The border. Poem and drawings
West Branch, Iowa: Coffee House Press, 1985. Broadside announcement for a reading by Clark and the publication of his book, 6" x 8", illustration by the author. More
West Branch, Iowa: Coffee House Press, 1985. Broadside announcement for a reading by Clark and the publication of his book, 6" x 8", illustration by the author. More
West Branch, Iowa: Coffee House Press, 1981. Broadside announcement 5" x 8" for Clark's forthcoming book Heartbreak Hotel printed by the Toothpaste Press for Bookslinger at A.B.A. More
Los Angeles: Arundel Press, 1994. Edition limited to 450 copies, small folio, pp. [22]; 8 photogravure portraits after paintings by Tom Clark; original natural linen over boards, paper label on upper cover and spine. Designed and printed by Jonathan Clark at the Artichoke Press. The publisher in his own words..... More
West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press, 1981. Edition limited to 550 copies, this one of 500 numbered and signed by Clark; square 16mo, pp. [14] frenchfold; original Indian Bengal stab-sewn wrappers; fine. Fifty copies were marked for review and were not for sale. More
[Bolinas]: Tombouctou, 1985. Trade paper edition, 8vo, pp. 89, [9]; brown pictorial paper wrappers; wrappers a touch rubbed, else fine. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press. More
[Santa Barbara]: Am Here Books / Immediate Editions, [1981]. 4to, [42] leaves printed from typescript on rectos only; 7 full-page illustrations; original pictorial wrappers, side-stitched; near fine. More
[Santa Barbara]: Am Here Books / Immediate Editions, [1981]. Limited edition printed in an unknown quantity (OCLC notes 100), 4to, [42] leaves printed from typescript on rectos only; 7 pages of illustrations and cover by Tom Clark; original pictorial wrappers; side-stapled; lightly toned with shadows at the edges, else near..... More
Omaha: Abattoir Editions, University of Nebraska, [1976]. Edition limited to 200 copies (this, no. 131); 8vo, pp. 59, [1]; original hand-made paper-covered boards, paper label on upper cover and spine, original tissue dust jacket; fine copy. From the library of Kim Merker. More
[Bowling Green, Ohio]: Black Book / Number four, [1979]. First edition, 8vo, pp. ix, [3], 49, [3]; near fine in original black wrappers printed in white. This copy inscribed to Allan Kornblum: "For Al, hoping your Korn continues to blum, best John Clarke." More
Boston: printed and sold by Samuel Hall, no. 53, Cornhill, 1796. First edition, 12mo, pp. 148; removed from binding; a half-inch excised from top of title and table of contents leaf, small burn stain on a few leaves but no holes, text otherwise clean and sound. The anonymous student is..... More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, [1907]. First edition, late issue, with "published February, 1907" on copyright page, and the frontispiece with a facsimile rather than printed signature; but with 18 titles listed in the list of uniform works and list of illustrations set in 6 lines; 8vo..... More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1905. First edition of this collection of Twain's short stories, although all had seen previous publications; 8vo, pp. [8], 3-82, [2]; frontispiece and 6 plates; publisher's original pictorial red cloth a little dull; preserving the original printed dust jacket which is slightly worn..... More
New York & London: Harper & Bros. 1909. First edition, issue B (no sequence) with the leaf inserted between 2-3 referring to Greenwood's The Shakespeare Problem Restated; 8vo, pp. [8], 149, [1]; 2 portraits; original green ribbed cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine, t.e.g.; a very good..... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1970. Edition limited to 1500 copies signed by the illustrator, Joseph Low, large 8vo, pp. [iii]-xiv, 301, [3]; 95 illustrations throughout text, 38 in color, by Joseph Low; printed at the Stinehour Press after a typographic design by Peter Oldenburg; original orange, brown, and black..... More
Iowa City: Windhover Press, 1976. Edition limited to 100 numbered copies (this, no. 4); 8vo, pp. [30]; original terracotta cloth, printed paper label on upper cover; fine. From the library of Kim Merker. A previously unpublished translation by Clemens of a portion of a popular German story by Wilhelm Hauff..... More
[New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1949. Limited edition, one 15 out-of-series copies, with out of series stamp on colophon and "office copy" inserted instead of a number, signed by Honoré Guilbeau and numbered as "office copy", folio, pp. viii, [4], 275, [1]; text illustrations, blue and gilt initials; quarter blue..... More
New York: The Century Co.; London: T. Fisher Unwin, [1887]. Large 8vo, pp. viii, 975, [1]; text in double column; illustrated throughout by artists such as Henry Fenn, A. B. Frost, E. W. Kemble, W. Taber, and others; original half brown morocco; spine faded, edges rubbed; all else very good..... More
New York & London: Harper & Bros. 1904. First separate edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 89; frontispiece, illus. in text; orig. dec. red cloth stamped in white, black, green and purple; spine a bit sunned, else near fine, with no flaking of the colors. BAL 3480. More
New York & London: Harper & Bros. 1924. First edition, first printing, BAL's variant A ("sequence tentative"); 2 vols., 8vo, 2 gravure frontispieces; very good, sound set in orig. blue cloth stamped in gilt, t.e.g., dust jackets, and publisher's slipcase; spines of the jackets slightly sunned, the slipcase a little..... More
Hartford & Chicago: American Publishing Co., 1875. First edition, second state (without "From 'Hospital Days'" on p. 299, and with no footnote on p. 120), sq. 8vo, pp. [8], 17-320; frontispiece, illus. in text throughout; orig. blue cloth stamped in gilt and black, rebacked with old spine laid down; otherwise..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1952. First edition, first printing, 8vo, pp. xxv, 93; frontispiece, illustrations throughout, some full-page; original white cloth-backed blue boards in unclipped tan pictorial dust jacket; jacket a bit toned, mostly fine. Bookplate and ownership signature of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at..... More
Toronto: Belford Brothers, publishers, 1876. First Canadian edition, small 8vo, pp. [6], 341, [1], [4] Belford ads; original brick red pebble-grain cloth stamped in gilt and black on upper cover and spine; cloth cracked along joints, spine a little darkened; all else very good and sound. A piracy, "almost a...... More
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892. First edition, 8vo, pp. [iii]-xv, [1], 17-277, [1], [8] ads; illustrated throughout; extremities lightly rubbed, small stain on front cover at the bottom and a smudge at the lower corner of the back cover; otherwise a very good copy in original pictorial..... More
Boston: Mutual Book Co., (1900). First American edition, second state, 12mo, pp. 28, [1] ads; original decorative green cloth lettered in green and red on upper cover; very good. BAL 3465. More