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First edition.
Introduction by Peter Guy. Limited edition, 170 total, signed by Lawrence and Guy, this is one of only 35 copies that have been hand colored on the instructions of the artist.
Lawrence is an award winning author of several children's books as well as the illustrator for numerous books, most notably Richard Adams' Watership Down, works by Phillip Pullman, Paul Theroux, and Folio Society editions of Waugh, Sassoon, Defoe and others.
Illustrated paper over boards. Fine.

First edition. Signed by Stan Lee on the title page.
Two small bumps to the board edges, else a fine copy in a very lightly tanned else fine dust wrapper.

Serendipity Books: Berkeley (CA), 1976. First edition.
Inscribed and signed by the author and dated in the year of publication.
A seemingly unread copy, fine in sharp dust wrapper save for some rubbing to top spine panel resulting in some loss of color.
At the time of its publication, Lepper's bibliography was the indispensable source of bibliographical information for the covered authors, and an informal survey of book dealers' reference books shelves from that period would have identified only Van Allen Bradley's Handbook of Values as more prevalent.

Hiding in Plain Sight: Essays in Criticism and Autobiography. Broadside published by Okeanos Press and distributed at a reading at Black Oak Books by authors Louise Gluck (recipient of 2020 Nobel Prize for literature), Thom Gunn and Robert Hass. One of an unknown number of copies printed, this has been additionally signed by the three authors and is scarce thus. Black Oak Books was a premier location for touring authors and was a fixture in the Berkeley literary scene for 33 years before closing its doors in 2016. Black Oak and Okeanos combined to publish a number of high quality broadsides to commemorate author readings, and they are highly collectible. Size is 8.5" X 14". A fine copy of this interesting piece of ephemera.

Faber and Faber London:1950. First edition of Robert Lowell's second trade published book and first published in UK. There was no comparable American issue. A very good copy indeed in orange cloth. One corner little bumped and slightly rubbed, bottom spine slightly rubbed also. Hinge a little weak between pages 32 and 33. Near fine, notoriously fragile purple dust wrapper not price clipped but is a little rubbed; spine a bit toned with two small / one tiny chip at the extremities.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1967. First Edition. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. Signed by the author in his characteristically illegible hand. Fine in a little yellowed dust wrapper.