Three Cantos, Signed (22 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Wesley Bates (illustrator). First Edition. A 3-act multicultural romance set in modern-day Quebec written by the Nova-Scotian-born, Afro-Canadian writer, academic and 2001 poetry winner of the Governor General's Award. Originally commissioned in 2001 as a libretto for the Guelph Jazz Fesitival that premiered in 2003, Québécité is an expanded poetic rendering. The music for the libretto was composed by D. D. Jackson, a Juno-award winning pianist and composer. Blue card covers with french flaps. 104 + pages. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VG - VG+ condition. Minor wear to top edge and a small amount of marker to top of back cover. Uncommon signature. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. signed by Richard Misrach on the second title page. Near fine condition book, absolutely clean, unmarked and carefully read if at all. The spine is not creased or cracked, there is really just the slightest bit of shelf wear. A beautiful, collectible example. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This copy is hand SIGNED by Richard Misrach; full-colour photographic frontispiece, softcovers, 93 pages, 67 full-colour photographs throughout text. "The third publication of the artist's ongoing Desert Cantos series. Three photographic essays display different aspects of the American West and the destructiveness of human nature. Susan Sontag contributes a four-page allegorical tale, "The View From the Ark."; oblong size of book 12 x 11in; PROVENANCE: a book signing at Strands in Nov. 2010; softcovers are tight and clean; just a little rubbing to covers, otherwise interior plates in EXCELLENT COND. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition. First edition and first printing. Oblong softcover. 93 pages. Features Susan Sontag's story "The View From the Ark" along with the text of her interview with Misrach. Includes three sections of color images by Misrach. A clean very near fine copy in wrappers. Signed by Misrach on the title page. Signed.

Hardcover. With a presentation inscription from the author on the dedication page. 8vo., orig. red cloth, viii, (9)-167, (1)p.ads. Inner hinges cracked, lacks half the spine, a copy suitable for rebinding. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st edition. 1st edition, stated. SIGNED. A Fine copy in Fine dust jacket. Oblong 4to., 93 pp., chiefly illustrated with full page color photographs. SIGNED by Misrach on the half title page. The dj is now protected in a mylar sleeve. A Fine copy in Fine dust jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine soft cover copy, signed by George Elliott Clarke directly on the title page. Very scarce signed. In fine, unread, condition. Blue card covers with french folds. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed by Misrach ("For Craig with gratitude May 1997") on half-title page. 1st Printing of stated 1st Edition. Fine book in very good dj. Text & photos clean & unmarked. Orange cloth boards very clean & bright. Binding tight. Unclipped dust jacket, protected by mylar cover, clean & bright but w/wrinkling to laminate. Quick, secure shipping w/free delivery confirmation. International & expedited shipping may be extra due to weight. Photos available. Signed by Author(s).

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition. Oblong hardcover. First printing Features Susan Sontag's story "The View From the Ark" along with the text of her interview with Misrach. Includes three sections of color images by Misrach. A near fine copy with a slight paper defect to the top inner hinge in a near fine dust jacket that has some of the usual crazing to the lamination. Signed and inscribed Misrach on the title page. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited edition. Numbered 13 of 25. Signed by Clarke on title page. Paper covered boards in imitation of an urban night sky with glitter stars, fabric strands and a black card skyline. Fading to spine. Very slight bump to front right corner. No marks to inside pages. Binding is firm. sh1. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Number 46 of 75 (81) copies set in Caslon Old Face, printed in red and black on Barcham Green handmade paper, and signed by the author. Quarter vellum with gilt spine titling, silver linen-covered boards stamped in red. Fine copy. (Nash & Flavell D6). Signed by Author(s).

FIRST EDITION, no.47 of 81 copies, signed by the author; sm.4to., pp.(32); printed in red & black on Barcham Green handmade paper; very good in original vellum-backed printed cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut; copper-engraved bookplate of John Raymond Danson. Nash D6 notes that the paper was from old Corvinus Press stock. Poetry Private Press.

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Muy bueno. Nemesio Antunez (illustrator). 1ª Edición, Edición Limitada. Pablo Neruda. Tres Cantos Material. Three Material Songs. 3 aguafuartes. 3 etchings de Nemesio Antunez. Carpeta con 32 páginas sin numerar, 21.5 x 28 cm. Tirada de 200 ejemplares. Este es el ejemplar No. 2. Con dedicatoria de Antunez para Arturo Saco del Valle (destacado director de orquesta español, exiliado tras la Guerra Civil Española, que formó parte del círculo artístico e intelectual de Nueva York en esa época, donde coincidió con otros exiliados y artistas latinos) y su esposa Conchita. Esta obra constituye el primer trabajo conjunto de Neruda y Antunez que a la larga resultaría ser una alianza muy literaria-artística muy fructifera con la publicación de varios libros, tales como Arte de Pájaros, Fin de Mundo y otros. Firmado por el autor.

