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[Music] Lieder

[Music] Lieder

by KAHANE, Arthur (1872-1932)

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Berlin: Oesterheld, 1910. Hardcover. Fine. First Edition of this collection of short lyrical songs, in German, including works by Mendelssohn (Songs Without Words) and Chopin, selected by the dramaturge of Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater, in Berlin. Crown 8vo (184 x 120mm): 115,[1]pp. Publisher's green and orange paper-covered boards, beige paper title labels printed in black to spine and upper cover, top edge stained black. A beautifully preserved example, tightly bound and clean throughout. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
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[Czech Photographic Society] Fotografie 1928-58
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[Czech Photographic Society] Fotografie 1928-58

by KAINAR, Josef (1917-1971)

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Prague: Orbis, 1959. First Edition. Fine. Portfolio of 20 original gelatin silver prints, representing 30 years of Czech photography, including Josef Sudek's "Mé Okno" (1952), Jaromir Funke's "Z Cyklu Cas Trvá" (1932), Karel Hájek's "Zachranený" (1934), and Erich Einhorn's "Za mané?e" (1958). Introduced by Czech poet Josef Kainar. Each print measures 300 x 250mm and is titled and dated on verso. Original folding wheat-colored buckram portfolio (305 x 255mm), lettered in black and printed with blue and yellow splotches on upper board, text in Czech to inside panels. The photographers who furnished negatives for the project were Frantisek Drtikol, Funke, Hájek, Alexandr Paul, Eugen Wiskovsky, Jiri Jenicek, Miroslav Hák, Zdenko Feyfar, Karel Ludwig, Václav Chochola, Zdenek Tmej, Sudek, Josef Ehm, Josef Prosek, Karel Plicka, Tibor Honty, Jindrich Brok, Václav Jiru, Jan Lukas, and Einhorn. Light stain at fore-edge of upper board, else Fine. The development of sophisticated hand-held 35mm cameras… Read More
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Seven Gothic Tales
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Seven Gothic Tales

by [Karen Christenze Dinesen, Baroness Blixen-Finecke, writing as:] DINESEN, Isak (1885-1962)

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London: Putnam, 1934. First Impression. Hardcover. Fine. The uncommon First British Edition of Isak Dinesen's first book. Thick 8vo: [6],522pp, with full-color frontispiece (repeating dust jacket design) by Rex Whistler. Publisher's cinnamon colored cloth, spine lettered in gilt; illustrated dust jacket, priced 7s / 6d. About Fine (spine ends bumped, top edge slightly dust soiled); about Fine jacket (spine panel lightly toned). A scarce survival. Blixen's first book, published first in the United States under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen. These intricate and imaginative tales, all set in the nineteenth century, won wide acclaim in America and soon appeared in this edition in Britain and then in Denmark (as Syv fantastiske fortællinger). "Since her pseudonym was quickly penetrated, she published under her own name in every country, except the United States, where 'Isak Dinesen' swiftly became a valuable brand. Among the main stylistic influences on Blixen's tales can be counted the English gothic… Read More
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[Exhibition Catalog] Posters by E. McKnight Kauffer
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[Exhibition Catalog] Posters by E. McKnight Kauffer

by KAUFFER, E. McKnight (Edward), 1890-1954; HUXLEY, Aldous [Introduces]

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New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1937. First Printing. Card Covers. Fine-. One of 2,750 copies printed by the Spiral Press, with notes by Kauffer on technique and foreword by Aldous Huxley, of this catalog for an exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art from February 10 to March 7, 1937. Royal 8vo (254 x 191mm): 24pp, including 12 highlights, on 9 black-and-white plates, from the exhibit of 85 posters designed by Kauffer for London Underground, Great Western Railways, Shell, and other English clients. Stapled illustrated card covers screen-printed in French blue, black, and grey. About Fine, with minute wear to lower front cover edge, else virtually pristine. Scarce. Kauffer moved to London at the start of the First World War, and is probably best remembered for the 140 posters he created for London Underground (later London Transport), in many styles showing influences of futurism, cubism, and vorticism as well as impressionism and Japanese woodcuts. Why Huxley was chosen to contribute the… Read More
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[Capri] Classical Excursion from Rome to Arpino
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[Capri] Classical Excursion from Rome to Arpino

by KELSALL, Charles (1782-1857)

