POETS AT WORK
New York: Harcourt Brace, (1948). First Edition. hardcover. Bloomfield B35: 2500 copies. Essays on poets at work illustrated with reproductions of typescripts and manuscripts by poets.
New York: Harcourt Brace, (1948). First Edition. hardcover. Bloomfield B35: 2500 copies. Essays on poets at work illustrated with reproductions of typescripts and manuscripts by poets.
New York: Farrar Straus Cudahy, (1956). First Edition. hardcover. Bloomfield B61. Edited and with an introduction by W. H. Auden of this collection of letters and essays by Smith (1771-1845), "the most famous wit of his generation." Owner signature on front endpaper.
New York: Oxford University, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Callan traces the development of Auden's art from its beginnings to his death.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1948. First Edition. hardcover. Bloomfield & Mendelson B36: 1014 copies. Horan's first book, with a 4-page foreword by W. H. Auden. This copy SIGNED by Auden on the front endpaper and quite uncommon thus.
(New York): Pantheon Books, (1946). First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with 427 photographs. On the front endpaper Auden has SIGNED and INSCRIBED the book to "Herbert and Helen [Santoff]/with love/from/Wystan/Christmas 1946." Several silver print photographs of a church laid in.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1983). First Edition. Hardcover. An intimate memoir of Auden based on journals kept by Charles Miller, a student when Auden taught at the University of Michigan who served him as a cook and a companion.
New York: New Directions, (1939). First Edition. Hardcover. Patchen's second book, consisting of 800 copies, this copy INSCRIBED "with respect and admiration" for W. H. Auden on 10 May 1940 and SIGNED by Patchen. Patchen's first book brought him much acclaim including comparisons to Auden, unlikely as that might seem.....
(New York): Bollingen Series, (1961). First Edition. wraps. Bloomfield & Mendelson B77. Published in an edition of 2500 copies, none of which were for sale, in white card covers with a grayish green printed wrapper. This is St.-John Perse's Nobel Acceptance Speech translated by Auden and printed here in both.....
New York: V. G. Audubon, 1851-1851-1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Second Octavo Edition of the first volume, First Editions of the second and third. Three volumes in modern half black morocco leather with matching corners, retaining the original marbled boards, all edges marbled; 6-3/4" x 10-3/8"; viii, 383, [1] pages; [2].....
New York: V. G. Audubon, (1849)-1856. Early Edition. Hardcover. Early Octavo Edition of the first two volumes, lacking the third volume. Two volumes in publisher's full brown morocco leather elaborately embossed and stamped, the spine with five raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; 7" x 10-3/4" with half-title pages.....
Ipswich: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Edy Legrand. Hardcover. Quarto (8-1/4" x 10-3/4") bound in quarter black leather and natural linen sides, "the nearest practical material to a hairshirt," with a gilt-lettered black leather label on the front cover; 240 pages. Translation of J. G. Pilkington. Copy #430 of 1500 illustrated.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1971. Clarke Hutton. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-3/4") bound ina varicolored, narrow-striped, satin-finish fabric with a black leather spine label stamped in gold. Designed by Richard Ellis and printed at the Garamond Press with an introduction by Sylvia Townsend Warner. Illustrated with 12 full-page paintings.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1971. Clarke Hutton. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-3/4") bound ina varicolored, narrow-striped, satin-finish fabric with a black leather spine label stamped in gold. Designed by Richard Ellis and printed at the Garamond Press with an introduction by Sylvia Townsend Warner. Illustrated with 12 full-page paintings.....
Boston: Limited Editions Club, 1940. Helen Sewell. Hardcover. Octavo (5-7/8" x 9-1/8") bound in full embossed brown sheepskin leather. Designed and printed by D. B. Updike at The Merrymount Press. Preface by Frank Swinnerton. Illustrated with line drawings by Helen Sewell. Copy #1267 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on.....
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, (1992). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. One of 300 numbered and SIGNED copies of this collection of essays and interviews.
(Birmingham, UK): Delos Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Thin quarto in quarter buckram and marbled boards. Copy #96 of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by the author (of a total edition of 450 of which 150 were signed), this being one of the even-numbered copies issued in the United States.
(Birmingham, UK): Delos Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Thin quarto in quarter buckram and marbled boards. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by the author (of a total edition of 450), this being one of the odd-numbered copies issued in England.
(Brewster, NY): Parenthese, (1977). Norman Bluhm. First Edition. wraps. Wraps in pictorial dustwrapper. Illustrated with drawings by Norman Bluhm. One of 750 copies. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page "For Mork & Mindy(?): with love. Paul." A rather scarce early title from this acclaimed.....
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, (1986). First Edition. hardcover. The second volume of his New York trilogy. This is copy "D" of only 26 lettered copies SIGNED by the author on the colophon page.
New York: Holt, (1997). First Edition. hardcover. Auster's memoir of his early days of writing along with three of his plays, his baseball novel (originally published as a paperback under the name of Paul Benjamin), and the rules of a baseball game he invented.
New York: Holt, (1997). First Edition. Softcover. Advance Reader's Copy in pictorial wraps replicating the dustwrapper. Auster's memoir of his early days of writing along with three of his plays, his baseball novel (originally published as a paperback under the name of Paul Benjamin), and the rules of a baseball.....
New York: Sun, 1982. First Edition. Wraps. Pictorial wraps. His first full-length prose work.
New York: Sun, 1982. First Edition. Wraps. Pictorial wraps. His first full-length prose work.
[New York]: Viking, (1994). First Edition. wraps. Advance Reading Copy in pictorial wraps, described as "Advance Uncorrected Proofs." SIGNED by the author on the title page.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1997). First Edition. Hardcover. A thin hardcover chapbook of about 100 pages in pictorial boards. Preface by Luc Sante and photographs of New York scenes by Frieder Blickle, including two that depict the World Trade Center. The final photograph, a two-page spread depicting the.....