The Gold of Ophir. Travels, Myths, and Legends in the New World. Chosen and With an Essay by Edward Dahlberg
by DAHLBERG, Edward
N.Y.: E.P. Dutton, 1972. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Dahlberg to poet and Jargon Press publisher Jonathan Williams on the front free-endpaper: "For my dear friend Jonathan, who was responsible for the Festschrift. With abiding love, Edward Dec. 12, '73 N.Y.C.. Top-edge of text block dust marked, otherwise a very good copy. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket. Top-edge of text block dust marked, otherwise a very good copy.
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Nightwatch. Poems by Bei Dao with two Hanga woodcuts by Bill Paden, calligraphy by Er Tai Gao, and translation by David Hinton with Yanbing Chen
by [PIED OXEN PRESS] BEI DAO
Hopewell, NJ: Pied Oxen Press, 1998. First separate edition of these poems by one of China's foremost living writers, printed in both the original Chinese and an English translation by David Hinton and Yanbing Chen, the two texts running in opposite directions. One of 40 numbered copies (out of a total edition of 60 copies) signed by Bei Dao (in both Chinese and English), David Hinton, Er Tai Gao and the printer; there were also 20 hors commerce copies.... Read More
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Do You Have a Poem Book on E.E. Cummings
by DAVENPORT, Guy
Penland, NC: Jargon Society, 1969. First edition. One of 1000 copies printed by A. D. Moore of The Finial Press & R. E. Chapdu of The Moneytree Press. Published as Jargon 67. Signed by Davenport. Mint copy. Thin 8vo, illustration by Davenport, original pictorial wrappers. Mint copy.
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August
by DAVENPORT, Guy
Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Close-Grip Press, 1986. First edition of this short story. One of only 35 copies designed & produced by Cary Wilkins as his creative project in the M. F. A. program in the book arts at the University of Alabama; printed by hand on handmade Kraft Clair from Moulin du Verger paper, with handmade endpapers with embedded leaves by Dieu Donne Press, signed & dated by Davenport. Crane A29. A very fine copy of Davenport's rarest book. ... Read More
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Sharp Tools For Catullan Gardens. Poems by Jonathan Williams. With 10 Lithographs by James McGarrell. Preface by Guy Davenport
by DAVENPORT, Guy, preface
Bloomington, Indiana: Fine Arts Department University of Indiana, 1968. First edition. One of only 36 copies (the entire edition) signed by Williams & McGarrell, with each lithograph individually signed by the artist. Crane D44. Fine copy of this rare portfolio.. Large folio, loose sheets in fabricoid portfolio. Fine copy of this rare portfolio.
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A Garden Carried In A Pocket: Letters 1964-1968. Edited by Thomas Meyer
by DAVENPORT, Guy & Jonathan WILLIAMS
Haverford: Green Shade, 2004. First edition. One of 100 numbered copies signed by Davenport and Williams out of a total edition of 526 copies printed. Designed by The Grenfell Press & printed by Trifolio, Verona, Italy. "We are not celebrities. No one has known quite what to make of a patrician satirist and lyric poet from Highlands, North Carolina, or of an essayist and short story writer from Anderson, South Carolina." - Guy Davenport. "It is clear that G.... Read More
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A Garden Carried In A Pocket: Letters 1964-1968. Edited by Thomas Meyer
by DAVENPORT, Guy & Jonathan WILLIAMS
Haverford: Green Shade, 2004. First edition. One of 26 lettered hardbound copies signed by Davenport and Williams and Thomas Meyer, out of a total edition of 526 copies printed. Designed by The Grenfell Press & printed by Trifolio, Verona, Italy. "We are not celebrities. No one has known quite what to make of a patrician satirist and lyric poet from Highlands, North Carolina, or of an essayist and short story writer from Anderson, South Carolina." - Guy Davenport. "It... Read More
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Elizabeth Constantine
by DAWSON, Fielding
Asheville, NC: Fielding Dawson, 1955. First edition, designed by Jonathan Williams. Limited to 150 copies printed. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper by Dawson to Cynthia [Homire, later Ficke]: "For Cynthia with love Fee, Nov 4th 1955." A student at Black Mountain College at the time Dawson attended the college, Cynthia Homire was much admired and courted. For a brief time she was Robert Creeley's lover, She later married another Black Mountain College student, Jorge Ficke, with... Read More
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Collected Poems
by DENBY, Edwin
(N. Y.): Full Court Press, (1975). First edition. One of only 100 copies signed by Denby. Very fine copy. 8vo, frontispiece, original cloth, dust jacket. Very fine copy.
