Libby Danysh (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by author. Laid in loose is an autograph letter from the author, invting 'Bill' to the publication party. Copy #44 of 150 numbered copies printed by the Windsor Press, signed by author on colophon. Original purple boards, paper label (some fading and wear to spine and edges; some cracking to edges).

Condition: Good. 1940. No Edition Remarks. 24 pages. No dust jacket. Purple paper covered boards. Black and white illustrated plates by Marion Cunningham throughout. Limited edition of 150 copies - 'Printer's copy' written on limitation page. Printed by Windsor Press. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates are lightly tanned throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Heavy sunning to spine and edges with moderate crushing to spine ends. Staining to both boards including blue stain to front. Moderate cracking to joints.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First (presumably only) edition. Purple boards; a fugitive color, and as to be expected, faded at the spine and around the margins of the boards. Couple of small breaks along front spine gutter, otherwise very good. Edition of one hundred fifty numbered copies, this copy not numbered. Presentation by the author on the front flyleaf to California sculptor and saloniste Cornelia Runyon and TLS from her to Runyon enclosed. With tipped-in illustrations by Marion Cunningham, a San Francisco artist of note. According to Internet sources, she was instrumental, through her art work, in saving the San Francisco cable cars. She died suddenly in 1948 at the age of 39 and this is very likely her only illustrated book. Elizabeth Oppen, who went by the name Libby Danysh at this time, was the older sister of the poet George Oppen.