(Newark: University of Delaware), 2006. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. Student literary magazine sponsored by the English Department. Have the following: Number 26. Spring 2006. With plates including some in color. (vi), 59, (3) pages. Number 28. 2007-2008. 92, (2) pages. (3) Price is per item. READ MORE about CAESURA, UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE LITERARY MAGAZINE
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Wilmington: The Wilmington Poetry Society and Delaware WRiters, (1940). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. Not paginated. B1-4694. The first of these annuals. Front cover illustration by Harry Clark Boden. Covers chipped with some spotting. First and last leaf show small holes in margin. READ MORE about DELAWARE POETS 1940
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Wilmington: The Wilmington Poetry Society and Delaware WRiters, (1945). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 47 pages. B1-4694. Part of an annual. Wrappers tanned. READ MORE about DELAWARE POETS 1945
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 89606
Wilmington: Tower Hill School, (1934). 8vo. paper-covered boards. (x), 53 pages. With a preface by Burton P. Fowler, Head Master. With 33 contributions. Spine has wear at extremities and is rubbed. READ MORE about DIAL VERSES, AN ANTHOLOGY OF FOURTEEN YEARS OF POETRY, 1920-1934
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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1937. 8vo. embossed black cloth. 196 pages. First collected edition. With facsimiles and other illustrations. Includes Christopher Morley and Rockwell Kent. Spine faded. Corner of free endpaper chipped off. READ MORE about BREAKING INTO PRINT BEING A COMPILATION OF PAPERS WHEREIN EACH OF A SELECT GROUP OF AUTHORS TELLS...
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 19
Being the Diary of a Queer Man. An Undergraduate Poem together wih A Brief Memoir of Harvard, Dean Briggs and T.S. Eliot
New York, NY: The Eakins Press, 1971. 4to. three-quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, dust jacket, slipcase. (iv), 26, followed by facsimile, (4) pages. Being the Diary of a Queer Man. An Undergraduate Poem together wih A Brief Memoir of Harvard, Dean Briggs and T.S. Eliot. Limited to 2300, this being one of the 300 copies handbound and signed by the author. An undergraduate poem of Conrad Aiken with a brief memoir of Harvard and a facsimile..... READ MORE about THE CLERK'S JOURNAL
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 96841
Being the Diary of a Queer Man. An Undergraduate Poem together wih A Brief Memoir of Harvard, Dean Briggs and T.S. Eliot
New York, NY: The Eakins Press, 1971. 4to. cloth. (iv), 26, followed by facsimile, (4) pages. Being the Diary of a Queer Man. An Undergraduate Poem together wih A Brief Memoir of Harvard, Dean Briggs and T.S. Eliot. Limited to 2300 copies, this being one of the 2000 printed on Andorra Text. An undergraduate poem of Conrad Aiken with a brief memoir of Harvard and a facsimile of the original manuscript with comments by Dean..... READ MORE about THE CLERK'S JOURNAL
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 96842
Being the Diary of a Queer Man. An Undergraduate Poem together wih A Brief Memoir of Harvard, Dean Briggs and T.S. Eliot
New York, NY: The Eakins Press, 1971. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. (iv), 26, followed by facsimile, (4) pages. Being the Diary of a Queer Man. An Undergraduate Poem together wih A Brief Memoir of Harvard, Dean Briggs and T.S. Eliot. Limited to 2300 copies, this being one of the 2000 printed on Andorra Text. An undergraduate poem of Conrad Aiken with a brief memoir of Harvard and a facsimile of the original manuscript with comments..... READ MORE about THE CLERK'S JOURNAL
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Wilmington: City Council, (1989). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. (xvi), 221+(1) pages. First edition. History of Black music and Black artists. Designed and illustrated by Bernard Ben Pearce. Well preserved copy. READ MORE about THE GENUINE AMERICAN MUSIC
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Columbus: Ohio State University Press, (1974). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xv, 311 pages. First U.S. edition. READ MORE about AUTHORS, PUBLISHERS AND POLITICIANS THE QUEST FOR AN ANGLO-AMERICAN COPYRIGHT AGREEMENT, 1815-1854
Price: $7.00 Order nr. 8253
2 Volumes
Detroit, MI: Gale Research Company, (1985). 4to. cloth. xviii, 325+(1); x, 327-700 pages. 2 Volumes. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 39: Parts 1 & 2. A two-volume set of biographies with cumulative index of the British novelists between 1660 and 1800. Illustrated endpapers of eight British novelists of the time. Signature of previous owner J.C. Beasley on half-title page in brown pen. Shaken. READ MORE about BRITISH NOVELISTS, 1660-1800
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Washington: GPO, 1875. small 8vo. self paper wrappers, stitched. 43 pages. Speech given in the Senate by Delaware's Senator on Saturday, March 20, 1875. Cover foxed. Vertical fold in center of pamphlet. READ MORE about AGAINST EXECUTIVE INTERFERENCE WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF LOU ISIANA