Hardcover. First edition. Unpaginated. 10 leaves. 22.5 x 17.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 65 of 81 signed by Popham on J. Whatman hand made paper, watermarked 1852. From his obituary: "Perhaps the only British poet of stature to reflect the experience of young flyers in the Second World War." Title page in red and black. Spine toned toward lower half. Quarter vellum and gray boards lettered in red. Very good.

First edition. By George Marshall - Late a Chief Office in the Honourable East India Company's Sea Service. 216 pp + 9 pp List of Subscribers. Frontispiece - engraving of Hottentot family & engraved illustration on dedication page. 9 other woodcut illustrations missing. Inscription on rear of frontispiece in ink coming through frontispiece page in places. Browning on title page and occasionally in text. All edges untrimmed. Rebound in grey hard paper boards with olive cloth spine. Overall condition VG.

paper covered boards. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 103 pages. Number 14 of 25 copies issued in cloth. Signed by the author on the title page. Spine sunned; else as new. 8.3 x 6.2 inches. Signed by Author(s).

First edition. viii, 68pp. With a half-title. Original publisher's powder blue paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Rubbed and marked, surface loss to spine, corners exposed. Armorial bookplate of Napier of Ballikinrain to FEP, scattered spotting. A generously margined copy, in original unsophisticated state, of the first edition of poet Hector Macneill's (1746-1818) attempt at Scottish pastoral, in vague imitation of Beattie's The Minstrel, his final signed work of poetry. Jackson p.321 Size: Quarto.

Condition: Good. Signed in pencil by A. Gordon-Brown on the front free end paper. Bookplate of william Jardin to front pastedown endpaper. Leather boards with some wear to the edges. Corners bumped. Various marginalia in pencil. Marbled endpapers. Large print in places. Foxing throughout with age-toning to end papers. Untrimmed pages. Binding to the end papers has been repaired with Japanese tissue paper at the gutters. George Marshall was chief officer in the Honourable East India Company's Service. Frontispiece and ten woodcut illustrations. Subscribers' list. 215 pages. Binding sound. First Edition. Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover.

FIRST EDITION. Contemp. half black calf, spine ruled in gilt, marbled boards; sl. rubbed. v.g. ESTC T148520. Canto I is dated 1800 and is in [ii], [1]-81pp, including preface. Cantos II & III were issued separately the following year in [1]-208pp. A laudatory poem written to herald the dawn of a new era of cultural enlightenment: 'Amidst all the disputes which have agitated the world of late, it seems to be a proposition universally acceded to by every party, that a MILLENNIUM, or GOLDEN AGE, will in due time arrive, and banish every evil from among us; when the faculties of man shall be prodigiously enlarged and enlightened. It is to elucidate the more prominent of these rising events, and to demonstrate. the commencement of this happy æra, that the ensuing poem is devoted.' Many cultural and literary figures are referenced in the poem (and in its copious notes), for the most part the facilitators of enlightened thought. Mary Wollstonecraft, 'that redoubtable Amazon' is among those mentioned: 'Lo! she, the champion of all Female rights/Whose name alone to virtuous deeds incites'. This copy belonged to the literary scholar Humphry House, 1908-1955, and is signed by him in pencil on leading f.e.p.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. London: James Fraser, 1833. First edition. [iv]+171p.+ 1p. advertisement. A presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper 'To Mrs Manly, With much love, From her Friend Agnes Strickland Novr. 4 1856'. Under that is a note by Mrs Manly mentioning that she passed the book on in Novr. 1861. In excellent condition for its age, with very slight spotting to a few pages. Bound in blind-stamped purple boards, spine faded to brown but gilt title bright. Signed by Author.

8vo in fours, pp. [ii], iv, [ix]-xiv, 42; modern half calf and marbled boards, black morocco label. First edition. A satire on freethinkers, in Hudibrastic couplets; the verse of Samuel Butler is referred to in several footnotes. The dedication, signed 'Diagoras', is to the religious controversialist Matthew Tindal, who died a year later; a four-page preface is 'by another hand'. The last canto deals with such contemporary writers as Toland, Collins, Creech, Blount, and Tindal himself. 'The irony is at times subtle; the satirical hits are well executed. The poet was without doubt well read in deistic literature' (Bond, English Burlesque Poetry: 1700-1750, 127). Foxon W40. Some copies of this poem have an 8-page bookseller's catalogue at the end, but it is not present here, and was clearly not always included; the half-title is present (a bit dust-soiled).

[iv], 171, [1] pp. 8vo. First edition. First edition. [iv], 171, [1] pp. 8vo. Presentation copy, inscribed "To Mrs. Cottrell Donner from Agnes Strickland. With kindest regards, August 8, 1862. In Memoriam." Demetrius, "An imitation of Byron inspired by the struggle of the Greeks against the Turks" (ODNB) was Strickland's (1796-1874) final work of poetry before turning to the writing of history. With her sister Elizabeth she wrote a pioneering Lives of the Queens of England and Scotland. Jackson, p. 572; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 319. Provenance: Jim Edwards (bookplate) Publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth. Spine a trifle faded, some sporadic spotting to text.