London: William Heinemann, 1903., PURDY, p.309.. Large octavo. Original drab stiff wrappers, manuscript spine label, untrimmed. Some minor isolated foxing, otherwise a very good copy. Enclosed in a full crimson morocco solander case, lettered in gilt. Advance copy of the first edition of the author's second book, published a year short of her death by suicide. Nicolson's 1901 collection, THE GARDEN OF KÁMA, was represented as a collection of translations and the male pseudonym, and the translation ruse, helped deflect some of the criticisms leveled against the poems on the basis of their "tropical luxuriance and Sapphic fervour" (Thos. Hardy). The author's true identity and gender.... more information
Price: 850.00 USD
London: Printed for A. Boulter..., 1714 [-1715]., ESTC T92757. CASE 280 (1-4).. [10],11-38,168,145-180,169-180,193-[255 (with pages 251, 254 and 255 misnumbered)],[5],56pp. 12mo. Full 19th century morocco, spine gilt extra, a.e.g. Extremities and joints rubbed (but sound), small chip from crown of spine, title and half-title a bit soiled, occasional marginal smudges, but a good copy (see collation note below). First edition. Attending the erratic pagination above, this work was set-up in three sections, with separate registers, and a separate title for the third part. Like a number of copies reported in ESTC Online, including copies at BL, Cambridge, UCLA, Huntington, Folger, Harvard, and several others, this copy lacks the second part of the.... more information
Price: 850.00 USD
New York: Knopf, 1999., Gilt cloth and boards. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. .... more information
Price: 20.00 USD
New York: Henry Holt, [1940]., Gilt cloth. First edition, first book of verse. Spine gilding a bit dull, but a near fine copy in a lightly worn dust jacket with offsetting to both panels and a few nicks and chips. .... more information
Price: 30.00 USD
PHAËTHON WITH THREE OTHER STORIES IN VERSE AND A PROSE CONTENTION.
Kingston, NY: Styles & Kiersted, 1901., Small octavo. Blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt. First edition. One of 750 copies printed. Light rubbing to edges, otherwise a very good (or better) copy. Copies also appeared in orange cloth. .... more information
Price: 45.00 USD
London: Constable, 1930., Cloth. First edition. One of fifty numbered copies, specially bound and signed by the author. Additionally inscribed and signed by him. Backstrip sunned, very good. .... more information
Price: 50.00 USD
Oxford: Printed for the Author, 1958., Printed wrappers. First edition of this late collection. One of 250 numbered copies, signed by the author. This copy also bears the author's signed presentation inscription. Lower corner bumped, else fine. .... more information
Price: 30.00 USD
San Francisco: Cranium Press, [1971]., Pictorial wrappers. Drawings by the author. First edition, ordinary issue. One of 850 copies printed by Clifford Burke and Holbrook Teter. Some faint smudging, 4cm long ink strike on lower wrapper, but near very good. .... more information
Price: 22.00 USD
Berkeley: Blue Wind Press, 1977., Pictorial wrappers. Illustrations by the author. First edition. Top edge dust marked, otherwise near fine. .... more information
Price: 15.00 USD
London: Secker, [ca. 1914]., Printed wrappers. First edition, wrapper issue. Issued in the "Art and Craft of Letters" series. Very good. .... more information
Price: 20.00 USD
PROGRESS IN LITERATURE...THE LESLIE STEPHEN LECTURE DELIVERED AT CAMBRIDGE 10 MAY 1929.
Cambridge: At The University Press, 1929., Printed wrappers. First edition. Small nick in overlap fore-edge, else very nice. .... more information
Price: 15.00 USD
[London: Ferry Press, 1966]., Pictorial wrappers. First edition. One of 350 copies. Wrappers lightly edge-tanned and soiled, but a good copy. .... more information
Price: 20.00 USD
London: Editions Poetry and Poverty, 1957., Stiff wrappers. First edition. Very good in slightly frayed and smudged oversize dust jacket. Abse, Scannell, Silkin, Hamburger, et al. .... more information
Price: 25.00 USD
BELIEFS AND BLASPHEMIES A COLLECTION OF POEMS.
