To Lighten My House by Reid, Alastair - 1953

Scarsdale:: Morgan & Morgan Publishers,. Very Good. 1953. Hardcover. First edition (850 copies). INSCRIBED by the author to a previous owner in 1956. Fourteen other signatures (other poets?) on rear free endpaper. Fading to board edges, else very good in light bliue cloth. No dust jacket really, but the flaps of the dust jacket are laid in. .

Scarsdale, NY: Morgan & Morgan publishers, 1953. Hardcover. 53p., 6x9 inch original cloth boards with titling stamped in red, illus., dustjacket toned with minor soil, chipped at head and tail of dj spine, front right corner receding exposing some board, boards look sunned and somewhat unevenly discolored, else good.

New York: Morgan, 1953. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Good hardcover. Name on top edge of front endpaper. Small blue drops on rear endpaper. Pages are clean except one small spot on page 11. Spine and edges of cover faded. Corners slightly rubbed. Edges of spine slightly rubbed. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Scarsdale, NY: Morgan & Morgan, 1953. Covers lightly faded along edges. Dust jacket with a little wear at spine top. Inscribed: "best wishes/to Lucy Stanton/from Alastair Reid/17 July 1953.". Signed by Author. Original Cloth. Very Good/About Very Good.

Scarsdale: Morgan & Morgan, 1953. First edition. Blue-gray cloth in dust jacket; large 8vo. 53 pp. Limited to 850 copies, one two page illustration by Kurt Roesch. This copy inscribed and signed to an American poet associated with New Formalism in 1999. An easily very good copy in a fair dust jacket that has separated at the spine, with some loss on the front panel (in removable archival covers).

Scarsdale, New York: Morgan & Morgan, 1953. No statement of edition or printing. Inscribed to previous owner by the author and signed "Love, Alistair" on the half title page. The spine is slanted. Otherwise fine. The dust jacket has two tears near the spine head. The price, $3.00, is present on the front flap.. Inscribed By Author. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Kurt Roesch. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Scarsdale, NY: Morgan & Morgan Publishers, 1953. First Edition. Limited to 850 unnumbered copies. Signed presentation from Reid on the half-title page: "Love to Norman and Ruth from Alastair in Spring, 1953." With an amusing inscribed card signed, on Morgan & Morgan stationery, laid in from publisher Marian Bryan: "Here is the great opus. I want to give you a copy- please. Best tell your friends there should be two in every literate home. Marian." Alastair Reid [1926-2014) was a Scottish poet and a scholar of South American literature, especially for his translations of Jorge Luis Borge and Pablo Neruda. He is also known for his light-hearted style of poems. An unusual copy with the note from the publisher. Whoever Norman and Ruth are?- they certainly got one of the very first copies!. Tall 8vo., gray cloth in dust jacket; 53 pages. Very Good (edges of covers faded; contents clean & tight); some wear (some darkening spine with interior repairs with clear, archival tape, two chips top of rear panel) d/j.

Morgan & Morgan Publishers. First Edition. First book. Inscribed by the author. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, small chips, tiny tears, sunned. . Fine. Hardcover. 1953.

Scarsdale NY: Morgan & Morgan, 1953. One of 850 copies. Roesch, Kurt. 8vo, pp. 53. Author's presentation on half-title to author and editor Barbara Howes: "a blessing for Barbara and Bill from Alastair Reid Christmas 1953". With Howes' bookplate. Gray cloth, stamped in red. Edges little soiled, cover very slightly faded, o/w a nice copy in very slightly chipped and soiled dj.