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.

Duell Sloan and Pearce,, 1963 HBDJ, 1963, Stated 1st Edition, 1st Printing, ,VG+/VG, Red Tweed cloth Hardcoverlettered in Black on Spine Cvr light wear , Interior nice tight clean light FOX, Wear, 152 pgs, DJ light rub, wear ,Light Fox back DJ tiny chips tears edges Extremities DJ, DJ spine ENDS tiny Chips Tears , DJ small mended tears edges, 8vo Book Condition: Very Good+. 5.5x8", DJ Protected Clear Mylar. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: Donald I. Fine, 1985. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. HARDCOVER. 1985. FIRST EDITION. AS NEW, bound in cream and black with blue stylized dust wraps. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. SIGNED ~ INSCRIBED ~ To Ruth & Al -- At the classiest Scene Of The Crime of all, Andrew Vachss 9/88 ~. Andrew Vachss' first novel and the first in the powerful series featuring private investigator Burke.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York: The World Publishing Co., 1971. Signed on the title page by James Welch. First edition / First printing. Brown paper-covered boards, Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Poems. The author's first book. A beautiful copy.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Limited Edition, #4/377. Hardcover. Octavo, 492 pages; VG/VG-; in G+ blue slipcase; spine age-toned light blue, with black lettering; mild shelf wear and soiling; slipcase starting at top edges; tide line to head of jacket spine; upper edges of textblock bright gilt; catalog listing tipped in at front pastedown; signed flat by Tarkington at limitations page; hand-numbered #4 at limitations page; pages uncut; CX consignment; shelved on bookshelves to the left of the copier. 1346289. FP New Rockville Stock.

NY: Knopf, 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. A fine copy in better than very good, unclipped dustjacket with a short close tear top of spine. Red on spine unfaded for a title where the dustjacket spine is usually seen faded. Plainly signed by Cheever on the free front endpaper. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for literature.