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Electronic List 126: Poetry, Literature and Fine Press

1 ALLEN, LEWIS M. Printing with the Handpress. Herewith a definitive manual by Lewis M. Allen to encourage fine printing

through hand-craftmanship. 75, (3)pp. 4to. Orig. brown Irish linen, with dec. printed hand motif, which is repeated as chapter heads. Acetate D.j. (torn). Uncut. Title-page printed in red, blue and black. Printed by one of the most important American fine presses of the twentieth century on fine handmade paper in an edition of 140 copies.

Kentfield, California (The Allen Press), 1969. $850.00

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2 BEERBOHM, MAX. A Peep Into the Past. 16pp. Printed on rectos only. Two color illus. Sm. 4to. Boards, 1/4 cloth. Spine

label. Dec. paper label on front board. Slipcase (back panel loose). A piracy of a manuscript parody of Oscar Wilde originally written for inclusion in The Yellow Book. The unsigned introduction is by Ernest Boyd. Edition limited to 300 copies.

N.p. (Privately Printed), 1923. $300.00

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3 BEERBOHM, MAX. Seven Men. (8), 220pp. (4)pp. advertisements. Cloth. D.j. First edition. Scarce in dust jacket. D.j.

slightly chipped at head and tail. London (William Heinemann), 1919. $125.00

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4 (BLAKE) HAYLEY, WILLIAM. Triumphs of Temper. A poem: in six cantos. Twelfth edition, corrected, with new original

designs by Maria Flaxman. xii, 163, (1)pp. 6 plates engraved by William Blake after Maria Flaxman. Contemporary mottled calf gilt, professionally rebacked in leather.

Chichester (Printed by J. Seagrave for T.Cadell and W. Davies, London), 1803. $900.00 Keynes 125; Bentley/Nurmi (1977), 471; Essick William Blake’s Commercial Illustrations XLIII

5 EICHENBERG, FRITZ. Long live Utopia... (2)pp. Printed on recto only in black and red. One large wood engraving by Fritz

Eichenberg, 155 x 105mm. Signed by the artist. Self-wraps. Christmas card from the Red Ozier Press, 1982. Signed by the proprietors of the press, Steve Miller and Ken Batnick, beneath the greeting.

[Madison] (Red Ozier Press), 1982. $50.00

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6 ELIOT, T.S. Murder in the Cathedral. 86, (2)pp. Boards. D.j. (price-clipped) Dustjacket protected by acetate. The edited

American edition of the play. A few annotations and occasional underlining in pencil. New York (Harcourt, Brace), 1936. $100.00

7 THE EXILE. Edited by Ezra Pound. Nos. 1-4 (all published). Sm. 8vo. Orig. wraps. Ezra Pound’s short-lived but important

literary magazine. Contributions by Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Richard Aldington, Guy Hickok, W.B. Yeats, John Rodker, William Carlos Williams, Carl Rakoski, and others. Pound has not hand-corrected Hemingway’s 'Nothoemist Poem' to 'Neo-thomist Poem' in issue no. 1. Front wrapper of issue 1 neatly detached.

Dijon/New York/Chicago (Maurice Darantière/ Covici Friede), 1927-28. $750.00

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8 GARRETT, GEORGE, ET AL. New Work by Five Poets. George Garrett, Desmond O’Grady, Patrick Creagh, Sean O

Criadain, Robert Bagg. Presented for the first time at a public reading at the American Academy in Rome, April 11, 1959. 71, (1)pp. Wraps. 1959 ownership signature on f.f.e.

Rome, 1959. $125.00

9 (GOGMAGOG PRESS) Some Tenets of the Gogmagog Private Press. Fleuron by Roderick Cave. (4)pp. 12mo. Printed

on recto only and folded within decorated Japanese paper cover. London (Gogmagog Press), n.d. $75.00

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10 (GRABHORN, JANE). From Mumbo Jumbo and her Nephew to Paul Mall. (4)pp. (=one folded sheet, printed on recto

only). Half-sheet 8vo, self-wraps. Colophon: “Jane Grabhorn to Paul A. Bennett Over & Out.” San Francisco (Jumbo Press), 1968. $35.00 Stephens, A Checklist of the Typophile’s Chap Books, Monographs, Keepsakes, and Various Ephemera: The John Begg

Collection, No. 24.

