The Odyssey of Homer
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1906. Later printing. Blue cloth boards, no DJ, 429pp.
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1906. Later printing. Blue cloth boards, no DJ, 429pp.
Privately Printed, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author at fly leaf. 1966. This is number 50 of 100 copies printed at the Lusher and Lusher Press, Hazleton, PA. Hardcover, red cloth, title label on spine and front board, 8vo. Near Fine copy in a Near Fine wax dust.....
London: Booker, 1827. Hardcover. Published 1827, very good in somewhat later half morocco and marbled boards, by Macdonald of NY, 301 (1) pp, illustrated with plates. Light rubbing to binding. Bookplate of Richard Douglass Fisher of Baltimore (1834-1910) a banker and after retirement in 1903, devoted himself to scholarly, literary.....
London: John Murray, 1835. Hardcover. 2 volumes, 8vo, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, full crushed warm brown morocco, handsome gilt decorated spines, very good, some light wear, rubbing and surface soil to covers, neat strengthening of inner hinges, occasional blindstamp of the Edison Institute, Dearborn MI; extra-illustrated with perhaps two dozen.....
London: Printed by T. Bensley for Vernor and Hood, et al. 1799. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 8vo, 8.6 x 5.5 inches, early half leather and marbled boards, good with some rubbing and wear to bindings, with light restoration to outer joints of the second volume, contents good or better, first volume.....
London: Wood, 1864. Paperback. RARE! Paperback, 1864, 16mo. (4 x 6 1/4"), 16pp., not illustrated. Book VG with wear to spine that splits paper, edgewear, mild soil and rubbing, corners creased, binding tight, text has crease to top corner and toning throughout. No DJ.
1 page bifolium (single sheet folded once to make 4 pp), approx. 10 x 8 inches, good with some creases, fair copy of Butler's poem "The Boat Horn." “The Boatman’s Horn,” by then-28-year-old Butler—who signed it with his middle name, Orlando — was published in the monthly Western Review and.....
Paris: La Hune, 1966. First Printing. Wraps. No. 423 of 1000. 8vo, wraps, very good. 16 pp, illustrations and poems.
Kalamazoo: New Issues Press, 1997. First printing. Paperback. Wraps, signed on the titlepage by Butts, clean unmarked text, near fine copy, 2 awards stickers on the front cover.
Easthampton: Adastra Press, 2015. First printing. Paperback. No. 23 of 175 copies. 12mo, wraps, fine copy. Rare. Last poems of Walter E. Butts (1944-2013), a fine poet.
Puebla, Mexico: Universidad de Puebla, 1978. Second edition. Paperback. Inscribed by the author on the first blank page. 1978, Second Edition, Softcover, Spanish text. 94 pp. Near Fine copy.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Pr, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. 1992 Hardcover in Fine condition, in a Fine dust jacket. With a letter (loosely laid in) from the Academy of American Poets that explains that this book won the 1992 Lamont Poetry award, and the terms of that award...
Concord, CA: Small Poetry Press, 2001. First edition. Paperback. First edition, 2001, paperback with stapled binding, octavo, 23pp., not illustrated. Book VG+ with mild crease to front top corner and first half of text, stapled binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
Pittsburgh: MadBooks, 2009. First edition. Paperback. RARE! Printed paper wrap, octavo, 88pp., not illustrated. Book has handsome wrap and tight binding, text clean bright and unmarked. No DJ.
New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1915. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Bynner to Ralph Tracy Hale! First edition, 1915, hardcover with gilt stamped maroon cloth boards, octavo, 65pp., not illustrated. Book VG with dampstain to front board, spine gilt dulled but still legible, mild wear to spine ends and corners, binding.....
Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. FIRST BOOK. Maroon cloth hard back with gilt type and adornment. Slight wear to corners and spine ends. Light white blemish on rear near spine. Inside, uncut pages clean with text unmarked. 119 pp. Octavo.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. Hardcover. Published in 1947. First Edition. Very Good+ hard back book with a Very Good Dust Jacket. All pages clean, crisp and unmarked. Some light soiling to endpapers. Strong, tight spine. Some soiling and bumping to dj, now protected by clear, archival wrap. 176+pp.....
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1995. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 326 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.
London: Printed for John Murray, 1816. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1816. 4 pp. of ads at rear dated February, 1816, 8vo, dark plum morocco with gilt titles on spine, original gray-blue wraps bound in at rear, (11) 8-89 (7) pp. Fine copy, binding unsigned but very nice.
New York: Covici-Friede, 1930. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1930, no. 61 of 500 copies, 4to, cloth backed pink boards lettered in silver, 50 pp, old owner's signature on flyleaf, in worn slipcase.
New York: Charles P. Fessenden, 1831. First American Printing. Hardcover. 12mo, 5.5 x 3.5 inches, publisher's rose cloth, paper spine label, good to very good, cloth with some general discoloration, leather spine label a little rubbed, small private library label at spine bottom, old bookplate, text fairly foxed throughout. 388.....
London: 1766. Hardcover. Third edition, 2 volumes. Vol I poor to fair with tape repair to spine, title page. Vol II A poor copy in full period leather. Front board detached, re-taped. Rear board leather cracking and peeling. Textblock clean with a little off-setting to a few pages. Acceptable reading.....
San Juan, PR: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author. 1981, First Edition, Spanish text. 37 pp. Hardcover. Near Fine copy.
Hanover: Wesleyan University Press, 1994. First printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, signed by the editor Djelal Kadir on the verso of the half-title page, clean unmarked text, near fine copy in near fine dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.
Seattle: Wave Books, 2017. First printing. Paperback. First printing, 2017, paperback, large octavo, 143pp., not illustrated. Book VG+ with edgewear to corners and spine ends, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. No DJ.