Bloem, J.C. [Jakobus Cornelis] (1887-1966).

Het Verlangen.

Amsterdam: P.N. Van Kampen & Zoon, 1921. 1921. - Octavo, 10 inches high by 6-3/4 inches wide. Black cloth titled in gilt on the spine with the author's monogram stamped within a gilt device on the front cover. The covers are rubbed and bumped. 118 & [4] pages. There is darkening to the endpapers and pastedowns and some occasional light soiling. An early owner has penned a quote at the bottom of the half-title. Good. First trade edition of the poet's first book. The Dutch poet and essayist Jakobus Cornelis Bloem (1887-1966) was a great admirer of the symbolist poet Charles Baudelaire. He published fourteen volumes of poetry. He won the Constantijn Huygensprijs, one of the country's highest literary awards in 1949 and the P. C. Hooft Award for his literary oeuvre in 1952. The J.C. Bloem-poëzieprijs poetry award is named after him. Good .

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Book number: 96810

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; POETRY; DUTCH; J.C. BLOEM; HET VERLANGEN; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; 20TH CENTURY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; POET'S FIRST BOOK; JAKOBUS CORNELIS BLOEM; POEMS.

Bloom, Harold; Merrill, James; Wilbur, Richard; Nabokov, Vladimir; Hempel, Amy; Gluck, Louise; Rich, Adrienne; Snyder, Gary; et al. McClatchy, J. D.; editor

The Yale Review. Volume 80, Numbers 1 & 2. Double Issue. (April 1992)

Cambridge, MA & Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell Publishers, (1992). (1992). Cambridge, MA & Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell Publishers, (1992). (1992). Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in blue & gray wrapppers. The binding is bumped & very lightly rubbed with a vertical crease to the spine & a small stain to the top edge of the rear cover. [iv] & 260 pages plus ads. Very good.

Among the contents of this double issue are a prose piece by James Merrill; an article on Joseph Smith by Harold Bloom, and one on Moliere's "The School for Husbands" by Richard Wilbur with Wilbur's translation of its second act; fiction by Vladimir Nabokov and Amy Hempel; and poetry by Louise Gluck, Adrienne Rich and Gary Snyder. Very good .

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Book number: 26946

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; PERIODICAL; YALE REVIEW; J. D. MCCLATCHY; JOSEPH SMITH; HAROLD BLOOM; JAMES MERRILL; TRANSLATOR; RICHARD WILBUR; MOLIERE; THE SCHOOL FOR HUSBANDS; TRANSLATION; FICTION; VLADIMIR NABOKOV; AMY HEMPEL; POETRY; POETS; POEMS; LOUISE GLUCK; ADRIENNE

Blumenthal, Walter Hart

The Red Shadow: A Tale of the Devil Frustrated

(Philadephia, PA: printed by George S. MacManus Co.). 1965. 1965. (Philadephia, PA: printed by George S. MacManus Co.). 1965. 1965. Good. - Octavo, gray boards backed with maroon cloth & with a calligraphed title in black on a piece of red stock mounted on the front board. The boards are lightly bumped & there is some light staining to the front board along the spine. Title, [iii], 8 & [1] leaves, mechanically reproduced on one side only. The text block is detache from the covers. There is a light stain to the first page of the text & to the blank preceding it. Good.

Limited edition of 33 copies.

A holograph introduction, penned in green ink and signed in full by Blumenthal, is mounted on the front endpaper. The story is a fairy tale for adults. Good .

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Book number: 10428

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; FICTION; THE RED SHADOW; THE DEVIL; OCCULT; SHORT STORY; WALTER HART BLUMENTHAL; HOLOGRAPH INTRODUCTION; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; LIMITED EDITION.

[Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen]

The Love Sonnets of Proteus. With a Frontispiece by the Author

London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. 1881. 1881. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. 1881. 1881. Good. - Small octavo, gray cloth titled in gilt with decorations in blue & brown on the front cover & spine. The binding is soiled & darkened with a small stain to the front cover. x, [i], 119 & [1] pages. Illustrated with a black-and-white frontispiece by the author. The front hinge is just starting & there is light offsetting to pages 6 and 7. Good.

First edition, printed on handmade, watermarked paper and bound by Burn & Co.

William Sharp, editor of "Sonnets of This Century" [1887] writes of Blunt's work included in that volume: "These sonnets are excerpted from the third edition of that remarkable volume, The Love Sonnets of Proteus. They have more of the Shakespearian ring than perhaps any sonnets of our time. That 'Proteus' can at times touch a very high note indeed will be understood by any one who reads the sonorous and majestic sonnet on The Sublime. Structurally, they cannot be considered satisfactory." . Good .

