Kappes, Spiegle and Treat. New York: Wood & Holbrook, Publishers, 1876. Third edition. With 125 illustrations by Kappes, Spiegle and Treat. Part I, "Embracing Health, Digestion, Disease, and the Science of the Reproductive Organs," by George; and Part II, "Embracing Dress, Heredity, Child-training, Kitchen and Dining-room Ethics," by Susan. Near..... Item #52562 More
New York: Crown Publishers, 1966. First edition. Number 96 of 150 SIGNED copies. With an original SIGNED etching, "Girl with Sunflowers" laid in. Foreword by Abram Lerner & "Proem: An Opinion" by James A. Michener. 160 pages with 117 drawings and 59 prints in black and white. Also contains a...... Item #53159 More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1992. First edition. BCC #199. Although stated limitation is 400 copies, there were only 333 copies distributed according to Ann Whipple at the Book Club of California (10/4/02 email to collector Allen Mears) as 67 of the 400 copies were lost in delivery. Collects..... Item #55572 More
Santa Cruz, Calif: Peter and Donna Thomas, 1995. First edition. No. 14 of 75 copies SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHERS. (From a total edition of 82 copies as there were an additional seven copies lettered A-G and bound in morocco-backed boards with sculpted paper rose on the front cover by origami..... Item #55620 More
Berkeley: Oyez, 1967. Limited edition. No. 158 of 200, in original scarce plain white dust jacket. (There were also 20 lettered copies that are not listed on the colophon or in Bartlett and Campo). The papers are untrimmed and bound into orange Ingress endpapers and maroon cloth covered boards. Titling..... Item #55674 More
Santa Barbara: Capricorn Press, 1972. Designed and printed by Noel Young. #178/250 SIGNED BY ANTONIUS (Everson). Illustration in yellow, green and blue. Title page blocks cut by Graham Mackintosh. Printed on Curtis Rag paper, hand bound by Earle Grey in dark green glazed cloth stamped in gilt. In original clear..... Item #55678 More
Northridge, Calif. Lord John Press, 1984. First edition. Letter "W" of 26 lettered copies SIGNED BY EVERSON AND THE ILLUSTRATOR, who provided the frontis woodcut. Issued without dust jacket. There were also 125 numbered; total edition was 151. Designed and printed on Nideggen paper by Patrick Reagh, Printers. Measures 11.75"..... Item #55677 More
(Torrance, CA): Labyrinth Editions, 1980. First edition. Deluxe issue. Two volumes, the second being a PORTFOLIO OF BROADSHEETS WITH EACH ONE SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR & ARTIST and including an AUTOGRAPH POEM SIGNED BY EVERSON. A stunningly beautiful production. Selected for inclusion in surveys of fine contemporary press work by..... Item #55585 More
(Torrance, CA): Labyrinth Editions, 1980. First edition. A stunningly beautiful production. Selected for inclusion in surveys of fine contemporary press work by the Library of Congress as well as the Grolier Club. Number 94 of 250 copies SIGNED BY EVERSON & KILLION who provides the five superb dark blue linoleum..... Item #55584 More
New York: Viking Press, 1982. First edition thus. LEAVES OF GRASS preface arranged as poetry by Everson. Two woodcuts and SIGNED BY EVERSON, Very fine in dust jacket. Item #55685 More
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1977. Number 96 of 100 cop,ies SIGNED BY EVERSON. Illustrated by Richard Hotchkiss with photos by Jerry N. Uelsmann. Printed by the Blue Oak Press, Newcastle, Ca. Bound in quarter brown cloth with natural linen covered boards. Gilt-lettered spine. Fine in white illustrated dust jacket with..... Item #55684 More
Berkeley: Oyez Press, 1976. First edition. Number 102 of 250 SIGNED numbered copies (of which 200 were for sale). There were also 26 lettered hardbound copies and 1,000 copies offset printed. Folio. Illustrated from erotic line drawings by Patrick Kennedy. Bound in half calf and decorated paper over boards with..... Item #55676 More
Saint Paul, Minn. Bieler Press, (1982). First edition. Number 126 of 150 numbered copies SIGNED BY FOSS AND SCHANILEC. Printed on dampened Gutenberg laid paper with covers of plain hand-made bark paper from Mexico. Laid in printed paper chemise. An attractive, understated production. Fine. Item #55509 More
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., (1947). First edition. Translated and illustrated by Wanda Gag. Her final work, which was published after her death. Small worn spot on front cover and two tiny holes and small scrape on rear spine gutter. It appears that the edges have been somewhat inexpertly touched up..... Item #25684 More
Robin Adsit. Seattle: Black Heron Press, (1987). First edition. Short stories by the founders of the Black Heron Press -- five by Galloway and six by Gold. Illustrated by Robin Adsit. Early proof, presumably for the illustrations as Adsit's artwork appears to have been fastened at top with some sort..... Item #51399 More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, [circa 1910's]. First U.S. edition. Illustrated with 65 photographic plates. Blue cloth boards with gilt-stamped illustration and lettering on front and gilt-lettered spine. Good only with flaking to cloth (appears to be old insect damage), cloth at head of spine quite frayed and frontispiece nicked..... Item #52594 More
Cambridge: MIT Press, (1997). First edition. Foreword by Julia VanHaaften. Short essays and full-page pictures of about 180 writers including Allen Ginsberg, Quentin Crisp, Edmund White, Doris Grumbach, Jonathan Williams, et al. Short tear in front endpaper at hinge, otherwise fine in dust jacket. Item #47054 More
Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., (1914). First edition. Near fine with light rubbing to spine ends and corners. In a very good dust jacket with light soiling, two 3/4" deep chips to the bottom of the front panel and a 1" chip to the top of the rear panel. Jacket..... Item #51611 More
Covarrubias. New York: Covici Freide, 1929. First edition. Second issue with dedication tipped in. Introduction by Draper and foreword by Van Vechten, white patrons of the Harlem Renaissance. 10 full-page illustrations by Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias. "Gordon, who has taken America and Europe by storm with his interpretation of Negro..... Item #54675 More
Shepard, Ernest H. London: Methuen & Co, (1931). Ernest Shepard illustrations, first edition thus. The 38th edition of this beloved tale, which was first issued in 1908 with a frontispiece by Graham Robertson as its only illustration. Gift inscription on first blank page, few scattered spots of foxing, corners rubbed..... Item #49525 More
Searle, Ronald. Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1959. First edition. Precedes the UK. Homer's ILIAD, translated and with an introduction by Graves. Illustrated with full-page drawings by Searle. Fine in fine dust jacket with just a touch of minor wear. Item #55037 More
Searle, Ronald. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1959. First edition, preceding the UK edition. Translated and with an introduction by Graves; illustrated by Ronald Searle. Excess glue at upper spine and small spot on page fore edges, otherwise fine in very bright dust jacket with light soiling to rear..... Item #35627 More
Pinto, Ralph. (no place): Harlan Quist, (1966). First edition. Fine in dust jacket with a touch of very minor rubbing to head of spine. "Library binding" foil seal on spine of dust jacket. A very bright copy, beautifully illustrated by Ralph Pinto. From 1964-1984, Harlan Quist published over sixty children's..... Item #35795 More
Kripplebush, New York: Nadja, (1995). First edition, limited issue. Illustrated with a wispy stream of red squiggled lines by Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012), a painter, printmaker, sculptor, writer, and poet herself, whose work after 1960 was almost completely abstract (Wikipedia). NUMBER XVII (17) of 25 ROMAN-NUMERALED COPIES "reserved for the poet..... Item #54267 More