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No Place Stated: Sufi George Books. Fine with no dust jacket. N.D.. Limited Signed Edition. Broadside. The author George Arthur Lareau is the self-proclaimed "Last Surviving Boston Beatnik Poet" and has produced various broadsides, books of poetry, and non-fiction works since the early 60s. This early poem, circa 1963, is the basis of a later book by the same title, compiling various writings by Lareau. The poem is letterpress printed as an 8 1/2" x 11" broadside on a sheet of stiff, "parchment" paper. The serif font text is framed by a printed scroll. This is the first copy of the broadside, copy 1 of a limited edition of 100, and letterpress printed by the author. I'll let the author explain. "It was during my last year of college,1963, that I became a letterpress printer. My first endeavor was "The Thropenny Poets Series." This was one poem on a 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 sheet and it sold for three cents a copy. I published several of my poems this… Read More

Westport: Privately Printed. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1929. Limited Edition. Softcover. Faintest sunning to the edges of the wraps. Tail corner of front wrap has tiny, light crease.; The author's essay on why limited editions should exist in the wide world of publishing, reading, and collecting. "Why do the heathen so furiously rage against limited issues, large-papers, first editions, and the rest? For there is certainly more to be said for than against them. Broadly speaking, all such 'fads' are worthy of being encouraged, because they maintain, in some measure, the expiring dignity of letters, the mystery of books." "If writers and publishers only gave a thought to what they are doing when they generate such large families of books, careless as the salmon with its million young, we should have no such sad alms-houses of learning as Booksellers' Row, no such melancholy distress-sales of noble authors as remainder auctions. A good book is beyond price;… Read More

Madison, NJ: Brayers Club. Near Fine. (1947). Limited Edition. Softcover. Tiny nicks to the head edge of the front wrap.; This tiny book contains a facsimile of the holograph manuscript of Wood Flower, a 2-verse poem by Richard Le Gallienne. The narrator finds a flower growing in the woods and wishes to pluck it. Comparing the flower to "The old wild-wood's fairy daughter," the narrator falls under a spell that prevents a hand from taking the flower, so delicate that it might be broken by a touch. Born Richard Thomas Gallienne, the author affected the surname Le Gallienne in early adulthood. A prolific author, his life was tumultuous, encompassing affairs with Oscar Wilde, actor/playwright Wilson Barrett and numerous women, and three wives who dealt with his debt-ridden, alcoholic, womanizing, unstable life. "The frontispiece is printed direct from the silk of a milk-weed seed without any plate or mechanical means of reproduction, on a Washington hand press by Arthur… Read More

Santa Barbara, CA: Unicorn Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 1971. Limited Signed Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A few thin, dark marks to the paper of the back cover. Slightest bumps to the lower tips of the covers.; This poem is written in Levine's characteristic style of short, declarative phrasing and the lines speak in the voice of a child, the voice of an adult, and the voice of the wall, all presumed to be in Spain. The dedication references the girl Pili, the author's wife, and Spain, for which he had a long-standing fascination. Prior to his 2011 appointment as Poet Laureate of the United States, Philip Levine won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, the National Book Award, the Ruth Lily Prize in Poetry and the Wallace Stevens Award. The author was also named Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Copy 43 of an edition of 50, numbered in yellow ink and signed in black by Levine. From a total edition of 750, the 50 numbered and signed copes are specially bound in… Read More

No Place Stated: Veterans Book Project. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2010. Softcover. Light, overall marring to covers. Small area of light wrinkling to head of front cover.; In brief, first-person prose vignettes and free verse, author Nathan Lewis describes his combat experience as a US Army soldier in the ground war in Iraq. The descriptions of on-the-ground military life, combat encounters, suffering civilians, children enduring war, and every-day drudgery are succinct, direct, and poignant. Liberally illustrated with the author's color photographs of the Iraqi environment, people, and military, these non-professional snapshots are immediate, point-of-view documents of the author's experiences. The title page is signed and inscribed by the author : "This is my playlist. / Safe travels, always good times. / Much love Nathan Lewis" Now out of print, this is one of at least 53 titles produced by Veterans Book Project, most authored collaboratively with artist Monica… Read More

Kingswood, Surrey: William Heinemann Ltd. - The Windmill Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1927. Press Proof; First Printing. Hardcover. The first copy has a 3" split, without loss, along the front of the spine at head and a tiny spot to a page with offsetting to the adjacent page. The second copy has a 1/2" closed tear, without loss, to the leather at the spine head, a 5/15" split, without loss, to leather at the spine tail and a pinpoint spot to a page. Common to both copies: Boards are splayed, common to most copies of this book. Overall wear and scuffing to all surfaces and extremities. Spines have wear and some sun-lightening Faint toning at the edges of all pages. Verso of free endpapers has offsetting from some production process. Lack the ephemeral, plain dustwrappers.; TWO of only 12 copies of the press proof of the first pages composed and printed at The Windmill Press, Kingsmill, Surrey, on December 8th, 1927. The proof pages are the facing pages 2 and 3 from… Read More

Oxford: Oxford University Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Lacks the dust jacket. ; This book is primarily about the starts and stops, political manipulation and change, financial travails, cancellations, disappointment, and ultimate success in building an English facility and battery of radio telescopes that revolutionized astronomy. It's a complete story with sufficient technical detail embedded in it. The pinnacle was the 250-foot dish radio telescope and the MERLIN network of radio telescopes. The author Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell, OBE (1913-2012) was a physicist, radio astronomer, and first director of Jodrell Bank Observatory. Lovell believed that the physics of radar could be applied to distant celestial bodies. Proven correct, his theories translated into the design of revolutionary methods and radio telescopes still in use today. Illustrated with monochrome photographs and graphs. Extensively indexed. Light blue, laid pastedowns and… Read More