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Book very good-plus: the Shahn board design crisp on both panels, light spotting at the head edge, the gilt spine lettering rubbed but fully legible, binding tight and square, internally clean and unmarked. Dust jacket very good — unclipped and intact, the Shahn front-panel design clean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book that made Berryman's name. Written over five years between 1948 and 1953 and first published in \u003cem\u003ePartisan Review\u003c\/em\u003e in 1953 before Farrar, Straus \u0026amp; Cudahy issued it in book form in 1956, the poem is a sustained imagined dialogue with the seventeenth-century Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet — a meditation on creative repression, religious doubt, and temptation, set against a close grasp of early American history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Ben Shahn collaboration is the second great feature of the first edition. Shahn (1898–1969), the Lithuanian-born American social-realist painter and graphic artist, was at the height of his reputation in 1956. For this book he designed not only the text illustrations but the jacket and the boards — bold black line drawings of a Puritan-era timber house and bare winter trees against a cream ground with a red title panel — so that text and image read as a single composition. 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Dark blue cloth, gilt lettering and rules to the spine (\"THE ENTAILED HAT,\" with \"GATH\" at the foot and \"HARPERS\" at the base). First published by Harper \u0026amp; Brothers in 1884; this is the privately financed 1912 limited reissue, the \"Teackle Mansion Edition,\" produced to preserve the novel to the Del-Mar-Va Peninsula per the limitation statement. Copyright 1884 by Harper \u0026amp; Brothers and 1912 by George Alfred Townsend. Inscribed in ink to the front free endpaper, \"To Ethel Nicholson, an \/ Angel if ever there was \/ one. With Love. \/ Georgie\" — a period gift inscription, not in the author's hand (Townsend signed as \"Geo. Alfred Townsend\" or \"Gath\"). 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It was never distributed in the United States; the graphic sexual content kept it out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCrumb is the central figure of San Francisco underground comics — \u003cem\u003eZap\u003c\/em\u003e, Mr. Natural, Fritz the Cat, Keep on Truckin' — and \u003cem\u003eBible of Filth\u003c\/em\u003e gathers his sexual material in a single volume produced for a European audience. 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The poems show McClure's early experiments with capitalized typography, \"body language,\" and the ecstatic direct address that would define his work; Ginsberg called McClure's poetry \"a blob of protoplasmic energy.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA handsome Evergreen Original of the period, with cover design by Grove Press's house designer Roy Kuhlman and an author photograph by the California assemblage artist Wallace Berman on the rear wrapper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-078\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McClure, Michael","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459953119393,"sku":"TO-2026-078","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-078_01.jpg?v=1784609381"},{"product_id":"to-2026-082","title":"9009","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHOPPER, James; BECHDOLT, Fred R. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e9009.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION\u003c\/strong\u003e. 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It tells of John Collins, prisoner number 9009, a convict deserving of his sentence who enters prison hoping to make good and discovers a wholly corrupt system bent on breaking him by inches; the novel ends in calculated, bloodthirsty vengeance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHopper (1876–1956) was an exceptionally prolific journalist and short-story writer — some four hundred fifty short stories across the leading magazines of his era, alongside six novels. Bechdolt (1874–1950) brought the factual research and prison investigation that grounds the book. 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Minor wear to the dust jackets, one price-clipped; otherwise fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe three volumes: \u003cem\u003eLove Letter from an Impossible Land\u003c\/em\u003e (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1944), the Yale Series of Younger Poets selection chosen by Archibald MacLeish, here the second printing; \u003cem\u003eShips and Other Figures\u003c\/em\u003e (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1948), first edition, inscribed at Los Angeles in 1953; and \u003cem\u003eThe Open Sea and Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958), the limited first edition, one of 1,000 copies printed from type and designed by Harry Ford. 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Write \/ your brains out - \/ Annie Proulx.\" Proulx was living and writing in Vermont when \u003cem\u003ePostcards\u003c\/em\u003e was published, and the inscription — bracing, plain-spoken, in the voice of a working writer — is characteristic of her. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e8vo. 308, [1] pp. Quarter brown cloth over speckled beige paper-covered boards; in the original illustrated dust jacket, unclipped ($22.95). Near fine in a like dust jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePostcards\u003c\/em\u003e itself follows Loyal Blood, eldest son of a failing New England farm family, who flees after a violent crime and spends the next half-century adrift across the postwar American West while the family he left behind slowly comes apart. 