OCTOBER
by Tarn, Nathaniel
London: Trigram Press, 1969. First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; small 4to. "A sequence of ten poems followed by Requiem Pro Duabus Filiis Israel, with twelve drawings by Paul Vaughn." A few minor marks to wraps, and a small crease in rear wrap, related to binding. The final piece is a long requiem for the suicide of a friend. Inscribed at... Read More
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Lyrics for the Bride of God [Inscribed]
by TARN, Nathaniel
New York: New Directions, 1975. First Edition. First printing. Inscribed by the author on title page: "for Guy & Janet, in their home, - worlds I have lost sight of for too long - with many warm regards," signed and dated in 1983. Small octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 148pp. Fine copy in the original dustwrapper, lightly rubbed but unclipped... Read More
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WHERE BABYLON ENDS
by Tarn, Nathaniel
London: Cape Goliard, 1968. First edition. Number 47 of 50 copies of 700 casebound copies (2700 total, the rest in wraps). An attractive publication with illustrations and overlays. About fine with toning to the endpaper edges in a shelfworn, but still near fine dust jacket.
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Unicorn Folio: Series One, Number Four [Contributor's Copy]
by TARN, Nathaniel, Thomas Merton, Wolfgang Roth (et al) (contributors); Janeen Vanden Berg & Jeffrey Sorenson (illus)
Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1967. First Edition. Limited Edition of 325 copies, of which this is no.10. Folio (50.5cm) light brown paper folder, with 13 loose broadsheets, an illustrated list of contributors, and a biographical sheet on contributors (of varying colors and sizes) all laid in. Typography by Alan Brillant. This copy belongs to contributor Nathaniel Tarn, and in... Read More
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Dying Trees
by Tarn, Nathaniel
Minneapolis: Rain Taxi, 2003. First edition. Fresh bright copy, number 146 of 200, in Japanese-style binding in olive wraps. A gem, and somewhat scarce.
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Memorial of the Commissioners of the County of Philadelphia to the Legislature, Upon the Subject of the Laws Exempting Certain Property from Taxation. Together with a Schedule of Exempt Property
by TARR, Elihu D.
Philadelphia: Printed for the County Commissioners, 1851. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); removed; 51pp. Light soil and spotting, else Very Good and sound. Tarr's text followed by the list of exempt property and organizations, among these the Abolition Society, cemeteries and burial grounds, and railroad and canal property. Uncommon. SABIN 61826.
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Peasant Communism in Southern Italy
by TARROW, Sidney G.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967. Octavo. Cloth boards in dust jacket; xvii, 389pp. Mild foxing to free endpapers, edges of textblock, and jacket, trivial rubbing to top and bottom edges of boards, else a tight, clean, unmarked copy. Minor shelf wear to jacket, including 0.5" closed tear to bottom edge. Very Good. Number 21 in publisher's series "Yale... Read More
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The Little Friend [Uncorrected Proof Copy]
by TARTT, Donna
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.25cm); original beige printed card wrappers; [xvi],[2],3-555,[5]pp. Trivial wear to extremities, with a small patch of sticker pull to upper right corner of front wrapper; Near Fine. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author's second novel, set in Mississippi during the early 1970s. Elusive in the proof state, which precedes... Read More
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Broadside: All Is Brillig (or ought to be)
by TATE, Allen (poem); DUNNINGAN, Martha (woodcut)
N.p.: Palaemon Press, 1978. First Edition. One of 100 numbered copies (from a total edition of 126), this being copy no.47. Single sheet of white Fabriano, with text and woodcut illustration printed in black and red (measuring 8 3/8" x 11.25"). A Fine copy of Tate's poem, issued as Palaemon Broadside No.3.
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CHRIST AND THE UNICORN. An address delivered on June the 23rd, 1954, at the Third International Congress for Peace and Christian Civilization held in Florence Italy under the auspices of the Mayor
by Tate, Allen
West Branch, Iowa: Cummington Press, 1966. First Edition. Blue-gray wrappers, printed label 10 pp. One of 125 copies (reportedly only 100 printed). Few spots of foxing as usual with most on front edge of the rfep. Attractive copy of a simple production from one of the finest of small presses. Protected by a stiff mylar cover.
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All Is Brillig (or ought to be)
by TATE, Allen; James Dickey introd
N.p.: Palaemon Press, 1979. Limited Edition. Number 7 of 200 numbered copies. Octavo. Sewn wrappers; [8]pp. Fine. Tate's last poem. Previously issued as a Palaemon Press broadside; this is the first edition to include Dickey's introduction.
