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New York: Times Books, 1995. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Fine/fine. Sarah Elizabeth Chuldenko. A fine, signed first edition by former President Jimmy Carter in a fine dust jacket. Buckram quarter cloth over paper boards. Signed by President Carter on the half title and by the illustrator Chuldenko on the title page. Deckled page edges. 130 pp. 6 1/4 x 8 inches tall, octavo. The first collection of poetry by former President Jimmy Carter, who shares here his private memories about his childhood, his family and political life, with illustrations by his granddaughter. Always a Reckoning sets a precedent since no other president has published a book of poetry.
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Always a Reckoning and Other Poems
by Jimmy Carter
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Bertoldo con Bertoldino e Cacasenno illustrati con venti incisioni in rame di Giuseppe M. Crespi e con una introduzione di Antonio Baldini [Bertoldo with Bertoldino and Cacasenno illustrated with twenty copper engravings by Giuseppe M. Crespi and with an introduction by Antonio Baldini.].
by Giulio Cesare Croce; Adriano Banchieri; Giuseppe Maria Crespi; Antonio Baldini
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Spoleto: Presso Claudio Argentieri, 1929. Limited Edition. Three quarter leather. Good +/missing. Giuseppe Maria Crespi. A good plus limited edition, no. 82 of 1000 printed. No dust jacket. Three quarter leather over marbled boards with matching marbled endpapers. Front joint cracked, but still sturdy. Four raised bands with bright gilt title stamping on spine and at leather edges.Small rub on spine, see photos. Top edge gilt. Deckled fore and bottom edge. Limitation stamped on copyright page. Held by 6 libraries in Europe. Pages are clean and unmarked. Text in Italian. XXVII, 278 p., 20 gorgeous copper engravings, all present. Quarto, 9 x 11 1/2 inches tall. Vicenza, 800 AD. The crude but world-savvy peasant Bertoldo is invited to the court of the Longobard King Alboin, and manages to ingratiate himself with the sovereign through his wit and pranks. Returning to his small village from the naive wife Marcolfa and son Bertoldino, the farmer Bertoldo finds out that they fell victim of a Fra Cipolla…
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California Writers Club: Poems 1930
by Julia Cooley Altrocchi, et al
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Berkeley: The Professional Press, 1930. First Edition. Original wraps. Very good +/none as issued. A very good plus first edition in original wraps. Stapled. Gilt title stamping on cover with the seal of the Club. The very first of the series of Poems by the California Writers Club. Shelf wear and tiny tears to top edge (see photo). Text is clean and bright. The California Writers Club traces its founding to the San Francisco Bay Area literary movement in the early part of the 20th century. The informal gatherings of Jack London, George Sterling, and Herman Whitaker, along with others, eventually became formalized as the Press Club of Alameda. ---wikipediaJulia Cooley Altrocchi was an American author and poet, who wrote many works for children and adults, including The Poems of a Child, The Dance of Youth, Snow Covered Wagons, and Wolves Against the Moon.-- Wikipedia
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En Repos and Elsewhere Over There. Verses Written in France, 1917-1918
by Lansing Warren; Robert A. Donaldson
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1918. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Near fine/none as issued. A very near fine first edition. Brown paper over burgundy quarter cloth boards with black title on cover and title on paper label on spine. Previoous owner's name on front pastedow is only flaw. xvi, [1], 111, [1] pages, 1 leaf The verses here collected "need no bush" They evidence what they are the reflections, now playful, now serious, of typical American youth upon the surroundings of life on the French Front. They were written by two members of one of the many volunteer ambulance sections of the American Field Service, who came to this organization from Leland Stanford University and who served in and with the French Army long before American troops were operating in France. Subsequently the sections of the American Field Service were adopted by the American Army, though left to serve with the French divisions, and the authors of these verses, along with many hundred other former volunteers, were…
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Eye of the Womb
by Susan Suntree
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Nevada City, CA: Power Press, 1981. Limited Edition. Cloth. Fine/none as issued. A brand new limited edition with no flaws. One of one hundred printed, signed by the author on the limitation page. Burgundy silk binding, letterpress endpapers. Octavo. To celebrate maternity is not to glorify it. To celebrate maternity, as Susan Suntree does, is to pay homage to lucidity. It is being aware and showing the pain, the uncertainty, the fear associated with maternity
In Eye of the Womb, the wisdom of the wombs eye is full of beauty, or better yet, impregnated with beauty. Plenitude and pain are resolved and integrated in magnificent verses. -- Beatriz Villacañas
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The Farallones : the painted world, and other poems of California : with fifty-three illustrations and with a supplementary history and description of the Farallones, including notes on their plant, bird and animal life. [In two volumes, complete]
by Milton S Ray
