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THE PERSIMMONS ARE FALLING EARLY AND ROTTEN FROM THE TREE. [An Original Broadside Illustrated by Phyllis Bailey, SIGNED by the poet JOANNE KYGER].

By: (Bailey, Phyllis). Kyger, Joanne.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: [San Francisco]: [East Wind Printers], [1964]. : [1964].

Seller ID: 96048

Condition: Very good

SIGNED BY THE POET JOANNE KYGER - A 20 inch high by 13 inch wide broadside on tan watermarked paper. Joanne Kyger's poem is handsomely printed in italics within an elaborate brown & tan woodcut by Phyllis Bailey portraying nude figures and hands held out to pick & catch the fruit. Signed in pencil Joanne Eliz. Kyger by the poet at bottom right. There is minor creasing to the edges, else near fine. Limited edition of only 300 copies signed by the poet, created for the San Francisco Art Festival Poetry Portfolio, 1964 by East Wind Printers.
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LAVA LANE / And Other Poems

By: (Baker, Hettie Gray). Crane, Nathalia

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1925. : 1925.

Seller ID: 16079

Condition: Good

New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1925.. 1925.. Good. - Octavo, red cloth. The binding is dampstained. The covers are bumped with a tiny stain to the front edge of the front cover. The spine is darkened with the head lightly frayed. Half-title, title, [v] & 68 pages. The front hinge is partially cracked & the top end of the front endpaper is detached. The front endpaper & half-title are darkened & the top & inner edges of the remaining pages are darkened. There is occasional foxing. Good only. First trade edition.From the library of Hettie Gray Baker with her bookplate on the front pastedown. Baker (...
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BALZAC THE EUROPEAN

By: (Balzac, Honore de). Oliver, E. J

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London and New York: Sheed and Ward, (1959). : (1959).

Seller ID: 28872

Condition: Very good

London and New York: Sheed and Ward, (1959).. (1959).. Very good. - Octavo, cloth, in a dust wrapper. The dust jacket is lightly soiled with its top edge lightly chipped. Half-title, title, [2] leaves & 209 pages. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper.

First edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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DJUNA BARNES: A BIBLIOGRAPHY

By: (Barnes, Djuna). Messerli, Douglas

Price: $45.00

Publisher: [NY]: David Lewis, 1975. : 1975.

Seller ID: 6660

Condition: Very good

[NY]: David Lewis, 1975.. 1975.. Very good. - Octavo, navy blue cloth titled in gilt. Slightly bumped, soiled & faded. xx & 131 pp. Very good.

Limited edition of 500 copies.
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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

By: (Barrett Browning, Elizabeth). Wise, Thomas J

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Folkestone and London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1970. : 1970.

Seller ID: 6585

Condition: Fine

Folkestone and London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1970.. 1970.. Fine. - Octavo, black cloth titled in gilt, in a price-clipped dw. xv & 247 pp. Illustrated with frontispiece and plates [reproductions of manuscript pages and title pages]. Near fine.

Reprinted from the edition printed for private circulation by Richard Clay & Sons, Ltd., London, 1918. Dust jacket present.
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NEW WORLD WRITING 20

By: (Barthelme, Donald; Rosenfeld, Isaac; Seferis, George; Morgenstern, Christian; Kunitz, Stanley; et al)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, (1962). : (1962).

Seller ID: 23738

Condition: Very good

Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, (1962).. (1962).. Very good. - Octavo, black cloth in a dust wrapper. The binding is slightly rubbed & bumped with some very light staining to the rear cover. The dust wrapper is rubbed & lightly chipped with some light dampstaining. 215 pages plus 2- page publisher's catalog. Very good in a good dust wrapper. First edition.Subtitled on the dust jacket: Fiction, poetry, criticism from England, France, Germany, Greece, New Zealand and the United States. Among the contents is an early piece by Donald Barthelme, The Big Broadcast of 1938. There...
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FLIGHT AMONG THE TOMBS: Poems by Anthony Hecht. SIGNED by the poet

By: (Baskin, Leonard). Hecht, Anthony

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. : 1996.

Seller ID: 18662

ISBN-13: 9780679450955

Condition: Fine

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.. 1996.. Fine. - Octavo, black cloth titled in gilt on the spine in a dust wrapper. The dust jacket has very light creasing to the head of its spine. [ix], 76 & [1] pages plus colophon. Illustrated in black & white with full-page wood engravings by Leonard Baskin. Near fine.

First edition.

Signed by the poet on the half-title. Signed copies of the book are uncommon. Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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GINGER SNAPS

By: (Bauhoff, Ellwood). Beach, Ransford

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, PA: Dorrance & Company, (1956). : (1956).

Seller ID: 30590

Condition: Very good

Philadelphia, PA: Dorrance & Company, (1956).. (1956).. Very good. - Octavo, brick red cloth. The extremities are rubbed. There are some tiny brown marks & some very light white staining to the rear cover. 47 pages. Head- & tail-pieces and full-page illustrations in black & white by Ellwood Bauhoff. Very good.

First edition.

Edited and arranged by the author's niece, Marta Dannenbaum. First Edition.
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THE HOOSIER SCHOOL- MASTER

By: (Beard, Frank). Eggleston, Edward

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York: Orange Judd and Company, 1871. : 1871.

Seller ID: 29123

Condition: Good

New York: Orange Judd and Company, 1871.. 1871.. Good. - Octavo, green cloth titled in gilt with decorations in gilt on the spine. The binding is rubbed & lightly bumped. 226 pages plus 2-page publisher's catalog. Illustrated in black & white by Frank Beard with engraved plates, including a frontispiece, and with full-page & textual illustrations. A small area of the surface of the front endpaper is rubbed away & there is occasional staining & light foxing. Good.

First edition, fifth printing [BAL 5096]. First Edition.
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BECKETT AT 60: A FESTSCHRIFT

By: (Beckett, Samuel). Calder, John; et al

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London: Calder & Boyars, (1967). : (1967).

Seller ID: 33213

Condition: Good

London: Calder & Boyars, (1967).. (1967).. Good. - Octavo, red cloth in a dust wrapper. The binding is lightly bumped. The dust jacket is lightly soiled & chipped with some light foxing. Its extremities are slightly darkened & there are The remnants of a price- sticker on its front flap. vii, 99 & [1] pages. Illustrated in black & white with a frontispiece portrait by Avigdor Arikha & 4 full-page illustrations. There is a partial purple stamp on the front endpaper. Good. First edition.Among the contributors are Fernando Arrabal, George Devine, Martin Esslin, Jocelyn Herbert, Harold Hobson, Jac...
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HOLD YOUR HOUR AND HAVE ANOTHER

By: (Behan, Beatrice). Behan, Brendan

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London: Hutchinson, (1963). : (1963).

Seller ID: 26929

Condition: Very good

London: Hutchinson, (1963).. (1963).. Very good. - Octavo, cloth in a price-clipped dust wrapper. There are tears to the front flap & the top edge of the rear panel of the dust jacket & the rear panel is lightly soiled. The jacket spine & the adjacent edges of the panels are faded & there is a light stain to the spine. 192 pages. Black- and-white textual illustrations after drawings by Beatrice Behan. Near fine in a good dust wrapper. First edition.A collection of Behan's writings drawn from a series of weekly articles he contributed to the Irish Press. Dust jacket present. First Edition....
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THE LIFE OF FICTION

By: (Behrens, Roy R.). Klinkowitz, Jerome

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, (1977). : (1977).

Seller ID: 2178

Condition: Very good

Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, (1977).. (1977).. Very good. - Square octavo, cloth, in a white dw. There is very light spotting to the top edges of the boards; the dw is lightly soiled & chipped with a tear to the top edge of the front panel. 156 & [3] pp. There is a tiny stain to the last page. B&W illustrations by Roy R. Behrens. Very good in a good dw.

Includes chapters on Ronald Sukenick, Hunter S. Thompson, Walter Abish, Donald Barthelme, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Ishmael Reed and Russell Banks, among others. Dust jacket present.
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WRITERS ON WRITING. Volume II

By: (Bell, Elizabeth; Berke, Jacqueline; Brannon, Lil; et al). Waldrep, Tom; editor

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York: Random House, (1988). : (1988).

Seller ID: 29415

ISBN-13: 9780394367712

Condition: Fine

New York: Random House, (1988).. (1988).. Fine. - Octavo, decorative paper covered boards in a matching dust wrapper. The rear panel of the dust jacket is lightly rubbed. xv, 218 & [1] pages. Near fine.

First edition of the second volume in this series. Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY AND INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND LETTERS. Second Series, Number Thirty-Three.

By: (Bellow, Saul; Vonnegut, Kurt; et al).

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York: American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1982. : 1982.

Seller ID: 20067

Condition: Very good

- Octavo, softcover bound in printed grayish green wrappers. The wraps are very slightly bumped with a small area of rubbing to the rear wrap. [viii] & 93 pages. There is some very light foxing to the fore-edge and to the top & bottom edges. The wrappers are slightly bowed. Very good.

Among the contents are commemorative tributes to John Cheever by Saul Bellow, to Archibald MacLeish by Howard Nemerov, to Marcel Breuer by I. M. Pei and to William Saroyan by Kurt Vonnegut.
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BENN: Sein Leben in Bildern und Texten. Zusammengestellt von Holger Hof

By: (Benn, Gottfried). Hof, Holger

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta 2007. : 2007.

Seller ID: 24043

Condition: Fine

Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta 2007.. 2007.. Fine. - Quarto, 11-1/2 inches high by 10 inches wide. Pictorial black & white boards backed with a blue cloth spine, titled in white on the spine. The corners of the covers are bumped. 279 & [1] pages, profusely illustrated in black & white throughout. Near fine. The text is in German. The German expressionist poet, essayist and novelist Gottfried Benn (1886- 1956) was also a doctor of medicine. Briefly a supporter of Germany's National Socialist revolution, he later sharply criticized the movement. His poetry booklet Morgue and Other Poems published in 191...
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THOMAS BERNHARD UND SEINE LEBENSMENSCHEN. DER NACHLASS

By: (Bernhard, Thomas). Mittermayer, Manfred; Huber, Martin; Karlhuber, Peter; editors

Price: $25.00

Publisher: (Linz: Adalbert-Stifter Institut des Landes Oberosterreich}, (2001). : (2001).

Seller ID: 28653

Condition: Very good

(Linz: Adalbert-Stifter Institut des Landes Oberosterreich}, (2001).. (2001).. Very good. - Small folfio [11 inches high by 8-1/4 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. The extremities are slightly rubbed. 206 & [2] pages. Profuse photographic illustrations and facsimiles in color and black & white. Near fine.

Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same title held in Vienna and Linz in 2001. The text is in German.
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LAMENT AND PSALM

By: (Bernstein, Leonard). Inman, Will

Price: $65.00

Publisher: (Crescent City, FL: New Athenaeum Press, 1960). : 1960).

Seller ID: 19148

Condition: Very good

(Crescent City, FL: New Athenaeum Press, 1960).. 1960).. Very good. - Octavo, printed rust textured paper wraps (spine & top edges of wraps faded; tiny stain to front wrap). 21 pp. plus colophon. Near fine internally. From the library of Leonard Bernstein [Sotheby Sale 7070, Lot #160], inscribed to him by the poet on the front endpaper: For Leonard Bernstein with profound thanks for the beautiful Jeremiah Symphony and for the glorious interpretations of Beethoven's music / 27 October 1960. Will Inman has signed his name on the title page and has also added a note at the end of the colophon: a ...
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RHYMES AND MORE RHYMES OF A PFC by Lincoln Kirstein, ASN 32807032.

By: (Bernstein, Leonard). Kirstein, Lincoln.

Price: $450.00

Publisher: NY: New Directions, (1966). : (1966).

Seller ID: 21149

Condition: Very good

INSCRIBED TO LEONARD BERNSTEIN BY LINCOLN KIRSTEIN - Small quarto, tan cloth titled in black, in its original dust wrapper. The dust jacket is lightly creased & soiled with rubbing to the jacket's spine. viii, 215 & [1] pages. The top edge of the book is foxed. Very good. Inscribed to Leonard Bernstein: "for Lennie. with thanks and love. May 16. 1974. / (This has a lot more than the version Wystan [i.e. Auden] liked) / I would adapt to any meter or combination of vowels or syllables.. / Hoping to work with you sometime! / Lincoln". The first edition of this book--evidently the one that Auden r...
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THREE CONTEMPORARY POETS: Delina Margot-Parle, Aaron Schmuller, Grace Gilombardo Fox

By: (Bernstein, Leonard). Margot-Parle, Delina; Schmuller, Aaron; Fox, Grace Gilombardo

Price: $65.00

Publisher: NY: Poets of America Publishing Company, 1960. : 1960.

Seller ID: 19168

Condition: Very good

NY: Poets of America Publishing Company, 1960.. 1960.. Very good. - Octavo, blue cloth (bumped; dent to bottom edge of front cover) titled in gilt, in dw (chipped with piece out of head of dw spine; light soiling & small stains to front panel; dw spine & extremities faded). [x] & 124 pp. (page edges slightly darkened; endpapers darkened with light soiling to front endpaper). Very good in good dw. From the library of Leonard Bernstein [Sotheby Sale 7070, Lot #160], inscribed to him by Aaron Schmuller on the front endpaper: For Leonard Bernstein with greetings and good wishes--A Schmuller Esq. L...
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JOHN BERRYMAN: A CHECKLIST. With a foreword by William Meredith and an introduction by Michael Berryhill

By: (Berryman, John). Kelly, Richard J

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1972. : 1972.

Seller ID: 6583

Condition: Fine

Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1972.. 1972.. Fine. - (The Scarecrow Bibliographies, No. 8). Octavo, green cloth titled in white. xxxvi & 105 pp. Fine.

First edition. First Edition.
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Category: Literature