Navigation improv’d: or, the art...
London: Printed and Sold by James Moxon, 1698. First edition. Small quarto (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 190 x 142 mm). [8], 22, [2, publisher'sadvertisements] pp. With one folding..... (Item #3029)
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A Discourse on the Felicitie...
London: William Ponsonby, 1598. First edition. Small quarto (185 x 131mm). Collates [31], [1, blank], 155, 158-618: complete, with pagination skilling 156-157 as in the British Library copy. With errata..... (Item #3028)
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Fish by Schaldach: Collected Etchings...
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1937. First edition. Deluxe publisher's vellum with gilt to spine and front board. Top edge gilt. Signed limited edition, this 135 of 157, with an original signed etching..... (Item #2939)
A Modest Proposal For preventing...
[London:] Dublin: reprinted at London for Weaver Bickerton, 1730. Second edition. Small octavo (190 x 118 mm), pp. 23. Rebound to style in full sprinkled calf, red morocco label, spine..... (Item #2899)
Candy
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1958. First edition. Southern's erotic adaptation of Candide. First issue in green printed wraps with original price "1200 Francs" on rear cover, without later price overstamp..... (Item #848)
The Ring of the Nibelungen...
London: Schott's, 1877. First English language edition. First trade edition (and 1st combined edition) in English (translated by Alfred Forman) of The Rhein–Gold, The Walkyrie, Siegfried, and Dusk of the..... (Item #746)
Effects of Slavery on Morals...
Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1793. First edition. Bound to style in modern quarter calf over marbled boards with morocco label to spine. Light scattered foxing, largely concentrated at the preliminaries..... (Item #3069)
The Long Valley
New York: The Viking Press, 1938. First edition. A Fine copy of the book in very Nearly Fine dust jacket. Published in an edition of just 8,000 copies, with Fine..... (Item #3059)
A Poem on the Pleasures...
Bristol: Philip Rose, [1826]. First edition. Original drab boards in almost Fine condition, excepting for a small nick to the center of the spine and some slight splitting to the..... (Item #3057)
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Lady Windermere's Fan (Presentation Copy)...
London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1893. First edition. Original publisher's clothing binding with gilt to spine and boards. A Near Fine copy with the spine slightly toned. Bookplate of..... (Item #2958)
The largest known collection of...
[Various]: 1971-1976. The single largest known collection of correspondence by prolific American poet Frank Stanford. Comprised of 72 pages of Autograph and Typed Letters Signed, ranging in date from 1971-1976..... (Item #3052)
The Suffragette: The History of...
London: Gay & Hancock, 1911. First U.K. edition. Original suffragette purple publisher's cloth binding featuring the symbolic WSPU Holloway Brooch design on the front board. Spine toned and corners gently..... (Item #3051)
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The Men Who Talked to...
[N.P.]: [N.D.]. 25 page typescript on 8.5 x 11" paper with handwritten title. Annotated throughout in ink and pencil by the author. Apparently incomplete, as the final sentence drops off..... (Item #3049)
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Collection of typescripts from Naegling...
[N.P.]: [N.D]. Original annotated typescripts for Stanford's Naegling poems, originally conceived as a series before being broken up. Comprised of 7 onionskin pages measuring 8.5 x 11". Contained within this..... (Item #3048)
Naked Lunch
New York: Grove Press, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. First American Printing [1962]. A Near Fine copy of the book with a small mark to the foot of the spine. In..... (Item #3046)
A Fable (Signed, Limited Edition)...
New York: Random House, 1954. First edition. One of a thousand of the signed limited edition, this being number 245. A just about Fine copy of the book that appears..... (Item #3045)
Author's mock up for the...
[N.P.]: [N.D.]. Comprised of 18 pages total on white 8.5 x 11" paper. Of these, 16 pages are photocopied, 2 are typed. 9 pages bear the author's corrections in ink..... (Item #3041)
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Original working copy of his...
[N.P.]: [N.D.]. Titled in the author's hand at the foot of the first page: "All poems here From MARIANA" with a parenthetical note "the only good thing about these is..... (Item #3040)
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Original annotated typescripts for Field...
[N.P.]: [1957-1972]. Comprised of 7 loose and 19 stapled onionskin pages measuring 8.5 x 11" and including a total of 22 poems. Representing the final version almost in its entirety..... (Item #3039)
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Original typescripts for the Blue...
Eureka Springs; Subiaco: [1963-1973]. Comprised of a total of 16 typed pages containing 10 poems. Of these, 14 are on onionskin, 2 on white paper, and 9 contain markings and..... (Item #3038)
A Midsummer-Night's Dream
London and New York: William Heinemann; Doubleday, Page and Co., 1908. First trade edition. Quarto. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in green morocco, decoration to spine gilt, raised bands..... (Item #2340)
Taps at Reveille
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First edition. First edition, first state with "oh catch it" on p 351. One of only 5100 copies printed. Octavo, original dark green cloth..... (Item #3035)
Franny and Zooey
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1961. First edition. A Very Good + copy in like jacket. Some fading to extremities of cloth and scattered foxing to edges of text block;..... (Item #3017)
Original typescript for Shade
[N.P.]: [1968]. Original typescripts for Frank Stanford's Shade. Comprised of a total of 41 onionskin pages, three with hand-corrections. Of these, 30 pages are stapled together by Stanford and represent..... (Item #3023)
Original typescript fragments from Saint...
[N.P.]: [1957-1964]. Original typescript of fragments from Stanford's lifelong work, St. Francis and the Wolf. 34 pages in all, with 33 typed on onionskin paper and numbered at the upper..... (Item #3022)
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