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Laid in is a separately published critical study — \u003cem\u003eLeslie Marmon Silko\u003c\/em\u003e by Per Seyersted (Boise State University Western Writers Series No. 45), a 50-page staplebound monograph on Silko's work, a useful companion to the volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book braids Pueblo oral tradition with contemporary autobiographical writing, and its unusual oblong (landscape) format is itself part of the design. Silko (b. 1948) was raised at the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico, of Laguna, Mexican, and Anglo-American background; \u003cem\u003eStoryteller\u003c\/em\u003e is the fullest statement of the storytelling tradition that runs through all her work. The clothbound issue was printed simultaneously with the paperback and is the scarcer of the two.\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-102\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Silko, Leslie Marmon","offers":[{"title":"Near Fine","offer_id":46459954528417,"sku":"TO-2026-102","price":185.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-102_02.jpg?v=1783745866"},{"product_id":"to-2026-104","title":"My Friend Henry Miller (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePERLÈS, Alfred. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMy Friend Henry Miller\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION\u003c\/strong\u003e. London: Neville Spearman, 1955.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eWith a preface by Henry Miller. 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Affixed to the front free endpaper is a paper slip bearing the signatures of both Perlès and Miller; above it, in Miller's hand, the inscription \"For Bob Young.\" The recipient's bookplate — \"Robert Young, Jr.\" — is laid down on the front pastedown. The signing format — a slip signed by both men with a Miller inscription above — matches other known copies of this title that Miller and Perlès inscribed together at Big Sur. Copies signed by both Miller and Perlès, with a documented provenance, are uncommon. Shifreen \u0026amp; Jackson B85a.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-104\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Perlès, Alfred","offers":[{"title":"Near Fine","offer_id":46459954593953,"sku":"TO-2026-104","price":325.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-104_01_c6d57265-8aaf-4a3c-9f9b-72cde7b703ad.jpg?v=1783398603"},{"product_id":"to-2026-107","title":"The Innocents: A Story for Lovers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLEWIS, Sinclair.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Innocents: A Story for Lovers.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING\u003c\/strong\u003e (printing code F-R on the copyright page; \"Published October, 1917\" stated). 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The present jacket is unrestored, with the original price intact, on a copy in the scarcer paper-boards binding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-107\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lewis, Sinclair","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459954692257,"sku":"TO-2026-107","price":5000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-107_01_2a46b03e-42ff-4ba0-875d-3ac85cccbbc7.jpg?v=1783744464"},{"product_id":"to-2026-112","title":"The Shield of Achilles (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAUDEN, W. H.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Shield of Achilles.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.\u003c\/strong\u003e New York: Random House, 1955.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSigned by Auden on the title page in his characteristic manner — the printed \"W. H. 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The numbered first state is genuinely uncommon; the second issue and the later \"thousand\"-numbered printings are far more frequently encountered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Greenleaf Whittier's \u003cem\u003eSnow-Bound\u003c\/em\u003e was the bestselling book of his career and the work that secured his place among the Fireside Poets. Published on February 17, 1866, less than a year after the end of the Civil War, the poem is a narrative reminiscence of three winter days at the Whittier family homestead in Haverhill, Massachusetts, when, in the poet's Quaker childhood, the household was snowbound and gathered around the fire to tell stories. 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The story — Prince Zorn of Zorna disguised as a wandering minstrel; the wicked Duke who has frozen time by stopping all thirteen clocks; the enigmatic Golux, who speaks in half-truths; the Todal, a \"blob of glup\" that \"makes a sound like rabbits screaming\" — is among the most quoted children's books of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-126\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thurber, James","offers":[{"title":"Near Fine","offer_id":46459955314849,"sku":"TO-2026-126","price":750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-126_02.jpg?v=1783396168"},{"product_id":"to-2026-140","title":"Lore of the California Vaquero","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eROJAS, Arnold R.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLore of the California Vaquero.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION.\u003c\/strong\u003e Fresno, California: Academy Library Guild, 1958.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. 162 pp., frontispiece and photographic plates, illustrated throughout. 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