Fuck You / A Magazine of the Arts, Number 5 Volume 5 by Sanders, Ed (Editor) - 1963

Port Townsend: Graywolf Press, 1976. First edition, limited to 600 unnumbered copies. Printed at Press-22 on Curtis Rag paper and Artlaid cover. Perfect-bound printed wraps. Issued unsigned and without dustjacket. This copy has been signed by Johnson on the title page. Spine and wraps extremities toned. Tight copy in Very Good condition. Johnson's second poetry collection, published seven years before his first novel.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 64mo - up to 3" tall. Limited Edition.

NY: Atheneum, 1965. First edition, first prnt. Perfect-bound illustrated wraps. Inscribed by Hollander to Allen Ginsberg on the title page. "for Allen with all my love and gratitude for everything John April 1966." Spine ends touched, begining extremity toning on wraps and short notation mark next to one stanza of "Waiting." Tight copy in Very Good condition. Hollander and Ginsberg were students at Columbia and since those days Hollander has acknowledged Ginsberg as his "poetic mentor." The autobiographical poems in this collection include the well-known "Helicon" in which Gisnberg tells Hollander (several times) that he is "searching for 'the true cadence' " as well as where his can get "five dollars a pint,/ No kickback to the interne, either" for blood for walking around money. . Inscribed & Dated by Author. First Edition. Glossy Pictoral Wraps. Very Good/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy. Read More

The Fortune Press, London, 1945. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition of the author's first book, this being in un-noted binding variant in grey cloth, lettered in gold at the spine. Printed on Glastonbury watermarked paper by S.C.Jennings & Sons Ltd. Slim 8vo. 36pp. A touch of wear to two or three extremities. Some production fault creasing to two text leaves. A very good copy. No dust wrapper. Bloomfield (2002) notes: "White laid paper watermarked: 'I Batchelor & Sons Ltd | HAND MADE'. Copies are also found with paper watermarked: '[crown] | Glastonbury' and with mixtures of both. This is due to the owner of The Fortune Press habitually buying end runs of paper stock for his printers". Printed in an edition likely not exceeding 500 copies. Thirty-one poems. Bloomfield (2002) A1..

The Poetry Bookshop, London, 1920. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. A new revised edition of the author's first book, and the first hardback issue (originally issued in wrappers four years earlier). Slim 8vo. 32pp. Cloth-backed decorated boards featuring a Menin Gate design by Claud Lovat Fraser. Top edge dusty. Endpapers browned. Head and tail of spine and corner tips bumped and a little rubbed. Covers very slightly marked and one binding string to the first gathering snapped. A very good copy in nicked, rubbed and marked, slightly creased, chipped and dusty dust wrapper which repeats the Lovat Fraser design, browned at the spine and at some edges and with the publisher's price sticker to the front panel. Twenty-four poems, divided into two parts: 'Poems Mostly Written at Charterhouse 1910-1914' and 'Poems Written Before La Bassée - 1915'. 1,000 copies were printed. Higginson A1b / Reilly pp 146-7. "When these poems, written between the ages of fourteen and… Read More

New York: Poets Press, 1966. First edition. String-sewn and bound into full red cloth, lettered in gilt on the front board. Introduction by John Wieners. Drawings by Erin Matson. Minor darkening to the spine, else fine. Matson's first book, signed on the half-title. According to Peter Howard's penciled notes within, only twenty copies were thusly bound.

1934. AGEE, James. PERMIT ME VOYAGE. With a foreword by Archibald MacLeish. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1934. Volume 33 of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, edited by Stephen Vincent Benet. First edition of Agee's first book. Slim octavo. 59 pp. Green cloth, lettered in dark green at spine. The paper is very lightly age-browned at perimeters, and the cloth is sunned a bit at spine and along the top-edge of boards, else fine. In a near-fine green dust jacket which is sunned at spine and shows light wear along the top-edge, with a few closed tears.

#125 of 300 numbered & signed copies. A Fine tight copy in a Fine acetate dust jacket. This is one of Bukowski's best collections of poetry, written shortly after he'd "made it" with musings about his new found comfortable life in San Pedro, as well as material concerning his earlier, more troubled times in East Hollywood, Los Angeles. Some wonderfully witty writing in here with poems about mortgages and tax accountants, as well as the standard fare of race tracks, classical music, and bad sex. One of the best Bukowski poetry books from his mid-period.

London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1907. Octavo. In two volumes, 748pp., 786pp., portraits, handsomely bound in full brown morocco, raised bands, lettering gilt, morocco turn-in, all edges gilt. Small bump to last few leaves of volume one otherwise a fine bright set. From the library of a Wedgwood family member with gift inscription dated 1908. A very nice set.

New York:: Delacorte Press,, 1978.. Uncorrected Proof. A Very Good copy in plain yellow paper wraps with the bottom half of half-title page missing else a complete copy of a very uncommon format for this last collection of Brautigan poems. Protected by a mylar jacket. Photo copy of publisher's review slip taped to the flyleaf.

1789 Lady's Magazine Captain Cook Voyages Architecture Louvre Etna Volcano
'The Lady's Magazine' was a rare British magazine written and designed for women readers. It included articles on a variety of topics including poetry, music, history, fashion, and even gossip! Note the inclusions of impressive, full-page, and folding engravings.
This 1789 edition includes articles on the following topics:
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The Captain Cook voyage
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Description of St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome, Vatican
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Articles on drawing, painting, and ceiling decoration
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Descriptions of British castles – Corse, Weymouth etc…
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Description of the Louvre in Paris
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Notes on Mount Etna
Item number: #14170
Price: $550
various
The Lady's Magazine; or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex… volume 20.
London: printed for G.G., J.J. Robinson, 1789.

Details:
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724, [4]
o 46 plates
33 engravings
13 songs
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight &… Read More