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[Cambridge: Blackmoor Head Press, 1971]. First edition, regular issue, no. 164 of 450 copies (numbered 51 to 500). Inscribed. “As a long range weapon to scramble and nullify associational lines put down by mass media … “Consider now the human voice as a weapon.” Inscribed by the author on the blank page... Read More about Electronic Revolution 1970-71
Price: $750
New York [but: Barnstable, Mass.]: Holt, Rinehart and Winston [Crane Duplicating Service], [1980]. First edition, uncorrected long galley proofs. Inscribed Proof. Perhaps Burroughs' finest novel after Naked Lunch, Cities of the Red Night intercuts a detective novel plot with scenes in the ill-fated pirate colony of Captain Mission on Madagascar... Read More about Cities of the Red Night. A Boy’s Book
Price: $750
Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1991. No 9 of 150 copies, printed on "Character" laid paper. Signed by Spender and Humphries. This copy signed by Spender on the half-title, and by his son-in-law, the comedian and actor Barry Humphries, who "arranged" this tribute. Includes contributions by Iris Murdoch, Roy Fuller, Ted... Read More about A Garland for Stephen Spender. Arranged by Barry Humphries
Price: $400
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1922. First edition. Read More about The Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory...Translated by H.T. Clarke and L. Silberstein
Price: $250
London: Nonesuch Press, 1937. Blake, William. One of 1000 copies, printed at the Curwen Press, this copy marked “out of series”. “17 wood engravings by Blake and 3 designed by him and cut by a journey engraver, 8 of the egravings also reproduced from Blake’s original proofs, all printed from... Read More about The Illustrations of William Blake for Thornton’s Virgil with the First Eclogue and the...
Price: $350
1876. A remarkable large format illuminated manuscript of the opening of Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, the text from I.i.1-4, in a composite of three stanzas, with an ornamental border representing the Muse with “trumpet sterne”, an decorative title, a portrait of Spencer, and the knight with a red cross upon..... Read More about Illuminated manuscript on vellum of the opening stanzas of The Faerie Queene
Price: $3,000
New York: 1986. 550 copies printed. Signed by Merrill. Signed by Merrill at the end of his contribution, the closing address. Kalstone was a writer and a critic, and a close friend of Merrill's. Read More about A Memorial Tribute to David Kalstone. September 20, 1986 Trustees Room The New York Public Library
Price: $275
East Dorset, Vermont: Anthony Harrigan, [1947]. One of 200 copies. Inscribed by Merrill and Wilbur. Inscribed by Merrill at his contribution ("The Formal Lovers"): "Robert Wilson from James Merrill." Additionally inscribed by Wilbur at his contribution ("My Father Paints the Summer"): "Inscribed for Robert A. Wilson 8 December 1962 Richard Wilbur" Read More about Ten Poets Anthology
Price: $500
[N.p.]: printed by Jordan Davies, 1984. Number 51 of 58 copies, printed for the poet on his birthday, March 3, 1984. Inscribed and Corrected by Merrill. Inscribed on the title page: "corrected & inscribed for Bob Wilson – James Merrill," with brief holograph corrections to four poems. Read More about Occasions & Inscriptions
Price: $850
New York: printed at the Bembo Typographic Company. One of 100 copies. Signed by James Merrill. Signed by Merrill at his contribution, "Home Fires," which was printed here for the first time. Printed on the occasion of John Hollander's sixtieth birthday. Read More about A Garland for John Hollander. October 28, 1989
Price: $175
Salem, Oregon: printed at the Rara Avis Press in Riverside, California for Charles Seluzicki, 1982. First edition, one of 200 copies, signed by the author on the colophon. Signed. Read More about Marbled Paper
Price: $125
New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1947. Features five poems by Merrill, including "The Black Swan," "The Broken Bowl," "Accumulations of the Sea," "Medusa," and "Perspectivecs of the Lonesome Eye." The anthology includes twelve poets who worked with editor Kimon Friar of the poetry center at the 92nd Street Y. Scarce;... Read More about The Poetry Center Presents. Edited with an introduction by Kimon Friar
Price: $275
Charleston, S.C: 1948. Signed by Merrill and Wilbur. Signed by Merrill at his contribution, "Lines Composed at Sunset," and inscribed by Wilbur at his contribution, "Tears for the Rich": "I'd forgotten about this./Richard Wilbur/11 January 1963" Read More about American Letters. A Monthly Review. December 1948
Price: $400
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Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: Bard College, 1955. First edition. Inscribed by Merrill. Inscribed: "James Merrill - for Robert A. Wilson (1962)" at the head of his contribution. "The Bait," which Tennessee Williams hailed as a masterpiece, was first performed at The Artist's Theatre, N.Y., in June 1953, and broadcast on BBC Thrid... Read More about "The Bait" [in] Quarterly Review of Literature. Volume VIII Number 2
Price: $250
New York: 1858. First edition. Peters spent some time in New Mexico, where he met Carson and interviewed him for this book. Despite the rampant glorification of Carson, this is a relatively accurate book, further building the fame Carson won as a guide for Fremont. A nice copy. Read More about The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, The Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, From Facts Narrated by...
Price: $550
Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1897. Beard, Dan. First edition, with only the Hartford imprint. Read More about Following the Equator. A Journey Around the World. By Mark Twain
Price: $800
[London]: Viking, [1986]. First edition. Reflection on the life and travels of Freya Stark (1893-1993), superbly illustrated with her photographs. Inscribed by the author, scholar Malise Ruthven, to Jane Geniesse: “For Jane, a fellow traveller, with every good wish for your journey, with love from Malise” Ruthven was Freya Stark’s godson and..... Read More about Traveller through Time. A Photographic Journey with Frey Stark
Price: $100
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1943. First edition. Read More about Listen Hitler! The Gremlins are Coming
Price: $400
Cambridge: at the University Press, 1913. Third Impression, with additions. Read More about Mendel's Principles of Heredity
Price: $250
New York: William Morrow, 1956. First edition. Second book on the evolution of the same tribe that she studied for 25 years in "Growing Up in New Guinea." Read More about New Lives for Old
Price: $100
New York: Gilliss Brothers, 1884. First edition. Written and illustrated in the lowest and broadest tradition of racial caricature. Read More about The Thompson Street Poker Club from "Life"
Price: $300
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Park St. Church. Boston, Mass: ca. 1880s. “Do I preach against cards? I simply let cards preach against themselves" Read More about A Few Words on Card Playing [cover title
Price: $450
New York: George Blackie & Co, n.d., ca. 1870. Includes marked playing cards, gambling and magic books, magic tricks, novelties, and all sorts of curiosities and miscellany (such as "False Moustaches, that cannot be detected when worn") offered by New York wholesale agents George Blackie & Co. Read More about Kuaint, Kueer and Kurios, and Book of New Receipts, with Catalogue of Novelties and Wonders...
Price: $900
Dublin: G. Faulkner … and R. James, 1751. First Dublin edition. Letter IV: “Of Gaming, its present State, Means to suppress private Play,...” ESTC records a London edition, tentatively dated 1750. Read More about The Vices of the Cities of London and Westminster … In Five Letters, from a Citizen of London...
Price: $450