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Book number: 18705

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; POETRY; POEMS; SONNETS; THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS; WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

Bly, Robert.

The Teeth-Mother Naked at Last.

(Madison, MN: American Writers Against The Vietnam War, c/o Sixties Press, 1970). 1970). (Madison, MN: American Writers Against The Vietnam War, c/o Sixties Press, 1970). 1970). Very good. - Octavo, softcover. Booklet folded accordion style to form 12 pages printed on light green stock. There is some very minor soiling & foxing to the title & the last page. Very good. First edition. "Printed as a gift to the Resistance by Robert Bly, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti for City Lights Books..To be published later with additions as City Lights Pocket Poets Series #27. Very good .

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Book number: 98092

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; POETRY; POEM; AMERICAN POET; ROBERT BLY; THE TEETH-MOTHER NAKED AT LAST; VIETNAM WAR; AMERICAN WRITERS AGAINST THE VIETNAM WAR; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

Bly, Robert

This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, (1979). (1979). New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, (1979). (1979). Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. 64 pages. Near fine.

Second printing. Very good .

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Book number: 29195

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; POETRY; POEMS; AMERICAN POET; AMERICAN LITERATURE; ROBERT BLY; THIS TREE WILL BE HERE FOR A THOUSAND YEARS.

Bly, Robert

What Have I Ever Lost by Dying?: Collected Prose Poems

(NY): HarperCollins Publishers, (1992). (1992). (NY): HarperCollins Publishers, (1992). (1992). Fine. - Octavo, black cloth backed dark blue boards titled in silver, in a pictorial dust wrapper. The top edge of the dust jacket is very lightly creased. xv, [ii] & 90 pages. Fine in a near fine dust wrapper.

First edition.

Signed by the poet Robert Bly on the title page. Fine .

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Book number: 16529

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; POETRY; PROSE POEMS; POEMS; POET; AMERICAN; ROBERT BLY; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; MODERN FIRST EDITION; WHAT HAVE I EVER LOST BY DYING?

Bolitho, William.

Camera Obscura. Preface by Noel Coward.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1930. 1930. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1930. 1930. Very good. - Octavo, blue cloth titled in gilt. The corners are lightly bumped. 219pp. Very good.

First edition. Very good .

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Book number: 34740

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; MODERN; TWENTIETH CENTURY; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; 20TH CENTURY; NOEL COWARD; WILLIAM BOLITHO; CAMERA OBSCURA; ESSAYS.

Boll, Heinrich

Adam, Where Art Thou?

New York: Criterion Books, (1955). (1955). New York: Criterion Books, (1955). (1955). Very good. - Octavo, cloth in a dust wrapper. The extremities of the binding are slightly rubbed. The dust jacket is foxed and lightly chipped & soiled with its spine rippled. [ix] & 176 pages. Very good in a good dust wrapper.

First American edition.

Translated by Mervyn Savill. Very good .

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Book number: 30814

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; FICTION; NOVEL. GERMAN AUTHOR; HEINRICH BOLL; ADAM, WHERE ART THOU?; WORLD WAR II; NAZIS; JEWS; CONCENTRATION CAMP; MERVYN SAVILL, TRANSLATOR; FIRST AMERICAN EDITION; 1ST AMERICAN EDITION.

(Heissenbuttel, Helmut). Boll, Heinrich; Jandl, Ernst; Becker, Jurgen; Gomringer, Eugen; et al

Aus Wortern Eine Welt Zu Helmut Heissenbuttel

(Frankfurt am Main und Paris): Qumran Verlag, (1981). (1981). (Frankfurt am Main und Paris): Qumran Verlag, (1981). (1981). Fine. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed wrappers in original glassine dust wrapper. The binding is lightly bumped & the tail of the spine is slightly darkened. 195 pages & [4] pages. Black-and-white illustrations. Near fine.

"Portrait 1". This is the first of a series of "portraits" of cultural figures issued by Qumran Verlag fur Ethnologie und Kunst. A brochure announcing the series and this book is laid in.

Helmut Heissenbuttel [1921-1996] was a German novelist and poet. Among his works are "Das Textbuch" and "Marlowe's Ende". He won the important Georg Buchner Prize in 1969.

The text is in German. Fine .

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Book number: 29206

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; ART; GERMAN NOVELIST; POET; AUS WORTERN EINE WELT ZU HELMUT HEISSENBUTTEL; PORTRAIT 1; QUMRAN VERLAG; EUGEN GOMRINGER; HEINRICH BOLL; ERNST JANDL; JURGEN BECKER; MAURICIO KAGEL; FRANZ MON; MAX BENSE; VISUAL POETS; EXPERIMENTAL ART; ILLUSTRATIO

Booth, Wayne C.

