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BREAKING (from The Book of Medicines)
Edition: Limited edition.
Berkeley, CA: Poltroon Press, 2002. First edition - One of 150 copies printed in letter press for the Environmental Poetry Festival, Berkeley, 7 September 2002 by Poltroon Press (an innovative small press founded in 1975 by Frances Butler and Alastair Johnson) A lovely production, consisting of a single poem, printed in black on cream colored stock with a pale aqua seascape woodcut, 13 inches tall by 10 inches wide. Broadside, single sheet.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 65464More details Price: $25.00 -
SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC: Robinson Jeffers and the Tragic Sense in Modern Poetry.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Bruce Humphries, Inc., (1936) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays by Gilbert, a poet himself, which use the poems of Jeffers as a starting point in an investigation of modern American poetry. One of only 1000 copies in this first edition. Bibliography, 197 pp plus colophon.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (light toning to pages, price-clipped).
Book ID: 86144More details Price: $50.00 -
THE STONES OF TOR HOUSE.
Edition: First printing.
Covelo, CA: Jeffers Literary Properties / Yolla Bolly Press, (1985.). First edition - A monograph on the exotic stones in Robinson Jeffer's Tor House in Carmel by his stone. One of only 1000 copies designed and printed by Caroline and James Robertson at the Yolla Bolly Press in Covelo, California. Illustrated with photographs. 12 pp sewn in outer wrappers. Laid in is a brochure regarding membership in the Tor House Foundation.
Condition: Very good in illustrated beige wrappers (a bit of creasing to the covers and the outer margin of the pages, the brochure laid in has the membership application form cut out.) Uncommon .
Book ID: 48734More details Price: $75.00 -
?QUE PASA BABY?
Edition: First printing.
Fresno, CA: Wake Up Heavy, 2001. First edition - An extended prose-poem, a riff on his forty years as a poet, in cities across the country, printed as a limited edition chapbook of only 150 copies. Printed and designed by Mark Begley. 16 pp plus the colophon. ISBN: 1524-0282.
Condition: Fine in pale blue stapled wrappers (as new.)
Book ID: 40936More details Price: $18.00 -
?QUE PASA BABY?
Edition: First printing.
Fresno, CA: Wake Up Heavy, 2001. SIGNED first edition - An extended prose-poem, a riff on his forty years as a poet, in cities across the country, printed as a limited edition chapbook of only 150 copies. This is one of the 26 lettered and SIGNED copies. Printed and designed by Mark Begley. 16 pp plus the colophon. ISBN: 1524-0282.
Condition: Fine in pale blue stapled wrappers (as new.)
Book ID: 40937More details Price: $30.00 -
SELECTED SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY STORIES.
Edition: First printing.
Lakemont, GA: Fictioneer Books, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An anthology containing five long short stories by London and , selected to be present a cross section of his writing in what could be called "social science fiction," annotated and with an introduction by Richard Weiderman. Including "The Relic of the Pleistocene", one of London's stories set in the 1987 Klondike Gold Rush and the lost race story "The Red One." Illustrated throughout in black and white and with one fold-out color plate by Philip Craig Russell. One of "approximately 1500 copies printed." 120 pp plus colophon. Illustrated endpapers.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (a new copy, but with a short tear to the bottom edge of the foldout illustration).
Book ID: 39525More details Price: $30.00 -
AGADIR.
Edition: First printing (limited edition.)
Pittsburgh: Byblos Editions II, (1979.). Hardcover first edition - A long narrative poem describing the events of the 1960 earthquake in Southern Morocco that detroyed the city of Agadir, Preface by William Jay Smith; translated from the Swedish by Smith and Leif Sjoberg. One of only 230 copies, Illustrated with a sepia-toned frontispiece by William Libby (details from the frontispiece are used in the book to separate sections. 55 pp. Fine in marble covered boards with linen spine. No dust jacket, likely as issued. One of 230 copies.
Condition: Near fine in red and gold marbleized papers with a black linen cloth spine,gilt lettering, in the original acetate wrapper (gift inscription on front endpaper, tear to acetate wrapper.)
Book ID: 41494More details Price: $40.00 -
DANGEROUS AS DAUGHTERS.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
San Francisco: Five Trees Press, 1976. First edition - Designed and printed by Kathy Walkup in an edition of 500 copies, 450 of which are bound in wraps. Illustration and ornaments by Robin Cherin, Jungle Press. Oblong format, unpaginated.
Condition: Very good+ (prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 48246More details Price: $12.50 -
WINTER VISITORS.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1970.). Hardcover first edition - 'Winter Visitors is taken from BIRDS OF AMERICA, a novel by Mary McCarthy, which will be published in the year 1971. This limited edition is published as a New Year's greeting to friends of the author and publisher.' Publisher's card laid in. Small volume, 57 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in brown pictorial boards with a cream cloth spine.
Book ID: 29537More details Price: $15.00 -
TYPEE: A Peep at Polynesian Life During a Four Months' Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas
Edition: First thus.
West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, 1962. Hardcover first edition - An attractive edition of this classic novel, based upon Melville's own experiences in 1842, when he and a companion jumped ship in the Marquesas. Designed by Bradbury Thompson, this limited edition features illustrations reproduced from the Iconographic Encyclopedia of Science, Literature, and Art, 1846. 324 pp plus final illustrations and colophon. Bound in quarter cowhide leather with the title stamped in gold over deorated paper boards. Slipcase reproduces the illustrations on the endpapers.
Condition: Fine in very good slipcase (some toning to the slipcase) Signed presentation slip tipped onto front endpaper.
Book ID: 67827More details Price: $35.00 -
IDIOSYNCRASY & TECHNIQUE: Inaugurating the Ewing Lectures of the University of California Los Angeles, October 3 and 5, 1956.
Edition: First printing.
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1958. First edition - A slim volume containing two lectures on poetry, which were delivered by Moore at the University of California, Los Angeles ("Inaugurating the Ewing Lectures"), on October 3rd and 5th, 1956. Introduction by James E. Phillips. Notes. Designed by Adrian Wilson. 27 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in stapled plain ivory wrappers with outer wrappers striped in shades of blue, deep self-flaps and a printed paper label.
Book ID: 84743More details Price: $30.00 -
TOULEMONDE.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1928. dj. Hardcover first edition - A slim volume of six interconnected poems. "This first edition consists of one thousand two hundred and . fifty copies for the United States and England, none of which will be . autographed." Several pages still unopened. 38 pp.
Condition: Near fine in black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, decoration on front cover, tears and creasing to lower edge of original glassine dustjacket.
Book ID: 79034More details Price: $21.50 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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