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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. lxi, [1], 547, [6] pp., frontis. First edition, first printing. In publisher's boards with dust jacket. A bright, fresh copy in a similarly sharp dust jacket; price intact on the front flap. An excellent translation of the Greek poet's work, and includes 30 unfinished poems.

St. Louis: Cahokia Mounds Museum Society, 1977. Original Wrappers. Near Fine binding. Quarto. 40 pp., illus. Stapled into stiff, printed wrappers. A bright copy, though the publisher's sticker mounted inside the front cover has detached and is laid in.

Richmond: William Byrd Press, 1928. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 12mo. 167 pp., maps. First edition. In publisher's gray cloth with title in gold on the front cover; errata slip pasted on the front pastedown; two folding maps. A bit of soiling to the rear cover; front is quite bright; contemporary manuscript title on the spine; some erasure to the top of the first page of the foreword; a few leaves only have minor pencil notations or brackets in the margin. A reasonable copy. Dornbusch III, 1387.

Philadelphia: Henry Harrison, 1886. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. Octavo. 414, [2 (publisher ads)] pp. Frontispiece. First Edition. As issued, in red cloth with title on the spine in gold. A solid copy, unopened. Silverfishing to the covers; spine is a bit darkened; fraying at the spine ends and corners as well as a short tear at the top of the front joint. Contemporary bookplate of Bradley S. Johnson on the front pastedown. a couple of early sections have a long fore-edge deck is a little ragged. Dornbusch II, 2719.

Richmond: printed at the William Byrd Press, 1948. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. Octavo. 43, [1] pp. Offprint from the William & Mary Quarterly. Backed in cloth with printed paper over boards; publisher issued glassine jacket is present and somewhat worn. A nice printing; covers are fairly clean, as is the contents.

New York: Dial Press, 1966. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good dust jacket. Octavo. xvi, 400 pp., frontis. First edition, first issue with tipped in color photographic frontispiece; signed and inscribed by Mailer. A nice copy in publisher's cloth with dust jacket. Binding is fairly fresh with only softened corners and spine ends; dust jacket is only lightly to moderately worn with wear to the extremities and some rubbing to the top of the rear panel; price clipped. A fairly nice, first issue collection of Mailer's writings, signed and inscribed by Mailer on the front free endpaper. Ahearn APG 012b.

Richmond: Richmond Press, 1915. Original Wrappers. Good binding. Octavo. 46, [2 (blank)] pp., frontis, plate. As issued, in printed wrappers. Soiling tot he covers and wear. Some dampstaining to the bottom corner of the textblock. An interesting sketch recounting the details of the collapse of the ceiling of Capitol building in Richmond, killing dozens and injuring about 200 more people, written nearly 50 years after the fact this offers a much clearer vision of the event than the contemporary accounts. Illustrated by a two reproductions of contemporary engravings. Ownership names of Misses Doswell and the later name of Eppa Hunton IV, grandson of the Confederate General and U.S. Senator by the same name. Pencil bracketing and marginalia by Hunton throughout the text.

Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1974. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. x, 54 pp. First Edition. Signed by Deagon on the title page. A bright copy in trivially shelfworn dust jacket; price intact on the front flap.

New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1932. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/near Very Good dust jacket. Octavo. [8], 325 pp. First edition, first printing. In publisher's cloth with dust jacket. An extremely fresh copy with little wear to speak of; contents are clean; dust jacket is quite nice with some light edgewear with some chipping at the head of the spine that just touches the title; lightly soiled; spine is a trifle faded; price intact on the front flap. Born in Charleston, SC, Cohen was a prolific author. A collection of stories starring Florian Slappey who was perhaps Cohen's most popular fictional character--a caricature of a black man from Birmingham. While Cohen purported to have a great deal of affection for his characters and wrote them with well-meaning affection, the patronization is apparent. Fairly uncommon in this condition.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2014. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. [14], 82 pp. First edition, first printing. In publisher's boards with dust jacket. Bottom of the spine is a bit bumped, otherwise a very bright, fresh copy in similarly sharp dust jacket; price intact on the front flap.

Tokyo: Seibido Co, 1983. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good dust jacket. Octavo. A bright, fresh copy in dust jacket; small closed tear at the bottom of the front panel and spine of the jacket else in Very Good+ or better condition.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co. | Crime Club, 1944. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. 12mo. [6], 186 pp. First edition. In publisher's binding with dust jacket. A fairly fresh copy with limited wear to the binding, just some softening to the spine ends; previous owner bookplate on the front pastedown otherwise, contents are clean and binding is solid; dust jacket has a bit of shelfwear, but is quite presentable; price intact. An uncommon mid-career mystery by Du Bois, remarkably well preserved given the wartime publication.

