THE SOVEREIGN GOOD. A Novel by HELEN HUNTINGTON (aka HELEN GRANVILLE-BARKER). Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London, 1908. First edition.

INSCRIBED by the AUTHOR on the front free-endpaper: "To Mrs. J.T.B. Hillhouse / With the / affectionate regards / of the author."

Hardcover Book, blue cloth covered boards with gilt titles and designs on the front cover and spine, 5x7.5 inches. Pagination: iv, 386 pages, plus 4 pages of Publisher's ads at the rear.

VERY GOOD condition: a bit of wear to the corner tips and spine ends, a previous owner's name/address at the top of the rear free-endpaper, otherwise a solid, tight, clean copy with cover gilt that is bright and lovely. One of the nicest copies of this book I have seen, and it's inscribed by the author!

WHY HELEN HUNTINGTON aka HELEN GRANVILLE-BARKER is THE WICKED WITCH OF ENGLISH THEATRE:

Helen Granville-Barker, b.? d.1950, was a third rate playwright, poet and novelist, mostly remembered for being the second wife and ruination of Harley Granville-Barker who was the great hope of British theatre.

"No history of British theatre would be complete without the acknowledgement of Harley Granville Barker's importance as playwright, director, producer, actor, essayist and theatre visionary in the first decades of the twentieth century. However, after the First World War he abandoned the professional theatre, and the prime culprit for this abandonment was his American second wife, Helen Huntington. A rich dilettante, third rate poet and second rate novelist, Helen, it is claimed, seduced Barker and turned him into a reclusive, snobbish country gentleman. Her visceral hatred of the theatre and all theatre people forced him to withdraw from lifelong friends and colleagues, thus cutting himself off from his true nature and his true talent. To complete all this horror, she even made her new husband add a hyphen to their name to assuage her own crass aristocratic ambitions. And so, Helen - perhaps unconsciously, but always selfishly - all but single handedly destroyed the great hope of the British theatre." - U.K. Times Literary Supplement.

"Graville-Barker's second wife insisted on his almost complete severance from his work and friends in the theatre, and above all from Shaw, whom she detested. It was mutual: Shaw thought that Granville-Barker had buried himself alive on her account." - Oxford English Dictionary of National Biography

THE CROOKED LINES OF GOD : POEMS 1949-1954, by BROTHER ANTONINUS (aka WILLIAM EVERSON).

SIGNED and INSCRIBED by BROTHER ANTONINUS on the front free endpaper (with a small mark of the cross at the top of the inscription): "This book is for Burke / Brother Antoninus / Advent 1962".

Published by the University of Detroit Press, 1962. Third Edition, limited to 1000 copies. From the Colophon Page (the least page): "1000 copies of this third edition have been printed by photo-lithography. Originally designed & printed letterpress by the Albertus Magnus Press, St. Albert's College, Oakland, California, the types used are Centaur & American Uncial." This was the first work published in the University of Detroit's Contemporary Poets Series.

Hardcover Book in Dustjacket, 8.5x9 inches, 88 pages.

Condition: VERY GOOD book, the gilt titling on the spine has mostly rubbed away, otherwise sharp, tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. In a GOOD dustjacket that has closed tears to

the front fold and a couple small closed edge tears (all of which have been repaired and reinforced with clear tape on the blank backside), and a bit of spine end wear, otherwise the dj is bright, clear, and doing its job well, and it retains its original $4.00 printed price at the top of the front flap.

You can read about Brother Antoninus / William Everson on Wikipedia. An interesting man who led an interesting, both Catholic and Secular, poetic life.

Typescript Draft of the novel DAYS WITHOUT WEATHER by CECIL BROWN, an African-American author and screenwriter.

Copy of an original draft typescript. This early photocopy of the original typed pages was probably made for distribution to agent, editor and/or publisher.

The last page is Signed and Dated: "July 3, 1981 / Hollywood-Berkeley 1979, 81 / Cecil Brown" (again, this is a draft COPY of the actual signed page, not a hand signature on this draft) . The author's typed name "Brown": is at the top of every page. 296 pages, printed on plain 8.5x11 inch paper, printed on one side only (i.e. there are 296 sheets of paper).

