Within the rose; a poem
New York: Cowstone Press, 1969. Paperback. Upaginated, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good fine-press edition in stiff white blind-stamped wraps. Young 3960. More
Cat.No: 111272
New York: Cowstone Press, 1969. Paperback. Upaginated, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good fine-press edition in stiff white blind-stamped wraps. Young 3960. More
Cat.No: 111272
New York: Cowstone Press, 1969. Paperback. Upaginated, 5.5x8.5 inches, inscribed and signed by the poet to Helen Luster, very good fine-press edition in stiff white blind-stamped wraps with a light stain acros lower-front cover. Young 3960. More
Cat.No: 30123
San Francisco: Printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy for the authors, 1968. Hardcover. Unpaginated preliminaries, 154p., signatures unopened throughout; illustrated with plat-maps of battles (Blucher, Napoleon, route of Nagel's battalion at Waterloo), 10.2x7 inch cloth boards spine-titled gilt and decorated cover, we see a small smudge on the front, else..... More
Cat.No: 210855
San Francisco: Printed at The Feathered Serpent Press for The Book Club of San Francisco, 1979. 73p., rubricated titlepage and chapter heads, endpaper maps, introduction, index, extensive footnotes; very good first edition limited to 500 copies bound in quarter cloth over decorative boards gilt, in a torn and lightly-soiled white..... More
Cat.No: 154701
San Francisco: Self-published by the author; designed and printed by Alfred and Lawton Kennedy, 1965. 71p., fine-press treatment with the usual bells and whistles (super alkaline paperstock, unopened signatures, rubricated title and capitals; 10.5x7 inch green cloth boards with spine titling gilt, several minuscule dings to boards and a tiny..... More
Cat.No: 218088
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. Hardcover. 10p., 4.5x6 inches, very good limited first edition of 126 copies #85/100 signed by the poet on the colophon/limitation page, sewn and bound in orange paper covered boards with a like glassine jacket. Designed by Barbara Martin as a Christmas greeting from Black..... More
Cat.No: 177621
[Cambridge]: Pomegranate Editions, 1981. 28p., 8x11 inches, #142/450 copies, preface, handbound in sewn paper over light boards, paper label on front (somewhat worn and soiled) illustrated with linocut prints by Karyl Klopp. More
Cat.No: 120441
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1935. 53p., good copy in 8x5.5 inch cloth-backed marbled boards designed and excuted by Nash. Number 98/250 copies. Oldfashioned poetry with birds and sunlight, and occasional cynicism. More
Cat.No: 88220
[San Francisco]: Self-published at College of Arts and Crafts, 1975. Pamphlet. [8p] 4.25x7.75 inches, unstated limited edition handset and sewn chapbook in gray printed wraps. Weinberg was the printer/designer. She has taken the lyrics to several songs including "Morning Has Broken" and "Born Free" and created a handmade booklet. More
Cat.No: 168773
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. Hardcover. 362p., #57/250 copies of the first edition numbered and signed by Wescott of which only 150 were for sale, hinge starting at limitation/title page, otherwise very good in quarter-cloth blue boards with paper title label on spine, untrimmed or deckeled edges, in broken..... More
Cat.No: 230993
Berkeley: University of California at Berkeley, 1982. Paperback. 67p., yellow printed wraps, special edition, find at p.50 a foldout facsimile of a page of West's manuscript. Slight edgewear, a bright unmarked copy. More
Cat.No: 45534
San Francisco: designed by Ward Ritchie & printed by the Castle Press of Pasadena for The Book Club of California, 1984. Hardcover. 138p., 7.5x11.25 inches, preface, prologue, epilogue, notes, illustrations, photos, fine first edition limited to 500 copies bound in green boards with vignette on cover and black quarter-cloth backing..... More
