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3733252] The Parrot and Me. [mendicant’s appeal and poem with illustrated alphabet for the...

The Parrot and Me. [mendicant’s appeal and poem with illustrated alphabet for the deaf]

“A parent uses a cage, I pay rent.” An early 20th-century mendicant’s appeal by a disabled man who self-identified as “deaf mute.” Pattee’s illustrated card..... Read More about The Parrot and Me. [mendicant’s appeal and poem with illustrated alphabet for the deaf

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3732200] Vineland. (Review Copy). Thomas Pynchon

Vineland. (Review Copy)

“Review copy with publisher’s promotional sheet laid in. At the author’s request, no proofs, advance reading copies, or limited editions were done for this book..... Read More about Vineland. (Review Copy

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3732478] Kings. An Account of Books One and Two of Homer’s Iliad. [Limited signed edition]....

Kings. An Account of Books One and Two of Homer’s Iliad. [Limited signed edition]

Revised Edition. Number 26 of 75 copies signed by the author, out of a whole edition of 85 copies. London: Turret Books, MCMXCII [1992]. [8]..... Read More about Kings. An Account of Books One and Two of Homer’s Iliad. [Limited signed edition

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3732649] The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems. (Inscribed and signed). Diane Wakoski

The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems. (Inscribed and signed)

First edition, first printing. Inscribed and signed and with a drawing of the moon and stars with a rose below: “For Lea [Gee?] – in..... Read More about The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems. (Inscribed and signed

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3731422] The Learning Tree. (Signed). Gordon Parks

The Learning Tree. (Signed)

First English edition of this fictional autobiography by Kansas-born Gordon Parks. The book is the basis for the 1969 movie that was directed by Parks;..... Read More about The Learning Tree. (Signed

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3731421] Veiled Aristocrats. Gertrude Sanborn, 1881–1928

Veiled Aristocrats.

A novel of African Americans “passing” for white including an interracial romance; partly set in Chicago. Written by Gertrude Sanborn (1881–1928), the novel attacked racism..... Read More about Veiled Aristocrats

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3733009] [Association Copy] West Point Life: An Anonymous Communication, Read Before a Public...

[Association Copy] West Point Life: An Anonymous Communication, Read Before a Public Meeting of the Dialectic Society, United States Military Academy, March 5, 1859.

Entirely in verse, West Point Life: An Anonymous Communication, Read Before a Public Meeting of the Dialectic Society… “details the intense social life at West..... Read More about Association Copy] West Point Life: An Anonymous Communication, Read Before a Public Meeting of...

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3732929] [Charles Bukowski, et al.] Holy Doors. An Anthology of Poetry, Prose & Criticism....

[Charles Bukowski, et al.] Holy Doors. An Anthology of Poetry, Prose & Criticism.

First edition, first printing. Articles, critical essays, an interview of Deena Metzger, letters by poets, short stories and poetry. Contributors include editor/publisher William J. Robson..... Read More about Charles Bukowski, et al.] Holy Doors. An Anthology of Poetry, Prose & Criticism

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3733020] Tapestry. Archer Milton Huntington

Tapestry.

First edition of this collection of privately-printed poems written by Archer Milton Huntington (1870 –1955), philanthropist, scholar and founder of The Hispanic Society of America..... Read More about Tapestry

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3732377] A ‘New Yorker’ Experience. (Signed). Weldon Kees

A ‘New Yorker’ Experience. (Signed)

This example signed by poets Donald Justice and Dana Gioia who gave a reading of Kees’ poetry and by the wood engraver, Michael McCurdy who..... Read More about A ‘New Yorker’ Experience. (Signed

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3732725] The Glassblowers. Mervyn Peake

The Glassblowers.

First edition of this collection of poetry published just before and in the same year as Peake’s Gormenghast (1950). London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, (1950). 40pp..... Read More about The Glassblowers

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3732676] The Cariboo Horses.  (Signed). Alfred Purdy

The Cariboo Horses.  (Signed)

Signed first edition. Inscribed by the author: “For David ... from Al Purdy”; we are unable to transcribe the inscription. A native of Ontario, Canada..... Read More about The Cariboo Horses.  (Signed

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3732670] Waiting Period. (Signed). Hubert Selby Jr

Waiting Period. (Signed)

Signed first edition, first printing. Written by the author of Last Exit to Brooklyn. New York and London: Marion Boyars, (2002). 197 + [10]pp. Hardcover..... Read More about Waiting Period. (Signed

