1. Unger, Douglas.

Leaving the Land.

First Edition. New York, Harper & Row Publishers, 1984. 21.7cm x 15cm. 277 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

2. Roth, Philip.

Zuckerman Unbound.

First UK Edition. London, Jonathan Cape, 1981. 20.9 cm x 14 cm. 225 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor foxing to edging. Pink decoration to top edges. Very clean inside. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

3. Shapiro, Karl.

Essay on Rime.

New York, Reynol & Hitchcock, 1945. 14 cm x 21 cm. 72 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Slight discoloration of endpapers and page margins. Previous owner’s name in pencil on free endpaper. From the library of Erik Haugaard / Bookplate/Exlibris by Brian Lalor.

4. Huxley, Aldous / Foreman, Michael (illustrator).

After Many a Summer.

London, The Folio Society, 1980. 16 cm x 23 cm. 239 pages with many illustrations. Original hardcover with slipcase. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Small mark on cover. Clean inside with solid binding.

5. [Whitman, Walt] Kaplan, Justin.

Walt Whitman – A Life.

New York, Simon & Schuster, 1980. 16 cm x 24 cm. 432 pages. Several black and white plates throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6. Irving, Washington.

The Sketch Book, Legends of the Conquest of Spain / [Including the Biography of Irving:] “A Life of Washington Irving” by Richard Henry Stoddard.

New York, London The Co-operative Publication Society, Inc., No date (c. 1920). 14.5 cm x 20 cm. 561 pages. Frontispiece illustration – portrait of Washington Irving dated 1851. Original Hardcover (black cloth with embossed decoration – title embossed in gilt on spine). Good condition with minor signs of external wear. Front board a little shaky. Some minor pencil markings on back free endpaper. [The Works of Washington Irving].

7. Whitman, Walt.

Walt Whitmans Werk. In Zwei Bänden. Mit vier Bildnissen. Ausgewählt, uebertragen und eingeleitet von Hans Reisiger.

Berlin, S. Fischer Verlag, 1922. 15 cm x 21 cm. Band I: “Prosaschriften”: Frontispiz-Portrait, C, 176 Seiten. Band II – “Leaves of Grass”: 253 Seiten. Original Hardcover / Originale Verlagsbindung. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur ganz geringen Gebrauchsmerkmalen an der Bindung. Innen nahezu neuwertig und sehr sauber.

8. Valade III, Roger M.

The Essential Black Literature Guide. Published in Association with the Schomburg Centre for Research in Black Culture.

Detroit, New York, Washington D.C., Toronto, Visible Ink Press, 1996. 15 cm x 23 cm. XVIII, 446 pages. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white portrait photographs. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

9. [Pound, Ezra] Carpenter, Humphrey.

A Serious Character – The Life of Ezra Pound.

London, Boston, Faber and Faber, 1988. 16.5 cm x 24 cm. XII, 1005 pages. Illustrated with 24 pages of black-and-white photographs. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Contains two minor items of ephemera from ‘The Times Literary Supplement’ 1989 [Review of the book by William H.Gass in TLS in January 1989 and Responses to the review, also printed in TLS, in February 1989].

10. [Olson, Charles] Clark, Tom.

Charles Olson – The Allegory of a Poet’s Life.

New York, London W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. 17 cm x 24 cm. XI, 403 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Jacket design Jay J. Smith. Cover photography of Charles Olson Goliard Press. Leading edge deckled. Very good, actually in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.