New York: Pantheon, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 5 1/8 X 8 1/4 Inches. 177 PP. First printing with full and complete number line to the "1" on the copyright page. Original price of $20.00 on front flap. Signed by Wendell Berry directly on the half title-page. PO name..... More
Washington DC: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6 1/4 X 9 1/4 Inches. 189 PP. First printing stated on the copyright page. Full and complete number line to the "1". Original price of $24.00 on front flap. Signed by Wendell Berry directly on the title-page. More
Washington DC: Counterpoint, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 5 1/8 X 8 1/4 Inches. 363 PP. First printing stated on the copyright page. Original price of $18.00 on front flap. Signed by Wendell Berry directly on the title-page. More
Washington DC: Counterpoint, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6 1/8 X 9 1/4 Inches. 363 PP. First printing with full and complete number line to the "1" on the copyright page. Original price of $25.00 on front flap. Signed by Wendell Berry directly on the title-page. More
Washington DC: Counterpoint, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 5 1/8 X 8 1/4 Inches. 216 PP. First printing with full and complete number line to the "1" on the copyright page. Original price of $22.00 on front flap. Signed by Wendell Berry directly on the title-page. More
New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1859. Early Edition. Original cloth. 4 3/4 X 7 1/2 Inches. 209 PP [16 PP ADS]. Early edition with 16 pages of publisher ads and date of 1859 on title-page. An early Longfellow. Light wear to crown and foot of spine. Hint of toning and..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1903. First American Edition. Cloth. 5 1/4 X 7 3/4 Inches. 87 [1] PP. First American edition in original blue cloth publisher binding. Contemporary bookplate of "Lynde W. Tucker" on front pastedown and own'er name on FFEP dated 1903. Envelope pasted inside back cover with newspaper..... More
New York: New Directions, 1949. First Edition. Original wraps. 5 1/4 X 8 1/4 Inches. 32 PP. Plain paper wraps housed in original dust jacket. PO name stamp on front flap and inside front cover. A very clean copy overall. More
New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1933. Charles Child. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 5 7/8 X 9 1/8 Inches. 115 PP. Original price of $2.00 intact on front flap (although an ink line through it). Signed and inscribed by both Stephen Vincent Benet and Rosemary Benet directly on the title-page..... More
New York: Random House, 1965. First American Edition. Hardcover. 5 3/4 X 8 1/2 Inches. 356 PP. Stated "First Printing" on the copyright page. Original price of $7.50 intact on front flap. Signed and inscribed, "To David Conyer with best wishes, from W.H. Auden" directly on the title-page. A very..... More
Boston: John Owen, 1845. First Edition, First Printing. Original wraps. 4 1/2 X 7 Inches. 144 PP. Scarce original color paper wraps. First appearance of "Proem" by Longfellow. BAL 12075. Light toning and wear to edges. An exceptional copy overall. House in custom clamshell box. More
Westminster, MD: Newman Press, 1961. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 5 3/4 X 8 3/4 Inches. 63 PP. First printing copy of author's first book. Accompanied by the original letter from Katherine Anne Porter to Fanny Neel Cheney, the wife of author Brainerd Cheney. In part, "...Let nothing disturb thee;..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6 3/8 X 9 1/2 Inches. 69 PP. Stated "First Edition" on the copyright page. Original price of $21.00 intact on front flap. Signed by Bradley on the title-page. More
Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1965. First Thus. Hardcover. 4 1/2 X 7 3/8 Inches. 62 PP. First Peter Pauper Press edition. Original price of $1.25 intact. Hint of toning to endpapers. Light wear to DJ edges, with one small chip to bottom of rear panel. A very attractive..... More
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 5 1/4 X 8 1/4 Inches. 268 PP. Signed by Berry directly on the title-page without inscription. Original price of $16.50 intact on front flap. Book sharp and clean. DJ a bit worn at edges. A rip and some..... More
New York: Random House, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 5 3/4 X 8 1/8 Inches. 131 PP. Signed by former President Jimmy Carter directly on the FFEP. Stated First Edition with proper number code on copyright page. Original price of $18.00 intact. A bit of foxing to top gutter..... More
New York: Twice a Year, 1938. Second Edition. Original wraps. 6 1/8 X 9 1/4 Inches. 235 PP. Issue #1 of this important literary journal. The rare "Second Edition" of the first issue with the errata slip and original prospectus. Sounds counter-intuitive, but the second edition of this volume contains..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1928. T. Sturge Moore. First American Edition. Hardcover. 5 1/4 X 7 3/4 Inches. 110 PP. First printing of the high-point of Yeats' career. Contains the first printing of "Sailing to Byzantium". Illustrated (gilt) covers by T. Sturge Moore. A very nice example of the true UK..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1936. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 5 5/8 X 8 3/4 Inches. 97 PP. An impressive stated "First Printing" copy in the original DJ. Original price of $2.50 intact on rear panel. Signed by Robert Frost directly on the FFEP, without further inscription. A...... More
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1873. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 5 1/8 X 7 1/2 Inches. 351 PP. Original publisher cloth with gilt stamping to front cover and spine. PO name plate on inside front pastedown. A biograph of Alice and Phoebe Cary along with the later poems of..... More
Lugduni Batavorum, 1743. Early Edition. Leather bound. 3 1/2 X 6 Inches. 344 PP. Three parts in one volume, each with it's own title-page and woodcut header illustration. Original latin text. Full calf leather with gilt crest on both covers. Front hinge starting. Spine has title label and decorations in..... More
London: Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown, 1815. First Edition, First Printing. 8 1/4 X 10 3/4 Inches. 162 PP. First printing in beautiful morroco leather. Gilt decoration to spine. Ruled in gilt. Hint of foxing and toning. A clean specimen overall. Light wear to board edges. Front hinge a...... More
New York: The Womans Press, 1930. Dorothy Fuller Odell. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6 3/8 X 9 5/8 Inches. 77 PP. First printing copy in original DJ. Original price of $1.50 on front flap. Hint of sunning to boards. PO bookplate and inscription. DJ worn a bit at edges..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1939. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6 1/8 X 9 1/2 Inches. 67 PP. Author's first book. Original price of $2.00 intact on front flap of DJ. Part of the "Yale Series of Younger Poets" book series. DJ worn at edges and folds. A few..... More
Tampa, FL: Castillo Printing, 1949. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6 X 9 Inches. 34 PP. First printing copy of this rather scarce book of poetry illustrated with period photographs of the St. John's River at Jacksonville, Florida. Original red cloth binding. Hint of wear to edges. More