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$200.00Pharos, 1947. First edition. 52 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. “With notes and commentary on the text and the ideograms, together with Ciu Hsi’s ‘Preface’ to the Chung Yung and Tseng’s commentary on the Testament.” The fourth and final issue of Pharos. Gallup A58a.
$500.00London: Faber & Faber (1940). First edition. 185 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Gallup A47a.
$500.00Churchtown: Cuala Press, 1916. First edition. xviii + 48 pp w/notes. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 350 numbered copies (the entire edition). Gallup A12.
$850.00Rapallo: Tip. Moderne (Canessa), (1944). First edition. 22 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Entire text in Italian. From the library of Black Sparrow Press publisher John Martin, with his book ticket inside the ear cover. Gallup A52a.
$1,000.00London: Elkin Mathews, 1909. First edition. 59 pp. Some foxing to fore-edge, else very near fine in paper-covered boards with gilt stamping to spine and front panel. An earlier copy off the press, with the five lines on the spine measuring 2cm. Housed in a custom chemise and slipcase. Gallup A3a.
$35.00Toledo: Friends of the University of Toledo Libraries, 1987. First edition. 37 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers and fine dust jacket with pasted-on cover label. Edited by Donald C. Gallup, with his introduction. One of 500 numbered copies. Collects four dramatic works.
$750.00London: The Egoist [1919]. First trade edition. 51 pp. Very near fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. One of 500 copies. As in most copies, Pound has corrected the misprinted “Wherefore” to “Wherefrom” on page 34. Gallup A17a.
$75.00London: Faber and Faber (1973). First edition. 444 pp w/index. Corners very gently tapped, else fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by William Cookson, with his introduction. Gallup A93a.
$450.00NY & Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart (1937). First edition. 46 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. One of 331 copies (from a 750 copy first printing, 419 of which were used for a second issue in 1940). Gallup A43b.
$75.00London: Faber and Faber (1960). First UK edition. 126 pp. Faint endemic offsetting to endpapers, else fine in very near fine dust jacket with two short closed tears. Gallup A77c.
$4,500.00NY: Arrow Editions (1936). First edition. 52 pp. Faint sunning to spine and extrems, else fine in fine dust jacket with a touch of restoration to a short closed tear on the rear panel. Housed in a fine custom clamshell case with leather spine label. Penciled notation “inscribed by Pound” in Larry McMurtry’s hand on the front flyleaf. Witter Bynner’s bookplate inside the front board. Dated (year of pestilence a.d. 1947) and INSCRIBED by Pound, “Regretfully returned to W. Bynner...” with the addition, “+ regards to A.C.” = Alice Corbin, a mutual friend, early editor of POETRY. Gallup B36b.
$2,000.00NY: Farrar & Rinehart (1932). First edition. 282 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with some shallow chipping to base and crown of spine, and to tips of flap folds. Powell’s fifth novel, originally titled COME BACK TO SORRENTO, but changed by the publisher against Powell’s wishes on publication.
$20.00Berkeley: Peacock Press, 1965. First edition. 16mo. 15 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. An essay on the difficulties created by big books.
$35.00Cherry Valley: Cherry Valley Editions (1974). Second edition. [15 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Edited by Charles Plymell with an introduction by Dave Haselwood. Originally published in 1963 in a 250 copy letterpress edition by Haselwood and Plymell.
$75.00Denton: Brynmill (1995). First edition. 213 pp w/afterword, notes, & sources. Fine in fine dust jacket. Stories selected and edited by Elaine and Barrie Mencher.
$100.00London: Chatto & Windus, 1925. First edition. 311 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Powys’ third novel. Custom bookplate of early Powys bibliographer and champion Lloyd Emerson Siberell inside the front board.
$45.00Gringly-on-the-Hill: Brynmill (1991). First trade edition. vii + 322 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited with notes by Ian Robinson, assisted by Elaine Mencher. Afterword by J. Lawrence Mitchell. Composed just before MR. WESTON’S GOOD WINE (1927), but unpublished until this edition.
$75.00London: Chatto & Windus (1930). First edition. 278 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear along the top edge and crown of spine.
$75.00Rocky Mount: North Carolina Wesleyan College Press (1989). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 45 pp. Fine in marbled paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Price. Additionally dated (11 v 90) and warmly INSCRIBED by Price to a close friend.
$20.00[Rocky Mount]: Friends of the Library, North Carolina Wesleyan College (1981). First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 500 copies. An essay with a short preface by Price. Produced on the occasion of his reading at the Library.
$750.00[Winston-Salem]: Palaemon Press (1979). First edition, lettered & signed issue. 29 pp. Fine in black cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped leather spine. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 9 lettered copies SIGNED by Price with his original drawing on the title page.
$125.00[North Pomfret]: Elysium Press, 2002. First edition. 17 pp. Fine in stiff wrappers and fine pale green paper dust jacket with pasted-on cover label. One of 50 numbered copies, of which ten were for private use. Edited, with an introduction by Tom Sargant. Burton Weiss wrote: travel pieces by a gay American writer born in 1858 who lived most of his adult life in Europe, where he published two groundbreaking books under the pseudonym “Xavier Mayne”: IMRE: A MEMORANDUM (Naples, 1906), the first sympathetic and explicitly gay novel by an American, and THE INTERSEXES (1908), the first separately published study of homosexuality by an American.
$150.00NY: Kent/Westreich (1989). First edition. 4to. [88 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. An artist’s book by Prince, juxtaposing works by Artschwanger, Brauntuch, Picabia, Polke, Man Ray, Richter, Sherman, Warhol, and Prince.
$25.00(np): Wm. Meek Ltd., 1968. First edition. 16mo. 19 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. A poetic condemnation of sequential wars from 1914-1968.
$150.00NY: Dutton, 1971. First US edition. 222 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine. Puig’s first novel.
$125.00[Vancouver]: Colophon Books, 1990. First edition, numbered & signed issue. Folio. [4 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Printed at the Pie Tree Press. Pairs “Blood Pressure Blues” with “Concerning Ms. Atwood.” One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Purdy.
$45.00NY: Nadja [1978]. First edition, numbered & signed issue. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Pages uncut. A single poem by Purdy, with his cover art. One of 174 numbered copies SIGNED by Purdy. The first book of the press.
$75.00NY: Nadja (1979). First edition, numbered & signed issue. [14 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies on handmade Umbria paper SIGNED by Purdy. A prose work with a drawing by Purdy as a frontis.
$55.00NY: Nadja, 1985. First edition, numbered & signed issue. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. Purdy’s short story with an illustration by Ed Colker. One of 200 numbered copies on Arches paper SIGNED by Purdy and Colker.
$1,000.00Philadelphia & NY: Lippincott (1963). Advance reading copy. 492 pp. Light tanning to spine, else near fine in printed wrappers. Pynchon’s first book.
$75.00Village Station: Metapoetics Press (1975). First edition, numbered & signed issue. [24 pp]. Near fine in sewn wrappers and integral printed dust jacket. Cut marbled paper cover design by Susan Quasha. One of 137 numbered copies SIGNED by Quasha. Dated (26 October 75) and INSCRIBED by Quasha, “For Clayton + Caryl, with love, George / Rokeby Farm / Berrytown.” Quasha has penned a eight page poem on the title page.
$750.00London: John and Edward Bumpus, 1908. First edition. xi + 113 pp. Very near fine in full red cloth with gilt decoration. Her third collection of poems, preceding her first novel for many years. THE WELL OF LONELINESS, her best known book, was published in 1928.