Accompanying this typescript draft is a HAND SIGNED and INSCRIBED First Edition of DAYS WITHOUT WEATHER. Hardcover book in dustjacket, 5.5x8 inches, 250 pages. Published by Farrar Straus Giroux, 1983. "First Edition 1983" stated on the copyright page. The inscription is on the front free endpaper: "To Stanley / Here's to the new friendship! / Cecil Brown / Sept. 6 1987".

The TYPESCRIPT is in GOOD condition: the pages are lightly age toned; the first page has some closed edge tears, corner creases, and edge wear; the first 25 pages have corner creases; the last 10 pages have corner creases; the last several pages have edge wear, closed edge tears, and creases; the last page has a lot of creasing and edge tears; there are early photocopy machine smudges, marks, and lines here and there throughout. Overall, ALL PAGES, including the first and last page, remain bright and clear. The BOOK is in NEAR FINE condition, tight, bright, clean and clear; the DUSTJACKET is in GOOD condition, substantially sunned / faded at the spine, otherwise solid and bright. A nice, signed, first edition copy.

SCARCE WORKING DRAFT of the BITTER & FUNNY NOVEL "DAYS WITHOUT WEATHER" by the BLACK NOVELIST and SCREENWRITER CECIL BROWN, along with a first edition, signed and inscribed copy of the published book.

About CECIL BROWN (from Wikipedia):

******Cecil Brown, b.1943, is an African-American author, screenwriter, and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His noted works include The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger and work as a screenwriter on the 1977 Richard Pryor film Which Way Is Up?

Born in rural Bolton, North Carolina, Brown attended North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University of Greensboro, North Carolina, where he earned his B.A. in English in 1966. He later earned his Ph.D. in African American Studies, Folklore and Narrative from the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently a Professor at U.C. Berkeley in the African American Studies Department. His published books include: The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger (1969); Pryor Lives (1969); Days Without Weather (1983); I, Stagolee (1993); Stagolee Shot Billy (2003); and Dude, Where's My Black Studies Department? (2007).

Awards include: Professor John Angus Burrell Memorial Prize, Columbia University, 1966; Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award for DAYS WITHOUT WEATHER, 1984; Berlin Literary Fellowship, 1985; UC Berkeley, Mentor Fellowship, 1992.******

CIRCLE (1944-1948) the Bay Area's seminal literary journal. A synthesis of the surreal, eclectic, pacifist, and anarchist ideologies that formed the radical basis of the San Francisco Renaissance and was an influential precursor of the Beat Movement.

CIRCLE Vol. 1, No. 3. Published by Circle, Berkeley, printed by The Greenwood Press, San Mateo, California, 1944. George Leite Editor, Assistant Editor, Bern Porter. First edition. Softcover, illustrated wrappers, 9" x 6.25", staple bound, 61 pages, illustrated with some headpiece decorations printed in brick red, and a Max Ernst painting reproduced in b&w. GOOD CONDITION: covers pulled from rear staples and disbound, spine is age toned with small tearing/wear at the ends, shelfwear, and a few light coffee droplets, internally, signs of age and use, otherwise bright, clean and unmarked and the red and black Kenneth Rexroth printed cover remains very bright. Circle number 3 is very scarce and hardly ever found.

Cover by KENNETH REXROTH (1905-1982) Poet, Artist, Godfather of the San Francisco Renaissance.

George T. Leite (1920-1985) controversial author, publisher, poet, taught experimental literature at UC Berkeley, owned an important bookstore and gallery space on Telegraph Ave in Berkeley, daliel's. He was friends with and published the works of Robert Duncan, Kenneth Rexroth, Henry Miller, William Everson, Philip Lamantia, Anais Nin, Jack Spicer and a devotee of the renegade Freudian Wilhelm Reich and his Orgone theory.

POETRY BROADSIDE "32 BEAMS OF LIGHT..." by DAVID MELTZER, with a tipped-on WOODCUT by JAMES HIBBARD.

Published by the Yes! Press in an edition of only 100 copies in 1970, as stated in the colophon at the bottom of the sheet.

The BROADSIDE is SIGNED by DAVID MELTZER above his printed name. The WOODCUT is SIGNED by JIM HIBBARD below the printed image, and hand dated 12/6/70.

