The Poems of Catullus. Translated by Charles Martin.
Omaha: Abattoir Editions, 1979. First edition of this translation, number 100 of 250 numbered copies. A handsome fine press edition of poet Charles Martin's translation of the poetry of Catullus.
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Fourteen Poems by . . . Translated and with an Introduction by Kenneth Rexroth. Illustrated by Edward Hagedorn.
San Francisco: The Peregrine Press, 1952. First edition, one of 129 copies signed by the printer, artist and translator. A handsomely printed and illustrated selection of the poems of poet Oscar Venceslas Lubiz-Milosz (1877-1939), who though Lithuanian by birth wrote in the language of his adopted country, France. The text.....
The Mycophagists’ Book.
San Francisco: The Peregrine Press, 1951. First edition, one of 175 copies. An attractive and amusing work on mushrooms, the history of their uses in cooking, how to choose and clean them, etc., with several recipes of the ideal mushroom dishes, including beouf stroganoff, oeufs aux champignons and creole mushroom.....
The Day / By Edward Robeson Taylor / Saturday February Twentieth / 1915 [caption title].
(San Francisco: Taylor, Nash & Taylor, 1915). First and only edition. OCLC 44411941 records two copies (NYPL & UVa). A five-stanza, 92-line poem on the opening of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in February 1915, which inspired numerous local San Francisco poets to commemorate the occasion. Edward Robeson Taylor (1838-1923), politician.....
Select Funeral Memorials.
Kent: Printed at the Private Press of Lee Priory, By John Warwick, 1818. First edition. Lowndes vol. 8, page 221, #41; Woodworth, The Literary Career of Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, 70. A collection of six funeral memorials in verse, with annotations on the publication history, brief biographies of the authors.....
Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets . . . With an Introduction by Kit Currie.
Dallas: Still Point Press, 1985. First Still Point Press edition, number 31 of 300 numbered copies, printed by the Bird & Bull Press. A handsome fine press edition of John Evelyn's treatise on the making of salads, first published in 1699. "Evelyn's message in Acetaria was that vegetables were a......
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