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Millerton (New York): Stamperia Valdonega (Martino Mardersteig, Verona), for SADEV (The Garden Ltd), 1988     ¶ Only edition, one of 1000 copies; including details of five "Further works of Haven O'More scheduled for publication", pages 17-18. The present copy is INSCRIBED BY HAVEN O'MORE, 17 March 1990, on page [1].   ||| Collation: In 12 (189 x 125 mm): Twelve leaves, paginated [i-ii]. [1-4] 5-18 [19-22]. Title printed in red and black, pages [i-ii] and [20-22] blank as issued.  Binding: Plain wove wrappers, red laid dust-jacket printed in black, top-edges trimmed, others untrimmed.  Condition: As new.  References: Basbanes A gentle madness 1995, 254-55; LCCN 89116909; OCLC 22520073.  .

Millerton (New York): Stamperia Valdonega (Martino Mardersteig, Verona), for SADEV (The Garden Ltd, Millerton), distributed by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York), 1987 ¶ First edition, trade issue (600 copies), of the author's first published book, "a handsome production, flush with revealing, if rather disturbing, poetic sentiments" (Basbanes). The text consists of a Preface dated 23/24 February 1986, seventeen poems, and a prose Coda; the whole is dedicated in dubious Greek to the author's wife Lorea (d. 1997). The present copy is warmly INSCRIBED "in appreciation for . . . the Catalogue of the Collection of The Garden Ltd. and a record-breaking auction. H O'More March 16, 1990". ||| Collation: In 4s (245 x 166 mm): Thirty leaves, paginated [1-60] (ie, not paginated). Title in red and black, pages [1-4] and [57-60] blank as issued, erratum-slip laid in. Binding: Publisher's black linen lettered in red with white, white wove endpapers, red headbands, top-edges trimmed, others untrimmed.… Read More

New York: Oxford university press, 1978 Notes, index. Plates (5 portraits, 5 facsimiles). Remainder-marks on the tail-edges.. Brown cloth, dust-jacket.. A very good copy./Dust-jacket slightly chipped.. 228 x 153 mm. Pp. xix [xx-xxi], 339.

London &c: Cassell and company , limited, 1939 ¶ FIRST EDITION (with statement "First published 1939" and code "F.939" on the title verso). ||| Collation: In 8s (186 x 124 mm): Pp. x, 286. Binding: Red cloth, dust-jacket. Condition: Near fine. Reference: LCCN 40003767. Provenance: Freda J. Chalkley, signature on the upper free endpaper. .