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We are pleased to announce the publication of our latest catalogue, a collaborative venture with
Johnnycake Books of Salisbury, CT. Designed by Jerry Kelly, the catalogue offers 311 items, including
first editions of modern poetry and fiction, fine printing, autograph letters, and signed and
inscribed books. The catalogue includes rare and distinguished first editions by Robert Frost,
T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, Seamus Heaney, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Thomas Hardy,
Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, among others, as well as a wide variety of private press books,
including substantial collections of Walter Hamady’s Perishable Press and Morris Cox’s Gogmagog Press,
in addition to important individual works from the Cummington Press and the Gehenna Press. Among the
more remarkable items in the catalogue are: a first edition of Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure in the
rare dust jacket; an unpublished letter from Thomas Hardy to the poet Edward Thomas’s widow, Helen Thomas;
Sylvia Plath’s copy of Richard Wilbur’s Ceremony and Other Poems with Plath’s ownership signature and
underscorings; Ted Hughes’s Roosting Hawk inscribed to Sylvia Plath’s mother; the masterpiece of the
Cummington Press, Allen Tate’s The Hovering Fly, one of 12 copies on Van Gelder paper hand-colored by
Wightman Williams and specially bound by Arno Werner; a unique copy of Leonard Baskin’s Blake and the
Youthful Ancients bound with Baskin’s original mock-up copy, with notes and drawings; the Earle Bernheimer
copy of the first edition of Robert Frost’s North of Boston with a manuscript poem, “Triple Plate” on the
front free endpaper; Robert Nichols’ annotated copy of Wilfred Owen’s Poems (1920), and the first edition
of Wallace Stevens’ Esthetique du Mal, one of a very small number of copies bound in rose Natsume straw-paper
covered boards. Copies of the catalogue are available upon request.
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