The Art of Worldly Wisdom [first edition, inscribed] by Rexroth, Kenneth - 1949

Signed in Red Ink, SIGNATURE GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC, Back of Card which is small than regular postcard has Scuffing & small Residue, VG+ Condition, also has in white a Facsimile of Her Signature on the Card. Signed by Author. Unbound.

London Printed at Chiswick Press, 1892. HB NODJ ISSUED, 1892, 1st edition, with colophon on Last page,Soft Light Brown Tweed with White Vellum Leather Spine with Gold Gilt Decorations & Titles, NF/VG+, AS-IS, NODJ, Minor Cover Rub & Scuff, Minor Soil Spine, Some Fox, 194 pgs, Interior Nice, Tight, Clean, . First Edition. Hard Cover.

Tacoma / Seattle: Museum of Glass / University of Washington Press, 2002. Signed by Jaroslava Brychtova on the half-title page. First edition / First printing. Black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

Léon Arnoult: La Variabilité du Gout dans les Arts. Les phases ornamentales de la mode (The variability of taste in the arts. The ornamental phases of fashion). Printed and published by Devambez "À l'enseigne du masque d'Or". Paris, 1921. ARNOULT Léon - William ABLETT (1877-1937 illustrator). Preowned, Signed. A l'Enseigne du Masque d'Or, chez Devambez, 1921, in-4°, 87 pp + 7 plate illustrations, printed in 303 numbered copies. Sewn, original printed stiff wrapper over blind wrapper. Printed wrapper, interior fine, uncut and unopened copy. Two of the illustrations are mixed technique plates by William Ablett, one is signed in pencil by the artist: a circular engraving with a lithographic image printed on it and heightened with gold. Editorial paperback, Jacket with title to the framed flat, beautiful allegorical friezes, endpapers, eyelet, cover page with the same frieze (antique collection stamp). The quantity of circulation - 303 copies justified, and numbering - №120, a preface paper,… Read More

Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan Univ. Press, 1959. 56 pages. First printing of Wright's relatively scarce second book. The title poem is a sonnet that makes clear this comment by poet and critic Ben Friedlander: "One does not turn to James Wright for laughter." The poem begins: "When I went out to kill myself, I caught a pack of hoodlums beating up a man." After this book Wright eschewed the use of rhyme, but the dark themes stayed with him. The book is in better than very good condition: clean and tight, with Just a hint of toning to spine; toning to endpapers, with previous owner's name/city/state written on ffep. A smattering of foxing to top and fore edges of textblock. DJ is toned, especially at spine; hint of soiling to front and rear; in new mylar. Three sections: Lunar Changes, A Sequence of Love Poems, The Part Nearest Home.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1844. Octavo. Text in Greek, with English notes, 151pp., with a blank leaf interspersed after every page with students to take notes, bound in3/4 burgundy morocco over cloth, raised bands, title gilt within one compartment, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, a few pencil notations within the text but all blank leaves unmarked. A handsome copy.

Paris: Presso Baudry, Libreria Europea, 1836. Hardcover. Very Good -. 4 volumes: frontispiece portrait of the author in vol. 1; 21 cm. Half black morocco with marbled paper over boards. Five spine compartments between raised bands with "Ariosto" in the second compartment and the volume number in the fourth. All page edges speckled red. Marbled endpapers matching that on the boards. Frontispiece engraving is signed: "Geoffroy sc." The fourth volume includes additional short poems by the author. Text is entirely in Italian. In Very Good- Condition: bindings archivally repaired; covers are lightly rubbed, with some loss of leather at spine ends; the frontispiece engraving has left a shadow on the title page of vol. 1; frontispiece and facing title page, as well as parts of vol. 3 also lightly foxed; otherwise pages are clean and tight.

New York Macmillan, 1951, hardcover. Published 1951, this is seventh printing 1955. -- SIGNED, inscribed to [name] with a personal note by the author on July 6, 1960. Laid in is the program "The Many Faces of Art" at The Brooklyn Unitarian on the same date at which Marianne Moore gave a reading. -- Hardcover. Condition: very good minus (spine tips rubbed; endsheets discoiored; no jacket).

Princeton Princeton University Press, 1948, First Edition. hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. -- Folded Merry Christmas 1959 postcard addressed to Mr & Mrs Louis B. Cox, Dublin, Ireland, is laid in: written and SIGNED by the author, "Love to all the Coxes" followed by a 17-line poem, An Old Field Mowed etc. in the author's hand. This poem was published in The New Yorker September 30 1961. -- Also laid in is a photocopy, 4 pages of a diary in Meredith's hand, containing: a poem-in-progress, mention of poetry by and conversations with fellow naval officer and poet Louis Coxe (whose ownership is in this book), Pacific war patrol on ship and shore, one date is 10-xi-44. -- Hardcover, pretty printed boards. Condition: near fine (endsheets bit discolored; no jacket).

First edition, first impression of McEwan s first novel, signed in the year of publication. Very Good condition, in original dustwrapper which is not price-clipped (£3.50 net). Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to dust-jacket. Inscribed by Ian McEwan to front endpaper and dated (Sept 12th 1978).The inscription reads "To Alan, with love, Ian Sept 12. 1978".