THE POET ASSASSINATED AND OTHER STORIES
London: Grafton Books, 1985. Soft Cover. Octavo. [4], 139 pp. First edition thus. Signed and inscribed by Padgett on the title page. Trade paperback. Some toning, but largely a clean copy.
London: Grafton Books, 1985. Soft Cover. Octavo. [4], 139 pp. First edition thus. Signed and inscribed by Padgett on the title page. Trade paperback. Some toning, but largely a clean copy.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983. Soft Cover. Octavo. [8], 56 pp. First paperback edition; signed and inscribed by Applewhite on the title page. Spine is a trifle sunned; contents clean.
London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2007. Soft Cover. Octavo. [8], 245 pp. First paperback edition. Trade paperback. A bright, fresh copy; clean. Nearly fine.
London: William Pickering | printed at the Government Press, Malta, 1840. Soft Cover. Quarto. [2], 70, 89, [1], 103, [1 (errata)] pp. First edition, thus. As issued, in flexible cloth with printed paper title label on the spine. Spine is fairly worn with the label largely perished, but the textblock.....
London: Gibbings and Company, 1905. Hard Cover. 12mo. x, 192 pp., frontis, plates. First edition. In original cloth with decorative title in gold on the spine and decoration in gold on the front cover; all black and white plates are present as called for. A fairly nice copy with light.....
New York | Moscow: Alfred A. Knopf | Khudozhestvennaya Literatura, 1989. Hard Cover. Octavo. xviii, 357, [1] pp. First edition. Bound in cloth backed boards; a clean copy; bookstore stamp on the front free endpaper below the signatures of Kashtanov, Sokolov, and Mikhailov. Small ink dots next to these names.....
London: Macmillan, 1967. Hard Cover. Octavo. xii, 238 pp. First edition, inscribed by Arnott on the front free endpaper. Beige paper over boards binding; titled in gold on the spine; a portion of a previous owner stamp on the top edge of the textblock, else a bright copy with minimal.....
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. Hard Cover. Octavo. [8], 55 pp. First edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed by Ashbery. As issued, in cloth-backed boards with dust jacket. A bright, clean copy in similarly sharp dust jacket with price intact on the front flap. This copy signed and.....
New York: Penguin Books, 1976. Soft Cover. Octavo. [12], 83 pp. First Penguin softcover edition. Signed by Ashbery. Trade paperback. Covers lightly shelfworn and toned; contents are evenly toned. Generally a Very Good copy of a fragile book. Though without indication, this copy from the library of poet Daniel Abdal-Hayy.....
New York: Viking Press, 1972. Soft Cover. Octavo. [8], 118, [2 (blank)] pp. First paperback edition, signed and inscribed by Ashbery on the title page. A very fresh trade paperback a trifle sunned at the spine, but with very light shelf rubbing. A nice copy of an early collection by.....
New York: Elisabeth Sifton Books, Penguin Books, 1985. Soft Cover. Octavo. vi, [2], 91, [2] pp. First paperback edition. Signed by Ashbery on the title page. Trade paperback. Light wear to the extremities, but generally a nice, clean copy of Ashbery's Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize- and Bollingen Prize-winning collection of.....
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. Hard Cover. Octavo. x, 127 pp. First edition, first printing, signed by Ashbery on the title page. Backed in cloth over boards with dust jacket. This is a very fresh copy in a similarly sharp dust jacket; price intact on the front flap.....
Calais, VT: Z Press, 1975. Soft Cover. Octavo. 191, [1] pp. First thus; limited edition, one of 2500 copies. This copy signed by Ashbery on the title page. Trade paperback. Covers rubbed and a trifle soiled; one page is torn on the bottom margin with some loss (nowhere near the.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Hard Cover. Large octavo. xxiii, [1], 417, [5] pp., illus. First edition, first printing. In publisher's cloth with dust jacket. A bright copy but for a remainder mark on the top edge of the text block.
Frankfort, KY: printed for the Author by A. G. Hodges, 1842 (c. 2012). Quarter Leather. 18mo. 152, [1] pp. Limited edition, facsimile. One of 15 copies (full edition was 250) bound in quarter calf with cloth over boards and marbled endpapers; this copy is out of series. A well printed.....
Frankfort, KY: printed for the Author by A. G. Hodges, 1842 (c. 2012). Hard Cover. 18mo. 152, [1] pp. Limited edition facsimile, number 206 of 225 copies (25 more variously bound in leather). Bound in a 19th century-style brown embossed cloth. A well printed facsimile issued by Bessenberg Editions in.....
London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1881. Full Leather. Quarto. xiv, 304 pp., plates. First edition. In publisher issued full red levant goatskin with stamping in gold on the front cover and titled and tooled in gold on the spine. Binding is stamp-signed by Sotheran on the front turn-in. A handsome.....
New York: Pantheon Books. Hard Cover. 12mo. As issued, backed in cloth with decorative paper over boards, all housed in publisher's slipcase. Spines a trifle sunned; only minor shelf-rubbing to the boards Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park; additionally, two leaves in Pride and Prejudice are lightly creased; slipcase is.....
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906. Hard Cover. Octavo. [2], x, 435, [1] pp., frontis, plates. First edition. In publisher's cloth with bust in gilt and silver on the front cover and titled in gold on the spine; top edge gilt. All plates present as called for. Some minor.....
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. | Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002. Hard Cover. Quarto. Second printing, signed and inscribed by Avedon. Accordion-style binding in printed card-stock slipcase. A fresh clean copy of this stunning exhibition catalog; slipcase is only lightly rubbed and it is in Very Good+ or better.....
Litchfield, CT: Hosmer and Goodwin, 1808. Disbound. Octavo. 16 pp. First edition. Removed from binding. Light foxing only. Sabin 15636; Shaw & Shoemaker 14758.
London: Saqi Books, 2002. Soft Cover. Octavo. xxii, 473 pp. Trade paperback. Quite a nice copy but for a small fold to the bottom corner of the front cover, else fine.
Richmond: Henrico County Civil War Centennial Commission, 1963. Hard Cover. Octavo. xxiv, [2], 275 pp. frontis, plates. First edition, limited to 300 copies of which this is number 214. Full cloth binding, as issued. Light shelfwear, but largely a clean, copy. "Confederate grass roots government at work; the editing is.....
Philadelphia: Printed by Lydia R. Bailey for Benjamin and Thomas Kite, [1812]. Original Wrappers. 12mo. [48] pp. Stitched into self wrappers. Heavily worn with loss to the bottom of the cover title including, unfortunately, the imprint which bears Bailey's name. This same loss affects the note to the reader on.....
Philadelphia: Printed by Lydia R. Bailey for Benjamin and Thomas Kite, [1815]. Original Wrappers. 12mo. [36] pp. illus. Stitched into self wrappers; title vignette and anatomical illustration. Final leaf is missing the bottom third of the leaf; otherwise generally worn with many folded corners; ragged page edges; early tidelines; some.....