REMARKS ON THE GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY OF NOVA SCOTIA
by GESNER, Abraham
Halifax, NS: Gossip and Coade, Times Office, 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. Light scattered foxing, owner name on front endpaper, some looseness of front cover with internal tape reinforcement. Overall Very Good. Small quarto (5-3/4" x 8-3/4") in original brown cloth rebacked with heavy brown binder's tape with most of the original spine label pasted on; xxxix, 272, [1]... Read More
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ELLEN FOSTER
by GIBBONS, Kaye
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1987. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Advance Copy of her acclaimed first book consisting of bound signatures. SIGNED by Gibbons on the title page.
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ELLEN FOSTER
by GIBBONS, Kaye
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very slight creasing to the edge of a few pages toward the beginning. Near Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Her acclaimed first book, a selection of Oprah's Book Club in 1997, the same year a made-for-television film based on the book aired.
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THE CONNAUGHT SUITE II
by GIBBONS, Virginia
[Ireland], [1993]. First Edition. Softcover. Small tear to margin of title page; all prints are Fine. Fine in a Near Fine wood-patterned printed board portfolio with a cloth backstrip and a metal clasp device, all contained in the original mailing carton. Virginia Gibbons. Portfolio with loose etchings (17-1/2" x 15"; image size: 11-1/2" x 8-3/4") laid in, each... Read More
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WHALESONGS
by GIBB, Robert
[Berkeley]: Turkey Press, 1979. Second Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine, issued without dustwrapper.. Cloth-backed boards, issued without dustwrapper. Copy #91 of only 100 numbered and SIGNED copies of the first hardcover edition of the poet's first book. A much fancier edition than the original wraps edition by the same press, this edition is printed letterpress on Rives heavy weight... Read More
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ENTERING TIME
by GIBB, Robert
(Daleville, IN): (The Barnwood Press), (1986). First Edition. Wraps. Minor wear. Near Fine. Pictorial wraps. Poetry by this Pennsylvania native.
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THE MARGINS
by GIBB, Robert
[Occidental, CA]: White Bear Books, 1979. First Edition. Wraps. Minor wear. Near Fine. Pictorial wraps. Early title by this Pennsylvania poet.
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THE FIRST NIGHT GILBERT AND SULLIVAN CONTAINING COMPLETE LIBRETTOS OF THE FOURTEEN OPERAS, EXACTLY AS PRESENTED AT THEIR PREMIERE PERFORMANCES; TOGETHER WITH FACSIMILES OF THE FIRST-NIGHT PROGRAMMES
by GILBERT, W. S. and SULLIVAN, Arthur
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1958. hardcover. Small rubbed spot on spine. Near Fine in a Near Fine gold foil slipcase with typical rubbing. reproductions of contemporary illustrations. Folio (8-1/2" x 12") bound in half red velvet with a green cloth spine label and green linen boards gold-stamped with a conventional Victorian pattern; 488 pages. Edited, with a... Read More
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THE FIRST NIGHT GILBERT AND SULLIVAN CONTAINING COMPLETE LIBRETTOS OF THE FOURTEEN OPERAS, EXACTLY AS PRESENTED AT THEIR PREMIERE PERFORMANCES; TOGETHER WITH FACSIMILES OF THE FIRST-NIGHT PROGRAMMES
by GILBERT, W. S. and SULLIVAN, Arthur
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1958. hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine gold foil slipcase with typical rubbing. reproductions of contemporary illustrations. Folio (8-1/2" x 12") bound in half red velvet with a green cloth spine label and green linen boards gold-stamped with a conventional Victorian pattern; 488 pages. Edited, with a Prologue and Copious Descriptive Particulars, by... Read More
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HOWL: 33 1/3 rpm Vinyl Record Album
by GINSBERG, Allen
[San Francisco]: Fantasy, [1969]. First Edition. Record Album. A few minor scratches, not played but appears to be Near Fine in a Near Fine sleeve. Pictorial sleeve containing a 33 1/3 rpm vinyl "Long Playing Microgroove" record album of Ginsberg reading "Howl," as well as "The Sunflower Sutra"; "Footnote to Howl"; "A Supermarket in California"; "Transcription of Organ... Read More
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COSMOPOLITAN GREETINGS. POEMS 1986-1992
by GINSBERG, Allen
New York: HarperCollins, (1994). First Edition. Hardcover. Slight dust spotting to the top and bottom bulked text edges. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. SIGNED by Ginsberg with his "AH" trademark and dated 1994 on the title page.
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FIRST BLUES. RAGS, BALLADS & HARMONIUM SONGS 1971 - 74
by GINSBERG, Allen
(New York): Full Court Press, (1975). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper. Copy #29 of 100 SIGNED by Ginsberg on the colophon page.