11 HOPKINS, GERARD MANLEY. Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, now first published. Edited with notes by Robert

Bridges. (8), 124pp. 2 portrait plates, 2 double-page facsimiles, 2 facsimiles within text. Orig. boards, linen backstrip. Edition limited to 750 copies. This copy with the ownership signature of Aline Kilmer, the poet, author, and wife of Joyce Kilmer. Corners slightly bumped. Spine label slightly rubbed. A very good copy.

London (Humphrey Milford), 1918. $2,500.00

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12 KAUFMAN, MARGARET. [Prospectus for] Aunt Sallie’s Lament. 1f. with two attached pieces of cut paper. A large

number of pieces of cut paper and cloth. All contents loose in original plastic bag. Prospectus for one of the rarest and most desirable productions of the Janus Press, itself a fascinating example of book art.

West Burke, Vermont (The Janus Press), [1988]. $50.00

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13 KEYNES, GEOFFREY (EDITOR). The Works of Sir Thomas Browne. 6 vols. Blue-dyed vellum gilt. T.e.g. Uncut. Edition

limited to 210 copies on hand-made Kelmscott paper, of which this is no. 154. Signed by the editor on the limitation statement of vol. 1. Spines faded as usual. Volume 5 is a shade or two more purple than the other 5 volumes, though they are all set number 154. Vol. 6 speckled.

London (Faber & Faber), 1928-1931. $400.00

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14 Blok, Aleksander. The Twelve. With illustrations and cover-designs by MICHAEL LARIONOV. Translated from the

Russian with an introduction and notes by C.E. Bechhofer. 26pp., 8 plates. 4to. Orig. pale orange publisher’s boards, with typography and abstract designs printed in black by the artist. First British edition. Spine chipped with losses to lower half.

London (Chatto & Windus), 1920. $300.00

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15 LÉVIS-MANO, GUY. Treize minutes de Guy Lévis-Mano. Accompagnées d’un portrait et d’une image de Françoise

Nicole. (16)pp. Tipped-in frontis. portrait. 1 full-page illus. 4to. Fine marbled boards, 1/4 red morocco gilt (Patrice Goy). Orig. wraps. (wove paper with supralibros title) and prospectus order form bound in. An unnumbered copy on papier alfa des papeteries Sorel-Moussel, from the edition of 206 in all. Lévis-Mano’s third book: thirteen poems, dated between January 1925 and May 1927. Presentation copy, inscribed “pour/ Lucie Delarue-Mardrus/hommage/ de/ Guy Lévis-Mano/ novembre/ 1928.” Delarue-Mardrus (1874-1945) was a prolific French poet, novelist, journalist and sculptor, in the circle of Natalie Clifford Barney and Romaine Brooks (whose style is recalled by the illustration by Françoise Nicole). One admirer wrote to describe Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, stating in part:

"She is adorable. She sculpts, mounts to horse, loves a woman, then another, and yet another. She was able to free herself from her husband and has never embarked on a second marriage or the conquest of another man."

Paris (Henry Parville Libraire et Éditeur), 1927. $900.00 GLM 19

16 (LÉVIS-MANO, GUY, ED.) Des poèmes. Directeur: Guy Lévis-Mano. Cahiers no. 1-3 (all published). 68pp. (through-

paginated). 16 illus. (partly in woodcut). Lrg. 8vo. Printed wraps. Glassine d.j. Fine fitted clamshell box (pastepaper boards, 1/4 cloth, foil doublures), signed indistinctly by the maker on the interior. Texts by Guy Lévis-Mano, Marcel Aubret, Halina Izdebska, André Jullien du Breuil, Gaston Poulain, Marie Sauvage, Jane Doloé, L. de Leusse, Hella Helminska, André Cerny, Gil Vertal. Illustrations by Robert Barriot, Jean Lebedeff, Gaston Poulain, Pierre Thiriot, L. de Leusse, José Angel Ferrer, Christine de Steiger.

