THE HAPPY LION
Sixth printing (stated) of the original edition of this classic children's tale, featuring a French lion who goes into town to visit his friends.
Sixth printing (stated) of the original edition of this classic children's tale, featuring a French lion who goes into town to visit his friends.
First edition, advance uncorrected proof copy, of the Nobel-winning author's third book of poetry, a "confrontation with the fragility and risk involved in allowing oneself to love what is passing" (Morris, 6).
Fine press limited first edition of this early work in the Pulitzer- and Nobel-winning poet's oeuvre.
First edition of the Nobel winner's perhaps most acclaimed collection, winner of both the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award.
First edition, review copy with publisher's promotional broadside laid in, of the Nobel-winning author's third book of poetry, a "confrontation with the fragility and risk involved in allowing oneself to love what is passing" (Morris, 6).
First edition, review copy with publisher's slip laid in, of the Pulizter- and Nobel-winning poet's first book, published when she was only 25 and already capturing Glück's characteristic mix of symbolic allusion, disciplined expression of anger, and breathtakingly lyrical composition.
First edition of the Pulitzer- and Nobel-winning authors fourth book of poetry, the title poem addressing "the power of grief to motivate heroic action" (Morris, 50) — not through victory in battle, but through Achilles's love of Patroclus.
Signed first edition of the Pulitzer- and Nobel-winning poet's ninth poetry collection, a striking sequence of nature- and mythology-inflected verses.
Signed first printing of this beautifully illustrated story of the miraculous hatching of three Passenger Pigeon eggs.
Sixth collection of Sherlockian writings by the Illustrious Clients, with contributions from Steven Doyle, Patricia Ward, Andrew G. Fusco, Leslie S. Klinger, and others.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning poet's last collection of the 20th century.
Lovely first edition of this Pulitzer- and Nobel-winning poet's eleventh collection.
First edition of Glück's acclaimed fifth poetry collection.
Contemporary poet Stanley Plumly's copy of this Pulitzer- and Nobel-winning poet's ninth poetry collection — sent to him with birthday greetings from the publisher.
Scarce first printing of this Dutch edition of PINOCCHIO, illustrated by one of the most significant children's book artists of the interwar years.
Signed first printing of this moving story about the common sailors and fishermen who helped evacuate Dunkirk.
Lurid and diabolical Avon paperback original, an early hybrid of '70s occult exploitation pulp and traditional paperback gothic signifiers.
First edition of this collection of nineteen traditional tales, collected by a westerner teaching in the Kasai district in the 1930s, and edited by her Congolese pupil.
Photo album devoted to three young women and their friends, from rural springtime scenes of 1942 to vacationing on the beaches of Nantucket in '44, to playing in the snowy Boston Public Gardens and riding bicycles through Franklin Park of 1945.
Issue of the periodical BEZOAR, featuring poems by Hawkins, Eigner, and Rumaker.
First printing of this historical novel set in Philadelphia during Washington's presidency, about a family of new homesteaders.
An act-it-out picture book with simple repetitive text designed to teach the youngest child about animals.
First edition of Parrish's masterwork, an unusually nice copy.