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

n.p., 1981. First edition. Side-stapled wrappers. Slight rubbing to corners, near fine. An edition of 75 numbered copies, signed by both poets. Cover art uncredited but likely by Mayer.

Liège: Éditions Dynamo, 1968. First edition. Original wrappers. Fine. [18] pp. Sewn printed wrappers, glassine jacket. Published as Brimborions no 168. Of a total edition of fifty-one copies, this is one of forty numbered copies on velin, initialed by the publisher, Pierre Aelberts. A brief essay on Kafka. OCLC locates three copies in America, Binghamton, Lilly, Beinecke.

London: Aloes Books, 1971. [16] pp. Stapled wrappers. Very slight rubbing to spine, else fine. Originally published by White Rabbit Press in 1963 as "Lament for the Makers." Contains the poems "Dover Beach," "The Birds," "The Birth of Venus," "Lament for the Makers," and "Postscript." Uncommon.

San Francisco: The Auerhahn Society, 1965. First edition, one of 1000 copies printed by Andrew Hoyem. Printed wraps. 91 pp. A posthumous publication collected from his writings by David Rattray. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg. Called "the lost angel" of Beat poets, Van Buskirk died at the age of 23 in 1961. Some wear to the edge of wraps due to their oversize but overall a clean copy of a scarce book.

San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, 1965. First edition. 66 pp. Original printed wrappers. Spicer's last book to be published in his lifetime (published June 10, Spicer died August 17). Some toning to cover extremities, minor spotting to lower corner of front cover. Johnston, White Rabbit, A30.

Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press, 1975. First edition. Original wrappers. Very good +. First edition, one of 200 copies printed. Stiff card wrappers with folded-on dust jacket. Title and colophon by Reynolds Stone. The first in a series of collections of Latin inscriptions assembled by Sparrow and John Gere. Some toning to covers, front cover shows some rubbing, especially at the fore-edge. Zeitlin and Ver Brugge description laid in.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1927. First edition. 94, 15 [catalog] pp. Deep maroon paper boards, printed label on front cover and spine, with the dust jacket. Slightly rubbed at head and tail of spine and lower front hinge; the jacket is a bit rubbed and has some old tape repairs to the verso and a small chip at the top edge of the front panel at the spine. Published in the To-Day and To-Morrow Series, Graves "discusses modern swearing with a poet's frankness.

Locust Valley: The Four Winds Press, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. One of 75 copies printed by Henry Schniewind. Marbled paper boards over red morocco spine, lettered in gilt. Presents a hitherto unpublished letter from 1948 from Bruce Rogers to Winifred Howe, secretary to his good friend Henry Watson Kent of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, founder of the Museum Press (and primary sponsor of BR's design of Centaur type, first used at the Museum Press). Slightly rubbed at the lower corners, else a fine copy. Laid in is a prospectus for a later Four Winds book and a Christmas greeting from the Museum Press dated 1926, printed in Centaur and Arrighi types.

San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1943. First edition. 48 pp. Green cloth spine over green decorated paper boards, printed spine label, no dust jacket as issued. Lower corners and spine slightly rubbed, near fine. Neat bookplate on front pastedown of C.G. Wallis, poet and translator. Kees' first book, published in an edition of 300 copies, as number 3 of the Colt Press Poetry Booklets series. Gillane and Niemi A.I.1.

New York: Atheneum, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. First edition. 48 pp. Full green cloth lettered in gilt and blind, with the dust jacket. Top edge slightly sun-faded, jacket shows a bit of edgewear with a couple of short closed tears.

Paris: Maeght Éditeur, 1948. First edition. 51 leaves, 45 leaves of plates; 86 color etchings by Chastel (including 38 full page), tissue guards laid in, unbound as issued in etched pictorial wrapper, housed in publisher's chemise with inlaid title label to spine, with slipcase. Some slight wear to head of slipcase opening, contents about fine with some slight occasional offsetting. One of 148 copies on vélin de lana, of a total edition of 196 copies. Chastel made extensive studies at the Paris Zoo "until he felt capable of realizing the essential characteristic of each particular bird or animal as he saw it, that is, as much subjectively as objectively. He then interpreted these syntheses in decorative form. He envisaged the illustration in terms of a double-page-the unit in which the lettrine, likewise etched in color, would be linked with the facing design.... The colors are used emotively and for contrast.... Every double-page is exciting and original." Strachan goes on, "Chastel has so… Read More

Mexico: Poesie et Révolution, 1945. First edition. [32] pp. Original printed wrappers. Acidic paper browned, some minor handling wear. One of 1000 copies on bouffant.

