Washington, D.C. Pan American Union, 1959. xix, 129 pp. 8vo. Paper wrappers. First English Language edition. UNESCO Collection of Representative Works. Latin American series. Harriet De Onís, trans. Translation of Las memorias de Mamá Blanca with a added introduction and bibliography. A near fine copy in white printed wrappers and..... More
London: Printed for the Villon Society by Private Subscription and For Private Circulation Only, 1898. lxxi, 206 pp. + adv. 8vo. Parchment covered boards, gilt titles, and gilt and red stamped decorations; top edge gilt. First English Language edition. No. 455 of an unknown number of copies. Bookplate of the..... More
![Item #26719 The Poetical Works of John Payne [Two Volumes]. John Payne](/pictures/thumb/26719.jpg?v=1434440921)
London: Printed for the Villon Society by Private Subscription and For Private Circulation Only, 1902. viii, 399 pp.; viii, 394 pp. + adv. [1 pp]. 8vo. Parchment covered boards, gilt titles, gilt and green stamped decorations; fore and bottom edges deckled, top edge gilt. Definitive edition. Publisher's erratum tipped in..... More
Buenos Aires: Sociedad de Bibliofilos Argentinos, (1957). 66 pp. Illus. with 4 lithographs and 2 in-text drawings. 4to. Loose quires in printed wrappers within blue paper-covered board portfolio and with original blue slip case. First edition. Frontis lithograph signed by the illustrator. No. 6 of 92 numbered copies (of a...... More
Buenos Aires: Ediciones Colihue, 1994. half title, 93 pp., [1] index. 12mo. Illustrated paper wrappers. 1st edición / 6th reimpresión. La Colección Literaria LyC. Very good, spine staring to separate, minor wear & soiling to wrappers, contents clean, occasional creasing. More
Santiago: Alianza de Intelectuales de Chile, (1939). 31 pp. 12mo. Paper wrappers. First edition. Carlos Pezoa Véliz (1879-1908) was recognized as a major Chilean poet only after his untimely death at age 29. Includes: Entierro de campo; Balada; El perro vagabundo; Fucundidad; Nada; El organillo; De vuelta de la pampa;..... More
Boston / Cleveland: John P. Jewett / Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington, 1854. 42 pp. Pamphlet. Paper wrappers. Attributed to Samuel R. Phillips by Halkett & Laing. Attributed to George W. Bungay in Brown University, Dict. Cat. of the Harris Coll., Vol. 2. A clean copy without the blue wrappers. LCP..... More
In Venetia, n.p., 1574. [48], 432 pp. 16mo.(16 cm). Vellum. First edition. Bernardino Pino da Cagli, Italian priest of the late Renaissance, was best known as a playwright. Aldine device of Rome represented with the wolf and Romolus and Remus on title page. All volumes and editions scarce. Rebound in..... More
Saratoga Springs: Skidmore College, 1993. Trade format. Paper wrappers. First printing. Selections from Pinksy's Dante's Inferno. A very good+ copy. More
Londini [London]: Ex Officinâ Jacobi Tonson & Johannis Watts, 1723-1729. Illus. with an engraved frontis (in Vol. I) by G[erard] van der Gucht after Thornhill, engraved portrait head pieces (from gems) also by van der Gucht, numerous woodcut head and tail pieces. Title page volume I in red and black;..... More
![Item #44814 [Advertising Print] Promethean Spring 1969. Poetry. 20th c. American, Tony De Melas](/pictures/thumb/44814.jpg?v=1590616884)
New York: [CCNY], 1969. 1 sheet. 44 x 32 inches. First edition. Large advertising poster for the literary magazine, Promethean. The original measured 16 x 10 feet, produced on twenty 40 x 32 inch sheets. De Melas was a Professor of Art at the City College of New York and..... More
Paris: Tresse / Galerie du Theatre-Francais, 1882. [iv], 49, [1] pp. 12mo. Stitched paper wrappers. Second edition. Includes text only. OCLC shows only one copy in the U.S., at Harvard. Removed from a larger volume, lacking the rear wrapper, else an unopened (uncut) copy. More
