COSMOS POEMS by Seidel, Frederick - 2000

London: The Poetry Bookshop, 1916 The author's first book. Internally very good subject to moderate browning and dustiness and a few small stains to the title page (couple mirrored on inside front cover) . Binding firm. Cover is somewhat shelfworn and a little scuffed with a small stain; the Claud Fraser design on the front cover is reasonably bright.

New York: New York Public Library. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. ; Limited edition of 222 copies printed on Arches paper from Diotima types. The title page illustration of a floral branch laid across an open book was printed directly from a block cut by George Laws. The editionhas been bound by George Wieck. Introduction by Edward Mendelson. ; Unpaginated pages .

Milan: Fratelli Fabbri, 1963. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good-/Very Good-. First Thus, no additional printings; folios, gilt-stamped red leather; all text Italian; vg- (shaken; foxing on edges and endpapers) in vg- djs (several had flaps reinforced at ends with yellowing tape on inside; edgeworn and chipped at spine ends and corners; spines of vols. 4 and 5 sun-faded). This is a remarkable version, printed on thick glossy imitation parchment paper, with extensive commentary and an incredible gallery of vintage illustrations. This massive set will require extra postage.

Mobile, AL: Belmary Press. 1969. Limited Edition. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Bookplate. ; Signed and inscribed by author. ? Of 500, author no longer has the number list. ; 69 pages; Signed by Author .

Printed by The Riccardi Press for Philip Lee Warner, publisher to the Medici Society. London. 1914. LIMITED EDITION. Small 4to. (9.1 x 6.6 inches). One of 1000 copies, this number 855, printed eleven point Riccardi fount, on handmade Riccardi paper. A fine and clean copy in a fine recent leather binding of full navy blue Morocco. Spine with two raised bands, the compartments ruled and lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. A fine copy of this well printed volume in the Riccardi Press booklets series.

New York: New York Public Library. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. ; Limited edition of 222 copies printed on Arches paper from Diotima types. The title page illustration of a floral branch laid across an open book was printed directly from a block cut by George Laws. The editionhas been bound by George Wieck. Introduction by Edward Mendelson. ; Unpaginated pages .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth spine with black calf label and green paper over boards. xv, 487pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Mild edgewear. Tight and nice first edition of this scarce and influential volume of Blake criticism, which did for interest in Blake what Raymond Weaver's biography of Herman Melville ("Herman Melville: Man, Mariner and Mystic," 1921) did a few years earlier for interest in that neglected writer. This exceptional copy bears a choice presentation inscription from the author in blue fountain pen on the front flyleaf: "To Mark Turbyfill / who is one of the very few / who should know what I / was trying to get at. / S. Foster Damon." Turbyfill (1896-1990) was a Chicago poet, dancer and artist who often appeared in Margaret Anderson's "The Little Review" and Harriet Monroe's "Poetry" magazine (which devoted the entire May 1926 issue to his poem "A Marriage with… Read More

Mobile, AL: Belmary Press. 1969. Limited Edition. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Bookplate. ; Signed and inscribed by author. ? Of 500, author no longer has the number list. ; 69 pages; Signed by Author .

New York, New York / Bombay, India: Longmans, Green, And Co.. Very Good with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1902. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 106 pages: 5 x 7.5 in.: 1.2: KB#010210: No Jacket As Issued. Book binding is spine and quarter cream paper with blue cloth boards (with gilt ship embossed on front cover) plus decorated gilt lettered spine. Top edge of page block is gilt. Book is protected in a custom brown cloth gilt-lettered clamshell book box. Copy has prior owner's bookplate (Oliver Brett) neatly affixed to front endpaper and a stamp on front flyleaf, p. 103, and rear endpaper of "College For Working Women", along with a "Bought Davis 1921 and K195" notation at the front. Otherwise, clamshell box, boards and pages are clean, unmarked (except as indicated), bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Has a tissue-protected frontispiece illustration about twenty dancing fairies by Richard Doyle, entitled "Under the Dock Leaves." This… Read More

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.. 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Bookplate removed from front pastedown, ; B&W Illustrations; 96 pages .