(Lovecraft, H.P.)
The Revised H.P. Lovecraft Bibliography.
Baltimore: Mirage Press, 1973. Quarto. Edges darkened and lightly worn, else fine in printed wrappers. More
Literature
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(Lucretius)
A Bibliography of Lucretius.
(Winchester, Hampshire): St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1985. Octavo. 323pp. Fine in brick cloth, gilt-titled to spine. More
(Luther)
Luther 1483-1983.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard College Library, 1983. Small quarto. 84pp. Exhibition catalogue. Fine in piectorial wrappers. More
(M'Diarmid, Hugh)
Sangschaw; together with Penny Wheep.
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1925; 1926. Two octavo volumes. First edition of the Scottish poet Hugh M'Diarmid's first collection of poetry, in the second binding, together with a first edition of his second book. Hugh M'Diarmid, or MacDiarmid, as it is more commonly written, was the pen... More
(Machen, Arthur)
A Bibliography of Arthur Machen.
NY: Haskell House, 1973. Octavo. Very fine in green cloth, gilt-titled to spine. More
(MacNeice, Louis)
A Bibliography of the Works of Louis MacNeice.
London: Kaye & Ward, (1974). Octavo. Very fine in red cloth, gilt-stamped to spine, with red ribbon bookmark. Top edge dyed red. In very fine dust wrapper. More
(Masefield, John)
A Bibliography of John Masefield.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1930. Octavo. Errata laid in. Very fine in black cloth and marbled boards, gilt-titled to spine. More
(Masefield, John)
John Masefield. A Bibliographical Description of His First, Limited, Signed and Special Editions.
Boston: The Library of the Boston Athenaeum, 1986. Octavo. Limited to 500 copies. Errata laid in. Very fine in blue buckram. More
(McCullers, Carson)
A Domestic Dilemma.
(1951). 19pp. Signed by the author. Final typescript, probably a setting copy, of the short story which first appeared in The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1951. Contains just a few minor textual differences from the published version. Carson McCullers was one of the most... More
(McCullers, Carson)
Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland.
16pp. Signed by the author. Final typescript, probably a setting copy, for the short story which first appeared in the New Yorker on December 20, 1941, and later in The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1951. The text matches that of the published version, which... More
(Melville, Herman)
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither.
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1849. Two octavo volumes. 365; 387pp., + 8pp. ads. First American edition. Mardi was Melville's third book, and his third on the theme of South Pacific exploration. In the novel, an American sailor deserts his whaling ship in order to pursue his own adventures. At the... More
(Meredith, George)
George Meredith: A Bibliography.
Folkestone, England: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1974. Octavo. Fine in green cloth. More
(Middleton, Bernard)
Patriarch Tree: Thirty Poems.
Worcester: Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1965. Small quarto. 81pp. One of 500 copies beautifully printed in red, black, and green on handmade paper. Title-page decorations by Margaret Adams. Lithographed portrait of the author tipped in. With an English translation on each page facing the original French text by Raissa Maritain, who... More
(Millay, Edna St. Vincent)
A Bibliography of the Works of Edna St. Vincent Millay.
NY: Harper, 1937. Small quarto. 248pp. First edition. Bound in red cloth with dust jacket. Cloth of spine a bit darkened; jacket worn and darkened at extremities, with some loss, and minor soiling. More
(Miller, Arthur)
Arthur Miller: A Bibliographical Checklist.
(Columbia, SC): J. Faust & Co. (1976). Small quarto. 146pp. First edition, first printing. Fine in gray cloth. More
(Milne, A. A.)
Six Drawings by E. H. Shepard Illustrating Poems from When We Were Very Young.
London: Methuen, (c. 1925). Folio. (6)ff. Copy number one of twenty copies signed and numbered by the author, A. A. Milne, and the illustrator, E. H. Shepard, in pencil. When We Were Very Young was Milne's first collaboration with Shepard, and the first of the four Christopher Robin books. Each... More
(Milne, A. A)
Now We Are Six.
London: Methuen, (1927). First edition. This famous collection of children’s verses, featuring Milne’s son, Christopher Robin, and his bear, is illustrated throughout with Ernest H. Shepard’s whimsical drawings. Signed at a later date on the title page by Shepard. Handsomely bound by Bayntun-Rivière in deep red morocco, with gilt ruled... More
(Montale, Eugenio)
Sei Poesie e sei Disegni all'Acquaforte.
(Verona: Riva, Franco, 1976). Folio. 37pp., + (6)ff. plates. One of 75 copies, signed by the poet. Six poems by the Italian poet and Nobel Laureate Eugenio Montale, accompanied by six full-page etchings in sanguine of drawings by the poet. Several of the illustrations depict seaside scenes from the poet’s... More
(Moore, George)
A Bibliography of George Moore.
Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 1970. Octavo. Fine in red cloth, with a burgundy dust jacket that shows some fading to spine and rubbing. More
(Moore, Marianne)
Marianne Moore A Descriptive Bibliography.
(Pittsburgh, PA): University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977. Octavo. Part of the Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography. Prospectus laid in. Very fine in full blue cloth. More
(Mosher, Thomas B.)
Memories of President Lincoln and Other Lyrics of the War.
Portland, Maine: Mosher, Thomas B. 1904. Octavo. 41pp. From an edition of fifty numbered copies, this is one of forty offered for sale. Printed on Japan vellum in red and black from the plates of The Bibelot, Vol. 10, June 1904. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author, with... More
(Myers, Jack)
Blindsided.
Boston: David R. Godine, 1993. Quarto. First edition. Inscribed by the author. Fine in printed wrappers. More
(Myers, Jack)
Coming to the Surface.
Denton, TX: Trilobite Press, 1984. Small quarto. Inscribed by the author. One of 400 numbered copies. Fine in blue wrappers. More
(Myers, Jack)
Five Poems in Restau: A Journal of Passage.
Cambridge, MA: Mark Nunnelee, 1970. Quarto. Issue no. 1 of Restau: A Journal of Passage, containing five poems by Jack Myers, who has signed this copy. The poems are: "The Choice," "Poem for a Blue Heron Gliding In," "Reality is a War Machine," "Poem to Pay Back the Thousands of... More
(Nash, Ogden)
Ogden Nash: A Descriptive Bibliography.
Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1990. Small quarto. 466pp. Fine in blue cloth. More