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Geneva: Printed for the author by Manget and Cherbuliez, 1820. Three-Quarter Calf. First Edition of this rare, privately printed homage to Cicero, with account of his villas and proposals for a monument in the Amalthea at Arpino and a footbridge in his honor over the Fibrenus (both illustrated). Crown 8vo (201 x 126mm): [4],254,[2]pp, with large folding frontispiece, two maps, and two plates. Period three-quarter leather over marbled boards, spine in six compartments between gilt-ruled bands (red leather lettering piece gilt to second compartment, others with gilt floral device), edges stained red, French blue end papers. Occasional light spotting (blanks more so), but a handsome copy, tightly bound and generally clean throughout. RIBA 1645. Lowndes 1258. Borroni 3357. Not in Pine-Coffin or Coxe. In 1812, Kelsall translated Cicero's The Last Two Pleadings . . . Against Caius Verres. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in… Read More
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[Photobook] [Field Guide] The Birds of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire: a Contribution to the...
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[Photobook] [Field Guide] The Birds of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire: a Contribution to the Natural History of the Two Counties

by KENNEDY, Alexander W. M. Clark (1851-1894)

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Eton / London: Ingalton and Drake / Simpkin, Marshall, 1868. Decorative Cloth. Fine. First Edition of apparently the first field guide to birds to use photographs as illustrations. 8vo: xiv,[2],232pp, with four hand-colored and varnished albumen photographs of stuffed birds mounted on heavy card stock. ("It was impossible at the time to photograph live birds due to the absence of the telephoto lens and extremely sensitive plates that would permit short exposures." Goldschmidt & Naef) Publisher's forest-green pebble-grained cloth, spine and upper cover with bird vignettes in gilt, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, chocolate coated end papers. A Fine, tight, square copy, clean, crisp text, the photographs vibrant, with deep, rich colors. Provenance: Book plate of Henry Neville Gladstone (third son of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone). Binder's ticket of James Burn & Co., Kirby St., to rear paste-down. Gernsheim 436. Truthful Lens 96. Margolis & Moss 24. The author was only age 16 when he… Read More
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Charlie Malarkey and the Belly-Button Machine [Inscribed, with doodles]
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Charlie Malarkey and the Belly-Button Machine [Inscribed, with doodles]

by KENNEDY, William and Brendan Kennedy; Glen Baxter (Illustrates)

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Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine+. First Edition (so stated) of first children's book by the author of Ironweed, signed by both William Kennedy and the illustrator. Demy 8vo (229 x 214mm): 40pp, with frontispiece and sixteen full-page color plates. Publisher's fuchsia pictorial cloth-effect boards, patterned end papers, illustrated dust jacket priced $10.95. Inscribed by William Kennedy on title page and by Glenn Baxter, with four captioned doodles, on half title. A handsome example (jacket's gently edge-worn), tightly bound and clean throughout. Blaney, p. 45. In this collaboration between the Pulitzer prize-winning author and his son, Charlie Malarkey wakes up to find his belly button is missing. Brendan Kennedy began this story with his father at the age of four; it was published during Brendan's junior year of high school. They two also wrote Charlie Malarkey and the Singing Moose. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock… Read More
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Kirkcudbright : A Royal Burgh. A book of drawings with letterpress
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Kirkcudbright : A Royal Burgh. A book of drawings with letterpress

by KING, Jessie M. (1875-1949)

