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Rare, Fine and Academic book especially in the fields of spiritual traditions and esoterica, East and West.
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Roethke, Theodore Sequence, Sometimes Metaphysical
$3,000.00
Iowa City: Stone Wall Press, 1963. First edition. Special edition, bound in 1/4 leather, issued in a slipcase, signed by Roethke and John Roy and numbered XV of LX copies; Illustrated with wood engravings by John Roy; Printed by hand on Rives Heavy paper with engravings on lightweight Mulberry; 12 poems with an engraving accompanying each poem and a frontispiece. Item #36132
Fine condition; Modest rubbing to case.
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Fine Press Edition of Aratus by the Janus Press
Aratus Phaenomena Sky Sign
$2,500.00Michael Pyron, Bookseller ABAA/ILAB
Newark and Burke, VT: Janus Press and Plowboy Press, 2022. Folio. [4], 58, [4] pp., plates, maps, illus. Limited edition, one of 120 numbered copies. Letterpress printed on Barcham Green Boxley by Andrew Miller-Brown of Plowboy Press. The frontispiece is Durer’s northern celestial map. There are 28 illustrations of the constellations from Caspar Vopel’s 1534 woodcuts and eight full-page original digital prints of weather by Claire Van Vliet based on her pulp paintings. Additionally, there are numerous in-text illustrations, some mounted, some printed. This is sewn longstitch into pulp-painting covered boards by Katie MacGregor; pocket inside the front cover contains prospectus and Translator’s Introduction and Notes. The book is wrapped in a linen-covered chemise lined with Durer’s 1515 celestial maps, all housed in maple and birchwood slipcase with a lasercut title on the spine. A fine copy. Aratus was born in Soli in present day Turkey in about 315 BCE. Educated in Athens, he eventually made his way to the Macedonian court where it is believed he wrote the Phaenomena. It describes in verse the constellations, their rotation in the night sky throughout the year, various other natural signs, and their uses as a calendar and weather forecasting tool for farmers and sailors. For Aratus these sky signs, from the constellation Ursa Major to the smallest mouse tossing straw with its paws, represent a gift from Zeus to guide human endeavor if only we would take notice. The Phaenomena was enormously popular in its time and afterwards. It inspired many translations, some with a liberal dose of revisions and additions, as well as many commentaries starting in at least the second century BCE. This edition of the Phaenomena features a verse translation from the Greek by Stanley Lombardo and a new commentary for the modern reader by Mark Breen, senior meteorologist and director of the planetarium at the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. And while it is easy to get caught up in the interesting particulars of the book and its history as well as the particulars of this edition, Van Vliet, Miller-Brown and their collaborators have created an edition that has reinvigorated this millennia-old navigational and practical treatise. This edition is full of wonder. MacGregor’s pulp painted covers are haunting and exquisitely suited for the work. And further, the book, designed with a mind towards early scholarly works with Aratus’s text surrounded by commentary and illustration, is a joy to leaf through, every page spread is visually engaging from the early section on the constellations to the section on weather that is elevated by Van Vliet’s art. After 70 years of bookmaking, Van Vliet has not stopped pushing forward in her design and vision.
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Uncommon 1st ed.: collected poems of d.a. levy
levy, d.a. COLLECTED POEMS
$225.00Ephraim, Wisconsin, Druid Books, (1976). First edition – An uncommon posthumous collection of levy’s poems, including some of his long-form works, like ‘Cleveland Undercovers’ and ‘Suburban Monastery Death Poem,’ which blend the urban grit of 1960s Cleveland with Eastern spiritual themes, as well as many shorter poems. levy, one of the founders of the ‘mimeograph revolution,’ catalyzed the cityÕs underground poetry scene, and because of his arrest for obscenity he also became a symbol of the counterculture. Although the final page mentions plans for a second volume, it has not been published. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. 232 pp. ISBN: 0-912518065. Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (a tight copy, appears unread)
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Scarce first edition
L. M. Montgomery The Watchman and Other Poems
$600.00Under The Covers Antique And Vintage Books
Toronto; McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, [1916]. SCARCE. FIRST EDITION. Â 8vo. Hardcover. Very good. Green cloth covered boards with gilt title to front board and to spine. Fading to gilt. Minor fading to top edges of boards and to spine. Spots of discoloration to bottom edge of front board, spine, and top edge of rear board. Light soiling to rear board. Foxing to end papers, first and last few pages, and edges of text block. Text remains clean and bright. Un-trimmed edges with many pages unopened. Binding tight. The only book of poetry by Lucy Maud Montgomery. 159 pages.
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The legend of Lilith from an edition of 25
Abagail Stern Lilith
$267.65 *
* estimated currency conversionThe Boxwood Press, Statesboro, 1986. Copy no.10 from the edition of 25 copies printed at The Boxwood Press by illustrator Bernard Solomon. Signed by him to colophon and by Abagail Stern to title page. Poetic telling of the Lilith legend. Printed on Hosho paper, with sheets folded and uncut, leaving blanks verso. All in fine internal order. Weight of ink has caused some cockling, but this minor. Very light wear only to brown paper covered boards with yellow cloth and bright gilt titling to spine. Scarce, reflecting the edition size. 4to. Unpaginated [18 folded leaves thus 36 pp].
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