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London: George Allen and Unwin, [1967].. Thick octavo. Gilt green cloth boards. Fold-out table. Slightly cocked, some smudging on edges, but very good in lightly soiled cream dust jacket with a 1.5cm wrinkled tear in the upper flap fold. First complete edition in English. Foreword by Edwin O. Reischauer. "The Okagami (Great Mirror) is a Japanese 'historical tale' written in the eleventh century. The work of an unknown hand, it covers Japanese history from 850 to 1025, when the Fujiwara family d... more information

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Austin: UT Press, [1968].. Cloth. First edition in English, translated by Ethel Brinton and illustrated by Alberto Beltran. Fine in lightly nicked and sunned dust jacket. ... more information

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London: Skoob Books, [2000].. Pictorial wrappers. First edition. About fine. ... more information

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London: Cassell, [1957].. Red cloth. Illustrations. First edition. Bookplate, , else very good or better in a lightly used dust jacket with a few nicks. ... more information

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New York: Knopf, 1947.. Large octavo. Gilt cloth. Frontis and illus. First American edition. Fine in very faintly worn dust jacket. An attractive Knopf imprint. ... more information

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[Np]: Jargon Society, 1980.. Quarto. Cloth and decorated boards. Illustrations by Susan Moore. Introduction by Peyton Houston. First edition, clothbound issue. Jargon 87. Fine in dust jacket with short closed tear mended on verso. ... more information

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[Np]: Jargon Society, 1980.. Quarto. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrations by Susan Moore. Introduction by Peyton Houston. First edition, issue in wrappers. Published as Jargon 87. Fine. ... more information

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Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1992.. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition, limited issue. One of 125 numbered copies, signed by the author. Fine. ... more information

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Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1998.. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition, limited issue. One of one hundred numbered copies, specially bound, and signed by the author. Fine. ... more information

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[Providence]: Burning Deck, [1981].. Pictorial wrappers. First edition, wrapper issue. One of 1000 copies designed and printed by Rosemarie Waldrop, with a cover by Keith Waldrop, in addition to fifty deluxe copies. Near fine. ... more information

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Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2001.. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition, limited issue. One of one hundred numbered copies, specially bound, and signed by the author. Fine. ... more information

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Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1996.. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition, limited issue. One of 100 numbered copies, signed by the author. Fine. ... more information

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[London: Secker & Warburg for the National Gallery of Ireland, 1971].. Oblong quarto. Illustrated wrappers. Portraits and illustrations, many in color. First edition. Introduction by James White. Light use, fore-tips slightly curled, but near fine. Reprints (in English) Beckett's 1954 tribute. ... more information

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Dundrum: The Dun Emer [and later:] The Cuala Press, June 1908 - May 1913.. Sixty [4]pp. quarto folded leaflets. Year One through Year Five of the original series (i.e. the first sixty broadsides, of eighty-four). Very good to near fine, in moderately worn blue cloth folder with pictorial labels and remnants of ribbon ties. Two bookplates on folder pastedown First editions thus, each one of three hundred copies printed on Saggart Mill cartridge paper in handset Caslon type, with headline in French Antique wo... more information

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Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1972.. Linen-backed boards, paper spine label. Title-page woodcut pressmark "Lady Emer and tree" by Elinor Monsell in red. A fine copy. First edition. Edited, with an Introduction, by William M. Murphy. Copy #74 of 500 numbered copies. Though dated 1972, publication took place in April of 1973. MILLER 81. ... more information

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New York: Macmillan, 1948.. Gilt black cloth. First edition. Fore-tips lightly bumped, modest use, but very good and bright, without dust jacket. ... more information

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Los Angeles: W.A. Clark Memorial Library, 1966.. Stiff wrappers. First edition. About fine, with presentation slip laid in. ... more information

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London & New York: Elkin Mathews & John Lane / Dodd, Mead & Co., 1894.. Polished buckram, stamped in gilt. Very good. First edition, trade issue. One of 650 copies printed (500 for Britain, 150 for America). Inscribed presentation copy from rhymer and contributor Ernest Radford to Joseph Skipney, dated 17 July 1894 (the month after publication), with ten lines of verse, identical to the presentation inscription recorded in Colbeck's copy, then noted as unpublished. Skipsey (1832-1903), the N... more information

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London: A. H. Bullen, 1903.. Cloth and boards, paper spine label. Endsheets and edges foxed, fore-tips bruised, spine label quite worn and chipped, a few marks to boards, but a sound copy, internally very good. Second edition. Inscribed by Yeats: "P. F. Gethin from WB Yeats September 20th 1903." The date of the inscription is within days of Yeats writing Bullen to request that his author's copies of this edition be delivered to him at Coole, where he was then staying. Percy Francis Gethin (187... more information

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New York: Macmillan, 1903.. Gilt blue cloth. First American trade edition. Minor nick to crown of spine, small smudge to title gilding, otherwise a very nice copy. WADE 45. ... more information

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