Portrait photograph of Eugene O'Neill
[New York]: September 5, 1933. Published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten (1978), edited by Saul... Read More about Portrait photograph of Eugene O'Neill
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Aesop in Rhyme, with some originals.
London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1820. First edition. Read More about Aesop in Rhyme, with some originals
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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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Permit Me Voyage.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1934. First edition. Read More about Permit Me Voyage
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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
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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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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
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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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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
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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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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
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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”
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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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A New Folder ... Americans: Poems and Drawings. With a foreward by Wallace Fowlie.
New York: Folder Editions, nd. First edition. Number 16 of 150 copies bound in cloth. Signed by Aldan on the title and limitation leaf. Poetry and art by John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Franz Kline, Larry Rivers, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Denise Levertov, James Merrill, Charles Olson, Robert Motherwell, and Willem..... Read More about A New Folder ... Americans: Poems and Drawings. With a foreward by Wallace Fowlie
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The Aldine Edition of the British Poets.
London: Bell and Daldy, 1866. Read More about The Aldine Edition of the British Poets
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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
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The Aldine Edition of British Poets.
London: George Bell & Sons, York St., Covent Garden. New York: 112, Fourth Street, 1891-1901. The poets (and number of volumes) are: Akenside (1), Beattie (1), William Blake (1), Burns (3), Butler (2), Chatterton (2), Chaucer (6), Churchill (3), Coleridge (2), Collins (1), Cowper (3), Dryden (5), Falconer (1), Goldsmith..... Read More about The Aldine Edition of British Poets
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Best Science Fiction Stories of.
London: Faber and Faber, [1965]. First Edition. Read More about Best Science Fiction Stories of
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[Helliconia Trilogy] The complete trilogy, comprising: Helliconia Spring, Helliconia Summer, and Helliconia Winter.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1982-1985]. First British editions. First two simultaneous with, and the last preceded by, the U.S. edition. Read More about Helliconia Trilogy] The complete trilogy, comprising: Helliconia Spring, Helliconia Summer, and...
Price: $150