ALL I HAVE IS BLUE.
New York: Atheneum, 1992. First edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED to author Neil McGaughey, "For Neil/ With my great respect and with my thanks. Jim 7-3-92." Fine in dust jacket. Item #35327 More
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AN AMERICAN ROMANCE.
New York: Atheneum, 1977. First edition. Association copy. From the library of Doris Grumbach with her initials on front endpaper. INSCRIBED and SIGNED to Grumbach from John Casey on the title page. Review copy with slip and publisher's letter offering praise from author Brendan Gill laid in. Near fine with..... Item #29423 More
THE ARMINARM ECOLOGUES; With the Hexercises (for the Heclogues): Pieces.
(La Quercia, Italy: John Van Sickle and Giulia Battaglia, 1971). First edition. Number 116 of 180 numbered copies. An additional 20 copies were printed on varying colored paper. THIS COPY INSCRIBED TO PRIZE-WINNING POET ANTHONY HECHT, "For Anthony Hecht, with great esteem, this volume that provoked my life-long study of..... Item #54273 More
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF ROBINSON JEFFERS; [Rare advance copy, signed by Jeffers, being Alberts' own proof copy].
New York: Random House, 1933. First edition. RARE PROOF OF THE EXTREMELY LIMITED EDITION. Bibliographer Sydney Seymour Alberts' own copy, SIGNED BY JEFFERS AT THE FOOT OF "REMEMBERED VERSES" (p.xvi). There were only 15 numbered copies specially bound and signed by Jeffers and Albert in this very limited issue (10..... Item #55504 More
BOOK OF MIRACLES.
New York: Viking Press, 1939. First edition. INSCRIBED BY HECHT on front endpaper, "To SHOLEM ASCH/ of the line of the Prophets/ my deep admiration/ Ben Hecht." A nice sentiment to Asch, the Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist. Both he and Hecht were prolific writers, more celebrated in their own..... Item #55181 More
THE COLLECTED LETTERS OF ROBINSON JEFFERS WITH SELECTED LETTERS OF UNA JEFFERS; [In Three Volumes].
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009 - 2015. First edition of each of the three volumes. Edited by James Karman. VOLUME ONE: 1890-1930 (2009, 700 copies printed); VOLUME TWO: 1931-1939 (2011, 525 copies printed); VOLUME THREE: 1940-1962 (2015, 425 copies printed). Collector Allen Mears' copies, each one marked up lightly in..... Item #55447 More
DEAR JUDAS AND OTHER POEMS.
New York: Horace Liveright, 1932. First edition, 2nd printing. "INSCRIBED for John Ciardi Sincerely Robinson Jeffers March 3, 1941." Also signed by Ciardi on both pastedowns. Ciardi was an American poet, translator, and etymologist. He also contributed to the Saturday Review as a columnist and long-time poetry editor, and directed..... Item #55799 More
DEAR JUDAS AND OTHER POEMS.
New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First edition, 2nd printing. Originally printed in 1929. Laid in the book is a four page ALS from (Dame) Judith Anderson that presumably was mailed with the book to a friend. The letter is warm and personal and reflects Anderson's affection for the recipient. Also..... Item #55818 More
THE ESSENCE OF AESTHETIC.
London: William Heinemann, 1921. First English edition, translated from the Italian by Douglas Ainslie. Joyce’s copy with his SIGNATURE on front endpaper and his manuscript notes on front pastedown and both sides of front endpaper and eight pages of manuscript notes at rear. Very good, lacking dust jacket. AN ASSOCIATION..... Item #55173 More
HIS PLACE FOR STORY: ROBINSON JEFFERS: A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY.
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2015 [2016]. First edition. Presentation and association copy. One of 450 copies. 8.5 x 11 inches. Approximately 280 pages of text plus 80 pages of black-and-white images (repeated in color on CD, which is included). This copy is INSCRIBED BY BROOMFIELD, "For Al Mears..... Item #55974 More
I MISSED THE TRAIN TO LITTLE ROCK.
Conway, Arkansas: Seven Oaks Publ. Co., (1994). First edition. Early, or perhaps the first, poetry selection from the writer, author, singer/songwriter, and professional treasure hunter known for his "Buried Treasures of America" series. INSCRIBED TO LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY, "To L.D.--...one who know the words, the language, the joys, the pains..... Item #54260 More
INVESTMENT FOR APPRECIATION: Forecasting Movements in Security Prices / Technique of Trading in Shares for Profit.
New York: Somerset Publishing Co., 1936. First edition, INSCRIBED, "For Herbert B. Elliston from L. L. B. Angas." Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas was born into a family with a banking background. He was educated in both England and France and earned a Master of Arts degree at Oxford University before..... Item #54595 More
LIGHTS IN THE VALLEY.
New York: Harbinger House, (1942). First edition. Poetry collection from the "King of Greenwich Village Bohemians" who descended into dereliction after making a name for himself in the 1920s and '30s (Wikipedia). ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED, "To [William] Saroyan/ A poet to another poet/ --- is there/ any difference?/ Maxwell Bodenheim."..... Item #55982 More
LIVES AND DEATHS OF THE POETS AND NON-POETS.
