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Autobiographies: Reveries Over Childhood and Youth and The Trembling of the Veil

by YEATS, W. B.

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London: Macmillan and Co, 1926. First edition (2820 copies printed). Wade 151. Upper fore-tip of back cover bumped, a few foxmarks early and late, otherwise a fine, partly unopened copy in jacket with a very narrow band of darkening at the head of the spine panel. 8vo, frontispiece portrait by J. B. Yeats, four illustrations including one tipped-in colorplate, original green cloth stamped in blind on front cover, dust jacket. Upper fore-tip of back cover bumped, a few foxmarks early and late, otherwise a fine, partly unopened copy in jacket with a very narrow band of darkening at the head of the spine panel.
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Calamus. A Series Of Letters Written During The Years 1868-1880. By Walt Whitman To A Young...
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Calamus. A Series Of Letters Written During The Years 1868-1880. By Walt Whitman To A Young Friend (Peter Doyle). Edited With An Introduction By Richard Maurice Bucke M.D. One Of Whitman's Literary Executors

by WHITMAN, Walt

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Boston: Published By Laurens Maynard At 287 Congress Street, 1897. First (trade) edition, first issue, following a limited edition of 35 large-paper copies, signed by Dr. Bucke, of which 25 were for sale. Myerson A14.1.b1. In addition to the letters by Whitman, who died in 1892, this book contains a very interesting interview with Peter Doyle, conducted by Bucke and Horace Traubel in 1895, in which "Mr. Doyle is reported almost absolutely in his own words." Presentation copy, inscribed at the top of the front free endpaper: "Patrick Dougherty With the regards of Pete Doyle". Walt Whitman's relationship with Peter Doyle was the deepest and the longest of his erotic-romantic relationships with younger men, the only such long-term relationship that Whitman ever enjoyed. It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of their relationship in either man's life. They met in 1865 and within a couple of years, Whitman's friends (e.g. William Douglas O'Connor) began to comment on how powerfully… Read More
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The Diary of Edward Thomas, 1 January - 8 April 1917. With a Foreword by Myfanwy Thomas and an Introduction by Roland Grant, and with eight wood-engravings by Hellmuth Weissenborn

by THOMAS, Edward

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(Gloucestershire): Whittington Press, (1977). First edition. One of 525 numbered copies signed by Myfanwy Thomas, Grant & Weissenborn. Fine copy. Large 8vo, pictorial endpapers, cloth-backed boards, t.e.g., publisher's slipcase. Fine copy.
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A Garden Carried In A Pocket: Letters 1964-1968. Edited by Thomas Meyer

by WILLIAMS, Jonathan & Guy DAVENPORT

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Haverford: Green Shade, 2004. First edition. One of 400 copies in wrappers (out of a total edition of 526 copies printed). Designed by The Grenfell Press & printed by Trifolio, Verona, Italy. "We are not celebrities. No one has known quite what to make of a patrician satirist and lyric poet from Highlands, North Carolina, or of an essayist and short story writer from Anderson, South Carolina." - Guy Davenport. "It is clear that G. Davenport and J. Williams write their letters in the fresh of the morning, when the Wheaties have kicked in, in GD's case, and the peanut-butter-and-mayonnaise sandwich and Coke, in JW's case." - Jonathan Williams. "Here we have two men the perfection of whose craft has been wrought through the practice of letter-writing. ... What we have here in particular is onset and blossoming, one of the most distinguished exchanges imaginable unfolding." - Thomas Meyer. As new. 8vo, illustrated, pictorial wrappers. As new.
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A Garden Carried In A Pocket: Letters 1964-1968. Edited by Thomas Meyer