Bangkok: South-East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), 1965. 48 pp. 8vo. Stapled paper wrappers. First edition. Text in Thai and English. A near fine copy. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1885. 24 pp. printed rectos only. Sm. 8vo. Paper wrappers. First edition. Title in red and black, upper and lower margins ruled in red, running title in red. Margaret Junkin Preston (1820-1897) was a southern writer. This work, a contemporary noted, "is a poem..... More
![Item #43668 Nocturne [from] Samuel Barber: Four Songs for Voice and Piano. Frederic. Barber...](/pictures/thumb/43668.jpg?v=1479931594)
New York: G. Schrimer, (1941). 8 pp. Folio. Paper wrappers. Barber set this poem of Prokosch's from "The Carnival," (1938) to music in his Op. 13, no. 4. A fine copy. More
Rocca S. Casciano: L. Cappelli, 1902. [iii], 281 pp., errata [1]. 8vo. Three quarter morocco over marble paper-covered boards. First edition. The second of Provenzal's two works on this 17th Italian poet and satirist. Bibliography. A very good copy, extremities rubbed, spine scuffed, binding tight, a few pencil notations. More
Paris: Librairie Garnier Freres, n.d. (ca. 1928). v, 653 pp. 12mo. Quarter red calf, raised bands, tooled panels with gilt decoration, marbled boards, marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. n.ed. Notes by M. Felix LeMaistre and. A very good or better copy with rubbing to spine and extremities, edges a bit..... More
Chicago: Poetry, 1961. Trade format. Paper wrappers. Contains Anne Sexton: "The House;" Robert Duncan: "The Law" and "Two Dicta of William Blake;" and other works. Wrappers a bit soiled otherwise still a very good copy. More
Leipzig: Hesse & Beder, (ca 1937). cxxvi, 570 pp. + Adv [6]. Sm. 8vo. Cloth. Later printing. Prize copy from the Bundes-gymansium (Wien VI) to Alfred Eisenpreis (1924-2003), born in Vienna, vice president of marketing for Allied Stores Corporation, head of New York City’s Economic Development Administration in the1970s, consultant..... More
New York: Century Co., 1897. Frontis, x, 111 pp. Illus. with b/w drawings. Sm. 8vo. Green cloth with illustrated panel. First edition. Illus. by C. M. Relyea. Charming illustrations. About very good with wear to head and heel of spine and soiled boards with old tape removal shadow; leaves crisp..... More
Buenos Aires: Biblioteca Universal, 1931. 311 pp. 12mo. Illustrated paper wrappers (paperback). Nueva edicion. José Eustasio Rivera (1888-1928), a Colombian writer, published this major Latin American novel, and his most important work, set among the rubber plantations of the Amazon jungle, in 1924. Wrappers torn and tape repaired, detached, gift..... More
Mexico: Imp. del Museo N. de arqueología, historia y etnología, 1912. 23 pp. + [3] illustrated leaves. Illus. with b/w engravings. 4to. Stitched paper wrappers. Offprint. Nueva edición ilustrada. Publicado en el tomo IV de los Anales del Museo nacional de México. About very good, unopened (uncut), wrappers browned, small..... More
Saratoga Springs: Skidmore College, 1998. 339 pp. Trade format. Paper wrappers. First printing. A fine copy. More
Montevideo: Tipografía de la Escuela de Artes y Oficios, 1884. 60 pp. 16mo. Blind stamped maroon cloth. First edition. Thirteen essays by various writers at the School of Arts and Crafts for the birthday of Máximo Benito Santos Barbosa (1847-1889), President of Uruguay from 1882 until 1886 in an administration..... More
Santiago: Imprenta de "El Independiente" 1873. xv, 400 pp.; 408 pp. 8vo. T. I: Quarter brown morocco over paper covered boards, raised bands, gilt titles; T.II: Paper wrappers. First edition. This is the complete literary part in two volumes. The third volume covered politics. A mixed set of bindings, T...... More