BLOODLINES by Wright, Charles - 1975

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1966. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan Univeristy Press, 1961. First Edition. Signed by lead hoaxer Witter Bynner [as "Emanuel Morgan"], presented to Kenneth L. Ball, the student who first discovered his identity. Octavo, 158 pp, beige cloth with black and white imprinting, jacket. Fine book in near fine jacket showing trace edgewear. A singular copy of the book about "the hoax" . In the early years of the twentieth century, all of the arts - particularly poetry - were thriving in the midst of a post-industrial-revolution swell of excitement, creativity and new aesthetic "schools"; poetry, for its part, rolled out Imagism, Vorticism, Futurism, Chorism, and a rogue's gallery of other new poetic genres, each based on its own aesthetic theorizing. Appearing in the midst of this rather joyous and certainly passionate carnival were… Read More

Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1965. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in very good dustwrapper with a fairly large but faint dampstain on the front panel. Author's third book, a National Book Award winner.

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1962. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, hardcover issue. Fine in fine dustwrapper with just a touch of tanning at the bottom of the spine. Signed by the author. A superior copy of the author's first solely authored book.

Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1959. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, hardbound issue. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful, pretty much as new copy.

Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1973. Hardcover. Near Fine. Second edition. Revised from the original 1935 edition. Quarto. Maroon cloth with gilt letters on spine and front board housed in a maroon cloth slipcase. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with twelve color plates and thirty-nine monochrome plates including the frontispiece. Cloth is foxed, else near fine in a very good foxed slipcase. This is number 388 out of four hundred thirty-five copies prepared for subscribing members of India House.

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1966. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan Univeristy Press, 1961. First Edition. Signed by lead hoaxer Witter Bynner [as "Emanuel Morgan"], presented to Kenneth L. Ball, the student who first discovered his identity. Octavo, 158 pp, beige cloth with black and white imprinting, jacket. Fine book in near fine jacket showing trace edgewear. A singular copy of the book about "the hoax" . In the early years of the twentieth century, all of the arts - particularly poetry - were thriving in the midst of a post-industrial-revolution swell of excitement, creativity and new aesthetic "schools"; poetry, for its part, rolled out Imagism, Vorticism, Futurism, Chorism, and a rogue's gallery of other new poetic genres, each based on its own aesthetic theorizing. Appearing in the midst of this rather joyous and certainly passionate carnival were… Read More

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1978. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition, trade issue. Fine in a modestly rubbed, very good or better dustwrapper, with a short tear on the front panel.

Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1965. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in very good dustwrapper with a fairly large but faint dampstain on the front panel. Author's third book, a National Book Award winner.

Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1959. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. A beautiful copy of the author's second book.

Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1973. Hardcover. Near Fine. Second edition. Revised from the original 1935 edition. Quarto. Maroon cloth with gilt letters on spine and front board housed in a maroon cloth slipcase. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with twelve color plates and thirty-nine monochrome plates including the frontispiece. Cloth is foxed, else near fine in a very good foxed slipcase. This is number 388 out of four hundred thirty-five copies prepared for subscribing members of India House.