The Lost Son and Other Poems by Theodore Roethke - 1948

Boston: Fields, Osgood, 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First Printing (of three), per BAL, with FO monogram on title page and foot of spine and S.T.K. for T.S.K. in caption p. 136. Small 8vo: vi,7-153pp. Original green publisher's C cloth (also issued in orange and purple cloth, no priority noted), spine and upper cover stamped in gilt, beveled edges, chocolate clay-coated end papers. A Fine, bright copy—superb. BAL 7253. Kozlay Collection, 58 (identifying this as the first issue). Johnson High Spots, p. 37 (also calling this the first issue). Collects new and previously published poems, including "To the Pliocene Skull" and "Her Letter," as well as Harte's tribute to Dickens, "Dickens in Camp" and two of his renowned Civil War Poems, "Reveille" and "How Are You, Sanitary?". Harte's breakthrough came was with the publication three years earlier of "The Luck of Roaring Camp," and although his reputation today rests on the handful of stories he wrote for the Overland in the two and a half… Read More

Richard Gilbertson, 'The Manuscript Series', Crediton, 1970. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 2nd Edition. The second separate edition, corrected. Limited to 100 numbered copies, signed and dated by the author (this being #42). Royal 8vo. [8pp] stapled into card wrappers featuring a reproduction of a sixteenth-century woodcut taken from Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs', repeated on the first leaf. The wrappers lightly tanned and with a touch of light edge-creasing, and some surface abrasion to the verso of the first leaf where is appears a bookplate has been carefully removed. These are either new staples, or they were at some point repositioned. A nice, crisp copy of this uncommon item, somewhat more so that the uncorrected first issue (the poem was included in Hughes' debut collection 'The Hawk in the Rain'. The original printing of this first separate edition contained an error, two transposed lines, and so was succeeded by this corrected version, produced… Read More

237 pp. + Indice + 1 pl. h.t. 9x5,5 cm. G. Pickering, Londra, 1822.
--- Contemporary cloth-bound. Some fading is evident on spine, minor wear at corners. A small piece of paper is missing on first blank page. Very light foxing on frontispiece. Some spots on top edge. Steele-engraved portrait of the author on frontispiece and some engravings en-tête. Pages bright and clean. Uncut copy.

Alfred A.Knopf, New York, 1924. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing), in the first state binding of rainbow-patterned boards with a tanned and slightly chipped paper spine label and the publisher's yellow top edge stain. 8vo. 95pp. A presentation copy, fondly inscribed by the author to fellow poet and Newdigate Prize winner David Posner, dated May 1943 and with two inked lines of verse beneath and Posner's signature in pencil above. Some occasional light pencilled marginalia and some notes to the front free endpaper, probably in Julian Symons' hand but possibly also in Posner's. Laid-in is a folded two-sided handwritten letter from Ransom to Julian Symons concerning an article on Restoration comedy which was to appear in the Ransom-edited journal 'The Kenyon Review'. Biro mark to the rear board and just a fraction of tenderness to the front hinge. A very good copy in the uncommon dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but… Read More

Stevenson, Robert Louis: A Child's Garden of Verses, illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. 1905, Charles Scribner's Sons FIRST EDITION THUS. Copyright page States BB2C-1.58 [H]. Yellow topstain. Used. VG/Good- original price-clipped purple dust jacket. RARE THUS. A nice, solid copy. CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED CLASSICS SERIES. YOUR OFFERS ARE WELCOME HERE!

London: F And C Rivington, 1794. Fourth Edition, Much Corrected . Full Tree Calf. Very Good. 7 3/8" Tall. Frontispeice, Illustrated Titles, Vignettes. Three Volumes, Complete With All Half Titles, Frontispiece In Volume One, And Original Initial And Final Blanks, Edges Of Page Block Colored Blue. Original Tree Calf, Red Morocco Spine Labels For Author/Title And Small Round Volume Number Label. Additional Leaf H8 From Vol 2 Misbound At Beginning Of Text Of Volume 3, As Usual. Wear At Corners With A Little Fraying At Tips And At Top And Bottom Edges Of Joints, Bindings Sound. Ancient Ink Ownership Three Volumes In Full Tree Calf. Signatures Of Jane Walker On Titler Pages, Inked Over The Lighter Signatures Of Someone Else. There Is A Small Ownership Signature In Volume I Dated 1950. The Advertisement On Ix Ff States "These Volumes Are Now Restored To The Public With Such Corrections And Improvements As Have Occurred Since The Former Impression (The Third Edition); And The Text In Particular Has Been… Read More

London: T Cadell and W Davies, 1810. First Edition . Quarter Morocco Over Boards. Fine. 7 3/4" Tall. Engraved Title Page. Xvi, 230. Volume I Only [Of Two]; Book Is 7 3/4" [19.6 Cm] Tall, Text Block 7 1/2" [19.3 Cm] Tall. Morocco Spine And Corners, 5 Bands, Gilt Title/Author/Volume Number On Spine, Gilt Rules At Edges Of Bands And Around Edges Of Marbled Paper On Front And Rear Covers; Matching Marbled Endpapers; Top Edge Gilt. Printed By J. Mccreery, London. Fine; Large Armorial Bookplate Of Book Collector Jacob Cowan Of Rosshall, Founder Of Rosshall (Ross Hall) Park And Gardens, No Other Names Or Marks. Both Volumes Fine, No Wear Or Damage.

London: Saunders And Otley, 1838. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Xxii, 360 Pp. Complete With The Half-Title (With Printer's Information On Verso). Three Quarter Green Morocco, Elaborate Gilt In All Compartments, Gilt Rules On Spine And Covers, Over Beige Cloth, Marbled Endpapers, Teg. Contents Fine And Crisp, No Foxing, No Marks. Modern Bookplate With Colored Parrot On Front Pastedown, Ownership Signature Of Katherine A. G. Moyers (??) On Top Of Title Page. Spine Faded To Brown, But Color Even, Gilt Bright; Joints Worn, Front Joint Beginning To Crack At Top.

New York: L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E / Segue, 1980. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Fine. 4to, viii+244pp, printed wrappers. Copy "H" of an unspecified number of copies SIGNED BY ALL CONTRIBUTORS on a half-title page. This copy separately INSCRIBED by Ray DiPalma to Carter Burden on May 26, 1982. A clean copy of the rare signed and lettered state of this essential L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E work. Wrappers protected in mylar.

Boston: Shambhala, 1996. Signed by Jim Harrison on the title page. First edition / First printing. Burgundy cloth spine, gray paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.