The Darkling Thrush
Salem, NH: Salem House, 1985. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. A lovely copy of this book of poems by Hardy, illustrated by Gordon Beningfield.
Salem, NH: Salem House, 1985. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. A lovely copy of this book of poems by Hardy, illustrated by Gordon Beningfield.
San Francisco: Towne & Beacon, 1867. FIRST. VG. 12mo. Original purple cloth with a gilt mast and sail centered on the front board. Spine faded uniformly to a slightly lighter lilac. Edges beveled. Brown endpapers. A fine copy with no chipping or damage to the edges. Houses in an orange folding inner chemise which sits in a 1/4 orange morocco.....
Liberty: The Quality Press, 1969. FIRST. F. A clean, bright and solid copy. Inscribed, signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper.
New York: Farrar, Straus Giroux, 2000. FIRST. F / F. As new. Unopened and unread. Winner of the Whitbread Award.
New York: Farrar, Straus Giroux, 2000. FIRST. F / F. As new. Unopened and unread. Winner of the Whitbread Award.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / good. Cloth boards with vellum spine, lettered in gilt. Illustrations, decorations and lovely endpapers all by Willy Pogany. Translated into English by Herman Scheffauer. With a warm signed inscription from Scheffauer on the endpaper, dated 1913. With the original glassine which is tattered but mostly present. Scarce in this.....
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1872. F. A fine copy bound in full brown morocco with gilt borders and elaborate gilt design on the spine. Black leather spine label lettered in gilt. All edges marbled as are the endpapers. An award book, specially bound for a deserving student who has taken a first prize in the Oxford Local Examination. A......
London: Faber & Faber, 2009. First Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. A fine copy, unopened and unread, housed in the original slip-case. 110 copies of The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables have been specially bound and signed by Seamus Heaney. 100 copies are for sale, the remaining ten copies are reserved for Mr. Heaney. This copy is numbered 61...
NP: NP, (1961). First printing, thus. Paperback. Fine. Card stock, printed in black with illustrated woodcut. Designed to be folded but this copy is not. Printed on both sides. Fine.
New York: Three Sirens Press, 1932. FIRST. VG.
San Jose: Resource Publications, 1987. FIRST. F / F. A fine copy in all respects. Inscribed, signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper.
London: Gall & Inglis. FIRST. F.
New York: Macmillan, 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. A very clean, bright and solid copy of the poet's first commercially available book, preceded only by Flagons and Apples from 1912. The original blue cloth is bright and unmarked. The gilt lettering and design are quite bright. Top edge gilt. Previous owner book-plate loosely affixed to the front paste-down, and.....
San Mateo: Quercus Press, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 1 of 250 unnumbered copies, of which 200 were for sale. Slim 4to, slate colored paper on boards. Untrimmed Kelmscott hand-made watermarked paper. Text printed on the Albion proof press used by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press. Issued without dust jacket. Contains two poems written by Jeffers after a brief.....
Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Press, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. A very nice copy of this collection of poetry in a very nice dust jacket. One chip at the bottom of the spine and one closed tear at the front panel.
London: Elkin Mathews, 1907. First Edition. Near Fine. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt to the front panel and spine. The green of the spine is just a shade paler than that of the front and rear boards. Previous owner book-plate to the front paste-down. Gorman, an early Joyce biographer, states there were 509 copies of the first printing. The.....
New York: The Black Sun Press, 1936-12-01. FIRST LIMITED ED. Limited Edition Number 607 OF 800. F / FAIR.
New York: Aaron M. Kaye, 1952. FIRST. NF / F. A very clean, bright and solid copy in the scarce dust jacket.
New York: Modern Library Giant, Circa 1960. Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. A really sharp copy of this Modern Library Giant. 914pp. The book is very solid with true corners. The jacket is complete and very bright. There is some minor spotting to the spine of the jacket.
New York: Barse and Hopkins, 1900. FIRST. Soft. Good. No date, circa 1900. Full brown suede lettered in gilt. t.e.g. Fragile. The book is separated from the soft suede cover but is easily restored. An extremely scarce item.
London: Methuen & Co., (1918). Soft Cover. Near Fine. Small single fold pamphlet containing Kipling's poem, The Holy War, an homage to John Bunyan. Black lettering and design on buff stiff paper. A very clean and solid example of this fragile work. The U.S. edition of 1917 predates the U.K. edition. It was done to secure copyright protection and was.....
New York: The Grolier Club, 1966. FIRST LIMITED ED. Hardcover. Limited Edition Number of 1200. Fine / Fine. Large 4to. A fine copy in all respects of this volume, from an un-numbered limited edition of 1200 copies.
New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. A very clean, bright and brilliant copy that has been professionally restored. New spine label.
New York: Platt & Munk, 1963. F / NF. Illustrated by Leo Summers. A lovely copy in a dust jacket with wrap-around art. The jacket is price-clipped, else fine.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original pale green paper with white label to the front panel. Black cloth spine with white label. In the scarce complete dust jacket showing only minor edge-wear and some scuffing to the spine. Contains essays on Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, D. H. Lawrence and John Masefield, to.....