MARIANNE MOORE; A Descriptive Bibliography
Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth, no dust jacket as issued. 265 pp. Light shelfwear, else fine.
Biography/Bibliography
THE RAMPAGING HERD; A Bibliography of Books and Pamphlets on Men and Events in the Cattle Industry
Norman: Oklahoma, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. 8mo. Fine in green cloth and very good dust jacket, with moderate wear and toning to crown and tail of spine. 463 pp.
SIX-GUNS & SADDLE LEATHER; A Bibliography of Books and Pamphlets on Western Outlaws and Gumnen
Norman: Oklahoma, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. 8mo. Fine in green cloth and very good or better dust jacket, with moderate wear to extremities, and one short closed tear. 426 pp.
THEODORE ENSLIN; A Checklist
Hillsborough, NC: Alexander Rare Books, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. Printed wrappers; 8vo. 44 pp. One of 26 lettered copies. Forewords by Dr. James Maynard and Wesley McNair. Checklist: Section A - 132 items including books and broadsides; Section B - 30 contributions to books; Section C - 365 contributions of.....
PHILIP LARKIN; A Bibliography 1933-1994
London & New Castle: The British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2002. First Thus. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 226 pp., w/ index. Revised & Enlarged edition. Fine copy in like dust jacket.
Ezra Pound Among The Poets
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Navy cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 238 pp. w/ index. As new; Fine in a fine dust jacket.
JAMES DICKEY: A bibliography
Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Fine. No DJ, as Issued.
FULL CIRCLE; Raymond Carver & Or Family
San Francisco: Sore Dove, 2008. First Edition. no binding. Pictorial stapled wraps, colophon sheet, in plastic cd holder. [Self wraps - 24 pp.] Sore Dove Chapbook No. 17, cover painting by Soheyl Dahi. One of 126 copies, this one of 100 numbered copies, an "author's copy" - not numbered; signed.....
MEMORIES OF RAY
San Francisco: Sore Dove Press, 2007. Soheyl Dahi. First edition. Paperback. [20 pp.] Small chapbook, one of a stated 126 copies (an additional 26 lettered with an an original painting by Dahi laid in), all signed by the author. Introduction and cover illustration by Soheyl Dahi. This copy signed, not.....
BULLETIN OF THE JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY, MANCHESTER, VOLUME 25; In Honour of Henry Guppy
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Original maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine; large 8vo. 239 pp. Seven plates including frontispiece. Special volume in honor of librarian Henry Guppy (who served as librarian from the founding in 1899 until his death in.....
AMERICAN LITERARY MAGAZINES; The Twentieth Century
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth covered boards. 8vo; 474 pp. Boards are clean and unmarked; some softening at spine ends and rubbing to one tip. Clean text throughout. Likely issued without a jacket. Fine/no jacket.
CHARLES OLSON; The Allegory of a Poet's Life
New York: Norton, 1991. First edition. Paperback. 378 pp. Footnotes not set, early uncorrected page proof in tan wrappers. Important bibliography of the poet, by a poet who knew him well. Reprinted in 2000. Fine.
ROBERT FROST:; A Bibliography
Amherst: Jones Library, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Red linen-covered boards; 8vo. 158 pp. Still the most useful bibliography to this time (e.g. the Christodora broadsides are listed here, but not in Crane; photographs). One of 650 copies (not signed by Frost). Spine gilt a bit.....
THE BLACK SPARROW PRESS: A CHECKLIST; A Checklist OF THE FIRST ONE HUNDRED PUBLICATIONS OF The Black Sparrow Press
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. First edition. Paperback. One of 800 issued in paper (of 1076 total); 8vo. 39 pp. Robert Kelly's intro. consists of 30 "passing remarks". Spine faded else fine (in added removable protective mylar covers).
ROBINSON JEFFERS; A Fragment of an Older Fury
Berkeley: Oyez, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth in dust jacket; large 8vo. 129 pp., w/ index. Signed by the poet as William Everson in his elderly hand (a note laid in from prev. owner - a publisher/printer himself - "Painfully & slowly signed by Bill on my visit to.....
IRVING LAYTON & ROBERT CREELEY; The Complete Correspondence, 1953-1978
Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1990. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth covered boards in photographic jacket. Some toning to endpapers. Clean text throughout. Crisp and clean dj. Near fine/fine.
LOOKING AT THE SUN; The Rise of the New East Asian Economic and Political System
New York: Pantheon, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Signed by the author on the half-title. Remember 1994 when our greatest worry was Japan's economic growth, the subject of this book. Very light wear to the dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket.
SELECTED LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth. 645 pp., with index; many of Frosts' letters in facsimile. Thompson would publish the first volume of his monumental and controversial three volume biography of Frost two years later. Fine in a very good dust jacket, with one short.....
CATALOGUE OF LITTLE PRESS BOOKS IN PRINT #14
Oxford: Association of Little Presses, 1997. First Edition. Paperback. Red and black glued card covers. Slight rubbing at corners, else fine.
THE BLUE TOUCH PAPER; A Memoir
New York: Norton, 2015. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy in like dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. The great dramatist and screenwriter's memoir covering his first three decades. (In a removable archival protective cover.).
THE BLUE TOUCH PAPER; A Memoir
New York: Norton, 2015. Paperback. Advance Reading Copy. Single volume (6” x 9”). 346 pages. White photographic covers. Some creasing, wear, and marks to covers. Pages lightly toned, otherwise fine interior. Note that this is an advance uncorrected proof of this autobiography by the well-known British playwright and screenwriter. Very.....
COMPASS POINTS
New York: Pantheon, 2001. First edition. Paperback. An Advanced Reading Copy in card stock slipcase and signed. This is this long-time Vermont writer's memoir ranging from losing his eyesight to his early years in Bohemian NYC.
WALKER PERCY; A Comprehensive Descriptive Bibliography
New Orleans: Faust, 1988. First edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). 115 pp. With an Introduction by Walker Percy. Sections covering books, periodicals, interviews, speeches, and recordings by Percy; as well as books, bibliographies, dissertations and theses, and periodical appearances about Percy. Illustrated with reproductions of title pages and.....
U.S. IANA (1650 - 1950); A Selective Bibliography in Which are Described 11,620 Uncommon and Significant Books Relating to the Continental Portion of the United States
New York: R.R. Bowker Company for The Newberry Library, 1962. First Printing, Second Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of the Second edition, Revised and enlarged. Brown cloth; gilt lettering; 652 pp. Easily very good copy with moderate wear to edges, but quite a solid and clean copy; issued without a dust.....
Bulletin of the John Rylands Library Vol. 25
Manchester: Manchester UP, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Red cloth; 238 pp. A tribute to Henry Guppy. With long ALS from Henry Guppy the librarian to George Utley the librarian of the Newberry Library, Chicago and an invitation to lunch in Edinburgh laid in. Ah, the.....