St. Louis: (no-publisher), 1991. First edition. Privately printed for friends of the poet. Published a year after she won the Pulitzer Prize for NEAR CHANGES. This copy INSCRIBED TO FELLOW POET LAUREATE AND PRIZE-WINNING POET ANTHONY HECHT and wife, "For Tony & Helen, this odd collection for friends--elegies, poems, occasional..... Item #54274 More
LOT OF SEVEN BOOKS, EACH ONE INSCRIBED TO POET LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY: Color of Darkness; Malcolm; The Nephew; Children Is All.
(New York, et al: Farrar; New Directions; et al, 1959 - 1962). A mix of first edition hardcovers, later printings and paperbacks, all of which are INSCRIBED by Purdy to Brodsky. COLOR OF DARKNESS, (New York): New Directions, (1957), second printing, INSCRIBED, "For Louis Brodsky with sincere good wishes from..... Item #54266 More
MEDEA: Freely Adapted From the MEDEA of Euripides.
New York: Random House, 1946. First edition. SCARCE FIRST ISSUE with pages 99-100 intregal and line 21, which should read "least," missing. ASSOCIATION COPY with ownership signature of poet and author JOHN FREDERICK NIMS on front endpaper and with his penciled comments and notations. Nims was an editor at Poetry..... Item #55487 More
MUSE ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN POETRY: Poe Memorial Edition.
New York: Carlyle Straub, (1938). First edition, the "DeLuxe Edition." Frontispiece portrait of Poe by Franklin Booth; cover design and titles by Edgar Paulton. Number 786 of 3,000 copies with colophon initialed "C.S.," by the publisher, Carlyle Straub, though not called for. ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED BY PUBLISHER AND BY COMPILER..... Item #55497 More
THE NEON WILDERNESS.
Gloucester, Mass: Peter Smith, 1968. Later edition. Half-title page stamped "From the Library of Peter Bogdanovich." TYPED LETTER SIGNED BY TERKEL TO BOGDANOVICH laid in. Undated, on WFMT ("Chicago's Fine Arts" radio station) letterhead. Speaks of having met in Chicago and talked about Algren, refers to Bogdanovich's film of "The..... Item #55779 More
NEVER COME MORNING.
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1942). First edition. INSCRIBED BY ALGREN, "For Jimmy Cannon, Who knows it's from the depths the stars shine clearest, God bless his Merry Christmas. Nelson Algren, '57." Journalist Jimmy Cannon (1909-1973) was inducted to the International Boxing Hall of Fame for his coverage of the..... Item #54153 More
THE PALE WOMAN AND OTHER POEMS.
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1927. First edition. Casebound, in dust jacket. ASSOCIATION COPY WITH LENGTHY INSCRIPTION BY FIELD TO HER SISTER and husband. Good in fair dust jacket. California poet's first book. Decorated paper over boards with white linen cloth spine. Field was a close friend of Robinson Jeffers..... Item #55638 More
PAUL LANDACRE.
San Francisco, CA: Book Club of California, 1982. First edition. Plain white dust jacket. Designed by Ward Ritchie and printed by the Castle Press. One of 50 copies reserved for collaborators out of a press run of 650. ASSOCIATION COPY FROM RITCHIE TO ANTHONY LEHMAN, himself the author of a...... Item #55854 More
ROAN STALLION, TAMAR AND OTHER POEMS.
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. First edition, One of 1,200 in the first printing. Bound in faded dark purple boards with polished black vellum back strip and gilt lettering on back strip and covers. Charles Erskine Scott Wood's and Sara Bard Field's copy. Ownership markings by Wood and Field..... Item #55814 More
A SAILOR'S LOG: Recollections of Forty Years of Naval Life; [Inscribed from the American Admiral to his British Counterpart and with the first appearance of the poem written for Evans by Rudyard Kipling on p.402].
New York: D. Appleton, 1908. Later printing INSCRIBED BY EVANS on title page, "For Captain Keyes with my best wishes, R. D. Evans." Robley Dunglison Evans (1846-1912) was a rear admiral in the U.S. Navy, serving from the Civil War to the Spanish-American War. Roger John Brownlow Keyes (1872-1945), was..... Item #54171 More
SAN JOAQUIN.
Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1939. First edition. One of only 100 copies of his second book and first to be hardbound. Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED BY EVERSON TO HIS FRIEND AND OYEZ PUBLISHER, "for Bob Hawley/ very happy to inscribe this copy of/ San Joaquin/..... Item #55619 More
SOLSTICE AND OTHER POEMS.
New York: Random House, 1935. First edition, trade issue. Association copy from the library of Jeffers' friend and bibliographer Sydney S. Alberts. Bound in smooth green cloth over boards with titling information on the cover and spine printed in gold. The book is near fine in very good to fine..... Item #55956 More