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$65.00NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1950). First edition. xxv + 358 pp w/index. Page edges lightly toned, else fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear to crown of spine. Edited by D.D. Paige and with a preface by Mark Van Doren.$25.00NY: New Directions (2017). First US edition. 110 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket that is lightly soiled. Translated from the original French by Lydia Davis, with her afterword. Text edited and annotated by Estelle Gaudry and Jean-Yves Tadié, with a foreword by Tadié.$75.00Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1997. First edition, lettered issue. 340 pp w/index. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 20 lettered copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray.$20.00NY: Norton (1997). First US edition. xxi + 306 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket.$15.00NY: MJF Books (2000). First printing of this edition. 122 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Foreword by Kent Nerburn.
$75.00Edinburgh: Tragara Press 1974. First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with printed cover label. Introduction by Donald Weeks. One of 95 numbered copies. Nine letters by Rolfe, two by Richards.$125.00Edinburgh: Tragara Press 1974. First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with printed cover label. Introduction by Donald Weeks. Nine letters by Rolfe, two by Richards. The colophon has a holograph addition, “One of a few trial proof / copies on lilac paper. / AA / 5.11.74.”$45.00London: Enitharmon Press, 1977. First edition. 47 pp w/index. Fine in full red cloth and unprinted clear acetate dust jacket. Edited by Miriam J. Benkovitz with her introduction. One of 350 copies. Thirty-four letters c. 1899-1903. Young 3341.
$100.00London: Cecil & Amelia Woolf, 1974. First trade edition. 80 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Introduction by Cecil Woolf. Rolfe’s notorious letters to Masson Fox detailing his desperate times and sexual life in Venice from 1909-1910. Young 3344*.
$50.00London: Bertram Rota, 1972. First trade edition. 58 pp w/notes. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Introduction and notes by Donald Weeks. One of 500 numbered copies. Edited by James Weeks, with his thorough notes. Rolfe’s correspondence with Walsh follows the typical unhappy arc.$35.00NY: Simon & Schuster (1978). First edition. 286 pp w/index. Remainder mark on bottom edge, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear to base of spine and some light sunning. SIGNED by Rorem on the front free endpaper.$25.00NY: Simon & Schuster (1978). First edition. 286 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with light sunning to spine.$24.00NY: Braziller (1970). First edition. 216 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with a light sticker shadow to front flap. His third book of essays.$35.00NY: Braziller (1970). First edition. 216 pp. Fine very near fine dust jacket. His third book of essays. Young 3349.$35.00NY: Braziller (1970). First edition. v + 216 pp. Previous owner’s inked name and address to first leaf, else very good plus in very good, price-clipped dust jacket with a small tear and chip to bottom edge of front panel. Dated (99) and INSCRIBED by Rorem on the title page, “to Paul / with pleasure / Ned Rorem.”$20.00Washington DC: Counterpoint (2000). First edition. xiii + 416 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Introduction by Edmund White.$20.00NY: Coward-McCann (1983). First edition. 383 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket.$200.00NY: Coward-McCann (1983). First edition. 383 pp. Light foxing to page edges, else near fine in in like dust jacket. Dated (May 1983) and INSCRIBED by Rorem to his North Point Press publisher, “To Jack Shoemaker / in memory of a first meeting / warmly / Ned Rorem.”$25.00NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston (1974). First edition. 439 pp. Near fine in very good plus, price-clipped dust jacket with a vertical crease to front flap fold and a tiny tear to top edge of the rear panel.$20.00San Francisco: North Point Press, 1987. First edition. 634 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.$75.00NY: George Braziller (1967). First edition. 218 pp. Scuffs to cloth along top edge and crown, else very good plus in like dust jacket with a patch of loss to one flap fold and crown. SIGNED by Rorem on the front free endpaper.$45.00NY: Braziller (1967). First edition. 218 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with light sunning, and wear and starting to jacket folds along spine. The follow-up to THE PARIS DIARY, the second installment in Rorem’s long sequence.$35.00NY: Braziller (1966). First edition. 240 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a pale stain to the front cover. Includes “A Portrait of the Diarist” by Robert Phelps. Young 3352.$12.50NY: Norton (1988). First edition. 280 pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket that is rubbed.$45.00NY: Norton (1992). First edition. 345 pp. Two small spots to fore-edge, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Dated (May ‘92) and INSCRIBED by Sarton.$17.50NY: Norton (1997). First edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Selection edited by Susan Sherman.$15.00London: Faber and Faber (1986). First edition. 114 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Rupert Hart-Davis. Illustrated with a few Beerbohm drawings and some photographs.$15.00Boston: Houghton Mifflin (1977). Advance excerpt. [8 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Prints letters from Anne Sexton to Alfred M. Sexton, W.D. Snodgrass, Brother Dennis Farrell, and Linda Sexton. Cover photo of Sexton by Arthur Furst.$50.00West Chester: (np) 1986. First edition. 14 1/4 x 8 1/4 inch broadside, printed in two colors. Fine. Two deckle edges. “First appearance of G.B.S.’s letter in original poetic form” commemorating a reading by Stanley Weintraub at West Chester University 4 December 1986. One of 150 copies printed at the Green Library Press.$20.00London: Macmillan (1980). First edition. 264 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket that is lightly sunned along the spine. Edited by John Lehmann and Derek Parker. Over 200 letters from 1919 - 1964.
$45.00San Francisco: Grey Fox Press (1983). First trade paperback printing. xi + 100 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover photograph by Allen Ginsberg.$25.00NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (2012). First edition. xii + 523 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by David Rieff, with his preface.