THE RIVER

Santa Barbara, CA: Joseph the Provider Books, nd. First edition thus. Softcover. Includes 6 poems by Laughlin. A very good copy in stapled wrappers with some slight creasing to the corners.

Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions. 1939. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good in boards. Review copy stamp on front end page, dated Nov 1, 1939. Spine is bare, threading visible. Back panel somewhat loose. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

TWICE A YEAR, NUMBER 2, N.Y.C.,1939, first edition, Volume 1, #2 of this semi annual journal of literature, the arts and civil liberties, some light soiling and tanning to the covers, else just about a vg copy with near fine contents. Illustrated. Contributions by: Marcel Proust, William Carlos Williams, Herbert Seligmann, Frank Kingdon, Randolph Bourne, John Marin, Benjamin Cardozo, James Laughlin IV, George Bernard Shaw, Louis H. Sullivan, William Lescaze, Lewis Mumford, Walter Gropius, Roger Baldwin, Osmond K. Fraenkel, Theodore Irwin, et.al.

Norfolk: New Directions, (1938).. First edition.. [352 pp]. Bottom board edges rubbed, else near fine in fine dust jacket. John Berryman, Kenneth Patchen Eleanor Clark, Charles Henri Ford, Louis Zukofsky, Delmore Schwartz, and special sections on design, and modern poets of Japan.

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions. 1937. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated boards printed in blue, black, and grey. Unpaged. Spine only faintly darkened with minor rubbing to ends; light rubbing along bottom edges; top page edges and endpapers lightly yellowed; nice bookplate inside front cover of John Bennett Shaw, the noted Sherlockian; else fine. The dust jacket (design by Alfonso Ossorio, duplicating covers), has small corner chips to the yellowed spine; light sunning to flap folds and upper margin of rear panel; VG+ otherwise. A nice copy. Contributions by Jean Cocteau, Henry Miller, Kay Boyle, W.C. Williams, Gertrude Stein, e.e. cummings, Delmore Schwartz, Kenneth Rexroth, and others, including five pages titled "Distillates", short prose by one of Canada's earliest modernist poets (and first Imagist poet) W.W.E. Ross. An uncommon volume from the second year of this distinguished modernist press. ; Octavo .

Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, (1937). Unpaginated. 8vo. Pictorial boards with gentle bumping at some cornertips, board edge, and head of spine; dustwrapper's spine panel slightly sunned. A very handsome copy and close to near fine. First edition, first printing. Contributors include Henry Miller, Kay Boyle, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, E.E. Cummings, William Saroyan, Delmore Schwartz, Kenneth Rexroth, and others.

Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1936. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Wrappers printed in yellow, red, and black. Owner's initials, just about fine. Contributors include Elizabeth Bishop (preceding her first book by a decade), Wallace Stevens, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Jean Cocteau, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, E.E. Cummings, Kay Boyle, Lorine Niedecker, Dudley Fitts, Henry Miller, Louis Zukofsky, Eugene Jolas, and others. The first volume in the series, one of 513 copies.