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San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1934. Limited Edition, First Edition. 1/4 vellum. Near fine/fair. A near fine limited, first edition in a fair slipcase [O'Day pg. 87]. This copy being number 374 of 2000 printed. Signed with a dedication to Lord Addington (possibly John Hubbard, 3rd Baron Addington OR Raymond Hubbard, 4th Baron Addington) by the author on the front pastedown. One quarter vellum under sage green paper boards. Briggs Books bookplate on front pastedown of both volumes. Volume two showing two pin impressions on spine, otherwise both volumes fine. Bound promotional pamphlet from John Nash included in the set, also fine save for pencilled price and edition information. Volume I is poetry and Volume II is primarily plates. The matching sage green slipcase did its job well, but is the worse for wear, about fair, showing scotch tape repairs at foot and crown of case, peeling on spine and a split at top edge of case. Deckled pages. 2 volumes ., xii, 86 pp., frontis . ; xxiv [ii] [101…
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Freedom's Fools
by John Baranard Cavanaigh
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New York: Vantage Press, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. A very near fine first edition, as stated of Irish verse.In original unclipped dust jacket, which is showing some loss at top of cover. Previous owner's small stamp of first and last endpapers. 81 pp. Duodecimo, 5 & 1/2 x 8 inches tall. Recounts in poetry epic British and Irish battles.
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Just Folks
by Edgar A. Guest
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Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +. A very good plus, bright and well-preserved first edition. Blue cloth boards with gold title stamping on inverted banner. Top front corner bumped. Mustard colored end papers with previous owner's inscription in pencil on front pastedown. Two small tears to papers at front hinge. Previous owner's gift inscription inked on title page ("Happy Birthday, 1919"). 192 pp. including index of first lines. Duodecimo, 5 x 7 1/2 inches tall.
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Like the Pieces of Driftwood
by Jon Francis
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Mendocino, CA: by the author, 1977. First Edition. Paperback original. Near fine. A very near fine, first edition in softcover, signed by the poet on the title page. Dust stain to edge of cover.Duodecimo, 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches tall.
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Love Poems of Alfred Austin
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London: John Lane, [1920]. Hardcover. Very good. A very good small edition circa 1920. Decorated paper boards showing foxing. Spine heavily sunned. Gift inscription on first free end paper. Purple and green decorated pages with text inset. Foxing throughout. Binding sturdy and square. From the Lover's Library. 109 pp. Thirty-twomo, 3 x 5 inches tall.
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The Mourning Bride, a Tragedy. as it is acted at the theatre in Lincoln's Inn-Fields, by His Majesty's Servants
by Congreve, William
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London: J. Tonson, 1697. Second Edition. Three quarter cloth. Very good. Scarce. A very good second edition of Mr. Congreve's famous work. [WING C5858] Blue three quarter cloth over maroon and blue marbled boards. Appears to be missing the first free endpaper, otherwise complete and collated. Loss to page 1, not affecting text. Pencilled marginalia and previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Soft cotton paper. Toning to pages and pastedowns. Contents: 11'"1: half-title (verso blank). 11'"2: title (verso blank). Al: dedicatoryepistle (om. initial4). A3V: prologue (cap2). A4V; dramatis personae (with cast). Bl: HT with text (cap4). K2: epilogue (cap2). 6 /2 x 8 3/4 inches tall, octavo. The Mourning Bride is a tragedy written by British playwright William Congreve. It premiered in 1697 at Betterton's Co., Lincoln's Inn Fields. The play centres on Zara, a queen held captive by Manuel, King of Granada, and a web of love and deception which results in the…
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The Poets Laureate Anthology
by Elizabeth Hun Schmidt ed.; foreword by Billy Collins, in association with the Library of Congress
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New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 paper. Fine/near fine. A fine/as new first edition (review copy), appears unread. Red 1/4 paper over buckram boards in a near fine dustjacket with a small 1/4 inch nick at top right corner of jacket. Publisher's errata laid in. 762 pp. including index. Octavo The first anthology to gather poems by the forty-three poets laureate of the United States, with works by Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Frost, Maxine Kuman, Robert Lowell, William Meredith. William Carlos Williams, and by all the other poets laureate to 2010.."As a record of poetry, The Poets Laureate Anthology is groundbreaking, charting the course of American poetry over the last seventy-five years, while being, at the same time, a pleasure to read, full of some of the world's best-known poems and many new surprises. Elizabeth Hun Schmidt has gathered and introduced poems by each of the forty-three poets who have been named our…
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Twelve Sonnets
by William Shakespeare; John C. Tarr
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Berkeley: Turtle's Quill Scriptorium, 1974. First Edition Thus, Limited. Stiff wraps. Fine. Joyce Alexander; Dorsey Alexander. A fine limited edition. One of 75 numbered copies. This copy is unnumbered. Green stiff paper wraps. Sienna end papers. Illustrations by Joyce Alexander. Calligraphy by Dorsey Alexander. [16] pp. Octavo, 6 x 9 inches tall.
