The Winding Stair and Other Poems by W.B. Yeats - 1933

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922. Signed and Numbered First. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket/No Dustjacket. From the signed, limited, numbered first printing, this is number 266, signed by the author at the limitation page opposite the full title. The pages are bright saving some toning around the deckled edges and quite clean except for a very few scattered spots of foxing; no owners' marks; the quarter cloth binding leans gently to the right but remains tight; the paper boards and paper title plate at the spine show some chipping around the edges, with a pressure mark at the bottom right front corner, a small inward turn and surface scuff at the top left rear corner, and some surface creasing at the corners and right edge of the title plate; some fading is also evident along the head edges of the paper and along the right rear, and the title plate is age-toned; nonetheless, a remarkably clean and attractive book, well-preserved. 459pp.; an extra copy of the title plate is tipped in at the… Read More

New York: Two Worlds Publishing, 1925-1927. First Editions. Softcover. Octavo, 8 parts; VG-; softcovers; spines age-toned white, with black or gray lettering; some shelf wear and soiling; all issues in maroon slipcases; set contains Volume One, Numbers One through Four, and Volume Two, Numbers Five through Eight; some wear to spines. CX consignment. Shelved in Room G. The Two Worlds contains the first US edition of James Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake" titled in the magazine as "A New Unnamed Work." The text was pirated and published by Samuel Roth. [Wikipedia]. 1346826. Special Collections.

Paris: Editions Buchet/Chastel-Corrêa, 1958. First Edition. Trade paperback. Fine. A travelog and critique of Franco's Spain by the author of Native Son. Translated into French by R. Giroux. Wright (1902-1960), one of the most important writers of the 20th century, chronicled African American life in novels and essays, but grew disillusioned with racism in the United States and moved to France in 1946. First French edition. A lovely copy in the original wrappers (paperback covers) and the publisher's glassine. Pages tanned, as usual. This copy is inscribed by Wright, "A M. Fernand Fahre, Hommage de l'auteur Richard Wright." Books signed by Wright are not common.

William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., Edinburgh and London, 1926. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. viii, 108. Original dark blue cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt. A touch of spotting, a few leaves very lightly age-browned. Spine-ends rubbed, corners just a little worn, spine gilt dulled. The first edition of MacDiarmid's most celebrated work, in the first-issue binding of dark blue cloth with sharp bright gilt title and author name (in the original form of M'Diarmid) on front cover with the decorative gilt motif in between. A very good copy with some foxing but with tight boards and pages.

1776 DANTE 1ed Divine Comedy Inferno de Clairfons SONGS OF HELL Florence Italian

Few works throughout the history of all written history have had such an impact on the readership of humanity. The Divine Comedy is Dante's record of an allegorical journey through the spiritual realms of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. This medieval classic depicts Classical themes, Christian history, and Medieval politics. It has been the inspiration for countless plays, art, books, pieces of music, movies, and more!

This 1776 French and Italian edition of Dante's 'Inferno' was collected and edited by French poet Moutonnet de Clairfons who also included a life of Dante and an interesting collection of 34 'songs of hell'.

Item number: #25136
Price: $950

ALIGHIERI, Dante

La Divine Comédie de Dant Alighieri, l'enfer; traduction françoise, accompagnée du texte, des notes historiques, critiques, & de la vie du poëte

A Florence, et se trouve à Paris : Chez Le Clerc : Chez Le Boucher, 1776. First edition.… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936 BOTH VOLUMES IN FINE CONDITION. With Dust Jackets in Near Fine Condition protected in mylar jackets. The New York Edition. Bindings & hinges tight. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. The dust jackets show light edge wear/small chips to upper edge of spine area.

Extremely Rare Book Publication! The only library that has a copy of this book is the: Bayerishe Staatsbibliothek. Le Lacrime di San Pietro di Luigi Tansillo Poema Sacro con Gli Argomenti, ed Allegorie Di Lucrezia Marinella ed Un Discorso Di Tommaso Costo. Giuntavi in Questa nuova Edizione la Raccolta delle sue Rime notabilmente accredsciuta. In Venezia Appresso Francesco Piagentini. MDCCXXXVIII (1738). ConLicenza De Superiori, E Privilegio.In Venice: Francisco Piacentini 1738, 1738. 3 parts in a volume in-4° (255x185mm), pp. (1), XXIV, 160, XXXII, 83, Nice mottled calf leather binding with gold filigree in bands on the spine. Original multi-colored internal boards with edging blue swirls decorate with an arabesque style. Text on two columns of the ten songs of the "Tears of Saint Peter" similar to the compositions of a religious character of the same Cost ("spiritual Rhymes over the effusion of the blood of Our Gentleman", "Sonetti to the image of the Crocifisso"), sonetti and the songs of the… Read More

London: Faber & Faber 1929. (Hardcover) Very good plus, no dust jacket. Signed and numbered by the author. Pale blue boards with gilt titles. Two illustrations (one in color). Slightly darkened around the edges, lightly rubbed on the spine and a tiny bump on the top corner of the front board. Illustrations by Gilbert Spencer. Publisher series: Ariel Poems 18. (Poetry, Limited Editions, Poetry).

viii+247 pages with twelve plates including frontispiece plate. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's blue pictorial cloth with cream lettering to spine and white, black and blue pictorial to spine and cover. (Ahern 015c) First edition first issue with "Black" at foot of spine measuring eight of an in rather than three sixteenths of an inch.
Psmith, Journalist is a novel by P G Wodehouse, first released in the United Kingdom as a serial in The Captain magazine between October 1909 and February 1910, and published in book form in the UK on 29 September 1915, by Adam & Charles Black, London, and, from imported sheets, by Macmillan, New York, later that year. The story was also incorporated into the US version of The Prince and Betty, published by W.J. Watt and Co., New York, on 14 February 1912. This combined the magazine versions of The Prince and Betty and Psmith, Journalist, and is a very different book from that published as The Prince and Betty in the UK.
It continues the… Read More

Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket toned, soiled, and worn.. 1940. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 300 numbered copies. A lengthy narrative poem by Alfred Young Fisher, a longtime Smith College professor and James Joyce and Shakespeare scholar, whose first wife, M. F. K. Fisher, is better known. Book design and striking orange and black illustrations by noted designer Alvin Lustig. Black blindstamped cloth. xxiv, 304pp. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .