Features the essay “Confessions of a Luddite” by Maxine Kumin and the poem “Painter of Doll Faces” by Charles Simic. Includes Simic’s address label on back cover (written in another hand in pen). Near Fine in wraps. Uncommon.
Hartford, CT: Bond Press, 1960. Based on a Reading of Poems at Wesleyan University 1959. Second Printing. 230 copies. 72 pp. VG+ papercovered boards with edgewear and scuffing. Poetry from Willis Barnstone, Reuel Denney, Wilbert Snow, Ruth Stone, George Garrett, and Richard Wilbur. INSCRIBED by George Garrett on title page...
Notebook containing lecture notes and notes from readings belonging to Lt. (J9) Lester Moore, United States Navy. VG+, browning to pages, 2” of covers at tail separated from spiral binding. Moore (1924-2009) graduated for the United States Naval Academy in 1946 before serving seven years as an officer in the...
[n.p.]: Palaemon Press Limited, 1979. First Edition, limited to 235 copies, numbered 1-200, this being #180. SIGNED by Welty on the limitation page. 13[1] pp. Near Fine in striking green boards. First appeared in a slightly different form in the "Junior League Magazine" November, 1941.
New York: Random House, 1970. First Edition, third printing of the trade edition (April 1970, with the $7.95 price on dj flap per Polk A.16). SIGNED by Welty on the ffep (previous owner’s name also on ffep). Fine in Near Fine unclipped dustjacket (one small closed tear to top edge)...
Folio, approximately 12” x 14.5”. Powder blue pictorial front cover detached but present. Overall VG or better. Contents point to 1964-1965. 54 pp. Magazine and newspaper articles and images affixed to pages (mostly pasted or glued), both rectos and versos, with a few loose 16 Magazine (January 1965) articles laid...
Forbes Co. Boston (Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Co. operated in Boston 1862-1930). 11.5" x 31.5" Litho on thin original paper that is linen backed and whitewashed. Seems to have been a placard (and perhaps the original was also affixed to blue linen). Overall VG. Circa. 1882 (Sparks launched in 1880, and...
Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1981. VG+ illustrated softcover, 120 pp. 10.5” x 12”. Text in German. Profusely illustrated by Steadman. SIGNED by Steadman on title page with additional inscription in German. Uncommon signed in this edition.
Pages bound by three fasteners within silver stock (Amfile) covers. Kilian was an antique silver dealer from Nyack, NY and this catalogue was sent to (potential) customers. On title page is written, “Price changes as of 3/8/68.” Laid in is a one-page typed note from Kilian with the title “Antique.....
[n.p.]: [n.p.], 1899. Illustrated. 111[1] pp. VG+ dark green cloth, gilt title, with white spots to front cover and front hinge starting. Inscribed by Barbie (Barbara) Sturtevant in 1990, whose husband Theodore was Edward Sturtevant’s son. Included is A Supplement to The Birds of Rhode Island (Middletown, RI: [n.p.], 1903).....
Providence: E.L. Freeman & Co., Printers to the State, 1879. 200 pp. Tipped in sheet at ffep that reads, “With the compliments of The Secretary of the State Board of Health, Office 17 College St., Providence, R.I.” Brown boards, blindstamped with the word “Hope” and anchor symbol, spine title in.....
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1929. First Edition. First Printing (stated). VG+ (red and black lettering, sticker remnant on front pastedown, ownership signature on ffep) in an about VG unclipped dustjacket (with “First American Printing 100,000 Copies” on rear flap), loss to bottom, rear, and spine edges. Adapted for the...
Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1958. Biographical sketch of the artist by Blake-More Godwin. Foreword by R. Buckminster Fuller. Near Fine, paper over boards, 11.5” x 15.5”. All nine prints, inspired by her time at Southern Illinois, are present in portfolio. Fuller writes, “What she paints here is the...
1940s 11” x 14” stringbound green Photo Album with decorative vine pattern and color design. 206 black and white photographs (three 8” x 10”, with various sizes represented, most about 3.5” x 3.5”, with an additional three laid in, many trimmed). The photos are all mounted by tape at all...
1930s oblong 14” x 11” stringbound photo album, with decorative patterned green boards and “Photographs” embossed on front cover. 2.5” x 3.5” to 4.75” x 6.75”. 30 black paper leaves, 19 blank, containing 173 corner-mounted photographs on rectos and versos. The album belonged to one Robert (Bob) Nicholas and his...
1920s oblong 12” x 7.5” stringbound photo album, with brown snakeskin patterned covers and “Photographs” embossed on front cover. 62 black paper leaves, with 451 pasted photographs, with mostly every page with captions in white. Photos are from 1924-1929 and range from 2.25” x 3.25” to 3.5” x 5.5”. A....
Commercial brown cloth photo album containing 196 images (3.5” x 3.5”, many six to a page, all behind plastic) of a 1970s trip through South Africa, Swaziland, and, given some clues in images, what seems to be Nigeria and Ghana as well. Certainly after 1971, as there is an image...
Embellished with a variety of original cuts. Written for the American Sunday School Union, and revised by The Committee of Publication. Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union, 1832. 3.5” x 5.75”. ¼ leather, rubbed marbled boards, scattered foxing and soiling to pastedown and endpapers, VG or better. 135[7] pp. Ten illustrations including frontispiece.
Mesa, AZ: Concerned Christians, Inc., 1983. Cover design and illustrations by Pam Davis. 41[1] pp. in pictorial stapled wraps. Near Fine (small stain to page ends). Compiled by the non-profit organization Concerned Christians, whose “members are from various denominations consisting of former Mormons and Christians who are reaching out in...
. Bisbee, AZ: Pequeno Press, 1994. 101[4] pp. with 18 color portraits. 74x62 mm. Accordion fold, black leather covers, paper label on front. Printed on Curtis Flannel Text in Garamond type on an HP DeskJet printer by Pat Baldwin. Bound at Waterleaf Mill & Bindery. Near Fine. No. 2 of...
East Greenwich, RI: River’s Edge Studio, 1970. 47[5] pp. illustrated with 16 tipped-in US Postage stamps. 79x56 mm, stiff green wrappers, title stamped in gilt. Printed on handmade “Hayle” paper of the Hayle Mill, Maidstone, England; binding by Reliure du Centre, S.A. Limoges, France. Fine. No. 218 of 300 wrapper-bound...
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, 1917. First Edition. 118 pp. with four preliminary leaves. Pocket format, approximately 4.5” x 6”. VG (offsetting to endpapers, fraying to spine, and rubbing to edges) in an about VG dustjacket (considerable chipping to spine, small black stain to front cover). Only nine copies of...
West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1977. VG+ in toned green stapled wraps. Printed by Edward L. Shunney. A facsimile reprint of a limited memorial edition published by W.H. Shepherd, The Rebel Press, Oakman, AL. A special limited edition was made from an original kept in the Lovecraft collection of the...
Tall Quarto. 40[3] pp. and includes inside the rear cover Portfolio/2 “The Shaker Dove” by Daniel Patterson. Contributors include Ralph Dennis, Dabney Stuart, Lewis Lipsitz, and Edmund Skellings. Includes A Special Supplement on William Faulkner: A Story and Five Poems. VG+ or better.
Winter, 1967. Tall Quarto. 56 pp. with Portfolio/1 A Photographic Essay by Peter Schlaifer inside the rear cover. About VG+ overall, with a 4” tear to front cover, creasing and spotting. Laid in is a December 18, 1966 The News and Observer article, “Mag Makes Debut” with picture of Banks...