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N.P. Privately printed, n.d. 8vo. cloth-backed boards, top edge gilt, dust jacket. (xii), 176 pages. B1-4692. Well printed with decorations in green ink by Star Publishing Co. of Wilmington. Presentation "To Mr. & Mrs H.W. Cullen, most respectfully yours, Alden R. Benson, Dover, Del. October, 9th, 1924". Spotting of endpapers and pastedowns and boards. READ MORE about LOTUS LILIES
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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, n.d. (circa 1927). 8vo. cloth. 224 pages. B1-3024. Bissell was the originator of the Red Cross Christmas Seal in 1907. After the section of poetry, there is a history of the development of the Christmas Seals. Corner of front free endpaper spotted. Foxing to title page. READ MORE about HAPPINESS AND OTHER VERSES
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 66261
N.P. privately printed, n.d. (circa 1949). 8vo. cloth. 30 leaves. Fifth edition. A series of fictional letters to various newspaper editors dated between 1939 and 1949. Presentation from the author on front free endpaper. READ MORE about SIGNIFYING NOTHING BY G.P.B
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Yellow Springs, OH: Kahoe & Company, 1928. small 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards. (vi), 28 pages. Printed and bound at The Antioch Press. Twenty-one poems by the eighteenth-nineteenth century English artist/poet. Cover rubbed at edges, soiled. Covers rubbed with wear along spine. Name in ink on free endpaper. READ MORE about SONGS OF INNOCENCE
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Westport: Greenwood Press, (1970). 8vo. cloth. x, 198 pages. Reprint of the 1952 first edition. A look at the development of American philosophy, journalism and American social thought. READ MORE about AMERICAN NON-FICTION, 1900-1950
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Foreword by Howard Mumford Jones.
N.P. Ohio State University Press, (1968). 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. xviii, 327 pages. Foreword by Howard Mumford Jones. First edition. An important look at publishing and the author in America during the 19th century. With an embossed private library stamp. READ MORE about THE PROFESSION OF AUTHORSHIP IN AMERICA, 1800-1870 THE PAPERS OF WILLIAM CHARVAT
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Philadelphia: A. Hart, Late Carey & Hart, 1850. 8vo. original red cloth stamped in blind with gilt decoration on front cover and on gilt decorations on spine, all edges gilt. 378 pages. Reprint of the 1847 first edition (See BAL 1633). Complete in One Volume. In a well preserved publisher's binding by Ducomb & Collins. Bookseller's ticket of Wm. Murray of Lancaster, PA, on front pastedown. READ MORE about POEMS BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, COLLECTED AND ARRANGED BY THE AUTHOR
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New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1864. 12mo. original publisher's brown blind-stamped cloth , yellow endpapers. (iii), 222+(1) pages. BAL1683. First state, pg 213, line 5 "veielo". Binding A. Gold stamped lettering on spine faded. Head and tail of spine chipped. Minimal foxing and soil. READ MORE about THIRTY POEMS
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 93699
(Ithaca, New York): Ithaca House, (1985). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii) 75, (3) pages. First edition. Presentation from author on title page. Acknowledgements, table of contents, biography. Three chapters of over 20 poems in this poetry book. READ MORE about OTHER LIVES
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 124063
A study of eminent American writers from Irving to Whitman with an introductory survey of the Colonial background of our national literature
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., (1931). 8vo. cloth. (xviii), 372 pages. A study of eminent American writers from Irving to Whitman with an introductory survey of the Colonial background of our national literature. First edition. Tipped in notice that this book is an advance copy from Harcourt, Brace and Co., dated September 24, 1931. Front endpapers tanned from a somewhat larger item, now not in the book.Previous owner' s name on free front endpaper..... READ MORE about CLASSIC AMERICANS
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New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1936). 8vo. cloth. x, 310 pages. First edition. A Delaware author. Covers faded. Name in ink on front free endpaper. READ MORE about SEVEN YEARS' HARVEST, NOTES ON CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
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N.P. n.p., (1940). 8vo. blue-green cloth, brown title panel on front cover. (vi), 43 pages. Limited to 400 numbered copies (Heller 51). Illustrated. Sequal to Game Trails from Alaska to Africa. Only a touch of sunning to the spine, else near fine. READ MORE about GAME TRAILS IN IDAHO AND ALASKA
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Detroit: Gale Research Co., (1975). 8vo. cloth. vi, 197 pages. First edition. READ MORE about THE LITERARY JOURNAL IN AMERICA TO 1900, A GUIDE TO INFORMATION SOURCES
Price: $9.00 Order nr. 103012
