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$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.
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$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.
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$35.00NY: Braziller (1970). First edition. 216 pp. Fine very near fine dust jacket. His third book of essays. Young 3349.
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$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.”
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$20.00Washington DC: Counterpoint (2000). First edition. xiii + 416 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Introduction by Edmund White.
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$20.00NY: Coward-McCann (1983). First edition. 383 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket.
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$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.”
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$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.
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$20.00San Francisco: North Point Press, 1987. First edition. 634 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
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$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.
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$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.
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$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.
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$12.50NY: Norton (1988). First edition. 280 pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket that is rubbed.
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$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.
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$17.50NY: Norton (1997). First edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Selection edited by Susan Sherman.
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$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.
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$75.00Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1997. First edition. 320 pp w/chronology & list of names. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Edited by Nathan Kernan, with his introduction. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Kernan. -
$15.00Boston: Houghton Mifflin (1977). Advance excerpt. [8 pp]. Near fine in stapled letters. 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.
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$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.
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$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.
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$45.00San Francisco: Grey Fox Press (1983). First trade paperback printing. xi + 100 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover photograph by Allen Ginsberg. -
$40.00London & Boston: Faber and Faber (1985). First edition. 510 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket.
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$75.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 219 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Edited by Lee Bartlett. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Spender.
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$45.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980. First edition. 219 pp. Top edges foxed, else near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Edited by Lee Bartlett. One of 1000 trade hardcover copies.
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$20.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980. First trade paperback printing. 219 pp. Foxing along top edge, else very good in printed wrappers.
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$450.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980. First edition, publisher’s copy. 219 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket and publisher’s slipcase. Edited by Lee Bartlett. Designated “Publisher’s Copy” on the colophon page and SIGNED by Spender and Bartlett. Additionally INSCRIBED by Spender on the second leaf, “Inscribed for Barbara / and John / by / Stephen Spender / with many thanks / for their hospitality / Feb 28th 1981.” Laid-into this copy are three ALS from Spender, relating to the publication of his volume and other matters.
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$45.00Berkeley: Aris Books (1982). First trade paperback printing. 238 pp w/bibliography & notes. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Introduction by L. John Harris. Spoerri records every detail of his time on the island of Symi, with a digression on the tradition of meatballs. -
$20.00[Emeryville]: Shoemaker & Hoard (2007). First edition. xi + 420 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with crimping to crown. Edited by Page Stegner, with his introduction.
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$125.00San Francisco: Roxburgh & Zamorano Clubs, 1964. First edition. 4to. [8 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 150 copies printed as a keepsake for the biennial meeting of the clubs. First appearance in print of this humorous note which Steinbeck wrote to one of his professors (the father of the printer, Sherwood Grover) while attending Stanford University, c. 1920. Goldstone & Payne A42.
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$200.00Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1967. First editions. 867 + 1011 + 931 pp w/indexes. Three volumes, all very near fine in like dust jackets. Edited by Herbert M. Schueller and Robert L. Peters. Young 3724. For the set: