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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth spine with black calf label and green paper over boards. xv, 487pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Mild edgewear. Tight and nice first edition of this scarce and influential volume of Blake criticism, which did for interest in Blake what Raymond Weaver's biography of Herman Melville ("Herman Melville: Man, Mariner and Mystic," 1921) did a few years earlier for interest in that neglected writer. This exceptional copy bears a choice presentation inscription from the author in blue fountain pen on the front flyleaf: "To Mark Turbyfill / who is one of the very few / who should know what I / was trying to get at. / S. Foster Damon." Turbyfill (1896-1990) was a Chicago poet, dancer and artist who often appeared in Margaret Anderson's "The Little Review" and Harriet Monroe's "Poetry" magazine (which devoted the entire May 1926 issue to his poem "A Marriage with…
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Flashes from the Dark
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"Flashes from the Dark" by Ferdinand Levy. With Sketch of the Author by Louis Le Brocquy. Dublin: Printed at the Sign of the Three Candles, 1941. [Of this first edition 162 copies are numbered and signed by the Author. Nos. 1 to 12 are on Hand-Made Paper. This copy is No. 16]. Hardcover, black cloth, gilt lettering with a dancing woman on the front, gilt title on the spine, top edge red (stain on endpapers from dust jacket, corners bent, title on spine faded, owner's name in pencil, cloth on back cover is loose). d.w. (worn, some chipping, bottom of spine is torn (see photo), foxed on inside and soiled on back. The dust jacket is largely intact, except for the conditions noted).
The design of the book and the dust jacket are exactly the same, the book having the dancing woman in gilt, on the dust jacket it is printed in red.
Very good condition (Dust jacket- Good condition). Size: 7 3/4"(19.5cm) x 5 1/4"(13cm).
This is an unusual book and rare to find. The poems were written by an African-American studying medicine at Trinity College, Dublin. The poems represent his perspective of Ireland. Provenance can be provided.
Very good condition (Dust jacket- Good condition). Size: 7 3/4"(19.5cm) x 5 1/4"(13cm).
This is an unusual book and rare to find. The poems were written by an African-American studying medicine at Trinity College, Dublin. The poems represent his perspective of Ireland. Provenance can be provided.
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William Blake: His Philosophy and Symbols
by DAMON, S. Foster
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Songs Of Childhood : In Custom Clamshell Book Box
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New York, New York / Bombay, India: Longmans, Green, And Co.. Very Good with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1902. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 106 pages: 5 x 7.5 in.: 1.2: KB#010210: No Jacket As Issued. Book binding is spine and quarter cream paper with blue cloth boards (with gilt ship embossed on front cover) plus decorated gilt lettered spine. Top edge of page block is gilt. Book is protected in a custom brown cloth gilt-lettered clamshell book box. Copy has prior owner's bookplate (Oliver Brett) neatly affixed to front endpaper and a stamp on front flyleaf, p. 103, and rear endpaper of "College For Working Women", along with a "Bought Davis 1921 and K195" notation at the front. Otherwise, clamshell box, boards and pages are clean, unmarked (except as indicated), bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Has a tissue-protected frontispiece illustration about twenty dancing fairies by Richard Doyle, entitled "Under the Dock Leaves." This…
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Fire Station. Poems.
by Bukowski, Charles.
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Paradise Lost, A Poem
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Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, Printers to the University, Glasgow, 1770. Hardcover. Poor. Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, Printers to the University, Glasgow, 1770. Poor. Approx. 13'' by 8.25''. Full leather binding, spine with raised bands, outer binding original, but in poor condition. Inner book is generally clean & still well bound. Subscriber list, summary of the arguments within the poem. 466pp of the poem plus index. Portrait of Milton on title page and marbled endpapers. 3 pages at front have a tear and there is an ink stain on the edge. (see pictures). From the library of Lockhart of Cleghorn with their bookplate on the front pastedown. With an inscription 'Barbara Lockhart from her sister Mrs Jamieson' on the front endpapers.***Heavy & will require overseas postage***
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Death of a Naturalist
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"Death of a Naturalist" by Seamus Heaney. London: Faber and Faber Ltd., [1966]. First Edition, second impression. pp. 57. Hardcover, green cloth with gilt title on spine (top corners bent, corners bit worn, spine bumped & worn, several marks on front cover, top edge has couple spots of foxing, inscription on front free endpaper. dj., clipped (spine faded, bottom of spine chipped, otherwise worn, soiled on back cover, marks to both front & back covers). Very Good condition.Size: 8 3/4" x 5 5/8" (22cm x 14.5cm).**This book may also be mailed by Xpresspost (Canada & U.S.A. Only). Contact us if you prefer this. Postage would be extra, but includes tracking, insurance and signature upon delivery.