The BROADSIDE SHEET, including the tipped-on woodcut, is 9x13 inches. The woodcut is 5.25x5.75 inches and is tipped-on to the upper part of the broadside.

GOOD condition, some creasing to the margins and corners, otherwise solid and bright.

About DAVID MELTZER, Poet (from Wikipedia):

******David Meltzer, b.1937 d.2016, was an American poet and musician of the Beat Generation and San Francisco Renaissance. One of the key poets of the Beat generation, Meltzer was also a jazz guitarist, Kabbalist scholar, and the author of books of poetry and prose. Lawrence Ferlinghetti described him as one of the great post WWII San Francisco poets.******

About JAMES HIBBARD, Artist (from the Hallie Ford Museum of Art / Willamette University Museum website):

******Jim Hibbard, b.1936 d.2022, was an important Northwest artist who, after a 30-year career of exhibiting and teaching in Portland, established a new home and studio in Guanajuato, Mexico, where he continued to work productively almost until his death in 2022. The HFMA will have an retrospective of his artworks from Mexico and his earlier Portland years titled: Jim Hibbard: Back in View. The exhibition will run from May 6 - August 12, 2023.******

In this work Beat poet Diane di Prima penned some of the most powerful lines about abortion ever written.

BRASS FURNACE GOING OUT SONG, AFTER AN ABORTION by DIANE DI PRIMA

Published by PulpArtForms / Intrepid Press, Syracuse, New York, 1975. First edition, No. 9 from "The Beau Fleuve Series". Edited by Allen De Loach.

Printed wrappers, side staple bound, 10.75 x 8.25 inches, thin item with 16 unnumbered pages, printed on newsprint, front cover with halftone reproduction of a sculpture by Suzanne Benton, "Fertile Donation Box", rear wrapper with ads and halftone portrait of the author.

VERY GOOD Condition: age toning as normal (printed on newsprint), otherwise bright, clean, and unmarked, a very good copy of this fragile work. OCLC locates no copies of this, or any other edition.

One of her most acclaimed poems, written in 1960 after di Prima was pressured by her partner poet LeRoi Jones (aka Amiri Baraka) to abort their child. A bewildering, raw and powerful work, from a lonely bus ride to an underground clinic to the life changing grief that came after. Di Prima believed that abortion, fraught, Illegal and dangerous as it was, was "our woman right". Diane di Prima (1934-2020) was a rare, prominent female voice in the Beat community alongside her counterparts like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.

DORIS LESSING POSTER. "AN EVENING TO BENEFIT THE AFGHAN REFUGEE FUND / DORIS LESSING". The "Lecture and Conversation" event took place on April 9 (1984) in Berkeley, California.

SIGNED, INSCRIBED and DATED by DORIS LESSING in Silver Ink: "With good wishes / Doris Lessing / 9th April 1984".

The poster is 13 x 19.5 inches. It is in VERY GOOD condition, with some creases from handling to the right margin, overall bright and lovely.

The poster was stored rolled, and will be shipped in its natural rolled state. Would look great mounted and/or framed.

This event took place a few years before the publication of her book "The Wind Blows Away Our Words". The book was about the horrors taking place in Afghanistan and how the West was doing little to help.

An unusual Doris Lessing item.

FAHRENHEIT 451, the 1966 Film Directed by FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT based on the Novel by RAY BRADBURY. Archival collection of booklets, photographs, a poster, lobby card, and other ephemera - with Bradbury and Christie signatures.

Consists of:

**SIGNED BY RAY BRADBURY* - A promotional fold-open pamphlet printed for the release of the film. The pamphlet is accompanied with a COA from the original seller which includes a printed photograph of the seller and Ray Bradbury together at the signing.

**RARE ONE SHEET POSTER** - A rare French folded one sheet b&w film poster, 30 x 46 inches, featuring the image of Francois Truffaut and Julie Christie, and boldly displaying the name of Ray Bradbury, and even the cinematographer, Nicolas Roeg. I have never seen another copy of this particular poster.

**PHILIPPE HALSMAN PHOTOGRAPH** An original b&w photograph by PHILIPPE HALSMAN of Francois Truffaut directing Julie Christie and Oskar Werner in a Fahrenheit 451 scene. The photograph has Philippe Halsman's copyright stamp on the backside.

