Jackson. MS: Parrish House, 2002. Hardcover. Octavo. 301pp. Limited to 500 copies. SIGNED BY THE AUTHORS. Bibliography of Gioia's works with essays on the poet and a substantial listing of contributions to periodicals. Issued without dust jacket.
New York: The Typophiles, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Continuous pagination, 271 pp. in two volumes. Illustrated. Typophile Chap Books 35 & 36. One of 1,050 copies designed by Rudolph Ruzicka and printed at the Anthoensen Press. Fine copies in the original, edgeworn glassine. Housed in black paper covered slipcase.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 460pp. Incl. index. INSCRIBED by American book publisher, Henry Holt, "To Paul Elmer More, with love born of our many delightful quarrels. Henry Holt Dec. 14/23" Nice inscription and nice association, but unfortunately in rather poor condition. Blue cloth stamped in.....
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 258pp. "...a collection of interviews with nine small press publishers," including James Laughlin (New Directions) , Lawrence Ferlinghetti (City Lights), David Godine, Sam Hamill and Tree Swenson, (Copper Canyon Press) and John Martin (Black Sparrow Press). Mild toning to spine.....
Riverside, CT: Privately Printed /Ellen Knowles Harcourt, 1951. Hardcover. 12mo. 120pp. With the bookplate of Frederic Melcher. Alfred Harcourt (1881-1954) was an American publisher and founder of Harcourt, Brace & Co. Green paper covered boards with black spine. Hint of fading to spine. "Frederic Gershom Melcher (1879-1963).....
New York: The Typophiles, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 149pp. TYPOPHILE CHAP BOOK :XV. Limited edition, #246 of 400 copies, of a total edition of 805. Burgundy cloth, with black and gold stamping, in burgundy paper covered slipcase.With three book plates on front paste-down: Albert Sperisen, San Francisco Area Printer.....
Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1962. Third edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. Tall octavo. 292pp; 326pp. Second printing of third edition. Gilt stamped red cloth; very minor bump to one corner. In dust jackets that have a couple minor spots.
New York: Privately Printed for Hermann Puterschein at the Inkwell Press, 1980. Limited edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 153pp. Profusely Illustrated. Contributors incl. Dorothy Abbe, Warren Chappell, Mary A Ahern and Vincent Torre. Nicely designed book, limited to 500 copies. Issued without dust jacket. "Dwiggins is probably most noted for coining.....