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24 East 63rd St, New York. nd.. 39; 50; and [1],86 leaves respectively. Quarto. First two autograph manuscript, third carbon typescript, on rectos only. Some modest dust- soiling, title leaf of typescript a bit torn and ragged, but generally good. Three long short-stories by the son of the poet, founding editor of THE GOLDEN BOOK, biographer and occasional New York historian. The autograph manuscripts bear occasional minor corrections and revisions, but are comparatively clean. Lanier engaged in a broad ran... more information

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Putnam Valley, NY. September 1957 and April 1959.. Whole numbers one and two. Printed wrappers. Small loss from lower edge of lower wrapper of first issue, else very good or better. Edited by J. Lewis Albee. Irregular. A somewhat personal periodical of opinion and musings, including original contributions from authors such as "Dedalus Hoke," "Geddes Magrane," "Wilder van Demark," reprints from I.F. Stone, and a brief editorial note in praise of Castro's revolution. ... more information

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[Oakland]: Eucalyptus Press, Mills College, [1954]. [14]pp. Oblong small quarto. Pink paper boards. Line drawing by Kathryn Uhl Ball. Backstrip slightly darkened, otherwise a near fine copy without dust jacket, as issued. One of a limited edition of 300 copies, hand set in Centaur by Rosalind A. Keep. Pencil acquisition inscription in the hand of Wilmarth S. Lewis noting book as gift from Mills College librarian Elizabeth Reynolds in 1976. ... more information

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London & New York: John Lane the Bodley Head / The Merriam Company, 1896.. Small octavo. First edition. Distinguished collector's bookplate, cloth a bit sunned and soiled, but a good copy. ... more information

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New York: Arbor House, [1985].. Cloth and boards. First edition. Review copy with slip laid in. Near fine in dust jacket. ... more information

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[Paris]: Editions G.L.M., 1936.. Small octavo. Typographically decorated wrappers. Mounted black & white photograph as frontis (after a drawing by Hans Bellmer). A fine copy. First edition of the precocious author's third book. One of 170 numbered copies on vélin, from a total edition of 205 (plus h.c. copies). Prassinos (born in Turkey in 1920) was quickly adopted by the surrealists as a creator of automatic writing par excellence. Her first book, LA SAUTERELLE ARTHRITIQUE was published in 1... more information

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Middletown: Wesleyan, [1962].. Pictorial wrappers. First edition, wrapper issue, of the poet's first book. Review copy with slip. Spine and part of lower wrapper tanned, else near fine. ... more information

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New York: Grove/Atlantic, [1994].. Glossy printed wrappers. Uncorrected proofs of the first U.S. edition of the author's first book, photo offset from the U.K. edition. According to the press release laid into the book the collection was to be published in the U.S. in February of 1995. The press release is dated July 6, 1994, a full ten months before official U.S. publication. A fine copy. ... more information

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Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive, [1994].. Cloth. First U.S. edition, translated by Peter Bush. A fine copy in dust jacket. ... more information

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[San Francisco]: Beatitude Press [etc], 1981.. Small folio. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrations. First edition. Very good. ... more information

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[New Rochelle, NY]: The Elizabeth Press, [1978].. Printed boards, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Etching by Eugene G. Canadé. Title-page printed in red and black. First edition. One of two hundred copies (in a total edition of 226) designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed on Magnani Rag paper at the Stamperia Valdonega. Fine, in publisher's card slipcase. ... more information

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Cleveland: American Weave, [1958].. Printed wrappers First edition of this early work by the guiding spirit behind the Elizabeth Press. Fine. ... more information

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New York: Oxford University Press, 1964.. Cloth. First edition. Inscribed "affectionately" by the author to fellow poet John Hall Wheelock. About fine, in slightly tanned and nicked dust jacket. ... more information

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Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1981.. Quarto. Gilt red cloth. Frontis, photographs and facsimiles. First edition, clothbound issue. A few faint smudges to cloth, else about fine, without dust jacket. ... more information

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Chapel Hill, New Haven, Annandale-on-Hudson, etc. 1944 - 1972.. I:1,3,4; II:1-4; III:1-4; IV:1-4; V:1,3,4; VI:2-4; VII:2,4; VIII:1-4; IX:1,4; X:1/2-4; XI:1,2/3,4; XII:1/2; XIII:1/2,3/4; XIV:1/2,3/4; XV:1/2,3/4; XVI:1/2, 3/4; XVII:1/2; and XVIII:1/2. Forty-six issues (including several double numbers, as noted). Printed wrappers. Some shallow chipping to a few overlap edges early on, II:2 has a piece chipped away around toe of spine, some occasional soiling to a few wrappers, but generally a very good lot, a... more information

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Annandale-on-Hudson. [1949].. V:2. Printed wrappers. Light creasing and small nick at overlap edges, otherwise near fine. Includes articles on Pound by Wyndham Lewis, Marianne Moore, R. Eberhart, and others, a corrected version of INDISCRETIONS, a short poem by Pound, and the first separate printing of "Translations from Cavalcanti," printed on an inserted broadside. GALLUP C1715-7. ... more information

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Lafayette, IN. Fall 1962.. Whole number one (of at least 60 numbers through 1977). Small quarto. Decorated wrappers. Illustrations. About fine. Edited by Donald Winkelman, et al. A projected quarterly of poetry and prose. ... more information

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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1929.. Pictorial grey cloth, decorated in white and darker grey. Endsheets a trace darkened, as usual, a bit of rubbing (but less than usual), otherwise a very copy, without the printed glassine dust jacket. First U.S. edition of the author's second original book, and first novel, published the previous year in the U.K. as POSTURES. ... more information

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Kentfield, CA: The Allen Press, 1975.. Large quarto. Cloth and decorated cloth over boards. Very slight darkening at endsheet gutters, otherwise fine, with the prospectus laid in. First printing in this format. One of 140 copies printed by hand in Romanée types on English handmade paper, with decorations and drawings, by the Allens. ALLEN PRESS BIBLIOGRAPHY 41. ... more information

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Paris, London & New York: American Art Association of Paris, August/September 1896.. Whole number two (of thirty numbers published in six volumes). Narrow octavo. Highly pictorial sewn self-wrappers. Very heavily illustrated. Wrappers and edges a trace dust- soiled, margin of one plate and facing leaf dust-soiled, internally very good or better. Edited by Trist Wood. The official organ of the American Art Association of Paris, edited in Paris, but printed in London, and dominated in terms of the design,... more information

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