**U.S. PREMIERE INVITATION** - Announcement for the U.S. Premiere of FAHRENHEIT 451 that took place at the PLAZA THEATRE on Sunday, November 13th, 1966, the day before the film was released theatrically in the U.S. The Premiere was hosted by "The National Book Committee", "The American Book Publishers Council", and "Universal Pictures". Single-fold sheet to make 4 pages, covers printed in red and yellow, inner pages printed in red on a cream-colored background.

**11 PHOTOGRAPHS from Fahrenheit 451 w/ STUDIO STAMPS & INFO** - Eleven Original 8x10 b&w photographs from the film Fahrenheit 451, each with stamped and/or typed studio publicity and copyright information on the backsides, One image is a duplicate (the only duplicate in this archive) BUT the info on the backsides is different - one has Universal Studios stamped info and copyright info on the backside and the other has a variety of Mexican and Argentinian Stamps.

**3 PHOTOGRAPHS from Fahrenheit 451** - Three 8x10 photographs from the film Fahrenheit 451, two in b&w, one in color. Great photo of Truffaut talking up close with Julie Christie, a lovely color photo of Christie, and a photo of Oskar Werner.

**COLOR FRENCH LOBBY CARD** - Color Lobby Card, 9.25x11.5 inches (23x29 cm), featuring Julie Christie from the film. Quite unusual. The backside is stamped "Universal Film, Inc. / 33 Champs-Elysees, Paris".

**7 PHOTOGRAPHS of JULIE CHRISTIE** - Seven 8x10 b&w photographs of Julie Christie, most of her in various films other than Fahrenheit 451. Some have her name written on the backside (not her signature), a couple with a bit of information about the photo including the photographer's name. Included are film stills from Petulia and Demon Seed. Also included is a photo of Christie at home with her landlady. This photograph is accompanied with a handwritten note from the photo's previous owner that says he believes the photograph was made from an original negative.

**PINEWOOD STUDIOS PROMO for FAHRENHEIT 451** - A single 8.5x11 inch flyer promoting Fahrenheit 451.

CONDITION: Everything is generally in VERY GOOD condition, just mildly used - the photos are solid and bright, the signatures of Bradbury and Christie are bold, the Pinewood Studios promo sheet is folded else sharp and presentable, the rare one-sheet film poster has folds as normal but is brilliant.

With the unusual FILM POSTER, the SIGNED BRADBURY Film Release Pamphlet, the SIGNED JULIE CHRISTIE Film Flyer, the LOBBY CARD, the HALSMAN photograph, the 21 8x10 photographs, and more, this is quite a UNIQUE and RARE gathering. Some items I have never seen before.

About the 1966 Film FAHRENHEIT 451 (from Wikipedia):

****Fahrenheit 451 is a 1966 British dystopian drama film directed by François Truffaut and starring Julie Christie and Oskar Werner. Based on the 1953 novel by Ray Bradbury, the film takes place in a controlled society in an oppressive future.****

SPECIMENS from the PRESS IN TUSCANY ALLEY'S EDITION of A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES, by Robert Louis Stevenson. With nine poems not published in prior editions.

A FINE PRINTING KEEPSAKE that was presented to members of the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs in 1996. Produced from sheets originally printed in 1978 by ADRIAN WILSON at THE PRESS IN TUSCANY ALLEY, San Francisco, 1978. A beautiful production.

LIMITED EDITION of only 150 copies, as stated on the copyright page

Folder / Paper Covers, 7.5x12.5 inches, string-bound, 10 pages. There are five "specimens" (i.e. printed signatures - samples from the larger work) laid into a flap on the inside rear cover; four are folded signatures of four or more pages, one is a single leaf illustration, each is 6.5x10 inches. All are quite lovely. These signatures were overruns from the original Tuscany Alley edition printed in 1978.

ILLUSTRATED by Joyce Lancaster Wilson with 2 tipped in full color illustrations, and a few color illustrations in the specimen signatures.

The Folder and Specimens are all in FINE condition.

About ADRIAN WILSON (from a 1988 NY Times Obituary):

******Adrian Wilson, a book designer and scholar who was considered one of America's leading fine printers, died Wednesday in San Francisco. He was 64 years old.

