Poems of Madness. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg
New York: Paper Book Gallery, 1965. First edition. Wrappers, spine faded, else fine. First edition. More
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE
Sitting on the World
New York: Putnam, (1924). First edition. Dark red cloth, stamped in black. Fine. L.M. Paley ownership signature. From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate. More
Far and Near
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1904. First edition. Green cloth, paper spine label. Issued as vol. 13 in the Riverside Edition of Burroughs' Writings, this variant not described by BAL. Near fine copy. More
Evolution, Old and New; or, the theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, and Lamarck, as compared with that of Mr. Charles Darwin
Salem: S.E. Cassino, 1879. First American edition. Original brown cloth, blocked in black and gilt. A fine, unopened copy of this very uncommon issue, from English sheets. More
Luck, or Cunning, as the Main Means of Organic Modification?
London: Trübner, 1887. First edition. Original brown cloth, blocked in black and gold; very good. More
Challenge to Schools. A Pamphlet on Public School Education
London: Hogarth Press, 1935. First edition. Tan wrappers. 43 pp. A very good copy with modest wear and a smattering of foxing, light stain to front wrapper, ownership signature. Day to Day Pamphlets No. 27. Woolmer 362. More
Books and the People
London: Hogarth Press, 1938. First edition. Review copy, with two slips laid in. Green wrappers. 48 pp. A good copy, somewhat worn and toned, with light dampstaining to edge and upper margins. Day to Day Pamphlets No. 38. Woolmer 429. More
Different Days
London: Hogarth Press, 1928. First edition. Printed blue-grey boards, 48 pp. An about very good copy, somewhat worn to spine. Bookplate of Osmond Kessler Fraenkel, a leading civil liberties attorney in the U.S. Hogarth Living Poets, No. 1. Woolmer 159. More
The Marquise; A Comedy in three acts
London: Benn, 1927. First edition. Cloth, covers marked, very good. Bookplate of Louis Halle Gluckstein, brother of the lesbian painter Hannah Gluck. More
Pomp and Circumstance
Garden City: Doubleday, (1960). Green cloth, near fine copy in lightly used, price-clipped dust jacket. Probably a later printing, as there's no indication. Signed by Coward. More
Pretty Polly and other stories
Garden City: Doubleday, 1965. First edition. Cloth, very good. Signed by Coward. More
Red Peppers. An Interlude with Music from Tonight at 8:30
New York: French, (1938). Acting edition. Red printed wrappers, near fine. More
Waiting in the Wings
Garden City: Doubleday, 1961. First edition. Black cloth, near fine copy in dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by Coward. "for Jere ... 'Sail Away' 1961". Jere Admire was in the original Broadway cast of "Sail Away" More
The Young Idea
London: French, (1924). Acting edition. Blue printed wrappers, slightly faded, near fine. More
A Poem Delivered in the First Congregational Church...of Quincy [on] the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the incorporation of the Town
Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1840. First edition. Original pale blue printed wrappers, a fine copy. The first separate publication by a Unitarian minister who dared spoof Emerson's Essays - through irreverent illustrations that he published in the Western Messenger. Cranch did not remain long in the pulpit. He became..... More
Parallax
London: Hogarth Press, 1925. First edition. One of 420 copies hand printed by the Woolfs, cover drawings by Eugene McCown. Original boards, not issued in dust jacket. Spine slightly rubbed, a near-fine copy. George Rylands's copy with his signature and pencilled note: "Printed when I was at the Hogarth Press..... More
The Hour of Truth
New York: Random House, (1949). First edition. Cloth, very good. Inscribed by the author to Ira and Lee Gershwin. Besides his novels, Davidson wrote prolifically for television. More
Godfrida. A play in four acts
London: John Lane, 1898. First edition. Inscribed by Davidson to the editor H.W. Massingham. Original dark green cloth, gilt, a good copy, slight wear, backstrip joint splitting. More
The Late Augustans. Longer Poems of the Eighteenth Century.
London: Heinemann, (1958). Blue cloth in slightly stained dust jacket. Three pages have light underscoring in pencil, otherwise a very nice copy.First edition. More
Life as we have Known It. By Co-operative Working Women, Edited by Margaret Llewelyn Davies. With an introductory letter by Virginia Woolf
London: Hogarth Press, 1931. First edition. Yellow cloth, lettered in black. Fine in slightly chipped dust jacket. Kirkpatrick B11a; Woolmer 250. More
Collected Poems, 1929-1933
London: Hogarth Press, 1935. First edition. Green cloth, slight fading to spine, very good in dust jacket. Woolmer 363. More
From Feathers to Iron
London: Hogarth Press, 1931. First edition. Printed boards. 58 pp. A very good copy, lightly toned and with a faint dampmark. Hogarth Living Poets, No. 22. Woolmer 251. More
The Magnetic Mountain
London: Hogarth Press, 1933. First edition. Grey boards, printed in red, spine tanned, else fine. Hogarth Living Poets, Second Series, No. 91. Woolmer 318B. More
Revolution in Writing
London: Hogarth Press, 1935. First edition. Red wrappers. 44 pp. A very good copy, lightly sunned to spine. Day to Day Pamphlets No. 29. Woolmer 365. More
Transitional Poem
London: Hogarth Press, 1929. First edition. Printed green boards. 71 pp. Modest wear, a very good copy. Hogarth Living Poets, No. 9. Woolmer 191. More