JAMES BALDWIN’S GYPSY & OTHER POEMS,
ONE OF FIFTY SPECIAL COPIES,
PUBLISHED BY THE GEHENNA PRESS

One of fifty special copies out of a total edition of 325, all numbered and signed by the illustrator, Leonard Baskin. With six portrait etchings of Baldwin on various papers, each signed and numbered in pencil by the artist, and an etching of a pomegranate printed in red. From the.....

FIRST FRENCH EDITION OF HENRY BESTON’S
“THE OUTERMOST HOUSE,” WITH NOTES FROM BESTON

First French edition. Includes two signed notes by Beston from 1960 on Chimney Farm notecards. Both addressed to Jasper Jacob Stahl, a historian of Waldoboro, Maine. First note reads “Dear Jasper, Thank you a world for your warm and erudite congratulations. When I saw a letter from you in the.....

Number 657 of an edition of 785, “the first publication of these poems and letters” (McKitterick 124). The editor states that “[t]his edition is an offshoot of a biography of Margaret Lucas,” published in 1957.

SALESMAN’S DUMMY FOR INNOCENTS ABROAD

A rare salesman’s dummy for the best-selling of Twain’s books during is lifetime, and one of the best-selling travel books ever written. With binding samples affixed to the paste-downs, representative content, and subscriber’s forms at the rear. CONDITION: Very good, worn at extremities.

ORIENTALIA

First edition of this play set in a mythical ancient Egypt. Alexander Dow (d. 1779) spent much of his life serving in the British army in India. According to The Oxford Companion to English Literature in 1768 Dow “joined the fashion for Oriental Tales with Tales....of the Inatulla of Dehli.....

ASCENSIUS PRESS EDITION
OF FROST’S NORTH OF BOSTON

Centennial edition. Limited to 41 copies, 26 being lettered copies bound in full calf. This copy letter “K.” With two evocative photographic illustrations by Larry Hayden, one illustrating Home Burial and the other After Apple Picking. The third illustration, which appears at the head of the colophon page, reproduces an inscribed.....

HOWLS & WHISPERS,
HUGHES & PLATH

First edition, limited to 110 copies, of this sequence of “stray poems” from a larger series Hughes wrote on the subject of his wife, Sylvia Plath, most of which were published in his Birthday Poems. Signed by Hughes and Baskin. From the colophon: “One hundred & ten copies of Howls.....

First edition, first printing of Berryman’s uncommon second book. Inscribed by Berryman to poet and Princeton professor Charles Bell: “Charles affectionately John” and “Princeton[,] so late as to say Merry Christmas Dec 1948.” Bell was a colleague of Berryman’s at Princeton and an influential poet/teacher. Among his students were W......

Signed first ed., 1 of 100 copies "or less," printed on handmade paper. From the library of poet Charles Bell, who taught Kinnell at Princeton and Black Mountain College. .

BLACK CINCINNATI POET’S
SECOND BOOK OF POETRY

First and only edition of the second collection of poetry by this African-American poet from Cincinnati, with illustrations of ancient African art and other African-American imagery throughout. Clay (also known as Kwame Mwanafunsi) dedicates this volume to several women including his daughter and mother, as well as “to all my.....

First edition, second issue, with MBM watermark. REFERENCES: Yost 3.

FIRST TRANSLATION OF THE ENTIRE BIBLE BY A WOMAN

A remarkably well-preserved example of the first edition of the first translation of the entire Bible by a woman. Julia Evelina Smith (1792–1886), a suffragist and abolitionist from Glastonbury, Connecticut, translated the Bible in the 1850s in an overt attempt to aid the cause of women’s rights by demonstrating what.....

UNCLE TOM’S CABIN
FOR YOUNG GERMAN READERS

A scarce and brightly-illustrated German translation and adaptation for children of Stowe’s classic. This abridged edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which we find announced as a new publication in an 1899 issue of the Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel (German Book Trade Gazette), is illustrated with a scene of the.....