Working out of a small San Francisco studio known as "The Press at Tuscany Alley," Mr. Wilson designed and printed scores of books. His many volumes, while little known to the general public, are famous among print connoisseurs, and many are collectors' items.

In 1983, Mr. Wilson won a MacArthur Fellowship.*****

LES CAHIERS DU CAPITAINE GEORGES Souvenirs d'Amour et de Guerre 1894-1945. By JEAN RENOIR (Great French Film Director and Son of the Painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir).

Warmly SIGNED and INSCRIBED by JEAN RENOIR on the half title page:

"Chere Lilian Kaufman / Je suis si heureux de / savoir que mon petit / libre trouvera sa place / dans votre bibliotheque. / bien affectueusement / Jean Renoir (signed Jean R.) / Paris / Juillet 1966".

("Dear Lilian Kaufman / I am so happy to / know that my little / book found its place / in your library. / very affectionately / Jean Renoir (signed Jean R.) / Paris / July 1966.")

(Lilian Kaufman was the wife of the noted pianist Harry Kaufman who headed the piano department at the Curtis Institute of Music for 17 years. Harry and Lilian Kaufman were friends with many noted musicians, artists and writers. See more at the end of this listing.)

Published by Gallimard, Paris, 1966. First Edition, First Printing, with the statement "Acheve D'Imprimer Sur Les Presses Daubin Liguge (Vienne) Le 5 Fev 1966" on the Colophon page (the last page), and the statement "copyright Jean Renoir, 1966" on the Copyright page. Includes its first state printed wraparound band that has the statement "par l'auteur de La Regle du Jeu".

Original softcovers with French folds in red printed wraparound band, 5.5x8 inches, 322 pages.

Condition: VERY GOOD book, some creasing and light staining to the upper corner of the front cover; light wear to the covers' spine ends and corner tips; a light crease to the upper corner of the inner pages; otherwise, tight, bright and clean; in a GOOD MINUS wraparound band, that has split at the top 2 inches of the front spine fold, the top 1/2 inch of the front flap fold, and the bottom 1 inch of the rear flap fold; and that has some general wear to the folds and spine ends, but remains bright and attractive.

RARE with the AFFECTIONATE INSCRIPTION and SIGNATURE of the GREAT FILMMAKER JEAN RENOIR.

About JEAN RENOIR (from Wikipedia):

******Jean Renoir (15 September 1894 - 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s. His films GRAND ILLUSION (1937) and THE RULES OF THE GAME (1939) are often cited by critics as among the greatest films ever made. As an author, he wrote the definitive biography of his father, the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Renoir, My Father (1962). Jean Renoir was ranked by the BFI's Sight & Sound poll of critics as the fourth greatest director of all time.******

About HARRY KAUFMAN and his wife LILIAN KAUFMAN (from the UCLA Library Special Collections and other Internet sites):

******UCLA SPECIAL COLLECTIONS: HARRY KAUFMAN PAPERS 1900-1961.

Harry Kaufman, b.1894 d.1961, was a PIANIST and MUSIC TEACHER at the CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC, Philadelphia. For 17 years he headed the Department of Accompanying. He was also a successful piano soloist, performing with orchestras in the U.S. and Europe. He usually traveled with his wife, LILIAN.

The Harry Kaufman collection consists of correspondence between HARRY KAUFMAN, his wife LILIAN KAUFMAN, and people in the arts and music.

Correspondents include: Leonard Bernstein, Dorothy Chandler, George and Ira Gershwin, Sol Hurok, Joseph Levine, Henry Miller, Eugene Ormandy, JEAN RENOIR, Arthur Rubenstein, Gertrude Stein, Igor Stravinsky, and others.

Lilian Kaufman was the avid letter writer, and through her correspondence developed lasting friendships with many noted musicians and artists.

This collection is in the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections.******

GREAT BLUE HERON, DECEMBER MORNING, by JOYCE CAROL OATES with ART by Eva-Lena Rehnmark. Fine Printing BROADSIDE.

Gorgeous broadside, 15x22 inches, on fine rag paper with a light blue tone. Original Poem by Oates and Original Art by Rehnmark. Limited edition of 126 copies. Published by the TAMARACK PRESS, 1998.

