Search Results: Poetry from Armadillo & Dicker Books & Ephemera

London: Ackermann & Co. Poor. 1853. 1st edition. London: Ackermann & Co, , (1853). 1st ed., 4to approx.. 12-3/4” x 9-3/4”. Green cloth with large pictorial paper paste-on. 64 pages. Each page illustrated with elaborate b/w etchings An alpha bet book, including the proper phonetics for the English language . Poor; internally sound but substantially shaken; occasional li ght foxing. Binding split with spine lacking, corners rubbed and bumped. .

Harry Ward Ritchie., Pasadena. Near fine. 1930. 8vo, gray-green stitched wrappers. 32, (2)pp. Title printed in re d & black. Edition limited to 200 copies printed by Harry Ward Ri tchie at the press in the old Abbey of San Encino. Very good-near fine. No chips or tears but two small [1/8”] stains on front c over to the right of the title. .

Chillicothe, OH: Charles Lummis. Very good. 1884. 2d edition. 2d edition. 8 pp. 2.5”x3”, stitched, illustrated wrappers. (1 2) pp. A collection of small poems written in the transcendental style, Birch Bark Poems is printed entirely on thin and delicate birch bark, with engravings of birch trees on front and back. Lu mmis cut the bark from the trees, set the type, and did the print ing. This is a later printing [ninth thousand] of the second edi tion. First published while Lummis was working for a small publis hing firm in New Hampshire, the first printing (1878) was only a dozen or so copies. This allowed Lummis to work out the medium's eccentricities. The books proved popular and by the end of the f ollowing summer Lummis had printed more than 3,500 copies in vari ous editions. This lead to a second volume in 1883 and this first work was retitled Volume 1. . fine. Several thin tears in the right margin of the leaves. The se are from natural flaws… Read More

NY: Viking Press. 1978. 1st ed., signed by illustrator Leonard Baskin on the front end pa per. 4to, black cloth. 64 pp. A fine as-new copy in dust jacket - - however there are several white spots on the back cover due to a binding defect. .

NY: Harper & Brothers,. 1931. 8vo, First edition. publisher’s original black cloth over blue boards. A pristine copy in near fine dustjacket with two small te ars upper back panel. .

NY/East Aurora: The Roycroft Shop. 1899. 1st ed. 12mo, handmade paper, gray-green limp suede covers with gilt titl es, red satin paste-downs and tie. #557/950 copies, signed by Elb ert Hubbard. Fine; backstrip lightly faded and light fade line ac ross top of upper cover. [Livingston suppl. p. 137] .

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd.. 1924. 1st ed.. 8vo, batiked-paper boards with 1/4 vellum-spine. Printed by the P elican Press and limited to 250 copies. English translation of se venteen verses by Goethe, Schiller, Moerike, Uhland, Hebbel, Theo dor Storm, Keller, Guenther, Gleim, Boie, Hofmannsthal, Liliencro n and Buerger. The Pelican Press was founded in 1916 by Sir Franc is Meynell, with the active involvement of Stanley Morison - a Br itish typographer, designer and historian of printing. He was one of the most influential type-designers of the 20th century, havi ng designed the Times New Roman typeface (1931) and several histo rical revivals for the Monotype Corporation. A couple of stray pe ncil marks on FFEP otherwise absolutely pristine -- as if it came off the press today. In very good glassine d/w with several smal l tears and creases and original cardboard box that is split at a ll 4 hinges. .

Harper & Brothers. 1922. 1st trade edition, with designs by William Nicholson. 12mo, beige bonds with gold label on front and spine. Decorated end papers. 36 pp. A very good-near fine copy overall but with a bookplate in side front cover and lacking the dust jacket, a clipping of which is laid in. .

University Press of Mississippi. 1989. Signed limited edition. One of 174 numbered copies signed by both the author and artist. Fine copy in original slipcase .

Good. 1st edition; London: Macmillan & Co., 1882. Pictorial boards with cloth spine. Illustrations by George Cruikshank – note that th is is not THE George Cruikshank, but his nephew. Interior is clea n and tight. The covers are rubbed at edges, more heavily so at c orners. .

[Miller, Henry] Moore, John. The Latitude and Longitude of Henry Miller. Pasadena: Marathon Press, 1962. A critical evaluation in poetic form. With author’s illustrations. 8vo, stapled wrappers . 24 pp. Very good. Minor edgewear, corners bumped. .

San Francisco: Underground Press. Fair. 1964. 1st ed.. 1st ed., small 4to, wraps, 76 pp. Contributions by Neal Cassady, Alan Watts, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, Kenneth Patchen and others. Text block is very good; clean and tight. Front cover ru bbed with chips at top and bottom of spine; large stain on back c over. .

NY: The Macmillan Company. Fine. 1930. 1st ed.. Inscribed by author . 1st ed., 8vo, Cloth-backed batiqued boards. No. 19 of 200 copies signed and numbered by the author. 42 pp. Fine except for bookpla te inside front cover; in poor slipcase lacking top/bottom edges and ½ of spine. .

