New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1934. First edition, stated, of the author's first book, in first issue dust-jacket withe $2.50 price and "Recent Fiction" on back panel, with erratum slip. O'Hara's wildly successful first novel, the story of the disintegration of Julian English. "If you want to read a book by..... Read More about Appointment in Samarra
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Black Mountain College: Jan. 18, 1952. Published: Origin 6 Summer 1952), pp. 119-121. In what sense is what happens before the eye so very different from what actually goes on within Charles Olson (1910-1970) sends his friends Bernhard and Mary Knollenberg his newly completed poem, A Discrete Gloss, begun in..... Read More about A Discrete Gloss. Typescript Poem, signed (“Olson”), Typed Letter, signed (“Charles”) to...
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December, 1958. Coyne, James, photo. Unseen photo, with long note to Hughes’ parents. Unknown outtake from a session taken by James Coyne for "Four Young Poets" (Corrine Robins, Mademoiselle, January 1959), which featured the couple's life in Boston, and reproduced Plath's poem "The Times are Tidy" and Hughes' poem "Pennies..... Read More about Photograph of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes at Home in 1958, inscribed at length by Plath to Edith...
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[New York]: A New Directions Book, 1966. First edition "in this form," American issue, limited to 115 numbered copies for distribution in the United States, signed by Ezra Pound. Printed on the hand press of the Officina Bodini, Verona, on Pescia paper. Read More about Ezra Pound’s Cavalcanti Poems
Price: $2,000
[New York]: A New Directions Book, 1967. First edition (signed); limited to 110 copies, signed by Ezra Pound (of which 100 copies were for sale). Read More about Redondillas, or Something of That Sort
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London: Edward Moxon, 1840. First edition. Inscribed by Mary Shelley in December 1839. Contains the first printing of Shelley's "The Defence of Poetry" and also his translations from the classics (including Plato's “Symposium,” “Ion,” and fragments from “The Republic”) and 67 letters. “The Defence of Poetry” was edited by John..... Read More about Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations, and Fragments. Edited by Mrs. Shelley
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New York: William Morrow, 1957. First American edition. INSCRIBED TO HIS WIFE. The acclaimed novel of Australians facing the consequences of a nuclear war in the northern hemisphere. Filmed in 1959 starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner and Fred Astaire. Inscribed by the author to his wife on the front flyleaf..... Read More about On the Beach
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New York: Minton, Balch & Company, 1928. First edition, first printing (with page 33/34 tipped in, printing Tate's iconic poem 'Ode to the Confederate Dead'). SIGNED COPY, IN DUST JACKET. Tate's first collection of poetry (preceded only by 'The Golden Mean,' written in 1923 with R. Wills, and his 1928..... Read More about Mr. Pope and Other Poems
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Santa Barbara, California: Neville, 1991. Steadman, Ralph. First edition. Copy H of 26 copies, signed by Hunter S. Thompson. Signed. Read More about Screwjack
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Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 2004. First edition, deluxe signed issue, no. XI of 20 copies, from an edition of 75 signed copies (55 in cloth), published by Joe McCann, simultaneous with the trade issue from the Lilliput Press. A play by Colm Toibin, whose first book, Walking Along the Border..... Read More about Beauty in a Broken Place. [A t head of title:] The Abbey Theatre
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New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1955]. First edition, first state of the title leaf. With review slip tipped in to flyleaf. REVIEW COPY. Read More about The Bride of the Innisfallen
Price: $1,250
London: Medici Society, 1926. First edition. Copy number 6 of 130 numbered copies (of which 100 were for sale). Inscribed to French friends, Paul & Minnie Bourget. The bibliography notes only copies with a facsimile signature on p.ii, which suggests that this is one of the 30 copies retained by..... Read More about Twelve Poems
Price: $17,500
San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1942 [but bound in 1973]. First edition, signed issue, in second (later) issue "Grabhorn-Hoyem" binding, limited to 21 copies (bound thus), signed by Edmund Wilson [only circa 10 copies of the signed issue were bound by Colt Press, and issued at the time of original..... Read More about Note-books of Night
Price: $2,500
London: Duckworth, 1927. “Cheap Edition”, i.e., first American edition, English issue. Read More about The Voyage Out
Price: $3,750
London: Macmillan and Co, 1928. Moore, Thomas Sturge. First edition, one of only 2000 copies printed. First edition of one of Yeats' great books, containing "Sailing to Byzantium", "The Tower", "Leda and the Swan," etc. Read More about The Tower
Price: $5,000