Longing, Selected Poems
San Francisco: City Lights, (1993). 0872862771. Translated from the Spanish by James Nolan. Softcover. 8vo.116 pp. More
Literature - Poetry
Fair Words about Fair Women Gathered from the Poets
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1884. Beige cloth stamped in gold and brown. 8vo. 8" x 6-1/4". 320 pp. All edges gilt. "See how full literature is of man's admiration of women!" "Is it so full? I remember many bitter things about women." "You will find..... More
De Rerum Natura, Of the Nature of Things
New York: The Heritage Club, (1957). Translated into English verse by William Ellery Leonard with an introduction by Charles E. Bennett. Illustrated with wood-engravings by Paul Landacre. 8vo. 9-3/8" x 5-3/4"Red leather covered boards stamped in gold. Raised bands. Title page printed in blue and black. 318 pp. More
Love Poems and Other Works of Catullus
New York: Covici-Friede, (1933). With drawings by Zhenya Gay. Second Printing. Purple cloth covered hardcover large 8vo. 351 pp. More
God's Voice in the Folklore, Nonsense Rhymes and Great Legends
St. Paul: Maacalester Park Publishing Co., (1956). Illustrated by Marcia Brown. 8vo. Sky Blue cloth covered boards stamped in dark blue. 213 pp. Just as great treasures of the Earth are secreted in the depths of the ground -- oil, coal, and gold -- so great treasures of Truth and..... More
The Black Cat Club, Negro Humor and Folklore
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1902. Illustrated with silhouette pictures by J. K. Bryans. First Edition. 12 mo. 7-3/8" x 4-7/8". Red blind stamped cloth covered boards. Spine stamped in gold. 264 pp. More
Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit
New York: New Directions, (1981). 0811208192. More
William Blake: His Philosophy and Symbols
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1924. Illustrated with three drawings by Blake: Frontispiece "Michael and Satan. Also included: Blake's "Visionary Porrtait of Himself. First Edition. 487 pp. large 8vo. 10-3/16" x 7." Green paper covered boards with beige cloth spine. Black leather spine label. "This book is an attempt..... More
The Works of Thomas Campion, Complete Songs, Masques, and Treatises with a Selection of the Latin Verse
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1967. First Edition since Percival Vivian's edition of 1909. 8vo. Black cloth boards. Spine stamped in gold. Red endpapers. 521 pp. In addition to a new and improved text of Campion's English works -- songs, masques, and treatises -- it contains prose translations of selected..... More
Quake, Quake, Quake
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. Ghoulishly witty illustration by Edward Gorey: One (and sometimes two) to each poem. Stated First Printing. Yellow cloth binding stamped in green. 109 pp. 12 mo, 8-1/4" x 5-1/4" A treasury of poems about nuclear war. In a stinging effort to confront mankind with..... More
Quake, Quake, Quake - A Leaden Treasury of English Verse
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. Ghoulishly witty illustrations by Edward Gorey: one (and sometimes two) to each poem. Stated first printing. Small 8vo hardcover. 8-1/4" x 5-1/4". Yellow textured paper covered boards. Illustrated endpapers. Paul Dehn's hair-raising parodies of familiar verses are a stinging effort to confront mankind with..... More
Collected Poems
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1977. A Limited Edition. Full Leather. More
Love Songs of the New Kingdom, Translated from the Ancient Egyptian
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1974). Illustrated with hieroglyphs drawn by the translator and with paintings from Egyptian tombs by Nina M. Davies. First edition. Small 4to. 9-11/16" x 7-1/8". Blind stamped grey cloth covered boards. Silver stamped spine. 120 pp. Romantic, idyllic, humorous, even satirical, sometimes naive, almost always..... More
Photographs
Altadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1990. 0942642422. First Edition. Large 4to. 14-1/4" x 11-3/8". Blind stamped grey cloth. Unpaginated. Black endpapers. 90 of Ginsberg's black and white photos, selected by him and Raymond Foye and Jack Woody, followed by a Commentary on Sacramental Companions and printed transcriptions of Ginsberg's handwritten captions..... More
The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith: with a Notice of His Life and Genius by E. F. Blanchard, Esq.
