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From Here to Eternity
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951. First edition. Inscribed by the author. A tight copy of the author's... Read More about From Here to Eternity
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Fabulae Æsopi Select or Select Fables of Æsop; with English Translation. More Literal than any yet extant, designed for the...
London: Printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes, [1760?]. The Sixth edition Corrected and Amended. Read More about Fabulae Æsopi Select or Select Fables of Æsop; with English Translation. More Literal than any...
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Agenda. Volume One, Number One through Volume 3, Number 6.
London: Poets & Painters Press, 1959-1964. First. Read More about Agenda. Volume One, Number One through Volume 3, Number 6
Price: $450
Let's Pretend. Poems.
London: J. Saville & Co, 1927. Shepard, Ernest H. First edition. Number 92 of 160 copies, signed by the author and Artist. Read More about Let's Pretend. Poems
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Selected Poems.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1961. Inscribed by Aiken on the flyleaf to ALLEN TATE, who supplied the lengthy blurb on the rear panel of the dust jacket ("ALLEN TATE says of Conrad Aiken ... 'he represents the perfection of a vanishing American type: the complete man of letters ... '")..... Read More about Selected Poems
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Senlin: A Biography.
London: Hogarth Press, 1925. First edition, first issue binding. The poem is revised from its earlier appearance. The number of copies printed is not known. Read More about Senlin: A Biography
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Thee.
New York: George Braziller, [1967]. First edition. Inscribed by the author to poet ALLEN TATE, "For Allen/con amore/ and I don't know How/ Somerset Maugham got on my back-!/ Conrad/ 1967." Read More about Thee
Price: $750
Collection.
London: George Vickers, Angel Court, Strand OR, John & Robert Maxwell, 1877. Vol. II: The Guide of the Desert, Revised and Edited by Percy B. St. John,, 1876; The Insurgent Chief, Revised and Edited by Percy B. St. John, 1876; The Flying Horseman, Revised and Edited by Percy B. St..... Read More about Collection
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"A 'Natural History' of the Native Tribes who in India render us Service"
Behind the Bungalow.
Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co. Bombay: Thacker & Co., Limited. London: W. Thacker & Co, 1890. Third Edition. "A 'Natural History' of the Native Tribes who in India render us Service" Behind the scenes of colonial life in India, originally published in the TIMES OF INDIA-with advice for "Engaging a...... Read More about Behind the Bungalow
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The Pleasures of Imagination. A Poem in Three Books.
“London [i.e., Newcastle?]: [s.n.], Printed in the year 1744”. Pirated edition (?). Bound with 3 others: [ANONYMOUS]. Lucius and Celadon: or, a Dialogue on the Existence and Immortality of the Soul. [4], 68 pp. 8vo, Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by I. Thompson and Company, for Thomas Slack, 1755. ESTCN33841; Apparently..... Read More about The Pleasures of Imagination. A Poem in Three Books
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![Item #333028 Uroki muzyki. Stikhi. [Music Lessons]. Bella Akhmadulina](/pictures/thumb/333028.jpg?v=1656546639)
Uroki muzyki. Stikhi. [Music Lessons].
Moscow: Sovetskiĭ Pisatel', 1969. First edition. After her first book of poems Struna [String] (1962) was published, as a success, her work was criticized by the government as "superfluous and too intimate". It took her seven years to publish this, her second volume. Joseph Brodsky called her the best living..... Read More about Uroki muzyki. Stikhi. [Music Lessons
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Chetki. Stikhi.
Berlin: S. Efron, [n.d., 1920]. Nice copy of this emigré edition of these poems of Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966). Originally published in 1913. Read More about Chetki. Stikhi
Price: $225
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Izbrannye stikhotvorenii︠a︡ [Selected Poems].
New York: Izd-vo im. Chekhova, 1952. Read More about Izbrannye stikhotvorenii︠a︡ [Selected Poems
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![Item #339644 Belaia staia: Stikhotvoreniia [The White Flock: Poems]. Kniga Vtoraia [Second book]....](/pictures/thumb/339644.jpg?v=1665000191)
Belaia staia: Stikhotvoreniia [The White Flock: Poems]. Kniga Vtoraia [Second book].
[Peterburg]: [Alkonost], 1922. Third edition, published in 1922. First published in 1917, it was Akhmatova’s third book, written during the disintegration of her marriage and as a world war raged on, it is a deeply Christian engagement with the manifold grief of human history. Uncommon edition. Read More about Belaia staia: Stikhotvoreniia [The White Flock: Poems]. Kniga Vtoraia [Second book
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Quatre-vingt-un chapitres sur l'esprit et les passions. Par l'auteur des Propos d'Alain.
Paris: A l'Emancipatrice, 1917. First edition. Alain was the pseudonym of French educator and philosopher Émile-Auguste Chartier (1868-1951). He was a professor at the Lycée Henri IV, Paris, from 1909 to 1933 and had a profound influence upon the thinking of his students, who included Simone Weil, Raymond Aron, André..... Read More about Quatre-vingt-un chapitres sur l'esprit et les passions. Par l'auteur des Propos d'Alain
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La Coltivatione di Luigi Alamanni al christianissimo Francessco primo.
Florence: Bernardo Giunta, 1546. Second edition, first to be printed in Italy. Second edition of Alamanni's pastoral masterpiece, composed in the manner of Virgil's Georgics. This edition was the first to be printed in Italy (the first edition printed in Paris by Robert Estienne). Read More about La Coltivatione di Luigi Alamanni al christianissimo Francessco primo
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Immaculate Copy
Sebastian Van Storck.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1927. Alastair. No. 556 of 1050 copies, with a plate signed by Alastair. Immaculate Copy. Read More about Sebastian Van Storck
Price: $900
Van Vechten Portrait of Albee, 1961
Portrait photograph of Edward Albee.
New York: April 18, 1961. Variant of the session portrait published in PORTRAITS: the Photography of Carl Van Vechten (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Van Vechten Portrait of Albee, 1961. Read More about Portrait photograph of Edward Albee
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Portrait photograph of Edward Albee.
New York: April 18, 1961. Published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten (1978). Read More about Portrait photograph of Edward Albee
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Typed letter signed “Martha Albrand”.
Pattenburg, New Jersey: 20 November 1957. Responding to Hartley's letter asking about some biographical details and also about the importance of her education to her writing. “I do want to state quite emphatically that I believe in as good an education as anybody can get. Personally I find knowledge acquired..... Read More about Typed letter signed “Martha Albrand”
Price: $75
Letters from a Portugese Nun to an Officer. Translated by W.R. Bowles.
London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1817. Second edition. Bowles First edition was done in 1808. Debate continues as to whether Mariana was the real Portuguese author of these Letters of a Portuguese Nun in only 5 letters. Her purported love affair with the French officer Noël Bouton, Marquis..... Read More about Letters from a Portugese Nun to an Officer. Translated by W.R. Bowles
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Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag. My Girls, etc.
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1878. First edition. Read More about Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag. My Girls, etc
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Little Men. Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1872. First British Edition, Low's copyright cheap ed. of American books. Scarce, OCLC locates only one copy, in Germany. Read More about Little Men. Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys
Price: $300
Silver Pitchers: and Independence, A Centennial Love Story.
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1876. First Edition. Read More about Silver Pitchers: and Independence, A Centennial Love Story
Price: $100
The Aldine Edition of the British Poets.
London: Bell and Daldy, 1866. Read More about The Aldine Edition of the British Poets
Price: $600
The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. With a memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas.
London: George Bell and Son, 1893. Read More about The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. With a memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas
Price: $200