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A Twilight Song (in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, May 1890, to October 1890)
by Walt Whitman
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New York: The Century Co., May, 1890. First printing. Leatherette. Very Good +. First published appearance of Whitman's "A Twilight Song, for unknown buried soldiers, North and South," with attribution on page 27. (Later collected in Good Bye My Fancy, 1891) [BAL 21599]. Embossed green leatherette boards (original), gold-stamped: A Year of the Century, '90 on spine. Corners bumped, head and tail of spine mildly bent. Round-backed binding, toning to all edges, with interior pages fresh and bright. Yellow endpapers. This large volume has pulled apart at the pastedown and mull is beginning to show at the hinge. 960 pp. Small quarto, 7 x 10 inches tall. Also includes an issue devoted to California, Californiana, and many articles by the Sierra Club founder, John Muir, along with US Civil War analyses and other interesting items.
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War Time Poems and Heart Songs
by Isabella B. Watson
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Toronto: William Briggs, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +. A very good plus first edition. Green cloth boards. Binding is tight, sturdy and square. Gilt title stamping on cover and spine. Heavy shelfwear to tail of spine. Bumped corners. Pages are clean and bright. No dustjacket. 123 pp. 5 x 7 1/2 inches tall, duodecimo.
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Wettersteinmächte (im kar) eine weltenschau / roman von Paul Schulze-Berghof
by Paul Schulze-Berghof
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Leipzig: Verlag von Theodor Weicher, 1924. unknown. Hardcover. Very good/missing. Title drawing and book decoration by Willi Geissler / Rudolstadt. A very good unknown, but early edition. Text in German Fraktur. Blue cloth boards with black Fraktur font titling on cover and spine. Sunning to spine and top edge of back cover. Binding a bit soft. Hinges are perfect. Previous owner's name inked on first free endpaper. Title drawing and book decoration by Willi Geissler / Rudolstadt.Missing dust wrapper. 581 [2] pp. 5 x 7 3/8 inches tall, duodecimo. Strong anti-Semitic stance, presented here for historical perspective only. Paul Schulze-Berghof was later a disseminator of the Nazi Zarathustra Myth.
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The Works of Molière [Complete 12 volume set]
by Jean Baptiste Poquelin de Molière
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Paris: Chez Barrie Frères and George Barrie & Son, [1891]. First Thus; Astral Edition. Full leather. Very good. Louis Leloir; Maurice Leloir; Jacques Leman; Edward Heduouin. Scarce (one copy in Worldcat). A exquisitely bound, very good first thus, limited edition in full crushed Levant morocco leather with gold tooling. Number 35 of 100 copies on Japan Vellum paper that were offered by subscription only. Binding is sturdy and square. All edges in brilliant gilt. Marbled endpapers. Over 150 engravings, some colored, all with captioned tissue guards. Original title pages to each play are reproduced in French. Text in English. Heavy rubbing to all joints, with dye transferring to one's fingers from rubbed joints. Rubbed corners. Still a lovely and prestigious set, even with the flaws noted below. Quarto, 9 x 12 inches tall. Illustrations by Mm. Louis Leloir, Maurice Leloir, Jacques Leman [and] Edmond Hedouin Heavy set will require additional postage billed at actual…
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The book of the rose
by Charles G. D. Roberts
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London: R. Brimley Johnson, 1904. First U.K. Edition. Cloth. Very good/missing. A very good First U.K. Edition. Inscribed by the author on the first free endpaper in 1910. Blue cloth boards with gilt title stamping on spine. Tes streak near lower spine. Heavily bumped lower corners and moderately rubbed upper corners. Offset and toning to endpapers and pastedowns. Deckled fore edge. 1, 83 pages 1 plate. Twelvemo. All proceeds from this sale go to The Shalom Free Clinic, providing healthcare services to the uninsured and underinsured in Chico, California. 'The Book of the Rose' is a collection of poems, including 'The Wisdom of Love', 'The Covert', 'Invocation', and many more. Charles G. D. Roberts was born on 10th January 1860, in Douglas, New Brunswick, Canada. Roberts's most successful literary genre was that of the animal story which featured in works such as Earth's Enigmas (1896) and Eyes of the Wilderness (1933). "Sir Charles…
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