AUTOBIO/BIOGRAPHY from James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC

London: Macmillan and Co, 1926. First edition (2820 copies printed). Wade 151. Upper fore-tip of back cover bumped, a few foxmarks early and late, otherwise a fine, partly unopened copy in jacket with a very narrow band of darkening at the head of the spine panel. 8vo, frontispiece portrait by J. B. Yeats, four illustrations including one tipped-in… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston: Published By Laurens Maynard At 287 Congress Street, 1897. First (trade) edition, first issue, following a limited edition of 35 large-paper copies, signed by Dr. Bucke, of which 25 were for sale. Myerson A14.1.b1. In addition to the letters by Whitman, who died in 1892, this book contains a very interesting interview with Peter Doyle, conducted by Bucke… Saber más sobre este artículo

(N. Y.): Thornwillow Press, 1999. First edition. With a never-before-seen collection of all the known letters & telegraph communications exchanged among members of the Lincoln family up to the time of his assassination. One of 185 copies printed on handmade paper & signed by David Herbert Donald, a leading Lincoln scholar, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for biography &… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Gloucestershire): Whittington Press, (1977). First edition. One of 525 numbered copies signed by Myfanwy Thomas, Grant & Weissenborn. Fine copy. Large 8vo, pictorial endpapers, cloth-backed boards, t.e.g., publisher's slipcase. Fine copy.

Haverford: Green Shade, 2004. First edition. One of 100 numbered copies signed by Davenport and Williams out of a total edition of 526 copies printed. Designed by The Grenfell Press & printed by Trifolio, Verona, Italy. "We are not celebrities. No one has known quite what to make of a patrician satirist and lyric poet from Highlands, North Carolina,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Haverford: Green Shade, 2004. First edition. One of 400 copies in wrappers (out of a total edition of 526 copies printed). Designed by The Grenfell Press & printed by Trifolio, Verona, Italy. "We are not celebrities. No one has known quite what to make of a patrician satirist and lyric poet from Highlands, North Carolina, or of an essayist… Saber más sobre este artículo

Haverford: Green Shade, 2004. First edition. One of 26 lettered hardbound copies signed by Davenport and Williams and Thomas Meyer, out of a total edition of 526 copies printed. Designed by The Grenfell Press & printed by Trifolio, Verona, Italy. "We are not celebrities. No one has known quite what to make of a patrician satirist and lyric poet… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Winston-Salem, NC): Jargon Society, (1987). First edition, Patron's Edition. One of 100 specially bound copies signed by Patterson, Williams, Manley & Mendes. Published as Jargon 64. Very fine copy of this stunning book about one of America's foremost outsider artists.. Square 4to, 262 pp., illustrated, pictorial endpapers, original red cloth, acetate dust jacket, black cloth folding box with… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Venezia: Gianfranco Ivancich, editore, 1970). First trade edition. Gallup B100b. Although not called for, this copy is signed by Pound on the front free endpaper. A photographic portrait of the poet in Italy, accompanying passages from The Pisan Cantos, with an introduction by Pound, notes by Olga Rudge, and answers to questions from Pier Paolo Pasolini and Vanni Ronsisvalle,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Santa Fe, NM: The Rydal Press, (1934). First edition. One of 1000 copies signed by Lawrence, who has also inscribed the book to James Laughlin of New Directions: "for James Laughlin after a day at the ranch, Summer 47. Lower corners bumped, otherwise a fine copy of this handsome book, in dust jacket faintly sunned along spine. … Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Faber & Gwyer; Faber & Faber, 1928, 1930, 1936. First trade editions of each of the three volumes in Sassoon's celebrated World War I trilogy, the first volume in the "bibliographically preferred" first state with untrimmed edges. Keynes A30a, A33a, A40a. Some foxmarks on edges of text block of two volumes, signature on rear pastedown of Memoirs of… Saber más sobre este artículo

Cambridge: University Press, 1919. First edition. Endpapers & edges slightly foxed, back paste-down a bit rippled, covers slightly rubbed & sunned along spine, else a near fine copy. Large 8vo, portrait, original cloth. Endpapers & edges slightly foxed, back paste-down a bit rippled, covers slightly rubbed & sunned along spine, else a near fine copy.

London: Hutchinson & Co, (1950). First edition of the second volume of Lewis' autobiography. Morrow & Lafourcade A35. One of 2500 copies printed. Lightly foxed, otherwise a fine copy in slightly dust-soiled jacket, nicked at the extremities.. 8vo, illustrated, original cloth, dust jacket. Lightly foxed, otherwise a fine copy in slightly dust-soiled jacket, nicked at the extremities. … Saber más sobre este artículo

N. Y.: McDowell Obolensky, (1957). First edition. One of 75 copies signed by Williams. Wallace A42b. A very fine copy, virtually as new, preserved in a half-morocco slipcase. 8vo, original cloth, glassine dust jacket, slipcase. A very fine copy, virtually as new, preserved in a half-morocco slipcase.

(No place: Contemporary Literature), 1969. First edition of this offprint. Signed & with corrections by Zukofsky. Wrappers a little sunned on the back & bottom of front cover creased, otherwise a fine copy. 8vo, original printed wrappers. Wrappers a little sunned on the back & bottom of front cover creased, otherwise a fine copy.