[New York]: Limited Editions Club, (1986). Robert Ballagh. hardcover. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") bound in quarter dark green Oasis goat leather and Irish handkerchief linen turned over the boards. Illustrated with 6 photogravures by Robert Ballagh printed on handmade paper. Introduction by Thomas Flanagan. Copy #887 of 1000 numbered copies.....
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Copy #179 of 250 numbered copies in red boards SIGNED by Carver of this superb collection containing the title essay as well as his essay "On Writing," along with 50 poems and 7 stories, including "So Much Water So Close to Home,".....
1939. James Montgomery Flagg. Framed Art. Fine ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR Self-Portrait depicting Flagg wearing a trenchcoat and a fancy women's Easter hat while holding a flower with the pencil caption by Flagg in the right margin: "Ap. 9, 1939. I JOIN THE EASTER PARADE ON 5th." Visual image size is 8-1/4".....
n.p. n.d. Paul Peter Porges. Drawing. Original ink and wash on paper, 10-3/4" x 8-1/2", SIGNED and captioned by the artist at the bottom: "CITY BANK--!! I'D LIKE TO STOP PAYMENT ON A CHECK...!" Artist's London address on the verso crossed out with his New York address stamped in ink.....
(New York): Adventures in Poetry, (1973). Glen Baxter. First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") stapled pictorial wraps with text and drawings by Baxter. SIGNED on the title page by the author/artist. Acquired directly from the Gotham Book Mart inventory after the store closed.
Nederland, CO: Rocky Ledge, 1979. First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") stapled pictorial wraps with cover drawing by Glen Baxter. Edited by Anne Waldman and Reed Bye with a poem by Allen Ginsburg and poems and prose by several other contributors. SIGNED at the bottom of the first.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1981). Glen Baxter. First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Uncorrected Proof in pictorial white wraps (7-1/2" x 10"). SIGNED on the title page by the author/artist. Acquired directly from the Gotham Book Mart inventory after the store closed.
(New York): (Adventures in Poetry), (1974). Glen Baxter. First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") stapled pictorial wraps with title page and 32 pages of captioned illustrations printed on rectos with versos blank. Cover title is CRANIREONS OF BOTYA. An early Baxter title based on exhibitions of his pen.....
(New York): (Adventures in Poetry), (1974). Glen Baxter. First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") stapled pictorial wraps with title page and 32 pages of captioned illustrations printed on rectos with versos blank. Cover title is CRANIREONS OF BOTYA. An early Baxter title based on exhibitions of his pen.....
(New York): Gotham Book Mart, (1974). Glen Baxter. First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") stapled pictorial wraps with title page and 12 pages of captioned illustrations printed on rectos with versos blank. An early Baxter title based on exhibitions of his pen and ink drawings at the Gotham.....
(New York): Gotham Book Mart, (1974). Glen Baxter. First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") stapled pictorial wraps with title page and 12 pages of captioned illustrations printed on rectos with versos blank. An early Baxter title based on exhibitions of his pen and ink drawings at the Gotham.....
(New York): Gotham Book Mart, (1974). Glen Baxter. First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") stapled pictorial wraps with title page and 6 pages of captioned illustrations printed on rectos with versos blank. An early Baxter title based on exhibitions of his pen and ink drawings at the Gotham.....
(New York): Gotham Book Mart, (1974). Glen Baxter. First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") stapled pictorial wraps with title page and 6 pages of captioned illustrations printed on rectos with versos blank. An early Baxter title based on exhibitions of his pen and ink drawings at the Gotham.....
(New York): Ecco, (2005). First Edition. Hardcover. A collection of poems by Smith who has SIGNED the front endpaper.
Pittsburgh: Andy Warhol Museum, (2002). Patti Smith. First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Pictorial wraps. Essays by David Greenburg and John W. Smith. Text and color reproductions of paintings and drawings by Smith who has SIGNED the front endpaper.
n.p. n.d. Al Posen. Drawing. Original pencil on stiff paper, 14-1/2" x 9-1/2", INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the artist at the bottom left: "Best Wishes to the Boys and Girls of Cornell form Sweeney + Son and Al Posen." Al Posen is best known for his 1933-1960 comic strip SWEENEY.....
n.p. n.d. Clarence D. Russell. Drawing. Original pencil on stiff board, 8-3/4" x 12-1/2", SIGNED by the artist and titled at the bottom. A Self-Portrait incorporating his most famous creation, Pete the Tramp, who looks up at his creator and states, "AW! NO -- RUSS YOU COULDN'T LOOK THAT BAD!".....
n.p. n.d. Sam Norkin. Drawing. Original pen and ink on paper, 12-1/2" x 13", SIGNED by the artist and titled at the bottom and on the verso in pencil. An image of the 3 composers as mobsters. Norkin's theater caricatures, similar in style to that of Hirschfeld, primarily appeared weekly.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935. First Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Full brown buckram with a gold embossed design on the front cover and repeated on the spine. Large square octavo, 9" x 11-1/2", with 420 pages. Introduction by Stuart Gilbert and illustrations by Henri Matisse including twenty reproductions of drawings.....
Dublin: R. Napper, 1825. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo (3-5/8" x 5-5/8") bound in contemporary calf-backed marbled boards; 180 pages. Illustrated with 3 full-page and several text engravings.
New York: J. Eastburn & Co., 1817-1818. First Edition. Hardcover. Two 5-1/2" x 9-1/4" volumes in original publisher's brown paper-backed gray boards with printed paper spine labels. Contains 24 issues, May 1817 - April 1819, apparently all published of this religious periodical. According to a statement at the end of.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Bishop's first book, of which only 1000 copies were printed. Winner of the Houghton Mifflin Poetry Award. Owner name of Marjorie Bailey neatly penned on the front endpaper, quite likely belonging to the noted professor of English and Dramatic Arts and Literature.....
London & Edinburgh: John Murray and William Blackwood, 1815. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (6" x 9-1/8") bound in later 3/4 burgundy morocco leather with gilt lettering on the spine. Complete with half-title page. Dedicated, in verse, to Lord Byron. Hogg was a Scottish poet and novelist. William Wordsworth's 1835 "Extempore.....
Philadelphia: T. W. Stuckey, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth with printed paper label on the front cover (5-1/4" x 8") with the original wraps bound in, 37 pages. Folding map detailing Whitehall and Allen townships; the rear wrap with a depiction of a Native American man. An account of.....
Toronto: Henry S. Saunders, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth-backed boards (6-1/4" x 9") with paper spine label handbound by Saunders. A bound typescript with title page in manuscript and numerous manuscript additions with over 350 images of Whitman, many of them original photographs, pasted in opposite the text. An.....
