DOES COMMUNITY HAVE VALUE?; The Seventh Nicholas Bacon Memorial Lecture 1986
[Madley, Hewreford: Five Seasons Press, 1986. First Edition. 8vo, Printed wraps. Issued in an edition of 500 copies. A fine copy. Freedman A58x. More
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CIVILIZING THE CUMBERLANDS: A COMMENTARY and MOUNTAIN PASSES OF THE CUMBERLANDS.
[Lexington, KY: King Library Press, 1972]. First Edition. Large 8vo, pp. 26, untrimmed. One of only 100 copies (this is number 71), bound in paper covered boards and paper label. A fine copy. Freedman A18. Printed by apprentices at the press of Gravesend. The frontispiece is Joseph Bernard Hoeing's map..... More
THE SNOW LEOPARD.
Franklin Center PA: The Franklin Library, (1978). The First Edition Society. 8vo, pp. 348. Bound in tan leather stamped in gilt. The story of the author's 250 mile hike from Pokhara in northwest Nepal with naturalist George Shaler to the Crystal Mountains across the Himalayas in search of the mystical..... More
NINE-HEADED DRAGON RIVER; Zen journals 1969-1985.
Boston: Shambhala, 1986. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 288. A fine copy in dj. Zen journals 1969-1982. More
THE CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER; with illustrations by Sonia Woolf
London: John Lane The Bodley Head and NY: Dodd, Mead, (1930). Sonia Woolf. First edition, thus. Royal 8vo, pp. xx, 304. Illustrated with monochrome plates, Frontis + 11 other full page illustrations with captioned tissue guards all as called for + chapter head and tail piece wood block illustrations. Bound..... More
I SAW ESAU; The Schoolchild's Pocket Book, illustrated by Maurice Sendak
Cambridge: Candlewick Press, 1992. Maurice Sendak. First US edition. 12mo, pp. 160. A fine copy in dj. Signed by Maurice Sendak. More
MAXIMUS, FROM DOGTOWN - i; with a forwrod by Michael McClure
San Francisco: Auerhahn, 1961. First Edition. 4to, printed wraps (some faded on the cover), 1/500 copies. A very good copy. More
MAXIMUS POEMS IV, V, VI.
London: Cape Goliard in association with Grossman, 1968. First Edition. Quarto, Nice copy in dj. (flap pasted to endpaper, former owner's ink comment one.p. x-lib copy. More
EARTH ODYSSEY; Around the world in search of our environmental future.
NY: Broadway Books, (1998). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 372. Fine in dj. More
THE FINAL BOOK OF ...; Incitement to Nixoncide and praise for the Chilean Revolution, translated by Steve Kowit
Austin, TX: Quixote, 1975. First edition. 12mo, stiff wraps, stapled, illustrated. A good copy. More
THE JEFFERSON LETTERS
[Richmond, VA: Dietz, 2011]. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 225. Signed and inscribed by the author. Fine in dj. A biblio-mystery by the note antiquarian bookseller. More
ANIMUS AND ANIMA; Two essays
NY: Anylitical Psychology Club, 1957. First edition. 8vo, pp. 94. Bound in stiff wraps, cover little loned, a very good copy. More
QUIET GOODS
[Larkspur Press, 1980]. First edition. 12mo, a fine copy in dj. One of 750 numbered copies. Poems written from 1968 to 1977. More
THE TRIUMPH OF ACHILLES
NY: Ecco, (1985). First edition. 8vo, pp. 60. Paper over boards with cloth spine. A nice copy in dj.Inscribed by the author "with best wishes ...." More
BREAKING INTO PRINT; being a compilation of papers wherein each of a select group of authors tells of the difficulties of authorship and how such trials are met, together with biographical notes and comment by by an editor of "The Colophon".
NY: Simon and Schuster, 1937. 8o, pp. 196. Illustrated. Spine little faded, paper slightly yellowed, o/w a good tight copy. Dedicated to bibliophile John T Winterich who has inscribed it to a collector. Essays by 20 authors including: Sherwood Anderson, James Branch Cabell, Theodore Dreiser, Robinson Jeffers, Rockwell kent, Sinclair..... More
IMAGINATION IN PLACE
Berkekely: Counter Point, 2010. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 196. Fine in dj. A collection of essays. More
TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD.; with an introduction by Nikolai Lenin
NY: International publishers, 1926. First Edition, thus. 8vo, pp. 371. Little worn original red cloth, a very good copy. The story of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia by the important US journalist and activist with an introduction by the revolutionary leader. Scarce. More
CONVERSATIONS WITH WENDELL BERRY; edited by Morris Allen Grubbs
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, (2007). First edition. 8vo, pp. 218. Bound in green cloth. Fine. Freedman A132a. A collection of interviews with the Kentucky born poet, novelist and essayist. More
BOOKPLATE OF NOTED BOSTON BOOKSELLER SAMUEL ROBERT MORRILL; by Thomas W. Nason
np, nd. NASON, Thomas W, illustrator. 3-1/2 x 2-1/2 in. Mounted on a cream matt, signed in the plate "N". Very good condition. Previous owmer's stamp on the back of the matt. For many years, Sam ran the noted Edward Morrill & Son bookshop in Boston. He specialized in Americana..... More
THE NEW NATION, a weekly.
Boston: April 25, 1891. Vol 1, no. 13. -4to, pp. disbound, without covers. A good copy of this rare reformist periodical. Mott: The New Nation (1891-1894) "... was a sixteen-page quarto written largely by the ailing Bellamy, and all in a spirit of remarkable kindness ... the paper was eventually..... More
SUMMER KITCHEN; (broadside)
Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press, 2000. First Edition. (Broadside), 13-1/2 x 9 in., One of 125 copies, printed with letterpress, with a handcolored illustration by Carol J. Blinn. Signed by Hall and Blinn. Near fine. The poem first appeared on-line in Slate. More
SCALING THE WALLS; Poems 1967-1974
Gnomon Press, (1974). First Edition. 8vo, printed wraps, 1/1000 copies. Covers little soiled, a good copy. More
US; (broadside)
Williamstown, MA: The Writers' Guild, Williams College, (nd). 11 x 8-1/2 in. Printed in black and red on tan paper in an edition limited to 250 copies only. A very good copy. Scarce. 19 line poem. from Wikipedia: "John Barrett "Jay" McInerney, Jr. is an American novelist, screenwriter, editor, and..... More