[Rarebooks] FS: Five Modern First Editions, prices greatly reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced:     Was $100,      Now $60

ALLEN, Hervey. WAMPUM AND OLD GOLD. New Haven: Yale University Press, 
1921. First Edition. Flexible boards with blue dustwrapper printed in 
black attached at the spine. Author's first trade book, issued in the 
Yale Younger Poets series. Minor chipping along the edges and at the 
corners. Near Fine. (#001478)        $60.00

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Price reduced:     Was $85,      Now $50

BENET, Stephen Vincent. NIGHTMARE AT NOON. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 
(1940). First Edition. Eight-pages, bound in stapled gray printed wraps, 
of this poem warning America "to awake to the totalitarian menace." 
Boldly SIGNED by Benet on the half title page. Minor soiling to wraps. 
Near Fine. (#011248)        $50.00

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BURROUGHS, William. THE DEAD STAR. San Francisco: Nova Broadcast Press, 
1969. First Edition. M&M A14: 2000 copies printed. A one-leaf folding 
pamphlet, staple bound to stiff wrappers. Illustrated with photographs. 
Uncommon. Some light rubbing and soiling to covers. Near Fine. 
(#005794)        $50.00

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Price reduced:     Was $75,      Now $45

GUNN, Thomm. FIGHTING TERMS. New York: Hawk's Well Press, 1958. First 
American Edition. Second state of the wrappers of this, Gunn's first 
book published in America, limited to 1500 copies. Review label removed 
with small piece of cover with it. Very Good or better. (#000562)        
$45.00

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HALL, Donald. THE TOWN OF HILL with an AUTOGRAPHED NOTE SIGNED. Boston: 
Godine, (1975). First Edition. An Uncorrected Proof copy in dark green 
wraps printed in black of this thin chapbook of 44 pages. The title poem 
is about a town in New Hampshire erased by a flood, although another 
town of the same name was built not far from the original. Laid in is an 
AUTOGRAPHED NOTE SIGNED (ANS) on a postcard by the poet to William Cole 
of the SATURDAY REVIEW thanking him for his notice of the book and 
mentioning a new book coming out in August. SIGNED "Don Hall." Near 
Fine. (#012423)        $100.00

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