New York: Random House, [1998]., Boards. First edition. Review slip and promotional material laid in. Spine ends slightly rubbed, otherwise about fine in faintly dust smudged dust jacket. .... more information
Price: 20.00 USD
[Np]: Bellevue Press, 1975., Quarto broadside (32 x 32 cm). First edition. One of one hundred copies, signed by the author, printed on Arches by Stuart McCarty II. Faint old soiling in left margin, and some spotting along lower edge. Hence, just a good copy. .... more information
Price: 25.00 USD
Toronto: The Ryerson Press, [1958]., Printed boards. Endsheets a bit discolored, covers lightly worn and soiled, but a good or better copy. First edition. One of two hundred and fifty copies issued as #177 of the Ryerson Poetry Chapbooks. Inscribed presentation copy from the author to Elizabeth Penney of the St. Thomas Writers' Club. Laid in is an a.n.s. from the author, (18 Nov. 1958), 12mo, recto and verso, thanking her for a check and her introduction, and mentioning that she was sending this book under separate cover. .... more information
Price: 30.00 USD
[Boston: BMB Publishing], 1972., Printed wrappers. First edition. Very good. .... more information
Price: 10.00 USD
London: Printed for E. Curll, 1718., NCBEL II:1101. FOXON, p.4.. [4],53,[3]pp. Octavo. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. Old, light tide-mark in from gutter of last several leaves, otherwise a very good, crisp copy, with the half-title. First edition. Addison's Latin text precedes Hayes's translation. This work is also found bound up with Curll's 1719 edition of Addison's POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, and was reprinted therein as part of later editions. .... more information
Price: 300.00 USD
London: Paul Breman, 1970., Pictorial wrappers. First edition of the author's first book, issued as volume eight of the Heritage Series. About fine, with prospectus laid in. .... more information
Price: 30.00 USD
PERMIT ME VOYAGE... WITH A FOREWORD BY ARCHIBALD MACLEISH.
New Haven, Yale, 1934., Large octavo. Cloth. First edition, first book. Issued as YSP 33. Spine and edges tanned, else very good, lacking the dust jacket. .... more information
Price: 150.00 USD
PERMIT ME VOYAGE AND OTHER POEMS [altered to: THE COLLECTED POEMS OF....].
Boston: Houghton, 1968., Original uncorrected long galleys of the first edition, edited with an introduction by Robert Fitzgerald. This copy bears a number of manuscript corrections and revisions by Fitzgerald in his introduction, and bears his alteration of the original title to the published title. Very good. .... more information
Price: 200.00 USD
[Carrboro]: Truck Press, 1976., Printed wrappers. Photographs. First edition of the poet's first book. One of ca. five hundred copies. Fine. .... more information
Price: 25.00 USD
ENGAGEMENTS AND DISENGAGEMENTS.
[Centereach], NY: Writers Ink Press, 1998., Pictorial wrappers. First edition. With the author's signed presentation inscription on the half-title. Crown of spine bumped, else near fine. .... more information
Price: 20.00 USD
[Rushden, Northamptonshire: Sceptre Press, 1974], [4]pp. Printed leaflet. First edition, ordinary issue. One of one hundred numbered copies (of 150). Fine. .... more information
Price: 15.00 USD
Providence, [RI]: Burning Deck, [1975]., Quarto. Printed wrapper over stiff stapled wrapper. First edition. One of three hundred numbered copies (the entire edition). Inscribed and signed by the author on the title-page "for Dick Higgins." Laid in is a typed & signed postcard from the author to the recipient. Wrappers faded along spine and a bit dusty, else very good. .... more information
Price: 35.00 USD
Boston: Houghton, 1979., Cloth and boards. First edition of the poet's second book. Lamont Selection card laid in. Fine in good dust jacket with a small chip from the top edge of the upper panel, a short closed tear, and faint soiling. .... more information
Price: 20.00 USD
EARTH TRIUMPHANT AND OTHER TALES IN VERSE.
New York: Macmillan, 1914., BONNELL A1.. Gilt green cloth. First edition of the author's first book. Small skinned spot on lower edge of one board, cloth lightly soiled. A very good copy. .... more information
Price: 125.00 USD
EARTH TRIUMPHANT AND OTHER TALES IN VERSE.
New York: Macmillan, 1914., BONNELL A1.. Gilt green cloth. First edition of the author's first book. Faint spot of dulling to cloth on upper board, spot on top edge, otherwise a bright, tight, very nice copy. .... more information
Price: 200.00 USD
TURNS AND MOVIES AND OTHER TALES IN VERSE.
Boston: Houghton, 1916., Printed wrapper over boards. First edition of the author's second book (1000 copies printed). Ink name, dated 1919, head and toe of spine chipped, but a good copy, internally fine. .... more information
Price: 60.00 USD
THE JIG OF FORSLIN: A SYMPHONY.
Boston: Four Seas Company, 1916., BONNELL A3.. Purple cloth, stamped in gilt. First edition, one of two unidentified printings (this copy lacks the 'r' at 117:1). Spine gilding slightly dull, otherwise near fine. .... more information
Price: 35.00 USD
Boston: Four Seas, 1916., Gilt cloth. First edition of the author's third book, with the undamaged 'r' in 'warm' at 117:1. A near fine, bright copy, with the bookplate of DIAL publisher Scofield Thayer laid in. .... more information
Price: 85.00 USD
New York: Knopf, 1923., Decorated boards, paper label. First edition. Small chip from crown of spine, spine label rubbed, small bookplate. Good. .... more information
Price: 20.00 USD
PRIAPUS AND THE POOL AND OTHER POEMS.
