Printing Poetry; A Workbook in Typographic Reification by Burke, Clifford; Foreword by William Everson - 1980

Copenhague: Galerie Birch, 1970. Livre. Illus. by Pierre Alechinsky. Assez bon. Cartonnage Éditeur. Dédicacé par l'illustrateur. Edition originale. In-8 Oblong. Sl [Copenhague], Galerie Birch, 1970. 20 x 22 cm, in-8 à l'italienne, 9 ff. de texte (introduction de Birch et texte de Jespersen en français et danois, justification) - 1 f. illustré en couleurs - 20 planches en couleurs sous passe-partout imprimés - 12 ff. d'illustrations reproduites en noir - 1 f. reproduisant un portrait photographique de l'artiste [par Jean-Michel Folon (voir plus bas)] - 2 ff. de fac-similé sur papier translucide portant l'incription "Le Plaisir de peindre, Alechinsky" calligraphiée par l'artiste - 2 ff. blancs, cartonnage blanc de l'éditeur avec titre et auteur à chaud au premier plat et au dos. Catalogue rare, tiré à 100 exemplaires seulement (celui-ci justifié hors commerce), ici… Read More

MAUDE HUMPHREY: Treasury of Stories, Jingles, and Rhymes. Frederick A. Stokes, undated. Circa 1894. FIRST EDITION. ILLUSTRATED BY MAUDE HUMPHREY. Written by Mary Rice Miller and Elisabeth S. Tucker. SHORT STORY ANTHOLOGY. 242 pages. Maroon boards with gold titling and ornamentation. Good condition front paper paste-down label of a little girl wearing a red feather in her blue hat. Please see our photos. Used. Good/ No DJ. A solid copy with intact gutters. "Humphrey was one of the first great American women illustrators paving the way for Jessie Willcox Smith, Grace Drayton and the many other women illustrators of the early 20th century. Humphrey is also known for being film star HUMPHREY BOGART'S mother (and in fact she used her son as a model for many of her pictures)." QUITE RARE. A NICE FIND.

Used. Stevenson, Robert Louis: A Child's Garden of Verses, illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. 1905, Charles Scribner's Sons impression BB2C-1.58[H] Used. VG/Good price-clipped original purple dust jacket. RARE THUS. a gift presentation copy. Has a purple cloth ribbon laid in. This ribbon may be original to the edition, but I don't have that information. Condition: Other than a gift label pasted to front free endpaper and the ribbon, this item appears to be in near fine, unread condition. The purple dust jacket shows wear. Yellow topstain. Please see our photos.CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED CLASSIC SERIES.

QUITE RARE. A Child's Garden Of Verses (1888 Charles Scribner's Sons 1st American Edition) USED. Good+ /No dust jacket included. Leatherbound edition. Please see our photos. Title page states 1888. Former owner bookplate on inside front endpaper. We consider offers

New York: The Floating Bear, 1961. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 12pp (mimeographed), corner-stapled. A rare early issue of this seminal 1960s little magazine. Includes an excerpt from The System of Dante's Hell by Jones and Roosevelt After Inauguration by William Burroughs (Schottlaender v4.C25; Shoaf III-25). An unmarked copy, never folded or mailed, with stains to back cover and a little toning.

1934. AGEE, James. PERMIT ME VOYAGE. With a foreword by Archibald MacLeish. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1934. Volume 33 of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, edited by Stephen Vincent Benet. First edition of Agee's first book. Slim octavo. 59 pp. Green cloth, lettered in dark green at spine. The paper is very lightly age-browned at perimeters, and the cloth is sunned a bit at spine and along the top-edge of boards, else fine. In a near-fine green dust jacket which is sunned at spine and shows light wear along the top-edge, with a few closed tears.

London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1907. Octavo. In two volumes, 748pp., 786pp., portraits, handsomely bound in full brown morocco, raised bands, lettering gilt, morocco turn-in, all edges gilt. Small bump to last few leaves of volume one otherwise a fine bright set. From the library of a Wedgwood family member with gift inscription dated 1908. A very nice set.

NY: Hyperion, 2007. First edition, first prnt. Inscribed by Kennedy on the title page. "For Jean-Claude Joyeux Noel and thanks for all the wonderful Christmases - Love, Caroline." Selected and Introduced by Kennedy. Illustrations by John J. Muth. Satin pagemarker. Contrubutions by Auden, Billy Collins, Ferlinghetti, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, David Sedaris, E.B.White, et al. Spine ends lightly pushed. Near Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. The inscriptee is Jean Claude Suares, author of "Uncommon Grace: Remeninescences and Photogrpahs of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis" and other titles. Suares also worked with Jacqueline Kennedy on her projects at Doubleday. A very nice association... Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy.

Berkeley:: Burton Weiss & James Musser,, 1999.. Limited Edition. A Fine, unread copy. This copy is number 31 of only 65 copies quarter-bound by John DeMerritt in cloth and marbled paper boards. In 1955 at the age of 21, the unknown writer Richard Brautigan had been living in Eugene, Oregon with the family of Edna Webster that was not his own; He was also preparing to leave Oregon for San Francisco to make his mark as a writer. In gratitude for Edna's generosity, he signed over to her the ownership rights to all of his heretofore unpublished fiction and poetry manuscripts. From 1955 until 1992, Edna Webster retained all of the Brautigan material that he gave her in a safe deposit box until she sold the archive to a rare bookseller in the Bay area. After placing the collection in the Bancroft Library, the bookseller arranged for the publication of the prose and poems that appears in this volume. The material is classic Brautigan and considered some of his best .

New York: Seaview, 1978. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 8.5 x 6 inches. 402 pp. Near Fine / Fine. Association copy. Embossed stamp of gifting owner at lower leading corner of front free endpaper: "Library of Harlan Ellison." Inscription with signature on title page from Ellison to recipient, long-time friend and fellow author Joe Hensley: "A Gift to Joe from his pal, Harlan Ellison 19 Feb 87." Red textured paper on board. Gold lettering on spine. White endpapers. Minor shelf wear to lower edges of boards and heel of spine. Small bumps to leading lower tips of both boards. Curved crease across spine 1 inch below crown. Text block square and tight. Interior pristine. Dust jacket now in archival protective cover. Author's second book.