Richmond: Press of the Dietz Printing Co, 1934. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. xxxvi, 767, [3] pp., plates, maps, facsims. First edition, one of 1000 copies, thing one being out of series. In publisher's cloth with striking cloth dust jacket; all plates are present as called for. This is a remarkably bright copy in a similarly sharp dust jacket. Initially a more ambitious project, this first volume was the only one published by Nugent for many decades until in the late 1970s the project was resumed by others using some page proofs from a second volume that was started by Nugent but never seen through the presses. Several additional volumes were seen to fruition by Denis Hudgins. First edition copies of this first volume are quite uncommon in commerce despite a fairly large printing.

Huntsville Planning Department, City of Huntsville, 1985. Soft Cover. Very Good+ binding. Quarto. ix, [1], 184 pp., illus. Second printing. Signed by Ryan on the half title. As issued, in stiff, printed wrappers. Light rubbing to the cover, but generally a very sharp copy. George Steele was an architect in Huntsville, Alabama. The scope of the letters range beyond that and date range from 1835 to 1868.

Huntsville, AL: Johnson Historical Publicaions, 1978. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Quarto. [6], 377, [1] pp. First edition. Signed and inscribed by Johnson on the title page. In original cloth. Light shelfwear, only. Contents are a trifle toned, but clean except for a few pencil check marks next to some names.

[Centaur Co., 1885]. Original Wrappers. near Good binding. 12mo. 36 pp. As issued, stapled into colored wrappers. Chipping to the extremities of the wrappers. A fantastic proprietary almanac which comprises a collection of recipes and household tips, many of which require Centaur Company products--Castoria figuring prominently; other ads throughout, including Arm & Hammer with its iconic logo.

London: Trelawney Saunders, 1850. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Octavo. xii 164 pp., frontis, 2 plates. First edition. In publisher's blue, embossed cloth; a separately published folding map to accompany this volume is not present and is itself fairly uncommon, otherwise all plates are present. Binding is a trifle shelfworn and has a notable forward lean; corners and spine ends softened; very sensitive conservation work to some to some weak spots in the cloth; additionally, the a few preliminary leaves have been sympathetically reattached and the front hinge mended; all in all, some very discreet and professional work. Contents are largely clean but for some light foxing to the three engravings; a few leaves have been roughly or carelessly opened leaving some tears in the margin. Previous ownership stamp of 20th century American archaeologist Harry Evelyn Dorr Pollock on the front free endpaper; Edmonds & Remnants, London binder's ticket on the rear pastedown. Uncommon. Sabin 2771.

Berkeley: University of California, 2007. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. xii, 717 pp. First edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed by Eshleman. In original cloth with dust jacket. A very bright copy in a dust jacket that is only lightly rubbed. A massive collection with a warm inscription to poet Daniel Abd-al Hayy Moore by Eshleman who won the National Book Award for his co-translation of Vallejo's Posthumous Poetry in 1979.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. [8], 560, [6] pp. First edition, thus; signed by Merrill on the title page. As issued, in cloth with dust jacket; lacking the errata slip. A bright, fresh copy with limited wear and just a bit of spotting to the top edge; jacket shows trivial shelf rubbing and is now protected with a mylar cover. A very nice copy of the Knopf reissue of this National Book Critics Circle Award winning epic poem.

Hartford: Thomas Green, 1767. Disbound. Good binding. Small quarto 28 pp. First edition. Removed from volume. Staining to the inner portion of the first five leaves and, less prominent, some toning to the lower inner margin of the last few leaves as well as the verso of the final leaf, otherwise generally clean. An uncommon memorial sermon for the Roger Wolcott who in addition to a distinguished military career culminating in his being placed second in command of New England forces during King George's War, he also had a robust political career from Justice of the Peace to chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court to colonial governor. Several pages of the sermon are given over to outlining Wolcott's life from his humble childhood forward. Printed by Thomas Green, the first printing in Hartford who set up his press only a few years before this in 1764. A bold, bordered and strongly inked title page make this a striking imprint. Evans 10736; Trumbull 1240; Sabin 61039; Oxford American National… Read More