $60.00 -
THE CIRCULAR GATES.
Edition: First edition, lettered & signed issue.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An early full-length book of poetry by this influential and award-winning writer (in 2006 he received the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, a prize which recognizes outstanding mastery of the art of poetry.) One of 26 copies hand-lettered (this is G), and SIGNED by Palmer on the colophon page, and hand-bound in boards by Earle Grey. Paisley cloth spine over beige boards, paper title label on spine, pale blue end papers. 134 pp. plus colophon. ISBN: 0-87685210X.
Condition: Very near fine in a like clear acetate dust jacket.
Book ID: 84300More details Price: $100.00 -
THE THANATOS SYNDROME.
Edition: Limited, signed first edition.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1987.). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Percy's last novel, a satiric look at our culture, which is at once very funny and very serious: when Dr. Thomas More returns to his psychiatric practice in his small Louisiana parish, he notices bizarre changes in both his patients and his wife - changes brought about by a well-meaning attempt to regulate behavior by drugging the drinking water. The limited edition issued by the trade publisher - #13 out of 250 numbered copies signed by Percy on the limitation page. 372 pp.
Condition: Fine in burgundy cloth in a very near fine blue-grey slipcase (hint of sunning to case.)
Book ID: 55864More details Price: $175.00 -
THE OUTSIDER Volume 2, No. 4/5 Winter, 1968-69.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Condition: Very good+ in plain stiff cream colored wrappers in a very good+ dust jacket with a photograph of Patchen on the front cover, and a photograph of a black woman by Florence Mars on the back cover. Interestingly, this wrappered issue is much more uncommon than the hardcover (corners slightly bumped, some toning to the pages, one page foxed).
Book ID: 56506More details Price: $125.00 -
LESSONS LEARNED: Seven Poems.
Edition: Limited, signed first edition.
New York: Albondocani Press, 1977. dj. SIGNED first edition - One of 200 numbered copies signed by the author on the colophon page. Set in Palantino type, printed antique laid-paper and hand-sewn into wrappers of French marble paper. The press work and binding by William Raquel and Ferguson.19 pp plus colophon.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust clear acetate outer jacket.
Book ID: 52058More details Price: $75.00 -
THE PRE-RAPHAELITES & THEIR WORLD: A P e r s o n a l V i e w F r o m 'S o m e R e m i n i s c e n c e s ' a n d o t h e r w r i t i n g s o f W i l l i a m M i c h a e l R o s s e t t i .
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in near fine slipcase.
Book ID: 45967More details Price: $35.00 -
EYE.
Edition: First printing - a limited, signed edition.
Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2001. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of short fiction- 13 stories, including an afterword with notes on the stories, One of 1000 copies numbered and SIGNED on an illustrated preliminary page. Red illustrated endpapers. Dedicated to Christa Faust. 244 pp. ISBN: 1-892284739.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 69601More details Price: $35.00 -
ROCK BREAKS SCISSORS CUT.
Edition: First printing - a limited, signed edition.
Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2003. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The mysterious Dr. Gold is involved in a project about the recording of dreams; her three star volunteers - Jovana, a fashion model, Gilbert, a pop journalist, and Melinda, a bookstore employee - seem to have nothing in common at first until it seems that the experiments are linking them in unexpected ways. One of 750 copies numbered and SIGNED on an illustrated preliminary page. This copy is also SIGNED by Schow on the title page. Dust jacket and interior illustrations by Caniglia. Illustrated endpapers. 142 pp. ISBN: 1931081816.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 63081More details Price: $40.00 -
CRYPT ORCHIDS.
Edition: First printing - a limited, signed edition.
Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of cutting edge short fiction with introduction by Robert Bloch and an afterword by Schow. One of an edition of 500 copies numbered and SIGNED on an illustrated preliminary page (this is lettered P/C - publisher's copy) . Signature page illustration by Grant Christian; interior illustrations by Timothy Caldwell. 235 pp. ISBN: 0-964989069.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 70048More details Price: $65.00 -
A DAUGHTER'S GEOGRAPHY.
Edition: Limited, signed edition.
New York: St Martin's, (1983) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of poetry by this African American writer best known as the author of 'for colored girls who have considered suicide.' . Number 138 out of 250 copies signed on a special preliminary page. ISBN: 0-312-183429.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket in a very good slipcase.
