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1 H.D. Between the Covers

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3 X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX H.D.'s First Book EURIPIDES. Translated by H.D. Choruses from the Iphigeneia in Aulis and The Hippollytus of Euripides. London: Egoist Press Second edition (originally published in 1913 in a small edition). Stiff printed self-wrappers. Fine. The 1913 edition was the author's first book. # $200 X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (Anthology) LAWRENCE, D.H., Amy Lowell, Hilda Doolittle, et al. Some Imagist Poets: An Anthology. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin First edition. Stiff printed card covers. Modest erosion to the spine, a tight, very good copy in a near fine example of the original glassine dustwrapper with chips at the spine ends. Contributors include Amy Lowell, Hilda Doolittle, D.H. Lawrence, Richard Aldington, John Gould Fletcher, and F.S. Flint. One of 1000 copies. # $650 Sea Garden. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company First American edition. Stiff wrappers with applied dustwrapper. Some chipping, a good or better example of a fragile collection of poetry, the author's first book. # $250 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X Poetry Reprint Series Set One: Sea Garden by H.D.; Over the Brazier by Robert Graves; Harmonium by Wallace Stevens; Mount Zion by John Betjeman; Earth Trimphant by Conrad Aiken. London/New York: St. James Press/ St. Martin's Press (1975). Reprint. Five volumes. Fine in blue cloth without dustwrappers as issued. # $150

4 (ANDERSON, Sherwood, H.D., Harriet Dean, Alexander S. Kaun, David O'Neil, Mitchell Dawson, F.S. Flint, and Marjory Siefert) ANDERSON, Margaret, edited by. The Little Review Vol. II, No. 10, January-February Chicago: [no publisher] Magazine. Small quarto. 44pp. Perfectbound paper wrappers. A bit of waviness at the top edge, not from dampstaining, along with small bump to the corner, near fine. This issues includes an early Sherwood Anderson story, "The Novelist," along with contributions from Anderson, H.D., Harriet Dean, Alexander S. Kaun, David O'Neil, Mitchell Dawson, F.S. Flint, and Marjory Siefert. # $125 MONROE, Harriet and Alice Corbin Henderson, editors. The New Poetry: An Anthology. New York: Macmillan First edition. A few light and easily erasable pencil notes on the first few leaves, else near fine, in near fine dustwrapper with a couple of small chips. Advance Review Copy with publisher's perforated review notice on the title page. Includes Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Conrad Aiken, H.D., Joyce Kilmer, Ford Madox Hueffer, D.H. Lawrence, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Edgar Lee Masters, Carl Sandburg, John Reed, and many more. An important anthology, revised many times, this first edition is uncommon, especially in jacket. # $1000 MONROE, Harriet and Alice Corbin Henderson, editors. The New Poetry: An Anthology. New York: Macmillan Second printing (a month after the first). Slight sunning else near fine, without dustwrapper. An important anthology, revised many times, this first edition is uncommon. Includes Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Conrad Aiken, H.D., Joyce Kilmer, Ford Madox Hueffer, D.H. Lawrence, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Edgar Lee Masters, Carl Sandburg, John Reed, and many more. # $75

5 X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (Anthology) MONRO, Harold, editor. 23 New Poems by Contemporary Poets [in] The Monthly Chapbook, No 1 Vol 1. London: The Poetry Bookshop First edition. A small bookstore label from the Paris store of E.W. Titus on the inside rear cover, a little age-toning to the wrappers, but a nice, near fine copy of this fragile volume, with none of the usual chipping to the yapped edges. Contributors include Herbert Read, Walter De La Mare, Osbert Sitwell, H.D., Siegfried Sassoon, D.H. Lawrence, Sacheverell Sitwell, Edith Sitwell, Rose Macaulay, Douglas Goldring, Frederic Manning, W.H. Davies, Richard Aldington, and Charlotte Mew. # $125 X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (Anthology) MONRO, Harold, editor. 23 New Poems by Contemporary Poets [in] The Monthly Chapbook, No 1 Vol 1. London: The Poetry Bookshop First edition. Small chips and tears to thwe yapped edges, good or betters. Contributors include Herbert Read, Walter De La Mare, Osbert Sitwell, H.D., Siegfried Sassoon, D.H. Lawrence, Sacheverell Sitwell, Edith Sitwell, Rose Macaulay, Douglas Goldring, Frederic Manning, W.H. Davies, Richard Aldington, and Charlotte Mew. # $50 Heliodora And Other Poems. London: Jonathan Cape (1924). First edition. Very good in a fair dustwrapper with a split down the front spine fold, soiling. # $50 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X Heliodora And Other Poems. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company [1924]. First American edition. Very good 1st U.S. Edition, Hardcover, panels faded, spine ends and panel corners lightly bumped, tiny tears on panel corners, small black spot on top of back panel near spine, spine browned, light browning of pages. # $50

