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Oxford: Oxford university press, 1963 ¶ FIRST EDITION. 'A study of J. Colet's copy of the Epistolae of Marsilio Ficino, including the original text with a translation of Colet's marginalia and of some correspondence between the two' (LC), together with a Bibliography of John Colet, pages [149]-159. ||| Collation: In 8s (246 x 186 mm): 92 leaves, paginated [i-ii blank] [iii-xii], [1-3] 4-172. Halftone frontispiece (two portraits), five halftone plates (seven figures on three leaves, mostly printed recto and verso). Binding: Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt. References: LCCN 63005309; OCLC 900390. Condition: Ex library. .

New York: Swann Galleries, Inc, 2001     ¶ Only edition of this valuable catalogue, already very scarce, describing an extraordinary collection of sixty-one unpublished love-letters (1965) from Janis Joplin to Peter De Blanc, pages [40-50]. Selected index, page [81].   ||| Collation: 241 x 165 mm: Forty-four leaves, paginated [1-88] (ie, not paginated). Partly priced, printed price-list laid in.  Illustration: Sixty-seven halftone illustrations.  Binding: Color-pictorial wrappers. .

Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1970 *** ONLY EDITION; representing De Lisio's first exhibition in the United States and reproducing his remarkable portraits in terra-cotta or bronze of Proust, Marianne Moore, Poe (2), Stevenson, Janet Flanner, Gertrude Stein (2), Nabokov, Auden, Beardsley (2), Pound, Wilde, Henry James, Verlaine and Rimbaud, Baudelaire, and Joyce (2). Foreword by Anthony M. Clark. Rare. -- The present copy is INSCRIBED BY THE ARTIST "To Tommy, with affection. Mike", on the titlepage. -- In 16 (196 x 114 mm): Pp [1-32]. Pictorial wrappers. -- References: OCLC 14044892, 24681527, 48439199. Not in Getty, Frick, or MMA. -- Wrappers somewhat soiled. .

London &c: Methuen & co, ltd, 1928 ¶ FIRST PRINTING (with statement "First Published in 1928" on the title verso). Thirty-seven essays, including one on the reception of Joyce's Ulysses (pages 41-47) and another on The vendor of labels (167-69) who "takes up his position near an establishment which occupies itself with the forwarding of baggage" and hawks "a rich assortment" of hotel-labels: "Upon them are written the names of the principal hotels of the great tourist centres of the world. . . . The voyager chooses for himself." ||| Collation: In 8s (190 x 127 mm): Pp. xi, 207. Binding: Blue cloth lettered in gilt. Condition: A good copy. ||| For further details please contact Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts, as below. .