Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1965. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt titles, 224pp. Third printing, [C.9.65], from the original 1960 edition. Unclipped dust jacket (4.50). Signed by Allen Tate to the title page. Dust jacket mildly toned to panels, fading to edges of boards. Contents clean, binding firm. Gathers all of the poems.....
Larkspur Press, 2002. 8vo, grey cloth, green titles, 62pp. First edition, limited to 700 copies and signed by McClanahan to to the title page. Review copy with tipped-in letter from the publisher soliciting a review. Unpriced dust jacket moderately toned and rubbed to panels. Contents clean, binding sharp and square.....
Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1955. 8vo, indigo buckram cloth, silver titles, 223pp. Stated First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (3.50) shows the faintest of edge wear to panels, toning to endpapers. Contents clean, binding firm. The second published novel by Hardwick, chronicling a murder trial in a college town. “Elizabeth Hardwick.....
Random House, 1979. 8vo, dark burgundy cloth with silver titles, 151pp. Stated First Edition with number line ending in 2, according to Random House convention. Signed ‘Elizabeth Hardwick’ to the free front endpaper. Unclipped dust jacket (8.95) mildly creased and rubbed. Contents clean, binding sharp and firm. The third and.....
Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1971. Square 8vo (9x9), white cloth with black and gilt blind stamped titles, black endpapers. 95pp plus 48 photographic plates. First edition with no other printings listed. Price clipped dust jacket mildly worn to panels, a few faint soil marks to front panel, creasing.....
E.P. Dutton and Co., 1967. 8vo, half white cloth over brown paper boards, blue titles, map endpapers, 192pp. Stated second printing. Inscribed by the author to the title page. Unclipped dust jacket (5.95) with toning and rubbing to panels, damp stain to lower edge of front panel. Contents clean, binding.....
Frankfort, KY: Broadstone Books, 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, navy textured cloth, 64pp. First printing, unclipped dust jacket (22.50), 64pp. A selection of letters between trappist monk Thomas Merton and Kentucky poet and publisher Jonathan Greene (Gnomon Press). The two collaborated on the literary magazine Monks Pond. With an introduction.....
1964. 8vo, yellow pictorial staple bound paper wrappers, 32pp. Ex-library copy with stickers to spine edge of wrappers, stamping to title page. Mild damp stain to wrappers. Brief history of the Catholic Church in Owen County, Kentucky, the state’s center of cultivation of Burley tobacco. 1819-1962. Preliminary remarks by the .....
Diocese of Covington, 1954. Large 8vo, kelly green cloth, gilt stamping, photographic endpapers, 1054pp. First edition, issued without a dust jacket. Boards moderately rubbed with fading to corners and spine ends. Contents clean, binding sharp and firm. Parochial history printed to mark the centennial of the Diocese of Covington, with.....
The University Press of Kentucky, 1989. Tall 8vo, black cloth, silver titles, 349pp. First edition. Unpriced dust jacket toned to outer edges. Faint toning to text block edges and endpapers. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. This hardcover facsimile anthology gathers the four mimeographic poetry and photo zines published by.....
Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1960. 8vo, black cloth with white titles, black topstain, illustrated endpapers, 204pp. First edition, first printing. Unclipped dust jacket (3.50) toned to panels, chipping and faint loss to spine crown, a small smudge to outer edge of front panel. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean.....
San Francisco: North Point Press. 12mo, white softcover wrappers with orange paper dust jacket, 89pp. First softcover issue, simultaneously issued in cloth. Dust jacket unclipped (6.00), spotted at edges of wrappers. Contents clean, binding firm. Six part volume of pastoral and spiritual verse by the Kentucky agrarian, includes the notable.....