Bloomington, IL: McLean County History '72 Association, 1972. Hardcover. Sketches by Don Shirley. Cartography by Mary Anne Ballinger. Small 4to. Full leatherette with gilt lettering. xvi, 402pp. Sewn-in red satin page marker. Illustrations, maps, map endpapers. Fine. First edition of this sesquicentennial history -- Not the common green cloth trade..... More
Iowa City: The Windhover Press, [1973]. Paperback. Translations by author with assistance of Anselm Hollo and Elliott Anderson. 8vo. Stiff black wrappers. 21pp. Fine. Pristine first edition of these 21 poems by the noted Slovenian avant-garde poet (1941-2014). Handsome printed on handmade Shogun stock in conjunction with the University of..... More
N.p. Dialectica, 1980. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff pale green wrappers. Pp. 17-59pp. Near fine. First separate printing, being an offprint from Volume 34, Number 1 of the leading, long-running (founded 1947) analytical philosophy quarterly (official journal of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy) published by Wiley-Blackwell in Hoboken, NY and..... More
Iowa City: Typographic Laboratory University of Iowa School of Journalism, 1966. Paperback. Narrow small 4to. Stiff pale grey wrappers. (12pp). Fine. First ever printing of this poem composed in Paris on 24 July 1904 -- "Now First Printed with a Biobibliographical Note by Miriam J. Benkovitz." English novelist Firbank (1896-1926)..... More
Iowa City: The State Historical Society of Iowa, 1910. Hardcover. 24mo. Pale grey paper over boards with black lettering. 56pp. Frontispiece, decorative endpapers. Near fine. First edition of the fifth volume in this publisher's "Torch Series," being "An address made before the members of The State Historical Society of Iowa..... More
Iowa City: Friends of the University of Iowa Libraries, 1984. Paperback. 16mo. Stiff tan wrappers. (2pp). Fine. Pristine first thus of this tiny poetry pairing, "Rondeau" (also known as "Jenny kiss'd Me") and the Arab-themed "Abou Ben Adhem" -- two of the best-known brief poems of the English poet/essayist/critic (1784-1859)..... More
Iowa City: Typographic Laboratory of the State University of Iowa, 1947. Paperback. 8vo. Tan wrappers. 7pp. Tipped-in frontispiece. Near fine. Intriguingly oddball copy of this pastoral elegy first published in 1638, with intriguing oddball tipped-in frontispiece that appears to be an original woodblock print of a bird. Colophon at rear..... More
Iowa City: The University of Iowa School of Journalism, 1965. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff pale lavender wrappers. ix, 22pp. Tipped-in illustration. Near fine. A tight and quite lovely first edition. Title page elaborates, "Notes printed from the autograph manuscript... with translations of the sonnets into English by Joseph Garrow, Shelley..... More
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1969. Hardcover. Translation by Thomas G. Bergin. Illustrations by Leonard Baskin. Folio. Complete 3-volume set. Quarter beige cloth with gilt spine lettering and brown paper over boards, slipcase with paper labels. 281pp, 292pp, 295pp. Frontispieces, numerous full-page illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Slightest touch of spotting at..... More
Hanover, NH: Westholm Publications, 1956. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff grey wrappers. 45pp. Near fine. First edition of this writer's account of his life-changing heart attack experience. Colophon at rear notes "This brochure has been designed, hand set, and printed by Carroll Coleman at The Prairie Press in Iowa City" --..... More
DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University, 1980. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff orange wrappers. (21pp). Illustrations. Near fine. Tight and attractive first edition of this (to cite front wrapper) "Keepsake Marking the Acquisition of Founders Memorial Libraries' One Millionth Volume." NIU president William R. Monat and library director Jean A. Major offer..... More
N.p. The Maecenas Press, 1981. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff orange wrappers. 35pp. Fine. Pristine first edition of this verse collection, limited to 150 copies. "Compliments Friends of the University of Iowa Libraries" slip laid in. More
N.p. G.K. Hall & Co., 1963. Paperback. 16mo. Stiff blue wrappers. 24pp. Fine. Massachusetts Historical Society director Stephen T. Riley introduces this superb facsimile of "the only known nearly perfect copy... printed and sold in Boston by Benjamin Mecom in 1758" -- the first separate printing of Franklin's famed "Sayings..... More
Worcester, U.K. Stanbrook Abbey Press, [1960]. Paperback. Small 4to (8" X 10½"). Stiff teal green wrappers with hand-calligraphed title. Pp. 27-28 (single leaf). Fine. In 1960 Stanbrook Abbey Press published Sassoon's poetry collection "The Path to Peace." With the poem "Awaitment," added to this volume late that same year, the..... More
Cedar Rapids, IA: The Torch Press, 1947. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth spine with paper label and tan/brown patterned paper over boards. 37pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine. Handsome, tight first edition of this Christmas keepsake, an essay by the noted Iowa meatpacking company president (1875-1951), remembered for his bookplate collection and as..... More
Ditchling, Sussex: St. Dominic's Press, n.y. Handbill. 8vo (5" X 8½"). Single engraving. Fine. Number 1 in this fine press's "Small Rhyme Sheet" series. Choice handbill featuring this undated (circa late 1920s/early 1930s) poem, no author cited but another nearly identical printing of this same handbill notes "H.D.C.P." in type..... More
N.p. St. Dominic's Press, n.d. Three cards, each 12mo (7¼" X 4½"), (4pp, single leaf once folded). Wood engravings. Fine. Famed English printer/poet Hilary Douglas Clark Pepler (1878-1951), who co-founded the Catholic craftsmen organization The Guild of St. Joseph and St. Dominic at Ditchling in Sussex along with Eric Gill..... More
N.p. The Stone Wall Press, 1960. Paperback. Small 4to. Wrappers. (2pp text), single leaf twice folded. Fine. Handsome signed limited edition, with rear colophon noting 150 numbered copies (this #104). Printed in Romanee types on sturdy Curtis Rag stock, with lovely two-tone front wrapper floral graphic. Signed tiny and boldly..... More
Iowa City: Friends of the University of Iowa, 1974. Paperback. 4to. Stiff black wrappers. (18pp). Fine. With original, never-addressed transmittal envelope. Pristine first edition. Leslie W. Dunlap introduces this facsimile (with typescript accompanying) of an 8-page pencilled letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt's secretary of agriculture, who became his second vice..... More
Pittsburgh: Beta Phi Mu, 1974. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and device. xiv, 80pp. Frontispiece, 3 maps. Near fine. Handsome first edition -- 5500 copies -- of this description of Cook's three expeditions (1768-1771, 1772-75, 1776-80) and this copy with choice philatelic addition: Tipped in on facing blank..... More
Muscatine, IA: The Prairie Press, 1939. Hardcover. Illustrations by Frank Utpatel. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering. 45pp. Woodcuts. Fine. First edition, tight and pristine, limited to 290 copies, of this excerpt from Derleth's "spiritual autobiography," titled "Evening in Spring." Utpatel's woodcuts are, as always, eye-catching and provocative. Rather..... More
Iowa City: The Windhover Press, 1972. Paperback. Translation by the author with assistance from John Batki. 8vo. Stiff tan wrappers. (Ca. 3opp). Near fine. First edition, one of 300 copies of this unusual production printed on handmade Suzuki stock. Errate slip tipped in. Miedzyrzecki (1922-96) was a Polish poet, translator..... More
Cedar Rapids, IA: The Torch Press, 1950. Hardcover. Foreword by Lawrence Oakley Cheever. 8vo. Black cloth spine with paper label and decorative paper over boards. 72pp. 4 full-page plates. Near fine. Lacks dust jacket. Superb and tight first edition of these mostly bookish four essays (each first published separately) by..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, [1948]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. ix, 165pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket faintly age toned, with most minor of edgewear. Exceptionally tight and bright first edition of these (to cite front jacket panel) "Critical Essays on Nine Metaphysical..... More
Leipzig: Psychoanalytischer Verlag G.M.B.H., 1921. Hardcover. 8vo. Pale grey/blue boards with black lettering. 140pp. Very good. Binding lightly age toned and faintly edgeworn; text block tight and non-brittle, though typically age toned. First edition of what was published in English (1923) as "Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego,"..... More