This is one of the most difficult to find of Oates's broadsides.

Rare PRESENTATION COPY that is SIGNED by JOYCE CAROL OATES beneath her poem.

Presentation Copies are normally printed prior to the lettered and numbered copies, making them quite hard to find.

From the Colophon at the bottom of the broadsheet: "Copyright 1998 by Joyce Carol Oates. Designed by Herb Yellin. Illustrated by Eva-Lena Rehnmark. Printed by Michael & Winifred Bixler for THE TAMARACK PRESS. // This edition is limited to one hundred numbered copies and twenty-six lettered copies. PRESENTATION COPY".

NEAR FINE condition. Lovely. Would look great framed.

Will be sent rolled into a sturdy mailing tube.

This is the SCARCEST COPY of KATE ATKINSON'S FIRST BOOK "BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE MUSEUM", winner of the 1995 Whitbread Award (Book of the Year), that you are likely to ever find. It is the UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY / BOOK PROOF which was printed BEFORE the actual publication of the book (thus before the first printing of the first edition).

This PROOF COPY is HAND SIGNED by KATE ATKINSON on the title page.

Proof copies of an author's First Book are almost always printed in Very Small numbers as the author is at that time unknown and unproven and the costs of printing proofs for unknown authors is not often cost effective. Later Proofs, IF an author becomes successful, are printed in much greater quantities and sent to many reviewers because the rewards versus costs are known. Thus this Proof Copy of Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson's first book, is becoming almost impossible to find, while Proofs of Life After Life, for example, while still wonderful, are not too difficult to find.

Published by DOUBLEDAY, LONDON, 1995.

Softcovers, BOOK PROOF stated on the front cover, publication information and UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY on the rear cover. Contains an advance review by Margaret Foster on both the front and rear cover.

VERY GOOD condition, a bit of light wear to the top of the spine, a slight crease to the upper corner of the front cover, a slight crease and superficial scratches to the rear cover; overall a lightly used copy that is tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A solid, lovely Proof.

Kate Atkinson is one of the greatest living writers in the English language imho, and Behind The Scenes At The Museum is one of her best. This SIGNED and INSCRIBED UNCORRECTED PROOF is RARE.

LARGE, RARE POETRY BROADSIDE POEM by ROBERT CREELEY. KORE is one of CREELEY'S earliest and most discussed poems. This Large Broadside does not state Publisher, Publication Place or Publication Date. However, it is known to have been published by NATIVE DANCER PRESS, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, 1975, as noted by WorldCat and others. Broadside, 16" x 20" (40cm x 52cm). Printed on fine, RAG, watermarked paper. Printed on one side only. SIGNED and HAND NUMBERED by ROBERT CREELEY at the bottom. This is COPY 1 OF 26. Worldcat states that ONLY 13 OF THE 26 COPIES ARE NUMBERED AND SIGNED BY THE POET. If so, this is 1 of only 13 Signed and Numbered Copies. GOOD PLUS condition, creasing to the margins and edges from handling, some light creases from perhaps having been rolled, a light vertical crease from handling, perhaps from the printing process of this large broadside. Still a Solid, Sturdy Broadside, with no tears or chips. Would be look great framed. Scarce. A wonderful broadside from one of America's Great 20th Century Poets, Robert Creeley. Please Note The last image is my attempt to photograph the watermark, as it looks held up to the light. It didn't come out quite right, but I hope you can see how lovely it is.

BETWEEN THE LINES: Letters and Memoranda Interchanged by H. Buxton Forman and Thomas J. Wise. Foreword by Carl H. Pforzheimer, introductory essay and notes by Fannie E. Ratchford.

Correspondence between a bibliographer/bookseller and a collector who worked together to produce and sell many literary forgeries.

AUSTIN: The University of Texas Press, 1945. LIMITED EDITION, one of only 525 copies.

Hardcover Book, gilt top edges, 6.5x9.5 inches, xii + 38 pages of text + 35 facsimile plates, including some that fold-open. No slipcase.

The book is in VERY GOOD, light foxing to the blank endpapers, otherwise sharp cornered, tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked.

