The Ezra Pound Collection of Marcella Spann Booth
From the library of scholar Marcella Spann Booth, a collection of Ezra Pound books given to her by the author. As a graduate student, Booth was introduced to Pound while he was incarcerated at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington D.C. She became his student and the books from her shelves are rich with his legacy.
red paper boards; in full color; gilt stamping.$15.
Poetry of the Southern Literary Renaissance
Books from the collection of Richard Frary
An important collection of twentieth-century Southern literature, including landmark publications from the Agrarian and Fugitive movements and notable association copies from key figures.
31pp.; green paper covers. $15
Shimla by Meena Alexander
For a month in the summer of 2010 I lived in Shimla, in the old Viceregal Lodge. I had a suite of rooms, with a terrace that looked out onto the Himalayas. I was carrying a copy of Basho with me and somehow felt his lines would help me in my journey. Sometimes I would sit on the terrace and write, sometimes in the shadow of a pipal tree. Images came to me as I walked on the twisting paths. Other places are also evoked in this cycle of poems : Lodi Gardens in Delhi, where I used to live; Bryant Park, a place I love in New York City; Sendai in Japan which I could only imagine.
~ Meena Alexander, New York City, April 2012
Shimla includes "Lady Dufferin's Terrace," which appeared in The New Yorker in September, 2011. It is available as follows:
25 signed copies, letterpress, in patterened cloth, $125
125 signed copies, letterpress, in red handmade paper, sewn, $40
Virginia Woolf: The Flight of Time exhibition catalogue
An important collection documenting the life and work of Virginia Woolf, the woman who helped to bring literature -- and women -- from the Victorian age into the modern era. Beekman's collection spans Woolf's entire life, shining a light into her youth and adolescence, her familial and romantic relationships over time, her printing and publishing work at The Hogarth Press and, of course, her own writing.
Featuring original color photographs by David Levinthal.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition Virginia Woolf: The Flight of Time, at The Forbes Gallery in New York City, from November 21, 2011 – January 14, 2012.
134 pp.; 9 x 6 in., pictorial wrappers, $65
Deluxe limited edition, one of 25 copies, slipcased with a limited print numbered and signed by Levinthal. $2500
The James Joyce Collection of Alexander Neubauer
Features over 100 books, letters, photographs, and manuscripts by and about James Joyce and covering all corners of his life and work: books he presented to friends, volumes from his personal library, letters to his family, and archives from his publishers. Acquired mainly between 1998 and 2010, the items come from the collection of Alexander Neubauer. Featuring original color photographs by David Levinthal.
147 pp.; 7 x 10 in., cloth, $125.
Deluxe limited edition, one of 25 copies, with a numbered, signed Levinthal print. $2500.
This Isn’t Folly, This Is Me
The Letters of Jack Kerouac
A publication of 76 excerpted manuscripts and letters to and from Jack Kerouac, the majority of them unpublished. The book includes his selected correspondence with individuals such as Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs. While this title "represent[s] only a fraction of the hundreds of letters and journal entries Kerouac wrote during his lifetime; nonethless, they contain the essence of what we need to know about him as a writer and as a man" (from the introduction by Joyce Johnson).
93pp.; 6"x9"; black paper wrappers.
$35
Revised Evidence by Barbara Bloom
A set of commemorative stamps inspired by Vladimir Nabokov's collection of inscriptions, annotations, corrections, and butterfly descriptions. Designed by Barbara Bloom, each set contains eight loose sheets of 18 stamps, each page uniquely themed to depict a different aspect of Nabokov's canon and archival materials, housed together in a printed folder.
8pp.. 5 3/4" x 9"
$50
“After the Fall”: From Stage to Screen
Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe, Abby Mann
A history of Miller’s relationship with Marilyn Monroe, told through the archive of material he devoted to working out that relationship after her death through writing and revising the autobiographical play After the Fall and then in adapting for the screen with Oscar-winning screenwriter Abby Mann. 2,000 copies.
19pp., one photographic illustration. 6” x 8½” Wrappers, $25
(Mis)adventure: Malcolm Lowry & Conrad Aiken
1928–1954
Both sides of this vital dialogue between Malcolm Lowry – dissolute, destitute, and laboriously writing Under the Volcano (1947) – and Conrad Aiken: his literary mentor, financial resource, an emotional security blanket, and friend.
37pp., three illustrations. 6” x 8½” Wrappers, $25
From the Library of Lionel and Diana Trilling
A listing over 400 books from the Trillings’ library; each book includes a specially made bookplate.
47pp., 8½” x 11” Wrappers, $25
A Fawn’s Afternoon
Stéphane Mallarmé
Richard Howard trans.
Howard’s translation of Mallarmé’s poem. 125 signed copies, of which 25 have been specially bound.
9pp., 6¼” x 9½” Wrappers, $75; Cloth, $350
“Cherchez La Femme…”: Jacqueline Kennedy on “Jackie”
Carl Anthony, Jacqueline Kennedy
A history of Kennedy’s interaction with Carl Anthony’s typescript chapter devoted to her for First Ladies (Vol. II. NY: William Morrow, 1991). Kennedy’s copiously annotated copy in effect creates a third version of the text. 1,500 copies.
19pp., one photographic illustration.6” x 8½” Wrappers, $25
T.S. Eliot
From the Collection of William R. Poole, Q.C.
Near-complete bibliographical collection of T.S. Eliot’s books and contributions – printed and editorial – to books and periodicals. The foundation of the collection was built by Stanley Revell, and then fine-tuned by Canadian lawyer William Poole.
84pp., one color illustration. 6” x 9” Wrappers, $25
Drafts and Fragments
Facsimile Notebooks 1958–1959
Ezra Pound
Facsimile edition of six of Pound’s manuscript notebooks for Drafts & Fragments, presenting Pound’s earliest concept for the Paradiso section that ends his Cantos, in a version so true to the original that the reader will want to touch each page to feel the impression of Pound’s pen in the paper, the dampness of his fresh ink, his embossed address, the pasted-in postage stamps. 500 copies.
Six notebooks and a prefatory volume, 5¾” x 8” Wrappers, housed in cardboard slipcase, $350.
Arches and Angels
Cornelia Foss, Elizabeth Hardwick and Hugh Hardy
Foss’s “vibrant and colorful” memories of Rome; with essays by Hardwick and Hardy. 150 copies; 10 specially bound copies with an original watercolor by Foss.
13pp., six illustrations; 6 ¾” x 9 ¼” Wrappers, $35; Cloth, with original watercolor, $750
The Lives of the Poems: Twelve Drawings on Canvas
Mark Strand, Jorie Graham
Reproduces twelve of Strand’s large poem canvases, with an essay by Graham. Printed in conjunction with an exhibition at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc., East Hampton, July 9 – August 9, 2005. 500 copies, fifty of which are signed.
25pp., thirteen illustrations.12” x 9¼” Wrappers, housed in a cardboard slipcase $350















