Wild Pilgrimage (First World Printing) by Lynd Ward (SIGNED) - 1967: A Novel In Woodcuts

Amsterdam: Franciscus Halma, 1701. Hardcover. Good. Engraved title page by Goerel/Boutats + 108 round copperplates on 18 full-page leaves signed I.V. Vianen (Jan van Vianen) dated 1701 + 49 woodcut initials & ornate figurative metal-cut head- & tail-pieces (some repeats but large & finely detailed).. Quarto gilt-ruled calf (rebacked in leather with original red gilt title label laid on, tips worn) All edges marbled. Engraved Title + Titlepage in red & black with metal cut vignette "In hoc signo" + [28]pp prelims +160pp (inc. at end "Appendix Fabularum a Marquardo Gudio) +[82]pp indices, 99 Fables with 9 extra scenes illustrated in great detail in 108 roundelles. Lacks folding portrait of Prince of Nassau (often omitted), Plate 18 misbound at page 50. Some staining from former damp most evident to early leaves & at end of book but hardly affecting the plates. *Most luxurious of the Dutch Phaedrus editions specially made for the Prince of Nassau (Lamb Annales Phaedriani 96, Cohen-deRicci 797-9, Landwehr 247).

Ultramarine Press, 1987. First. Hardbound. fine as issued. here offered is copy "F". one of 10 copies signed by Delany finely bound in full leather by Denis Gouey. 310 pp. [7 illustrations are included in this the limited edition. The Arbor House edition is not illustrated].

New York: Aperture, 2000. Signed by Salgado and rare thus. First edition / First printing. Black cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1974. First Softcover Edition, First Printing with complete number line. Signed. Softcover. Sextodecimo. 7 x 5.25 inches. 167 pp. Very Good. Small softcover in pictorial wraps. Flat signed and dated by the author on front flyleaf: "Harlan Hubbard, Payne Hollow, Ky., April 1980." Hand illustrations by the author throughout. Text block square and tight. Minor edgewear to wraps. Light foxing to text block edges and front and rear illustrated flyleaves. Previous owner's name and year inked on inside of front wrap, else interior free of markings. Extremely scarce softcover issued concurrently with first hardcover printing.

Baroque Press; New York, NY, 2012. 1st Edition. Softcover. Fine. 0x0x0. Inscribed by Author(s). [POETRY]. Tusiani, Joseph. "Ninety Poems Selected by the Author." Baroque Press; New York, 2012. Signed and inscribed by the author in ink on title page. English language. Softcover. 164 pages. French flaps. Blue wrappers. Text clean. Price in pencil on front free endpaper. Black and red lettering. Inscribed [For Gloria Wong, a dear, talented, gentle friend, with cordial best wishes, Joseph Tusiani. New York, Jan. 11, 2014]. Wong seems to be a financial analyst for the city. Fine. ISBN: 9780985571801.New York State Poet Laureate Emeritus Joseph Tusiani was a professor emeritus at Lehman College and a prominent Italian-American poet who translated Michelangelo's poetry. Tusiani died of COVID-19 in 2020 at the age of 96 during the first wave of COVID in New York City. OCLC only finds 3 copies held by libraries worldwide. No other copies are currently offered for sale online. "Ninety… Read More

Los Angeles: Ward Richie, 1929. Octavo. 2pp. This is the second production noted in the bibliography of premier Southern California printer, Ward Richie. The edition consisted of 150 copies; it was a student project, done while Richie attended Frank Wiggins Trade School in Los Angeles. The choice of a Carl Sandburg poem is significant, as Sandburg and Richie shared a longtime friendship with Los Angeles bookseller and publisher, Jake Zeitlin. This is one of the scarcest of early Sandburg editions. 1printed sheet printed on [2]pages folded laid into 1 printed folded sheet (wrapper) lightly finger soiled with small chip to rear wrap. A very good copy.

MODERN LIBRARY, with 95 cents on DJ Spine BTM, 1925. ,SIGNED by William Beebe, Forward by Theodore Roosevelt, 95 Cents Inner DJ Flap ,HBDJ, 1925, STATED 1ST Modern Library EDITION,FINE-/GOOD-, VERY EARLY Dustjacket with 265 Titles on inside & Back of DJ & 95 cents & Pre ZipCode Coupon on Back DJ .DJ SPINE Foxed with Long Crease , Beautiful and very special little book. Brown Leatherette cvr with gilt Title on Spine cvr Bright condition is Fine Minus, the spine is straight and the hinge and binding are Fine-. The hinge is tight There is nice dark top stain, but with Small Stain, This has no bleed on to the pages. The leatherette is a bit dry around the edges, yet there are no cracks. Slight bowing along the ends. The endpapers are wonderful. There is a small rectangular book label on the BACK of the right side endpaper near the spine. Jacket is in Good Minus condition, toning front/spine/back and along the folds. LARGE chip at the back at the top edge at the spine. Nicks are the… Read More

First edition, first printing. Signed by McMurtry on the title page. Book is fine with a bit of minor mottling to the top brown colored paper edges. Dust jacket is bright and has very little evidence of wear or age.

NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 1993. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Octavo (9.25 x 6 in.); 869pp., indexed; burgundy cloth boards, in dust jacket. Signed at their contributions by 22 of the 67 collected authors, in order: Frederik Pohl, Samuel R. Delany, Robert Silverberg, Gene Wolfe, Joe Haldeman, John Varley, Edward Bryant, Gregory Benford, William Gibson, Greg Bear, Octavia E. Butler, Kim Stanley Robinson, Karen Joy Fowler (who has also signed the title page beneath her "consultant" credit), John Crowley, Pat Cadigan, Nancy Kress, James Patrick Kelly, Orson Scott Card, Connie Willis, Eileen Gunn, Lisa Goldstein, and John Kessel. Light shelfwear, a tiny bit of fraying to cloth at bottom tips, a few minor spots of soiling to textblock edges. Unclipped ("$27.50") jacket lightly crumpled at spine ends and along top of rear panel, with a 1/2" closed tear at the top of the rear flap hinge. A very good (+) copy in like jacket of this ambitious… Read More

NY: Basic Books, 1961. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Inscribed copy of this first collected edition of Fuchs' enduring novels about life in Depression-era Brooklyn, "Summer in Williamsburg," "Homage to Blenholt," and "Low Company," originally published in 1934, 1936, and 1937, respectively. Fuchs has lovingly inscribed this copy to Susan Foster, a long-time personal assistant to film and literary mega-agent Irving Paul Lazar, and later Frank Sinatra. The nature of Fuchs and Foster's acquaintance is unknown, though it seems safe to assume that they might have met during Fuchs' long tenure as a Hollywood scriptwriter. His inscription, "From one Brighton Beachcomber to another," also leaves open the possibility that the two had known each other growing up in Brooklyn. Inscribed by Fuchs and signed as "Dan" on the front free endpaper. Octavo (5.75 x 8.25 in.); vii, 380, 301, 314pp.; red cloth boards, gold lettering on spine,… Read More