Second World by Blackmur (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. #159 of 300 limited edition. Black cloth boards with light surface wear. Spine extremities with edge wear and discoloration. Spine head/joints with tearing and small cloth loss. About 3/4" of top of spine also discolored. Chip to front bottom corner. Incidental small soil or foxing spot to edge of front endpaper. Foxing to top text block. DJ, poor, only the front panel with two small sections of the spine are present, with tape repairs, laid in.

paperback. Condition: As New. Two New Books: folded leaf for "American Decade" and "Primal Sound". Advertisement: long leaf folded 3 times for "Supreme Fiction", "Four Prose Pieces" and "Second World". Postcard for "Vigil of Venus." All housed in original mailing envelope addressed to Frederic Jacobsen of Portland, Oregon. I opened the envelope myself, so they are unused but the top of the "Two New Books" is slightly wrinkled. Uncommon ephemera from this press which had a lasting influence on mid-century fine press.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. 1942 hardcover limited edition (#163 of 300). No dj, sunning (on spine and edges) and soil (including some white paint stains) on cover, else text clean, binding tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. #288/300, bound in black cloth stamped in blue at spine, in original glassine wrapper. 29 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. No. 235 of 300 copies. Good condition. Bound in black cloth. Cover is lightly stained on top edge and lightly soiled. Spine is sunfaded, but title still visible. Interior pages lightly damp stained along top edge, otherwise very cle an. Binding strong and tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 30pp. Black cloth printed in blue on spine. Slight sunning on the boards, rear endpapers are moderately tanned, else a near fine copy lacking the dust jacket. Nicely printed by The Cummington Press in black and blue type hand-set by Katharine Frazier in Centaur and Arrighi types and hand-printed on Sterling laid paper by Harry Duncan and David Newton. One of 300 numbered copies.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Octavo. 29pp. Number 284 of an edition of 300 copies, hand-set in Centaur and Arrighi type on Sterling Laid paper. Initials printed in blue; motif from an Irish Druid breastplate on the title page. Spine sunned, and tiny spot of wear to corners of spine head, else fine in black cloth boards. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Limited Edition. #281/300 copies, the whole edition. Printed letterpress by Harry Duncan and company, bound in black cloth stamped in blue at spine, in clear unprinted acetate dustwrapper. Decorative device on title page by Eugene Canade. 29pp. Q15641.

Hardcover. First edition. 29 pages. 23 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 262 of 300 in Centaur and Arrighi types, hand printed on laid paper. Orig. black cloth spine lettered in blue. Fine in fine glassine overwrapper.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition. Hardcover. 29 pages. Number 56 from an edition of 300 copies. Hand printed on Sterling Laid paper by Harry Duncan and David Newton using Centaur and Arrighi types set by Katherine Frazier. A clean near fine copy in black cloth boards and in a very good dust jacket that has some small edge chips and tears. Seemingly somewhat uncommon in the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in an near fine, lightly worn dustwrapper with sunning at the spine. Number 11 out of 300 copies of these politically inspired verses.