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INSURRECTIONS

STEPHENS, James · 1909

$937.50 (€850.57 | £709.61 | ¥149,659)

Dublin. Maunsel & Co., Ltd.. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards in dustwrapper housed in a green morocco-backed cloth slipcase with a cloth chemise. Author's first book, a collection of poems, SIGNED by him on the front endpaper. . Partly unopened; small leather bookplate of B...

CHAMELEON

BAXTER, Charles · 1970

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

New York. New Rivers Press. First Edition. Paperback Original in pictorial wraps of Baxter's first book, a collection of poetry issued only in softcover in an edition of 500 copies with illustrations by Mary Miner. Precedes his second book by 4 years and his first book of fict...

STRUCTURES DE L'EVIDENCE, Poems

[FERLINGHETTI, Lawrence] SARAFIAN, Paul · 0

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

(Brussels). Editions Des Artistes. First Edition. Printed wraps with wrap-around band; text in French. Association Copy lengthily INSCRIBED in French and SIGNED on the front endpaper by the author to poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.. Largely unopened; minor soiling to covers. Near ...

EVARISTO CARRIEGO. A Book about Old-Time Buenos Aires

BORGES, Jorge Luis · 0

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

New York. E. P. Dutton, Inc.. First American Edition. Translated with an introduction by Norman Thomas DiGionanni. The First English-language translation of Borges's "unclassifiable essay about a man, a time, and a place ... the earliest of Borges's works in print in any langu...

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

CHESTERTON, G. K · 0

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

London. Hutchinson & Co.. First Edition. Illustrated autobiography by the creator of the fictional priest-detective Father Brown.. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper

LAST HOUSE IN AMERICA

MICHELINE, Jack · 0

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.54 | ¥49,886)

(San Francisco). Second Coming Press. First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Association Copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the title page to poet and biographer Neeli Cherry (Cherkovski): “For Neeley/Poets are born they/don't hang in packs/they love birds and children/Jack Micheline.”. Ne...

THE WASTE LAND

ELIOT, T. S · 19221923

$8,125.00 (€7,371.63 | £6,149.96 | ¥1,297,045)

New York. Boni & Liveright. First Edition. Stiff black boards in the salmon paper dustwrapper. Stated "Second Edition" in the colophon, this is actually a second impression of the First Edition from the same setting of type but with a different colophon and with the reading "m...

VERSUS

NASH, Ogden · 1949

$562.50 (€510.34 | £425.77 | ¥89,795)

Boston. Little, Brown & Company. First Edition. SIGNED by the poet on the front endpaper with an ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT POEM incorporating an INSCRIPTION: "Some critics said this book was worth reading,/But many said that it was'n',/But in either case it is affectionately signed ...

POETS AND THE PAST: AN ANTHOLOGY OF POEMS, AND OBJECTS OF ART OF THE PRE-COLUMBIAN PAST

WILLIAMS, William Carlos; ROETHKE, Theodore; PAZ, Octavio; MERWIN, W. S.; WRIGHT, James; et. al · 0

$3,125.00 (€2,835.24 | £2,365.37 | ¥498,864)

New York. Andre Emmerich Gallery. First Edition. Bound in original green leather-backed marbled boards. A collection of poems paired with photographs of Pre-Columbian artifacts, edited by Dore Ashton with photographs by Lee Boltin. Of a total of 1500 copies printed, this is co...

QUIA PAUPER AMAVI

POUND, Ezra · 0

$3,750.00 (€3,402.29 | £2,838.45 | ¥598,636)

London. The Egoist Press. First Edition. Original cloth-backed boards with paper spine label. Gallup A17b. Copy #100 of 100 numbered copies printed on handmade paper and SIGNED by the author on the title page. The error on page 34 has been corrected in manuscript by Pound. Inc...

FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN POETRY

(BROOKS, Gwendolyn; LEVINE, Philip; MERWIN, W. S.; STRAND, Mark; et. al.) · 0

$1,250.00 (€1,134.10 | £946.15 | ¥199,545)

New York. Harry N. Abrams, Inc.. First Edition. A handsome volume commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Academy of American Poets with an introduction by Robert Penn Warren and wood engravings by Barry Moser. SIGNED by 9 of the 126 poets represented as ...