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A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story Of Christmas
by DICKENS, Charles
Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1844. First American edition of Dickens' most popular work. Replicating the first English edition, the American edition was printed by "C. Sherman, printer", as noted on the verso of the title-page. Carey & Hart's American publication was a piracy, published in blatant disregard to Dickens' impassioned plea for international copyright protection during his tour of America in 1843. The present copy is in the rare gift binding, stamped on the front cover with the binder's... Read More
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Letters. With five drawings by the author of the ideal reader
by DUNCAN, Robert
Highlands, NC: Jonathan Williams, 1958. First edition. One of 450 copies on Arches paper out of a total edition of 510 copies printed at the Banyan Press. Published as Jargon 14. Although not called for, this copy is signed by Duncan. A fine copy.. 8vo, original plain wrappers with marbled paper dust jacket with printed spine label. A fine copy.
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From the Mabinogion
by DUNCAN, Robert
(Princeton, NJ): Quarterly Review of Literature, (1959). First edition, an off-print from Quarterly Review of Literature Vol. XII, No. 3. pp. 184-195. Bertholf B67. One of a small number of special copies used as a Christmas greeting by Duncan, with an original drawing, signed "RD 63", on the inside front wrapper. Louis Zukofsky's copy, with his ownership signature dated 1963 at the top of the front wrapper. Fine copy. 8vo, original printed stapled wrappers. Fine copy.
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Preface, original typescript of Duncan's preface to Jack Spicer's One Night Stand & Other Poems, signed "Robert Duncan / San Francisco CA 94110" and dated "June 1980" in another hand
by DUNCAN, Robert
A fine authorial typescript of Duncan's Preface to Spicer's posthumous collection published by Don Allen's Grey Fox Press in 1980. The typescript contains numerous changes in Duncan's hand, to punctuation, capitalization, and word-breaks, in addition to a few additions and deletions of words. These corrections and revisions in the typescript prepared for the 1980 Grey Fox Press publication were carried over to the Preface as it appears in Duncan's A Selected Prose, published by New Directions in 1995. Signs... Read More
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Letters
by DUNCAN, Robert
Highlands, NC: Jargon Society, 1958. First edition. Published as Jargon 14. One of 60 copies printed on Shogun paper, specially bound & signed by Duncan, including four original pen & ink drawings by Duncan on the endpapers, out of a total edition of 510 copies printed by Claude Fredericks at the Banyan Press. Bertholf A9b. Leather spine slightly scuffed as usual, otherwise a fine copy of this handsome book.. 4to, illustrated with five drawings by the author, quarter... Read More
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Donna Nervosa
by [EDIZIONI AMPERSAND] TECCHI, Benaventura
(Santa Lucia ai Monti, Italy: Edizioni Ampersand, 1996). First edition. No. 6 in the series Le Carte del Cielo. Limited to 135 copies (the entire edition), signed by the artist beneath the etching. As new, with wraparound band noting that this book was a finalist for the Salotto Veneto prize in 1997. 8vo, original frontispiece etching by Silvio Lacasella, original white wrappers, publisher's black paper slipcase. As new, with wraparound band noting that this book was a finalist... Read More
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Carnevale (La festa borghese)
by [EDIZIONI AMPERSAND] ALVARO, Corrado
(Santa Lucia ai Monti, Italy: Edizioni Ampersand, 1998). First edition. No. 9 in the series Le Carte del Cielo. Limited to 135 copies (the entire edition), signed by the artist beneath the etching. As new. 8vo, original frontispiece etching by Guido Strazza, original white wrappers, publisher's black paper slipcase. As new.
