Literature & Poetry
Essays: First and Second Series
Mount Verson: The Peter Pauper Press, ca. 1950. 4to. 314 pp. Illustrated with woodcuts by Hans Alexander Mueller. Printed Presentation leaf with manuscript name tipped in before the title page"This volume of Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays is especially for Eare Wedlats. And presented by Illinois Gear and Machine Company Chicago."..... More
Poems for Printers
Oakland, CA: Rather Press, 1970. 1st. Paperback. First Edition, Limited to 105 copies. Square 8vo. [20] pp. Illustrated by Lois Rather, assembled from a mixed accumulation of printer's ornaments as her first typesetting lesson. Various sizes and kinds of type. Stiff red string-tied wrappers with black lettering to front cover..... More
West is West: Rudyard Kipling in San Francisco (SIGNED)
Oakland, CA: Rather Press, 1976. 1st. Hardcover. Limited Edition #121 of 151 copies. 4to. 80pp. Illustrations. References; Index. INSCRIBED "With all best wishes/Lois & Clif Rather." Designed, hand-set and hand-fed, hand-sewn and cased by the Rathers. Green cloth spine over green illustrated paper boards. A fine copy. The story of..... More
A Weaver of Dreams
New York: Putnams, 1911. First Edition. 8vo. vi, 374 pp. Color frontispiece by A.G. Learned, with tissue guard. Striking gilt decorated lavender cloth decorative binding designed by margaret Armstrong housed in scarce publisher's worn slipcase. The book is in exceptionally fine condtion. A tale of unrequited love, leaving the protagonist..... More
La derniere aventure d'un homme de quarante-cinq ans
Paris: Honoré Champion, 2007. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo; 351 pages New copy - unread. Text in French. L'Age Des Lumieres # 40. More
Grandmother's Garden
Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1887. Second edition. Hardcover. 4to. [11] leaves (including 10 plates with tissue guards illustrated with poems & flowers). Charming late nineteenth-century chromolithographed and embossed die cut calendar page for January, 1898 laid in (measuring 5" x 7"). The Green cloth with dark green & gilting illustration..... More
Bridging the Years
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1939. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 267pp. Index. Photo illustrations. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket (light fading to spine; small marks to rear cover). The autobiography of Cale Young Rice, one of America's foremost poets. Rice was married to Alice Hegan Rice, author of..... More
Three Homeric Hymns: To Apollo, Hermes, and Aphrodite Hyms 3, 4 and 5 (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. First Edition. Octavo; xvi, 272pp with Bibliography, Index. New copy in green cloth lettered in gold. More
The Sieve of Time
London: Quartet, 1992. First Edition. 8vo. 669 pp. Index. Photo-illustrations. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. The autobiography of Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl (1902 – 2003), a German film director, actress, photographer and Nazi sympathizer. Leni is best known for her documentary films of the 1930s dramatizing the power..... More
Believe It or Not!
