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8 Books: Nonesuch, Black Sparrow, T. S. Eliot...
8 Books: Nonesuch, Black Sparrow, T. S. Eliot...
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[Nonesuch/Poetry/Black Sparrow]. 8 Titles. 12mo/8vo. ++ M. de Voltaire. THE PRINCESS OF BABYLON. Lon: Nonesuch Press, 1927. [Jan. 27, 1928. See Dreyfus 48.] ¼ parchment with vellum tips, marbled paper-covered boards, teg. Surface of covers mildly scuffed. Sunned. Vellum starting to show the usual minor spotting. Very good, lacking slipcase. Reasonable bookplate on front pastedown. #691 of 1500. ++ Robert Creely. A DAY BOOK. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, (©1972), (“77- “ Library of Congress card number). Boards simulating white cloth with black lettering. Light external soiling (largely to the clear plastic printed dj). Signed on title page by Robert Creely, in blue marker. ++ T. S. Eliot. DANTE. Lon: Faber & Faber, (1929). Paper-covered boards. Spine ends chipped. Covers and eps toned, dark pencil from a bookseller at upper right of front pastedown. DJ is worn and lacks the dj spine. ++ Wanda Coleman. HEAVY DAUGHTER BLUES: POEMS & stories 1968-1986. Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow, 1987. Colorfully bound in ¼ cloth and paper-covered boards with title and author on front cover, paper spine label. Near fine. Total of 426 issued in hardcover, of which 176 were to be numbered or lettered. This is “P” from the edition of 26. The author’s signature appears on an inserted leaf between copyright page and dedication page (rather than on the limitation page). ++ Cid Corman. WORD FOR WORD: Essays on The Arts of Language. Vol I only. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1977. ¼ cloth and board, paper label on spine. Near fine. Total of 750 hardcover issued, of which 250 were numbered. #166 of the edition of 200, signed by Corman on limitation page. ++ George F. Butterick (ed.). CHARLES OLSON & ROBERT CREELEY: The Complete Correspondence. Vol 2. Black Sparrow, 1980. Slight foxing to exterior and last leaves, otherwise near fine. Total of 1276 hardcover issued, of which 276 were numbered or lettered. #219 from the edition of 250. ++ Fielding Dawson. TWO PENNY LANE: A Novel. Black Sparrow, 1977. Near fine. Total of 276 hardcover. #22 from the edition of 250, signed by Dawson on limitation page. ++ UNCOLLECTED LECTURES BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON. William Edwin Rudge, 1932. Red cloth. Very good, probably lacking a dj or slipcase. One of 1100.
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