Love & Fame
by Berryman, John
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970. First Edition. Near Fine. Limited first edition, first printing. Number 7 of 250 copies, signed by John Berryman in blue ink. [xiv], 96 pp. Bound in publisher's magenta cloth stamped in black and gilt at the spine over cream cloth affect boards. Housed in publisher's black cloth affect slipcase. Near Fine with slight sunning to spine and light scuffing to edges. Minor rubbing to slipcase at extremities. A sharp copy of... Read More
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Homage to Mistress Bradstreet
by Berryman, John; Ben Shahn [Illustrator]
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. First edition. 57, [5] pp. Illustrated boards. Near Fine with slight toning to boards, light shelf wear, in an unclipped dust jacket with toning along top of front panel, wear along spine, which is a little dulled, Very Good+. A nice copy of the acclaimed long poem by the American Confessional poet.
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Five Young American Poets
by Berryman, John; Jarrell, Randall; Barnard, Mary; Moses, W.R.; O'Donnell, George Marion
New York: New Directions, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Signed by John Berryman on front paste down and inscribed to novelist Frederick Boyden, "so much skill, much faith - [signed] John Berryman[,] Boston 16 Dec 1941." 221 pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine in Very Good price-clipped dust jacket that is rubbed along edges, slightly chipped at head and tail, closed tear along front flap fold, a few faint stains. The very first... Read More
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The Dispossessed
by Berryman, John
New York: William Sloane Associates, 1948. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's blue cloth lettered stamped in gilt. About Near Fine, with rubbing to cloth at tips, pages toned. In a Very Good dust jacket with publisher's price intact, with light rubbing and edge wear. A nice copy.
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Poems
by Berryman, John
New York: New Directions, 1942. First Edition. Very Good. Signed by poet on front free endpaper. First edition, wrappered issue. 25, [3]pp. Plain wraps in blue dust jacket. Very close to Fine with very slight toning and a tiny stain to wraps, jacket unclipped. The American poet's first separate publication following his appearance in Five Young American Poets, with eleven poems in toto, three of which debuted here. An uncommon signature. Stefanik A2.
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The Dispossessed
by Berryman, John
New York: William Sloane Associates, 1948. First Edition. First edition. Signed by John Berryman on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, inscribed to " Helen - with infinite thanks, John - 21 April 48." xii, 103 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. Light wear, else Fine with toned contents, in Very God dust jacket with a few tiny chips at extremities, unclipped. Scarce inscribed copy of the author's first mature collection of poems.... Read More
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Bigfoot on the East Coast
by Berry, Rick
Stuarts Draft, VA: Self Published, 1993. First Edition. First and only edition of a tally of hairy manlike creature sightings in the Eastern regions of the US. Signed by author Rick Berry on the title page and inscribed to "Fellow Fortean" Tom Benson. viii, [3], 10 - 164, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's printed wraps. Very Good with very light soiling to wraps and cup ring to front wrap; spine uncreased. A scarce book, especially signed.
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The Broken Ground
by Berry, Wendell
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1964. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. First edition. Signed by Wendell Berry on the title page. [viii], 56 pp. Bound in publisher's light brown paper covered boards over light gray buckram with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with slight lean to binding, small stain to foredge and light toning to contents. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with toning to spine and rubbing to extremities, front joint has small... Read More
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The Besler Florilegium: Plants of the Four Seasons
by Besler, Basilius [Illustrator]; Gerard G. Aymonin [Introduction]; Pierre Gascar [Foreword]; Eileen Finletter [Translator]; Jean Ayer [Translator]
New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc, 1989. Oversize color reproduction of Nuremberg apothecary and botanist Basilius Besler's beautiful 1613 work Hortus Eystettensis, describing the plants of the garden of the Prince-Bishop of Eichstatt in Bavaria. 542 pp. Bound in publisher's creme cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket with two tiny scuffs to the front panel, a little toning, housed in Fine publisher's slipcase.
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The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod
by Beston, Henry
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1928. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Signed by Henry Beston on the front free endpaper and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with fading to cloth at edges and spine, mottling to spine cloth. Former owner bookplate to front pastedown, browning to endhseets and toning to pages. A classic of nature writing,... Read More
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The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod
by Beston, Henry
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1928. First Edition. First edition, first printing. xv, [3], 222 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt. Near Fine with scratch to back board, in a Very Good dust jacket, two closed tears to front panel (one mended on verso) a few very tiny interior chips in and around spine panel, unclipped ($3.00). Presents well. Rare in jacket. A classic of nature writing, chronicling a year of... Read More
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The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod
by Beston, Henry
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1928. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Signed by Henry Beston on the front free endpaper and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with cloth darkened at spine and toned at edges, worn at spine ends. Newsclippings about Beston affixed to the front endsheets with associated offsetting also affecting Beston's inscription, pages toned... Read More
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Truants From Life: The Rehabilitation of Emotionally Disturbed Children
by Bettelheim, Bruno
Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1955. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Bruno Bettelheim on the half title page in blue ink. Laid in flyer from a Seattle reading of Bettelheim's in 1963, quite possibly it was signed there. xvi, 511, [1], [4, ads] pp. Very Good+ with Oregon Prison Association bookplate on paste down, review of this book taped to front free endpaper, in Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket, lightly worn. Complete case histories of four disturbed children.... Read More
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Aus Berlin: Neues vom Kojoten
by Beuys, Joseph
New York: Feldman Gallery, 1979. First American Edition. Near Fine. Signed by Beuys on front free endpaper. First American edition. 141, (1) pp. Illustrated wraps. Near Fine with rubbed back wrap, light shelf wear. One of 1,000 copies.
