New York: Grand Street Publications, 1986. Illus. with b/w photos. Trade format. Paper wrappers. First printing. Work by Alice Adams, Santha Rama Rau, Mark Strand, Amy Clampitt, W. S. Merwin, Daniel Hoffman, Robert Fagles, and others. A very near fine copy. More
![Item #34220 Cantigas do Terramoto para ler e passar [with ALS]. João Afonso](https://kaaterskillbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/34220.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1432524495)
Angra do Heroismo: n.p. (Composição e impressão na União Gráfica Angrense), 1980. 16 pp. 8vo. Paper wrappers. First edition. Alamo Oliveira, illus. "as quais o seu autor, cidadão de Angra, intenta publicar como benefício à sua cidade e aos que padecem nas Ilhas." 1 of 500 copies. Warmly inscribed by..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973. [vii], 46 pp. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. First book of poems by the Afro-American and Japanese-American poet Florence Ai Ogawa [born Florence Anthony] (1947-2010). A near fine copy, with a bit of dustiness to edges, in a very good dust jacket with a small tear at..... More
London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., n.d. (ca. 1850's). xxvi, 300 pp. Sm. 8vo. Half bound calf over red marbled boards. Raised bands. Gilt on red morocco spine label. Speckled edges. Green endpapers. n.ed. Ed. by Charles Cowden Clarke with memoir and critical dissertation. Akenside (1721-70) was a physician and..... More
Santiago de Chile: Imprenta Nacional, 1884. 308 pp. Sm. 4to. Paper wrappers. First edition. Includes La mano de Dios; El drama de Petrella. 3. ed.; Bosquejos fisiolójicos: La yegua del coronel. El primer capítulo. El excelentísimo señor don José de Iturrigaray. Los hombres prácticos. El paje de Anastasia. 2. ed..... More
A Paris: Chez Delalain, 1783. [8], 332 pp. 12mo. Full calf, gilt rules, all edges gilt. First edition. Almanach de Muses ran from 1765 to 1833. This issue is one of three that contains poems on Ballooning, all the rage in Europe at the time, especially with the Montgolfier brothers'..... More
Santiago de Chile: Imprenta Nacional, 1892. 568 pp. 8vo. Quarter cloth over paper covered boards. Edición Oficial. Chilean poetry after independence. Discusses Camilo Henríquez (1769-1825); Bernardo de Vera y Pintado (1780-1827); Ventura Blanco Encalada (1782-1856); and Mercedes Marín de Solar (1804-1866). A very good copy, bottom edge worn, some darkening..... More
London: Printed by H. Reynell, Piccadilly, for J. Almon, Opposite Burlington-House. 1777. [2], 30 pp. 4to. Removed. First edition. Mainly known for his long humorous, epistolary poem, The New Bath Guide, Christopher Anstey (1724–1805) also translated Thomas Gray's Elegy into Latin. A Familiar Epistle is a translation of Anstey's own..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968. Illus. with b/w photos and drawings. 4to. Cloth. First edition. Trans. by Ron Padgett; illustrated by Jim Dine. A very good+ copy in a very good dust jacket with small tear to spine. More
Washington, D. C. National Education Association, (1976). 64 pp. Trade format. Paper wrappers. First edition. Excellent discussion of teaching science fiction as literature. Edges lightly soiled else a fine copy, unmarked and apparently unread. More
[Lisboa]: Alexandre de Michellis, Typ. Costa do Castello No. 15. 1859. 4 [of 8] pp. 8vo. Self wrappers. First edition. Contains Araujo's poem on pp. 7-8, but is lacking pp. 2-6 of the issue which includes other articles. José Ignacio de Araújo (1827-1907) was a Portuguese poet and dramatist. His..... More
![Item #35832 Obras Completas. Tomo I. Poesías. [All published]. Domingo Arteaga Alemparte](https://kaaterskillbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/35832.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1432524513)
Santiago: Imprenta de "Los Tiempos" 1880. Frontis, xxxxvii, [1],192 pp. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. Domingo Arteaga Alemparte (1835-1880) was a Chilean classical poet, and along with his brother, Justo, a journalist. A very good copy, faint soiling on boards, endpapers browning, very light scattered foxing. Not in Palau. More