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925., Cloth, paper spine label. First edition, much expanded over the limited edition of the title poem. Early ownership signature of Paul Horgan, including his thunderbird device, with his later bookplate on the pastedown. Trace of darkening to pastedowns at gutters, else fine in near fine dust jacket with one minor nick and a shallow elongated chip at the lower edge of the rear panel. .... more information
Price: 125.00 USD
BRING! BRING! AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925., Gilt decorated cloth. First U.S. edition. Light wear to corners and spine ends, but a very nice copy, lacking the dust jacket. .... more information
Price: 20.00 USD
New York: Scribner's, 1928., Blue cloth. First edition. Top edge dusty, else very good or better, lacking the dust jacket. .... more information
Price: 30.00 USD
THE COMING FORTH BY DAY OF OSIRIS JONES.
New York: Scribner, 1931., Original long galleys, folded as issued. Very good. The author's original working set of long galleys for the first edition, on twelve galleys, with editorial corrections and queries in ink, and Aiken's pencil responses and corrections and revisions scattered throughout, including considerable alteration of punctuation, format and capitalization. .... more information
Price: 1250.00 USD
[New York]: Equinox Cooperative Press, [1932]., BONNELL A24.. Sewn wrappers. Black & white woodcut. Faint foxing to pages, wrappers a little faded, otherwise a very good copy. First edition. Issued as no. four of the Equinox Quarters series, with a woodcut illustration by John P. Heins. .... more information
Price: 60.00 USD
New York: Scribner, 1935., Gilt cloth. First edition. A fine copy in good dust jacket with some chips and creases at spine extremities. .... more information
Price: 50.00 USD
CONVERSATION: OR PILGRIM'S PROGRESS.
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, [1940]., Cloth. First edition. Edges slightly faded, else very nice in dust jacket with some small nicks and mends on verso. .... more information
Price: 40.00 USD
Norfolk: New Directions / Poets of the Year, [1944]., Plain wrappers. First edition, wrapper issue. Faint ownership stamp in blind on half title, otherwise fine in dust jacket. Only 1000 of the 2500 copies appeared in wrappers in this case. .... more information
Price: 35.00 USD
Norfolk: New Directions / Poets of the Year, [1944]., Printed boards. First edition, hardbound issue. Near fine in a spine-sunned, lightly tanned dust jacket with a small chip from the toe of the spine. A nice copy. .... more information
Price: 50.00 USD
London: Editions PL, [1946]., Cloth boards. First British edition, revised. A very good or better copy, in slightly tanned dust jacket with a couple short edge tears. .... more information
Price: 45.00 USD
New York: Duell Sloan and Pearce, [1947]., Cloth. First edition. Endsheets slightly offset from fiber-type dust jacket (as usual), else fine in dust jacket (a couple minor spots, small nicks at top edge). .... more information
Price: 35.00 USD
[London]: John Lehmann, 1947., Cloth. First British edition, incorporating revisions and additional material not in the American edition. Light foxing to endsheets, else fine in very good dust jacket with small chips and edge tears. .... more information
Price: 45.00 USD
Cambridge: Harvard, 1957., Cloth. First edition. Cloth a bit mottled, top edge foxed, but a good (though not great) reading copy in dust jacket with three small interior tape mends and a couple of chips from the top edge. .... more information
Price: 15.00 USD
THE MORNING SONG OF LORD ZERO.
New York: Oxford, 1963., Blindstamped boards. First edition. Pencil erasures, else a very nice copy in dust jacket with two small edge tears. .... more information
Price: 25.00 USD
THE MORNING SONG OF LORD ZERO.
New York: Oxford, 1963., Blindstamped boards. Near fine in very good, slightly darkened dust jacket. First edition. Publisher's compliments card laid in. Inscribed by the author: "For Huntington Cairns with our love Conrad 1963." .... more information
Price: 100.00 USD
THEE. A POEM...DRAWINGS BY LEONARD BASKIN.
New York: Braziller, [1967]., Boards. First edition, trade issue. Fine in near fine dust jacket. .... more information
Price: 20.00 USD
New York: The Eakins Press, 1971., Small folio. Cloth and paper over boards. Facsimile. First edition. One of three hundred numbered copies, signed by the author. Fine in very good, slightly darkened and handsmudged slipcase. .... more information
Price: 60.00 USD
SELECTED LETTERS OF CONRAD AIKEN.
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, [1978]., Large octavo. Cloth and boards. First edition. Edited by Joseph Killorin. Ink ownership inscription, else about fine in price-clipped dust jacket with new price sticker on the inside flap. .... more information
Price: 20.00 USD
