A MARIANNE MOORE READER by Moore, Marianne - 1961

First Edition Association Copy Inscribed by General Ridgway, not the Author. Book and Dust Jacket in Near Fine condition. Inscribed, "To (recipient) Matt Ridgway General U.S. Army Retired 23(can't make out)85. Ships With Delivery Confirmation.

1818. Manuscript. Good. No Binding. Signed by Author(s). This is 16.5" by 20.5" military commission to Mr. Henry Burr to be "duly appointed Gent. Brigade Inspector of Infantry in the Militia of this [ ] with the rank of Major." Oliver Wolcott, Esquire, is described as "Captain-General and Commander in Chief, in and over the State of Connecticut in , The United States of America." It is dated the twentieth day of July, A.D. 1818, and signed Oliver Wolcott. There is an embossed paper seal of the State of Connecticut, evidently hand-cut with serrations around its edge, and affixed to the document. It is a printed form document, on cream-colored paper, with blanks filled in by hand, and hand signed by Wolcott. It is folded multiple times, and has separated into two halves. A blank section of one of these halves is also separated, but present. There is evidence that the two halves were taped together at one time..

Philadelphia: Printed and Published by M. Carey & Son, 1818. Leather Bound. Very Good. 9 x 10 1/2 inches. [4] + 1-834 (OT) + [829-34] (family register) + 835-1080 (NT and index). With 11 full page engravings. Printed in two column Roman type. Pages 569-70 lacking. Slight loss to 855-56. Significant loss to 911-12. Four pages of family records include Asher Mott Howell (1791-1853). Hills #345. Bound with: Brown, John. A Brief Concordance to the Holy Scriptures. Philadelphia: Printed and Published by Mathew Carey & Son, 1818. 72 numbered pages. Pages 67-70 lacking. A few pages toned or stained. Bound in contemporary full maroon straight grained morocco with gilt rolled borders and gilt title and decorations to spine. Hinges weak. Covers scuffed and worn at edges. The Asher Mott Howell Family Bible: Asher Mott Howell (1791-1853) was a relative of abolitionist Lucretia Coffin Mott, and the subject of a portrait by American painter Jacob Eichholtz currently on loan to the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

[New York]: Nadja, 1986.. Quarto. Cloth, paper label. Some small smudges in the upper spine corner of the lower board, otherwise about fine. First edition, clothbound issue. One of an unknown number of unnumbered copies bound thus, in addition to 26 lettered copies, and 100 numbered, and some unnumbered copies, in wrappers, all signed by the author and the artist. This was the poet's own copy, inscribed to him by the artist ("Thanks De") on the colophon, with an original pencil drawing (with colored highlights) of two figures, seemingly the poet and the artist, on the colophon. Snodgrass's library blindstamp appears in the upper forecorner of the free endsheet.

[West Eaton, NY]: Eatonbrook Editions, [2004].. Original pictorial printed glazed boards. Numerous color plates. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued. First Edition in this format. McGraw has embellished this copy with a red and black ink drawing of Kathy and W.D. Snodgrass, signed by the illustrator ("DeLoss") and captioned, "She's French / a French breast" [a tribute to a Romanian painted carving, "A French Love Affair," belonging to the Snodgrasses]. Reprints two out-of-print books by Snodgrass, THE DEATH OF COCK ROBIN (1989), and THE MIDNIGHT CARNIVAL (1988), and adds one new work, SEASONED CHAIRS FOR A CHILD. From the library of W.D. Snodgrass. The printed dedicatIon is "From De to Del and ... From Del to De."

First Edition Association Copy Inscribed by General Ridgway, not the Author. Book and Dust Jacket in Near Fine condition. Inscribed, "To (recipient) Matt Ridgway General U.S. Army Retired 23(can't make out)85. Ships With Delivery Confirmation.

1818. Manuscript. Good. No Binding. Signed by Author(s). This is 16.5" by 20.5" military commission to Mr. Henry Burr to be "duly appointed Gent. Brigade Inspector of Infantry in the Militia of this [ ] with the rank of Major." Oliver Wolcott, Esquire, is described as "Captain-General and Commander in Chief, in and over the State of Connecticut in , The United States of America." It is dated the twentieth day of July, A.D. 1818, and signed Oliver Wolcott. There is an embossed paper seal of the State of Connecticut, evidently hand-cut with serrations around its edge, and affixed to the document. It is a printed form document, on cream-colored paper, with blanks filled in by hand, and hand signed by Wolcott. It is folded multiple times, and has separated into two halves. A blank section of one of these halves is also separated, but present. There is evidence that the two halves were taped together at one time..

Philadelphia: Printed and Published by M. Carey & Son, 1818. Leather Bound. Very Good. 9 x 10 1/2 inches. [4] + 1-834 (OT) + [829-34] (family register) + 835-1080 (NT and index). With 11 full page engravings. Printed in two column Roman type. Pages 569-70 lacking. Slight loss to 855-56. Significant loss to 911-12. Four pages of family records include Asher Mott Howell (1791-1853). Hills #345. Bound with: Brown, John. A Brief Concordance to the Holy Scriptures. Philadelphia: Printed and Published by Mathew Carey & Son, 1818. 72 numbered pages. Pages 67-70 lacking. A few pages toned or stained. Bound in contemporary full maroon straight grained morocco with gilt rolled borders and gilt title and decorations to spine. Hinges weak. Covers scuffed and worn at edges. The Asher Mott Howell Family Bible: Asher Mott Howell (1791-1853) was a relative of abolitionist Lucretia Coffin Mott, and the subject of a portrait by American painter Jacob Eichholtz currently on loan to the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

[New York]: Nadja, 1986.. Quarto. Cloth, paper label. Some small smudges in the upper spine corner of the lower board, otherwise about fine. First edition, clothbound issue. One of an unknown number of unnumbered copies bound thus, in addition to 26 lettered copies, and 100 numbered, and some unnumbered copies, in wrappers, all signed by the author and the artist. This was the poet's own copy, inscribed to him by the artist ("Thanks De") on the colophon, with an original pencil drawing (with colored highlights) of two figures, seemingly the poet and the artist, on the colophon. Snodgrass's library blindstamp appears in the upper forecorner of the free endsheet.

[West Eaton, NY]: Eatonbrook Editions, [2004].. Original pictorial printed glazed boards. Numerous color plates. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued. First Edition in this format. McGraw has embellished this copy with a red and black ink drawing of Kathy and W.D. Snodgrass, signed by the illustrator ("DeLoss") and captioned, "She's French / a French breast" [a tribute to a Romanian painted carving, "A French Love Affair," belonging to the Snodgrasses]. Reprints two out-of-print books by Snodgrass, THE DEATH OF COCK ROBIN (1989), and THE MIDNIGHT CARNIVAL (1988), and adds one new work, SEASONED CHAIRS FOR A CHILD. From the library of W.D. Snodgrass. The printed dedicatIon is "From De to Del and ... From Del to De."