The Complete Poems: 1927-1979
by BISHOP, Elizabeth
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1983. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Green cloth, in orange dust jacket; [xii],287,[1]pp. Tapped at spine ends and corners, else Near Fine. Jacket unclipped, lightly edgeworn, with slight toning to top edge visible on flaps and verso: Very Good or better.
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MINUTE PARTICULARS [Signed]
by Bishop, John Peale
New York: Alcestis Press, 1935. First edition. One of 135 (of 165 total) signed copies, printed on Strathmore Permanent All-Rag. Octavo; printed wrappers in original glassine; 71pp. Light wear at corners, else Fine and very clean. Aged glassine, with wear along bottom edge and corners, else Very Good. In protective slipcase. Alcestis Press was run by the curious... Read More
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A Southern Vanguard: The John Peale Bishop Memorial Volume
by BISHOP, John Peale, Randall Jarrell, Peter Taylor, (et. al) (contributors); Allen Tate (editor)
New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1947. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); terracotta cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in dark green on spine and front cover; green topstain; dustjacket; 331pp. Modest rubbing to spine ends, with faint foxing to right edge of textblock, and light offsetting to pastedowns and endpapers; Very Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $4.50), spine-faded, with bookshop sticker... Read More
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MINUTE PARTICULARS [Signed]
by Bishop, John Peale
New York: Alcestis Press, 1935. First edition. One of 135 (of 165 total) signed copies, printed on Strathmore Permanent All-Rag. Octavo; printed wrappers in original glassine; 71pp. Very light offsetting to endpapers, light wear to corners, still Fine. Aged glassine, with a few chips at the corners. Alcestis press was run by the curious Ronald Lane Latimer who... Read More
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Tomorrow's Bread
by BISNO, Beatrice
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1938. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); gray linen, titled and blocked in gilt and black on spine and front panel; gray topstain; dustjacket; 328pp. Mild sunning to spine, a bit of offset from binders glue to gutters at pastedowns, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is edgeworn and spine-sunned, with small chips to spine ends and... Read More
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Introduzione alla Volgar Poesia
by BISSO, P. Giambatista
Bassano: Tipografia Remondini, 1818. New Edition. 12mo (16cm.); contemporary half mottled sheep over boards, manuscript spine label; 560pp. Boards a bit rubbed, tiny losses along extremities of spine label, rather heavy foxing to preliminaries else Very Good and sound. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shann with their estate label to front pastedown.
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Bits of Blue
by BISSONNETTE, Wesley
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr and Company, 1893. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's white gilt-lettered cloth; [103]pp. Cloth a bit soiled, especially at spine, with a few shallow surface scratches, corners gently bumped, else Very Good, internally fine. Quite scarce collection of poems by a near-unknown poet. Despite the imprint the poems are inspired mostly by nature and Greek mythology... Read More
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Travel
by BITESNICH, Andreas H.
Kempen: Te Neues, 2001. First Edition. Quarto. Cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 128pp; illus. Fine, unworn copy in fine dustwrapper; a new-appearing copy.
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Soudan's Second Sunup [Inscribed]
by BITTINGER, Desmond W.
Elgin, IL: Elgin Press, 1938. First Edition. Inscribed on front endpaper: "Very Sincerely / Desmond Bittinger / Africa." Octavo. Yellow cloth hardcover; 254pp; frontispiece map; 8 unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Bright copy with just a touch of soil to board edges; spine cloth a shade sunned, Very Good to Near Fine. Contemporary ownership inscription beneath author's signature.... Read More
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Free Press Underground & Alternative Publications 1965-1975
by BIZOT, Jean-François; Barry Miles (foreword); David H. Wilson (translation)
New York: Universe Publishing / Rizzoli International Publications, Inc, [2006]. First American Edition. Softcover. Folio (34cm); paper photographic wrappers; [5],6-255,[1]pp; black-and-white photographic (halftones) and colorful illustrations. Light rubbing to extremities, else Near Fine. First published in France as Free Press La contre-culture vue par la Presse Underground (2006), this collection includes full-page illustrations of previously published artwork for... Read More
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The Modern Drama Series
by BJÖRKMAN, Edwin, ed
New York: Mitchell Kennerley, [ca. 1914]. First Edition. Small octavo broadside (19x12.5cm.); Fine. Prospectus issued for the publisher's Modern Drama Series, of which twelve plays are listed here, including works by Ibsen, D.H. Lawrence, Leonid Andreyev, and Lord Dunsany.