6 Collected Poems of H.D. New York, New York: Boni and Liverwright First edition. Very good without dustwrapper. # $70 Palimpsest. (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin 1926). First American edition (one of 700 copies bound from the French sheets). Bottom edges of the boards rubbed, else very good in a near fine dustwrapper with slight loss at the crown affecting the title and a small chip on the rear panel. A very attractive copy of the author's first novel. # $475 $ Palimpsest. (Boston): Houghton, Mifflin (1926). First American edition (one of 700 copies bound from the French sheets). Scattered foxing, a small stain to the top of the first few pages, and light wear to the boards, else very good without dustjacket. The author's first novel. # $65 Palimpsest. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univer-sity Press (1968). Reprint. Crosscurrents/Modern fiction edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. # $35

7 Hippolytus Temporizes A Play In Three Acts. Boston: Houghton Mifflin First edition. Very good with light wear at the corners, a little scuffing on the front board, lacking the box. # $75 Hedylus. Stratford-Upon-Avon and Boston and New York: Shakespeare Head Press for Basil Blackwell and Houghton Mifflin Company First American edition (with Houghton Mifflin on the spine). Quarter cloth and batik-decorated papercovered boards. Near fine in attractive, good dustwrapper and a large but faint stain on the spine. # $150 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X Hedylus. Stratford-Upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press for Basil Blackwell and Houghton Mifflin Company First edition. Quarter cloth and batik-decorated papercovered boards. Corners rubbed, near fine without dustwrapper. # $75

8 Beckett's First American Book Appearance (Anthology) (BECKETT, Samuel). PUT- NAM, Samuel, Maida Castelhun Darnton, George Reavey and J. Bronowski, edited by. The European Caravan: An Anthology of the New Spirit in European Literature. New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam First edition. Introductions by André Berge, Massimo Bontempelli, Jean Cassou, and E. Giménez Cabellero. Light foxing, near fine in a slightly spinetanned, near fine dustwrapper with a couple of tears and tiny nicks. Contains the first book appearance of Samuel Beckett in the United States. Additional contributors include W.H. Auden, H.D., T.S. Eliot, Dorothy Richardson, William Empson, Nancy Cunard, Hugh MacDiarmid, Tristan Tzara, Francis Picabia, Jean Cocteau, Robert Desnos, Blaise Cendrars, and others. Stated as Part I, this was the only volume published. An attractive copy of an important anthology. # $750 BLAKESTON, Oswell and Herbert Jones, editors. Seed. Number 1. London: Seed First Edition. Octavo. Stapled printed wrappers. A little age-toning, else near fine. First of two issues which constitute the complete run of this magazine. Contributors include H.D., Mary Butts, Sidney Hunt, A.S.J. Tessimond, Oswell Blakeston, Robert Herring, and Roger Burford. # $150 [Trilogy]: The Walls do not Fall, Tribute to the Angels, The Flowering of the Rod. London: Oxford University Press 1944, 1945, First editions. Three volumes. Self-wrappers. Light bump to one corner of Tribute to the Angels else just about fine. The Flowering of the Rod is an Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. A nice uniform set. # $750

