EIGHT FIRST EDITION AND LIMITED EDITION BOOKS
Fifty Caricatures, by Max Beerbohm London: W. Heinemann, 1913, first ed. 4to, orig. gilt-pictorial green cloth. With 50 plain plates, incl. 47 mounted plates. Mottetti. The Motets of Eugenio Montale in Italian with facing English translations by Lawrence Kart, San Francisco, Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1973. 8vo. original limp yellow cloth, string bound. One of 300 copies. First ed. Signed by the author and translator on limitation leaf. The final book from the Grabhorn-Hoyem Press. The Collected Later Poems, by William Carlos Williams, New York, New Directions, 1950, cloth boards. ed. 35/100 copies signed by the author, slipcase. The Blood of a Poet, A Film by Sean Cocteau, translated by Lily Pons, Bodley Press, first ed., 1949. The Sorrows of Priapus, by Edward Dahlberg with off-set lithographs by Ben Shahn, 4to, first ed. on Arches paper, Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1957. 40 drawings by Shan. Loose lithograph reproductions of full-page watercolors. Out-of-series copy for Edith Gregor Halpern, signed by Edward Dahlberg and Ben Shahn. Gilt-lettered cream boards, slipcase. Xenia, by Eugenio Montale, translated by G. Singh. Black Sparrow Press and New Directions, 1970. Hard bound in boards, limited edition of 26 lettered presentation copies, lettered B and signed by author and translator. Ovid's Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books, Limited Editions Club, Introduction by Gilbert Highet. Cloth-backed boards, slipcase. No. 1387 of 1500 copies. Signed by Hans Erni, the illustrator and Hans Mardersteig, the printer. Virgil's Georgics, Illustrations by Bruno Bramanti. Signed by the illustrator and the printer, Giovanni Mardersteig. Cloth-backed patterned boards, slipcase. No. 1387 of 1500, Limited Editions Club,1952.
8 pieces total
H 12¾ x W 9 x D 1¼ inches.
Provenance: Property from the Estate of George Zournas, Lubbock, Texas