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The Colossus. Poems by PLATH, Sylvia

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Title: The Colossus. Poems
Author: PLATH, Sylvia
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Signs of use, but a very good copy in worn and soiled dust jacket
Description: London: Heinemann, (1960). First edition of Plath's first regularly published book. Presentation copy, inscribed by Plath on the front free endpaper: "For Luke & Cynthia / with love - / Sylvia / April 13, 1961." A highly important association copy, rich in personal interest and history: E. Lucas (Luke) Myers, an aspiring writer from Tennessee, was intimately connected to Ted Hughes and Plath. Plath met Luke Myers at Cambridge, where she and Myers were studying, and admired his poetry and fiction. In her journal entry for February 25, 1956, she wrote: "I have learned something from E. Lucas Meyers (sic) although he does not know me and will never know I've learned it. His poetry is great, big, moving through technique and discipline to master it and bend it supple to his will. There is a brilliant joy, there, too, almost of an athlete, running, using all the divine flexions of his muscles in the act. Luke writes alone, much. He is serious about it; he does not talk much about it. This is the way." - Sylvia Plath, The Journals (London: Faber & Faber, 2000), p. 207. On March 3, Plath commented on Myers' fiction: "A chapter - story from Luke's novel arrived, badly typed, no margins, scrawled corrections, & badly proofread. But the droll humor, the atmosphere of London & country which seeps indefinably in through the indirect statement: all this is delicate & fine. The incidents & intrigues are something I could never dream up . . . Nothing so dull & obvious & central as love or sex or hate: but deft, oblique. As always, coming unexpectedly upon the good work of a friend or acquaintance, I itch to emulate, to sequester." - Plath, The Journals, p. 344. Luke Myers was a close friend of Ted Hughes, and it was outside the chicken coop behind the rectory of St. Botolph's Church that Myers rented from Mrs. Helen Hitchcock, the widow of a former rector, that Hughes used to pitch his tent on weekend visits to Cambridge University, from which he had graduated a year and a half before. St. Botolph's rectory "was a poets' haven, anarchic and unjudgmental", with Mrs. Hitchcock "turning a blind eye to the capers, bibilous and otherwise, of her undergraduate lodgers, of whom she was very fond." - Anne Stevenson, Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath (London: Viking Penguin, 1989), p. 73. In February, 1956, a group of young Cambridge poets including Luke Myers, Ted Hughes, Daniel Huws and David Ross, among others, had just put together a little magazine appropriately named the St. Botolph's Review after Luke Myers' digs where they often gathered, and the launch party for the magazine (of which only one issue was published) was to be the occasion for the first fateful meeting between Plath and Hughes on Saturday, February 25, 1956. Plath, who had read some of the poetry by the St. Botolph's group - and two of whose own poems had been criticized recently by one of them, Daniel Huws, in the student magazine Chequer - purchased a copy of the Review on the morning of the party, and memorized several of Hughes's poems in anticipation of attending the party and meeting him. According to Plath's journal entry, after dancing for a while with a drunken, "satanic" Luke Myers, she ran into Hughes. Amid the crush of the party, "I started yelling again about his poems and quoting: 'most dear unscratchable diamond' and he yelled back, colossal, in a voice that should have come from a Pole, 'You like?' and asking me if I wanted brandy, and me yelling yes and backing into the next room . . . And then it came to the fact that I was all there, wasn't I, and I stamped and screamed yes, . . . and I was stamping and he was stamping on the floor, and then he kissed me bang smash on the mouth and ripped my hair band off, my lovely red hairband scarf which has weathered the sun and much love, and whose like I shall never again find, and my favorite silver earrings: hah, I shall keep, he barked. And when he kissed my neck I bit him long and hard on the cheek, and when we came out of the room, blood was running down his face." - Sylvia Plath, The Journals, pp. 211-212. As Diane Middlebrook put it: "Ted Hughes may not have been looking for a wife that night, but Sylvia Plath was looking for a husband, and Ted Hughes met her specifications exactly." - Diane Middlebrook, Her Husband: Hughes and Plath - A Marriage (London: Viking, 2003), p. 5. A month later in London, Hughes, not wanting "to declare his interest . . . asked Lucas Myers to play go-between. Myers could meet Plath for a drink somewhere, then just drop in on Hughes at the flat on Rugby Street, as if by chance. Myers admits in his memoir that he had taken a dislike to Plath, and that he agreed to this ploy reluctantly. He duly invited Plath to join him and Michael Boddy, another of Hughes's friends, at a pub called the Lamb, in Conduit Street - a poets' hangout - and shortly afterward suggested a visit to Hughes. It didn't take long to see that Hughes and Plath wanted to be alone." Later that night, at Plath's hotel, they spent - in Plath's words - a "sleepless holocaust night" together. - Middlebrook, p. 24. Soon after, Hughes left the job he had in London and moved to Cambridge, sharing a flat with Myers in Tenison Road, meeting Plath every day, and abruptly marrying her on Bloomsday, June 16, 1956 - secretly, with Plath's mother, Aurelia, the only family member at the wedding. In later years, Myers was witness to the difficulties in the marriage, and aware of its tenuous nature. In a measured attempt to explain "Sylvia's behavior and volte-faces between pleasantness and bitchiness" to Olwyn Hughes in a letter dated March 12, 1960, Myers wrote: "I have the feeling that it is best to think of Sylvia as being always pretty much as she was this weekend . . . Ted suffers a good deal more than he would ever indicate or admit, but he also loves her and I think it is best to assume he will stay with her. And she very evidently loves him in the self-interested and possessive way of which she is capable." [quoted by Stevenson, pp. 188-189] For her part, Plath clearly valued her own, and Ted Hughes's, friendship with Luke Myers. In 1961, anticipating the publication of her novel The Bell Jar, "Sylvia must have decided to protect herself, in view of the novel's public portrayal of her mother and of a devastating period in her own personal history, by publishing it under a pseudonym, Victoria Lucas. It was a name drawn from Ted's world: 'Victoria' after his favorite Yorkshire cousin, Victoria (Vicky) Farrar, and 'Lucas' after his friend Lucas Myers." - Stevenson, p. 227. Plath committed suicide at the age of 31 in February 1963. It is perhaps worth noting that the date of Plath's inscription to Lucas and Cynthia Myers is exactly the same as that of the inscription in the copy of The Colossus that Plath gave to the poet Theodore Roethke. Signs of use, but a very good copy in worn and soiled dust jacket. Signs of use, but a very good copy in worn and soiled dust jacket. 8vo, original green cloth, dust jacket. Signs of use, but a very good copy in worn and soiled dust jacket.