Paris: Éditions Cahiers d'Art, 1947. First edition. [48] pp. Plain wrappers with attached dust jacket. Some toning to cover extremities, minor handling wear, near fine. One of 500 numbered copies, although Eluard noted that only 258 copies were printed due to a lack of paper. Eluard's poignant tribute to his wife Nusch, published a few months after her sudden and unexpected death. Illustrated with eleven exquisite photographs of Nusch by Man Ray and Dora Maar. Nusch had also been the subject of Man Ray's camera in the similarly superlative Facile, published ten years earlier (see item 13). In 1965, Louis Aragon, during a tribute to his friend, mentioned his first encounter with the book: "He signed it with an invented name Didier Desroches, because he had killed Paul Eluard... What he had shown me of Didier was of a confounding beauty. This little book which was to appear as the work of an unknown, it is an understatement to say that in my eyes it surpasses all that Eluard signed with his name. I… Read More

San Francisco: Open Space, 1965. First edition. Original wrappers. Very good +/very good +. First edition, one of 500 copies. Stapled wrappers with dust jacket. Printed and designed by Graham Mackintosh at the White Rabbit Press. Spine sunned with some minor cover wear. Inscribed by Blaser to another poet.

Paris: Éditions de la Revue Fontaine, 1945. Second edition. Original wrappers with integral dust jacket. Slight spotting to wrappers, spine a little browned.1860 copies were printed on various papers; this copy unnumbered and apparently on wove pur fil du marais, of which fifty lettered copies were noted at the colophon. Inscribed by Eluard on the half-title, "à Hans Bellmer, qui a admirablement limité les erreurs de reproduction du désir, son ami Paul Eluard." The first edition was published in 1922 and marked the first major collaboration between Ernst and Eluard; this copy introduces a third association bringing together three of the most important figures in the surrealist movement.

Paris: Thames & Hudson, 2000. First French edition. 224 pp. Full black cloth, lettered in silver on the spine and blind on the front board, with the dust jacket. A translation of Caws' Dora Maar: With and Without Picasso, translated by Christian-Martin Diebold. Profusely illustrated with black and white and color plates. Slight rubbing to lower board edges, else fine.

First edition. String-sewn wrappers, woodcut illustration mounted on front cover. Air mail envelope bound in with facsimile of the original letter. One of forty-five copies printed. Fine copy. The Bancroft Library Press is the teaching press at Berkeley where students print a publication under the aegis of a master printer; books have regularly been issued since 1983 and are not offered for sale. OCLC locates three copies (Arizona, Bancroft, USF).

[n.p.]: Privately Printed, 1945. First edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. [4, 5 [facsimile], 3] pp. Tall sewn green printed wrappers. One of 25 copies, printed for Nathan van Patten (likely by the Grabhorn Press but unconfirmed). Reproduces in facsimile a five-page letter from Lindsay to Paul Powell, dated July 24, 1916. Nathan van Patten was the longtime director of the Stanford University Libraries (1927-1947) and later professor of bibliography. Tape residue at spine (apparently removed from housing), small withdrawal stamp of the Bancroft Library on the first text page. Lower corner slightly creased. WorldCat locates fifteen copies, so if the limitation is to be believed, quite scarce outside of institutions.

n.p.: Samuel Charters, 1968. First edition. no binding. Fine. One of 300 copies printed. Single sheet folded into six panels. Number 11 of Samuel Charters' Portents series. A fine copy with the red tissue band intact.

Maidstone (Kent), 1935. Single sheet broadside, printed in two columns. One of fifty numbered copies printed, reprinted from the Kent Messenger, March 23rd, 1935. Single old fold line, overall near fine. Inscribed by the author in his miniscule hand at the top left corner, dated Easter 1935.