9 The Flowering of the Rod. London: Oxford University Press First edition. Self-wrappers. Small stain on the front wrap, a very good or better copy. Third volume of this poetry trilogy. # $100 By Avon River. New York: Macmillan First edition. Uncorrected Proof consisting of folded and gathered sheets laid into the dustwrapper, with the publication dated stamped on the title page. Very near fine, some slight wear to the crown of the slightly oversized jacket. A very uncommon state of this poetry collection. # $250 $175 By Avon River. New York: Macmillan First edition. Fine in lightly worn, near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper. A long, lyric poem and an essay, the whole intended as a lyrical tribute to, and critical essay on Shakespeare. # $85 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X By Avon River. New York: Macmillan First edition. Slight rub on rear board still a fine, crisp copy in lightly rubbed, very good plus dustwrapper with two short tears and a little rubbing. A long lyric poem and an essay, the whole intended as a lyrical tribute to and critical essay on Shakespeare. # $85 $59.50

10 (CUMMINGS, E.E., Richard Eberhart, William Carlos Williams, John Ciardi, William Butler, H.D., Charles G. Bell, Hans Hofman, Eugen Haun, LeRoy Smith, Jr., Diana Fraser Forbes, David Rayfiel, Eric Sellin, E.A. Bloom Barbara Crawford and Richard Bozorth). New Ventures 1. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: New Ventures Press Magazine. Octavo. 82pp, 61pp. Illustrated stiff paper wraps. Moderately rubbed with scattered crease and small ink price, very good. Limited unnumbered edition; this one is number "376." An anthology of poetry and fiction, including Barbara Crawford's short novel, "Day at the Circus." Contributors include E.E. Cummings, Richard Eberhart, William Carlos Williams, John Ciardi, William Butler, H.D., Charles G. Bell, Hans Hofman, Eugen Haun, LeRoy Smith, Jr., Diana Fraser Forbes, David Rayfiel, Eric Sellin, E.A. Bloom and Richard Bozorth. # $30 (FREUD, Sigmund). Tribute to Freud: With unpublished letters by Freud to the author. (New York): Pantheon (1956). First edition. Fine with some offsetting on the front pastedown and front fly in near fine, somewhat tanned dustwrapper. # $40 Bid Me to Live. New York: Grove Press Uncorrected proof. Quarto. String-tied stiff card covers with applied paper label, printed rectos only. Dampstain visible on both covers, and to a lesser extent, to the top corner of the pages. An exceptionally scarce format, presumably no more than a handful were produced. # $500

11 Bid Me to Live. New York: Grove Press First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. # $125 Bid Me to Live: A Madrigal. New York: Grove Press (1960). First edition. Near fine in near fine dustwrapper with light edgewear. # $45 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X Bid Me To Live: A Madrigal. Redding Ridge, Connecticut: Black Swan Books (1983). First Black Swan edition. Near fine in a fine dustwrapper. Frontispiece and dustwrapper photo of H.D. by Man Ray. # $100

12 (CROWLEY, Aleister, Robert Duncan, Robert Kelly, Gerrit Lansing, Charles Stein, Jonathan Greene, and Zosimos). Aion: A Journal of Traditionary Science No. 1, December New York: Charles Stein Magazine. Quarto. Stapled stiff paper wraps. Some scattered toning and dampstaining to the wraps with a moderate spot on one page, very good. A short-lived literary magazine featuring a reprint of Aleister Crowley's "The Soldier and The Hunchback"; Robert Duncan's "The H.D. Book: Chapter 5": Robert Kelly's "Re: The Occult"; Gerrit Lansing's "The Neptunian Character"; Charles Stein's "Tarot Journal"; Zosimos's "On Divine Virtue"; and Jonathan Greene's poem, "Homily". # $50 2 Poems by H.D. Berkeley: Arif First edition. Octavo. Illuminations by Wesley Tanner. Quarter cloth and printed paper covered boards. Fine in fine unprinted acetate dust wrapper. One of only 26 lettered copies bound in boards and signed by Tanner with an additional lithograph on the cover (out of a total edition of 226 copies printed by Grabhorn-Hoyem). # $200 Hermetic Definition. (New York): A New Directions Book (1972). First edition. Foreword by Norman Holmes Pearson. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $30