New York: Simon & Schuster, March, 1932. Twenty-fourth printing. INSCRIBED by the author "To Maurice Paquette, With all the best from Ripley "Believe It or Not". Blue cloth with red lettering in uncommon color illustrated dustjacket. Slight cocking; offsetting inside front cover; else near fine in very good dustjacket (light..... More
Esquisse Autobiographique (1839-1928)
Geneve: Villard & Rabot, 1928. 1st. Softcover. 8vo. 91pp. Bibliography of the author's works. Black & white illustration of Ritter after a drawing created by Mlle. Ch Ritter, presumably his daughter. Brown stiff wraps with black lettering in find condition. INSCRIBED by Ch Ritter. An exceptionally copy of a scarce..... More
Complete Poems of Robert Frost 1949 (SIGNED)
New York: Henry Holt, 1949. First Edition Limited #423 of 500 copies. SIGNED by the poet on Limitation page. Large 8vo. 642 pp. Pale green linen with gilt-stamped green label on spine, in publisher's green slipcase. Darkening to spine; artistic previous owner bookplate; light wear to slipcase with small paper..... More
Private Report: A Novel
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1943. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo; x, 326 pages. The story of the leader of World War II's Belgium undergound. More
Robinson Jeffers Newsletter, Number 64, April 1984
Los Angeles: Robinson Jeffers Committee, 1984. 1st. Paperback. First edition. 4to. 31pp. Stapled A4 printed sheets. Edges neat and clean; short closed tears to first page. Very good. In this issue: "News and Notes"; "California Writers of the Land: Cawdor"; "Books in Print: An Update 1984"; "Jeffers Biographical Entries"; "Jeffers..... More
Out of Nymph: Poems (SIGNED)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. 1st. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 108pp. Foreword by Beverley Nichols. Full-page heartfelt INSCRIPTION by the poet to her life-long friend. Dark blue ribbed cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Faint dampstaining to lower front board else a fine copy. Poems by the sister of President..... More
Urgent Shapes (SIGNED)
San Diego: Troubador Press, 1930. 1st. Paperback. Limited Edition #12 of 300 copies. Small 8vo. 40 pp. SIGNED by the poet on limitation page. Green stiff illustrated wrappers in near fine condition. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 17th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number -..... More
Tra concordia e pace. Parole e valori della Grecia antica
Milan: Cisalpino, 2007. 1st. Paperback. Octavo; xxviii, 376 pages. Fine, unread copy. Volume 92 of Quaderni di Acme. VIII Giornata di Studi Bizantini (Milano, 15-16 marzo 2005) Next day shipping. Celebrating our 15th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request. More
Blaze Allan (SIGNED)
New York: William Morrow, 1944. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED by the author. 8vo. 281 pp. Blue cloth in color illustrated dustjacket. Small bumping to upper front corner; slight fading to edges else a near fine copy in very good dustjacket (corner tips clipped but price intact; chipping to spine..... More
Poes?a
Italy: Published by the author, 1970. 1st. Original wrappers. First Edition. Square 12mo. 24 printed leaves (4" x 4") laid in to larger folded printed leaf. Illustrations. Housed in publisher's yellow printed & stapled paper sleeve. Light wear & creasing else a near fine copy. These 24 poems were composed..... More
Cyrano de Begerac: A Play in Five Acts
London: William Heinemann, 1898. 1st. Original cloth. First U.K edition. Small 8vo. 294pp. Translated from the French by Gladys Thomas and Mary F. Guillemard. Original two-toned green cloth in very good condition (fading to spine; wear to extremities; small white spot to lower front board; 2 attractive owner bookplates; blindstamp..... More
Wolverine: The Brotherhood; Coyote Crossing; Return of the Native (3 volumes)
New York: Marvel Comics, 2003. 1st. Paperback. Large 8vo. Color printed wraps in fine condition; as new. All domestic orders are fully trackable - Images available upon request. More
Ghalib: The Poet And His Age
London: George Allen & Unwil, 1975. 1st. Hardbound. Octavo, 131 pages. 'Papers read at the centenary celebrations at School the Oriental and African Studies, University of London'. More
From Busan to San Francisco: A Graphic Novel
Stanford, CA: Stanford University, 2012. 1st. Paperback. First Edition. Octavo; 160 unnumbered pages, chiefly color illustrations. Fine, unread copy. Inspired by the feature story "Diary of a sex slave" by Meredith May, originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle in 2006. Written and illustrated by the members of the 2012..... More
Beiträge zur geschichte Danzigs. Jugendleben und Wanderbilder aufs Neue Eingeführt und it Ersäuteruden Notizen versehen von Dr. W. [Wilhelm] Cosack
Danzig/Gdansk: Theodor Bertling, 1884. 1st. Hardcover. First edition thus. 8vo. 185pp, plus [2]pp of publisher's catalog. Black & white title page illustration. Re-bound in green paper covered boards; gilt titles to pink leather label on spine. Wear to extremities, more so to spine ends and corners; previous owner's inscription. Very..... More