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London: Martin Brian & O'Keefe, 1978. First Edition. Limited to 65 copies signed by the poet, of which 50 were issued in blue buckram as here, with 15 lettered copies bound in niger morocco, according to the colophon, a copy of which is loosely inserted in the set; not all copies were supplied with the separately printed colophon sheet. MacDiarmid saw the book through the press, but died two months after publication. A fine set. Scarce. 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth, publisher's slipcase. A fine set. Scarce.

Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, (1976). First edition. One of 1577 copies printed. Signed by Maclean on the front free endpaper. The basis for the film starring Brad Pitt which won the Academy Award for Best Cinemtography. Foreedge slightly foxed, otherwise a very fine copy, preserved in a custom-made half-morocco folding box. 8vo, illustrated, light blue cloth, dust jacket. Foreedge slightly foxed, otherwise a very fine copy, preserved in a custom-made half-morocco folding box.

London: Tetrad Press, 1969. First edition of this pamphlet. One of 500 copies printed. Presentation copy, inscribed by the illustrator, "for Jonathan Williams / Ian Tyson 1970. Fine condition. 4to sheet folded to a bifolium, full-page illustration with text en face. Fine condition.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1929. First edition, first issue, of MacNeice's first book, in the first issue binding of cream cloth. One of 1000 copies printed, and published while MacNeice was a student at Oxford. Armitage & Clark A1; Hayward 342. A very fine copy. 8vo, original canvas boards, printed paper label on spine, dust jacket. A very fine copy.

Paris: Harrison, 1930. First edition in any language of this early autobiographical sketch. One of 75 copies on Imperial Japanese vellum signed by Mann (according to the colophon, only 50 were intended to be produced). According to the colophon, the edition was originally intended to consist of only 50 copies. A regular issue of 695 copies was also published. Undaunted by the Depression, the expatriate press of Barbara Harrison, under the artistic supervision of Monroe Wheeler, published a series of distinguished editions of works by European and American authors in the early 1930s. In its review of A Sketch of My Life at the time, the Times Literary Supplement called it "a little masterpiece of its kind." - Hugh Ford, Published in Paris (N. Y.: Macmillan, 1975), pp. 328-331. A fine copy in lightly worn slipcase. 8vo, original quarter-vellum, publisher's slipcase. A fine copy in lightly worn slipcase.

The photograph shows signs of oxidation; the inscription is clean and clear. A fine portrait of the author of Company K (1933) and The Bad Seed (1954), inscribed by him "To Jose Garcia Villa with great admiration from William March" The photograph shows signs of oxidation; the inscription is clean and clear.

(Winston-Salem, NC): Jargon Society, (1987). First edition, Patron's Edition. One of 100 specially bound copies signed by Patterson, Williams, Manley & Mendes. Published as Jargon 64. Very fine copy of this stunning book about one of America's foremost outsider artists.. Square 4to, 262 pp., illustrated, pictorial endpapers, original red cloth, acetate dust jacket, black cloth folding box with Japanese-style clasps. Very fine copy of this stunning book about one of America's foremost outsider artists.

N. Y.: Grenfell Press, 1988. First edition. One of 324 numbered copies, signed by Mathews and Clemente, out of a total edition of 350 copies. As new.. CLEMENTE, Francesco.. 8vo, illustrated by Francesco Clemente, original black cloth, printed paper spine label. As new.

N. Y.: The Grenfell Press, 1988. First edition. One of 75 numbered copies on Arches, signed by Mathews and Winkfield, out of a total edition of 90 copies. As new.. Oblong 4to, illustrated with eight black & white drawings by Trevor Winkfield, original cloth, printed paper labels, glassine dust jacket. As new.

N. Y.: The Grenfell Press, 1988. First edition. One of only 15 specially bound, Roman-numeraled copies signed by Mathews and Winkfield, with an original four-color silkscreen print signed by Winkfield laid in, the binding and box bearing original colored silkscreen designs not used in the regular issue of this book, which was strictly black & white. Box lightly soiled, otherwise a fine copy. WINKFIELD, Trevor.. Oblong 4to, illustrations by Trevor Winkfield, color pictorial cloth, matching folding linen box with silkscreen design by the artist. Box lightly soiled, otherwise a fine copy.

Calais, VT: Z Press, 1977. First edition. One of 26 lettered copies signed by Mathews & Katz (out of a total edition of 750 copies printed). Fine copy. KATZ, Alex.. Square 12mo, original wrappers by Alex Katz. Fine copy.