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London & Glasgow: Gowans and Gray Limited, 1934. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine+. Publisher's pictorial Japon wrappers illustrated in color, original glassine jacket. 8vo (221 x 140mm): [40]pp, including engraved titled page and 18 full-page plates. Inscription to blank verso of front cover, else near fine or better. White B210. Although the title page implied otherwise (Book 1), there was no second volume. King was one of the Glasgow Girls and an important member of the Kirkcudbright Artists' Colony, which thrived between about 1850, with the emergence of the Faed family of artists in Gatehouse of Fleet, and ended with the death, in 1949, of King, who, with her husband E. A. Taylor, had settled in Kirkcudbright in 1920. The town, within Dumfries and Galloway, attracted many of Scotland's leading artists, among them E. A. Hornel, William Mouncey, William Stewart MacGeorge, Charles Oppenheimer, and S. J. Peploe. many of whom were fictionalized in Little Esson, a 1907 novel by S. R. Crockett. N. B.… Read More
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[Confederate] My Experience In The Confederate Army And In Northern Prisons, Written From Memory
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[Confederate] My Experience In The Confederate Army And In Northern Prisons, Written From Memory

by KING, John R. (John Rufus, 1842-1936)

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Clarksburg, W. Va: Stonewall Jackson Chapter, No. 1333, United Daughters of Confederacy, 1917. Card Covers. Fine-. First Edition of this reminiscence by and infantryman who served under Robert E. Lee. Demy 8vo (227 x 143): 52pp, with frontispiece portrait of the author. Original speckled mid-brown card covers printed in black with pictorial onlay of Confederate flags. Very faint vertical crease to middle of upper cover, light spotting to several page margins, but about Fine, tightly bound and clean throughout. Nevins I, p.196 ("The short, general reminiscence of an enlisted man"). Dornbusch II, 1421. King served in the Upshur Gray Company, or Company B, of the 25th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia, under General Robert E. Lee. He fought at Bull Run, Antietam, and Fredericksburg, and in 1864, at the battles of Wilderness and Spotsylvania, where he was taken prisoner and sent to Point Lookout, then Elmira prisons. After the Confederacy collapsed, King was released with a two-day… Read More
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Under the Deodars [Indian Railway Library, No. 4]
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Under the Deodars [Indian Railway Library, No. 4]

by KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936)

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Allahabad / London: Published by Messrs. A. H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Ld., St. Dunstan's House Fetter Lane [from 1888], 1890. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine+. First English Edition (third overall) of this collection of short stories. Indian Railway Library Number 4. Demy 8vo (214 x 135mm): 96pp, with Indian title page. Publisher's grey-green illustrated paper wrappers (design re-engraved from the first Indian edition, with carriage umbrella tipped to left and several other modifications) printed in black, "Price One Shilling" top of front cover, back cover with vignette of lady's face partially covered by fan. Pages occasionally spotted, but a collectible copy of this fragile production, tightly bound in original wrappers and generally clean throughout. Richards A37. Stewart 48. Martindell 31 (misdated 1889). Livingston 39. Grolier 91. First published in 1888, in Allahabad, collecting six stories, which originally appeared earlier that year in The Week's News. This… Read More
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The Vampire
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The Vampire

by KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936)

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Boston: Privately Printed, 1898. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine-. Scarce First Boston Edition of this unauthorized pamphlet featuring a poem written by Kipling to garner publicity for a mildly pornographic painting by his cousin Philip Burne-Jones, entitled "The Vampire," which was modeled by the actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Foolscap 8vo (146 x 108mm): [8]pp, printed in deep bluish green and scarlet with tipped-in frontispiece reproduction of Burne-Jones's painting and gothic-lettered title page with vignette by E. J. Clark of bats in flight beneath a crescent moon (repeated on each page, recto and verso). Original buff stiff paper wrappers hand sewn with red thread at centerfold, front cover lettered and decorated in types and design of title page. Manuscript ex libris of "George D. Goodrich, Boston," to front cover verso. Wanting the envelope. Short split to bottom of spine fold, else about Fine. Richards E1-23. Livingston 151 & 152. Grolier 232. Written to accompany the "The Vampire," portrait of a… Read More
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Rhymes of a PFC [Inscribed to Edith Sedwick Gibson] [Baldpate]
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Rhymes of a PFC [Inscribed to Edith Sedwick Gibson] [Baldpate]

by KIRSTEIN, Lincoln (1907-1996)