by DAVENPORT, Guy & Jonathan WILLIAMS

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Haverford: Green Shade, 2004. First edition. One of 26 lettered hardbound copies signed by Davenport and Williams and Thomas Meyer, out of a total edition of 526 copies printed. Designed by The Grenfell Press & printed by Trifolio, Verona, Italy. "We are not celebrities. No one has known quite what to make of a patrician satirist and lyric poet from Highlands, North Carolina, or of an essayist and short story writer from Anderson, South Carolina." - Guy Davenport. "It is clear that G. Davenport and J. Williams write their letters in the fresh of the morning, when the Wheaties have kicked in, in GD's case, and the peanut-butter-and-mayonnaise sandwich and Coke, in JW's case." - Jonathan Williams. "Here we have two men the perfection of whose craft has been wrought through the practice of letter-writing. ... What we have here in particular is onset and blossoming, one of the most distinguished exchanges imaginable unfolding." - Thomas Meyer. As new. Price is net to all. 8vo, illustrated, original… Read More
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A Garden Carried In A Pocket: Letters 1964-1968. Edited by Thomas Meyer

by DAVENPORT, Guy & Jonathan WILLIAMS

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Haverford: Green Shade, 2004. First edition. One of 100 numbered copies signed by Davenport and Williams out of a total edition of 526 copies printed. Designed by The Grenfell Press & printed by Trifolio, Verona, Italy. "We are not celebrities. No one has known quite what to make of a patrician satirist and lyric poet from Highlands, North Carolina, or of an essayist and short story writer from Anderson, South Carolina." - Guy Davenport. "It is clear that G. Davenport and J. Williams write their letters in the fresh of the morning, when the Wheaties have kicked in, in GD's case, and the peanut-butter-and-mayonnaise sandwich and Coke, in JW's case." - Jonathan Williams. "Here we have two men the perfection of whose craft has been wrought through the practice of letter-writing. ... What we have here in particular is onset and blossoming, one of the most distinguished exchanges imaginable unfolding." - Thomas Meyer. As new. 8vo, illustrated, original pictorial wrappers. As new.
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(I) Memoirs Of A Fox-Hunting Man. (II) Memoirs Of An Infantry Officer. (III) Sherston's Progress

by SASSOON, Siegfried

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London: Faber & Gwyer; Faber & Faber, 1928, 1930, 1936. First trade editions of each of the three volumes in Sassoon's celebrated World War I trilogy, the first volume in the "bibliographically preferred" first state with untrimmed edges. Keynes A30a, A33a, A40a. Some foxmarks on edges of text block of two volumes, signature on rear pastedown of Memoirs of An Infantry Officer (nick in the top of the spine panel of the dust jacket), but a fine set of Sassoon's semi-autobiographical memoirs. 3 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth, dust jackets. Some foxmarks on edges of text block of two volumes, signature on rear pastedown of Memoirs of An Infantry Officer (nick in the top of the spine panel of the dust jacket), but a fine set of Sassoon's semi-autobiographical memoirs.
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(Interview With Louis Zukofsky). Reprinted from Contemporary Literature, Spring 1969, Vol. 10, No. 2

by ZUKOFSKY, Louis

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(No place: Contemporary Literature), 1969. First edition of this offprint. Signed & with corrections by Zukofsky. Wrappers a little sunned on the back & bottom of front cover creased, otherwise a fine copy. 8vo, original printed wrappers. Wrappers a little sunned on the back & bottom of front cover creased, otherwise a fine copy.
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The Letters of Charles Sorley With a Chapter of Biography

by SORLEY, Charles

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Cambridge: University Press, 1919. First edition. Endpapers & edges slightly foxed, back paste-down a bit rippled, covers slightly rubbed & sunned along spine, else a near fine copy. Large 8vo, portrait, original cloth. Endpapers & edges slightly foxed, back paste-down a bit rippled, covers slightly rubbed & sunned along spine, else a near fine copy.
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Lincoln At Home: Two Glimpses of Abraham Lincoln's Domestic Life

by [LINCOLN, Abraham]. DONALD, David Herbert

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(N. Y.): Thornwillow Press, 1999. First edition. With a never-before-seen collection of all the known letters & telegraph communications exchanged among members of the Lincoln family up to the time of his assassination. One of 185 copies printed on handmade paper & signed by David Herbert Donald, a leading Lincoln scholar, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for biography & the Charles Warren Professor Emeritus of American History & American Civilization at Harvard University. A lovely book. As new.. Small 4to, illustrated with three tipped-in photogravure portraits & two fold-out facsimile letters, 3/4 black moroccan goatskin & dark blue paste-paper boards, t.e.g., velvet lined folding black cloth traycase. A lovely book. As new.
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Not I, But The Wind..

