Modern Literature
William Faulkner: two decades of criticism. Edited by Frederick J. Hoffman & Olga W. Vickery.
[East Lansing]: Michigan State College Press, 1951. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 280; fine copy in a very good jacket. Bassett A-24. More
The flying glove
[New York]: Adventures in Poetry, [1973]. First edition limited to 350 copies (there was also an issue of 26 lettered copies signed), 4to, [25] leaves printed from typescript; 3 full-page illustrations and the original pictorial front wrapper by Susan Hall, back wrapper unadorned; side-stapled; near fine. More
Runes for faring north
Champaign, Illinois: The Finial Press, 1975. First edition limited to 1000 copies designed by Alvin Doyle Moore (200 of which were signed); 8vo, pp. [12], 63, [1]; 2 drawings by Moore; fine in original printed tan wrappers. From the library of Kim Merker. Original prospectus laid in. More
Grimaldi, king of clowns.
London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1955. First edition, 8vo., illus. fine in like jacket. More
The salt of exposure
Omaha: Cummington Press, 1988. First edition limited to 300 copies (this, no. 119); 8vo, pp. 32; fine in original stiff gray wrappers with small vignette stamped in red on upper cover. Printed by Harry Duncan from Joanna type on Strathmore Brigadoon paper. From the library of Kim Merker. More
Far away. Now first printed with a bibliographical note by Miriam Benkovitz
Iowa City: Typographic Laboratory, University of Iowa School of Journalism, 1966. Edition limited to 100 copies printed from Van Dijck type on Carousel paper; hand-sewn chapbook approx. 10" x 4½", pp. [12]; not quite fine, but close. Benkovitz was Firbank's biographer. The poem was written in Paris in 1904 but..... More
A small collection of 85 magazines, 43 poster/calendars, 13 Danceteria Tickets, & more
Minneapolis: First Avenue, 1998-2002. First Avenue and 7th St Entry are two music venues housed in the same building in downtown Minneapolis. During the 1980s, Prince helped put it at the forefront of Minneapolis music venues by using it as the location for many scenes in his movie, Purple Rain..... More
Charlotte's way
[Kane'ohe, Hawai'i: Tin Fish Press, 2008]. First edition, tabular 8vo, pp. [22], accordion fold; a bit rubbed, else very good in original black wrappers. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press. This copy inscribed by Fischer: "For Allan & Cinda..... More
The beautiful and the damned.
London: W. Collins Sons & Co., [1922]. First English edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 386, [6] ads; very good, sound copy in original blue cloth lettered in orange; scarce. Bruccoli A8.2.a: "Varies from the first Scribner's printing in some 700 readings, of which 82 are substantive; 134 lines are omitted..... More
The letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Edited by Andrew Turnbull
New York: Scribner's Sons, [1963]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xviii, [2], 615; portrait frontis, 10 illus. on rectos and versos of 4 plates; very good copy in the jacket. More
The crack-up … with other uncollected pieces, note-books, and unpublished letters. Together with letters to Fitzgerald from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Wolfe, and John Dos Passos.
[New York]: New Directions, n.d., [ca. 1947]. First edition, one of four indistinguishable reprintings (1945-47), but this the uncommon British issue, with the pasted slip on verso of the half-title reading: "This is a New Directions Book distributed throughout the British Empire from 7 Crown Passage, Pall Mall, London, S.W.1,"..... More
Pages from The Iliad [wrapper title]. Book III. Dueling for a haunted lady
Iowa City: Windhover Press / University of Iowa, 1976. Edition limited to 300 copies, of which 200 have been reserved as a keepsake "for presentation by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. to the Roxburgh and Zamarano Clubs at their biennial joint meeting," 8vo, pp. [12]; printed in red and black; original..... More
MX2. Three political poems
New York: Red Ozier Press, 1983. First edition limited to 150 copies signed by Fixel; 8vo, pp. [8]; self-wrappers, and contained in printed gray still paper portfolio; fine. Peich 51. More
Through deserts of snow
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1975. First edition, wrapper issue; 12mo, pp. 38, [2]; frontispiece portrait, illustrated title page; original pictorial wrappers; some uneven fading at the top of the front wrapper; all else near fine. Issued as no. 30 in the Capra Chapbook series. From the library of Allan Kornblum..... More
You only live twice
[New York]: New American Library, [1964]. First American edition, 8vo, pp. 240; previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down, fine in original yellow cloth, in near fine dust jacket. More
The Kemsley manual of journalism. Being a detailed guide to the entire range of newspaper work ... Introduction by Viscount Kemsley.
London [et al.]: Cassell, [1950]. First edition, large 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 424, [2], xvii-xlvi; illus. throughout; jacket with old tape repairs on verso, else very good. Contains a 9-page chapter entitled "Foreign News" written by Ian Fleming, then the Foreign Manager of Kemsley Newspapers, previously Reuters' correspondent in Europe..... More
Secected poems
New York & Toronto: Farrar and Rinehart, [1938]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 237; original brown cloth, silver-lettered spine. This copy with a presentation from the author on the front free endpaper: "To Isaac L. Myers in friendship frrom John Gould Fletcher." Small waterstain on endpaper touching the 'T' in..... More
Madre Revolucion: insurgencìas lìrc̀as ... Edicion popular
[Toluca, Mexico: [Talleres gráficos de la Escuela industrial de artes y oficios], 1936. 8vo, 19, [3] leaves; original pictorial red wrappers, worn, and with a hole (not affecting any letterpress) on the back wrapper; text toned; good or better. With an inscription from the poet dated November, 1936. Noé de..... More
The development of English prose between 1918 and 1939. The fifth W.P. Ker Memorial Lecture delivered in the University of Glasgow, 27 April, 1944.
Glasgow: Jackson, Son & Co., 1945. First edition, 8vo, pp. 23-[24]; very good or better in original printed brown wrappers. Forster (1879-1970) is best known as the novelist who wrote Howard's End and A Passage to India. More
The Odessa file.
New York: Viking, [1972]. First edition, 8vo., small price sticker on rear jacket panel, else fine. More
A history of the body. Prose poems
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1987. Bifolium prospectus, 6" x 4½", with the extract 'History of the Navel,' and details about the physical book. More
The novelist at work
Fifteen-page early draft of his essay, "Hardy and the Hag"
[Lyme Regis?]: ca. 1976-7. The manuscript comprises 15 quarto pages of typescript, and 3 pages of typed notes, all so thoroughly reworked (in both pen and pencil) in Fowles' hand that the original kernel of thought is transformed into a full-blown essay right before our eyes. Fowles inserts, deletes, adds..... More
The Aristos.
Boston: Little, Brown, [1964]. First American edition (preceding the London edition), fine copy in the dust-jacket. More
Yo Yo poems
[E. Lansing, Michigan]: Allegra Press, 1977. 8vo, pp. [2], 22, [4]; printed from typescript; fine in original pictorial red wrappers. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press. This copy inscribed, "Happy reading, Yo Yo, Morty (HF)." More