[Rarebooks] FS: 10 Modern First Editions, mostly Poetry Chapbooks, prices greatly reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced:     Was $150,      Now $85

BROOKE, Rupert. "1914". FIVE SONNETS. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1915. 
First Edition. Published a few months after the author's death with only 
500 copies printed. One of the five sonnets is perhaps Brooke's most 
famous, "The Soldier," which begins: "If I should die, think only this 
of me:/That there's some corner of a foreign field/That is for ever 
England." Slight crease on cover. Near Fine, lacking the original 
envelope, as usual. (#000487) $85.00

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Price reduced:     Was $45,      Now $25

EWART, Gavin. NINE NEW POEMS. Cleveland: Bits Press, (1986). First 
Edition. Printed wraps. One of 300 SIGNED copies. Fine. (#004268)     $25.00

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Price reduced:     Was $25,      Now $15

(John NASH) GIBSON, Wilfrid. THE EARLY WHISTLER. (London): (Faber & 
Gwyer), n.d [1927]. First Edition. Decorated red wraps, 4 pages. #6 of 
the Ariel Poems printed by the Curwen Press. With a full-page color and 
black-and-white title page drawing by John Nash. Fine. (#011507)        
$15.00

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Price reduced:     Was $60,      Now $50

GIOIA, Dana. SUMMER. Aralia Press, 1983. First Edition. Includes two 
poems. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by the author. Fine. 
(#006107)        $50.00

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HALL, Donald. CAROL. Concord: Ewert, (1988). First Edition. Nicely 
printed poem with an illustration reproduced from an original woodcut by 
J. J. Lankes. Of a total edition of 436, this is one of only 26 lettered 
copies SIGNED by the author and specially bound in wrappers. Fine. 
(#006083)        $50.00

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HAMPL, Patricia. RESORT. A POEM. St. Paul: Bookslinger Editions, 1982. 
First Edition. One of 250 unnumbered copies (of a total edition of 300) 
bound in soft wrappers and SIGNED by the poet, her second book. 
Frontispiece six-color woodcut and ornamental cover label by Gaylord 
Schanilec. Slight bumping to head of spine. Near Fine. (#010983)        
$50.00

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HEYEN, William. THE MOWER. First Edition. A poem, with six drafts 
reproduced, from his first book published the same year. A fine copy, 
though folded, of the dustwrapper for that book, DEPTH OF FIELD, is 
inserted. Fine in Brockport Writers Forum envelope. (#006106)        $45.00

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(Albert RUTHERSTON) HARDY, Thomas. YULETIDE IN A YOUNGER WORLD. 
(London): (Faber & Gwyer), n.d [1927]. First Edition. Decorated green 
boards, 4 pages. #1 of the Ariel Poems printed by the Curwen Press. With 
a full-page color and black-and-white cover drawing by Albert 
Rutherston. One of 350 copies, this not numbered, on handmade Zanders 
paper bound in boards. Sunning to spine and outer edges of faded boards. 
Very Good. (#011532)        $45.00

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SMITH, Dave. BLUE SPRUCE. (Syracuse): Tamarack, (1981). First Edition. 
Of an edition of 300 numbered copies in wrappers, this is one of only 50 
SIGNED by the author. Another 36 copies were bound in cloth. Illustrated 
with 2 plates by Barry Moser. Fine. (#006138)     $50.00

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Price reduced:     Was $125,      Now $75

WILBUR, Richard. PEDESTRIAN FLIGHT: Twenty-One Clerihews for the 
Telephone. Palaemon Press, (1981). Stiff black wraps with dustwrapper. 
Illustrated with drawings by the author. One of 110 numbered and SIGNED 
copies of a total edition of 181. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. 
(#004322)        $75.00

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