Not I, But The Wind..

by LAWRENCE, Frieda

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First edition. One of 1000 copies signed by Lawrence, who has al
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Santa Fe, NM: The Rydal Press, (1934). First edition. One of 1000 copies signed by Lawrence, who has also inscribed the book to James Laughlin of New Directions: "for James Laughlin after a day at the ranch, Summer 47. Lower corners bumped, otherwise a fine copy of this handsome book, in dust jacket faintly sunned along spine. 8vo, illustrated, original cloth-backed boards with printed spine label, dust jacket. Lower corners bumped, otherwise a fine copy of this handsome book, in dust jacket faintly sunned along spine.
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Rude Assignment: A narrative of my career up-to-date. Illustrated with works by the Author

by LEWIS, Wyndham

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First edition of the second volume of Lewis' autobiography. Morr
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London: Hutchinson & Co, (1950). First edition of the second volume of Lewis' autobiography. Morrow & Lafourcade A35. One of 2500 copies printed. Lightly foxed, otherwise a fine copy in slightly dust-soiled jacket, nicked at the extremities.. 8vo, illustrated, original cloth, dust jacket. Lightly foxed, otherwise a fine copy in slightly dust-soiled jacket, nicked at the extremities.
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The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams. Edited with an Introduction by John C. Thirlwall

by WILLIAMS, William Carlos

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First edition. One of 75 copies signed by Williams. Wallace A42b
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N. Y.: McDowell Obolensky, (1957). First edition. One of 75 copies signed by Williams. Wallace A42b. A very fine copy, virtually as new, preserved in a half-morocco slipcase. 8vo, original cloth, glassine dust jacket, slipcase. A very fine copy, virtually as new, preserved in a half-morocco slipcase.
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Spots & Dots. Ezra Pound In Italy. From the Pisan Cantos

by CONTINO, Vittorugo

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(Venezia: Gianfranco Ivancich, editore, 1970). First trade edition. Gallup B100b. Although not called for, this copy is signed by Pound on the front free endpaper. A photographic portrait of the poet in Italy, accompanying passages from The Pisan Cantos, with an introduction by Pound, notes by Olga Rudge, and answers to questions from Pier Paolo Pasolini and Vanni Ronsisvalle, "all written out by Pound and reproduced both in facsimile of his manuscript and in type." The wraparound band, which gives the limitation, states that this is the "Edizione In Italiano" - it is, in fact, in English. Not to be confused with the common Rizzoli edition of 1978. A fine copy in slightly worn slipcase. 4to, illustrated with photographs by Vittorugo Contino, original pictorial boards, wraparound band, card slipcase. A fine copy in slightly worn slipcase.
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St. EOM in the Land of Pasaquan: The Life and Times and Art of Eddie Owens Martin. As told to & recorded by Tom Patterson. Photography by Jonathan Williams, Roger Manley, Guy Mendes. Foreword by John Russell

by (MARTIN, Eddie Owens)

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(Winston-Salem, NC): Jargon Society, (1987). First edition, Patron's Edition. One of 100 specially bound copies signed by Patterson, Williams, Manley & Mendes. Published as Jargon 64. Very fine copy of this stunning book about one of America's foremost outsider artists.. Square 4to, 262 pp., illustrated, pictorial endpapers, original red cloth, acetate dust jacket, black cloth folding box with Japanese-style clasps. Very fine copy of this stunning book about one of America's foremost outsider artists.
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