London: W. Kent & Co., 1859. With 38 charming engraved illustrations designed by John Absolon, Birket Foster, Harrison Weir and James Godwin. Complete Edition. Small 8vo. 7-1/8" x 5". Textured leather binding with gold tooled designs on both front and back covers. Spine with raised bands, black leather spine label..... More
The Remembered Visit, A Story Taken From Life
Petaluma, CA: Pomegranate Communications, (2009). Illustrated by Edward Gorey. 9780764950636. This edition first published by Pomegranate Communications, Inc., 2009. Small 8vo. 7-3/8" x 6-1/2." Colorful paper covered boards. Unpaginated. On a long trip abroad, Gorey's young Drusilla is introduced to high art and gourmet meals. She gamely tries to appreciate..... More
Morte
Chicago: Pascal Covici, 1925. With four full page woodcut illustrations signed by Boris Reidel. Inscribed on limitation page: "To Aunty Bojino -- Hoping with all my heart that she will like this book. Marie. Christmas, 1924" Signed limited edition, #86 of 450 copies. Tall 8vo. 9-5/8" x 6-3/8". Unique color..... More
The Song of Tekakwitha, Venerable Kateri Tekakwitha, The Lily of the Mohawks
New York: Fordham University Press, Nov. 6, 1941. Color illustrated by Le Roy H. Appleton. Stated First Editon. Tall 8vo. 10" x 6-1/2". Decorated blue printed endpapers. The Song of Tekakwitha is a poem, narrative of the life of Venerable Kateri Tekakwitha, some 3680 lines, written in the celebrated Kalevala..... More
The Iliad and The Odyssey
Penguin Books, (1990). Introductions and Notes by Bernard Knox. Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition. Two 8vo. perfect bound volumes in slipcase. More
The Pleader's Guide: A Didactic Poem in Two Parts: Containing the Conduct of a Suit at Law, with the Arguments of Counsellor Bother'um and Counsellor Bore'um in an Action Betwixt John-a-Gull, and John-a-Gudgeon, for Assault and Battery, at a late Contested Election.
T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, By A. Wilson, Wild Court, Lincoln's-Inn Fields, 1803. 16mo. 6-5/16" x 4-1/16". Marbled paper covered boards. Leather spine with raised bands and decorated panels tooled on gold.. Marbled paper endpapers. 612 pp. "Of legal Fictions, Quirks, and Glosses, Attorney's gains, and Client's losses, Of..... More
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald
Boston: Dana Estes & Co., n.d. (ca. early 1900s). Illuatrated with thirty-eight pictures, from photographs by Mabel Eardley-Wilmot. 4to. 8-1/16" x 10-3/16." Green cloth covered boards stamped in gold black and dark green. Unpaginated. Deckled fore-edge. Top edge gilt. Endpapers decorated with photos of grapes printed in green ink. A..... More
Toward the Gulf
New York: Macmillan Co., 1918. Signed by Edgar Lee Masters on the free front endpaper. First Edition. 8vo. Dark blue cloth covered boards. 292 pp. plus 3 pp. publisher's ads. Forty-six poems. A seven pp. dedication to William Marion Reedy, Masters friend and editor. More
The King's Henchman, A Play in Three Acts
New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1927. Inscribed, signed by Edna St. Vincent Millay and dated March 21, 1927. Small 8vo. 132 pp. Blue paper covered boards. Black cloth spine with paper label. Black cloth corners. Laid in is a letter from Edna St. Vincent Millay, dated March 21..... More
Becky Swan's Book
The Porcupine's Quill, (1977). Cover illustration by Lydia Morgan Brown. 0889840245. Signed by Susan Musgrave on title page. Squarish perfect bound soft cover, 7-7/16" x 8-1/2". Green card stock cover with photo illustration on front panel. Patterned endpapers. More
Sunset Gun
New York: Bone & Liveright, 1928. First edition. 12mo 75 pp. Hand-made paper covered boards. Black cloth spine. Laid paper. More