THE ESSAYS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON

EMERSON, Ralph Waldo · 1934

$168.80 (€153.15 | £127.77 | ¥26,947)

San Francisco. Limited Editions Club. Folio (9" x 13-1/2") bound in cloth-backed blue paper boards. Contains both the First and the Second Series of Emerson's masterful essays with a critical introduction By Edward F. O'Day. Copy #149 of 1500 beautifully designed, printed in r...

THE LIFE AND WORK OF SUSAN B. ANTHONY INCLUDING PUBLIC ADDRESSES, HER OWN LETTERS AND MANY FROM HER CONTEMPORARIES DURING FIFTY YEARS. A STORY OF THE EVOLUTION OF THE STATUS OF WOMAN

(ANTHONY, Susan B.) HARPER, Ida Husted · 1899

$10,625.00 (€9,639.82 | £8,042.26 | ¥1,696,136)

Indianapolis & Kansas City. The Bowen-Merrill Co.. First Edition. The first two volumes of three, with the last not published until 1908. Original green cloth with a gilt portrait on the front covers and gilt lettering on the spines. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of...

LEAVES OF GRASS Comprising all the Poems written by Walt Whitman following the Arrangement of the Edition of 1891-'2

WHITMAN, Walt · 2014

$13,750.00 (€12,475.06 | £10,407.63 | ¥2,195,000)

San Francisco. The Arion Press. Folio (10" x 13-3/4") with a green goatskin spine and wooden boards with an oak veneer stained yellow-tan housed in a green cloth slipcase; 156 pages. The one-hundredth publication of the Arion Press contains the text of the 1855 first edition w...

BOUND FOR GLORY

GUTHRIE, Woody · 1943

$25,000.00 (€22,681.93 | £18,922.97 | ¥3,990,909)

New York. E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.. First Edition. Autobiography and first book by one of our greatest songwriters, author of this country's unofficial national anthem, "This Land Is Your Land." This title served as the basis for the Hal Ashby film starring David Carradine. T...

ON TWO HEMISPHERES. Bits from the Life Story of Lewis G. Jordan, as Told by Himself

JORDAN, Lewis G · 0

$3,750.00 (€3,402.29 | £2,838.45 | ¥598,636)

n.p.. The Author. First Edition. Printed yellow wraps (5-1/4" x 7-1/2"); 80 pages. Illustrated with photographs and a color folding map. Introduction by Adam Clayton Powell Sr. In this scarce autobiography, Lewis Garnett Jordan (1853-1939) describes his early life as a slave i...

NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, AN AMERICAN SLAVE, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF

DOUGLASS, Frederick · 1845

$31,250.00 (€28,352.41 | £23,653.71 | ¥4,988,636)

Boston. Anti-Slavery Office. First Edition. Stitched wraps. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Douglass. xvi, 125 pages. Preface by William Lloyd Garrison and printing a letter by Wendell Phillips. Douglass's first book and the preeminent slave narrative of the 19th c...

IN A MARINE LIGHT

CARVER, Raymond · 1987

$156.30 (€141.81 | £118.31 | ¥24,951)

London. Harvill. First Edition. There is no comparable U.S. edition of this collection of poems which were published in the United States in two volumes--WHERE WATER COMES TOGETHER WITH OTHER WATER and ULTRAMARINE--and are here rearranged with an epigraph that does not appear ...

BURNING OF UNION DEPOT DURING THE RAILROAD RIOT JULY 21ST AND 22ND 1877. PITTSBURGH, PA

KREBS, Otto · 0

$5,625.00 (€5,103.43 | £4,257.67 | ¥897,955)

Pittsburgh. Otto Krebs. First Edition. Chromolithograph on paper (20-3/4" x 16-1/2") in wood frame (25-1/4" x 20-3/4") depicting the first nationwide wildcat strike in American history, the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. Workers and their families battled with state militia se...

THE BATTLE WITH THE SLUM

(ROOSEVELT, Theodore) RIIS, Jacob A · 1902

$9,375.00 (€8,505.72 | £7,096.11 | ¥1,496,591)

New York. The Macmillan Company. First Edition. Second Printing, in publisher's original decorated blue cloth. Illustrated. This copy is SIGNED "with the best wishes of/Theodore Roosevelt/Dec 1906." Jacob Riis, a significant contributor to the cause of urban reform in the Unit...