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
The Allegory of Love A Study in Medieval Tradition
London: Oxford, 1936. First edition. Blue Cloth. 378 pp. 8vo. Index. 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 Gashlycrumb Tinies, Or After the Outing
New York, San Diego and London: Harcourt Brace, (1991). Illustrated by Edward Gorey. 0151003084. Edward Gorey designed bookplate signed by him in ink on free front endpaper. 16mo, 6-1/4" x 5-1/4." Pictorial paper covered boards. A charming alphabet book. 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 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
Seen and Unseen or Monologues of a Homeless Snail
New York: Orientalia, 1920. Second edition, limited to 500 copies. 12mo.7-1/2" x 5-1/8". Blue decorated flexible cloth string sewn along spine. Enclosed in publisher's blue cloth case with paper labels and attachment clips on fore-edge closure. Originally published by in 1897 by Gelett Burgess and Porter Garnett. More
The Poems of Phillis Wheatley
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1966. 8vo. 8-13/16" x 5-11/16" Green cloth covered boards.113 pp. More
Idyls and Lyrics of The Ohio Valley
Cincinnati: W.E. Dibble, 1881. Not sure if this is a first edition. Date on title page is 1881. Copyright p. is 1880. Bound in blue cloth stamped in gold. 12 mo. 7-3/8" x 5-1/4". 139 pp. plus 2 pp. publisher's ads for other works by John James Piatt and Mrs..... More
The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe with Selections from his Critical Writings
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. Illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer. 2 volumes, Large 8vo. 9-5/8" x 6-1/2" blue cloth covered boards stamped in gold. Color frontispieces and lush full color illustrations throughout. With an introduction and explanatory notes by Arthur Hobson Quinn. Texts established, with Bibliographical Notes, by Edward..... More
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Ten Volumes, Complete
Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1895. Illustrations by Albert Edward Sterner. 8vo 7-3/4" x 5" bound in green cloth, spines stamped in gold in art nouveau style. Top edges gilt. Deckled fore-edge. More