Finden's Illustrations of the Life and Works of Lord Byron. With Original and Selected Information on the Subjects of the Engravings ( 2 Volumes) by Brockedon, W - 1833

Elkin Mathews, London, 1899. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 8vo. 75pp. Patterned boards featuring a handsome design by Laurence Binyon, slightly water-stained at the top edges and worn at the backstrip ends. Front endpaper hinge tender and one section joint cracked. Some slight fox-spotting and the endpapers browned. A good copy. Also includes contributions by 'Anodos' [i.e. Mary Elizabeth Coleridge] (eleven poems), Laurence Binyon (his poems 'The Invocation of Venus' and 'The Willow') Selwyn Image (his poem 'The Truants' Holiday'), Arthur Romney Green (his poems 'Frederika' and 'A Sonnet'), Manmohan Ghose (his poems 'Sonnet', 'Elegy' and 'The Lover and the Painter'), Reginald Balfour (two poems and two translations), and E.L. (four poems)..

The Fortune Press, London, 1945. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition, second state (bound in grained cloth instead of smooth). Slim 8vo. 94pp + [ii] advertisements. Dark purplish-blue grained cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A small area of discolouration to the head of the backstrip where the dust wrapper is defective, paperstock very lightly tanned and with just a hint of spotting to the title page and to very occasional text leaves. A very crisp copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, tanned at the spine panel with a single small area of loss, and with a little further uneven tanning to the front and rear panels. Former owner name neatly inked to the head of the front free endpaper, along side a date to the base of the front pastedown (this last obscured by the wrapper flap). Larkin's second mature appearance in print. Also includes contributions from Drummond Allison, William Bell, Ian Davie, W.J.Harvey, John Heath-Stubbs, Brian Hutton, Francis King, Christopher… Read More

Hartford, Conn: Lincoln & Gleason, 1804. Hardcover. Poor. [1]-26, [3], 38-88, [3], 96-129, [1] p.; 17 cm. Contemporary calf spine; pastepaper over boards. Error in pagination: p. 98 misnumbered 89. The title copied onto the front free endpaper in an old hand. Former owner's name on front free endpaper verso and at head of p. [3]: Mollie J. Kellogg. At head of title page: "L.H. $34.55 3/4." Watercolor flowers added to p. [93] by former owner. Very scarce. In Poor Condition: incomplete: lacking pp. 27-34, 89-92, and 131-32; lacking leather at head of spine; boards are very worn, with loss along edges; lacking lower corner of title page, without loss of text; section lacking along fore-edge of pp. 101-2, without loss of text; 5-cm. tear from lower corner of pp. 127-8, without loss of text; light soiling throughout.

John Murray, London, 1980. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition - the uncommon first state, which was subsequently withdrawn and pulped; this copy seemingly the publisher's file copy, with that text lightly inkstamped to the front free endpaper. 8vo. 66pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, just slightly faded at spine panel and at the head of the upper panel, and with a small sliver of staining to the lower edge. Thirty Betjeman poems accompanied by a Piper frontispiece and seventeen line drawings, several of them full-page. Printing errors impacting the poems 'Bristol and Clifton' and 'Sunday Afternoon in St. Enodoc Church, Cornwall' necessitated a complete recall and a corrected edition was published the following year. See Peterson A48..

USA Pym-Randall, 1975, First Edition. paperback. First Edition, Limited, one of 226 copies numbered and SIGNED by the author. -- Folded sheets of Concrete Poetry, presented as "Another in the line of complete authentic early American decorator kits by Starbuck of Boston." The format is consistent with Starbuck's devotion to the absurd, satire, playfulness, and whimsy [Glyn Maxwell, in Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry]. -- Softcover: 8.7x11.3-inch flat box, shrinkwrap is opened. Condition: fine.

Nicholas L.Brown, New York, 1920. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 190pp + iv publisher's advertisements at the rear. Paper-covered boards with paper spine and title labels. Boards just a little marked, with a little wear to the base of the backstrip, and a little chipping to the head of the backstrip. A lovely crisp copy. No dust wrapper. An outstanding anthology of American verse, including much material which originally appeared in Kreymborg's influential journal 'Others: A Magazine of the New Verse' which ran from 1915-1919, plus some contributed directly to this present anthology. Contributors include Conrad Aiken (two poems, one of which is hitherto unprinted), Witter Bynner (ten poems), Robert Frost (three poems, two of which are hitherto unprinted in bookform), Wallace Gould (six poems), Marsden Hartley (six poems), Fenton Johnson (eight poems), Marianne Moore (five poems), Carl Sandburg (four poems), William Saphier (ten poems),… Read More

Harper & Brothers, Publishing, New York, 1876. Book condition: Good+, First Edition. 123 pp plus four pages other Centennial Readings published by Harper & Brothers, New York. Text slightly tanned typical of age, clean and unmarked. Former owner attribution on front free endpapers. Front free endpaper has dark discoloration triangle caused by a piece of newsprint left in book. Illustrated throughout with b/w etchings and drawings. This title is very rare. Unable to locate existence of any other copies for comparison.

Salem, OR: Printed for Charles Seluzicki Fine Books. Very Good; Spine faintly sunned.. 1982. Softcover. 0931356059 . Printed by Christine Bertelson at the Rara Avis Press, in Riverside, CA. 1/200 copies. Signed by Merrill on the colophon page. Sewn, illustrated stiff gray wrappers. Printed in gray and red on laid paper. Measures 10 x 6.5 inches. Eight of Merrill’s poems adorned with images of ancient Trojan funeral masks. ; [20] pages .

1903 EDITION, PAGED UNMARKED, BINDING SOUND. LOVELY COVER AND DESIGN.

1857, WITH "THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR" BY PATRICK MURDOCH, D.D., F.R.S.BEAUTIFUL LEATHER BINDING/COVER, BINDING IS SOUND, PAGES UNMARKED, SPOTS FROM MOISTURE.