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If you seek to meet the challenges of book selling in the 21st century, the Antiquarian Book Seminar will provide an intensive opportunity to meet and network with others of like interest. Visit us online at www.bookseminars.com 1 AGEE, James. The Collected Short Prose of James Agee. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1968. First edition. Edited by Robert Fitzgerald. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a very faint stain on the rear panel. 2 ALBEE, Edward. Seascape. New York: Atheneum 1975. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 3 ALBEE, Edward. The Lady from Dubuque. New York: Atheneum 1980. First edition. Fine in spine-faded, else near fine dustwrapper.Signed by the author. 4 ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey. Wyndham Towers. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company 1890. First edition. Quarter parchment and cloth, stamped in gilt on the front board. Some foxing to the spine and endpapers, modest stains on the rear board, a very good copy. Inscribed by the author: “Mr. Geo. O. Manchester, With the kind regards of T.B. Aldrich. Nov. 30th / 89.” An early copy, BAL notes that the book was deposited at the Library of Congress on November 14th. BAL 350. 5 ALDRIDGE, John W. Talents and Technicians: Literary Chic and the New Assembly-Line Fiction. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons (1992). First edition. Fine in slightly spine-faded, near fine dustwrapper. Warmly Inscribed by Aldridge to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco “who will not agree with a word of this book.” Delbanco is a leading teacher of creative writing and mentor to young authors at Michigan; Aldridge attacks modern American literature in this book. 6 ALEXANDER, Ruth. The Wrecker. New York: World Wide Publishers (No date - 1929). First edition. Pages browned, very good in a near fine dustwrapper with a small chip on the rear panel. Novelized by Alexander from the Ridley and Merrivale play. Presumably issued to coincide with the 1929 film directed by Géza von Bolváry, but making no specific mention of the film. An attractive copy. 7 (Anthology). CANE, Melville, John Farrar and Louise Townsend Nicholl, editors. The Golden Year: The Poetry Society of America Anthology (1910-1960). New York: Fine Editions Press 1960. First edition. Spine and edges slightly darkened, thus very good or better in very good, rubbed dustwrapper. One of 2500 copies printed, this copy Signed by contributors John Hall Wheelock, Laura Benet, Gwendolen Haste, Louise Townsend Nicholl, Margaret Widdemer, A.M. Sullivan and Charles A. Wagner at their poems, as well as by editors Melville Cane and Louise Townsend Nicholl on the title-page; this copy also with a laid in invitation from the Poetry Society of America to its 50th anniversary dinner featuring guests of honor Robert Frost, Robert Graves, Marianne Moore and others. 8 (Anthology). CARTER, Angela, Peter Redgrove, Wendy Oliver, John Cotton, Michael Holmes. Edited by Barry Tebb. Five Quiet Shouters: An Anthology of Assertive Verse. London: Poet and Printer 1966. First edition. Stapled printed wrappers. Fine. 9 (Anthology). DAVIDSON, Gustav, editor. In Fealty to Apollo: Poetry Society of America 1910- 1930. New York: Fine Editions Press 1950. First edition. Advance Proof Copy. Foreword by Robert Hillyer, chronicle by A.M. Sullivan. Fine, unsewn signatures laid into near fine dustwrapper with the spine lightly worn. Signed by Leonora Speyer, Gustav Davidson (twice), Alfred Kreymborg (twice), Margaret Widdemer, Katherine Garrison Chapin, Percy MacKaye, Louise Townsend Nicholl, Henry Goddard Leach, John Hall Wheelock, Melville Cane, Laura Benet and Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff. With a laid in clipping by Edna St. Vincent Millay. 10 (Anthology). LEYLAND, Winston. Gay Sunshine Interviews. Volume 1. San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press 1978. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Interviews with William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Henri Ford, Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, John Rechy, and others. Prospectus for Volume 2, published separately, laid. 11 (Anthology). MOORE, Robert Thomas, edited by. Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards 1955: A Compilation of Original Poetry Published in Magazines of the English-Speaking World in 1954. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press 1955. Seventh annual edition. Spine and board edges slightly sunned, thus near fine in very good dustwrapper with short edge tears. Signed by contributors Louise Townsend Nicholl, John Hall Wheelock, and John Ciardi beneath their poems. 12 (Anthology). POUND, Ezra and Marcella Spann. Confucius to Cummings: An Anthology of Poetry. (Norfolk): New Directions (1964). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy, and seldom found thus. 13 (Anthology). SCOLLARD, Clinton and Jessie B. Rittenhouse, editors. The Bird-Lovers’ Anthology. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1930. First trade edition. Gift inscription inked on the front fly, spine sunned and small stain to bottom page edges, thus very good or better, lacking the dustwrapper. Signed by contributors Louis Untermeyer (twice) and Mark Van Doren. 14 (Anthology). SPRIETSMA, Cargill, edited by. Columbia Verse: An Anthology of Verse Published in Undergraduate Magazine of Columbia University from 1897- 1924. New York: Columbia University Press 1924. First edition. Preface by John Erskine. Quarter cloth and blue papercovered boards. Spine a little tanned, else a near fine copy, without dustwrapper. One of 500 copies. Louis Zukofsky’s first book appearance; contributions by Erskine, John Kendrick Bangs, Joyce Kilmer, Babette Deutsch, Henry Morton Robinson, and many others. 15 (Architecture). LE CORBUSIER. Gaudi. Barcelona: Ediciones Poligrafa, S.A. 1967. First edition. Photographs by Joaquín Gomis. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A very nice copy. 16 (Art). SICKERT, Walter Richard. Osbert Sitwell, editor. A Free House! Or the Artist as Craftsman. Being the Writings of Walter Richard Sickert. London: London 1947. First edition. Slight offsetting to the front fly from a clipping, else fine in very good or better, price-clipped dustwrapper with slight soiling and rubbing on the spine. 17 (Art). (SICKERT, Walter). LILLY, Marjorie. Sickert: The Painter and His Circle. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press (1973). First edition. Quarto. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A very nice copy. 18 ASBURY, Herbert. Gem of the Prairie: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1940. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy. 19 ASHBERY, John. Hotel Lautreamont. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1993. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 20 AUDEN, W.H. and Chester Kallman. The Magic Flute. New York: Random House (1956). First edition, preceding the English edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with slight wear at the crown. A new English translation of the libretto of Mozart’s opera. A very nice copy. 21 AUDEN, W.H. and Chester Kallman. Elegy for Young Lovers: Opera in Three Acts. Mainz: B. Schott’s Sohne (1961). First edition. Wrappers. A trifle age-toned, still easily fine. 22 AUDEN, W.H. and Chester Kallman. The Bassarids: Opera Seria with Intermezzo in One Act based on “The Bacchae” of Euripides. Mainz: B. Schott’s Sohne (1966). First edition. Wrappers. A trifle age-toned, still easily fine. 23 AUDEN, W.H. and Paul B. Taylor. Voluspa: The Song of the Sybil. Iowa City, Iowa: Windhover Press 1968. First edition. Translated by Paul B. Taylor and W.H. Auden. With the Icelandic text edited by Peter H. Salus and Paul B. Taylor. Fine in papercovered boards. One of 450 copies. 24 (Automobile Racing). STANLEY, Louis T. Grand Prix World Championship (1960 edition). New York: A.S. Barnes (1960). First edition, American issue. Small folio. Foreword by Jack Brabham. Fine in lightly rubbed, fine dustwrapper. An especially nice copy of a book generally found well-worn. 25 (Aviation). AMBERS, Henry J. The Dirigible and the Future. Brooklyn: Theo. Gaus’ Sons, Inc. (1970). First edition. Stapled yellow wrappers. Errata slip laid in. Publisher’s promotional material for the book laid in. Inscribed by the author. 26 (Aviation). JACKMAN, W.J. and RUSSELL, Thos H. Flying Machines: Construction and Operation. Chicago: Charles C. Thompson 1912. Reprint. Owner name else very good plus lacking the dustwrapper. 27 (Aviation).