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Captain Kodak: A Camera Story. With photographic illustrations by the author
by BLACK, Alexander
Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, 1899. First Edition. First printing, with no printing statement on verso of title page. Octavo (21cm). Publisher's embossed red cloth, titled in gilt with applied photo-pictorial cover illustration; 288pp; illus. Old ink-stains to cloth on front cover and spine; ink inscriptions to endpapers; still a tight, sound copy of the uncommon first edition. ... Read More
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John Silence; Physician Extraordinary
by BLACKWOOD, Algernon
London: Eveleigh Nash, 1908. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 19.5cm. Publisher's red cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board, with gilt swastika device to lower front corner. 390pp. +32pp. publisher's ad catalog dated Spring 1908. Significantly sunned to the spine, with bumping to the spine ends and some light wear to the extremities; internally clean, with the bookplate... Read More
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The Promise of Air
by BLACKWOOD, Algernon
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, [1918]. First American Edition. Octavo (19.25cm.); publisher's cloth in yellow dust jacket printed in single rule; [6],279,[1],[2](ads)pp. Shallow chips and tears along jacket extremities, the whole quite dust-soiled and a bit foxed, cloth spine slightly toned, else a Very Good copy in the scarce dust jacket. One of the author's "New Age"... Read More
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Songs From Ragged Streets
by [BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT] [POETRY] BRYANT JR., F.J. (poems); BRYANT, Keith (illustrations)
Greenfield Center, NY: Greenfield Review Press, 1974. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm); photo-illustrated card wrappers; 39,[1]pp; illus. A Fine, unread copy. Collection of verse by the Philadelphia-born African American poet, illustrated throughout, chiefly centered around the Black experience in the inner city.
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Poetical Works of James DeRuyter Blackwell in Three Volumes, Volume I.
by BLACKWELL, James DeRuyter
New York: E. J. Hale & Son, 1879. First Edition. Erratum slip tipped in at contents page. Octavo (16.5cm); brown cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and black on front cover and blind embossed to rear cover; [ii],[3],4-224,[2]pp; illus. Shelf-soil and rubbing to covers and board edges, with trace foxing to edges of textblock and interior;... Read More
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The War of 1812 in the Age of Napoleon
by BLACK, Jeremy
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; xvii,286pp; illus. Fine and unmarked in crisp, unworn dustwrapper - a new-appearing copy.
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The Jewish Sabbath and the Christian Lord's Day: A Lay Sermon Delivered in Glasgow Under the Auspices of the Glasgow Sunday Society
by BLACKIE, John Stuart
Edinburgh: Wheeler, King & Co, n.d., ca. 1880s. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); removed; 16pp. Faint vertical fold, light toning and a hint of wear from handling, else Very Good. Uncommon oration by the highly prolific classical and Scottish Gaelic scholar. OCLC locates one copy in North America as of June, 2020, at Yale. Not in the NUC.
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Young Socialist. Vol. 12 no 9 (Whole No. 99) - September 1969
by BLACKSTOCK, Nelson (ed)
New York: Young Socialist, 1969. First Edition. Quarto (28cm). Staple-bound, printed paper wrappers; 24pp; illus. Mild external wear and soil; slight discoloration and a few brief, closed tears to wrapper edges; Very Good. Single monthly issue in original wrappers. Articles on the YSA on campus; Hugo Blanco in Peru; reprint of a 1922 Trotsky letter; etc. Organ of the... Read More
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Young Socialist. Vol. 12 no 8 (Whole No. 98) - July-August 1969
by BLACKSTOCK, Nelson (ed)
New York: Young Socialist, 1969. First Edition. Quarto (28cm). Staple-bound, printed paper wrappers; 32pp; illus. Mild external wear and soil; slight discoloration and a few brief, closed tears to wrapper edges; Very Good. Single monthly issue in original wrappers. Articles on the rehabilitation of Stalin; Polish pro-Democracy movements; the Mexcian student movement, etc. Organ of the Young Socialist Alliance,... Read More
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JOURNALS
by Blackburn, Paul; Robert Kelly (ed.)
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First Edition. Cloth-backed paper covers, spine label, plain acetate covers; 8vo. 155 pp. This is one of the 500 unnumbered copies. Near fine, bottom lightly shelfworn. Morrow & Cooney 223.
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In. On. Or About the Premises, Being a Small Book of Poems [Limited Edition, Signed]
by BLACKBURN, Paul (poems); STUART, Michelle (illustrations)
London: Cape Goliard Press, 1968. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 100 numbered copies bound in boards (from a total of 1400) and signed by the author, this being copy no.86. Octavo (25.5cm); sage green paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine, and a small mirror mounted to upper front cover; publisher's original acetate overlay; [64]pp; illus.... Read More
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Insider Art: April 12 - May 24, 2013
by BLACK, Rafael Leonardo
New York: Francis M Naumann, 2013. First Edition. Quarto (27cm). Printed heavy card wrappers; 50pp; chiefly illus. Mild rubbing to cover extremities, else Fine. Catalog for a 2013 exhibition of the artist's work.
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Lorna Doone: a Romance of Exmoor
by BLACKMORE, R.D.; John Austen, illus
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, (1971). Limited Edition. Octavo (24.5cm); full burgundy leather, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and covers; silk endpapers; all edges gilt; 549pp; with illustrations throughout by John Austen. A fine, unread copy. "Notes From the Archives" not present.
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DIRTY HANDS or, The True -Born Censor
by Blackmur, R. P.
Cambridge: Minority Press, 1930. First edition. 8vo. 15 pp. Gray-green sewn wraps printed in green. Generally regarded as the author's first book. An essay based upon his conversation with a New England censor; a rather ironic take. Minority Pamphlet No. 5. Printed by Gordon Fraser at St. John's College. Edges worn, spine toned, lightly soiled and about very good.... Read More
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