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San Francisco: Cranium Press. Fine. 1976. Limited Edition. Softcover. Keith Abbott's wide-ranging poem that bounces through successive observations about himself and life. Boldly inscribed by Abbott to Kenward Elmslie, on the front endpaper in elaborate calligraphic script using a chisel-point pen. "The Ken- / ward / Elmslie / Copy / (a calligraphic flourish) / Keith" Provenance: From the library and estate of Kenward Elmslie, prolific poet associated with the New York School of poetry, editor, performer, and founder of Z Magazine and Z press. One of an edition limited to 300 copies. Unpaginated, 18 pages. 5' x 5 3/4". Handset in Italian Old Style type and printed on cream colored fine paper. Bound in sewn, dark green, mould made wraps, with a Michael Meyers illustration of a picture of two faucets and grasses, framed in an arch. This illustration is replicated on the title page, the faucets being an allusion to the second paragraph of the poem. This little volume is clean, sharp, and in Fine… Read More

New York, NY: Burt Franklin. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1970. Facsimile Reprint. Hardcover. Spine ends lightly bumped.; Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland has an impressive collection of incunabula donated from the collections of at least eight Archbishops, an entire library donated by the "English army in Ireland," another library of a Doctor of Divinity, and numerous smaller libraries from collectors. Originally published in 1905, this catalog of incunabula was compiled by the Trinity College's librarian and cataloger of manuscripts Reverend Thomas Kingsmill Abbott. Lists bibliographic information and collation for 606 books. Eleven plates depict decorative capitals, printed leaves, illustrations, and a particularly fanciful illustration of the Purgatory of Saint Patrick that should frighten anyone into a sin-free life. Includes a Preface, List of Books Referred to, a Corrigenda of errors, Chronological Index from 1481-1500, Index of Printers and Places, Index of… Read More

New York: Washington Square Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 1966. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Volume I has an imperfection to the rear pastedown at the head corner and this has impressed the lightest crease at the same corner of a few leaves. Minor marks to the slipcase.; The Divine Comedy is Dante Alighieri's medieval vision of the afterlife, rendered in verse, eleven syllables per line. Three spiritual guides take the protagonist through the three realms of the afterlife: Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. This journey incorporates the author's 14th Century Catholic concepts of the soul, sin, and divine judgement that leads to punishment or reward, damnation or salvation. Considered by many to be the pre-eminent work of Italian literature, essentially a Christian epic poem, and written in the Tuscan language, it helped elevate Tuscan to be the standard Italian language. Translated into English blank verse by Louis Biancolli using the Moore-Toynbee text of an early Oxford… Read More

France: RVB Books. Fine with no dust jacket. 2022. Second Edition. Softcover. From the publisher: "Since the birth of the modern beehive in 1852, structural innovation in hive construction has entered a dormant period. By favouring the standardised (sic) box hive, beekeeping turns its back on 4,400 years of architectural diversity. This little book focuses on that period of history prior to homogenisation (sic), drawing from as far back as 2400 BCE. By rejecting a fixed narrative, linearity makes way for polymorphism, introducing graphic design, photography and writing to retell the story of beehives. The 375 images offer a glimpse into this proliferous history of architecture for non-humans." Indeed, 375 photographs of beehives dating from antiquity are packed into this thick, 6" high book. Some are the predecessors of the modern, wooden hives, but most are wicker, pottery, thatch, mud, wood, or metal. Some are built into walls, or figural, or freestanding structures… Read More

New York: Privately Printed. Near Fine in Good dust jacket. 1930. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. Slight abrasion to head edge of front pastedown. Slightest rubbing to spine ends. Ink stamp to rear endpaper. Lacks the publisher's slipcase. Dust jacket chipped at head and tail edges, split along spine, but together in a paper-backed mylar jacket.; This is Gaius Petronius Arbiter's classic satire of the extremes of amoral 'bro culture' in ancient Rome. Copy 625 of 1200 of this edition, "privately printed" during a time of US censorship. The origins of the text are vague, but are believed to be the work of Gaius Petronius Arbiter, Roman Emperor Nero's advisor on matters of taste, fashion, luxury, and extravagance. This book is his satirical retelling of the self-indulgent extremes of immoral living. The manuscript was fragmented, not contiguous, and there are only assumptions about what fragments may be missing and how they linked the known fragments. This… Read More

Private Printing. Very Good-. 1880s-1890s. Unique Copy. Hardcover. All extremities rubbed. Larger, rubbed area of the spine at the tail. Paper covers rubbed at corners. Overall foxing to the free endpapers. Joints cracked, but holding well. Very occasional, light pencil notations.; This is a Sammelband that assembles twenty-four articles about Victorian portrait painters and photographers, all articles removed from 1880s through 1890s English periodicals, then custom bound into a book. The article titles are Beauty, Portraits of Women; Famous Portrait Painters; Carolus Duran: A Painter of Fair Ladies; The Poet With the Mandolin; John March, Southerner; Thomas Gainsborough M. A.; Mary Moser, A Forgotten Royal Academician; John Singleton Copley R. A.; Cole's Old English Masters; Some Portraits of J. W. M. Turner; Concerning Painters in Little (miniature); Gilbert Stewart's Portraits of Women; How Celebrities Have Been Photographed; With Constable; Illustrated Interviews: Mr. T.… Read More

Oneonta, NY: Round House Press. Fine with no dust jacket. c.1987. Limited/Numbered Signed Edition. Print. Seven art prints from blocks and plates, some with letterpress text over-printed on the image. All are from Round House Press, the imprint of the collegiate printing lab of Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY. Founded in the 1980s, the press issues letterpress books, broadsides, and art prints from wood block, linoleum block, and intaglio collagraphy. The seven prints are as follows: Print 1. Quotation about war, by Dalton Trumbo, noted screenwriter who was blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee. From Dalton's Johnny Got His Gun, written in 1939: "To fight that war they would need men and if men saw the future they wouldn't fight. So they were masking the future they were keeping the future a soft quiet secret. They knew that if all the little guys saw the future they would begin to ask questions. They would ask questions and they would find answers."… Read More

New York, NY: Library of America. Fine with no dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. A 2-volume compilation of journalism related to reporting the events and personalities of World War II. Volumes I and II contain contemporary newspaper and magazine articles, editorial opinions, book excerpts, and radio transcripts to form an orderly view of war reporting. Both volumes cover reporting from the theaters of war and the home front. Most reporting is on the mainstream topics of the time, but includes often-neglected topics include the wartime issues and involvement of African-Americans and women. Volume I (Part I), 912 pages, spans 1938-1944, the work of 47 writers, and covers the buildup to war and the first years of fighting: the Munich crisis, Kristallnacht, the fall of Poland and France, Pearl Harbor and Bataan, Guadalcanal and Salerno. Volume II (Part II), 969 pages, spans 1944-1946, the work of 45 writers, and covers the campaigns in Italy and the Southwest Pacific, the Normandy invasion, the… Read More