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New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1959. First edition. Near fine./Very good.. Black cloth, gilt stamped spine. A near fine copy in a very good, only minimally rubbed, price-clipped typographic dust jacket.   First U.S. edition, first printing. Eliot's last play, drafted originally in 1955 but not completed until three years later, and first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1958. The cast of the original production is included at the conclusion of the play. Lord Claverton, an eminent former cabinet minister and banker, is helped to confront his past by the love of his daughter, Antigone. Critics wrote, at the time of its first performances, that the dialogue, the love scenes in particular, contain some of Eliot's most tender and expressive writing for the theatre. The play is dedicated to his second wife, Esmé Valerie Fletcher, 38 years his junior and his former secretary at Faber & Faber, whom he married in 1959.

London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1924. First edition. Very good.. Pictorial stiff wrappers. First edition (approx. 2000 copies printed). Cover attributed to Vanessa Bell, though not cited in text. Wrapper darkened at edges, bump to lower fore-tip, spine chipped at head and toe; internally very good. WOOLMER 43. GALLUP A7.

London: Faber & Gwyer, 1928. First edition. Good. Cloth, paper label. First edition (1500 copies printed). Spine cocked, endsheets a bit foxed, else a good copy in chipped and darkened dust jacket, with tears at joints and lacking crown of spine panel.

New York: Pantheon, 1953. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition, preceding the British publication. Poet Ralph Hodgson's copy, with his ownership signature and date. Offset to endsheets from clipping, otherwise a nice copy in lightly edgeworn dust jacket.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966. Cloth and boards. Gilt green cloth.  First edition, preceding the UK edition by almost two years.  Near fine in very good, lightly rubbed and smudged pictorial dust jacket. Bryher (1894 - 1983) was the pen name of the English novelist, poet, memoirist, and magazine editor Annie Winifred Ellerman, who supported many artists, writers, and friends with the proceeds of a fortune derived from the Ellerman ship enterprises.  She was a major figure of the international set in Paris in the 1920s, her friends being the usual suspects. With her lover Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) and the Scottish writer Kenneth Macpherson, she launched the film magazine Close Up, which introduced Sergei Eisenstein's work to British viewers. From her home in Switzerland, she helped to evacuate Jews from Nazi Germany, and then became a popular historical novelist. This novel deals with 1066 and all that. .

[New York]: Pantheon, 1958. Cloth and boards. First edition (preceding the British printing). Photos by Islay de Courcy Lyon of the present day (1958) Paestum. With a gift inscription from novelist Francis Parkinson Keyes to a friend with whom she apparently spent a day in Paestum (Italy). Very good in lightly foxed and frayed dust jacket. Bryher (1894 - 1983) was the pen name of the English novelist, poet, memoirist, and magazine editor Annie Winifred Ellerman, who supported many artists, writers, and friends from a fortune derived from the Ellerman ship enterprises.  She was a major figure of the international set in Paris in the 1920s, her friends being the usual suspects. With her lover Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) and the Scottish writer Kenneth Macpherson, she launched the film magazine Close Up, which introduced Sergei Eisenstein's work to British viewers. From her home in Switzerland, she helped to evacuate Jews from Nazi Germany, and then became a popular historical novelist, as exemplified by… Read More

New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1980. Near fine. Twelve glossy, 7 x 5" black & white picture postcards, dating from the 1920s and 1930s, encased in a pictorial folding card case. Cards in fine, unused state; pictorial card case with minute creases. Photographer Walker Evans began collecting picture postcards as a child, amassing 9,000 of them in his lifetime. Evans, inspired by the concise nature of these images, made postcard-size images of his own photographs in an attempt to have them sold in the late '30s at the Museum of Modern Art - where he would later be given his first major exhibition, American Photographs in 1938.

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1996. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Cloth and pictorial boards, printed spine label. First edition. Afterword by Allan Campo. Number 40 of only 100 copies numbered and signed by Everson, handbound in boards by Earle Gray. Very fine, in a fine acetate dust wrapper. Black Sparrow Press was a small independent publishing house focused on avant-garde literature. Established by John and Barbara Martin in 1966, in Los Angeles, and shuttered in 2002 in Santa Rosa. With the help of typographer and printer Graham Mackintosh, the Press was responsible for drawing attention to Charles Bukowski and his literary work. There has been interest in reviving this press of late, and relocating it to the east coast. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Cloth and pictorial boards, printed spine label. First edition, thus. Number 25 of only 50 copies numbered and signed by Everson, handbound in boards by Earle Gray, and containing a holograph poem signed and dated "Holy Thursday, 1978" by the author, bound before the dedication. Very fine, in a fine acetate dust wrapper. Black Sparrow Press was a small independent publishing house focused on avant-garde literature. Established by John and Barbara Martin in 1966, in Los Angeles, and shuttered in 2002 in Santa Rosa. With the help of typographer and printer Graham Mackintosh, the Press was responsible for drawing attention to Charles Bukowski and his literary work. There has been interest in reviving this press of late, and relocating it to the east coast.

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Cloth and pictorial boards, printed spine label. First edition. Edited by Lee Bartlett. Number 26 of only 50 copies numbered and signed by Everson, handbound in boards by Earle Gray, and containing a manuscript quote, signed by the author, bound in after the titlepage. Very fine, in a fine acetate dust wrapper. Black Sparrow Press was a small independent publishing house focused on avant-garde literature. Established by John and Barbara Martin in 1966, in Los Angeles, and shuttered in 2002 in Santa Rosa. With the help of typographer and printer Graham Mackintosh, the Press was responsible for drawing attention to Charles Bukowski and his literary work. There has been interest in reviving this press of late, and relocating it to the east coast. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.