MODERN FIRST EDITIONS
Something Special.; Four Poems and a Story
Helskini: Eurographica, 1990. First edition. Wrappers, as new. One of 350 copies, signed and dated by the author. More
Road of Ages
New York: Knopf, (1934). First edition. Brown cloth, fine in dust jacket. The date on the title page is 1935, the copyright notice is dated 1934, but the paper supplier is indicated as Glatfelter, making this presumably a later issue or printing. More
España en el Corazon. Himno a las glorias del pueblo en la guerra (1936-1937); (Segunda edición)
Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Ercilla, 1938. Second edition, one of 2000 copies. Original wrappers, spine worn, light diagonal crease; browning owing to paper quality; a very good copy of a fragile item. The second edition of Neruda's poems written in response to the Civil War in Spain. Both the first..... More
Realism and Reality.
New York: Alicat Book Shop: [1946]. First edition. First edition, one of 750 copies, second state of the covers, white wrappers, with Nin dressed in feminine clothes. One small spot, else fine. More
The Black Soul
London: Cape, 1925. First edition. Black cloth, green spine label. A fine copy in lightly used and darkened dust jacket. Inscribed by O'Flaherty to the antiquarian bookseller and publisher Leon Gelber "with affectionate regards from Liam O'Flaherty / Sea View House, Coolbay, Arklow, Co. Wicklow" More
Awake in Spain
New York: American Theatre for Poets, 1960. First edition. Mimeographed sheets, stapled without the blue paper folder sometimes found. Fine. Smith D2a. More
Elizabeth Appleton
New York: Random House, (1963). First edition. Uncorrected long galley proofs of the first edition, as sent for review, with publisher's label announcing publication date as May 28, 1963, a week earlier than the actual publication date, according to Bruccoli. More
Rumpled Bed: for Betsy Hansel
Derry, Pa. The Rook Society, 1976. First edition. Broadside. 215 x 280 mm. An unnumbered copy from the planned but never published edition of 100. Perhaps the rarest Oates "A" item.Signed by Oates; she has also corrected the spelling of the dedicatee's name. Only a few, presumably proof, copies were..... More
Small Avalanches and other stories
Helskini: Eurographica, 1989. First separate edition. Wrappers, as new. One of 350 copies, signed by the author. More
What Shall We Do Without Us? The Voice and Vision of Kenneth Patchen with an afterword by James Laughlin
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, [1984]. First edition. Wrappers, slightly marked but a nice copy. Inscribed by Miriam Patchen and signed by J. Laughlin. More
Debbie Go Home and Other Stories
Helskini: Eurographica, 1985. First edition. Wrappers, as new. One of 350 copies, signed and dated by the author. More
Alternating current. Translated from the Spanish by Helen R. Lane
New York: Viking, (1973). First edition. Black cloth. Bookplate, else fine, in dust jacket. More
The Moviegoer
New York: Knopf, 1961. First edition. Cloth backed boards. A fine copy in fine unfaded dust jacket, with the publisher's review slip. Percy's first book. More
Gists & Piths. A memoir of Ezra Pound
Iowa City: Windhover Press, 1982. First edition. Original quarter brown goatskin, fine, boxed as issued. One of 25 special signed copies, which include a postcard from Pound to the author, and a printed slip concerning Laughlin's donation of the post cards to the University of Iowa Foundation. The postcard, dated..... More
Cathay. Translations by Ezra Pound for the most part from the Chinese of Rihaku, from the notes of the late Ernest Fenollosa, and the decipherings of the professors Mori and Ariga
London: Elkin Mathews, 1915. First edition. Original brown wrappers, a fine copy, free from the frequently found spotting or foxing, one of 1000 printed. Bookplate of Eleanor and Fred Reid by Jack B. Yeats. These poems were not Pound's actual translations, but superbly allusive versions of the Chinese poems and..... More
Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
New York: Beech Tree Books/William Morrow, (1985). First edition. Original printed wrappers, slight fading, otherwise fine. Uncorrected proof copy of the author's first book. More
Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance.
New York: Beech Tree Books/William Morrow, (1985). Cloth backed boards, fine in dust jacket. First edition of the author's first book. More
Nothing Like Leather
New York: Macmillan, 1935. Printed wrappers, a few leaves roughly opened, otherwise fine. Advance copy of the first American edition, gathered and sewn sheets, glued into the flapless dust jacket. More
Close Range. Wyoming Stories. Watercolors by William Matthews
New York: Scribner, (1999). Cloth, with cover label. Fine in slipcase. One of 150 specially bound, numbered copies signed by Proulx and Matthews. More
63: Dream Palace
Helskini: Eurographica, 1990. First edition. Wrappers, as new. One of 350 copies, signed and dated by Purdy. More
The Collected Poems of Carl Rakosi
Orono, Maine: National Poetry Foundation, (1986). First edition. Original green cloth, fine, not issued in dust jacket. Inscribed by Rakosi, and with a brief a.l.s. inserted. More