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New York: New Directions, 1964. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Edition (so stated). Square 8vo: [viii],179,[1]pp. Publisher's finely woven beige cloth, spine lettered in black, brown paper-covered boards decorated in blind with PFC stripes, brown laid end papers, brown pictorial dust jacket printed in yellow and black. Fine in a just about Fine jacket, lightly rubbed. Inscribed by Kirstein on the front fly-leaf to Edith Sedwick Gibson (August '67) "talking about Louis [Agassiz] Shaw—Baldpate, p. 157." Shaw, grandson of the Harvard paleontologist, geologist and innovator in the study of Earth's natural history, was a dancer turned psychiatrist who lived in Newton, Mass. Baldpate was a sanitarium in Georgetown, Mass, where Shaw may have practiced. Kirstein's reference to p. 157 remains obscure. Simmonds, Silverstein & Lassalle 12. Best known for his long association with the New York City Ballet, which he founded with George Balanchine, Kirstein was also a distinguished author and… Read More
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Fructologie, ou Description des arbres fruitiers ainsi que des fruits que l'on plante et qu'on...
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Fructologie, ou Description des arbres fruitiers ainsi que des fruits que l'on plante et qu'on cultive ordinairement dans les jardins . . . [bound with] Pomologie, ou description des meilleures sortes de pommes et de poires, Que l'on estime & cultive le plus, soit aux Pais-Bas, soit en Allemagne, en France, en Angleterre, &c

by KNOOP, Johann Hermann (c.1706-1769)

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Amsterdam: Chez M. Magérus, Libraire, 1771. First Edition thus. Full Calf. Fine. Rare French Edition of the first compendium of fruit arboriculture with 39 folding copper-engraved plates in fine contemporary hand coloring. Two foolscap-folio volumes bound in one: [ii],160,[iv],161-205,[1], with 19 plates (quince, cherry, plum, fig, currant, almond, chestnut, apricot, and other fruits and nuts) and large woodcut tailpieces; [ii],339 [i.e. 139]pp, with 20 plates by Jacob Folkema and Jan Caspar Philips (showing 103 apple varieties and 82 varieties of pears, with such evocative name as red apple paradise, Queen of England, siren lemon, and Mrs. Thigh). Title and preface from the Leeuwarden edition of 1766 bound in between Rr2 and Ss. Elegantly bound in early mottled calf, spine richly gilt in seven compartments divided by raised bands, green morocco lettering piece gilt, edges stained red, plain period end papers. An excellent copy of a superb production, the only notable flaw being three plates and… Read More
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[Sea Serpent] [Moby Dick] Reise durch einen Theil der Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika in den...
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[Sea Serpent] [Moby Dick] Reise durch einen Theil der Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika in den Jahren 1844 bis 1846 [A trip through a part of the United States in the years 1844 to 1846]

by KOCH, Albrecht C. (1804-1867)

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Dresden und Leipzig: Arnoldische Buchhandlung, 1847. Quarter-Morocco. Near Fine. Scarce First Edition of this detailed account of a trip in search of the gigantic sea serpent, Zeuglodon. Text in German. Demy 8vo (225 x 145mm): [6],162pp, with frontispiece of dinosaur skeleton, hand-colored geological profile of the Gulf Coast, and advertisement leaf not mentioned in bibliographies. Recent quarter tan morocco over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, end papers renewed. Toning to first and final few pages, scattered dust-soiling (especially to deckled edges), but a very presentable copy in fine binding. Howes K234, Sabin 38198. Buck 391, Flake 4676. Streeter 850. In 1844, Koch, an obscure paleontologist who had emigrated to the United States in 1826 from Saxony, began the remarkable journey recounted in this day-by-day record. Koch operated an archeology museum in St. Louis, in the 1830s and 1840s, while also excavating fossil skeletons throughout North America. In 1840, he discovered the skeleton… Read More
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Paper Airplanes : 1911 and 1973 [Signed]
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Paper Airplanes : 1911 and 1973 [Signed]

