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South San Francisco: Man Root, (1982.) Limited 1st edition. No. 221 of 250 copies signed by both author and artist. Erotic and other poems by Clive Matson (b. 1941.) Art by Renee June. [21] pp., + colophon. String-bound paper wraps. Letterpress printing by Paul Mariah on Strathmore paper. Fine in clear archival jacket.

Two lectures by Henry James. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1905. 1st edition. 1 of 300 copies. [Edel & Laurence, A61.b.) From the personal library of Maurice Sendak, author and illustrator of Where the Wild Things Are, etc. Auction house provenance slip laid in from a sale on behalf of the Rosenbach Museum of Philadelphia. Sendak (1928-2012) was an avid book collector… Read more about this item

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1999. 1st edition. Signed limited edition of 100 copies. This is no. 30. Poems by the late feminist poet and prolific author of more than 130 books and chapbooks. 8vo hardcover. Green cloth spine and decorative paper boards designed by Barbara Martin. 239 pp. Near Fine in the original clear dust jacket.

Santa Rosa, [CA]: Black Sparrow Press, 1987 Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1987. Signed 1st edition. Copy "V" of 26 lettered copies of this poetry collection. Hand-bound by Earle Gray. With a bound-in, handwritten poem (Core Benders) from the author's Objects in Space series. The poem is signed by Kelly, and he has also signed a preliminary blank page. 182,… Read more about this item

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1997. 1st edition. Copy "W" of 26 lettered copies. Issued as a New Year's Greeting for friends of the press. Contains the title poem and four others by Bukowski: Revolt in the Ranks, Fellow Countryman, Fame, and It's Slow Tonight. A Fine copy of the hardcover issue in decorative paper boards. No jacket. Slender 8vo.… Read more about this item

NY: The Mysterious Press, (1989.) 1st American edition. Copy "L" of 26 lettered copies. Signed on the limitation page. A novel of a serial killer on the loose in London. The second mystery by Kingsley Amis (1922-1995.) First published in England in 1975 and serialized in The Sunday Times. x, 162 pp. Blue clothbound hardcover with silver spine lettering. Fine… Read more about this item

[Paris]: Chez l'Auteur, 1897. 1st edition. No. 172 of 500 copies on vellum paper. Issued for subscribers, with two portraits by Théophile Steinlen. Signed by Jehan Rictus on the half-title page in 1921 for Marcel Quentin. There is also a laid-in letter from Rictus dated 1918 with wartime and literary content. A collection of poems on the plight of the… Read more about this item

Milano: Adelphi Edizione, (2009.) Signed, limited edition of 500 copies; this is no. 380. Signed by Roberto Calasso on the limitation page. Also signed and dated by him on the title page with a brief inscription "for Paul / a forest of images / Roberto." A special edition of Calasso's masterwork. A brilliant retelling of the Greek myths for a… Read more about this item

Boston: Printed for the Woodberry Society by the Merrymount Press, 1912. 1st edition. One of 75 copies signed by Woodberry out of a total edition of 300. This is number 73. Three poems in memory of a visit in 1908 to Castrogiovanni, Sicily. The poems are Etna, Proserpine; by Lake Pergusa, and Demeter. (Previously published in magazines in 1909-1910.) Slender… Read more about this item

[Hanover, NH]: Westholm Publications, 1965. 1st edition. Limited to 200 copies; this is number 19. Signed on the colophon by Herb West and the illustrator James W. Hamilton. Also inscribed by Hamilton on the colored front endpaper and signed again by him on a laid-in slip from the Quixote Collection at Dartmouth. The full text of West's farewell address at… Read more about this item

Signed wood-engraved print from 1990 by John DePol (1913-2004), a prolific book illustrator and master engraver of the 20th century. The print depicts a scene from The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe. It shows the narrator of the classic 1842 story being tormented during his imprisonment. Part of a DePol series commissioned for a 1991 limited edition… Read more about this item

Signed wood-engraved print from 1990 by John DePol (1913-2004), a master engraver and prolific book illustrator. The print depicts a scene from The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe. It shows the narrator of the classic 1842 tale seated before his inquisitors. Part of a DePol series commissioned for a 1991 limited edition book of 150 copies. This… Read more about this item

[Frankfurt, Kentucky] : Gnomon Press, (2011.) 1st edition. Limited to 250 copies. A collaborative poetry collection. Signed on the title page by co-author Chard deNiord, Poet Laureate of Vermont from 2015-2019. Hand-printed by Julia Ferrari in Dante type on Frankfurt Cream paper. Illustrations by Brian D. Cohen. 94 pp. 8vo hardcover bound in dark blue silk with gilt lettering. Not… Read more about this item

West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press, 1983. 1st edition. Limited to 550 copies. Review copy with slip laid in. Five short stories (one paragraph each.) Illustrations by the author on the facing pages. A lively little collection by Tom Clark, 1941-2018, prolific American poet, former editor of The Paris Review, and biographer of Jack Kerouac, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, etc. 14… Read more about this item

Baltimore: Schiavone Fine Arts Press, (1993.) 1st edition. Limited to 100 copies; this is no. 53. A narrative in the form of five related stories. Signed and inscribed on the title page in ink by Glenn Moomau, author, educator, and Baltimore musician. Signed in pencil on the copyright page by Daniel Schiavone, who executed the binding (his first) and contributed… Read more about this item

Cincinnati: The Stratford Press, 1944. Limited edition of 140 copies. Printed by Elmer Gleason at his private press. A long narrative poem of a memorable snow storm from Whittier's rural boyhood in New England. First published in 1866. xi, 32 pages. 8vo hardcover in dust jacket with illustration by noted artist Matthias Noheimer. A few short edge tears to the… Read more about this item

Paris: Maurice Glomeau, 1921. Limited edition. No. 319 of 500 copies (of a total edition of 565.) A tale of love, jealousy and marital intrigue in 18th century France. All text is in French. Four color plates with facing tissue guards. First separate edition of this story by Restif De La Brettone (1734-1806), libertine French printer and writer, the prolific… Read more about this item

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. 1st American edition. Limited to 975 copies. This is no. 503. An early novel by Mansfield (1888-1923.) First published in shorter form as Prelude in 1918 by the Hogarth Press. 135 pp. Quarto hardcover. 10 x 6.25 inches. Green paper-covered boards with paper spine label. VG with moderate wear to the extremities. No slipcase. Sound,… Read more about this item

Reprinted, for the Enlightenment of the Present Age, by the Peter Pauper Press, of Mount Vernon, New York, 1937. Limited edition of 1,450 copies. An essay on the curious practice in early America of courting couples and other unrelated persons sharing a bed, often while fully clothed and suitably 'bundled' against impropriety. A well-researched account of that "ridiculous and pernicious"… Read more about this item

With a drawing by Andre Masson. Mount Vernon (NY): Golden Eagle Press, 1946. Limited edition of 1,950 copies on fine laid paper. VG condition. 8vo. [10] pages + colophon, with several blank leaves in front and rear. Brown paper-covered boards with Masson's title page drawing repeated in gilt on the front cover. Original slipcase present but worn and chipped.