Thaïs by Levy, Newman - 1931

Nicholas L.Brown, New York, 1920. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 190pp + iv publisher's advertisements at the rear. Paper-covered boards with paper spine and title labels. Boards just a little marked, with a little wear to the base of the backstrip, and a little chipping to the head of the backstrip. A lovely crisp copy. No dust wrapper. An outstanding anthology of American verse, including much material which originally appeared in Kreymborg's influential journal 'Others: A Magazine of the New Verse' which ran from 1915-1919, plus some contributed directly to this present anthology. Contributors include Conrad Aiken (two poems, one of which is hitherto unprinted), Witter Bynner (ten poems), Robert Frost (three poems, two of which are hitherto unprinted in bookform), Wallace Gould (six poems), Marsden Hartley (six poems), Fenton Johnson (eight poems), Marianne Moore (five poems), Carl Sandburg (four poems), William Saphier (ten poems),… Read More

Harper & Brothers, Publishing, New York, 1876. Book condition: Good+, First Edition. 123 pp plus four pages other Centennial Readings published by Harper & Brothers, New York. Text slightly tanned typical of age, clean and unmarked. Former owner attribution on front free endpapers. Front free endpaper has dark discoloration triangle caused by a piece of newsprint left in book. Illustrated throughout with b/w etchings and drawings. This title is very rare. Unable to locate existence of any other copies for comparison.

Salem, OR: Printed for Charles Seluzicki Fine Books. Very Good; Spine faintly sunned.. 1982. Softcover. 0931356059 . Printed by Christine Bertelson at the Rara Avis Press, in Riverside, CA. 1/200 copies. Signed by Merrill on the colophon page. Sewn, illustrated stiff gray wrappers. Printed in gray and red on laid paper. Measures 10 x 6.5 inches. Eight of Merrill’s poems adorned with images of ancient Trojan funeral masks. ; [20] pages .

1903 EDITION, PAGED UNMARKED, BINDING SOUND. LOVELY COVER AND DESIGN.

1857, WITH "THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR" BY PATRICK MURDOCH, D.D., F.R.S.BEAUTIFUL LEATHER BINDING/COVER, BINDING IS SOUND, PAGES UNMARKED, SPOTS FROM MOISTURE.

New York City: New Amsterdam Book Company. Very Good+. 1901. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. Handsome limited Edition #21/60. Clean brown cloth, Brown leather corners & spine decorated with gilt. Text tight, clean, intact & printed on deckle-edge paper. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. 10 illustrations on plate paper colored by hand. Poetry ; Hand-painted; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 134 pages .

"I love it, I love it and who shall dare / to chide me for loving that old arm chair? ………" . 1-page 4to, mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album. Undated.

Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1993. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Tan cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

San Francisco: Beatitude, 1977. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 4to, 48pp, stapled wrappers. 1 of 250 stated copies. Nice copy of this mid-seventies issue of the classic San Francisco underground Beat magazine, includes a range of contributors. Unmarked copy with minor damp staining to top and left margin.

New York: D. Appleton 1896. (Hardcover) 227pp. Very good, no dust jacket. 3 / 4 leather, marbled boards with gilt decorated spine. Top edge gilt, engraved portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, index. Lightly edgeworn. Edited by Mark Pattison. (Poetry, Poetry).