One of the early editorial projects of the remarkable Guy Lévis-Mano (GLM), then still only twenty years old. “‘A dix-sept ans j’écrivais des poèmes,’ confia-t-il un jour. Deux ans plus tard il les publiait et de 1923 à 1928, entouré des amis tels qu’Halina Izdebska, Gaston Poulain, Marie Sauvage, Robert Barriot, Jeanne Bergson, il édita quatre revues successives [“La revue sans titre,” “Des poèmes,” “Ceux qui viennent,” “L’arc-en-ciel”] et quatre livres. Publiées en coopérative,’ ce qui signifie, semble-t-il, que les auteurs participaient aux frais, ces revues éphémères étaient ouvertes aux jeunes poètes et peintres--elles étaient très illustrées--sans parti pris de chapelle: ‘Nous irons à l’art pour tous les chemins’ était-il proclamé

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dans l’une d’elles [“Des poèmes”] (Coron). No. 1 is present in this set as one of 50 numbered copies on vergé antique hollande. Fine condition. Rare: OCLC records only one set, at Yale.

Paris, 1924. $1,250.00 Coron, Antoine: “‘Un artisan de belles formes vraies,” in: “Les Éditions GLM 1923-1974: Bibliographie” (Bibliothèque

Nationale, 1981), p. viii

17 (LÉVIS-MANO, GUY - G.L.M.) Catalogue général des éditions G.L.M. (36)pp. 4 line-drawn illus., by Sima, Masson and

Tanguy. Text on salmon-colored stock. Self-wraps. Listings include bibliographical information about the various tirages of each, and their prices. Included are catalogues of the press’s various series and periodicals, among them “Cahiers G.L.M.,” “Acéphale,” “Répères,” and “Habitude de la Poésie.” Light wear.

Paris (Éditions G.L.M.), 1938. $50.00

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18 LOWELL, ROBERT. Land of Unlikeness. Introduction by Allen Tate. (48)pp. Title-page woodcut by Gustav Wolf. Boards.

Slightly sunned. Front board slightly scuffed. One of 26 copies on Dacian paper, numbered and signed by Lowell on the colophon, from the limited edition of 250 in all. Lowell's first book of poetry.

Cummington (Cummington Press), 1944. $4,000.00

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19 MCKENZIE, STEWART. Thirty-One. 1f, printed on recto only. Quarto broadside. Line numbers printed in blind along right

margin. Berkeley (Poythress Press), 1977. $65.00

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20 METCALF, PAUL. Land, Skin & Blindness. Design and illustration by Mark Smith. 4ff. Portfolio prof. illus. 8vo. Dec. paper

portfolio; wrap-around. Limited to 30 numbered copies signed by the artist and the poet, from a total edition of 250. Laurinburg, North Carolina (Mole Press), 1977. $200.00

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21 POUND, EZRA. Make it New. (8), 405, (1)pp. Sm. 4to. Cloth. D.j. Spine of d.j. slightly sunned and with a minute chip at

base; d.j. with a half-inch closed tear on rear board, not affecting text. London (Faber and Faber), 1934. $300.00

22 POUND, EZRA. Ta Hio: The Great Learning. Newly rendered into the American language. (University of Washington

Chapbooks. 14.) 35, (5)pp. Wraps. D.j. (slightly worn). Uncut. Though unstated, edition limited to 575 copies. Seattle (University of Washington Bookstore), 1928. $100.00

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23 SWIFT, JONATHAN. Voyages de Gulliver. 4 vols. Tall 8vo. Original publisher pale blue wraps. (slightly worn). A large

paper copy (175 x 108 mm), with 10 engraved plates hors texte, each in two states (one before and one with letters). The engravings are those of the Didot edition of 1797, by Masquelier after Lefebvre.

One of an edition limited to 150 numbered copies. Paris (Alphonse Leclere), 1860. $425.00 Brunet V, 603

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24 THOMPSON, HUNTER S. Hell’s Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs. (4), 278,

(2)pp. Sm. 4to. Dec. cloth. D.j. The author’s first book. First edition, stated first printing. Nick to head of d.j. New York (Random House), 1967. $400.00

25 (VEREANO, DAVID) Bradley, George. Midden. Etching by David Vereano. (12)pp. One etching. Oblong 12mo. Wraps. [New York] (Sea Cliff Press), 1986. $50.00