New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956. First edition of the poet's first regularly published book. In the Yale Series of Younger Poets, with a foreword by W.H. Auden. Award-winning poet Anthony Hecht's copy with his ownership signature on front endpaper. The book is fine in near fine dust jacket with..... Item #53616 More
New York: The Viking Press, (1984). First edition. INSCRIBED by prize-winning poet Ashbery to Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate Anthony Hecht and wife on title page, "for Tony and Helen with love, John Ashbery / May 23,1984." Spots of excess ink to fore-edges of last several leaves (appears to..... Item #53732 More
London: The Medici Society, (1930). First edition thus. Very good with rubbing along the edges and faint offset to the endpapers, but otherwise in excellent condition. Dust jacket is tanned and split along the spine (but repaired with archival tape on verso), with several small closed tears and a chip..... Item #51581 More
New York: Association Press, (1973). First edition. Brooks on 82 plays from the period with Hirschfeld's drawings. Fine in lightly soiled, very good dust jacket with rubbing along the edges and spine ends but still an attractive copy with no chips or tears. Item #51198 More
AtwoodM.pdf. Item #22738 More
Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, (1961). First edition. "Letters revealing his life as a painter," selected and with foreword by W.H. Auden. Illustrated with 8 tipped-in color plates of paintings and 24 drawings in black and white. Bright and fine in very good dust jacket with creased tear to top..... Item #54492 More
(London): Faber & Faber, (1933). First edition. One of only 1200 copies in the first printing. Green paper-covered boards stamped in black on front and spine. Near fine with few inconspicuous nicks to paper covering; in near fine dust jacket with clean tear to spine internally repaired with tape. A...... Item #35592 More
London: Faber & Faber, (1948). First British edition of his Pulitzer Prize winner. Preceded by the American edition published the previous year, Fine in slightly aged dust jacket with spine just a bit darkened. Nice copy. Only 3,000 copies. Item #43662 More
AudenW.pdf. Item #43904 More
(Princeton): Princeton University Press, (1988). First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Item #54520 More
New York: Random House, (1972). First edition. Two-toned, lime-green boards. The book has lightly sunned spine and edges with two tiny nicks to bottom edges of boards where bruised. Printed dust jacket is barely rubbed along edges. A very good to near fine copy. Item #48398 More
London: Faber & Faber, (1954). First edition. Ariel Poem illustrated by Edward Bawden. Fine in yellow, printed paperwraps and publisher's salmon-colored, printed envelope. Item #49805 More
AustenJ.pdf. Item #42853 More
Isabel Bishop. New York: Dutton, (1976). Illustrated with black-and-white sketches by Isabel Bishop, first edition thus; with a biographical note and afterword by the artist. Magazine and newspaper clippings laid in at rear. An attractive gift edition. Fine in fine slipcase. Item #55150 More
New York: Siamese Banana Press, [1972]. First edition. SIGNED BY AUSTER. Poems by Breton, Elaurd, Artaud, Aragon, Arp, et al, translated from the French by Auster. 8.5 x 11" leaves printed in black on rectos only and stapled along left side; cover art by George Schneeman. Paperwraps show mild aging..... Item #46023 More
AusterP.pdf. Item #22739 More
New York: Richard K. Fox, 1899. First edition. Small stapled paperwraps measuring approximately 3 x 4.25" with cover serving as title page. 151 pages plus ads. Illustrated with drawings and inserted full-page black-and-white photographs, 6 of boxers and one of the compiler, Sam Austin. Statistics for various the sports make..... Item #56141 More
London: Oxford University Press, 1960. First edition. Children's book, edited by Avery and illustrated by Susan Einzig. Light offset to endpapers, otherwise fine in fine dust jacket. A very bright copy. Item #30476 More
New York: Random House, (1953). First edition. "A Random House play" illustrated with photographs from the original stage production. Tom Ewell won a Tony Award for his portrayal of Richard Sherman and later starred in Billy Wilder's film version with Marilyn Monroe. Fine in near fine dust jacket with slightly..... Item #40263 More
New York: Random House, (1956). First edition. A "Random House Play" illustrated with photographs from the original stage production which featured Jayne Mansfield and Walter Matthau. Fine in near fine dust jacket with some minor rubbing on edges and light soiling on back panel. Item #24792 More
[Santa Barbara]: Pride of Tacoma Press, 2004. First edition. Ken Kesey's buddy compiled this from tapes and talks with Neal Cassady. One of 100 SIGNED copies (according to the colophon, there were an addition 100 were printed for the "skypilotclub"). 16 pages; stiff pictorial, stapled paperwraps with cover illustration of..... Item #55128 More
New Haven: Privately Printed, 1909. First edition. PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING POET'S FIRST BOOK, written the year he graduated Yale University. INSCRIBED BY BACON, "Charles A. Bennett / ex dono auctoris [a gift of the author]." From the collection of cartoonist Claude Smith with his penciled ownership signature. Light blue paperwraps printed..... Item #51393 More
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1907. Third revised and augmented edition. Includes thirteen colored maps and twelve plans (many folding and two-page). Flexible, red cloth boards with gilt-lettered front and spine and marbled page edges. Light rubbing still very good. Item #52637 More
Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1892. Eighth revised edition. Includes three maps and fifteen plans (many folding and two-page). Flexible, red cloth boards, gilt-lettered on front and spine, marbled page edges. Frontis folding map torn and beginning to detach, otherwise about very good with covers scuffed. Item #52638 More