Madrid: Librería de Don Antonio San Martín, 1886. 499 pp., 566 pp. 8vo. Quarter morocco over marbled boards. First edition. Lacking Volume III. T.I: Sociedad española al principiar el siglo XIX, La. El Príncipe de la Paz... Moret y Prendergast, Segismundo; Duque de Bailén, El. El ejército español en 1808....... More
Paris: Editions Auguste Picard, 1927, 1936. 563 pp.; 87 pp. Illus. with 300 b/w reproductions. 4to. Paper wrappers. First edition. No. 2 of 50 copies on pur fil Lafuma. Supplement signed by the author. An important work. First volume with wrappers separated from text block as glue has dried, spine..... More
![Item #44788 [Typed Letter Signed by Nine authors] Formal Invitation to Alexander Schilling, to...](https://kaaterskillbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/44788.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1697582775)
New York: 1915. 1 sheet. 8.25 x 10.5 inches. Invitation to join the Authors' League (currently known as the Authors Guild) formed three year earlier to protect the copyright interests of creators. Sent to artist Alexander Schilling dated December 31st, 1915 and signed by nine council members: Louis Joseph Vance..... More
Buenos Aires: Emecé Editores, (1944). 49 pp. Sm. 8vo. Paper wrappers. First edition. No. 692 of 1000 copies. Francisco Ayala's first narrative fiction after the Spanish Civil War, EL echizado (The Bewitched) is the tale of a Creole man trying to meet King Charles II of Spain (who was known..... More
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1975. 34 pp. 12mo. Illustrated paper-covered boards. First edition. Capra Chapbook Series: No.36. Cover drawing by William P. Wiley. One of 60 numbered copies signed by the author. A fine copy. More
Gijon: Imp. "El Noroeste" 1924. 264 pp. Sm. 8vo. Paper wrappers. First edition. Warmly inscribed by the author to Enrique Naranjo on the first text page, and dated 1927 in pencil. José Fernández Barcia (1887-1948) born in Gijón, emigrated to Argentina, knocked around in dead end jobs, served in the..... More
Madrid: [Talleres Espasa-Calpe], 1929. 300 pp. Sm. 8vo. Paper wrappers. First edition. Warmly inscribed by the author to Enrique Naranjo. 'Sonatina Gijonesa,' the second work by the Asturian author, José Barcia, created an uproar because of its caustic portrayal of the social parasitism of the wealthy classes. Though the novel..... More
Cantabrigiae: ex officina Joann. Hayes, celeberrimae academiae typographi. 1673, impensis Joann. Creed bibliopolae, Cantab., [1674]. 1673. [2], 586 pp., [6]. 16mo. Full calf, rebound with new spine and label with original blind embossed and ruled boards. Editio ultima correctior & emendatior. With the additional title page: engraved, "Io. Barclaii Argenis..... More
Charlottesville, VA: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1951. 17 pp. Sm. 4to. Quarter cloth over paper wrappers. First edition. Mimeographed typescript. Clifton Waller Barrett (1901-1991 was a noted book collector and a University of Virginia Library benefactor. A near fine copy. More
Boston: Students of the Day Colleges of Northeastern Univ. 1965. 56 pp. Illus. with 3 b/w drawings. 8vo. Stapled paper wrappers. First edition. The first issue of the revamped version. A near fine copy. More
Paris: Calmann-Levy, n.d. (ca 1905). 305 pp. 12mo. Three-quarter brown morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles. Later printing. New Orleans book binder's ticket on front pastedown. In French. We have a number of books similarly bound. Endpapers toned, foxing to edges, edge at head of spine chipped, still a...... More
London: Nonesuch Press, 1929. 172 pp. Illus. with color drawings. 8vo. Quarter vellum with gilt decorated boards. Marbled end papers. First edition thus. Translation by Herbert Grimsditch. Ten illustrations by Marion V. Dorn. Number 580 of 1050 copies for sale in England. The text was printed by John Johnson, Printer..... More
New York: Verlag der Johannespresse, 1944. 61, [1] pp. 8vo. Green paper-covered boards, paper label. First edition. One of 325 copies. The first part of "Paula: a Fragment" by Richard Beer-Hofmann (1866-1945), Austrian Jewish writer. Uncommon. A very good copy, spine and top edge sunned, spine ends lightly bumped, leaves..... More