Cat.No: 213015
Santa Cruz: Greenhouse Review Press, 1977. Paperback. [12p] 5.5x8.5 inches, one of 325 copies, limited first edition paperback bound in sewn wraps and black pictorial dj. Chapbook Series No. 3. More
Cat.No: 240492
Santa Cruz: Greenhouse Review Press, 1977. Paperback. [12p] 5.5x8.5 inches, one of 50 copies signed from a run of 325 copies, limited first edition paperback bound in sewn wraps and Frenchfold black pictorial dj. Chapbook Series No. 3. More
Cat.No: 143650
Norwalk, CT: Heritage Press, 1968. Hardcover. xiii, 313p., introduction, color plates, very good in red cloth boards, gilt and slightly-worn mustard slipcase, Sandglass newsletter laid-in. Includes "The Happy Prince," "The Selfish Giant," "The Canterville Ghost" et al. More
Cat.No: 287337
Boston: Brave Men Press Coin Library, 2011. Pamphlet. [6]p. plus nice titlepage and snarky colophon, provided with cinnamon flimsies for endsheets, a very pretty letterpress item in fine shape. The luxurious presswork is in fine unblemished condition; the only odd note is the staple-fastening of its excellence, this sort of..... More
Cat.No: 253875
London: Alan Tarling as Poet & Printer, 1967. 16p., 4x8 inches, publisher's note, poet's apologia, inscription signed and dated 1967 with "Salut!" near-fine chapbook in stapled olive wraps printed in red and dark brown titles. More
Cat.No: 256508
[Winston-Salem, NC]: Palaemon, 1982. 9x12.5 inches, poems printed recto-only in black ink with red titles; on cream paper, one of 100 copies numbered and signed by the author. Minor edgewear at bottom. Palaemon Broadside Number Thirty-two. More
Cat.No: 131694
Verona: Sandy Campbell, Martino Mardersteig at Stamperia Valdonega, 1983. Paperback. 161p., fine first numbered edition, #68/500 copies, photos, frontis postcard facsimile, paperback in tan pictorial wraps. The author's relationship with Capote, Tennessee Williams, Sandy Campbell et al. More
Cat.No: 8315
Berkeley Heights, NJ: The Oriole Press, 1964. 24p., french-fold wraps, 4.75x8.25 inches, very good condition. Playlet in verse, reprint from Debs and the poets, one of 75 copies with design, printing and typography by Joseph Ishill. The Bynner contribution is a single page. More
Cat.No: 33908
Pasadena: Twelvetrees Press, 1985. Pamphlet. [32p] includes covers, 9x12 inches, book descriptions and prices opposite b&w plates reproducing the photographs from each book offered, 8.5x11.5 inch plate laid-in advertising Norman Mauskopf's "Rodeo", very good book catalogue in lightly-soiled white stapled wraps. More
Cat.No: 243799
London: The Eighteen Nineties Society, 1979. Hardcover. v, 21p., foreword, notes, illustrated with 4 plates from photos, #190/ 500 copies, errata slip laid in, very good in lightly worn dj. More
Cat.No: 106884
New York: Milestone Editions, 1979. Hardcover. 479p., text includes Wright's 1940 explanation how "Bigger" materialized. A sizable item, 9.5x6.2 inches and nearly 2 inches thick. Also, a rather pretty production, hardbound in gray cloth boards, maroon cloth backstrip with a painted-on gray label lettered and ruled gilt. A fine-press wannabe..... More
Cat.No: 317526
Oakland: Self-published by the author, 1974. Paperback. 58p., one of 1,000 copies designed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy, very good limited first edition paperback in original orange pictorial wraps. The African American poet/educator uses her poetry to convey the richness of the black experience to her Northern California students. More
Cat.No: 111315
Martinsville, Indiana: Helaine Victoria Press, 1987. Broadside. 8.5x11 inch broadside, printed by Jocelyn H. Cohen on handmade rag, string, and jute paper using a Chandler and Price platen press. Very good. A selection from Yezierska's 1925 work, reflecting on her sense of relief as an impoverished Jewish immigrant to have..... More
Cat.No: 280059