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Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1979. Signed limited edition, with an introduction by Gore Vidal, number 111 of 300 copies signed and numbered by American writer and composer Bowles, an expatriate legend in Tangier for half a century. This collection brings together the spare, unsettling stories first published in The Delicate Prey (1950), The Time of Friendship (1967), and Things Gone and Things Still Here (1977). "When they had gone the Moungari fell silent, to wait through the cold hours for the sun that would bring first warmth, then heat, thirst, fire, visions. The next night he did not know where he was, did not feel the cold. The wind blew dust along the ground into his mouth as he sang." Near-fine condition. Octavo, original purple cloth over patterned paper boards, paper spine label, orange endpapers, original acetate dust jacket. Light pinpoint foxing to top of front board and edges of text block.

New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1925. First edition, first printing, with correct publisher's code H-Z and the date in Roman numerals on the title page. The first collection of lyrics by a leading poet of the Harlem Renaissance, including "Yet Do I Marvel," "Incident," and "Heritage": "What is last year's snow to me? / Last year's anything? The tree / Budding yearly must forget / How its past arose or set." A nicer copy than usually found of an African-American literary classic. Octavo, orginal yellow cloth over patterned paper boards, paper spine label. Light toning and soiling to binding and label, small stain at head of spine. Offsetting to front free endpaper from dust jacket, no longer present. Bookplate of Hyde Homestead in Lee, Massachusetts; gift inscription "Ahah from John, Christmas 1925." Bookseller ticket.

New York: Park Lane, 1979. First edition thus, with foreword by Paul Bacon and introduction by Claire Booss. Originally published in 1851 as The Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature, and Art, this sweeping visual survey of the nineteenth century is divided into thematic groups of steel-engraved plates: Mathematics and Astronomy, Natural Sciences, Military Sciences, Naval Sciences, Architecture, Geography, History and Ethnology, Mythology and Religion, Fine Arts, and Technology. A fine copy of a fascinating resource. Oblong quarto, original beige cloth over red paper boards, red gilt lettering to spine, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket.

London: John and Arthur Arch; Bell & Bradsute & J. Mundell & Co., Edinburgh, 1807. An ambitious attempt to "unite the works of the ancient and modern poets in one comprehensive view, and exhibit the progress of our national poetry, corresponding with the gradual refinement of language and of manners, from the rudeness and simplicity of a remote period, to the polish and elegance of modern times." The collection begins with Chaucer and features more than a hundred other poets, including forty-five not included in previous anthologies of English literature. Highlights include Wyatt, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, Milton, Dryden, Congreve, Pope, Gay, Swift, Young, Gray and Chatterton, as well as a selection of important English translations of the classics. A very handsome collection, offering a sweeping survey of English poetry on the eve of Romanticism. Fourteen octavo volumes, contemporary full tree calf gilt, raised bands, calf labels, engraved frontispiece in each volume. Light wear to… Read More

London: Macmillan, 1905. A beautiful edition of the Romantic poet's works, with frontispiece portrait, edited by James Dykes Campbell. The collection includes "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "Christabel," and "Kubla Khan": "I would build that dome in air, / That sunny dome! those caves of ice! / And all who heard should see them there, / And all should cry, Beware! Beware! / His flashing eyes, his floating hair! / Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread, / For he on honey-dew hath fed, / And drunk the milk of Paradise." Splendidly bound by Riviere. Octavo, contemporary full tree-calf gilt, raised bands, green spine label, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.