On The Edge (Signed Limited Edition) by LEVINE, Philip - 1963

Blue Wind Press, Berkeley, 1980, 1980. Very Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Several pages bumped bottom edge, cover a bit dusty else very good. First edition. Inscribed presentation copy signed by the author "For ---and-----, my friends and constant support, blessings, Ted Berrigan". * Reportedly one of an unknown number of author's copies. for Ted's use.RM

London: Faber & Faber 1929. (Hardcover) Very good plus, no dust jacket. Signed and numbered by the author. Pale blue boards with gilt titles. Two illustrations (one in color). Slightly darkened around the edges, lightly rubbed on the spine and a tiny bump on the top corner of the front board. Illustrations by Gilbert Spencer. Publisher series: Ariel Poems 18. (Poetry, Limited Editions, Poetry).

Oceano, CA: Harbison & Harbison, 1938. Limited and Numbered, Signed 1st Edition, #293 of 500 copies, SIGNED in pencil on the Limitation Page, additionally SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front endpage -"To Helen and Karl Klein with Good Wishes from Ella Young 16 July 1945". Laid in is a 2 page letter handwritten in ink by Ella Young - "Box 136, Oceano, Calif. July 1945 Dear Helen & Karl Klein, It is a great delight to read your letter and to have your greetings from that part of America which first welcomed and enchanted me. America is a living country in the sense that Ireland is living: a country where the mountains cry out to each other and the streams and rivers & forests make a vast music. It is for people such as you & Robert & Marie Lawson to interpret such a country, or rather to be initiated by such a country, and invited into its hidden realms and its sacred unseen cities. I count myself lucky to have lived in Ireland and to have known something of… Read More

New York: Henry Holt, 1921. Second Edition, copyright page states 1916, 1921. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front end page - "Robert Frost Amherst & Ann Arbor". Although undated, a mid-1920s signature. as Frost spent two years in Ann Arbor, beginning in 1924, after receiving an appointment with the title Fellow in Letters at the University of Michigan. Lacking the scarce dust jacket, the front panel of which is laid in, the book is Very Good, small hole to cloth near bottom of spine, gilt at bottom of spine dulled, minor rubs at corners of boards, period Ann Arbor book store label rear paste down. Frontispiece portrait with tissue-guard of Frost from a plaster cast by Aroldo Du Chene. His third published collection of poetry, which includes the poems "The Road Not Taken," "Christmas Trees," "In the Home Stretch," "Birches," "Snow," and "The Bonfire," among many others. . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.… Read More

London: James R. Osgood McIlvaine and Co., 1893. With an introduction by Andrew Lang. Very Good, bound in ornately decorated green morocco with gilt inlays of cherubs with trailing vines and rose-filled vases. All edges gilt, wide ornate floral turn-ins, silk moire endpapers and marbled end pages.. Includes a First Lines Index and 7 illustrations, all present. Front end pages loose, rear marbled endpage with 1/3 of page paper loss, wear at joints and edges, end pages darkened. The front turn-in stamp-signed E. Dreyfous. Edouard Henry Dreyfous was a French born seller of fine decorative objects, with shops in paris, London and New York. His customers included the British Royal houses. A quite lovely Art Nouveau inspired binding. . Later Edition. Morocco. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1916. First Edition. Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. First issue with a line repeated on page 88, and "come" instead of "gone" on page 93. Near Fine with a small indent to spine at title, though gilt remains very bright and sharp and the cloth is fresh. Previous owner name to front free endpaper. Pages toned and light foxing to textblock edge. Lacking the dust jacket. A superior copy of the first issue, in much nicer shape than as normally found in.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. Hardcover, purple paper, white cloth spine, slipcase but missing glassine. Very Good in Good slipcase/No Jacket. Signed, limited edition in slipcase, presentation copy. Purple paper is faded, and there are some small ink (?) spots on back cover, as well as a small smudge on the bottom corner of the limitation page. SIGNED limitation page with 'Dorothy Parker' in blue ink, states �this edition limited to 275 copies, of which 250 are for sale.� This copy is numbered in the same blue ink as 322, and the word �Presentation� in black ink follows. 75 pages, many unopened, printed on Boni & Liveright watermarked paper. Slipcase worn and faded, all edges rubbed, splitting at top and bottom. Label affixed to slipcase states �Autographed Edition. This edition is limited to 275 numbered copies. Each copy is signed by the author.� At the upper right corner is the number 322 in ink, mirroring the number on the limitation page of the volume. From the family of T. R. Smith, who… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. First edition of the first major collection by the 1992 Nobel laureate, preceded by three volumes of verse and several plays only published in the West Indies. 80pp. Green paper marbled boards over white cloth backstrip, spine lettered in gilt. A beautiful copy, fine in a fine jacket with a couple of minor age spots on the endpapers, this copy also has the extremely rare dark green wraparound band with the Robert Graves quote ("Derek Walcott handles English with a closer understanding of its inner magic than most (if not any) of his English-born contemporaries."). This copy is signed on the front free endpaper by Walcott and dated April 99.

Wilson's first published Sanskrit translation, the first publication of the Meghadūta in the West
Kālidāsa (c. 4th–5th century CE); Horace Hayman Wilson (1786-1860, trans.).

The Megha Duta, or Cloud Messenger, a poem, in the Sanscrit language.

Calcutta printed: London reprinted, Black, Parry, and Co., 1814.

8°. XXII, 23-175 pp. Later half calf, marbled sides.First English translation of the Meghadūta, the most renowned text by India's greatest ancient poet. This famous Sanskrit love poem became popular in Europe in the early 19th century, chiefly because of the present translation by Horace Wilson. Written in the 4th-5th century by the Classical Sanskrit author Kālidāsa, it tells the story of a lover who sends his message to his beloved by a cloud. The present edition includes Wilson's commentaries on his translation of the ancient poem.
Translator Horace Wilson was the first professor of Sanskrit at Oxford. He made his name through his many translations of ancient Sanskrit texts. For… Read More

Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket toned, soiled, and worn.. 1940. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 300 numbered copies. A lengthy narrative poem by Alfred Young Fisher, a longtime Smith College professor and James Joyce and Shakespeare scholar, whose first wife, M. F. K. Fisher, is better known. Book design and striking orange and black illustrations by noted designer Alvin Lustig. Black blindstamped cloth. xxiv, 304pp. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .