Drammaturgia e teatro

Baseballogy

COOKE, Edmund Vance (1866-1932) or cooks? · 1912 · Fine Editions Ltd

$326.00 (€295.77 | £246.76 | ¥52,041)

Chicago Forbes & Co. First Edition First Printing of this charming paean to America's pastime, featuring 24 lighthearted and impertinent poems. Small, slim 8vo: 88pp, with baseball-themed spot illustrations from drawings in lower margin of each page. Publisher's pictorial pape...

Door Into the Dark

HEANEY, Seamus (1939-2013) · 1969 · Fine Editions Ltd

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,768)

New York Oxford University Press First Printing First American edition, from British sheets, of the Nobel prize-winner's second commercially published work (preceded by Death of a Naturalist, in 1966), one of only 1,000 copies (purchased from Faber and Faber, Heaney's London p...

The Merchant of Yonkers : A Play [Hello Dolly!]

WILDER, Thornton (1897-1975) · 1939 · Fine Editions Ltd

$499.00 (€452.73 | £377.70 | ¥79,659)

New York Harper & Brothers First Printing First Edition (so stated) of Wilder's classic play and basis for "Hello Dolly." 8vo: [8],180pp. Publisher's peach-colored cloth, burgundy title block stamped gilt laid onto spine and front cover; illustrated end papers by Donald McKay,...

A Compleat key to The dispensary

GARTH, Samuel Sir (1661-1719) · 1726 · Fine Editions Ltd

$251.00 (€227.73 | £189.99 | ¥40,069)

London printed for T. Wotton, at the three Daggers, and Queen’s-Head; J. Lacy, at the Ship; J. Shuckburgh, at the Sun; and C. Motte, at the Middle Temple-Gate, all in Fleet-Street First Edition thus The first edition of the key to interpreting Garth's famous and widely reprin...

The Tennis Court Oath. A Book of Poems [Inscribed to William Targ]

ASHBERY, John (1927-2017) · 1968 · Fine Editions Ltd

$424.00 (€384.69 | £320.93 | ¥67,686)

Middletown, CT Wesleyan University Press Early Reprint First Edition, Third Printing, of this touchstone of contemporary American avant-garde poetry. Crown 8vo (203 x 152mm): 94,[2]pp. Publisher's gray cloth, spine stamped in red and black, pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped...

Lord Weary's Castle [Signed, with Pulitzer Prize belly band]

LOWELL, Robert (1917-1977) · 1947 · Fine Editions Ltd

$649.00 (€588.82 | £491.24 | ¥103,604)

New York Harcourt, Brace [from 1946] Second Impression (per Mazzaro) of the poet's first trade publication with [b.3.47] on copyright page, but styled "Second Edition" on dust jacket flap. Regardless, an early issue, published just months after the first printing and identical...

The Light Around the Body [Inscribed Association Copy]

BLY, Robert (1926-2021) · 1967 · Fine Editions Ltd

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,768)

New York Harper & Row First Printing First Edition (so stated) of Bly's second collection, playfully inscribed by him on the front free end paper in three colors of pen in the year of publication: "Oct. 24, '67 / For Henry / who published so many / of these poems / and for Jul...

Closing the Ring [Signed]

KUMIN, Maxine (1925-2014); Barnard Taylor (Illustrates) · 1984 · Fine Editions Ltd

$176.00 (€159.68 | £133.22 | ¥28,096)

Lewisburg, Pa. Bucknell University : Press of Appletree Alley Limited Edition First Edition, No. 27 of 28 copies printed on mould-made Rives, from a total edition of 150. Royal 8vo (261 x 174mm): 47,[1]pp, with linoleum engravings in color by Barnard Taylor. Publisher's tan qu...

Short Stories [Poems]

MERRILL, James (1926-1995) · 1954 · Fine Editions Ltd

$424.00 (€384.69 | £320.93 | ¥67,686)

Pawlet, Vt Claude Fredericks at the Banyan Press Limited Edition Only Printing of this scarce early collection, No. 147, one of the first 150 copies reserved for the poet and printer, from a limited edition of 210 numbered copies, of which only 60 copies were for sale. Slim de...

After Magritte

STOPPARD, Sir Tom · 1971 · Fine Editions Ltd

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.44 | ¥10,217)

London Faber & Faber First Edition First Impression of the playwright's one-act farce inspired by a surrealist painting. Crown 8vo (199 x 113mm): 47,[1]pp. Publisher's wrappers with French flaps over cream-colored stiff card (no case bound issue published) printed in yellow an...

[Aeschylus] Prometheus Bound

LOWELL, Robert, 1917-1977 [Translates] · 1970 · Fine Editions Ltd

$49.00 (€44.46 | £37.09 | ¥7,822)

London Faber and Faber Limited First Edition First Impression of Lowell's "free, rather politicized translation of Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound." (Literary Encyclopedia) Slim crown 8vo (200 x 117mm): vi,[2],67,[1]pp. Publisher's rose cloth, spine lettered in gilt; white typogr...

Wessex Poems and Other Verses

HARDY, Thomas (1840-1928) · 1898 · Fine Editions Ltd

$1,024.00 (€929.05 | £775.08 | ¥163,468)

London Harper & Brothers, 45 Albemarle Street First Edition First Impression of the author's first collection of poems, one of only 500 copies. Crown 8vo (200 x 131mm): xi,[1],228pp, with 31 illustrations (13 full-page, including frontispiece) reproduced from drawings by Hardy...

About the House

AUDEN, W[ystan]. H[ugh]. (1907-1973) · 1965 · Fine Editions Ltd

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.44 | ¥10,217)

London Faber and Faber First Printing First Printing, one of 4000 copies. Tall, slim 8vo: 94pp. with errata slip tipped in facing page 7. Publisher's pale blue linen cloth, spine stamped in gold; price-clipped typographic dust jacket printed in black, olive green and purple. A...

Amores [First State]

LAWRENCE, D[avid]. H[erbert], 1885-1930 · 1916 · Fine Editions Ltd

$124.00 (€112.50 | £93.86 | ¥19,795)

London Duckworth First Edition First Issue (with 16-page publisher's catalog at the end) of Lawrence's second collection of poems. Crown 8vo: viii,140,16pp. Publisher's dark blue cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed (variant 1. Roberts spec...

[Political Tract] The Medall. A Satyre Against Sedition. By the Authour of Absalom and Achitophel

[DRYDEN, John, 1631-1700] · 1682 · Fine Editions Ltd

$349.00 (€316.64 | £264.16 | ¥55,713)

London printed for Jacob Tonson at the Judge’s Head in Chancery-lane, near Fleet-street First Edition Presumed second issue (two lines of Latin verse on final page) of this satirical poem lampooning the Earl of Shaftesbury. Small 4to: [12],20pp. There are at least two issues: ...

Bright Ambush : Poems [Pulitzer Prize]

WURDERMANN, Audrey (1911-1960) · 1934 · Fine Editions Ltd

$101.00 (€91.63 | £76.45 | ¥16,123)

New York John Day First Edition First Printing of this Pulitzer prizewinning collection, making Wurdemann, at age 24, the youngest recipient of that award. Tall, slim 8vo: [14],76,[2]pp. Publisher's lime-green cloth, spine lettered in gold, top edge stained green, fore- and bo...

Nothing is lost, sweet self : No. 1 in a series of Contemporary Poetry Set to Music [Signed, with proof sheets laid in]

DURRELL, Lawrence (1912-1990); T. Wallace Southam · 1967 · Fine Editions Ltd

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,768)

London Turret Books Limited Edition First publication in the series Contemporary Poetry Set to Music, a six-line poem by Durrell, set to music for "high voice" by Southam. Limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by the poet and the composer, this being no. 25. Unpaginated: [8]p...

Clievelandi Vindiciæ; or, Clieveland’s genuine poems, orations, epistles, &c. Purged from the many false & spurious ones which had usurped his name, and from innumerable errours and corruptions in the true copies. To which are added many additions never printed before: with an account of the author’s life. Published according to the author’s own copies

CLIEVELAND [Cleveland], John (1613-1658) · 1677 · Fine Editions Ltd

$649.00 (€588.82 | £491.24 | ¥103,604)

London Printed for Obadiah Blagrave at the Sign of the Bear in St. Paul s Church-Yard, near the Little North Door First Edition Best edition of Cleveland's works, "Purged from the many false & spurious ones which had usurped his name, and from innumerable errours and corruptio...

The seasons. By Mr. Thomson [Subscribers Edition]

THOMSON, James (1700-1748) · 1730 · Fine Editions Ltd

$701.00 (€636.00 | £530.60 | ¥111,905)

London [none given] First Edition thus Subscribers Edition of Thomson's masterpiece, and perhaps the most popular English-language poem in blank verse (running to some 5500 lines in its final form) from Milton to the Romantics, as well as "one of the earliest, longest, and f...

Poems

GATES, [Sidney] Barrington (1893-1973) · 1925 · Fine Editions Ltd

$724.00 (€656.87 | £548.01 | ¥115,577)

London Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 52 Tavistock Square, London, W.C.1 First Edition First Impression. 8vo: 112pp. Publisher’s red and black marbled paper-covered boards, cream title label printed in black to upper board. A superlative copy (prob...