New York: Macmillan, 1928. T. Sturge Moore. First American Edition. Hardcover. 5 1/4 X 7 3/4 Inches. 110 PP. True first UK printing of the high-point of Yeats' career. Contains the first printing of "Sailing to Byzantium". Illustrated (gilt) covers by T. Sturge Moore. Scuffing to FFEP and rear pastedown..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. 5 3/8 X 8 1/4 Inches. 43 PP. Original purple cloth clean and bright. Original price of "12s. 6d." intact on front flap. Light wear to DJ edges and spine. Hint of offsetting to endpapers. A very attractive copy. Signed by author..... More
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 5 5/8 X 8 3/4 Inches. 85 PP. Original paper boards with red and black title stamping to front cover. Original price of "10s. 6d." intact on front flap. Light toning to board edges. Scuff to top corner of FFEP. DJ..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 5 3/4 X 8 5/8 Inches. 112 PP. Stated "First Printing" on the copyright page. Original boards clean and sharp. Preface by Kurt Vonnegut. Price-clipped. More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816. Early Edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 X 9 Inches. 311 PP. Cloth spine over paper boards. Spine label missing. Early printing of the poem that so inspired John Keats, he wrote the first of this great odes (Ode to Psyche) in honor of..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1901. First Edition. Leather bound. 4 1/4 X 6 1/2 Inches. 1084 PP. Fine leather binding by Ringer & Hertzberg for Brentano's. TEG. Fine collection of English poets in stunning leather binding. Five raised hubs to spine. PO name on first page. More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. 4 3/4 X 6 1/8 Inches. 96 PP. Original maroon cloth binding with gilt title and decoration to cover and spine. First appearance of Longfellow's "Christmas Bells" poem. From an original publication of 20,100 copies. It is noted that every..... More
New York: Modern Library, 1950. Valenti Angelo. Early Edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 X 8 1/8 Inches.423 PP. Circa 1950. Publisher list of books on reverse side of DJ. Hint of foxing to gutters. DJ a bit worn at edges and folds. Scuff to title label on spine. A Modern Library..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1923. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. 5 1/4 X 7 3/4 Inches.93 PP. Stated "First Edition" with the proper K-X code on copyright page. Original price of $2.00 intact on front flap. PO name on FFEP. Period embossed bookseller label for "The Book Shelf" in..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 5 1/4 X 8 3/4 Inches. 69 PP. Stated "First Edition" with the proper I-C on the copyright page. Original price of $2.00 intact. Slightest hint of scuffing to rear panel, else a fine copy. Hard to imagine a...... More
New York: The William Frederick Press, 1943. First Edition. Original wraps. 4 1/2 X 6 Inches. 12 PP. Original 1943 Anti-Nazi poems with four images of the Gremlins from the book by Roald Dahl. Original stiff blue paper wraps with staple binding. A sharp copy overall. More
Washington DC: Counterpoint, 1998. Advance Reading Copy. Original wraps. 5 x 8 Inches. 221 PP. Advance copy with full and complete number line to the "1" on the copyright page. Publish date of "April 1998" and proposed price of $22.00 on front cover. Signed by Wendell Berry directly on the..... More
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
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
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: 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. Hint of sunning to rear board, else a...... 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