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First edition. Limited to 225 copies printed in Bembo type on Grand Moghul handmade paper from India 4to, original natural linen with printed label on spine ... more information

First edition of Agee's scarce first book, a collection of poems. Tipped to the front free endpaper is a slip of paper on which is inscribed a note from Stephen Vincent Benét: "Dear Miss Locke, Here is the Macleish book, my sister's, and one by a young poet who, I think, has great promise, Merry Xmas to you both! Stephen Vincent Benét. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket ... more information

First (separate) edition of Agee's autobiographical first novel, printed for private circulation in its entirety. One of an unrecorded number of offprints from Marguerite Caetani's distinguished literary journal <PI>Botteghe Oscure<P>, this edition of <PI>The Morning Watch<P> is decidedly rare. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "to Bob Edwards / with warm good wishes / Jim Agee". The novel was not published until 1951 when Houghton Mifflin bro... more information

First unexpurgated edition. Limited to 300 numbered copies (the entire edition), ordinary issue. The authoritative text of Aldington's bitter World War I novel, restoring the expurgations made to the previously published British and American trade editions, which were both bowdlerized owing to obscenity laws, although the American text was less sanitized than the British. Kershaw 56 2 vols., 4to, original paper wrappers, glassine outer wrappers, in publisher's matching marbled paper chemise and slip... more information

First edition. One of only 10 numbered copies printed on Chatham paper & signed by Aldington. This is Copy No. 1 8vo, full golden brown morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, card slipcase ... more information

First edition. One of 200 numbered copies printed on Haut Vidalon paper & signed by Aldington Small 4to, green velvet-textured cloth ... more information

First edition. One of 350 copies printed on Barcham Green "Medway" paper 8vo, green cloth, glassine dust jacket ... more information

First edition, containing “most of Images of Desire and Images of War” which were published in England. According to a bibliographical note in the book, “A few of these poems have appeared before in books and periodicals”, implying that there are new poems in this collection, of which there was no equivalent English edition. In Aldington’s preface, a letter from Aldington to F. S. Flint, he states: “Here I have written less for myself and you and others who are interested in su... more information

First edition 8vo, boards, dust jacket ... more information

First edition. Limited to 100 copies printed by hand by Mark Fishbein in Spectrum type on moldmade Amatruda paper and signed by Alweis. The title lettering is by Golda Fishbein 8vo, illustrated with linecuts, original blue cloth, slipcase ... more information

First edition of Ammons' rare first book. One of 300 copies printed, of which only 100 were bound. Wright A. According to his close friend, the poet David Lehman, "Ammons published Ommateum, his first book, at his own expense in 1955; sixteen copies were sold in the next five years. Small 8vo, original salmon cloth, dust jacket ... more information

First edition. Cornelius Weygandt's copy with his ownership signature on front free endpaper Small 8vo, cloth, dust jacket ... more information

First edition. One of 150 numbered copies signed by the printer, Claire Van Vliet. Presentation copy, inscribed by Van Vliet on a preliminary leaf to typographer & printer John Anderson, with whom Van Vliet apprenticed, and his wife: "Merry Christmas Mr & Mrs A with best wishes for the new year love from Claire Square 12mo, original orange wrappers, sewn as issued ... more information

First edition. One of 40 copies specially bound and with an original photograph, out of a total edition of 315 copies printed in Centaur and Arrighi on Nideggen mouldmade paper, signed by the poet Small square 8vo, illustrated with an original palladium photograph by Carolee Campbell, original linen ... more information

First edition. Limited to 120 copies printed in two colors in handset Spectrum on dampened vintage T. H. Saunders paper and bound in handmade papers "strewn with dried wild flowers from the Richard de Bas paper mill in Ambert, France. Oblong 4to, original handmade paper wrappers ... more information

First edition of this rare landmark anthology which prints the work of Pound, Williams, T. S. Eliot, Bunting, Rexroth, Reznikoff, Oppen, Rakosi, McAlmon, Zukofsky, among others. Gallup B29. Williams B29 8vo, original printed buff wrappers ... more information

Limited to 100 numbered copies printed by Carolyn Hammer and W. Gay Reading at the Anvil Press in Victor Hammer’s American and Andromaque Uncial types 4to, original cloth-backed boards with printed spine label, dust jacket ... more information

First edition. One of 50 sets signed by the authors and by Smithson, Porter, Quaytman, Sacco and Piene, out of a total edition of 500 sets produced. Kermani C198 4to, 14 loose sheets laid into paper portfolio ... more information

First edition, deluxe issue. One of 40 copies numbered in Roman on Vélin d'Arches signed by the authors and by Chagall (out of an entire edition of 640) Large 8vo, tipped-in frontispiece portrait and full-page illustrations by Chagall, original printed gold-foil wrappers ... more information

First edition of this eccentric collaboration in which Stotik's illustrations are paired with excerpts from Ashbery's poem, "Dreams of Adulthood". Limited to only 50 sets numbered & signed by Ashbery & Stotik Small 8vo, 12 illustrations mounted on loose letterpress printed cards designed by Marc Blocker with faux gilt frames, in hand-colored folder with gold tassel. ... more information