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New York: The Alcestis Press, 1935 First edition, limited issue of 165 copies. Signed by Williams on the limitation page. Additionally inscribed by Williams on the front free endpaper: "Never give up / keep at it! / William Carlos Williams". Publisher's cream paper wrappers, lettered in black; in the original glassine dust jacket. Near fine, with some light toning and wear to the spine ends, a few faint scuffs to the endpapers, else bright and fresh; glassine with loss to most of the spine, with some chips to the panel edges, light toning to the extremities. An Early Martyr is a collection of thirty poems that includes "The Yachts," "Proletarian Portrait," "To a Poor Old Woman," "Flowers By the Sea," "To a Mexican Pig-Bank," "Solstice," "An Elegy for D.H. Lawrence," "The Catholic Bells," "The Dead Baby," "The Immemorial Wind," "To Be Hungry is to Be Great," and "You Have…
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An Early Martyr and Other Poems
by Williams, William Carlos
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Easter: A Play for Singers
by Masefield, John
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London: William Heinemann, 1929 First edition, first printing. Publisher's coated blue cloth, ruled in blind and stamped in gilt; in the original pale blue-gray dust jacket, sparsely lettered in black. A fine copy; in a near fine dust jacket with some toning to extremities. This short play tells the story of Easter, through a singing cast of "Persons and Spirits". Notably, though Masefield frequently used Christian themes and imagery in his plays throughout the 1920's, performance opportunities were limited by a longstanding ban on the use of biblical figures in performances until 1928.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine.
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Elia: Essays Which Have Appeared Under That Signature in the London Magazine
by Lamb, Charles
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London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1823 First edition, first issue, published without the half-title, with the publisher's single-line Fleet Street address to the tile page, lacking publisher's terminal advertisements. Finely bound in full navy morocco, with five raised bands to the spine, decorative gilt stamping to the spine bands and compartments, spine lettered in gilt, boards ruled in gilt, all edges gilt, elaborate gilt turn-ins, maroon coated endpapers. Very good or better, with some light wear and rubbing to the extremities, a hint of toning to the spine, front hinge tender with some wear, front hinge repaired, bright and fresh pages. A clean copy of the scarce first issue in a lovely morocco binding. Elia is a collection of Lamb's popular essays, each of which was originally published in London Magazine. Specifically, it includes "The South-Sea House," "Christ's Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago," "Dream-Children; A Reverie," and…
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En attendant Godot
by Beckett, Samuel
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Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1976 Later edition. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by Beckett on title page: "For / Mel Gussow / very cordially / Sam Beckett." Publisher's white wrappers, with image of Vladimir and Estragon to front wrapper, printed in black and blue. About fine, with just a hint of toning and soiling to wrappers. Overall, a lovely association copy. This copy comes from the personal library of Mel Gussow. Waiting for Godot - originally written in French, under the title En attendant Godot - is an absurdist play about two main characters, Vladimir and Estragon, who converse in witty and amusing banter while they wait for Godot, who ultimately never arrives. The play premiered in Paris at the Théâtre de Babylone in January 1953. A theatrical masterpiece, Godot was voted the "most significant English-language play of the 20th century" in a poll of 800 playwrights, actors, directors and journalists conducted by the British Royal…
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Endgame
by Beckett, Samuel
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London: Faber & Faber, 1958 First Faber paperback edition, first printing. Presentation copy; signed and inscribed by Beckett on the title page to Goucher professor and director of the fall 1965 production of Endgame: "For/ George B. Dowell/ with all good wishes from/ Samuel Beckett/ Paris March 1965." Original publisher's orange paper wraps, lettered in black and white. A very good copy with some light wear and rubbing to the extremities, first leaf starting, else near fine. Scarce signed by Beckett.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine.
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The Enormous Room
by Cummings, E. E.
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New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922 First edition, second state. Publisher's mustard yellow cloth, lettered in black. Some soiling and rubbing to the spine, light soiling to the covers, former owner signature to front endpaper. A very good copy. The Enormous Room is an autobiographical novel that details E.E. Cummings' time in a French prison during World War I. Serving as an ambulance driver, Cummings and his friend William Slater Brown, named "B" in the book, expressed anti-war sentiments while they were enlisted. Cummings himself proclaimed to have had no ill will towards the Germans they were fighting against. The pair also preferred the company of the French to their American peers; this behavior garnered negative attention and landed the two in prison under suspicion of espionage. The book describes their time imprisoned in an "enormous room" with thirty other people. The title refers to both the physical space Cummings was held captive in and the place in his mind…
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The Enormous Room
by Cummings, E. E.
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New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922 First edition, first state with shit present on p. 219. Association copy, signed and inscribed by Cummings to editor Malcolm Cowley on front free endpaper: To Malcolm Cowley / (qui?) / E. E. Cummings. Publisher's mustard yellow cloth, lettered in black. Very good book with light toning to spine and pages, light rubbing to spine and tail edge of boards and text block, previous owners bookplate (book collector H. Bradley Martin) to front pastedown. Overall, an attractive copy with an excellent association. The Enormous Room is an autobiographical novel that details E.E. Cummings' time in a French prison during World War I. Serving as an ambulance driver, Cummings and his friend William Slater Brown, named "B" in the book, expressed anti-war sentiments while they were enlisted. Cummings himself proclaimed to have had no ill will towards the Germans they were fighting against. The pair also preferred the company of the…
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Enslaved and Other Poems
by Masefield, John
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London: William Heinemann, 1920 First edition. Publisher's green paper-covered boards, ruled in blind and lettered in gilt; in the original blue-gray dust jacket, lettered in black. A near fine copy with light toning to extremities, small bookseller's sticker to rear pastedown, in a very good dust jacket with some toning to extremities, spine panel split starting at bottom edge, fragile but holding. This collection of poetry includes, along with the titular poem, "The Hounds of Hell," "Cap on Head," "Sonnets," "The Passing Strange," "Animula," "The Lemmings," "Forget," "On Growing Old," "Lyric." Written in rhyming verse in keeping with Masefield's style, the poems employ a melancholy tone and natural imagery.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine.