About FORMAN and WISE and their LITERARY FORGERIES (from Wikipedia):

******Henry Buxton Forman, b.1842 d.1917, was a Victorian era bibliographer and antiquarian bookseller who wrote bibliographies of Percy Shelley and John Keats. In 1934 he was revealed to have been in a conspiracy with Thomas James Wise, b.1859 d.1937, to produce and sell large quantities of forged first editions of Georgian and Victorian authors.

In 1887 Henry Buxton Forman and Thomas James Wise, a London commodity broker and book collector, began producing literary forgeries, often using an apocryphal Philadelphia Historical Society as a cover. Numerous forgeries were produced over the next fifteen years. They specialized in early pamphlets, supposedly privately published, of poets some of whom such as Rossetti and Swinburne were still living. Dates, places of publication, publishers (as distinct from printers) led the collecting world to believe in these 'rare private' editions. Buxton Forman and Wise forged publications by: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, John Ruskin, Matthew Arnold, Alfred Tennyson, George Meredith and William Thackeray and many others. Many of these forgeries were sold to collectors across the English speaking world. It would be forty years later that their fraud would be discovered by John Carter. The extent of the forgeries was such that the Brayton Ives sale in New York in 1915 contained twenty four forgeries.******

UNFINISHED POEMS by MARIANNE MOORE. The Rosenbach Foundation, Philadelphia, 1972.

Photocopied pages, plastic spiral bound, 8.5x11 inches, 76 pages printed on one side only. VERY GOOD condition, the front and rear clear plastic covers are age toned and a bit soiled, the inner pages are lightly toned, the photocopied pages have many of the usual early copy machine lines, spots and changes in clarity. Overall a wonderful look at Marianne Moore's unpublished and often incomplete poems.

SCARCE. In 1972, the year Marianne Moore died, the Rosenbach Foundation realized it was necessary to get copyrights for Moore's unpublished poems, none of which were copyrighted at the time. The result, apparently, was this photocopied publication that was put together by the Rosenbach Foundation for the sole purpose of being sent to the Library of Congress for copyright protection.

In 1972 Patricia C. Willis was curator of the Marianne Moore papers at the Rosenbach Foundation. Here is what she wrote in 2015 about this 1972 photocopied collection of "Unpublished Poems" that she assembled for copyright protection (taken from the Internet):

"When as curator of the Moore papers at the Rosenbach I first sorted the poetry manuscripts...I saw that each was typed with Moore's typewriter of the time on the blue stationary that she customarily used for poems she sent to little magazines and most bore her Carlisle return address in the upper left corner. With the permission of her estate, I prepared a photocopy edition of "Unfinished Poems" in order to secure copyrights for her unpublished poems... - Patricia C. Willis, November 16, 2015."

I have no idea how many of these "Unpublished Poems by Marianne Moore" were put together for internal distribution at the Rosenbach, but it is the only copy I have or have ever seen.

************************************** From Wikipedia and various Internet sources:

Marianne Craig Moore, b.1887 d.1972, was an American modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor. Her poetry is noted for formal innovation, precise diction, irony, and wit.

The Rosenbach Foundation's literary collection includes virtually all of the manuscripts and papers of Marianne Moore (1887-1972), as well as her personal library, thousands of photographs, and the contents of her Greenwich village living room, thus making the Rosenbach the undisputed center for the study of Marianne Moore.

Patricia C. Willis is the author and editor of a number of books on Marianne Moore. She worked at the Rosenbach Foundation and later at Yale's Beinecke Library as its Elizabeth Wakeman Dwight Curator of the Collection of American Literature.

Clive E. Driver, whose name is on the copyright page, was the Literary Executor of the Estate of Marianne C. Moore. He worked at the Rosenbach Foundation and has written a number of works published by the Foundation. **************************************

MARTIN STONE, BOOKSCOUT, by PETER B. HOWARD.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED in pencil by PETER HOWARD on the title page: "for David and Beth / Peter Howard".

Published by SERENDIPITY BOOKS, Berkeley, 2000. Limited to 200 copies, so stated on the copyright page.

An essay by the late, renowned bookseller Peter Howard, about his friend, Martin Stone, a rock guitarist and an incredible antiquarian book scout.

Booklet, softcovers, sewn binding, 7.5x10 inches, 15 pages.

NEAR FINE Condition: just lightly handled, tight, bright, clean and unmarked.