The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction.

Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, (1988). (1988). - Octavo, mauve cloth in a dust wrapper. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed with an area of staining to its rear panel & 2 price-stickers. xii, [ii] & 557 pages plus colophon. Near fine in a good dust wrapper. First edition. "Wayne C. Booth argues for the relocation of ethics to the center of our engagement with literature". [From the dust wrapper copy]. Very good .

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Book number: 36619

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; LITERARY CRITICISM; ETHICS; MORALITY; THE COMPANY WE KEEP: AN ETHICS OF FICTION; WAYNE C. BOOTH; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

Booth, Charles G.

Mr. Angel Comes Aboard.

Garden City, New York: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran and Co. Inc. 1944. 1944. - Octavo, 8 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Light green cloth titled with a device in black on the spine, in a pictorial green dust wrapper priced 2.00 at the top of the front flap. There are several small tears and creases to the edges of the dust jacket. The covers are rubbed. [x] & 207 pages. Very good. First edition. "Ann Wingate, newspaperwoman, found that just when you think you have the key to a mystery, if you probe further, you may be writing your own epitaph. For Ann, a simple voyage home from Dakar on the Emmaline Quincy had developed into a mystery rivaling the fate of the Marie Celeste. Catastrophe in mid-ocean, thirty harrowing hours as a stowaway had made her sole possessor of secrets a hungry press and Johnny Angel wanted.." [Quoted from the dust wrapper blurb]. Very good .

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Book number: 96967

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; MYSTERY; MR. ANGEL COMES ABOARD; CHARLES G. BOOTH; THE CRIME CLUB; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; THRILLER; ANN WINGATE; JOHNNY ANGEL; MID-OCEAN; NEWSPAPERWOMAN.

Borao, Geronimo.

Noticia de D. Geronimo Jimenez de Urrea, Y de Su Novela Caballeresca Inedita D. Clarisel de Las Flores.

Zaragoza [Spain]: Establecimiento Tipografico de Calisto Arino, 1866. 1866. - Large octavo [approximately 9-3/4 inches high by 6-5/8 inches wide], dark blue cloth titled in gilt on the spine. The original pink printed wrappers are bound in. The corners of the covers are lightly rubbed. The original wrappers are faded around the edges & lightly creased with some small stains. 150 & [1] pages with a folding genealogical chart in the rear. There is staining to the inner edge of the contents page. There are minor stains to the verso of the chart with a crease to the chart's front edge. Very good. First edition. The text is in Spanish. Rare in commerce. Very good .

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Book number: 33515

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; SPANISH LITERATURE; LITERARY CRITICISM; NOTICIA DE D. GERONIMO JIMENEZ DE URREA, y de su novela caballeresca inedita D. CLARISEL DE LAS FLORES; GERONIMO BORAO; GENEALOGICAL CHART; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

Borgen, Johan

Lillelord

(New York): New Directions (1982). (1982). (New York): New Directions (1982). (1982). Very good. - Octavo, cloth in a dust wrapper. The top edges of the covers & the head & tail of the spine are slightly faded. There is some minor rubbing & soiling to the dust jacket with small creases to the front edge of its rear panel. viii & 311 pages. Very good.

First American edition.

Edited with an introduction by Ronald E. Peterson. Translated by Elizabeth Brown Moen and Ronald E. Peterson.

Johan Borgen [1902- 1979] is regarded as one of the major figures in twentieth-century Scandinavian literature. He is best known for his Lillelord Trilogy, of which this is the first volume. Very good .

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Book number: 30995

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; SCANDINAVIAN LITERATURE; NORWEGIAN LITERATURE; FICTION; NOVEL; NORWEGIAN AUTHOR; JOHAN BORGEN; LILLELORD; RONALD E. PETERSON, TRANSLATOR AND EDITOR; ELIZABETH BROWN MOEN, TRANSLATOR; FIRST AMERICAN EDITION; 1ST AMERICAN EDITION.

(Borrow, George Henry). Wise, Thomas J

A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow

London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1966. 1966. London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1966. 1966. Fine. - Octavo, blue cloth, in tan dw. The dw is rubbed & soiled. xxii & 316 pp. Illustrated. Near fine in a very good dw.

Reprint of the edition published in 100 copies for private circulation only by Richard Clay & Sons, Ltd. London, 1914. Fine .

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Book number: 6604

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; POETRY; AUTHOR; GEORGE HENRY BORROW; BOOKS-ON-BOOKS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; REFERENCE; THOMAS J. WISE; ILLUSTRATIONS. (Literature). (Bibliography). A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF GEORGE HENRY BORROW. (Borrow, George Henry). Wise,