Dying Speeches and Behaviour of the Several State Prisoners by CRIME

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Title: Dying Speeches and Behaviour of the Several State Prisoners
Author: CRIME
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Description: 1720. First Edition. (CRIMINALS). The Dying Speeches and Behaviour of the Several State Prisoners That Have Been Executed the Last 300 Years. London: J. Brotherton and W. Meadows, et al., 1720. Octavo, modern full dark blue calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, marbled endpapers. $1250.First edition of the last words of almost 100 prisoners executed in Great Britain, along with brief accounts of their lives and crimes, handsomely bound.Arranged chronologically from Lollard martyr William Sawtre in 1401 to Scottish spy William Gregg in 1708, this compilation presents the final words of prisoners executed for high treason or heresy, along with descriptions of their last moments, lives and characters. Subjects include Sir Thomas More, Mary Queen of Scots, King Charles I and Sir Walter Raleigh along with many less well-known names. The preface cites a related but separate work published in 1719, The Compleat Collection of State-Tryals and Proceedings upon Impeachments for High Treason, which is now attributed to Thomas Salmon; it seems possible that the anonymously published Dying Speeches may have been compiled by Salmon as well. ESTC T11590. Goldsmiths' I:5916. A few instances of early penciled underlining and bracketing. Early inked owner's name on preliminary leaf; laid-in armorial bookplate of previous owner John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton, the eminent lawyer and politician.Fine condition.

