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$25.00NY: Bard/Avon (1999). First edition. 302 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Prints previously unpublished essays by Dorothy West and Ralph Ellison. Promotional flyer laid in.$25.00Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press (1967). First edition. 400 pp. Top edge dusty, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Divided into two sections--'The Social Record' and 'The Literary Record'--this collection of essays and literary reviews attempts to give a full account of the years from the Great Depression to Pearl Harbor. Edited by Henry Dan Piper.$15.00NY: Grossman, 1971. First edition. 75 pp. Light foxing to top edge, else very near fine in dust jacket with wear to top and bottom edges, else near fine. With woodcuts and engravings by Albrecht Dürer. This is a pleasing and unusual book in that the reader gets to trace the genesis of a poem; the book reprints the work sheets and drafts leading up to the final version of one of Jarrell's poems-- 'Jerome'--as well as illustrations that inspired the poet's imagination. Also with an essay by Jarrell's widow, Mary von Schrader Jarrell.$20.00Paris: Confession Press [1985]. Third edition, second piracy. 24 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Shifreen & Jackson A43c.$30.00First edition. (1983). NY: Stein and Day 312 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.$30.00NY: Grove Press, 1992. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Chapter on the Beat Hotel, etc.$35.00London: Gerald Duckworth (1950). First edition. 316 pp. Touch of foxing to last two leaves, else very near fine in near fine dust jacket that is folded off-center.$45.00NY: Farrar, Straus and Young (1952). First edition. xii + 814 pp w/index. Near fine in very good only dust jacket with sunning to spine, chips to base and crown, and some chips and tears to rear jacket flap. Clifford Odets’ copy, with his embossed stamp “CLIFFORD ODETS / NEW YORK CITY” on the front free endpaper, along with his inked initials.$15.00Madison: University of Wisconsin Press (1996). First trade paperback printing. 248 pp w/index. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.$10.00Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, (1995). First trade paperback printing. 196 pp. Very near fine in wrappers. Interivews with close companions, acquaintances, and family.$45.00Amherst: University of Massachusetts (Spring 1963). Vol IV No 3. 30 pp. Tanning to spine, else very near fine in wrappers. Off-print from MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW. Edited by Robert G. Tucker and David R. Clark. An essay that recounts the censorship of a recording Cummings made for a radio program concerning 'the American concept of the free man.' Beneath the outrage clearly expressed in the reprinted correspondence from Cummings, he also takes delight in the irony of the situation. Includes a holograph copy of one of Cummings' letters. A fantastic snapshot of a literary debacle.
$45.00Edinburgh: Tragara Press (1983). First edition. 19 pp. Very near fine in wrappers. One of 110 numbered copies. The tenth in a series of of monographs relating to the life of Frederick William Rolfe. Weeks went on to publish a biography of Rolfe, CORVO: SAINT OR MADMAN? This monograph concentrates on the life of one of Rolfe's brothers, Captain Percy H. Rolfe of the British Merchant Service.$40.00NY: Putnam’s (1971). First edition. 319 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket with a tiny chip and one short closed tear.$17.50NY: Simon & Schuster (1980). First edition. 429 pp. Remainder mark bottom edge, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Biographer Kaplan won a Pulitzer and a National Book Award for his previous book, MR.CLEMENS AND MARK TWAIN; he won a Guggenheim to work on 'Walt Whitman.'