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3732669] Song of the Silent Snow. (Signed). Hubert Selby Jr

Song of the Silent Snow. (Signed)

Briefly inscribed by Selby to a collector. First edition, first printing for this collection of 15 short stories told in the urban vernacular by the..... Read More about Song of the Silent Snow. (Signed

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3732668] The Demon. (Signed). Hubert Selby Jr

The Demon. (Signed)

Uncorrected advance proof copy signed by Selby, Jr. on the title-page. [Chicago]: A Playboy Press Book, (1976). 312pp. 8¼ x 5½ inches. Illustrated wrappers with..... Read More about The Demon. (Signed

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3732666] Requiem for a Dream. (Signed, review copy). Hubert Selby Jr

Requiem for a Dream. (Signed, review copy)

Signed first edition, first printing for this novel set in the back streets of New York and made into a film in 2000 (“The drug-induced..... Read More about Requiem for a Dream. (Signed, review copy

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3732665] The Willow Tree. A Novel. (Signed). Hubert Selby Jr

The Willow Tree. A Novel. (Signed)

First edition, first printing. Signed by Selby Jr. on the title-page and dated in the year of publication. New York and London: Marion Boyars, (1998)..... Read More about The Willow Tree. A Novel. (Signed

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500111] Causal Mythology. (Signed, Association Copy). Charles Olson

Causal Mythology. (Signed, Association Copy)

A lecture given at the University of California Poetry Conference in July, 1965, which includes excerpts from The Maximus Poems. Inscribed by Olson to a...... Read More about Causal Mythology. (Signed, Association Copy

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3732869] Sonnets of a Sorehead. (From the library of George Goodspeed). Hollis Randolph...

Sonnets of a Sorehead. (From the library of George Goodspeed)

Owned by the venerable proprietor of Goodspeed’s with his illustrated bookplate. Privately-printed and pseudonymously-written (by Goodspeed, even?) collection of humorous verse: “Harvard’s perennial satirist got..... Read More about Sonnets of a Sorehead. (From the library of George Goodspeed

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3732539] Last Exit To Brooklyn. Hubert Selby Jr

Last Exit To Brooklyn.

First U.K. edition, first issue of of Selby’s novel of lower class Brooklyn during the 1950s with scenes of drug use, homosexuality, drag queens, and..... Read More about Last Exit To Brooklyn

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3732483] The Tiny Talent. Selected Poems by Joan Ure. Richie McCaffery, Alistair Peebles

The Tiny Talent. Selected Poems by Joan Ure.

First edition, first printing; limited to 500 copies. With a foreword by Alasdair Gray. Joan Ure was the nom de plume of Elizabeth Thomson Clark..... Read More about The Tiny Talent. Selected Poems by Joan Ure

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3732482] What We Are. Poetry 1996-98. (Inscribed). Peter Bruckner

What We Are. Poetry 1996-98. (Inscribed)

First edition; this copy signed by the author and also inscribed on final leaf: “One for your ongoing ‘J search’ Love, Daddy, Christmas 1998.” [Glenmoore..... Read More about What We Are. Poetry 1996-98. (Inscribed

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3732480] Forty Poems. (Signed). Peter Bruckner

Forty Poems. (Signed)

First edition; this copy signed by the author. [Glenmoore, Pa.]: Windrose Studio, (1992). 51pp. 4to. Stiff-paper covers. Near fine. Read More about Forty Poems. (Signed

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3732351] All Gods Must Learn to Kill. (Inscribed). Douglas Blazek

All Gods Must Learn to Kill. (Inscribed)

First edition, first printing; with lengthy inscription by Blazek, signed: “8-31-68 For Jonathan – who is probably reading this after just returning from staggering the..... Read More about All Gods Must Learn to Kill. (Inscribed

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3732640] Anthropomorphiks, being a Collection of Poems, Drawings, Photograms & Logos. [Limited...

Anthropomorphiks, being a Collection of Poems, Drawings, Photograms & Logos. [Limited Edition]

First Edition; No. 328 of 750 copies. [Toronto]: The Coach House Press, 1971. Unpaginated. Sm. 8vo. Softcover. Numerous illustrations; tipped-in envelope with enclosure. Fine with..... Read More about Anthropomorphiks, being a Collection of Poems, Drawings, Photograms & Logos. [Limited Edition

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