Search Results: LITERATURE from Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books

[Washington, D.C.?, [1964]. Plain wrappers, tied with a red cord, slightly faded. Untitled pamphlet, serving as a prospectus for Marriage Lines and The Untold Adventures of Santa Claus, with a poem from each, and one specially written for the American Booksellers Association convention. Not in FPAA.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1912. First edition, second issue (as always, with half-title bound after the title page), of Cather's first novel. Original purple cloth, gilt stamped, with initial "S" on the front cover. A very fine copy in the rare pictorial dust jacket, with illustration by F. Graham Cootes. This is Crane's jacket "b" issued in April 1912, shortly after publication. With the bookplate of M.B. Goldstone. Acquired by David Porter after the sale of Goldstone's collection at Bonhams in 2009. Crane A5.a.i.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. First edition. Folio, cloth, as new in dust jacket.

Mt. Horeb, Wisc: The Perishable Press, 1970. First edition. Dark blue wrappers, a little faded on the spine, otherwise fine. One of 125 copies printed, all hors commerce, and only for friends of the author, artist, and printer. Inscribed by Blackburn.

London: Longmans, Green, 1899. First edition. Original crimsion cloth, gilt. Faded, usual light browning, a very good copy. Signed on the front endpaper by Butler's friend Jessie Bovill, and with her bookplate (as Jessie A. Grosvenor). See Festing Jones's "Samuel Butler: Author of Erewhon, (1835-1902), a Memoir," for comments on the relationship.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984. First edition. First edition. Cloth. Contributors include Updike, Bowles, Salter, Dubus . Fine in dust jacket lightly faded on spine.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973. First edition. Cloth. Contributors include Donald Barthelme, Bermard Malamud, Sylvia Plath, Tennessee Williams. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition.

Boston: Small, Maynard & Co, 1922. Cloth. Includes Sherwood Anderson, Irvin S. Cobb, Ellen Glasgow, Vincent O' Sullivan. Very good copy in lightly soiled and chipped dust jacket.

East Lansing, Mich: Zeitgeist, 1970. First edition. Publisher's wrappers, some stains and wear. Inscribed by the author to poet Darrell Gray "some early tokes. Iowa City, April 21, 1973.

Milan: The Future of Freedom, 1955. First edition. Original wrappers, corner stapled. 8 1/4 in. x 12 in. Cover title, 15 pp. Mimeographed on rectos only. Creased from folding, minor edge wear and discoloration, last leaf detached. Milosz's paper given at the Milan Conference on the Future of Freedom, sponsored by the Congress for Cultural Freedom, an anti-communist advocacy group which was substantially funded by the CIA. No copy located in WorldCat,

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968. First edition, wrappers, simultaneous paperbound issue. Inside back cover slightly foxed, else fine.

Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930. First edition. Evans, Walker. Quarto, original white printed wrappers. Expert restoration to the paper on the spine, otherwise a bright, fresh copy with all tissue guards present; original glassine replaced; enclosed in a new slipcase. Copy number 30 of only 50 copies printed on Japan Vellum, signed by Crane. There were an additional 200 copies in the regular issue. One of the most important American poetic works of the twentieth century as well as a significant collaboration between writer and photographer. The Bridge, called "cubism in poetry" when it was initially reviewed in The New York Times, stands as one of the great epics of 20th-century poetry. Cyril Connolly writes that of the poems "some of them... are near perfect and the whole allegory a masterpiece of neo- romanticism" (The Modern Movement, p.62). Its publication was initiated when Crane met Harry and Caresse Crosby on his trip to Europe in 1929. After reading drafts of "The Bridge", they agreed to… Read More

Winchester, Mass: Edmund H. Garrett, 1896. First edition. Garrett, Edmund H.. Original heavy vellum, slightly marked, with vellum-hinged clasp fasteners (missing one clasp), nice condition. One of 50 copies printed at the De Vinne Press on Japanese paper, signed by Garrett. Additionally inscribed by Garrett as a wedding-present to a Miss Mary Bacon. BAL 6738 describes only the trade edition.

Paris: Grassin, Centre de Créativité, 1982. Édition augmentéé. Two volumes, original wrappers, fine. 248, 70 pp. The second volume also contains an 8-page insert produced for the 1971 re-issue of the original edition (all part of the only printing) containing previously omitted texts, and the first volume contains a separately printed preface by Lemaitre, dated 1982, the occasion of this re-issue, which unites the two Grassin volumes in a new Centre de Créativité wrapper.

Boston: Fields, Osgood, 1870. Original green cloth, nice, bright copy. First edition.

Paris: Gallimard, 1961. First edition. Original white cloth, clear plastic jacket. 9-1/2 in. x 11-1/14 in. First printing, May 1961, one of 3000 numbered copies (this is one of 250 hors-commerce). Design by Robert Massin. Fine condition. Presentation copy from Queneau to Anne and Georges-Emmanuel Clancier. Anne Clancier was a doctor, a psychiatrist, and an analyst. She published several books. including "Raymond Queneau et la psychanalyse," (1994), which includes a chapter on her meetings with Queneau. The first work of Oulipo poetry, it contains ten sonnets each divided into 14 strips (one for each line). Each sonnet has the same rhyme sounds, allowing 1014 (= 100,000,000,000,000) different poems. Ref.Massin, La Lettre et L'Image, p. 220.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1881. First edition. Three volumes. Original blue cloth blocked in gilt and black. Piece of front free endpaper missing in vol. 1, cloth split at edge of spine. Slight shelf-wear and slight rubbing to front covers from removal of library labels.The bookbinder erred when blocking the cases: He decorated the spines with a ship, while the title refers to Fleet Prison. Sadleir 183; Wolff 415.

Andes, N.Y. : Woolmer/Brotherson, 1977. Wrappers, label, fine. First edition, one of 200 numbered and signed copies, 400 were unsigned.

Printed by Lowe Bros, 1916. First edition. Original printed self-wrappers, stitched within a slate-grey paper wrapper (made from a Colnaghi catalogue cover), on which Waley has written in red the three Chinese characters "Ku Shih Chi". With some pencilled corrections of misprints in the author's hand. A fine copy, signed much later by Waley on the title page. Waley's rare first book, privately printed in an edition of about fifty copies, the existence of which was unknown to bibliography until 1962. There are, as far as we can tell, eleven extant copies, of which we can brag of having owned six. Johns A1.Waley's authentic and musical translations infused the stress-rhythms of Chinese poetic forms into English. His influence on later English poetry and scholarship was immense. But one must read this collection also as a product of its time and place,and the immediacy of the war and its effects. Rupert Brooke (who had died the previous year) had been a close friend of Waley's at Rugby and King's… Read More

New York: Liveright, 1946. Black & Gold Edition, July, 1946. Black & Gold Edition, first impression, with black coated endpapers and blue strips on the spine. 5 3/4 in. x 8 3/4 in., frontispiece portrait by Siqueiros, xxxiii, Walker Evans photo-portrait at p. 58, a few ink notations at pp.128-129. Black cloth with decorations in gold & blue, gilt titling, yellow, pictorial dustjacket with Siqueiros portrait on the front panel, ads on the back panel. The dustjacket edges show some chipping, tape repairs, wear. This book belonged to Betty Crane Madden. From the collection of Vivian Pemberton, Emeritus Professor of English, Kent State University. [Schwartz & Schweik A 4.4].