[The Flowers of Evil] Les Fleurs du Mal by Baudelaire, Charles - 1857

London: Elkin Mathews, 1920. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's grey paper covered boards over linen spine cloth, printed in dark blue. Near Fine with light bumping to edges, toning to edges and spine cloth. Small bookseller ticket to front paste down, endsheets offset, faint cigar smoke odor to page. A nice copy.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1901. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Paul Laurence Dunbar on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's green cloth with elaborate stamping to upper board and spine; with title page in BAL State A, and a deposit copy thus; lacking the dust jacket, though remnants of the front panel remain laid in. Near Fine, with slight tarnishing to gilt on front cover, light rubbing to tips. Offsetting to endsheets. A beautiful copy. With photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club, and decorations by Margaret Armstrong.

Denver, CO: Verb Publications, 1965. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. 47 pp. Signed by John Williams on the front free end paper, and inscribed to a former owner, Thomas McClean. Bound in publisher's grey cloth over boards, stamped in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good. Rubbing to extremities and gilt. Previous owner has written his name to front paste down, and added three words on the contents page. Williams' extremely scarce collection of poetry which was published the same year as Stoner, printed in an edition of merely 425 copies.

Seattle: Mill Mountain Press, 1975. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. Copyright page states "Second Edition," but this is the true first edition since there was no prior edition. Bound in publisher's off-white perfect bound wraps printed in brown. Very Good. Tears to spine repaired, staining to rear cover, pages lightly thumbed, else a lovely copy of this scarce collection of poems.

New York: S. Converse, Printed by Hezekiah Howe, New Haven, 1828. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Complete in two volumes. Contemporary mottled calf with black morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, with the "Additions and Corrections" leaf bound at the end of Volume II; November 28 Advertisement absent, as is nearly always the case. Engraved frontis provided in sympathetic facsimile, lacking tissue guard. Internally Very Good with offsetting and several instances of penciled marginalia. Previous owner name in light pencil on title page. One of only 2,500 copies. An extremely important early declaration of American cultural identity, which heralded the nation's linguistic independence from Britain, inspiring the many dictionaries that to this day carry Webster's name.

New York: Angel Hair Books, 1970. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition. Unfolded 8.5 x 11 stapled mimeographed sheets, printed on rectos only. Near Fine, with some light wear and two small abrasions to the front cover. The author's scarce second book of poetry, one of just 300 printed.

New York: Boke Press, 1968. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. Side-stapled mimeographed sheets, printed on rectos only. Very Good+ with uneven toning to rear cover, light wear, rusting to staples. A lovely copy featuring text by Ted Berrigan and drawings by Joe Brainard.

New York: Boke Press, 1965. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. 4to. Stapled wraps. The second of two installments in this series featuring poems by New York School of Poets, including the liked of Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch and Ron Padgett, illustrated by Joe Brainard. Very Good. Toning to wraps, light wear.

New York: Siamese Banana Press, 1972. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition. Side-stapled mimeographed sheets, printed on rectos only. Near Fine with light toning, foxing and wear, rusting to staples. A lovely copy.

New York: New Directions, 1967. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed limited first edition. One of a limited 110 unnumbered copies signed by Ezra Pound. Printed by Andrew Hoyem and Robert Grabhorn in San Francisco, and bound in publisher's tan linen cloth over blue paper-covered boards with errata slip tipped in at rear; in publisher's unprinted white dust jacket. Near Fine, with lean to spine, covers faintly marked. In a Near Fine dust jacket, lightly soiled and with light edge wear. An early long poem of Pound's, and his first attempt to write poetry using world history, and adding opinions of his own. Originally intended to be published in the 1911 first edition of Canzoni, Pound deemed it too serious, and removed it during the proof stage. It was not until 1967 when the poem was finally published, first in an Australian poetry magazine, then here for the first time in book format in a limitation of 110 copies. There is no equivalent trade edition. Gallup A90.