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$45.00NY: Norton (1992). First edition. 345 pp. Two small spots to fore-edge, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Dated (May ‘92) and INSCRIBED by Sarton.$17.50NY: Norton (1997). First edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Selection edited by Susan Sherman.$15.00London: Faber and Faber (1986). First edition. 114 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Rupert Hart-Davis. Illustrated with a few Beerbohm drawings and some photographs.$15.00Boston: Houghton Mifflin (1977). Advance excerpt. [8 pp]. Near fine in stapled letters. Prints letters from Anne Sexton to Alfred M. Sexton, W.D. Snodgrass, Brother Dennis Farrell, and Linda Sexton. Cover photo of Sexton by Arthur Furst.$50.00West Chester: (np) 1986. First edition. 14 1/4 x 8 1/4 inch broadside, printed in two colors. Fine. Two deckle edges. “First appearance of G.B.S.’s letter in original poetic form” commemorating a reading by Stanley Weintraub at West Chester University 4 December 1986. One of 150 copies printed at the Green Library Press.$20.00London: Macmillan (1980). First edition. 264 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket that is lightly sunned along the spine. Edited by John Lehmann and Derek Parker. Over 200 letters from 1919 - 1964.
$200.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980. First edition, deluxe numbered & signed issue. 219 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket and publisher’s slipcase. Edited by Lee Bartlett. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Spender and Bartlett.$75.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 219 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Edited by Lee Bartlett. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Spender.$45.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980. First edition. 219 pp. Top edges foxed, else near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Edited by Lee Bartlett. One of 1000 trade hardcover copies.$20.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980. First trade paperback printing. 219 pp. Foxing along top edge, else very good in printed wrappers.$450.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980. First edition, publisher’s copy. 219 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket and publisher’s slipcase. Edited by Lee Bartlett. Designated “Publisher’s Copy” on the colophon page and SIGNED by Spender and Bartlett. Additionally INSCRIBED by Spender on the second leaf, “Inscribed for Barbara / and John / by / Stephen Spender / with many thanks / for their hospitality / Feb 28th 1981.” Laid-into this copy are three ALS from Spender, relating to the publication of his volume and other matters.
$45.00Berkeley: Aris Books (1982). First trade paperback printing. 238 pp w/bibliography & notes. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Introduction by L. John Harris. Spoerri records every detail of his time on the island of Symi, with a digression on the tradition of meatballs.$20.00[Emeryville]: Shoemaker & Hoard (2007). First edition. xi + 420 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with crimping to crown. Edited by Page Stegner, with his introduction.$125.00San Francisco: Roxburgh & Zamorano Clubs, 1964. First edition. 4to. [8 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 150 copies printed as a keepsake for the biennial meeting of the clubs. First appearance in print of this humorous note which Steinbeck wrote to one of his professors (the father of the printer, Sherwood Grover) while attending Stanford University, c. 1920. Goldstone & Payne A42.$25.00London: Enitharmon, 1983. First edition. 97 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited with an introduction by Anthony Berridge.$20.00NY: Summit Books (1988). First trade edition. 413 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Edited by Tim Page and Vanessa Weeks Page.$25.00London: Allen Lane/Penguin (1996). First UK edition. xxxi + 528 pp w/index. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Selected and edited by Ronald DeLeeuw. Translated by Arnold Pomerans.
$45.00NY: United Artists Books, 1992. First edition. 43 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Anne Tardos. The first of four early journals, beginning in 1971 and culminating in her CLAIRVOYANT JOURNAL (composed in 1974, published in 1978).
$125.00Lowell: Bootstrap Press, 2010. First edition. 158 pp. Fine in gilt-decorated boards with bound-in ribbon place marker. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 258 numbered copies. Wieners’ journal from July 1969 to January 1970. All five bits of printed ephemera laid in, as issued.$37.00NY: New Directions (2000). First edition. 581 pp w/indexes. Fine in fine dust jacket. At publication price:
$20.00Santa Barbara: Oyster Press, 1984. First edition. 53 pp. Fine in wrappers and integral printed dust jacket. Foreword by Paul Mariani. Both sets of letters, with Sanford’s commentary.$15.00NY: Norton (1989). First edition. 293 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket.$50.00Middletown: Wesleyan University Press (2003). First edition. xxiii + 574 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with the title on the label faded. Edited by Barry Ahearn with his preface.$85.00NY: McDowell, Obolensky (1957). First edition. xix + 347 pp w/index. Inked ownership name of Wormwood Review editor Marvin Malone to front free endpaper, else very near fine in near fine dust jacket that is a bit rubbed. Edited with an introduction by John C. Thirlwall. Wallace A42.$25.00Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1990. First edition. x + 198 pp w/index. Light uneven toning to covers, else near fine in full cloth with printed spine label. Edited by Joyce Lancaster Wilson, with her commentary. One of 850 copies.$20.00Durango: Logbridge-Rhodes (1985). First edition. 15 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Edited, with a foreword by Anne Wright.$15.00Toronto: Macmillan (1977). First Canadian edition. xviii + 68 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Richard J. Finneran.$27.50NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1994). First US edition. 310 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Russian by Milena Michalski and Sylva Rubashova. Poetry Translated by Peter Norman. Promotional flyer laid in.
$150.00NY: Knopf, 1926. First printing of this edition. xxiii + 264 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a small mark on the front cover. Translated from the original Latin by Moncrieff. Introductory letter by George Moore, to whom this complete translation, the first into English from the original Latin, is dedicated.$20.00Sutton West: Paget Press, 1977. First trade paperback printing. 62 pp. Light uneven toning to rear cover, sticker shadow to front. In all, very good plus in printed wrappers. Poems by Purdy, illustrated with drawings by Hugh Leroy. An “appreciation” by Bukowski appears as an introduction.$40.00NY: New Directions (1967). First edition. 314 pp w/index. Very good plus in full cloth, lacking dust jacket. Penciled notes inside rear cover. Edited and with Commentary by Forrest Reid.$55.00NY: New Directions (1967). First edition. 314 pp w/index. Top edge a little dusty, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with a small stain at crown of spine. Edited and with Commentary by Forrest Reid.