Peter Howard, who owned Serendipity Books of Berkeley, California, and was at one time the President of the ABAA, died in 2010. Peter, wherever you are I want you to know that the Roast Suckling Pig you brought out every two years at the time of the San Francisco ABAA Book Fair was Yummy!

About MARTIN STONE (from Wikipedia):

******Martin Stone (11 December 1946, Woking, Surrey - 9 November 2016, Versailles, France) was an English guitarist and rare book dealer. He was a resident of Fingest in Buckinghamshire and, later, of Paris.

Educated at Whitgift School, Stone initially wanted to be a journalist and began as a cub reporter on The Croydon Advertiser, interviewing Jimmy Page when he was still a session musician. Stone's passion for the guitar led him to become a musician. His guitar talent was such that he was considered a possible replacement for Brian Jones in the Rolling Stones. Martin Stone played in many groups, including Junior's Blues Band, Stone's Masonry, Almost Presley, The Action, Savoy Brown Blues Band, Mighty Baby, Chilli Willi and the Red Hot Peppers, Southern Comfort, The Pink Fairies, and The 101'ers. His last album, which he called his legacy album is LIVE FROM THE TERMINAL CAFE with Michael Moorcock and the Deep Fix (Cleopatra Records, Autumn 2019).

Subsequent to his musical efforts Stone achieved international notoriety as a bookscout. He is a major player in John Baxter's memoir A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict. He is the subject of a limited edition book Martin Stone, Bookscout by the California rare bookseller Peter Howard of Serendipity Books. He appeared in the television documentary Without Walls: The Cardinal And The Corpse (Iain Sinclair / Chris Petit 1992). He is also known to be the basis for the character Nicholas Lane in Sinclair's novel White Chappell, Scarlett Tracings (1987).

Stone was married in 1980 to Ruth Bullock and their daughter is the actress Sophie Leigh Stone.******

MY BROTHER, RAYMOND CARVER: By James Carver.

Published by Sore Dove Press, San Francisco, 2015, in an ARCHIVAL BOXED EDITION LIMITED TO 12 COPIES, this being hand numbered copy #3 of 12.

Each box measures 8.5x12 inches and was handcrafted using archival materials. FINELY PRODUCED by a noted SMALL SAN FRANCISCO PRESS.

The text, by James Carver, brother and only sibling of Raymond Carver, is on 35 loose 5x7 inch cards, printed on one side only. The last card is the Signature / Limitation card which has James Carver's signature and the statement that this is copy 3 of only 12 produced. In the text, James Carver tells about growing up with his brother Raymond and reveals biographical information that has not appeared elsewhere, not even in the last major biography of Carver. There are also 10 5x7 inch b&w photographs taken from Carver's personal family photo album. Some of these photos are shown here for the first time.

FINE CONDITION, basically as new.

NOVEMBER THE NINTH AT KERSEA, by ANTHONY SWIFT (pseudonym of Joseph Jefferson Farjeon).

LONDON: Robert Hale Limited, 1944. First edition, with the statement "First published in Great Britain 1944" on the copyright page with no indication of additional printings.

Hardcover Book in Dustjacket, purple cloth covered boards, red titles to the spine, 5x7.5 inches (13x19 cm), 187 pages.

Condition: VERY GOOD book, the covers are solid and sharp with just a touch of self wear to the corner tips and spine ends; internally, the text block is split at one spot but holding well, there is a light oval shaped stain to the top margin of the rear endpapers that also barely affects the preceding couple of pages, otherwise the pages are tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked; in a GOOD dustjacket that has wear to the edges and spine ends including small chips and closed tears, is sunned at the spine and margins, lightly soiled, and is price clipped at the bottom of the front flap. An attractive copy.

Scarce first edition in dustjacket.

About Joseph Jefferson Farjeon aka Anthony Swift (from Wikipedia):

******Joseph Jefferson Farjeon, b.1883 d.1955, was an English crime and mystery novelist, playwright and screenwriter. Farjeon's crime novels were admired by Dorothy L. Sayers, who called him "unsurpassed for creepy skill in mysterious adventures". Since 2014 a number of Fargeon's mystery novels have been reissued. Farjeon wrote three mysteries under the pseudonym Anthony Swift.******