[New York and Connecticut]: [ca. 1965-68]. A first-person archive of material from Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007), including poems, personal letters and a play. Mostly 8.5" x 11" sheets with various smaller paper sizes clipbound in black cloth university spring binder with title ("Poems by Madeleine L'Engle") typed on embossing tape labels..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. First edition, first printing. Signed by Langston Hughes and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's patterned paper-covered boards over black cloth spine, lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with covers rubbed at edges, spine cloth faded and..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922. First edition, first state; number 126 of 1,000 numbered copies; with stamped number 5mm tall, the "a" in the word "water" missing on page 22 and "mountain" spelled correctly on page 41. In publisher's black cloth over flexible boards, lettered in gilt on the..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1936. Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen's copy with his signature on front free endpaper. Some tic marks in purplish ink on Table of Contents, possibly Cullen's. xxxix, [1], 282, [2] pp. Publisher's black cloth. Bilingual with original French text side by side with English..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. First edition. Copy number 78 of 515 signed by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Bound in publisher's paper covered boards over beige cloth spine with title label printed in black; lacking the slipcase. Near Fine with toning to spine and edges of boards, covers lightly..... More
London: Michael Joseph, 1983. First edition. (Precedes the American edition by two years.) 64 pp. Publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in silver. Fine in unclipped dust jacket with tiny stain to front gutter, else Fine. A book of poetry by the African American expatriate author. More
New York: Communications Company, 1968. First edition. Published simultaneously by the Artists Workshop Press in Ann Arbor, with no known priority. 10pp including covers. Side-staples wrappers. Very Good. Tape ghost to rear cover, some light edge wear, thumbing and toning. Two holograph corrections to #1, and penned beneath letter #12..... More
London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1936. Second printing of the first edition. Signed by Dylan Thomas on the front free endpaper; front free endpaper also browned from a clipping formerly laid in. Bound in publisher's gray paper-covered boards with spine lettered in dark blue. Covers rubbed at corners..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1927. First edition. [x], 56 pp. Original gilt paper covered boards with black cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. Very Good with typical rubbing to boards, especially along edges. An acclaimed book of poems patterned after African American sermons by the author of Autobiography of an..... More
Edinburgh: Printed for the author and sold by William Creech, 1787. First Edinburgh edition, second overall; mixed issue with Boxburgh on page xxxvii, the addenda to the subscription list on page xlvi, and "stinking" corrected to "skinking" on page 263. Bound in mottled calf, sympathetically rebacked. Near Fine with binding..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981. First edition. xxxiv, 622 pp. Publisher's black cloth lettered in white. Single corner crease to one page, else Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a few small nicks to edges, a bit creased and rubbed. The Pulitzer Prize-winning confessional poet's complete works, published..... More
New York: Ecco, 2006. First American edition. Signed by Leonard Cohen in pencil on title page with his red Order of the Unified Heart chop. Photo of Cohen signing a stack of these books laid in. [viii], 232 pp. Original white cloth and white paper-covered boards, lettered in metallic blue..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1993. First American edition. Signed by Leonard Cohen on the title page in ink with his heart stamp. [xvi], 415 pp. Original cloth, spine lettered in silver.Very Good with light rubbing and foxing to top edge, gift inscription on front free endpaper, "Autographed Copy" sticker on..... More
New York: Harmony Books, 1973. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original pictorial wraps. Very Good. Wraps rubbed. Previous owner marked several edges of the cover and rear spine joint with black marker, affecting bottom and top edge of early pages as well. Previous owner name to first page..... More
New York and London: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1899. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth with elaborate gilt stamping illustrated by Althea Giles; similar in binding to the English edition and printed from duplicate plates that repeat the errors. Very Good with gilt heavily..... More
