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New York: Covici Friede Publishers, [Printed by the Stratford Press,] 1929 One of 1,000 copies printed for subscribers by the Stratford Press. Fifty hors commerce copies were also printed.. Blue paper-covered boards, quarter vellum, with gilt-titled spine. Octavo. With engraved border on title-page, plus large engraved initial on page three, and two engraved headpieces. Light toning to endpapers but overall a near-fine copy in the original dust jacket (designed by Bernard Salomon). The present work compiles over 150 poems, including recent poems by Hart Crane, Léonie Adams, Wallace Stevens, and more; and "Change," a previously unpublished poem by Stanley Kunitz. The Wallace Stevens poems, including "The Snow Man," appear here two years before the second edition of his debut collection, Harmonium; the second edition truly introduced his poetry to the public after only 100 copies of the first edition were sold.

London: Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1965 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.

[San Francisco:] The Book Club of California 2007 One of 350 copies. This is book number 222 of the Book Club of California.. Quarto. With eight photographs and illustrations from the author's collection. Designed by Jack W. Stauffacher of the Greenwood Press of San Francisco. Computer layout by Kina Sullivan. Set in Cycles type designed by Summer Stone. Printed by Hatcher Press on Finch Vellum #70 paper under the supervision of Susan Schaefer. Bound by the Roswell Book Bindery. Green cloth boards titled in gilt. Prospectus laid in. A fine copy in the plain white dustjacket.

New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1930 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket has light soiling and two small tears.

Cleveland: World Publishing Company, [1949] Cloth. Quarto. Fine in very good publisher's slipcase. Slipcase has some chipping at spine.

Hamburg: Dr. Ernst Hauswedel & Co/R.R. Bowker, N.Y., [1966] First edition. Cloth, with gilt leather labels. Two volumes, quarto. Tipped in color plates, full and partial-page illustrations throughout. Fine in publishers's cardboard slipcase. Text in English, French and German. An international, multi-century collection of several hundreds of images relating to books, the book trade, publishing, etc. including forty-two in color. Designed by Herman Zapf.

New-York: Published by Harper & Brothers, 1845 First edition. The text consists of introduction, 87 pages of Greek text with footnotes, and close to 300 pages of "Extended Notes and Dissertations. Original purple-brown cloth, spine faded. . Twelvemo. Old pencil signature, dated 1850, a few pencil marks in text. Spine ends Intermittent light foxing. A good, sound copy.

London: Methuen, [1937] Fourth edition, revised. Cloth. Octavo. Light stain at foot of spine, light shelfwear. A good copy, tight and clean.

London: Macmillan, 1901 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Binding extremities rubbed, old bookplate. A good, tight copy.

London: Macmillan, 1901 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Front cover spotted near fore-edge, ink inscription. A good, tight copy. Very scarce.

London: Trefoil Books for Odette Gilbert Gallery, [1986] First edition. Boards. Quarto. With 202 illustrations, 32 in color. Fine in fine d.j.

London: Printed by James Flesher, for Richard Royston 1660 First edition. Contemporary calf, ruled in blind, expertly rebacked and recornered. Title in gilt on spine. . Two volumes in one, folio. Engraved title and frontisportrait, engraved vignette of Jesus carrying a lamb on the title-page to the second volume. Printed title-pages for both volumes ruled in red. L6 in the second volume is a cancel, as usual, reflecting a change due to the Restoration of Charles II. Light intermittent dampstain at upper corner. A very good, clean copy. Ductor dubitantium was designed as a comprehensive manual of cases of conscience which would form a capstone to the English Protestant edifice already created by Sanderson, Hall, and Perkins. No longer would English clergy need to consult Roman Catholic casuists and run the risk of being misled by their 'probablism.' Taylor promised general rules from which every particular case could be resolve...Taylor believed that there is always a right answer in moral dilemmas,… Read More

Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, [2001] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.

Washington, DC: The National Museum of Natural History...in association with Abrams, [1991] Quarto. With 435 illustrations, 181 in color. Fine in fine d.j.

[North Hills, PA:] W. Thomas Taylor/Bird & Bull Press, 1980 One of 350 copies on handmade paper. Octavo. Quarter yellow morocco over decorative boards Spine a bit faded. A very good to fine copy, with original publisher's prospectus laid in.

San Francisco: The Society of California Pioneers, 1950 First edition. Pictorial cloth. Small quarto. Fine condition.

[ San Francisco: ] Book Club of California, 1988 One of 450 copies, designed and printed by Jonathan Clark at The Artichoke Press. Dark blue cloth over gray paper-covered boards, paper spine label, gilt front cover vignette. . Ocravo. Full-page facsimile illustrations Fine in fine dust jacket. Original prospectus laid in.

Amsterdam: Louis de Lorme 1695 First French edition, published the same year as the English original edition. Contemporary calf, gilt spine with reddish-brown morocco label. . Octavo, in fours. Frontisportrait and twenty-four plates of English kings Front joint beginning to crack near head of spine. A very good copy. Sir William Temple (1628-99) served as envoy to Brussels in 1666, and effected the triple alliance among England, Holland, and Sweden in order to protect Spain from France. He was also instrumental in bringing about the marriage of William of Orange to Mary. He composed his history of England, which concludes with William the Conqueror, to encourage the production of a general history of England. Though it abounds in historical errors, the prose style is characteristically felicitous. Samuel Johnson spoke of Temple as the first writer to give cadence to the English language.

Edward Moxon , 1847 First edition of one of Tennyson's best-known works, with such famous lyrics as "Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white," and "Tears, idle tears." This is also a work with themes of gender, with the heroine envisioning a future in which "The man [may] be more of a woman, she of man." . Original green cloth, decoratively stamped in blind, with a floral pattern. Spine lettered in gilt. Small octavo. With the 8 pp. publisher's catalogue, dated November 1, 1847. Spine lettered in gilt. Spine faded, head and foot lightly chipped. A good, clean copy.

London: Edward Moxon, 1859 First edition, first issue, with verso of title-page blank. . Original light green blindstamped cloth with title in gilt on spine, expertly rebacked. . Small octavo. Spine lightly faded, a few small stains on covers, light foxing in a couple of gatherings. A very good, attractive copy. Also, an early copy, with a former owner's signature, dated September 1859, on the half-title.