New York, NY: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1995. First Printing. Softcover. "Quarterlia" is the quarterly publication of the Quality Paperback Club. Edited by Kathy Kiernan, this issue contains a plethora of intriguing contributions worth the price of admission alone. Among these are Jerry Tallmer's essay "Jack Kerouac: Back to the Village--But Still On the Road"; memories of Robert Lowell from one of his cousins; and a contribution from poet Deborah..... More
[Item #3069]
New York, NY: Barse & Hopkins, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. With excerpt of poem hand-written & initialed by Robert W. Service. An early &, in its time, wildly popular volume of poems by Robert William Service (1874-1958), the extremely prolific British-Canadian poet known as "The Bard of the Yukon" & often compared to his near-contemporary Rudyard Kipling. These are very straightforward, old-fashioned poems about the places & people of Canada's..... More
[Item #3418]
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: S. J. Reginald Saunders, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed with greeting by Robert W. Service. "Mr. Service needs no introduction to Canadians, for his readers here are numbered in the hundreds of thousands. The poetry of Robert Service has sold more widely throughout the English-speaking world than that of any other living poet. His new volume of poems, BAR-ROOM BALLADS includes, among other poems in the typical..... More
[Item #3422]
New York, NY: Horizon Press, Circa 1976 (1953). First Softcover Edition Thus, Undetermined Printing. Softcover. "The Little Review, founded and edited by Margaret Anderson- one of this century's great romantics and rebels- is probably the livest and most important legend in American literary history. It "printed more distinguished work and aroused more excitement than any of its latter-day successors have. (The New Yorker). This volume presents over 150 selections from..... More
[Item #2765]
New York, NY: New Directions Books, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. "Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) served his broadcasting apprenticeship as a teenager...Then, starting in 1943 and continuing until his death, Thomas often sat behind a BBC microphone, variously giving radio talks, introducing poetry selections, participating in roundtable discussions, reading dramas, essays, poems. His was a glorious voice and he had a special ease and inventiveness on the air." (from front flap) The..... More
[Item #3131]
California, PA: Arthur & Glee Knight, 1972. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "This issue is dedicated to Henry Miller, a great artist, on his 81st birthday." (from contents-copyright page) Thus do the late Arthur (1937-2012) & Glee (a/k/a Kit?) Knight state the main theme of this vintage issue of their acclaimed, pioneering series of Beat-related publications under the umbrella title of "The Unspeakable Visions of the Individual." Henry Miller, the great..... More
[Item #3225]
Hartford, CT; New York, NY: American Publishing Company; Oxford University Press, 1880; 1996. Early Edition, First Trade Edition Thus. Hardcovers. Two collectible versions of an early-career classic travelogue by Samuel Langhorne Clemens a/k/a Mark Twain, the canonical American humorist & writer: (1) The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim's Progress, American Publishing Company's 1880 printing of the work it first published in 1869. Hardcover in black cloth with gilt lettering..... More
[Item #4246]
n/p; Berkeley, CA; New York, NY: Belford & Co.; The Iowa Center for Textual Studies/ University of California Press; Oxford University Press, 1880; 1979; 1996. Early Pirated Edition; First Editions Thus. Hardcovers. Three related rarities by Samuel Langhorne Clemens a/k/a Mark Twain (1835-1910), the canonical American humorist & author: (1) Sketches by Mark Twain, Belford & Co., 1880, "Now Published in Complete Form" as noted on title page. This is..... More
[Item #4256]
Syracuse, NY; New York, NY: American Publishing Company; Oxford University Press, 1893; 1996. Early Edition; First Trade Edition Thus. Hardcovers. Two collectible versions of an early-mid career classic collection of stories by Samuel Langhorne Clemens a/k/a Mark Twain, the canonical American humorist & writer: (1) Sketches New and Old, American Publishing Company's 1893 printing of the collection it first published in 1875. Hardcover in brown cloth with ornately illustrated front..... More
[Item #4241]
Berkeley & Los Angeles, CA: 1967. Hardcover. "Bizarre plot elements enlivened with irony and satire characterize these later fictional pieces by Mark Twain, published here in full for the first time. In theme and style they are closely related to The Mysterious Stranger, which is generally considered the most important work of his later years. Known to scholars as the "Great Dark" manuscripts, this group of unfinished narratives offers substantial..... More
[Item #4230]
New York, NY: Three Rooms Press, 2014. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Gerard Malanga to Charles Plymell. "Thomas Merton called Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo "the greatest universal poet since Dante." British poet, critic, and biographer Martin Seymour-Smith, a leading authority on world literature, identified Vallejo as "...the greatest twentieth-century poet in any language." And in the forceful, brilliant poetry of Vallejo, poet/photographer Gerard Malanga discovered a kindred spirit..... More
[Item #3348]
Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1985. First Edition. Hard Cover. Thirty-Five contemporary American poets appear in this classic collection edited by Helen Vendler, New Yorker poetry critic & Harvard English Professor. Including works by Wallace Stevens, Langston Huges, Elizabeth Bishop, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Anne Sexton, Gary Snyder, Sylvia Plath & many others. Book in very fine condition with only spotting to edges, dj near fine with..... More
[Item #1361]
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1969 (1957). First Edition Thus, Eighth Printing. Softcover. "In 1920 when Kora in Hell was originally published by The Four Seas Co. of Boston, I was a young man, full of yeast that was soon to flower as the famous outburst of literature and painting marking the early years of the present century...The legend of the Rape of Persephone, or Kora, had been familiar..... More
[Item #4091]