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Harcourt Brace, New York, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Poor. LOUIS UNTERMEYER (editor). American Poetry From the Beginning to Whitman, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1931.Octavo, first edition, pp. xxvi, 827, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and a blind-stamped tree on front, bookplate of the naval captain and author Frank Lester Pleadwell on front pastedown, partially obscured under the book label of Laura Mell Pleadwell. Facing the bookplate is a partly bound-in TLS from Untermeyer, acknowledging Pleadwell's criticism and praise of the Untermeyer book, and concluding with a friendly hand-written postscript. An interesting private exchange between two early-American poetry experts. There are a few pages of notes laid in, probably Pleadwell's but that is speculation.Condition of this book:The jacket is in 3 pieces, more or less held together under Brodart. The book is very good with some edge wear to the… Read More

Longmans, Green, London, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover (Printed Boards). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. FLORENCE K. UPTON, with text by Bertha Upton. The Golliwogg's Bicycle Club, London: Longmans, Green, 1896.Oblong quarto, first edition, pp. 63, printed boards quarter-bound in blue cloth. Racially insensitive images in a 19th-century children's book.Condition of this book:Covers lightly soiled, rubbed at extremities, scattered foxing, preliminaries toned, overall a very good, sound copy. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Britain/UK; 19th century; Children. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 54225. .

Sei Sei Doh, Japan, 1980. Edition Unstated. Hardcover (in Slipcase). Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. [SHUNGA] Utamaro, Kitagawa. The Merry Drinkers, Japan: Sei Sei Doh, 1980.Octavo, Volume 2 of a 2-book Shunga series that also included The Gifted Venus, pp. 9, 2, 27 painting reproductions (most double-p.), 8 (Japanese text). Cloth boards, illustrated cardboard slipcase. First nine pages are a translation in English of the original Japanese text that went with the Utamaro paintings, which illustrate the bawdy Asian tale we know as "The Merry Drinkers." Then come the paintings, then the Japanese text. The English translation, by the Australian Peter Dale, is graphic and sometimes crude, in keeping with the tone of The Merry Drinkers. Rough but high-quality stock -- leaves are uncut but there is no reason to cut them as the verso areas are blank.Near fine in very good slipcase.Leaves clean and tight. Size: Octavo (standard book size). unpaginated. One volume… Read More