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The Vigil of Venus: Pervigilium Veneris
by TATE, Allen (translation; introduction)
Cummington, Massachusetts: The Cummington Press, 1943. First Edition. First Printing, one of 430 copies, 30 of which were kettered A to DD and signed, and the remaining 400 copies were numbered, of which this is no.379. Octavo (24.5cm); black cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in red on spine; fore-edge untrimmed; glassine dustwrapper; [28]pp. Light sunning to board edges, with... Read More
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ALL IS BRILLIG (OR OUGHT TO BE)
by Tate, Allen
Winston-Salem: Palaemon Press, 1979. First edition. Sewn printed wrappers; thin 8vo. Contains a preface by James Dickey. One of 150 (of 200 total) numbered copies. Tate's last poem, previously issued in a broadside only. Fine.
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FRAGMENT OF A MEDITATION
by Tate, Allen
Cummington: Cummington Press, 1947. First Edition. Small chapbook sew into gray paper wrappers with a printed red paper label; 8vo. [8 pp.] Christmas greetings from Caroline [Gordon] and Allen Tate, consisting of a poem from his Selected Poems of 1937, beginning "Not yet the thirtieth year...". Two small coffee ring stains, toning and wear to the edges, the string... Read More
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Two Conceits For the Eye to Sing, If Possible [Limited Edition]
by TATE, Allen
[Cummington, MA]: Cummington Press, 1950. First Edition. Limited to 300 copies. Small 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's grey side-stitched card wrappers, printed paper label mounted to upper cover; [8]pp.; vignettes by Wightman Williams. Paper label very slightly dust-soiled, else Fine.
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SIXTY AMERICAN POETS
by Tate, Allen
Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1970. Reprint. Red library buckram.; 4to. 188 pp. Folcroft Library Editions, 1970. "Reprint" (second hardcover) of the 1945 mimeographed edition; 150 copies, stated limitation. Selected with a preface and critical Notes by Allen Tate, The Chair of Poetry. A preliminary checklist by Frances Cheney. A useful checklist, and Tate's choices and commentary on poet's... Read More
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the vigil of venus, Pervigilium Veneris
by Tate, Allen
Cummington, MA: Cummington Press, 1943. First edition. Black cloth, spine titled in red, in scarce unprinted glassine dust jacket. One of 430 numbered copies. Latin text introduced and with a translation by Tate. Near fine, trace of foxing at edges, in a worn at extremities else very good jacket.
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A Southern Vanguard: The John Peale Bishop Memorial Volume
by TATE, Allen, ed
New York: Prentice-Hall, [1947]. First Edition. Octavo (20.75cm.); original cloth in reddish-brown decorative dust jacket, green topstain; x,[2],331pp. Spine ends and board corners tapped, but still a tight, Near Fine copy, with top-stain deep and even. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $4.50 on front flap), spine a shade faded, perhaps not quite as severely as usual, with mild... Read More
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Psychoanalysis and Black Novels: Desire and the Protocols of Race
by TATE, Claudia
New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. First Edition. Wrapper issue. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's glossy pictorial card wrappers; xvi,238pp. Just About Fine condition.
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Hints to Pilgrims
by TATE, James
Cambridge: Halty Ferguson, 1971. First Edition. First printing; regular issue, one of 1000 copies (total edition 1150). Octavo; red card wrappers, 92pp. Paper on spine panel very mildly sunned, else about Fine. There was a simultaneous signed cloth issue of 150 copies.
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CONSTANT DEFENDER
by Tate, James
New York: The Ecco Press, 1983. First edition. An uncorrected proof copy in plain wrappers. A very good copy creased at spine.
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RIVEN DOGGERIES
by Tate, James
New York: The Ecco Press, 1979. First edition. Tan cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 68 pp. Signed by Tate on the title page, and also stamped with the "chop" of the language poet (chop is "Gurnis") who owned this copy. Near fine, lightly soiled; in a fine dust jacket.
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The Lost Pilot
by TATE, James
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967. Second Printing, cloth issue. Octavo; gray marble-patterned paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; xii,72,[2]pp. Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped (priced $3.75) and gently spine-sunned, with light wear to extremities, small nicks to spine ends, and a few small tears. The late National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning... Read More
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The Torches
by TATE, James
[Santa Barbara]: Unicorn Press, 1971. Second Revised Edition. Enlarged Edition, one of 250 cloth bound copies. Octavo (22cm); white cloth-covered boards, with title label on spine; brown endpapers; 45pp. Spine-tanned, else Near Fine. Collection of verse, includes "The Initiation", "Returning to the Wrong Life", and "Outlaws in Andover". [84374].
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Les Racines Congolaises. Précédé de La Vie Poétique: Poèmes
by TATI-LOUTARD, J.-B
Honfleur: Pierre Jean Oswald, [1968]. First Edition. Slim 12mo (17.75cm.); original red printed wrappers, French flaps; 73,[4]pp. Fine. Second poetry collection by Congolese politican and author Jean-Baptise Tati-Loutard (1938-2009), at the time teaching at the Centre for Graduate Studies in Brazzaville. He would later serve as Minister of Higher Education and Minister of Arts and Culture and founded the... Read More
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