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T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism
by Bey, Hakim [Peter Lamborn Wilson]
Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 1991. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition. Signed by Hakim Bey on the half-title page. viii, 141, [11] pp with 11 advertising pages at rear. Bound in publisher's color wraps. Near Fine with very light soiling to covers and textblock corners; spine uncreased. Hakim Bey was the pen name of the American anarchist writer Peter Lamborn Wilson, best known for his concept of Temporary Autonomous Zones: short-lived spaces that exist outside formal structures of... Read More
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My Experiences Preceding 5000 Burials
by Bey, Hamid; [Naldino Bombacci]
Buffalo, NY: The Ellicott Press, 1933. First edition. Very Good. First edition. viii, 142 pp. with two re-order coupons intact. Bound in publisher's black suede covered wrappers lettered and decorated in gilt. Very Good with dulling to gilt, light soiling, chip to bottom edge of front wrapper and small closed tears to rear cover at edge. Samuel Weiser bookseller ticket at verso front wrapper with newspaper clipping pasted to front blank with offsetting. Spiderweb tissue guard torn with... Read More
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Thieves' Market
by Bezzerides, A.I.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949. First Edition. First edition. Signed by A.I. Bezzerides on the title page. [vi], 233 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth with crimson lettering. Fine in Very Good dust jacket, worn along edges, tiny chip to top of back panel, small piece of archival mending tissue on verso, unclipped ($3.00).Best-known as the basis of Jules Dassin's film noir Thieves' Highway. Also a tightly-plotted proletarian novel that managed to make commercial trucking in California the... Read More
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Thieves' Market
by Bezzerides, A.I.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 233 pp. Green cloth with crimson lettering. Near Fine in Very Good unclipped dust jacket, spine darkened with some small tears and edge-chips. Best-known as the basis of Jules Dassin's film noir Thieves' Highway. Also a tightly-plotted proletarian novel that managed to make commercial trucking in California the stuff of great drama and suspense, which is no small feat.
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Poor Cecco
by Bianco, Margery Williams; Arthur Rackham [Illustrator]
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925. First edition. First edition, limited issue. Signed by Margery Williams Bianco, author of The Velveteen Rabbit. Copy #58 of 105 thus. [2], 175, [1] pp. With seven tipped-in color plates with captioned tissue guards and 24 black-and-white illustrations in the text. In quarter vellum-style paper and textured blue paper over boards, gilt-stamped spine label, top edge gilt, endpapers illustrated in blue; housed in original slipcase with correct limitation number marked in pencil... Read More
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Poor Cecco
by Bianco, Margery Williams
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925. First Edition. Very Good/Good. First edition, first printing with the publisher's colophon on the copyright page. Signed and inscribed to a former owner by Margery Williams Bianco on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good soiling and light staining to cloth with rubbing to cloth at extremities, several small stains to paged and textblock edge. In a Good dust jacket with chipping and edge... Read More
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Golden State
by Bidart, Frank
New York: George Braziller, 1973. First Edition. First edition. Signed by the poet on the front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner at Bidart's later publisher FSG, 1996. x, 50 pp. Publisher's mustard cloth lettered in gilt. No rear endpaper (either printer's error or somehow removed without a trace), else Fine in Very Good price-clipped dust jacket. The Pulitzer-winning poet's first book.
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The Cynic's Word Book (The Devil's Dictionary)
by Bierce, Ambrose
New York: Doubleday, Page, & Company, 1906. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing, issue with no frontispiece, leaves on spine stem down. BAL's State A with no printer's imprint on copyright page, no priority. Association copy signed by Ambrose Bierce in pencil and inscribed to his friend DeLancey Gill: "with the author's compliments. Washington, D.C., January 21 1907." vi, 234 pp. Bound in publisher's dark olive cloth stamped in red and black, top edge gilt.... Read More
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The House Without a Key
by Biggers, Earl Derr
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, 1925. First edition. First edition. [iv], 316 pp. Bound in publisher's orange cloth with dark navy lettering. A Good+ copy with rubbing to lettering and worn cloth, slight lean, spine darkened, endpapers have tidemarks, erased name on front free endpaper. Lacking dust jacket. The first mystery to feature Honolulu detective Charlie Chan.
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The Divine Comedy: Dante's Inferno, Dante's Purgatorio, Dante's Paradiso
by Birk, Sandow [Illustrator]; Marcus Sanders [Translator]; Dante Alighieri
Brisbane, CA: Trillium Press, Publishers, 2005. Limited edition. Complete three volume set. Each volume signed by Sandow Birk at colophon, as issued; each numbered 50 of 100. Additionally, many of the full-page lithographs are individually signed by the artist. Illustrated with 209 original lithographs by Sandow Birk, printed by David Salgado on a Mailänder flatbed proof press. 35.3x27.7 cm (14x11"), each volume bound in full leather of various colors stamped in gilt. Fine, with typical fading to blue ink... Read More
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Questions of Travel
by Bishop, Elizabeth
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. First edition. Inscribed on title page "For Maggie Haford [?]- Best wishes, & kindness of Carly [?] - [signed] Elizabeth Bishop Seattle, January 1966." 95 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with red, silver and green spine lettering. Housed in a custom slipcase. A little wear at tips and a thin small line of rubbing to paste down but basically Fine in a very Near Fine unclipped and... Read More
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