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Nube Sopra L'Ufficio
by [EDIZIONI AMPERSAND] EMANUELLI, Enrico
(Santa Lucia ai Monti, Italy: Edizioni Ampersand, 1996). First edition. No. 7 in the series Le Carte del Cielo. Limited to 135 copies (the entire edition), signed by the artist beneath the etching. As new, with wraparound band noting that this book was a finalist for the Salotto Veneto prize in 1997. 8vo, original frontispiece etching by Enzo Maiolino, original white wrappers, publisher's black paper slipcase. As new, with wraparound band noting that this book was a finalist... Read More
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Elia e Vannina
by [EDIZIONI AMPERSAND] TOZZI, Federigo
(Santa Lucia ai Monti, Italy: Edizioni Ampersand, 1994). First edition. No. 2 in the series Le Carte del Cielo. Limited to 135 copies (the entire edition), signed by the artist beneath the etching. As new. 8vo, original frontispiece etching by Adriano Boni, original white wrappers, publisher's black paper slipcase. As new.
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Pensieri
by [EDIZIONI AMPERSAND] RENSI, Giusseppe
(Santa Lucia ai Monti, Italy: Edizioni Ampersand, 1997). First edition. No. 8 in the series Le Carte del Cielo. Limited to 135 copies (the entire edition), signed by the artist beneath the etching. As new. 8vo, original frontispiece etching by Giulia Napoleone, original white wrappers, publisher's black paper slipcase. As new.
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Finestre Sul Fiume
by [EDIZIONI AMPERSAND] DRIGO, Paola
(Santa Lucia ai Monti, Italy: Edizioni Ampersand, 1995). First edition. No. 5 in the series Le Carte del Cielo. Limited to 135 copies (the entire edition), signed by the artist beneath the etching. As new. 8vo, original frontispiece etching by Velasco Vitali, original white wrappers, publisher's black paper slipcase. As new.
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Zaccaria
by [EDIZIONI AMPERSAND] VALERA, Paolo
(Santa Lucia ai Monti, Italy: Edizioni Ampersand, 1995). First edition. No. 3 in the series Le Carte del Cielo. Limited to 135 copies (the entire edition), signed by the artist beneath the etching. As new. 8vo, original frontispiece etching by Alessandro Papetti, original white wrappers, publisher's black paper slipcase. As new.
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Persephone. English Translation by Nikos Stangos. With Two Woodcuts by Joe Tilson
by [EDIZIONI AMPERSAND] RITSOS, Yannis
(Verona: Edizioni Ampersand, 1990). First edition, a bilingual edition printed in both Greek and English. Limited to 80 printed printed by hand by Alessandro Zanella in Antigone and Lutetia types on hand-made Cartiere Miliani Fabriano paper, signed by Ritsos and Tilson. A very fine copy. Oblong folio, original quarter black cloth & original screen-printed paper boards, in publisher's slipcase. A very fine copy.
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The Brown Wasps: a collection of three essays in autobiography
by EISELEY, Loren
Mount Horeb, WI: Perishable Press Limited, 1969. First edition. One of 56 copies printed on the press' own handmade Shadwell paper, beige in this instance, out of a total edition of 200 copies. Hamady 22. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper by Walter Hamady, the printer, to his in-laws: "for mother & father Laird and no. 1 son Tom on this sunny and cold fifth of January 1970 from Walter & Mary.. A fine copy of one... Read More
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East Coker [from] The New English Weekly (Supplement), Easter Number, (March 21), 1940
by ELIOT, T. S.
(London: The New English Weekly, 1940). First edition of the first of Eliot's Four Quartets, as issued as a supplement to The New English Weekly, Easter Number, 1940, with pagination [325]-328. Gallup A36a (note). Printed on acidic paper, this copy is slightly age-darkened, but far less than usual, creased from folding, but a very good copy, in a custom made folding chemise. Folio leaflet, 4 pages. Printed on acidic paper, this copy is slightly age-darkened, but far less... Read More
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Triumphal March. Drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer
by ELIOT, T. S.
London: Faber, 1931. First edition. One of 300 large-paper edition copies printed on English hand-made paper and signed by Eliot. Gallup A19b. Very slightly soiled, otherwise a fine copy. 8vo, original gray boards. Very slightly soiled, otherwise a fine copy.
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