Poetry from Armadillo & Dicker Books & Ephemera

Kipling published more than sixteen different editions of "Ditties", adding new content as the years elapsed. The first edition, not present here, was published in 1886 with 11 Departmental Ditties and 15 Other Verses. Over the next several years, he added poems additional poems to most of the new editions – making this collection one a rather intriguing bibliographic… Read more about this item

First Edition. 8vo. Green spider-web patterned boards, cloth back, titles to spine and front cover gilt. Forman Brown was one of the world's leaders in puppet theatre in his day, as well as an important early gay novelist. He was a member of the Yale Puppeteers and the driving force behind the famous Turnabout Puppet Theater in Los Angeles. This… Read more about this item

Boston: Ticknor & Fields. Good. Cloth. 1866. 1st ed., second state. Signed by Orson Welles . First edition, second state -- lacking the page number at the bot tom of p.52 . 12mo Brown-Maroon cloth, gilt titles. 52 pp., engra ved title page and frontis. Ex-libris RKO Studios Research Libra ry, with the studio logo and inkstamp on the… Read more about this item

York: Printed by A. Ward, and sold by J. Dodsley, T. Cadell, [et al.]. Good. Vintage rebinding. 1783. 1st thus. 1st edition of this translation; 4to, pp. [iii]-xix, [3], 213 [1 Errata sheet]; rebound in modern ¼ leather marbled boards to mat ch contemporary bindings. . modestly successful career as a painter but is best remembered f or… Read more about this item

Harper & Brothers. 1922. 1st trade edition, with designs by William Nicholson. 12mo, beige bonds with gold label on front and spine. Decorated end papers. 36 pp. A very good-near fine copy overall but with a bookplate in side front cover and lacking the dust jacket, a clipping of which is laid in. .

University Press of Mississippi. 1989. Signed limited edition. One of 174 numbered copies signed by both the author and artist. Fine copy in original slipcase .

NY: The Macmillan Company. Fine. 1930. 1st ed.. Inscribed by author . 1st ed., 8vo, Cloth-backed batiqued boards. No. 19 of 200 copies signed and numbered by the author. 42 pp. Fine except for bookpla te inside front cover; in poor slipcase lacking top/bottom edges and ½ of spine. .

NY: Viking Press. 1978. 1st ed., signed by illustrator Leonard Baskin on the front end pa per. 4to, black cloth. 64 pp. A fine as-new copy in dust jacket - - however there are several white spots on the back cover due to a binding defect. .

Milano: Fratelli Treves. 1902. 1st ed.. Milano: Fratelli Treves, 1902. 1st ed., small 4to, handmade paper ; pp. (16), 289, (7) illustrated in red and black with several fu ll-page drawings and numerous ornaments throughout. Gilt ornament on front cover, gilt titles on spine; ribbon ties. Original full vellum binding [it was also published in cloth]. Text in… Read more about this item

Chillicothe, OH: Charles Lummis. Very good. 1884. 2d edition. 2d edition. 8 pp. 2.5”x3”, stitched, illustrated wrappers. (1 2) pp. A collection of small poems written in the transcendental style, Birch Bark Poems is printed entirely on thin and delicate birch bark, with engravings of birch trees on front and back. Lu mmis cut the bark from… Read more about this item

New York: Book People. 1975. A trade paperback magazine featuring work by Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Gregory Corso, Kenneth Rexroth and others. Good; clean and tight but with A few small chips along edge of spine and she lf-wear at edges. .

[Miller, Henry] Moore, John. The Latitude and Longitude of Henry Miller. Pasadena: Marathon Press, 1962. A critical evaluation in poetic form. With author’s illustrations. 8vo, stapled wrappers . 24 pp. Very good. Minor edgewear, corners bumped. .

NY/East Aurora: The Roycroft Shop. 1899. 1st ed. 12mo, handmade paper, gray-green limp suede covers with gilt titl es, red satin paste-downs and tie. #557/950 copies, signed by Elb ert Hubbard. Fine; backstrip lightly faded and light fade line ac ross top of upper cover. [Livingston suppl. p. 137] .

Good. 1st edition; London: Macmillan & Co., 1882. Pictorial boards with cloth spine. Illustrations by George Cruikshank – note that th is is not THE George Cruikshank, but his nephew. Interior is clea n and tight. The covers are rubbed at edges, more heavily so at c orners. .

San Francisco: San Francisco Review. 1958. 1st ed. Includes poetry by Charles Bukowski, e.e. cummings, Willi am Saroyan. Signed on copyright page by publisher R.H. Miller. Chip at top of spine; title page beginning to separate from text block. .

Harry Ward Ritchie., Pasadena. Near fine. 1930. 8vo, gray-green stitched wrappers. 32, (2)pp. Title printed in re d & black. Edition limited to 200 copies printed by Harry Ward Ri tchie at the press in the old Abbey of San Encino. Very good-near fine. No chips or tears but two small [1/8”] stains on front c over to the… Read more about this item

London: Ackermann & Co. Poor. 1853. 1st edition. London: Ackermann & Co, , (1853). 1st ed., 4to approx.. 12-3/4” x 9-3/4”. Green cloth with large pictorial paper paste-on. 64 pages. Each page illustrated with elaborate b/w etchings An alpha bet book, including the proper phonetics for the English language . Poor; internally sound but substantially shaken; occasional… Read more about this item

nd New York. Near fine. 1927. 1st edition. Cream cloth stamped in gilt and brown. #464/1050. With eight full -page color illustrations by Alastair. The illustration opposite page 52 is signed in pencil, below the image. . in red and black, illustrations in red, sepia, and black. Condi tion: very good-near fine. A clean, tight copy that… Read more about this item

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd.. 1924. 1st ed.. 8vo, batiked-paper boards with 1/4 vellum-spine. Printed by the P elican Press and limited to 250 copies. English translation of se venteen verses by Goethe, Schiller, Moerike, Uhland, Hebbel, Theo dor Storm, Keller, Guenther, Gleim, Boie, Hofmannsthal, Liliencro n and Buerger. The Pelican Press was founded in 1916 by Sir Franc is… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Underground Press. Fair. 1964. 1st ed.. 1st ed., small 4to, wraps, 76 pp. Contributions by Neal Cassady, Alan Watts, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, Kenneth Patchen and others. Text block is very good; clean and tight. Front cover ru bbed with chips at top and bottom of spine; large stain on back c over. .… Read more about this item