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San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1961. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-1960, in fine unmarked condition protected in Mylar. This may be a first printing. I am unsure of all the points involved. i do know that it has a seven line notice on the verso of the cove .Book was printed in the US, there is no Villiers ( UK) mentioned in the book.I believe this book is a first printing, but I am not sure. Book is very clean and unmarked with minor weakness in binding at page 13. This is a rare and wonderful collectible suitable for any fine library.

Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, 1982. Hardcover. Book Condition: As New. Limited Edition. In 1978, Hannah McCarkle returned home to Canona Vest Virginia, where she set out to remove the mystery surrounding the death of her brother 20 years earlier. This is the last volume of the Beulah quartet. Book is a limited edition #50/150 signed by Mary Lee Settle. Book is as new unmarked and unread., in a very fine publishers slipcase. This is a rare and very fine collectible

New York: Harper and Brothers Publishing, 1927. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Cimino. Fine first edition, First printing (B-B February 1927) of three plays by Millay.The top edge is very slightly faded and the fine paper label on spine has a light spot. jacket is VG , with small tape repairs to verso of front panel. Chip at bottom of front fold and the jacket is price clipped, but still a VG+ jacket. To quote Thomas Hardy, "there were two and only two great things in the United States: the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay and our 'recessional buildings." There may be a few others but St. Vincent Millay is pretty good. This is a very fine Millay collectible.

New York, New York: Charles Scribner's and Sons, 1936. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 7.5x5.25. Kit Brandon is the story of a young woman and her life in the " primitive mountains" and her escape to a life of excitement with a band of bootleggers. Kit is the daughter of a moonshiner. Early in life she runs away from the primitive mountain life to the newer and more complicated America of the valley mill towns, and this novel is her odyssey, the physical wandering and mental groping of a girl who works in cotton mills and shoe factories and " five and dime" running up against al kinds, learning to love the machines she tends, learning to wear silk stockings and good clothes instead of the shapeless garb of the mountain folk, learning to love the speed and shine and power of fast motor cars, acquiring as she goes along a shrewd, hard but brave and totally American philosophy. The book is in fine and bright condition with slight toning to interior boards… Read More

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book is new as is priced ( 23.00) jacket. Now protected in Mylar.For Nevelle and his mother, hong kong is part of Britain. One of the pleasanter parts. Cozy, monotonous, profitable and homey. Big breakfasts, and high tea and bad weather, the races at happy Valley, roast beef at Fatty's Chophouse and for Nevelle Bunt Mullard, the blue hotels of Kowloon Tong, where he eats his lunch and sometimes rents a room with a girl by the hour.Bunt and his mother Betty can see China from their parlor, but have never been there. They detest Chinese food and the " take-away" as they call the hand over of Hong Kong to mainland China does not particularly concern them. A fine read and a fine collectible.

Portage indiana: Joesph J. D'Ambrosio, 1971. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. Joeseph J. D'Ambrosio. krome, a further experience is D'Ambrosios second book which follows, You Dress Funny, an experience. This is one of the great book artists second limited edition (100 copies) This copy is # zero-zero- one and inscribed warmly in 1991 to great friends and collectors Pat and Trudy Magarick, on ffe and also signed on the limitation page. The book is set in 10 pt. Century Schoolbook Bold and has 46 leaves consisting of parchment paper, art paper, machine-copy paper, orange felt, silver foil, red tissue, black construction paper, and green florist's tissue. The book is bound in silver foil over boards. Book has 34 wonderful contemporary silk screened leaves interspersed with printed pages in black and green ink. Krome is D'Ambrosios second book and shows some experimental refinements. A wonderful and rare collectible to both artists and collectors of the finest book art.