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
ASSOCIATION COPY
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
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
COLLECTED POEMS.
London: Faber and Faber, (1960). First edition. Harry Blackmer's copy, signed on front endpaper, "Harry Blackmer/ Paris/ May '60." This presumably being the ownership signature of Colorado millionaire, Henry "Harry" Blackmer, who spent much of his life in self-imposed exile in Europe to avoid testifying in the Teapot Dome oil..... Item #55025 More
THE COUNTRY BETWEEN US.
New York: Harper & Row, (1982). First edition after the 1981 signed, limited. INSCRIBED to Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate Anthony Hecht on title page, "For Anthony, With great admiration and warm regards, and with gratitiude for your warmth and welcome at the library. October 26, 1982 / Washington..... Item #53727 More
DANGEROUS INHERITANCE.
Diana Younger. London: Hutchinson & Co., (1965). First edition. INSCRIBED on the title page to his step-daughter Diana Younger, "For Diana and Went / With love from Dennis." She illustrated the dust jacket for his 1938 book, THE GOLDEN SPANIARD as well as endpapers for several others. Fine in near..... Item #53578 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
DRAWINGS.
New York: H. R. Russell and Son, 1894. First edition. INSCRIBED TO THE ARTIST DANIEL BEARD on the dedication page, "To Dan Beard whose advice and friendship is of the greatest value to his friend C. D. Gibson, Dec. 1894." Beard was an illustrator, author, youth leader and social reformer..... Item #71535 More
THE ESSENCE OF AESTHETIC.
London: William Heinemann, 1921. First UK edition. Translated from the Italian by Douglas Ainslie. JOYCE CARY'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..... Item #55173 More
EXISTENTIAL ERRANDS.
Boston: Little Brown, (1972). First edition. One of the dedication copies. From the collection of Adeline Lubell-Naiman. INSCRIBED on dedication page below the printed names, "Could this be for your distinguished service in Maidstone dear old editor darling? / Love / Norman." A collection of essays, excerpts, etc., written from..... Item #49634 More
FOUR LIVING POETS; [“Essays in appreciation of James Daly, Robinson Jeffers, Ruth Pitter, and E. Merrill Root”].
[Santa Barbara: The Unicorn Press, 1944]. First edition. Presumed advance issue without publication information on title page. INSCRIBED by Gilbert, “To/ Marlan Beilke/ with singular pleasure/ Rudolph Gilbert/ 5-1969.” Beilke’s bookplate (signed in pencil by him) inside front cover. 8vo light gray paperwraps printed in dark gray; 53 pages. Very..... Item #72088 More
THE HONEST ACCOUNT OF A MEMORABLE LIFE: AN APOCRYPHAL GOSPEL
(Rocky Mount, NC): North Carolina Wesleyan College Press, (1994). First edition, limited issue. Number 520 of 750 SIGNED copies, this one INSCRIBED to the Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate Anthony Hecht and his wife, "For Tony & Helen with love & hope from Reynolds." Fine in original burgundy cloth..... Item #53647 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
KIPLING'S COLLEGE. (W. M. Carpenter's copy presented to his brother).
Evanston, W. M. Carpenter, 1929. First edition. One of 100 copies for private circulation. [Richards B83]. First book appearance of "Speech on Behalf of the Old Boys" and first appearances of several letters. A history of Kipling's prepatory school by Chicago manufacturer William Montelle Carpenter, whose Kipling collection is now..... Item #56078 More
THE LAST OF THE CRAZY PEOPLE.
Toronto: General Publishing, (1967). First edition of the author's first book. INSCRIBED to his "Uncle Doug": "I dropped in to see Father and I thought perhaps you might enjoy my signing this - my first novel. Best wishes Tif / Timothy Findley / Cannington / October 10,1967." Tanning to front..... Item #39960 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: [Privately printed], 1991. First edition. Rare, privately printed book of poetry published for her friends after she had won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for NEAR CHANGES (1990) over Anthony Hecht's THE TRANSPARENT MAN. The final poem in the volume, "Long Stretch Minimalist Sonnet IXX (for Howard),"..... Item #54274 More
THE LOST FLYING BOAT; [Inscribed association copy].
Boston: Little, Brown, (1983). First U.S. edition. SIGNED IN FULL on title page and INSCRIBED BY SILLITOE on front endpaper to Walter Sullivan, "A ripping yarn! --/ that took 25 years/ to struggle out./ In all friendship/ and with warm and/ sincere feelings to/ Walter from/ Alan/ Nashville/ 23/3/85." Walter..... Item #72118 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
MONEY: and How It Gets That Way.
Paris: Booster Publications, (1938). First edition. INSCRIBED TO THE PAINTER HILAIRE HILER, "To Hilaire Hiler -- monetary expert. Henry 10/38. Hiler, a fellow expatriate in Paris in the 1920s, tutored Miller in art. (He and Miller, together with William Saroyan, authored a 1945 book on the subject called WHY ABSTRACT?)..... Item #54161 More
MY FATHER'S PEOPLE: A Family of Southern Jews; [Inscribed association copy].
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (2002). First edition. INSCRIBED BY RUBIN on title page to Walter and Jane Sullivan, "To Walter & Jane -- L." Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor, authority on Southern literature and -- along with Rubin -- one of the..... Item #72113 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
POWER IN MEN.
London: Nicholson & Watson/The Liberal Book Club, (1939). First edition. The "Liberal Book Club" edition preceding the first trade. SIGNED by Cary on the title page and INSCRIBED TO AUTHOR J. B. PRIESTLEY on the front free endpaper, "J. B. Priestley/ from his most sincerely/ the author" in Cary's typical..... Item #55174 More