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No Place Stated: The Golden Bough Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1930. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. The free endpapers have a slight curl, likely from the marbling process. Spine and joints slightly darker than the rest of the leather. Minor rubbing to the joints, cover paper abraded where it wraps under the tail edge of the rear board, corners bumped with wear through to the boards.; Daudet's novel of the personal failings and stumbling, lurching relationship of a young Southern French student Jean Gaussin and his older Parisian lover Fanny Legrand. Jean is troubled by Fanny's life of luxury from many profitable, personal relationships: an engineer, a poet, an engraver, and a sculptor who had her pose for his statue of Sappho. After their living in the country and his dalliance with a young woman, it all falls apart. In the end, Fanny leaves him with little but a letter and he's right to lament his "...broken, wasted life, all wrecked and tearful... From… Read More

Winston-Salem: Palaemon Press Limited. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1979. Signed, Limited Edition. Hardcover. The front board has some splay, as many, if not most, copies do.; Twelve previously unpublished "translations" of poems by other poets, selected by Dickey and each rewritten by him as an homage and to add his unique perspective to the retelling. Most poems are in a non-linear form: the formatting, word spacing, and line justification are varied and are as essential to the poem as the text. One of an unnumbered limited edition of 475 copies. Elaborately signed by author on the colophon. In polished gray buckram over boards, with title and author framed on a cream-colored paper label to front. No dust jacket, as-issued. In 1977, Stuart Wright founded the Palaemon Press Limited, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA to publish works by Southern authors. Most books are the first appearance, or first separate, printing, of the works. Clean inside and out, sharp cornered, and… Read More