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The Essays of Elia
by Lamb, Charles
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New York and Boston: C. T. Brainard Publishing Co., 1900 Deluxe edition, limited issue of 1,000 copies printed for subscribers, this copy being out of series and unnumbered. Finely bound by Brentano's in three-quarter contemporary style dark blue morocco ruled in gilt and light blue cloth, five raised bands to spine, stamped in gilt to spine, pale gray endpapers, top edge gilt. About near fine with toning and light rubbing to extremities, interior very clean. Elia is a collection of Lamb's popular essays, each of which was originally published in London Magazine. Specifically, it includes "The South-Sea House," "Christ's Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago," "Dream-Children; A Reverie," and "Modern Gallantry," among others. Lamb, a long-time clerk for the British East India Company, began writing essays under the pseudonym "Elia," which he derived from a former colleague's surname. Lamb wrote in a colloquial and conversational style…
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Ethan Frome
by Wharton, Edith
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New York: Charles Scriber's Sons, 1911 First edition, first issue text with "wearily" unbattered on p. 135. One of 6,000 copies. Publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. About near fine, with some light wear to the extremities, faint soiling to the front board, slight lean to the spine, former owner name erased from front free endpaper, otherwise clean interior. Overall, a bright and attractive copy. Garrison A19.I.a. Ethan Frome is a Pulitzer Prize winning novel set in the fictional town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. It tells the story of Ethan Frome, a young man with a sickly wife, Zeena, who has fallen in love with his wife's cousin, Mattie, who lives with the Fromes to assist with Zeena's healthcare. Zeena, aware of her husband's wandering eye, is determined to send Mattie away, and Ethan is desperate to express his feelings. In a bizarre twist of events, Mattie and Ethan paralyze themselves in an attempt to commit suicide, and Zeena becomes their…
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Everest 1933
by Ruttledge, Hugh
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1934 First edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed by Ruttledge on front free endpaper: "Best wishes - / Hugh Ruttledge / 24.x.1934." Publisher's dark blue cloth, titles in gilt to spine, with fifty-nine full-page photographs, three diagrams in text, and four maps; original pictorial dust jacket with photo of climbers in snow to front panel, lettered in blue. Near fine, with light toning and soiling to spine, a touch of wear to spine ends, minor soiling to tail-edge of text block, and light spotting to page edges (photo pages very clean); very good unclipped dust jacket with some toning to spine, chip to lower left of front panel (loss to part of the author's first name), two small closed tears to top of front panel, light wear to spine ends including a bit of shallow chipping to head of spine, and minor reinforcement to spine ends on jacket verso. Overall, an excellent signed copy, in a very pleasing example of the original dust jacket. In…
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The Executive Committee of Shakespeare's Birth-Place and Mr. Halliwell-Phillips: A Correspondence
by Halliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard
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Brighton: Printed By John George Bishop, 1887 First edition, first printing. A good copy, with the original front cover in the publisher's paper cloth, with some smudging along the edges, slight chipping on the hinge, lacking the rear cover panel, with a loss to the bottom corners of the first pages of text, pages starting to break from the binding, although the signature is still intact, otherwise clean and uncut pages. A nineteenth century pamphlet containing reproduced letters between James Orchard Halliwell-Phillips, a noted 19th century British Shakespearean scholar and founder of the Percy Society, and members of the executive committee of Shakespeare's birthplace at Stratford-upon-Avon, specifically the librarian Richard Savage.. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Good.
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Exercitatio anatomica de cordis et sanguinis motu. Cum praefatione Zachariae Sylvii Medici Roterodamensis. Accessit Differtatio de Corde Doct. Jacobi de Back, Urbis Roterodami Medici Ordinarii
by Harvey, William
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Rotterdam: Arnold Leers, 1648 12mo. Fourth edition. With additional engraved title page and 2 full-page engraved illustrations. Contemporary speckled brown calf, double ruled in blind to covers, horizontal rules in blind and paper library labels to spine, red speckled edges. Very good, with shallow chipping to bottom of spine, light wear to hinges and corners, sound binding with strong hinges, former owner bookplate to front pastedown, embossed stamp to title, engraved title, and first page of text, pages lightly toned and light scattered spotting but generally clean throughout. An important work in an attractive contemporary binding. PMM 127. De motu cordis, William Harvey's groundbreaking work on the circulation of the blood, is widely considered the most important book in the history of medicine. First published in Frankfurt in 1628, it describes the motion of blood through the body in a circuit and observes the functions of arteries and chambers of the heart. Much like Vesalius' Fabrica…
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The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.
by Darwin, Charles
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London: John Murray, 1872 First edition, second issue with "htat" misprint on the first line of page 208. One of 7000 copies. Publisher's green cloth with decorative borders in blind to front and rear boards, titles and decorations in gilt to spine, green endpapers, seven Heliotype Plates numbered in Arabic. Very good or better with light wear to spine hinges and corners, a bit of toning to spine, some spotting to the plates on pages 180 and 264, a few small notes in pencil to a couple pages, and a touch of soiling to bottom edge of text block. Overall, a solid copy of Darwin's "forgotten masterpiece," with very well-preserved plates. Freeman 1142. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals expands on Darwin's theories raised in On the Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871), arguing that there is an evolutionary explanation for the human expression of emotions. The book was originally intended by Darwin to be a chapter in The Descent of Man, but…
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