poetry
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Louis Perceau [sometimes also Alexandre de Verineau], Les Pisseuses: Poeme, 1934, an inscribed copy and with extraordinary provenance.
![Louis Perceau [sometimes also Alexandre de Verineau], Les Pisseuses: Poeme, 1934, an inscribed copy and with extraordinary provenance.](https://finevirtualfairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Perceau-1.jpg)
An extraordinary exemplar of this French-language collection of seven erotic poems, Les Pisseuses, by the French poet and raconteur, publicist and activist, gadfly and erotophile. From the personal library of another gadfly and erotophile, the noted bibliographer and bibliophile, literary sleuth and book scout, Gershon Legman, as conveyed to me from his widow, the fabulous Judith…
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Mr. Gay [John Gay], Trivia: or, the art of walking the streets of London, Bernard Lintott, 1716.
![Mr. Gay [John Gay], Trivia: or, the art of walking the streets of London, Bernard Lintott, 1716.](https://finevirtualfairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Gay-2.jpg)
A fine and scarce item of English history and culture, a most unusual item indeed, a variant edition, the true First Edition having been published in 1712 (Allibone, 1965, p. 656), rebound in marbled paper over boards, polished red calf leather over tips and spine, fine gilt-tooled title to spine, moderate rubbing to, scuffing of…
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Eric Arthur Blair [a.k.a., George Orwell], three issues of The Adelphi: August, 1933; October, 1933; July, 1934.
![Eric Arthur Blair [a.k.a., George Orwell], three issues of The Adelphi: August, 1933; October, 1933; July, 1934.](https://finevirtualfairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Blair-1.jpg)
For the “Orwell” completist. A perfectly serviceable set of three copies of The Adelphi, a leading, influential English political and literary magazine from the 1920s to the 1950s. First Editions, each, printed in London, England. Scarce in and to the trade, these issues. Complete and sturdy, bound in original publisher’s printed yellow wrappers, with black lettering.…
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Tibullus, Catullus, Propertius cum comento (sic). [Elegiae, Carmina, Elegiae].
![Tibullus, Catullus, Propertius cum comento (sic). [Elegiae, Carmina, Elegiae].](https://finevirtualfairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/2-3.jpg)
Venice, Simone Bevilacqua, June 26, 1493. Folio, modern vellum, (157) f. (signature: a-c8, d-e6, f-s8, t-u6, x5, without final blank). Beautiful Venetian incunable printing of Catullus and the Latin elegiac poets, with the commentary of Antonio Partenio. A precious copy annotated by two enlightened readers: one contemporary to the edition and the other from the mid-sixteenth century. The…
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FIRST EDITION OF PINDAR BOUND IN CITRON MOROCCO [ANNOTATED COPY]
![FIRST EDITION OF PINDAR BOUND IN CITRON MOROCCO [ANNOTATED COPY]](https://finevirtualfairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/2.jpg)
PINDAR, Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia. Cæterorum octo lyricorum carmina. Geneva, Henri Estienne, 1586. 2 parts in 1 volume, 12mo. 414 p., 1 blank leaf; 300 p., 2 blank leaves (signatures: a-z8, Aa-Cc8, A-T8).18th-century citron morocco binding, triple gilt fillet frame on the boards, spine with raised bands and gilt decorations, caramel-colored title label, gilt inner…
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Jean de la Fontaine, Les amours de Psiché et de Cupidon suivi d’Adonis, Chez Claude Barbin, 1669, Paris
Plein cuir, dos à quatre nefs, caissons décorés, pièce de titre, manque la page de garde avant, (12 feuillets), 392 p., in 12, ex libris de Roderick Terry. Tirage chez Claude Barbin qui avait eu le privilège d’imprimer et l’avait cédé à Denis Thierry qui imprima la même année l’édition in octavo considéré comme première…
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MY SISTER-LIFE
Boris PASTERNAK Pasternak, Boris MY SISTER-LIFE. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1991. Edition of 250 copies, numbered and signed by Yuri Kuper on the Justification page. With etchings by Yuri Kuper. The book printed by Wild Carrot Letterpress using specially handmade papers incorporating pieces of Russian newspapers. Translated by Mark Rudman. Aldo Crommelynck printed the…
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POEMS
Frank O’HARA O’Hara, Frank. POEMS. Limited Editions Club, NY, 1988. Edition of 550 copies. Illustrated with 17 original lithographs by Willem De Kooning, and with his authorized facsimile signature on the justification page. Large folio, Nigerian goatskin, cloth clamshell box with a leather spine label. In excellent condition. Offered by Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts…
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KEATS. JOHN. ; BELL. ROBERT ANNING. Illustrates. POEMS. The Endymion series
George Bell & Sons. London. 1897 FIRST ANNING-BELL EDITION. Delux limited edition issue, one of just 125 numbered copies printed on Japanese vellum. 8vo. (8.8 x 5.6 inches). Fully illustrated with Frontis and title page, three double page section title pages, printed in red and black, plus twenty full page plates, and dozens of smaller…
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POE. EDGAR ALLAN. THE COMPLETE WORKS
The Fordham Edition. Edited and chronologically arranged on the basis of the standard text, with certain material and with a critical introduction by Charles F. Richardson. Illustrated by Frederick Simpson Coburn. Fred De Fau & Company. New York. 1902 LIMITED EDITION. One of 1,000 numbered sets, this number 942. 10 volumes. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.5…