The Horsehair Sofa by Norman Dubie - 1969

Richard Gilbertson, 'The Manuscript Series', Crediton, 1970. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 2nd Edition. The second separate edition, corrected. Limited to 100 numbered copies, signed and dated by the author (this being #42). Royal 8vo. [8pp] stapled into card wrappers featuring a reproduction of a sixteenth-century woodcut taken from Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs', repeated on the first leaf. The wrappers lightly tanned and with a touch of light edge-creasing, and some surface abrasion to the verso of the first leaf where is appears a bookplate has been carefully removed. These are either new staples, or they were at some point repositioned. A nice, crisp copy of this uncommon item, somewhat more so that the uncorrected first issue (the poem was included in Hughes' debut collection 'The Hawk in the Rain'. The original printing of this first separate edition contained an error, two transposed lines, and so was succeeded by this corrected version, produced… Read More

237 pp. + Indice + 1 pl. h.t. 9x5,5 cm. G. Pickering, Londra, 1822.
--- Contemporary cloth-bound. Some fading is evident on spine, minor wear at corners. A small piece of paper is missing on first blank page. Very light foxing on frontispiece. Some spots on top edge. Steele-engraved portrait of the author on frontispiece and some engravings en-tête. Pages bright and clean. Uncut copy.

Alfred A.Knopf, New York, 1924. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing), in the first state binding of rainbow-patterned boards with a tanned and slightly chipped paper spine label and the publisher's yellow top edge stain. 8vo. 95pp. A presentation copy, fondly inscribed by the author to fellow poet and Newdigate Prize winner David Posner, dated May 1943 and with two inked lines of verse beneath and Posner's signature in pencil above. Some occasional light pencilled marginalia and some notes to the front free endpaper, probably in Julian Symons' hand but possibly also in Posner's. Laid-in is a folded two-sided handwritten letter from Ransom to Julian Symons concerning an article on Restoration comedy which was to appear in the Ransom-edited journal 'The Kenyon Review'. Biro mark to the rear board and just a fraction of tenderness to the front hinge. A very good copy in the uncommon dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but… Read More

Stevenson, Robert Louis: A Child's Garden of Verses, illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. 1905, Charles Scribner's Sons FIRST EDITION THUS. Copyright page States BB2C-1.58 [H]. Yellow topstain. Used. VG/Good- original price-clipped purple dust jacket. RARE THUS. A nice, solid copy. CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED CLASSICS SERIES. YOUR OFFERS ARE WELCOME HERE!

London: London; printed for E. Curll, at the Dial and Bible, against St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet., 1713. 1st Edition . Full leather. Very Good. First edition, octavo; [24],170,[2]pp. In contemporary full leather (a little worn), double gilt fillet to board margins, five raised spine bands, gilt lettered labels to second and third compartments, hairline split to head and foot of front hinge (with hinge remaining firmly secure), opening and closing leaves stained by turn ins, old ink ownership name to head of title page, otherwise a clean copy with attractive woodcut headpieces and capitals. The title page declares this volume's price as 3s 6d., adding that two volumes of Boileau's non-posthumous works may be had for 12s. This example was bound up as a companion to these two volumes and though it bears a "vol.3"spine label, is nevertheless a separate work. Increasingly uncommon first edition; ESTC T143905, citing 4xUK and 11xUS locations

Richard Gilbertson, 'The Manuscript Series', Crediton, 1970. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 2nd Edition. The second separate edition, corrected. Limited to 100 numbered copies, signed and dated by the author (this being #42). Royal 8vo. [8pp] stapled into card wrappers featuring a reproduction of a sixteenth-century woodcut taken from Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs', repeated on the first leaf. The wrappers lightly tanned and with a touch of light edge-creasing, and some surface abrasion to the verso of the first leaf where is appears a bookplate has been carefully removed. These are either new staples, or they were at some point repositioned. A nice, crisp copy of this uncommon item, somewhat more so that the uncorrected first issue (the poem was included in Hughes' debut collection 'The Hawk in the Rain'. The original printing of this first separate edition contained an error, two transposed lines, and so was succeeded by this corrected version, produced… Read More

237 pp. + Indice + 1 pl. h.t. 9x5,5 cm. G. Pickering, Londra, 1822.
--- Contemporary cloth-bound. Some fading is evident on spine, minor wear at corners. A small piece of paper is missing on first blank page. Very light foxing on frontispiece. Some spots on top edge. Steele-engraved portrait of the author on frontispiece and some engravings en-tête. Pages bright and clean. Uncut copy.

Alfred A.Knopf, New York, 1924. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing), in the first state binding of rainbow-patterned boards with a tanned and slightly chipped paper spine label and the publisher's yellow top edge stain. 8vo. 95pp. A presentation copy, fondly inscribed by the author to fellow poet and Newdigate Prize winner David Posner, dated May 1943 and with two inked lines of verse beneath and Posner's signature in pencil above. Some occasional light pencilled marginalia and some notes to the front free endpaper, probably in Julian Symons' hand but possibly also in Posner's. Laid-in is a folded two-sided handwritten letter from Ransom to Julian Symons concerning an article on Restoration comedy which was to appear in the Ransom-edited journal 'The Kenyon Review'. Biro mark to the rear board and just a fraction of tenderness to the front hinge. A very good copy in the uncommon dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but… Read More

Stevenson, Robert Louis: A Child's Garden of Verses, illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. 1905, Charles Scribner's Sons FIRST EDITION THUS. Copyright page States BB2C-1.58 [H]. Yellow topstain. Used. VG/Good- original price-clipped purple dust jacket. RARE THUS. A nice, solid copy. CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED CLASSICS SERIES. YOUR OFFERS ARE WELCOME HERE!

London: London; printed for E. Curll, at the Dial and Bible, against St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet., 1713. 1st Edition . Full leather. Very Good. First edition, octavo; [24],170,[2]pp. In contemporary full leather (a little worn), double gilt fillet to board margins, five raised spine bands, gilt lettered labels to second and third compartments, hairline split to head and foot of front hinge (with hinge remaining firmly secure), opening and closing leaves stained by turn ins, old ink ownership name to head of title page, otherwise a clean copy with attractive woodcut headpieces and capitals. The title page declares this volume's price as 3s 6d., adding that two volumes of Boileau's non-posthumous works may be had for 12s. This example was bound up as a companion to these two volumes and though it bears a "vol.3"spine label, is nevertheless a separate work. Increasingly uncommon first edition; ESTC T143905, citing 4xUK and 11xUS locations