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"A desert fox, with cactus-colored fur," Broadside poem.

Stacton, David.

[San Francisco: Privately printed, 1960]. Broadside poem. First edition, issued anonymously. About fifty copies were printed, on various papers, by Albert Sperisen. Fine. ... more info

Price: $200.00

"I behold the beauty of the early morning dawn"

Adams, Emily.

San Leandro, Calif.: The First Methodist Church of San Leandro, n.d.. Single folded sheet. The author is identified as a member of the Hopi Tribe. ... more info

Price: $50.00

"Swingin Round the Cirkle." By Petroleum V. Nasby. His ideas of men, politics, and things....Illustrated by Thomas Nast.

Locke, David Ross [Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby].

Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1867. Green cloth; light wear to extremities, very good copy. BAL 11820 ... more info

Price: $30.00

"Visions of Gerard". Corrected typescript signed of an early short story.

Kerouac, Jack.

Signed in pencil "John Kerouac" at the end of the last page. 4 pages, single spaced carbon typescript on onion-skin paper, with extensive manuscript revisions by Kerouac on the first page, and a few on the others, totaling 45 words in his hand. Probably the earliest extant fragment of Kerouac's "Legend of Duluoz". This draft typescript identified by Kerouac on the first page as a "short short" is the germ of the novel of the same title, which was written in January 1956. Kerouac tells stories of his saintly eight year-old brother Gerard feeding birds on his windowsill, his rescue... more info

Price: $25,000.00

"You Can't Do That".

Marquand, John P.

Frankfurt a.M.: Hirschgraben Verlag , (1949). Original printed wrappers, paper inevitably a little browned, but a fine copy. First separate edition of this story, as a text for German-speakers to learn English, with vocabulary and biography in German. Scarce. ... more info

Price: $65.00

13 ÷ 14. Figures drawn from the Loculus of Archimedes. Reflections on Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.

Stevens, Wallace.

Minneapolis: Mnemonic Press, (2004). Harriet Bart has inventively used the fourteen shapes that comprise the ancient puzzle to create dynamic silhouette figures for each of the thirteen stanzas of the poem: hence, the title of the book 13 ÷ 14. These thirteen figures were then scanned and converted to polymer plate, from which they were then printed on Magnani Pescia paper. 64 pages, the figures and poem printed on rectos; the stanza number on versos. 10 i x 14 in. The primary type is Delphin II; Delphin I and the Trump Mediaeval series are used for display. The type is handset from foundry metal... more info

Price: $1,800.00

1939.

Boyle, Kay.

London: Faber and Faber (1948) Blue cloth, gilt, fine in lightly used dust jacket. First English edition. ... more info

Price: $50.00

27 Wagons Full of Cotton and other one act plays.

Williams, Tennessee.

Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, (1947). Grey cloth, fine in slightly worn dust jacket. This first printing contains only eleven plays, and it had only one binding issue. The second printing (sometimes erroneously called "second issue" or "state"), contains a new introduction, and the third printing adds two additional plays. Crandell A2.1.a. ... more info

Price: $350.00

5 Pens in Hand.

Graves, Robert.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1958. Cloth, fine in dust jacket. ... more info

Price: $25.00

57 volume collection of the popular humorist. List available upon request.

Cobb, Irvin F.

Almost all the titles are first editions in very good condition, and with dust jackets. List available upon request. ... more info

Price: $1,500.00

75 Life Lines.

Broughton, James.

The Jargon Society, 1988. Wrappers, fine. Inscribed to poet Neeli Cherkovski. Designed and produced by the Arion Press. ... more info

Price: $25.00

A Second Pagan Anthology.: Containing poems that have appeared in the Pagan magazine.

(Crane, Hart).

New York: Pagan Publishing Co., [1919]. Cloth backed boards, cover label, not issued in dust jacket. A very good copy. Contains the first book publication of Crane's "Forgetfulness". Ownership signature of Conrad Komorowski, the Communist editor of Glos Ludowy (The People's Voice) the official organ of the Polonia Society. ... more info

Price: $200.00

A Bad Man.

Elkin, Stanley.

New York: Random House (1967). Light blue cloth. Erasure on front free endpaper, otherwise fine in a price-clipped dust jacket. First edition. ... more info

Price: $15.00

A Bibliography of Arthur Waley.

Johns, Francis A.

London: Athlone Press, (1988). Boards, fine in dust jacket. ... more info

Price: $40.00

A Biography of William Shakspere [Shakespeare].: Carefully revised

Knight, Charles.

New York: Virtue & Yorston, n.d.. Folio, half brown morocco, a bit rubbed; very good. ... more info

Price: $50.00

A Bond Honoured.

Osborne, John.

London: Faber and Faber, (1966). Cloth, two abrasions on front pastedown, otherwise fine in dust jacket. ... more info

Price: $15.00

A Book of Burlesques.

Mencken, H.L.

New York: John Lane, 1916. Red cloth, fine in dust jacket. Schrader's binding "a". One of the rarest of Mencken dust jackets. The Frederick Schiff copy, with bookplate. Only 789 copies of the edition were sold. Schrader A 14.1.a. ... more info

Price: $5,500.00

A Boy's Will.

Frost, Robert.

London: David Nutt, 1913. First edition, first issue, first binding, of Frost's first published book. Original bronze pebble grain cloth, lettered in gilt, a few spots of foxing, but an excellent, bright copy. Crane A2. The poet Frank S. Flint's review copy, with the publisher's circular "compliments" stamp on the title page, Frost's very rare calling card from State Normal School, Plymouth, N.H., where he taught during 1911-1912, is loosely inserted. Flint has annotated the contents page with lines, crosses, and circles, calling attention to various poems. ... more info

Price: $12,500.00

A Child's History of England: With illustrations by Marcus Stone.

Dickens, Charles.

London: Chapman & Hall, [n.d. ca. 1892]. 8-3/4 in. x 5-1/2 in. Bound in green pebble grained goatskin, elaborately tooled in gilt on both sides with red corner inlays, top edge gilt; small chip to one raised band, spine mellowed to brown. Other similarly bound Dickens titles from this edition are available. ... more info

Price: $150.00

A Child's History of England.

Dickens, Charles.

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1852-1853-1854. Three volumes, original rose cloth gilt, slightly marked but an excellent set in a fitted cloth box. Second issue ads in vol. 1. ... more info

Price: $1,250.00