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William Blake: His Philosophy and Symbols
by DAMON, S. Foster
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth spine with black calf label and green paper over boards. xv, 487pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Mild edgewear. Tight and nice first edition of this scarce and influential volume of Blake criticism, which did for interest in Blake what Raymond Weaver's biography of Herman Melville ("Herman Melville: Man, Mariner and Mystic," 1921) did a few years earlier for interest in that neglected writer. This exceptional copy bears a choice presentation inscription from the author in blue fountain pen on the front flyleaf: "To Mark Turbyfill / who is one of the very few / who should know what I / was trying to get at. / S. Foster Damon." Turbyfill (1896-1990) was a Chicago poet, dancer and artist who often appeared in Margaret Anderson's "The Little Review" and Harriet Monroe's "Poetry" magazine (which devoted the entire May 1926 issue to his poem "A Marriage with…
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Songs Of Childhood : In Custom Clamshell Book Box
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New York, New York / Bombay, India: Longmans, Green, And Co.. Very Good with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1902. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 106 pages: 5 x 7.5 in.: 1.2: KB#010210: No Jacket As Issued. Book binding is spine and quarter cream paper with blue cloth boards (with gilt ship embossed on front cover) plus decorated gilt lettered spine. Top edge of page block is gilt. Book is protected in a custom brown cloth gilt-lettered clamshell book box. Copy has prior owner's bookplate (Oliver Brett) neatly affixed to front endpaper and a stamp on front flyleaf, p. 103, and rear endpaper of "College For Working Women", along with a "Bought Davis 1921 and K195" notation at the front. Otherwise, clamshell box, boards and pages are clean, unmarked (except as indicated), bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Has a tissue-protected frontispiece illustration about twenty dancing fairies by Richard Doyle, entitled "Under the Dock Leaves." This…
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Fire Station. Poems.
by Bukowski, Charles.
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Santa Barbara:: Capricorn Press,, 1970.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in illustrated paper wraps. This is one of only 1000 copies in paper wraps.. The nine poems in this early small press publication represent Bukowski in his prime.
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Paradise Lost, A Poem
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Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, Printers to the University, Glasgow, 1770. Hardcover. Poor. Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, Printers to the University, Glasgow, 1770. Poor. Approx. 13'' by 8.25''. Full leather binding, spine with raised bands, outer binding original, but in poor condition. Inner book is generally clean & still well bound. Subscriber list, summary of the arguments within the poem. 466pp of the poem plus index. Portrait of Milton on title page and marbled endpapers. 3 pages at front have a tear and there is an ink stain on the edge. (see pictures). From the library of Lockhart of Cleghorn with their bookplate on the front pastedown. With an inscription 'Barbara Lockhart from her sister Mrs Jamieson' on the front endpapers.***Heavy & will require overseas postage***
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Death of a Naturalist
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"Death of a Naturalist" by Seamus Heaney. London: Faber and Faber Ltd., [1966]. First Edition, second impression. pp. 57. Hardcover, green cloth with gilt title on spine (top corners bent, corners bit worn, spine bumped & worn, several marks on front cover, top edge has couple spots of foxing, inscription on front free endpaper. dj., clipped (spine faded, bottom of spine chipped, otherwise worn, soiled on back cover, marks to both front & back covers). Very Good condition.Size: 8 3/4" x 5 5/8" (22cm x 14.5cm).**This book may also be mailed by Xpresspost (Canada & U.S.A. Only). Contact us if you prefer this. Postage would be extra, but includes tracking, insurance and signature upon delivery.
