Search Results: Titles starting with I from Triolet Rare Books, ABAA

New York: Random House, 1969. First edition. 281 pp. Black cloth, lettered in gilt on the front board and spine with red gilt publisher's device on the spine, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to head and tail of spine, previous owner name to front free endpaper, jacket shows a bit of rubbing to the corners, spine folds, and head and tail of spine. A very attractive copy of Angelou's classic first book.

New York: Ecco, 2012. First edition. Original Wraps. Fine. Uncorrected proof copy of Simmon's well-received biography of Westmount's favorite son. 562 pp. Original printed wraps. Very slight scuff to front cover, else a fine copy.

Berkeley: Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California, 1994. First edition. Original wrappers. Near fine. 52 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Covers slightly rubbed, near fine. A discussion between the poet and the artist about their collaborative process while working an edition of Dante's Inferno, published as Occasional Paper no. 2. Illustrated throughout with Mazur's beautiful monotypes.

New York: Henry Holt, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First edition of Nemerov's first book. 71 pp. Black cloth, spine gilt, with the dust jacket. Lower corner bumped, jacket has some minor toning and slight rubbing at the head of the spine.

Oxford: H. Daniel, 1894. First edition thus, one of 250 numbered copies. Original printed wrappers, glassine and slipcase. 61 pp. Spine slightly darkened, else a fine copy. Madan 33. "First printed in Macmillan's Magazine, vol. 38 (1878), p. 313, it is here for the first time reprinted with loving care.

Storrs: University of Connecticut, 1972. First edition. no binding. Near Fine. Single sheet folded to make [4] pp. Issued by the Special Collections Department of the Wilbur Cross Library at the University of Connecticut to commemorate Robert Duncan's reading at the Wallace Stevens Memorial Program, April 25, 1972. 500 copies were printed. Minor bumps to top corners, near fine. Bertholf A42a.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. First edition of the first major collection by the 1992 Nobel laureate, preceded by three volumes of verse and several plays only published in the West Indies. 80pp. Green paper marbled boards over white cloth backstrip, spine lettered in gilt. A beautiful copy, fine in a fine jacket with a couple of minor age spots on the endpapers, this copy also has the extremely rare dark green wraparound band with the Robert Graves quote ("Derek Walcott handles English with a closer understanding of its inner magic than most (if not any) of his English-born contemporaries."). This copy is signed on the front free endpaper by Walcott and dated April 99.

Victoria, B.C.: Soft Press, 1973. First edition. Original wrappers. Near fine. One of 300 numbered copies, signed by Stafford and the illustrator, Nancy Craig. Side-stapled oblong wrappers, taped spine. Lower corner very slightly bumped, else fine.

London: Cape Goliard Press, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, the hardcover trade edition. Glossy illustrated boards, no jacket as issued. Cover art and drawings by George Schneeman. Corners bumped, some rubbing to the head and foot of the spine with a small closed tear at the lower crease of the front board at the spine. Fischer, p. 41.

Eau Claire, WI: University of Wisconsin, 1989. Revised. Original Wraps. Near Fine. Published as a supplement to Pynchon Notes, a revision to the 1980 edition. 51 pp. Stapled wraps. Some minor wear to covers, overall a near fine copy of this scarce item.

New York: The Penguin Press, 2009. First edition. 369 pp. Blue paper boards, lettered in silver on the spine, with the dust jacket. First edition of Pynchon's hazy Los Angeles noir. Fine copy.

Toronto: Anson-Cartwright Editions, 1984. First edition. 101 pp. Black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Slight edgewear to jacket, which is just slightly taller than the book. Illustrated with two wood engravings by David Jones. One of one thousand copies printed on Zephyr Antique Laid at the Coach House Press, designed and typeset by Glenn Goluska at The Nightshade Press, Toronto.

Concord: William B. Ewert, 1987. First edition thus. Handmade paper boards over cloth backstrip, printed spine label mounted. One of 75 numbered copies, signed by Carver. A single story, which was originally published in Esquire. Fine copy.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1921. First edition. 186 pp. Original publisher's illustrated paper boards. Spine slightly darkened, an about fine copy in the publisher's box, which duplicates the front cover artwork. The box has some wear and several corners are reinforced with old tape, one closed tear on the right side. The box is very scarce. One of 990 numbered copies. Translated by Van Wyck Brooks. Preface by Emil Gauguin.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. 206 pp. Black cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt and green, with the dust jacket. Minor darkening to spine, corners slightly rubbed. Dickey's true first book, a collection issued together with work by Paris Leary and Jon Swan. Review copy with slip laid in.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, 1889. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good +. First edition of these two collections to be issued bound together by Crowell in 1889 (both were originally issued separately in 1887). Blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, with the Romanov coat of arms on the front board. 343, viii, 349 pp. Translated by Nathan Haskell Dole. Head of spine slightly chipped, some minor wear to boards, small stamp to first blank page, abrasion to top edge affecting approximately pp. 27-120, but overall clean and tight. See Line, p. 32, no. 12.