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JARGON 31: 14 POETS, 1 ARTIST. DECEMBER 12 - 14, 1958, NEW YORK
by GINSBERG, Allen; STAFFORD, William; et. al
(Highlands, NC): Jargon, 1958. First Edition. Wraps. About Fine in original envelope. Fielding Dawson. Yellow folder with fourteen loose sheets laid in reproducing the holograph poems of the fourteen contributors, including Paul Blackburn, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Goodman, Denise Levertov, Edward Dahlberg, William Stafford, Louis Zukofsky, Franz Klein, and Jonathan Williams. Dedicated to William Carlos Williams with each poem... Read More
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER (AL)
by GINSBERG, Allen
Boulder, CO, 14 June 1983 (from postmark). Letter. Folds from mailing. Near Fine. On both sides of a letter on 6" x 9" lined paper to Ginsberg asking if he were still involved with the Hare Krishnas, he responds: "Not since 1968-- No-- I like Bhaktivedanta Swami Dispite [sic] his hard-shell Baptist style orthodoxy-- but I don't follow... Read More
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AIRPLANE DREAMS: COMPOSITIONS FROM JOURNALS Inscribed to Poet Robert Duncan
by GINSBERG, Allen
(Toronto): Anansi, 1968. First Edition. Softcover. Small stains to front cover, larger stains on rear. Very Good. Pictorial wraps; (viii), 38 pages. Fine Association Copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper by Ginsberg to poet Robert Duncan: For Robert Duncan at home--/San Francisco 1968/August 11,/Allen Ginsberg. Additionally Ginsberg has written an eight-line piece titled "Oh!" that he... Read More
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HOWL For Carl Solomon
by GINSBERG, Allen
(San Francisco): (Grabhorn-Hoyem), (1971). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Folio (11" x 14") in pictorial tan linen decorated with a wrap-around skyline with fireworks accomplished in 9 colors and designed by Robert La Vigne. One of 275 copies printed on handmade paper and SIGNED on the title page by Ginsberg. The first fine press edition of this landmark 1956... Read More
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MANY LOVES
by GINSBERG, Allen
(New York): Pequod Press, (1984). First Edition. Wraps. About Fine. Printed wraps. One of 500 numbered copies illustrated by Roberta Collier. A poem from a 1956 Journal about making love to Neal Cassady, apparently for the first time, beginning "Neal Cassady was my animal: he brought me to my knees."
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FIRST BLUES. RAGS, BALLADS & HARMONIUM SONGS 1971 - 74
by GINSBERG, Allen
(New York): Full Court Press, (1975). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper. Copy #72 of 100 SIGNED by Ginsberg on the colophon page.
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WHOLLY COMMUNION
by GINSBERG, Allen et. al
New York: Grove Press, (1965). First Edition. wraps. Slight crease at bottom right corner. Near Fine. Pictorial wraps, not issued in hardcover. Illustrated with photographs. Based on a film made of an International Poetry Reading at the Royal Albert Hall in 1965. Contributors include Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) to Doris Grumbach with her SIGNED Copy of GINSBERG. A BIOGRAPHY by Barry Miles
by GINSBERG, Allen
New York, 12 March 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. But for the mailing folds the letter is Fine with very dark and clear writing. The book is Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. A two-page handwritten letter on separate sheets SIGNED by Ginsberg to the writer Doris Grumbach asking for her assistance in getting one of his students,... Read More
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SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH
by GINSBERG, Allen
Photograph. Fine. An 8" x 10" Portrait Photograph SIGNED by Ginsberg in marker along his shirt and dated 4/25/84 at the bottom. Simply matted and framed.
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[BROADSIDES] AMERICAN POETRY PORTFOLIO
by GINSBERG, Allen; UPDIKE, John; STAFFORD, William; PASTAN, Linda McHUGH, Heather; NEMEROV, Howard; HEYEN, William; DAVISON, Scott
Dallas: Northouse & Northouse, 1981. First Edition. broadsides. Fine in case as issued. A collection of 8 folio broadsides and title page ranging in size from 13" x 17" to 13" x 19" and printed on heavy paper of various colors with all but two of the broadsides illustrated and each individually SIGNED by the author. This is... Read More
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DAILY HOROSCOPE
by GIOIA, Dana
Iowa City: The Windhover Press, (1982). First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Original gray wraps with title page illustrated with a linoleum cut by Thomas Kovacs. Acknowledgement slip laid in. One of 225 copies on Windhover paper of the poet's first book (following a two-poem pamphlet published by the Bowery Press) preceding the trade collection of the same title by... Read More
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FILM NOIR
by GIOIA, Dana
(West Chester): Aralia Press, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Black morocco-backed gray boards with a printed paper label on the front cover. Of a total of 156 copies printed, this is copy "O" of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by the author.
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SUMMER
by GIOIA, Dana
Aralia Press, 1983. First Edition. Printed wraps. Fine. Includes two poems. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by the author.
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