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A Management Guide to PERT-CPM : With Gert-PDM, DCPM and Other Networks
by Jerome D. Wiest; Ferdinand Levy
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A Management Guide to Pert/Cpm
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A Management Guide to Pert/CPM
by Jerome D. Wiest; Ferdinand K. Levy
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Immortal Prairie (INSCRIBED) (FIRST)
by Ransom, James H
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2015 - Stated First Edition - Limited Edition - INSCRIBED by author on the title-page "Fran Marie, Friend for many years," - "Unlike the tradition of most books of poetry, Ransom includes photos and paintings." - book: near fine - tight, sound, and square - pages are clean and unmarked - dj: near fine
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Shoemakers Best Selections Number 5 For Readings and Recitations
by Shoemaker, J. W
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Rare original poetry book with cloth covered boards, copyright 1880 by J. W. Shoemaker & Co. This edition published in 1906 by the Penn Publishing company, Philadelphia. From the estate of my great-great grandfather.Includes many unique poems and recitations such as "To a skull", "Uncle Daniel's Introduction to a Mississippi Steamer", "The Leak in the Dyke", etc. More well-known poetry includes "Song of Birds", "Old Ironsides", and "Bannock Burn" by Robbie Burns. Light rubbing and bumps to outside spine edges. Back cover and interior cloth covered board has a stain at top. Original owner's name and address from 1908, but no other writing or marks. First 2 pages have a stain at top, but text of 192 pages of poetry and recitations is totally clean with light tanning of pages.
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Just God And Me
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Comet Press Books, New York, 1956, Fine Hardcover / no dustjacket, 56 pages, 5.5" x 8.25". Inscribed by author on ffep.
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A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories
by Cohen, Leonard
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New York, Grove Press, 2022, trade paperback, 272 pp, Advance Uncorrected Proof (ARC), New. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in bright, pictorial card covers, no dustjacket as issued. The pieces in this collection, written between 1956 and 1961 and including short fiction, a radio play, and a stunning early novel, offer startling insights into Cohens imagination and creative process. Cohen explores themes that would permeate his later work, from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire in all its sacred and profane dimensions to longing, whether for love, family, freedom, or transcendence. ISBN 9780802160478
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Quartering
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Trumansburg, NY: Out of Step Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 2016. Numbered Edition; First Printing. Pamphlet. The author's non-linear poem about the billeting of soldiers in civilian homes in wartime. Copy 89 of a limited edition of 250. Folded into the form of a letter, the work was letterpress printed in wraps of handmade "combat paper" made from military uniforms. The author says: "Some time ago-maybe a year, maybe two? I had a conversation with some of my Combat Paper brothers (well, the kids call them their combat paper uncles, so it follows…) that led to me writing the poem "Quartering." Which was informed by them, of course, and by all the rooms I'm in, and by imagining what is really required of all the caregivers I love. It's a thought experiment: if we tore down the barracks at military hospitals and offered incentives for Americans in the surrounding neighborhoods to quarter injured service members, what would the honest instructions…
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Fan poems
by Tom Clark
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Plainfield: North Atlantic Books, 1976. First Edition, 8vo. [60pp], no pagination. Softcover, pictorial wraps. Very good condition, faint creasing, slight rubbing, top corner bumped and back cover small stain. This project was partially supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C., a federal agency. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
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Pantone 125
by Lee, Madeleine
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Singapore: Math Paper Press. Very Good. 2012. First Edition. Softcover. 9810728492 . Printed white wrappers, show moderate soil; light vertical crease front cover. Two Poem anthology, arising from the accidental advocacy of one poet, coming off the back of her love for walking about in the less beaten paths in Singapore. In a series of chapbooks borne of the Babette's Feast public gathering of writers.; 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall .
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Melodie d'Infinito; Rime e Canti dei Chiarori Stellari.
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Palermo Edizioni Arte e Pensiero, 1947, paperback. Poetry, text in ITALIAN. SIGNED, inscribed by Giosue Sparito (pseudonym of Enrico Fagone). 123 pages. Softcover. Good used condition: binding unglued from spine, covers edgeworn, page margins tanned.
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THE WATER POEM AND OTHERS
by Friedberg, Martha
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Winnetka, IL: Vixen Press, 1985. First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. Fine. 20pp, colophon; six colored wood engravings by Caryl Seidenberg. 9.5" x 6.5" This is #222 of 250 copies only, set in Centaur and Arrighi types and printed by hand on dampened Rives heavyweight. Signed under the colophon by Seidenberg and by Friedberg.
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Dreamer's Den
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NY: Exposition Press, 1976. Burgundy leatherette boards, bright gilt lettering. Pages [63] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Semi-transparent waxpaper dust jacket, appears to be original; in new archival mylar, age discoloration at edges and spine, some edge wear, small bit missing. The author graduated Kennett (Missouri) High School in 1973. Copy of newspaper [DDD] article about the KHS reunion on Jan 18, 2004 laid in. Now also available is a signed copy, same condition but without the transparent dust jacket. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good+.
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