Lord John Signatures by KING Stephen

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Title: Lord John Signatures
Author: KING Stephen
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Description: 1991. First Edition. Signed. KING, Stephen. Lord John Signatures. Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1991. Oblong octavo, original dark blue cloth gilt, autograph-print endpapers. $1100.First edition of an unusual autograph book, number 275 of 400 copies, signed by Stephen King and dozens of popular writers.This compilation of authors' photographs accompanied by their original signatures is signed by Norman Mailer, Eudora Welty, John Updike, Gerald Ford, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ray Bradbury and John Barth, among many others. It opens with an intriguing essay on collecting autographs and authorial memorabilia written by Stephen King (and signed by him) and, following the section of author's autographs, closes with a section of facsimiles of autographs and autographed objects from noted literati, presidents, and othersincluding a reproduction of a page from King's manuscript for the story ""Secret Window, Secret Garden."" The William Everson and Richard Yates signatures are in facsimile, as in all copies. Brooks C288.1. Without publisher's slipcase. Contents and binding in fine condition.

THE SONNETS by Berrigan, Ted

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Title: THE SONNETS
Author: Berrigan, Ted
Seller: Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: [New York]: Lorenz & Ellen Gude, 1964. First edition. Very good.. Signed first edition of the definitive statement of the Second Generation of the New York School as well as Berrigan's most influential, popular, and lasting work, edited by Ron Padgett (who also typed the stencils). The only major American collection of the last fifty years to go through four separate editions, each at different publishers. From an edition of "300 plus an unspecified number of unnumbered copies" (Fischer p. 24), this is from the unnumbered series, estimated (by Berrigan himself; again see Fischer) to be about 100. Decidedly uncommon signed; this is the first we've handled. 11'' x 8.5''. Original side-stapled wrappers. Cover by Joe Brainard, offset duplicated; remainder mimeographed. With the usual toning, mild edgewear. Faint penned notation to top edge of front cover. Final leaf (colophon) loose. Lacking rear cover and terminal blank (as in many copies; we suspect many were issued this way). [66] leaves mimeographed rectos only; last leaf detached from staples. Signed by Berrigan to title page.

Atlas Shrugged by Rand, Ayn

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Title: Atlas Shrugged
Author: Rand, Ayn
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Condition: Original green cloth, stamped in gilt on cover, black and gilt on spine, illustrated color dust jacket designed by George Salter
Description: New York: Random House, 1957. First Edition, Second Printing, in the first state, unclipped dust jacket with the correct price of $6.95 and 10/57 present on front flap (same as First Edition, First State). [viii], 1168 pp, with additional two-page author's note at rear. Thick 8vo. Original green cloth, stamped in gilt on cover, black and gilt on spine, illustrated color dust jacket designed by George Salter, priced $6.95 blue topstain, Very Good dj with small loss at back panel, spine with split and rubbing, tear top of front panel. First Edition, Second Printing, in the first state, unclipped dust jacket with the correct price of $6.95 and 10/57 present on front flap (same as First Edition, First State). [viii], 1168 pp, with additional two-page author's note at rear. Thick 8vo. This not only is Rand's longest work, but also the last one published in her lifetime. In her author's note at the rear of the main text, she writes, "To all the readers who discovered The Fountainhead and asked me many questions about the wider application of its ideas, I want to say that I am answering these questions in the present novel and that The Fountainhead was only an overture to Atlas Shrugged." (This quote is repeated on the back of the dust jacket.) She expresses, too, her "philosophical debt" to Aristotle, and then adds, "My other acknowledgement is on the dedication page of this novel. I knew what values of character I wanted to find in a man. I met such a man - and we have been married for 28 years. His name is Frank O'Connor." The novel formed the basis of Rand's philosophy of Objectivism, and later became a touchstone for modern conservative thinking on economics, individual rights, and the role of government in society.

Court Docket Ledger for Magistrate's Court Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1818-1824 by (Chester County)