by KOELEWYN, Arie

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Philadelphia: The Paper Airplane Press, 1977. Limited Edition. Stiff Wrappers. Fine. No. 13 of 25 copies numbered for sale (there were also 25 copied lettered for private distribution (A-Y) of this scarce pamphlet. Demy 8vo (216 x 141mm): [2],12.[2] pp, including two full-page diagrams and vignette on limitation page. Signed by Koelewyn, who was then a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania. Created on a manual typewriter and reproduced by a quick print shop on ecru handmade, watermarked paper; sewn in original slate blue stiff wrappers with French flaps, title label printed in black to front cover. Slight stains to label, else virtually pristine. First publication of the Paper Airplane Press, founded in Philadelphia, in 1977, when the author was a tour guide at the Rosenbach Museum and Library. The library sparked an interest in book collecting and particularly in small press publications. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition,… Read More
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The Affair

The Affair

by KONIGSBERGER, Hans (1921-2007)

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine. First Edition (so stated) of the author's first novel. Publisher's slate-gray linen, spine and upper cover stamped in red and gilt, top edge stained yellow, fore-edge untrimmed; illustrated dust jacket, priced $3.75. An about Fine, unread copy (lower corners bruised), in a Fine jacket. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
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[True Crime] [Fingerprint Archive] The Finger Print Instructor . . . Based upon the Sir E. R....
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[True Crime] [Fingerprint Archive] The Finger Print Instructor . . . Based upon the Sir E. R. Henry System of Classifying and Filing. A text book for the guidance of Finger Print Experts and an instructor for persons interested in the study of Finger Prints

by KUHNE, Frederick

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New York: Munn & Company, 1917. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine+. Second Printing of the first authoritative American book on fingerprinting, profusely annotated and with an archive of related emphemera. Demy 8vo (227 x 143mm): vii,[1],155,[1]pp, with frontispiece, all eleven double-page plates of fingerprint examples inserted in rear pocket, and numerous line drawings and plates from half-tones in the text. Publisher's green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, covers paneled in blind with large gilt-stamped palm print to front. Ink stamp (twice) of Henry Y. Ostrander, M.D. to fly-leaf and title page, as well as his manuscript ex-libris and those of three other owners. The archive includes: four-page leaflet "Learn the Language of Fingerprints," advertising a 16-week course at the Delehanty Institute in New York; brochure and price list from Fingerprint Laboratories in New York, offering FBI Identification Kit, finger print powders, and other supplies; printed flyer and two mimeographed diagrams from the… Read More
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Closing the Ring [Signed]

by KUMIN, Maxine (1925-2014); Barnard Taylor (Illustrates)

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Lewisburg, Pa: Bucknell University : Press of Appletree Alley, 1984. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First Edition, No. 27 of 28 copies printed on mould-made Rives, from a total edition of 150. Royal 8vo (261 x 174mm): 47,[1]pp, with linoleum engravings in color by Barnard Taylor. Publisher's tan quarter-calf over beige paper-covered pictorial boards, spine lettered in gold, tan end papers, title page in red and black, original unprinted acetate jacket. Signed by Kumin at the colophon. Spine lightened a degree or two, top edge briefly spotted, else Fine. Kumin was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1973, and served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1981-1982. She is thought to be the last person to have seen the poet Anne Sexton alive; the two were close friends, and had had lunch the day of Sexton's suicide, in 1974. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene… Read More
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