We Are Many by NERUDA, PABLO - 1967

LONDON PRIVATELY PRINTED, 1934. Hardback NODJ, 1934,, 1ST LIMITED EDITION 200 COPIES, Small Thin PURPLE BURGUNDY CLOTH WITH GOLD CREST MONGRAM ON FRONT , Here is a near fine copy of The Enchanted by MDIVANI, Barbara (née Hutton).. . NEAR FINE in burgundy hardback with GOLD gilt edges and a gilt monogram on the front cover. The book is signed "Barbara" and dated August 21, 1934 - in Venice. I cannot make out the first two lines of the dedication but it appears to be "To dear Princess Jane, [6 words I cannot make out], and her signature and date below. - There are two small light spots on the front cover - all inside is like new, 100 pgs ,One of the poems was read by Cliff Robertson at her funeral forty-five years later. The first volume of poetry written by the Woolworth heiress shortly before her twenty-second birthday. At the time, she was married to the playboy, Alexis Mdivani, the first of several failed marriages. The first volume of poetry written by the Woolworth heiress shortly before… Read More

London : Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1928 Limited edition, 1 of 55 signed and numbered copies, this being number 11; rebound in custom quarter leather marbled boards, ribbed spine and gilt-lettered, xxvi, 84pp. printed on Millbourn, hand-made paper, no dust wrapper issued for this signed edition [Gallup B7a]. Signed by T. S. Eliot. Small stain to front endpaper and light rubbing to corners of boards and spine ends, else book in fine condition.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1988. First Edition. Near Fine. Limited edition of 550 copies; this copy is #136 with authorized facsimile signature of De Kooning. Elephant folio. Black Nigerian goatskin lettered in gilt, housed in black cloth clamshell case with gilt lettered black leather spine label. Includes 13pp. staplebound Limited Editions Club Letter. A bit of waviness to a few pages in middle of book, else Fine, housed in Very Good slipcase with worn spot to back edge of spine, a bit of pilling to cloth. Letter has small light crease to bottom corners, else near fine. 17 original lithographs by De Kooning, reproduced from charcoal drawings, illustrating the New York School poet's ode to the Dutch-American abstract expressionist painter.

Miami: Pandanus Press, 1951. First edition. [8], 10, [6] pp. Hand-sewn blue wrappers, printed title label on front cover. One of 240 copies, hand-set and printed by Preston H. Dettman. Some edgewear and surface wear to covers, very minor old staining, contents clean. The very rare first publication by an important American poet, preceding his first regularly published book The Summer Anniversaries by nine years. Justice earned his PhD at Iowa in 1954 and was long associated with the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Despite the limitation, quite scarce; OCLC locates eleven copies.

London: Faber & Faber; La Jolla Playhouse, 1951. First Editions. First Editions. Offered here is the original book, and the program for the play which premiered in 1951 (a year after the book), and starring Vincent Price. ìThe Cocktail Party.î 8vo. London: Faber & Faber, 1950. First Edition. Original lime green cloth, gilt lettering on spine. In original color printed dust wrapper. First edition, first issue with "here" uncorrected ["her] on p. 29. An uncommon Eliot title. Book near fine with very slight discoloration on lower margins of covers, wrapper very good with some chipping esp. front cover, tape repairs on inside. ìProgram for the Cocktail Party.î Presented by the La Jolla Playhouse and starring Vincent Price and Marsha Hunt. 4to. Original color pictorial paper wrappers, 12pp. Illustrated with photographs of the actors posed, and in scenes. With scarce original folding playbill. Near fine. A wonderful pairing.

Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and Son, 1878. First edition. First edition. 12mo. 16pp. Original grey-green printed wrappers. Exceedingly scarce first edition with the publisher's printed crest appearing on the cover of the wrappers as well as on the title page and a vignette woodcut appears on the last page. The prestigious Newdigate Prize, Oxford's top award for poetry, dates to early 1800's and the winner for 1878 was the young Oscar Wilde. The pamphlet was issued in the same year, as was common with many of the early prize winners, and is considered Wilde's first publication in book form. He worked on the poem a few years earlier while touring Greece as a student at Oxford. An exemplary copy, with no wrinkling or central creases as was commonly seen from folding to place in a pocket. Very small nick out of two corners, very slight (barely detectable) browning to covers, else extremely clean and bright. 16pp.

New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1857. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1st edition. A Very Good copy. 12mo., ix, (iii), (13)-203, 12 pp., with 12 pages of the publisher's advertisements at the end. Bound in the publisher's brown cloth with the title and floral decoration on the spine in gilt. Spine sunned, with lettering fading. Small area of discoloration on the rear board, near the spine's foot. Light foxing to the preliminaries. Previous owner's name, 1857 date and town in ink on the front end paper; name and 1857 date on the title page. Internally very clean and bright. Very Good. *** First appearance of the Star-Spangled Banner in book form. The name and town of the previous owner is Thomas Cowan of Chapel Hill, NC. The Cowan family is a prominent North Carolina Family, and he is likely the son of the Cowan's of Wood Grove Plantation, in Rowan County, NC. Thomas Cowan was a graduate of the University of North Carolina in 1857, and died during the Civil War (See… Read More

London: Leonard Smithers, 1899. First Edition. Very Good. First Edition, first printing. One of 800 copies originally printed, which sold out immediately. Very Good. Covers soiled, corners and spine ends softened. Endsheets offset from binder's glue. Previous owner name partially effaced from front paste down. Slight odor to pages. Clipping with apparently forged signature of Oscar Wilde tipped in on recto of final blank sheet, by no means assumed to be authentic.

New York: The Limited Editions Club. New. 2003. Limited Edition. Hardcover. A unique publication for The Limited Editions Club, with this also being the first edition, written specifically for the members of LEC. Dean Mitchell provides 3 color etchings for the book. Wynton Marsalis brings a 3rd dimension, who composed a 30min interpretation of Angelou's as a celebration of Jazz. A CD of the composition, which includes Maya Angelou reading her poem is included in a special compartment of the case. The book was very well received by critics, Michael Kimmelman from the New York Times, dedicated almost the entire front page of the April 26th 2002 edition to Mitchell's art. Book comes in one volume 23 x 20 inches, with a CD by Wynton Marsalis and Maya Angelou. This copy being #249 of 400, signed by Angelou, Mitchell and Marsalis. Slipcase in NF condition, with a small mark on the front cover. Book as new. Laid in is the original Monthly Newsletter #592 and the LEC invoice for $4000.… Read More

1799 Romance of the Rose Lorris Medieval de Meun Flamel Alchemy STUNNING 5v

"The more a man gazes on what he loves, the more he sets fire to his heart and bastes it with bacon fat."
― Guillaume de Lorris, The Romance of the Rose
The 'Roman de la Rose' is a famous 13th-century Medieval French poem written as an allegorical dream sequence. It was written by Guillaume de Lorris who sought to express the feelings of romantic love, sexuality, and chivalry. It was completed by Jean de Meung who continued the work begun by Lorris. Thought to be the most widely read book other than the Bible in the 13th- and 14th-centuries, it was highly influential on other authors, notably including Geoffrey Chaucer.

This absolutely stunning
18th-century edition was published in Paris printed in five beautiful vellum-bound volumes. This particular edition is of note, not just for containing the 'Roman de la Rose', but also a preface by Clement Marot, Meung's 'Life of Jean Clopinel', a short treatise on the alchemy of… Read More