[Paris: Contact Publishing Co, 1922]. First and only edition of McAlmon's second book, his first collection of prose, and the first volume issued by his own publishing company. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper by McAlmon "To Lady Ottoline Morrell from R. McAlmon July 3, 1922." The printed broadside, "From an h'English Printer to an English Publisher," which was distributed with copies of the book, is not present. Lady Ottoline Morrell was the most famous of London hostesses, her house in Bloomsbury and manor in Garsington near Oxford were regularly frequented by the best artists and writers of the period, her guests including T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, Virginia Woolf, Siegfried Sassoon, D. H. Lawrence, and Henry Green, among many others. Significant presentation copies of McAlmon's books are rare. Spine a little rubbed, with a small chip at the bottom, otherwise a very good copy, preserved in a half-calf folding box. Small 8vo, original printed wrappers. Spine a little rubbed,… Read More

(Dijon: Contact Editions, 1922). First edition of this collection of short stories, the author's second book, and the first publication of his Contact Editions. With the scarce broadside From an h'English to an English publisher laid in. Unopened and as new. 8vo, original printed wrappers, publisher's unprinted tissue sleeve. Unopened and as new.

(No date). A unique collaborative work of art by Conner & McClure, signed by the poet & artist, formerly in the collection of Donald Allen. In 1959, Bruce Conner (b. 1933) & Michael McClure proposed that "artists and poets repudiate the term beat and call themselves 'rat bastards' instead, and they announced the formation of the Rat Bastard Protective Society, the name intended as a playful allusion to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Membership of the Rat Bastards included Joan Brown, Jay DeFeo, Defeo's husband Wally Hedrick, and Wallace Berman from Los Angeles. Conner later came to feel imprisoned by the art he produced.... (He) rebelled against the fetishized art commodity by bringing his dealer in New York, ... boxes of found objects simply thrown together without any particular order.... In 1965 Conner 'dropped out' of the art world. For several years he developed the light show concept at the Avalon Ballroom.... He then worked with Dennis Hopper developing motion pictures. He influenced the… Read More

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1982. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on a preliminary leaf by the author to R.B. Kitaj: "For Kitaj Light/Life, Michael", and with the Author's Compliments card laid in. Fine copy. 8vo, illustrations, cloth, dust jacket. Fine copy.

Toronto: William Briggs, 1919. First edition, containing the most popular poem of the Great War. Dr. McCrae was attached to the British Army's 1st Artillery Brigade on the Ypres Saleint until June 1915, and then made Head of No. 3 General Hospital at Bolougne. Just before his death of pneumonia in January 1918, he was appointed Consulting Physician to the British Armies in France. Front inner hinge cracking, otherwise a very good copy in the rare dust jacket, somewhat soiled with chips in the edges at a few places and with a closed tear in the back panel. 8vo, illustrated, original cloth, dust jacket. Front inner hinge cracking, otherwise a very good copy in the rare dust jacket, somewhat soiled with chips in the edges at a few places and with a closed tear in the back panel.

London, Bombay, Sydney: Constable and Company Ltd, 1922-1924. The Standard Edition, complete. Limited to 750 sets, including the first publication of one of Melville's masterworks, the novella Billy Budd, which was discovered in manuscript among Melville's papers at the time. BAL 13680, noting that the volume containing The Confidence-Man also contains a bibliography of the first editions of Melville's prose works by Michael Sadleir. BAL entries also exist for individual volumes which include first editions: Billy Budd, BAL 13682, noting the contents which represent "pieces here first located in book form", including the title story, which was "never before published"; Poems: Battle-Pieces, John Marr and Other Sailors, Timoleon and Miscellaneous Poems, BAL 13683, noting that the "Author's Note", p. 162, "Miscellaneous Poems", pp. (297)-349, and "At the Hostelry", pp. (351)-434, first appear here in book form. Regarding the format of the Constable set, BAL specifies: "LP cloth: blue. Maroon-coated… Read More

(Athens: The Christos Christou Press, 1963). First edition, privately printed by the author. One of 20 copies with the two vignettes on the title-page & at the end of the text hand-colored by Merrill, out of a total edition of 50 copies. Presentation copy, inscribed to Harry Ford, Merrill's editor: "Love to Harry & Elizabeth from the Author, Athens 1963". Ford began working for Alfred A. Knopf in 1947, & then moved to Atheneum in 1959. In 1962, with the publication of Water Street, Ford brought Merrill over to Atheneum from Knopf, where Ford had published Merrill's first three trade books. Among the other writers whom Ford edited throughout his long career were Langston Hughes, Anthony Hecht, Philip Levine, W. S. Merwin, Howard Moss, Mark Strand, & Richard Wilbur. In 1986, PEN American Center awarded Ford its Publisher Citation. He was also the first recipient of the National Poetry Series Editor's Award. Fine copy. Small 8vo, illustrated with two vignettes, original blue wrappers with printed paper… Read More

Pawlet, VT: Banyan Press, 1977. First edition. Limited to 440 copies. Hagstrom & Morgan A35. Presentation copy, inscribed by the poet on the colophon page: "for Joe & UT from us birds of Paradise - iii.77. Fine copy. 4to, wrappers. Fine copy.

(N. Y.: Jordan Davies, 1984). First edition. One of 58 copies printed for the poet on his birthday; this copy out of series. Hagstrom & Morgan A51. Fine copy of this rare pamphlet, with erratum slip laid in. Thin 8vo, wrappers. Fine copy of this rare pamphlet, with erratum slip laid in.