Book ID: 72618More details Price: $50.00 -
GIVINGS: Nine Poems.
Edition: First printing,a slim chapbook.
Northampton: Printed by B. Chandler for L. S. Heaton, 1974. First edition - Printed in black with silver titles by Bruce Chandler (of The Heron Press). #181 of 300 copies on Mohawk Vellum in Kenntonian type; silkscreen frontispiece printed by Glenn Johnson. Unpaginated (20 pp)
Condition: Very good+ in gray hand-sewn paper wrappers.
Book ID: 87130More details Price: $21.50 -
ELEGIES TO DELIA OF ALBIUS TIBULLUS.
Edition: First printing,a slim chapbook.
Cleveland: Bits Press, (1985). SIGNED first edition - Love poems by this first century B.C. Latin poet, who was a supporter of Brutus and had his estates confiscated and who died young, translated and with a brief prefatory note by David R. Slavitt. SIGNED on the colopon page, which notes that this is part of an edition set in twelve point Times Roman by John Hoffa, printed by Robert Wallace in an edition of 370 copies, all signed by the translating poet . . 333 copies have been saddlesewn into Fabriano covers on which a copy of the etching has been printed from a zinc engraving. Unpaginated (14 pp), printed in dark brown and red.
Condition: Very good+ (corners slightly bumped)
Book ID: 87131More details Price: $35.00 -
COMMAND.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 70752More details Price: $50.00 -
A COLLECTOR'S DECABIBLON: An Address to the Annual Meeting of Gleeson Library Associates April 23, 1972.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: Privately Printed, 1972. First edition - An entertaining speech in which this collector reminiscences about books, collections and booksellers, including his purchases from the 1948 auction of Mosher's own library, incunabula, booksellers like David Magee, and much more. Designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. One of 200 copies specially printed for private distribution by the author, out of a total printing of 1,000 copies. 21 pp.
Condition: Near fine in stapled gray wrappers.
Book ID: 43425More details Price: $20.00 -
KID NIGREDO
Edition: First printing in wrappers.
Isla Vista, California) Turkey Press, 1978. SIGNED first edition - A collection of poetry, one of an edition of only 400 copies handset by Harry Reese in 14-point Bembo and printed by Sandra Liddell. INSCRIBED on the half title page by the poet. 33 pp plus colophon.
Condition: Near fine in stiff brown wrappers (slight sunning to upper edge.)
Book ID: 86156More details Price: $24.50 -
KID NIGREDO
Edition: First printing in wrappers.
Isla Vista, California) Turkey Press, 1978. SIGNED first edition - A collection of poetry, one of an edition of only 400 copies handset by Harry Reese in 14-point Bembo and printed by Sandra Liddell. INSCRIBED on the half title page by the poet. 33 pp plus colophon.
Condition: Near fine in stiff brown wrappers (slight sunning to upper edge.)
Book ID: 10546More details Price: $24.50 -
J. H. MASON 1875-1951: SCHOLAR-PRINTER
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering in fine pale blue dust jacket (a new copy.) Slightly oversized format.
Book ID: 31492More details Price: $30.00 -
GANGLION & OTHER STORIES.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: Tachyon Publications, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of 10 very offbeat stories with an introduction by Elinor Mavor. One of 674 SIGNED copies. xiii, 215 pp plus statement of limitation. Cover Art by Michael Dashow. ISBN: 1-892391007.
Condition: Fine in black cloth with green lettering and illustration, no dust jacket as issued.
Book ID: 36667More details Price: $25.00 -
P. G. WODEHOUSE: THREE TALKS AND A FEW WORDS AT A FESTIVE OCCASION IN 1982.
Edition: Limited edition, in wrappers.
New York & London: James H Heineman / Curwen Press. 1989. First edition - For two months in 1982 there was, in the foyers of the National Theatre in London, an exhibition to celebrate P. G. Wodehouse's centenary. In conjunction with this exhibition, there were frequent talks in the Lyttelton Theatre on Wodehousian subjects. Three are printed here along with an after-dinner speech. Printed in letterpress and limited to 500 individually numbered copies, of which this is 76. Tall thin format. 52 pp. plus 2 pp of information on the series. ISBN: 0-870081268.
Condition: Fine in stiff pale blue wrappers with black lettering.
Book ID: 84043More details Price: $20.00