Boston: From the ... North American Review, 1824. First edition, 8vo, pp. 24; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; outer margin foxed; all else very good and sound. Bancroft had studied for some time in Germany, had in fact met Goethe, and was instrumental in introducing German literature and educational theory..... More
Bowling Green, N.Y. Contact II Publications, [1981]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [3]-22; fine copy in decorative wrappers. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press. More
London: James Phillips and Son, 1797. 8vo, pp. [3], iv-xii, 170, [2] errata; contemporary full calf; marbled endpapers; spine quite rubbed and gilt worn away; diamond-pattern staining on covers; front board starting, rear joint cracked; headcaps missing; lightly foxed; otherwise good and sound. Bookplate of Samuel Elam of Rhode Island..... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1968. Edition ltd. to 400 copies, oblong 12mo, [12] leaves printed recto only, printed in black & red throughout; small nick on one corner of the colophon page, else a fine copy in the original gray paper-covered boards, gilt spine. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet..... More
Minneapolis: Mnenomic Press, 2006. Edition limited to 40 copies (this no. 19) numbered and signed by Harriet Bart; very tall folio (approx. 23" x 6½"), accordion fold, 6 panels printed on rectos only containing 22 visual poems by 15 poets; very fine in original gray printed wrappers, with original printed..... More
Omaha: Abattoir Editions / University of Nebraska, 1985. Edition limited to 200 copies (this, no. 6) printed by Harry Duncan on Kochi paper from Bembo and Romulus types; 8vo, pp. 47, [1]; title page in yellow and black, initials printed in yellow; original olive cloth, printed paper label on spine;..... More
Omaha: Abattoir Editions, University of Nebraska, 1985. Edition limited to 200 copies (this, no. 81), 8vo, pp. 47, [1]; original green cloth, printed paper label on spine; fine. Printed by Harry Duncan on Kochi paper. More
Muscatine, Iowa: The Prairie Press, 1937. First edition limited to 225 copies, signed by Bass on the half-title page; 8vo; pp. [10], 13-72, [2]; title page printed in red and black; fine copy in original red cloth with printed paper label on upper cover, torn original glassine jacket. From the..... More
[Iowa City]: Christmas [printed at the Stone Wall Press for our family and our friends], 1962. 16mo, pp. [8]; 2 wood engravings by John Roy; fine in original salmon wrappers. From the library of Kim Merker. Not in Berger, Printing and the Mind of Merker. Amherst only in OCLC. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1935. First edition, 8vo, pp. 157; frontispiece portrait, 9 illustrated plates; ex-libris American College of Surgeons, with bookplate on front pastedown, rubber stamp on title page and rear pastedown, and white ink call number on spine; near fine copy is original blue cloth, gilt spine..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1935. First edition, 8vo, pp. 157; frontispiece portrait, 9 illustrated plates; some minor wear, but overall a fine copy in original blue cloth with gilt-lettered spine. The annotated bibliography describes 100 editions and translations of Syphilis and is followed by a section listing biographies and..... More
[West Chester, Pennsylvania]: Aralia Press, 1988. Edition limited to 125 copies printed on Ingres Laid from Spectrum types; 8vo, pp. [20]; title page printed in blue and black; fine copy in original printed brown wrappers. From the library of Kim Merker. Issued as Number One in the Aralia Chapbook Series..... More
Placitas, New Mexico: Duende, [1964]. First edition, large 4to, unpaged; text printed from typescript on rectos only; original grey and red staplebound pictorial wrappers (a bit soiled); minor wear from handling, else very good. Duende 1, in which the editor, Larry Goodell, provides the series's mission statement: "Duende will be..... More
London: printed for Edward and Charles Dilly ... and by William Creech, Edinburgh, 1778. First London edition (the work first appeared in Edinburgh in 1776), 8vo, pp. [6], 555; full contemporary calf neatly rebacked, preserving the old red morocco label; very good, sound copy. Beattie (1735-1803), the Scots moral philosopher..... More
London: printed for John Sharpe, Piccadilly, by C. Whittingham, Chiswick, 1816. 12mo, pp. [3], 6-16, [1]-176; inserted engraved vignette title page, 5 engraved plates by Charles Heath after Richard Westall; contemporary half tan calf over marbled boards; extremities rubbed, a little bit of cracking of the calf along the joints;..... More
London: William Pickering, 1831. Small 8vo, engraved portrait, Pickering's vignette anchor & dolphin device on title page; early 20th century half brown morocco by Riviere, gilt paneled spines in 6 compartments, gilt lettered in 2, t.e.g.; fine. Issued as part of the publisher's Aldine British Poets series. Contains a memoir..... More
Jalis Saxonum (Halle): Nuntia Halensia, 1933. 8vo, pp. [8], 88, [2]; orange printed paper wrappers; ex-library, wrappers lightly soiled with some residue likely from a spine label, library stamps on title and internal page, text clean and sound, good. More
[St. Paul]: Bieler Press, 1983. Edition limited to 250 copies signed by the author; 12mo, pp. [8]; single sheet folded to make 8 pages; original baby blue printed wrappers; fine. Originally published as a broadside in 1975, the Bieler Press's rare first publication. Smith, Bieler, 29. More
[St. Paul]: Bieler Press, 1983. Edition limited to 250 copies signed by the author; 12mo, pp. [8]; single sheet folded to make 8 pages; original pink printed wrappers; fine. Originally published as a broadside in 1975, the Bieler Press's rare first publication. In our experience the pink wrappers are less..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1895. First American edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 173, [1]; illustrated title page printed in red and black, plain text illustrations throughout; original brown pictorial cloth by Crane stamped in gilt, red and black, t.e.g.; spine a touch cocked, some minor offsetting to endpapers; contemporary..... More
n.p. [Pennyroyal Press, 1975]. First edition ltd. to 200 copies, sq. 8vo, pp. [25]; wood-engraved portrait of Beekman by Barry Moser, signed by Moser; this copy marked "printer's copy" and also signed by Beekman; fine in orig. black cloth, gilt lettering on spine. More
n.p. [Pennyroyal Press, 1975]. First edition ltd. to 200 copies, sq. 8vo, pp. [25]; wood-engraved portrait of Beekman by Barry Moser, this is copy no. 94 and is signed by Moser and Beekman; fine in orig. black cloth, red morocco label lettered in gilt on spine. More
London: Ward, Lock, & Tyler, 1871. First edition, 2 volumes, large 8vo; text printed in double columns; contemporary three quarter red morocco over marbled boards, gilt-ruled and lettered spine in six compartments, raised bands, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; spines darkened, general shelf wear, light scuffing; contemporary ownership inscription on..... More
[New York: De Vinne Press], n.d., [ca. 1912]. 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 233; title within red ruled border; handsomely printed on handmade paper; full brown crushed levant by the Bagle Art Bindery, double gilt rule on covers enclosing a central double gilt-ruled panel, floral elements in the corners, gilt decorated..... More
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1953. First edition, slim 8vo, pp. 80; presentation copy, with author's inscription on ffep to Dan Kunitz; light wear to extremities, otherwise about fine in original maroon cloth, stamped in blind on upper cover, lettered in silver on spine. Indiana University poetry series. More
