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London: R. Brimley Johnson, 1904. First U.K. Edition. Cloth. Very good/missing. A very good First U.K. Edition. Inscribed by the author on the first free endpaper in 1910. Blue cloth boards with gilt title stamping on spine. Tes streak near lower spine. Heavily bumped lower corners and moderately rubbed upper corners. Offset and toning to endpapers and… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1918. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Near fine/none as issued. A very near fine first edition. Brown paper over burgundy quarter cloth boards with black title on cover and title on paper label on spine. Previoous owner's name on front pastedow is only flaw. xvi, [1], 111, [1] pages, 1 leaf The verses here collected… Read more about this item

New York: Times Books, 1995. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Fine/fine. Sarah Elizabeth Chuldenko. A fine, signed first edition by former President Jimmy Carter in a fine dust jacket. Buckram quarter cloth over paper boards. Signed by President Carter on the half title and by the illustrator Chuldenko on the title page. Deckled page edges. 130 pp. 6 1/4… Read more about this item

Nevada City, CA: Power Press, 1981. Limited Edition. Cloth. Fine/none as issued. A brand new limited edition with no flaws. One of one hundred printed, signed by the author on the limitation page. Burgundy silk binding, letterpress endpapers. Octavo. “To celebrate maternity is not to glorify it. To celebrate maternity, as Susan Suntree does, is to pay… Read more about this item

Paris: Chez Barrie Frères and George Barrie & Son, [1891]. First Thus; Astral Edition. Full leather. Very good. Louis Leloir; Maurice Leloir; Jacques Leman; Edward Heduouin. Scarce (one copy in Worldcat). A exquisitely bound, very good first thus, limited edition in full crushed Levant morocco leather with gold tooling. Number 35 of 100 copies on Japan Vellum paper… Read more about this item

San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1934. Limited Edition, First Edition. 1/4 vellum. Near fine/fair. A near fine limited, first edition in a fair slipcase [O'Day pg. 87]. This copy being number 374 of 2000 printed. Signed with a dedication to Lord Addington (possibly John Hubbard, 3rd Baron Addington OR Raymond Hubbard, 4th Baron Addington) by the… Read more about this item

Spoleto: Presso Claudio Argentieri, 1929. Limited Edition. Three quarter leather. Good +/missing. Giuseppe Maria Crespi. A good plus limited edition, no. 82 of 1000 printed. No dust jacket. Three quarter leather over marbled boards with matching marbled endpapers. Front joint cracked, but still sturdy. Four raised bands with bright gilt title stamping on spine and at leather edges.Small… Read more about this item

Berkeley: The Professional Press, 1930. First Edition. Original wraps. Very good +/none as issued. A very good plus first edition in original wraps. Stapled. Gilt title stamping on cover with the seal of the Club. The very first of the series of Poems by the California Writers Club. Shelf wear and tiny tears to top edge (see photo).… Read more about this item

New York: Vantage Press, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. A very near fine first edition, as stated of Irish verse.In original unclipped dust jacket, which is showing some loss at top of cover. Previous owner's small stamp of first and last endpapers. 81 pp. Duodecimo, 5 & 1/2 x 8 inches tall. Recounts in poetry epic British… Read more about this item

Leipzig: Verlag von Theodor Weicher, 1924. unknown. Hardcover. Very good/missing. Title drawing and book decoration by Willi Geissler / Rudolstadt. A very good unknown, but early edition. Text in German Fraktur. Blue cloth boards with black Fraktur font titling on cover and spine. Sunning to spine and top edge of back cover. Binding a bit soft. Hinges are… Read more about this item

Toronto: William Briggs, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +. A very good plus first edition. Green cloth boards. Binding is tight, sturdy and square. Gilt title stamping on cover and spine. Heavy shelfwear to tail of spine. Bumped corners. Pages are clean and bright. No dustjacket. 123 pp. 5 x 7 1/2 inches tall, duodecimo.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 paper. Fine/near fine. A fine/as new first edition (review copy), appears unread. Red 1/4 paper over buckram boards in a near fine dustjacket with a small 1/4 inch nick at top right corner of jacket. Publisher's errata laid in. 762 pp. including index. Octavo … Read more about this item

London: J. Tonson, 1697. Second Edition. Three quarter cloth. Very good. Scarce. A very good second edition of Mr. Congreve's famous work. [WING C5858] Blue three quarter cloth over maroon and blue marbled boards. Appears to be missing the first free endpaper, otherwise complete and collated. Loss to page 1, not affecting text. Pencilled marginalia and previous owner's… Read more about this item

Mendocino, CA: by the author, 1977. First Edition. Paperback original. Near fine. A very near fine, first edition in softcover, signed by the poet on the title page. Dust stain to edge of cover.Duodecimo, 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches tall.

Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +. A very good plus, bright and well-preserved first edition. Blue cloth boards with gold title stamping on inverted banner. Top front corner bumped. Mustard colored end papers with previous owner's inscription in pencil on front pastedown. Two small tears to papers at front hinge.… Read more about this item

London: John Lane, [1920]. Hardcover. Very good. A very good small edition circa 1920. Decorated paper boards showing foxing. Spine heavily sunned. Gift inscription on first free end paper. Purple and green decorated pages with text inset. Foxing throughout. Binding sturdy and square. From the Lover's Library. 109 pp. Thirty-twomo, 3 x 5 inches tall.

Berkeley: Turtle's Quill Scriptorium, 1974. First Edition Thus, Limited. Stiff wraps. Fine. Joyce Alexander; Dorsey Alexander. A fine limited edition. One of 75 numbered copies. This copy is unnumbered. Green stiff paper wraps. Sienna end papers. Illustrations by Joyce Alexander. Calligraphy by Dorsey Alexander. [16] pp. Octavo, 6 x 9 inches tall.

New York: The Century Co., May, 1890. First printing. Leatherette. Very Good +. First published appearance of Whitman's "A Twilight Song, for unknown buried soldiers, North and South," with attribution on page 27. (Later collected in Good Bye My Fancy, 1891) [BAL 21599]. Embossed green leatherette boards (original), gold-stamped: A Year of the Century, '90 on spine. Corners… Read more about this item