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Title: Court Docket Ledger for Magistrate's Court Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1818-1824
Author: (Chester County)
Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description: folio ledger, 169 manuscript pages, entries dated 1818-1824, bound in half-leather, marbled paper backed boards, spine lacking, corners worn through, boards and edges very worn, otherwise good, written in ink, in a legible hand, comprising summaries of 725 cases. A printed carrier's address the "News Boy's Address, To the Patrons of The American Republican. January 1, 1820, - Almanac included" [Downingtown: Printed by Charles Mowry, 1819], not in American Imprints, McDonald, Checklist of American newspaper carrier's address, 934, is pasted on front paste-down, it includes 5 stanzas of printed verse (68 lines total) on the left hand side, and a printed calendar for the year on the right hand side. Rear paste-down has a printed circular pasted in entitled: "Magistrate's Fee Bill," which lists the various charges of the magistrate. This volume is a docket book for a Magistrate's District Court in Chester County, Pennsylvania. The names in the ledger match those found in Chester County and with West Chester being the county seat; it is undoubtedly for the Magisterial District Court based in West Chester. The summaries of the cases are generally 4 to 5 cases per page, with three columns to the page. The first column is the plaintiffs and defendants' names with some notes such as costs for justices, constables, or witnesses' names. The second column is the arresting or issuing constable with some notes, usually dates when appearance was requested, etc. The third column is a summary of the case, which might include outcome, costs, follow ups, etc. All of the cases appear to be financial in nature, dealing with debts, monetary claims, etc., with the amount not exceeding $100.00. The constables for the large majority of the cases are Griffith Griffith, John King, Joseph Aikins, Andrew Kirkpatrick, John Wynn, Balthzer Essick, William Guest. There was a Griffith Griffith at this time who was a resident of East Nantmeal Township, in Chester County. A typical case might look as follows: "924. S. & W. Kirk John Wynn Summons - debt not exceed- vs. Isaac Barnard issued Feb'y 8 to ap ing $100 - served says con- Costs: Justices $0.35 pear the 15 instant stable. Feb 15, 1823 demand Constables $0.40 at 3 o'clock WM. book acc of $ defendant made default in appearance therefore judgment for plffs. For $ Costs" Today the commonwealth of Pennsylvania consists of 67 counties. In every county except for Philadelphia County, there are Magisterial District Courts. These courts are inferior courts of limited jurisdiction. They handle landlord-tenant matters, small civil claims, summary offenses, violations of municipal ordinances, and preliminary hearings and arraignments in greater misdemeanor and felony offenses pursuant to Pennsylvania's Rules of Criminal Procedure which go on to be tried in the Court of Common Pleas. In some counties, such as Chester County, Magisterial District Courts may issue emergency protection from abuse orders when the Domestic Relations or Court of Common Pleas is closed. For the time period of this ledger (1818-1824), the rules for this court were likely similar to today, except today the small claims are cases under $12,000.00, whereas in the early 19th Century, it appears to be cases under $100.00.

Sheny-ta. Medecine Egyptienne en Crete Minoenne a l'epoque paleopalatiale. by AUSSANT, Pierre Edouard.

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Title: Sheny-ta. Medecine Egyptienne en Crete Minoenne a l'epoque paleopalatiale.
Author: AUSSANT, Pierre Edouard.
Seller: Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description: Paris:: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1969., 1969. 270 x 210 mm. 4to. 19, N4, B13, C1 pp. 1 map, 6 figs., 26 plates, bibliog. Pictorial wrappers. Ownership rubber stamp on title. Very good.

CAMARÍN DE SAN DIEGO Y SU GEOMETRÍA SIMBÓLICA.; M. Alejandro Sifuentes Solís...[et al.]

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Title: CAMARÍN DE SAN DIEGO Y SU GEOMETRÍA SIMBÓLICA.; M. Alejandro Sifuentes Solís...[et al.]
Seller: Beverly Karno Books LLC (United States)
ISBN: 9789686259520
Description: Aguascalientes, Ags., Méx: Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, 1998. b/w plates (some facs.), plans, bibl., indices, fldg. pict. wrps. Very detailed study of the architecture, iconography, and architectural detail of one of the most important landmarks in the state of Aguascalientes built at the end of the 18th century. IMPORTANT REFERENCE ON 18TH CENTURY ARCHITECTURE.

Ring Round the Moon: A Charade with Music by Anouilh, Jean (translated by Christopher Fry)

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Title: Ring Round the Moon: A Charade with Music
Author: Anouilh, Jean (translated by Christopher Fry)
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Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
Description: New York: Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1950. First American Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear, a touch of soiling to top of text block; jacket slightly dog-eared at top of spine, horizontal wrinkle along top edge of front panel]. Preface by Peter Brook, who directed the original London production at the Globe Theatre. The original French title was "L'Invitation au Chateau." .

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