13 Hermetic Definition. (New Westbury: Frontier Press First edition, a piracy. Fine in wrappers with printed spine label. One of 1600 copies. # $45 Richard Aldington : A Catalogue of The Frank G. Harrington Collection of Richard Aldington and Hilda "H.D." Doolittle Comprising Books & Manuscripts and Miscellanea. Philadelphia: Temple University Libraries First edition. Fine in wrappers. One of 450 copies. # $18 The Poet & The Dancer. San Francisco: Five Trees Press First edition. Fine. One of 100 handbound, hardcover copies. # $150 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X Kora & Ka. Berkeley: Bios First edition thus, after a privately printed edition of 100 copies in Fine in fine dustwrapper. One of one hundred hardcover copies (of a total edition of 600). # $100

14 Hermione. (New York): New Directions (1981). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $65 ROBINSON, Janice S. H.D.: The Life and Work of an American Poet. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with tiny tears around the extremities. # $30 The Gift. (New York): New Directions (1982). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $25 GUEST, Barbara. Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World. Garden City: Doubleday and Company (1984). Uncorrected proof. Near fine with bookseller's marks on bottom edges in slightly creased wrappers. # $18

15 GUEST, Barbara. Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World. Garden City: Doubleday & Company First edition. Slightly cocked else fine in near fine dustwrapper with a small tear on the rear panel and the rear flap fold. # $25 GUEST, Barbara. Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World. New York: Quill First Quill Edition. Trade paperback. Very good. Front corners are flared just a bit, very slightly cocked spine. # $10 Nights. (New York): New Directions (1986). First New Directions edition, previously printed in a privately printed edition of 100 copies. Wrappers. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $15 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X RAKOSI, Carl, edited by. Sagetrieb: Volume 6, Fall 1987, Numbers 2. Orono, Maine: University of Maine First edition. H.D. Special Issue guest-edited by Rachel Blau DuPlessis. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. Containing articles on H.D. by Robert Creeley, Cassandra Laity, and others. # $30

16 Notes on Thought and Vision and The Wise Sappho. London: Peter Owen First edition. First British edition. Card covers. 72 pages. Fine. # $20 The Hedgehog. New York: New Directions First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance reading copy with promotional materials laid in. # $50 FRIEDMAN, Susan Stanford and Rachel Blau Duplessis, edited by. Signets Reading H.D. (Madison): University of Wisconsin Press (1990). First edition. Fine in wrappers with light bumping at the extremities. Advance Review copy with slip laid in. # $45 HOLLENBERG, Donna Krolik. H.D.: The Poetics of Childbirth and Creativity. Boston: Northeastern University Press (1991). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $25

17 DUNCAN, Robert (edited by Robert J. Bertholf). A Great Admiration: H.D./ Robert Duncan Correspondence Venice: The Lapis Press First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $25 ZILBOORG, Caroline, edited by. Richard Aldington & H.D.: The Early Years in Letters. Bloomington: Indiana University Press (1992). First edition. Review copy with publisher's letter laid in. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $45 (edited with biographical notes by Robert Spoo). Asphodel H.D. Durham: Duke University Press First edition. Fine, lightly soiled in wrappers. # $19 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X Paint It Today. New York: New York University Press (1992). First edition. Edited with an introduction by Cassandra Laity. Fine in glossy wrappers. # $17

18 BOUGHN, Michael. H.D.: A Bibliography, Charlottesville: for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia by the University Press of Virginia (1993). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $40 Within the Walls. Iowa City: Windhover Press First edition. Wood engravings by Dellas Henke. Small quarto. Fine in silk cloth with printed paper spine label. One of 275 numbered copies, of a total edition of 300. # $225 Pilate's Wife. (No place - New York: New Directions Books Uncorrected proof. Fine in wrappers. # $15 FRIEDMAN, Susan Stanford, edited by. Analyzing Freud: Letters of H.D., Bryher, and Their Circle. (New York): (New Directions Publishing Corporation) (2002). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $50

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