New York: William Morrow & Co., 1932. First U.S. edition. INSCRIBED BY HILTON on front endpaper to a prolific Baltimore book collector, "For Aquilla D. Hanson Jr./ with best wishes from/ James Hilton." Light aging and faintest of damp staining to covers but still very good with old tape shadows..... Item #55561 More
London: Macmillan & Co Ltd., 1941. First UK edition. A man injured while fighting during WWI finds his way on the verge of WWII. The book is good to very good with very minor wear in a good or better, aging and wilting dust jacket with a number of small..... Item #56014 More
Andes, NY: Woolmer/Brotherson, 1976. First edition in dust jacket. Also includes the 1986 revised edition. Two volumes. Bibliography and history of the Press of Virginia and Leonard Woolf. Original gilt-stamped purple cloth. A checklist of the 440 titles published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at their Hogarth Press. With illustrations..... Item #55865 More
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 1858. First edition. Collection of essays originally published in The Atlantic Monthly 1857-58. Correct first printing per BAL with period following "Company" in publisher's imprint on title page, extra-illustrated vignette title page present, and pp. [375-6] blank (versus with ads). In binding "A" with spine..... Item #55554 More
[No-place]: Eric Holter / Peniel Press, 1992. First edition of each of these five limited-edition broadsides all of which are SIGNED BY THE POETS. Printed by Eric Holter at his Peniel Press. All are within 15 x 9" and printed on various colors and weights of fine deckled-edge papers. Fine..... Item #56202 More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1980 - 2006. LETTERS are both on half-sheet Arion Press stationery: the first is dated 16 May 1988 and reads in part, “Congratulations on your retirement! Now you will have more time for your bookish pursuits. My own set of summer whites was retired in 1960..... Item #71651 More
Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1916. First edition. Only 250 copies printed. His uncommon first book -- a selection of poetry published as number 7 in Blackwell's "Adventurers All" series of "young poets unknown to fame." Small 8vo cream paperwraps with lower and fore edges yapped (i.e., overhanging) and printed labels..... Item #55187 More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1923. First edition. Twenty-seven notes and essays by Huxley. The book has offset on end papers otherwise very good in dust jacket with light chipping on corners and spine ends. Item #55191 More
New York: Viking Press, (1968). First edition. Posthumous collection edited by her husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman. From the collection of sports writer Paul "Dr. Z" Zimmerman with his penciled notations on rear endpaper and contents page and corresponding passages lightly marked in pencil in margins. Page edges moderately foxed otherwise..... Item #54982 More
No-place: no-publisher, 1967. Mimeographed short paper likely used at a reading on Robinson Jeffers at the Intersection Creative Arts Center in San Francisco, California. Also in this packet are bios of Vaughan, Glenn-Charles Musagetes and Jean Ulmer Hochberg, the three people who presented "The Poetry of War & Peace by..... Item #55733 More
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. First edition. Paperback original. Biography covering the people, issues, and events that helped to shape Jeffers and his work. From the collection Allen K. Mears with an INSCRIPTION FROM KARMAN tipped in, "For Allen --/gentleman, soldier,/ cherished friend./ With warmest best wishes,/ Jim Karman." 8vo..... Item #55759 More
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Monterey, Calif: Old Monterey Book Co., 1996. First edition. Miniature book measuring 2.5 x 2.25". Number 43 of 100 numbered copies, this one INSCRIBED BY O'BRIEN on leaf preceding half-title, "It is my pleasure/ to inscribe this/ book for/ Allen Mears/ Jean O'Brien." Bound and printed by Roger Hilleary and..... Item #56016 More
Los Altos, CA: Hermes Publications, 1978. First edition. "Pocket guide" bibliography. Part of a series covering 6 authors per list on rear cover. Includes the publication price and number of copies printed for a number of the titles, identification points, and binding and dust jacket descriptions. 16mo beige, stapled paperwraps..... Item #55859 More
Boston: Bruce Humphries, 1936. First edition. Only 1,000 copies printed. INSCRIBED BY GILBERT, "To/ Florence and Dr. Vessie/ with deep appreciation/ Rudolph 1936." Near fine with few pages roughly opened; in good, somewhat soiled dust jacket tanned at spine with chipping on spine ends and corners and internal archival tape..... Item #55753 More
New York: Random House, 1933. First edition. A review copy. Number 50 of 487 numbered copies. Frontispiece of a bust of Jeffers tipped in. Original cloth with gilt stamped black leather spine label, with spine and top edge faded and bottom front corners slightly bumped, otherwise very good or better..... Item #55873 More
Tokyo: English Literary Society of Hosei University, 1966. First edition. Offprint from the English-language version of "Studies in English Literature, No. 9." Slender 8vo white paper self-wraps (cover serving as title page) with title, author and single line of Japanese text printed on cover and 2 typed labels pasted on--one..... Item #55739 More
(Laguna Beach, Ca: Laguna Verde Imprenta, 1980). First edition. Hodgepodge of unbound PRINTER'S PAGE PROOFS for the exceedingly scarce publication that was issued in an edition of only "nearly fifty copies" and printed on an Albion hand press by Ritchie himself. The text of the book -- which is based..... Item #55845 More
2008. First edition. DIGITAL ART CARICATURE. The Jeffers caricature by artist John Sherffius used on the covers of the "Big Read" teacher's and reader's guides published in 2008 by the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C. The digital print is 8.5 x 11" with image of a smiling Jeffers..... Item #55975 More
New York: Fordham University Press, 1995. First edition. Simultaneous paperback issue. INSCRIBED BY BROPHY, "for Allen Mears/ Whose bibliographic attention and/ collector's expertise keep us all on/ our toes -- and whose creative/ and well-focused curiosity is the/ delight of Jeffers scholars and aficionados./ We herald you/ Bob Brophy/ 8..... Item #55625 More
No-place: Tor House Press, 1989. First edition. Paperback original (no hardback issue). INSCRIBED BY ZALLER in the year of publication, "For Allen Mears/ with warm regards/ Robert Zaller" and with AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED by Zaller laid in. Includes poems by Everson, Milosz, James Tate, William Stafford, Adrienne Rich, Diane Wakoski..... Item #55610 More
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Paris: F. Paillart, 1939. First edition. French-language anthology. Includes Jeffers' "Cawdor" as well as selections from Langston Hughes, Henry Miller, Marianne Moore, John Dos Passos, Wallace Stevens, et al. Off-white paperwraps printed in black. 382 pages. Very good to near fine with scattered foxing, covers a little darkened, and lower..... Item #56018 More
Los Angeles: Occidental College, 1988. First edition. Selections from the newsletter including contributions by Brophy, Ward Ritchie, et al. INSCRIBED BY BROPHY on the front free endpaper in 1994 with long, personal inscription, "To Cesar and Bette," referring to Jeffers it would seem ("A poet, prophet, seer/ of the Big..... Item #55731 More
[Pacific Grove, CA]: (2005). First edition. Number 27 of a stated 75 numbered plaster bas relief sculptures of the couple in profile. Approximately 13 x 13 x 1"; with numbered, printed label on back along with embedded wire hook for hanging and two felt circles. Housed in original numbered white..... Item #55469 More
Los Angeles, CA: Grafton Publishing Co., 1912. First edition of Jeffers' first book. One of only 500 copes; issued without dust jacket. [Broomfield A1]. Small 8vo linen-backed brown paper boards; top edge gilt. Issued with printed spine labels to front and spine. This copy with facsimile label at spine, otherwise..... Item #55918 More
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