Search Results: Titles starting with P from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: Peter H. Wyden, 1970. First Edition. 8vo. 21cm x 14.5cm. Publisher's yellow cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in gilt to spine, a trifle soiled or grubby here and there, with some light wear to extremities, a very presentable book in a strong, clean dustjacket with some light wear and soiling. A very good copy. 181pp. Internally clean. A somewhat kitschy comedic fiction about a possible anti-smut backlash, nevertheless occasionally prescient.

Boston: Richard Johns, 1930. First Edition. Blue printed covers.110 pp. Work by William Carlos Williams (two poems), Louis Zukofsky, Erskine Caldwell, Norman MacLeod, Charles Reznikoff, Charles Henri Ford and many others. Back cover with two small chips, otherwise lightly worn and creased, spine sunned, else very good. Subscriber card laid in. Pagany lasted for twelve issues from 1930 to 1933. Scarce issue of one of the most distinguished little magazines in quite nice condition.

Boston: Richard Johns, Spring 1930. First Edition. Red printed covers. 112 pp. Work by William Carlos Williams, Erskine Caldwell, Louis Zukofsky, Witter Bynner, R. P. Blackmur, Norman MacLeod, Yvor Winters, Janet Lewis and many others. Worn at front spine edge with some loss, otherwise about very good. Pagany lasted for twelve issues from 1930 to 1933. Scarce issue of one of the most distinguished little magazines in quite nice condition.

New York: Pagany, Spring 1932. First Edition. Original blue wrappers; 8vo. 152 pp. Contributors include: WCW WHITE MULE excerpt, Edward, Erskine Caldwell, Daghlberg. Spine ends worn, small loss to rear tip, extremities a bit toned, but all-in-all a near fine copy.

New York: Norton, 1993. First edition. Green cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 70 pp. The poet's third collection of poems. Signed on the title page. Fine in like dust jacket.

London: Martin Secker, 1929. First Trade edition. Blue and yellow decorated paper over blue cloth, stamped in gilt; t.e.g.; 8vo. 154 pp. Preceded by a privately published edition. Lightly worn at corners, else about fine and very bright within, some pages unopened, in a worn and tape mended (verso) dust jacket (in removable protective archival cover).

San Diego: Brian C. Clark, Publisher, 1986. First Edition. Chapbook in light brown and black illustrated, stapled wraps; 8vo. Approx. 5.5" x 8.5"; unpaginated. Artwork by Robert Bixby. Limited edition; one of 150 copies. Excerpt from a novel. Some scuffing and one tip bent. Very good.

New Rochelle: Elizabeth Press, 1976. First Edition. Paper over boards in paper slipcase. One of 250 copies which includes wraps issue. 107 pp. Designed by Mardersteig and printed on rag by Stamperia Valdonega, Verona. Spine sunned, slipcase sunned and lightly worn and soiled, else very good.

New Rochelle: Elizabeth Press, 1976. First Edition. Paper over boards in paper slipcase. One of 250 copies which includes wraps issue. 107 pp. Designed by Mardersteig and printed on rag by Stamperia Valdonega, Verona. Spine and slipcase lightly sunned, else about fine.

New York: Random House, 1984. First edition. An uncorrected proof copy in printed green wrappers of the poet's fifth collection. Marginal scuffing and creasing, about very good, but tight and clean.

New York: Random House, 1984. First edition. Advance uncorrected proofs of the poet's fifth collection in green printed wrappers. Very near fine.

Philadelphia: American Poetry Review/Copper Canyon, 2001. First edition. Black paper-covered boards in dust jacket; 8vo. 75 pp. A Review copy with printed pub sheet laid in. Winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, selected and with foreword by Adrienne Rich. Back cover blurb by Yusef Komunyakaa. Fine in like dust jacket.

Brewster, NY: Parenthese, 1977. First Edition. Printed wrappers; 8vo. 50 pp. The entire issue devoted to the poet Morrison, with illustrations by Dimitri Petrov. Edited by John Bernard Myers, with a postcard Als signed by the editor Myers and related correspondence from a collector. Early work by the poet. Near Fine in Wraps.

Paris: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1956. First Edition. Paperback in illustrated covers. Single volume; 5.25" x 8.5"; 144 pp. No. 13 from Summer 1956 includes an interview with Dorothy Parker, and contributions from Nadine Gordimer, Jean Genet, among other contributors. Interior is clean with expected toning. Covers have some stains, wear at corners and spine, and moderate creasing. Still a very good and sturdy copy of this rare issue.

New New York: Paris Review, Spring 2012. First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. Signed by Lorrie Moore at her contribution "Wings", pp. 131 -165. Fine copy.

Paris: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1955. First Edition. Paperback in illustrated covers. Single volume; 5.25" x 8.5"; 192 pp. This issue is No. 7 from Fall-Winter 1954-55. With six drawings from Picasso, one by "Andrew Warholla?"; poetry from Adrienne Rich and Isabella Gardner, Interview with Joyce Cary; fiction from Mary Lee Settle, and Evan S. Connell and Mac Hyman, and many other contributions. Only a fair copy with third of the spine lost, front cover with tears and partially detached, and back cover completely separated. Toning and creasing, as expected.

Paris: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1956. First Edition. Paperback in illustrated covers. Single volume; 5.25" x 8.5"; 144 pp. No. 14 from Autumn 1956 includes interviews with Isak Dinesen and Francois Sagan, drawings by Andre Masson, poetry by Elizabeth Jennings, among other contributors. Interior is clean with only moderate creasing. Covers worn, especially at the spine; some separation of the glued binding. Still a good copy of this rather rare issue.

Paris: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1957. First Edition. Paperback in illustrated covers. Single volume; 5.25" x 8.5"; 168 pp. This issue is No. 16 from Spring-Summer 1957 which includes interviews with Robert Penn Warren and Truman Capote, and contributions from Christopher Rand, Philip Levine, Donald Justice, Robert Bly among others. Clean and sturdy copy of this important and rare issue with moderate wear to covers. A very good or better copy.

Paris: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1960. First Edition. Paperback in illustrated covers. Single volume; 5.25" x 8.5"; 144 pp. This issue is No. 22 from Autumn-Winter 1960 which includes contributions from William Styron, Samuel Blazer, James Dickey and Kizer, among others; interview with L. Durrell. Toning and wear at spine and corners. A good or better copy.

New York: Paris Review, Fall 2010. First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. Signed by Sam Lipsyte at his contribution "The Worm in Philly", pp. 101 - 113. Fine copy.