Occasionem Cognosce by Marianne Moore - 1963

Nicholas L.Brown, New York, 1920. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 190pp + iv publisher's advertisements at the rear. Paper-covered boards with paper spine and title labels. Boards just a little marked, with a little wear to the base of the backstrip, and a little chipping to the head of the backstrip. A lovely crisp copy. No dust wrapper. An outstanding anthology of American verse, including much material which originally appeared in Kreymborg's influential journal 'Others: A Magazine of the New Verse' which ran from 1915-1919, plus some contributed directly to this present anthology. Contributors include Conrad Aiken (two poems, one of which is hitherto unprinted), Witter Bynner (ten poems), Robert Frost (three poems, two of which are hitherto unprinted in bookform), Wallace Gould (six poems), Marsden Hartley (six poems), Fenton Johnson (eight poems), Marianne Moore (five poems), Carl Sandburg (four poems), William Saphier (ten poems),… Read More

Harper & Brothers, Publishing, New York, 1876. Book condition: Good+, First Edition. 123 pp plus four pages other Centennial Readings published by Harper & Brothers, New York. Text slightly tanned typical of age, clean and unmarked. Former owner attribution on front free endpapers. Front free endpaper has dark discoloration triangle caused by a piece of newsprint left in book. Illustrated throughout with b/w etchings and drawings. This title is very rare. Unable to locate existence of any other copies for comparison.

Salem, OR: Printed for Charles Seluzicki Fine Books. Very Good; Spine faintly sunned.. 1982. Softcover. 0931356059 . Printed by Christine Bertelson at the Rara Avis Press, in Riverside, CA. 1/200 copies. Signed by Merrill on the colophon page. Sewn, illustrated stiff gray wrappers. Printed in gray and red on laid paper. Measures 10 x 6.5 inches. Eight of Merrill’s poems adorned with images of ancient Trojan funeral masks. ; [20] pages .

1903 EDITION, PAGED UNMARKED, BINDING SOUND. LOVELY COVER AND DESIGN.

1857, WITH "THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR" BY PATRICK MURDOCH, D.D., F.R.S.BEAUTIFUL LEATHER BINDING/COVER, BINDING IS SOUND, PAGES UNMARKED, SPOTS FROM MOISTURE.

New York, New York: Nicholas L. Brown. Very Good with no Dust Jacket. 1920. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 103 pages: 5.25 x 7.5 in.: 0.8: KB#010257: No dustjacket is included. Boards now protected by a new Brodart Archival Mylar Cover. Boards are bright red with paper author and title labels on spine and front cover. Label on front is complete but spine label is chipped. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked, brightly colored, tightly bound and sharp cornered (except for very slight rubbing at board corners). Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Evelyn Scott (1893–1963) was an American novelist, playwright and poet, who also wrote under the pseudonyms Ernest Souza and Elsie Dunn. This book "Precipitations" was her first book. .

In Padova: Appresso Giuseppe Comino MDCCLI [1751]. Hard Cover. xliv, 58 pages (signatures: a-b8, c4, d2, A-C8, D4); octavo. Includes: "La Vita de M. Angelo Poliziano scritta dal Signor Abate Antonio Serassi." "Catalogo di alcune delle principali edizioni delle stanze di Angelo Poliziano raccolto per lo piu dal Chiarissimo Signor Appostolo Zeno." The wonderful, brilliant young poet, intimate of and secretary to Lorenzo dei Medici. Bound in contemporary full vellum. Very good copy. Stock#OB375.

London, J. Buckland and many others, 1790. Hard Cover. Two volumes: 2 p.l., 325 pages, portrait frontispiece; 2 p.l., 356 pages; 16.5 cm. These are volumes 13 & 14 of Dr. Samuel Johnson's "The Works of the English Poets, with Prefaces..." The full title is for the English Poets; Butler Poems is a half-title. The first volume and half of the second contain Hudibras. Bound in contemporary full leather, spines weakened; very good. Stock#OB524.

San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1963. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine (though lacking binding thread). 12mo, 16pp, formerly sewn wrappers. The rare original letterpress printing of this poetic work. No markings, light outer soil, nice copy just lacking the thread.

Leeds, England: Location Press, 1966. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 20pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce joint issue of two important sixties little magazines of avant-garde writing. Cover by John Furnival. A few scattered marginal checkmarks to publications list pages and library stamp to cover (no other markings), horizontal mailing folds, a bit of general wear and soil.