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$20.00London: Chatto & Windus (1994). First UK edition. xxvi + 385 pp w/index. Small bump to one lower corner, else very near fine in like dust jacket. Edited by David Bergman.$150.00NY: Random House (1954). First edition. 342 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. A sharp, bright copy of this collection. Wallace A40.$75.00NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1966). First printing of this new edition (originally published in 1947). 467 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Review slip laid-in. Wilson provides a new preface.$20.00NY: Phoenix Bookshop (1981). First edition. 14 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 300 copies printed “as a holiday greeting from Bob Wilson and the Phoenix Bookshop.” This chapbook contains a brief humorous essay on mushroom picking in Manhattan. Illustrated by Kenneth J. Doubrava.$25.00London: Jonathan Cape (1995). First edition. 192 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.$35.00NY: Ticknor & Fields, 1989. First edition. xxxv + 298 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear to crown. Promotional flyer and photograph of Wolff laid in.$35.00Ann Arbor: University of Michigan (1983). First edition. 334 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Selection edited by Anne Wright. A volume in the "Poets on Poetry" series.$35.00Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (1983). First edition. 334 pp. Sunning to spine, else near fine in wrappers. Edited by Anne Wright. A volume in the “Poets on Poetry” series.$35.00NY: Harcourt Brace (1948). First edition. 186 pp. Slight lean to spine, else near fine in very good plus dust jacket with several short edge-tears and a chip to a lower rear corner. Essays by W.H. Auden, Karl Shapiro, Rudolf Arnheim, and Donald A. Stauffer. Introduced by Charles D. Abbott. Dated (9.i.48) and briefly INSCRIBED by Abbott and SIGNED “CDA.”$15.00Muncie: Ball State University (1970). First edition. 40 pp. Near fine in wrappers. A long critical essay concerning Auden’s poetry and the arc of his career, including a fairly useful bibliography.
$30.00Menlo Park: Occasional Works, 2004. First edition. 28 pp. Fine in wrappers with printed cover label. Printed letterpress from polymer plates by Eric Holub, hand-bound at the Foolscap Press. One of 100 copies. An essay on Leonard Woolf, Julia Margaret Cameron, and Ceylon, instigated by Stansky’s own travel. ‘Of Interest’ Chapbook IV. At publication price:$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.$15.00NY: David Lewis, Inc./Northwestern University Press (1970). First edition thus. 196 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light top edge wear and sunning to spine. Originally published as TRIQUARTERLY 20 in Fall 1970, this festchrift for Dahlberg contains essays and memoirs by Anthony Burgess, Kay Boyle, and Gilbert Sorrentino, among others, as well as selection from his correspondence, tributes by writers like Guy Davenport, Allen Tate, Paul Metcalf, Paul Carroll, and poems by Rukeyser, Kerouac, Eigner, Whalen, Laughlin, and Hollo, among many others. Also includes a selection of photographs and a bibliography.$36.00Manchester: Carcanet New Press/National Poetry Foundation (1983). First edition. 153 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with sunned spine. INSCRIBED by Dekker, 'For Ruth and Ian [Watt], / Dear friends of the Davies / and of yours truly, / (truly) / George / 9 December 1983.'$75.00Berwyn: Oak Knoll (1929). First edition. Unpaginated. Fine in very good plus original glassine jacket. Lacking the original slipcase. One of 950 copies. A privately printed monograph concerning Hardy's publication history and assessing his critical reception; the text is punctuated by holograph reproductions of letters to and from Hardy.$10.00Washington: Library of Congress (1967). First edition. 47 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Text of a lecture on Jarrell delivered by Shapiro at the Library of Congress.$12.50Saint Paul: Graywolf Press (1987). First trade paperback printing. xii + 203 pp w/index. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Introduction by Hugh Kenner.$45.00Durham: University of New Hampshire Press (1969). First edition. 35 pp. Wrinkles to two pages (production flaw) else ffine in wrappers. Pamphlet reprints Snodgrass’ "Spaulding Distinguished Lecture" at the University of New Hampshire. This pamphlet also collects the lectures of Arthur Kornberg, Crane Brinton, and Jacques Barzun. According to publisher William Ewert, most of this edition was destroyed.$75.00London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1893. First edition. Slight wear at the extremities of spine, else a very good, tight copy in original pictorial cloth, stamped in black, tan, and gilt; illustrated. Margaret Symonds' first solely authored book, dedicated to her late father John Addington Symonds and published in the year of his death. (Their collaborative book of essays, OUR LIFE IN THE SWISS HIGHLANDS, had appeared in 1892.) Both Margaret Symonds, who was then 24, and some of her descriptions in this book of the Italian countryside, were romantically admired at the time by her close friend Virginia Woolf, who was 21. Bookplate (by Gordon Craig) of Timothy d'Arch Smith.$25.00Bedfordshire: Sceptre Press (1977). First edition. 154 pp. Very near fine in dust jacket. Edited and with a preface and essay by Tim Prentki. A collection of critical essays concerning the poetry and dramatic work of Francis Warner, including essays by Harold Hobson, Paul Hewison, Lesly Burnett and Robert Burchfield.$20.00Frankfurt: Gnomon Press (1979). First edition. [120 pp]. Covers lightly rubbed, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. “A 50th Birthday Celebration for Jonathan Williams,” issued both as Truck 21 and a Gnomon Press book. Includes contributions--essays, poems, artworks, or otherwise--by John Cage, Robert Duncan, Larry Eigner, Guy Davenport, William Corbett, Basil Bunting, Joe Brainard, and Denise Levertov, among a score of others. A tribute that actually captures the spirit of Williams’ work and life.$20.00Frankfurt: Gnomon Press (1979). First edition. [120 pp]. Covers unevenly sunned, foxing along top edge, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. “A 50th Birthday Celebration for Jonathan Williams,” issued both as Truck 21 and a Gnomon Press book. Includes contributions--essays, poems, artworks, or otherwise--by John Cage, Robert Duncan, Larry Eigner, Guy Davenport, William Corbett, Basil Bunting, Joe Brainard, and Denise Levertov, among a score of others. A tribute that actually captures the spirit of Williams’ work and life. INSCRIBED by Williams on the title page, “JW, Col., / unretired.”$20.00Frankfurt: Gnomon Press (1979). First edition. [120 pp]. Small bump to one upper corner, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. $7.50 price sticker over printed price on rear panel. “A 50th Birthday Celebration for Jonathan Williams,” issued both as Truck 21 and a Gnomon Press book. Includes contributions--essays, poems, artworks, or otherwise--by John Cage, Robert Duncan, Larry Eigner, Guy Davenport, William Corbett, Basil Bunting, Joe Brainard, and Denise Levertov, among a score of others. A tribute that actually captures the spirit of Williams’ work and life.