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G. F. Wilkinson Books
Great Hermit in Grass Valley Where There is More Leaves than Grass
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Dinesen, Isak Babette’s Feast. With Woodcuts by Karin Wikstrom and an Afterword by Richard Olney.
$500.00
The edition was limited to 250 copies of which 225 were numbered and offered for sale. This copy noted in pen Review on the colophon. Signed in pencil by Wikstrom and Olney on the colophon. 64 pp. ; small folio (9″ x 12.75″) ; binding consists of printed German paper over boards with an imported cloth spine, lacking slipcase. San Francisco artist Karin Wikstrom created 19 woodcuts to accompany the text. Printed entirely by letterpress on mouldemade English rag paper.Â
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Meyers, Bert IN A DYBBUK’S RAINCOAT Collected Poems
$275.00Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (2007) Â Published more than 30 years after his death from cancer at 51, this includes not only the poems that Meyers personally selected for a planned collected works but even more of his best poems, some previously unpublished, songs, selected prose, articles by Garrett Hongo and Jack Miles and more. “Gritty, self-reflective, raging, loving, political, embroiled in his surroundings and pounded in the sweetness of everyday life, Meyers offers us poems riddled with cantankerous musings, provoking images, skilled metaphor and a voice that long lingers under the skin, asking questions more than providing answers.” (Foreword). Â Introduction by Denise Levertov and foreword by Morton Marcus. INSCRIBED on the title page and signed simply “Dan” by Daniel Meyers, his son and co-editor of this book. Photographs. xiv, 266 pp. Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket ( foxing to top edge of text block, boards very slightly bowed, but overall an attractive, tight and clean copy)
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Autobiographies by W.B. Yeats — Signed Limited Edi
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$1,200.00New York: Macmillan, 1927. Limited edition of 250 numbered and signed copies; 477 pages, with frontis engraved portrait and facing tissue, three other engravings and tipped in reproduction of a painting by Jack Yeats, all with facing tissues. Cloth bound in very good condition; Light spine end wear, a few small stains to lower portion of spine; Former owner ex-libris label facing limitation.
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FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING
Evelyn Waugh A Handful of Dust
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New York; Farrar & Rinehart, [1934]. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING WITH LOGO ON COPYRIGHT PAGE. 8vo. Very good. Hardcover. Lacks dust jacket. Orange cloth covered boards with gilt title to front board and to spine. Fading to spine. Bumping to spine ends and corners. Inscription to previous owner on front free end paper. Light foxing and browning to end pages. Binding is tight. 308 pages.
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