Kipling published more than sixteen different editions of "Ditties", adding new content as the years elapsed. The first edition, not present here, was published in 1886 with 11 Departmental Ditties and 15 Other Verses. Over the next several years, he added poems additional poems to most of the new editions – making this collection one a rather intriguing bibliographic oddity and a prize for the completist. This lot consists of ten titles, all first thus of the editions with added content.
-----. 2d edition. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Company, 1886. 8vo; issued in gray boards but this copy rebound in beige linen by Higginbotham and Co, Madras. This copy lacking the original 6pp. advertisements at end.This edition had five new poems as well as alterations to three poems not published in England until 1897. Very scarce - only 750 copies of this edition were printed and a notoriously fragile book, hence the rebinding. Very good; inked signature on ffep; paper seal inside back cover. [Livingston 12]… Read More

San Francisco: San Francisco Review. 1958. 1st ed. Includes poetry by Charles Bukowski, e.e. cummings, Willi am Saroyan. Signed on copyright page by publisher R.H. Miller. Chip at top of spine; title page beginning to separate from text block. .

nd New York. Near fine. 1927. 1st edition. Cream cloth stamped in gilt and brown. #464/1050. With eight full -page color illustrations by Alastair. The illustration opposite page 52 is signed in pencil, below the image. . in red and black, illustrations in red, sepia, and black. Condi tion: very good-near fine. A clean, tight copy that presents near ly fine. Covers: A small soil smudge about ½”x1” on both pan els near center of spine; otherwise fine with no bumping or rubbi ng. Internally: near fine -- some light toning and spotting to f ront matter pages occasionally very faint foxing; this appears to be a defect in the paper, not external damage [see photos] -- no t affecting any of the plates which were printed on different sto ck. We have handled several copies of this book and this is the n icest copy we have seen. The slipcase is in fair condition. Ful ly intact but partially split at spine, chipped at bottom spine, surface wear, rubbing… Read More

Boston: Ticknor & Fields. Good. Cloth. 1866. 1st ed., second state. Signed by Orson Welles . First edition, second state -- lacking the page number at the bot tom of p.52 . 12mo Brown-Maroon cloth, gilt titles. 52 pp., engra ved title page and frontis. Ex-libris RKO Studios Research Libra ry, with the studio logo and inkstamp on the FEP and second flyle af. Orson Welles’ inked signature at bottom of fep, and possibl y a second time above -- the lower signature is clearly Welles -- the upper signature has indicial of Welles’s wide variety of s ignatures, but also some unfamiliar characteristics. One can onl y speculate on the connection -- but the presence of snow plays s mall but vital roles in both Citizen Kane and the Magnificent Amb ersons and this, one of Whittier’s most famous poems is present ed as a series of stories told by a family while sitting out a sn owstorm. #### . , chipping to upper spine; some soiling. Interior: RKO Studios… Read More

First Edition. 8vo. Green spider-web patterned boards, cloth back, titles to spine and front cover gilt. Forman Brown was one of the world's leaders in puppet theatre in his day, as well as an important early gay novelist. He was a member of the Yale Puppeteers and the driving force behind the famous Turnabout Puppet Theater in Los Angeles. This is his first book, a poetry collection.
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Frontispiece and 3 full-page woodcuts by Packard, all with spider-web patterned glassine guards. This issue with the illustrated jacket precedes the more common edition issued in wrappers, also with a jacket. This is the first book by the noted gay author who also wrote the 1933 novel Better Angel, about a young man coming to terms with his homosexuality. The novel is regarded as the first American novel to present the 'gay' experience in a healthy light.[Under the pseudonym Richard Meeker.] When it was reprinted in 1995, under the assumption that the author was no more alive, Brown stepped forward and… Read More

Milano: Fratelli Treves. 1902. 1st ed.. Milano: Fratelli Treves, 1902. 1st ed., small 4to, handmade paper ; pp. (16), 289, (7) illustrated in red and black with several fu ll-page drawings and numerous ornaments throughout. Gilt ornament on front cover, gilt titles on spine; ribbon ties. Original full vellum binding [it was also published in cloth]. Text in Italian . A tragic play in verses, presented for the first time at the Te atro Costanzi in Rome on December 9th 1901. The text centers on the story of how Francesca da Rimini falls in love with her husba nd's brother in the 13th century. The play is based on an episod e from Dante Alighieri's Inferno. It was written for D'Annunzio's lover Eleonora Duse, who played the title role. An English trans lation by Arthur Symons was published in 1902. D’Annunizio was an Italian writer, poet, journalist, and playwright. He occupied a prominent place in Italian literature from 1889 to 1910 and lat er political life… Read More

New York: Book People. 1975. A trade paperback magazine featuring work by Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Gregory Corso, Kenneth Rexroth and others. Good; clean and tight but with A few small chips along edge of spine and she lf-wear at edges. .