Poems, Chiefly Rural by William Richardson - 1774

Carlton & Lanahan / Hitchcock & Walden. Good with no dust jacket. 1852. No Edition Stated. Hardcover. Edges of spine and corners are lightly bumped and rubbed w/small tears, pages foxed, some page corners creased, FFEP has been torn out, 1/4"x1" chip to top edge of front pastedown; small green hardcover; 95 pages .

Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey, 1788. Hardcover. Very Good. "Nouvelle Edition, plus complette que toutes les précédentes." 405, [3] p.; 18 cm. Contemporary calf; modern spine repair with japanese tissue and gilt-tooled leather spine label. All page edges red. Woodcut tailpieces. Voltaire's satire about the life of Joan of Arc was banned in much of Europe and, hence, very popular. In Very Good Condition: leather is rubbed; spine repaired with japanese tissue; edges of first and last leaves darkened from glue used on fixed endpapers; some pages lightly browning; otherwise, clean and tight.

San Francisco: Gelber, Lilienthal, Inc, 1936. First Edition. (xiv) (2) 173 (3) pages. First Edition. Limtited to 300 un-numbered copies, printed by The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. Illustrated by 8 plates plus the frontispiece portrait from a photograph of Jeffers by Edward Weston. Foreword by Una Jeffers. Octavo. Quarter bound in green morocco in orange decorated boards. From the author's Introduction: "This book, then, is not an explantion of the influence of the sea on Jeffers and his work, but rather is a questioning study of this interesting and significant phase of his talent, and a compilation of all materials pertaining to the sea contained in his poetry." Prior owners' bookplate at front pastedown; spine slightly faded; some toning to endpapers; 2" stain to lower right upper board; Very good or better overall, and now in a custom clear mylar protective jacket. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING via media mail to any United States address.

New York: Masses & Mainstream, 1950. First U.S. edition / First printing. Sienna printed wrappers. Light toning to spine, mild soiling to rear wrapper, near fine. Clean tight copy.

San Francisco: Beatitude Press, 1977. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 46pp (plus plates), stapled wrappers. Rare mid-seventies issue of the classic San Francisco underground Beat magazine, includes a great range of luminaries (including one poem by Dale Pendell). A curious 1976 leaflet entitled The Grant Getter's Gazette by Michael Weiner is laid in. Unmarked copy with a bit of reading wear (front cover has some printing offset, as observed with other copies).

Martin Secker, London, 1920. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 81pp. 'Cobble-stone' decorated paper-covered boards with a paper spine label. A strip of light partial browned in the free endpapers and some spotting throughout. A tiny dealer plate to the front pastedown. A nice bright copy in the uncommon dust wrapper, slightly dust marked and tanned, and chipped at the spine panel ends with a little loss. Graves' fifth book, forty-six poems, dedicated to his wife Nancy Nicholson. 1,000 copies were printed. Higginson A5.

Fremont, MI: The Sumac Press, 1969. Signed by Jim Harrison and Dan Gerber. First edition / First printing. (Softcover edition) Illustrated wrappers. Fine.

London, England: C. Kegan Paul & Co.. Very Good. 1880. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 184 pages: 4.5 x 7 in.: 1: KB#011154: Boards now protected by a new Brodart Archival Mylar Cover. Copy has prior owner's name and date (Christmas 1880) neatly inscribed on second front flyleaf. Boards are Dark Green, with embossed design around edge (front, back and spine), plus gilt lettering on spine. Boards have light wear at top and bottom of spine. Otherwise, boards and pages are clean, unmarked (except for owner's name as indicated), bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Includes 184 pages plus 3 pages of lists of additional Tennyson Works. .

Prague: Borovy, 1927 This copy is number 459 of a limited edition of 600 copies. It has been nicely rebound in pebbled red cloth with the front cover bound in (see photos). Cover design on wrappers edition by Mrkvicka, 80pp., with five colored drawings by Sima. One of the most important publications of the Czech avant -garde in the 1920s.

Boston: Otis, Broaders & Co, 1839. Hardcover. Good -. 160 p.; 24 cm. Black (dark green?) cloth with gilt-stamped spine title "Hill's Poems" and gilt-stamped center-medallion harp on both boards; blind-stamped decoration on both boards. Pale yellow endpapers. Includes Errata slip tipped in following Contents. Former owner's name on front fixed endpaper: A.E. Phillips. Dedicated to Ebenezer Bailey, Esq. of Boston. The author, George Hill (1796-1871) graduated from Yale in 1816 and taught mathematics for the Navy beginning in 1827. His experience in the Mediterranean with the Navy inspired his poem The Ruins of Athens, which was published anonymously in 1831. This is the first appearance of the other poems in this volume. Scarce. In Good- Condition: cover is soiled with several small ink spots; ends of spine and corners rubbed; ends of spine fraying; endpapers are discolored; foxing throughout; a few leaves are partially detached but volume is complete.