The Poetry Library of Marie Bullock - Locus Solus Rare Books

a bit soiled and shelf-rubbed, spine darkened slightly. One of 150 numbered copies, the
entire edition. $400
93. BRIDGES, ROBERT. Eros & Psyche: A Poem in Twelve Measures. London: George Bell,
1885. First edition. 8vo, vellum-backed blue boards. Covers soiled and with slight loosening
of the vellum, else near fine. $75
94. BRIDGES, ROBERT. The Shorter Poems. London: Geo. Bell, 1890. First edition 12mo,
maroon cloth; tipped in errata slip and publisher’s note. Covers rubbed, very good only. $50
95. BRIDGES, ROBERT. Achilles in Scyros. London: Geo. Bell, 1892. First edition. 12mo,
original boards. Sun-darkening to spine and edges, covers rubbed, else near fine. One of 156
large paper copies. $75
96. BRIDGES, ROBERT. Britannia Victrix. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1919). First
edition. 12mo, original printed brown wrappers. Slight creasing, else fine, no tears. Housed
in a custom slipcase. One of only 350 copies printed. The poet laureate’s verse in honor of
the Armistice. $100
97. BRIDGES, ROBERT. The Testament of Beauty: A Poem in Four Books. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1930. First American edition. 8vo, white cloth. Slight soil to top
edge, else fine in a lightly sunned but bright and crisp dust jacket, with some slight marks to
the ends of the spine and the original glassine wrapper. $100
98. BROCK, EDWIN. Invisibility is the Art of Survival. (New York): New Directions,
(1972). First edition 8vo, cloth. Fine in dust jacket. With a note in Mrs. Bullock’s hand
identifying the book as a gift from James Laughlin, the publisher. $20
first book
99. BROOKE, RUPERT. Poems. London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., 1911. First edition. 8vo, dark
blue cloth with printed spine label. One tip bumped, spine label very slightly discolored, else
fine, bright, and tight, albeit without dust jacket. The poet’s first book of poems, of which
only 500 copies were printed. An attractive copy in a custom half-morocco slipcase. $850
100. BROOKE, RUPERT. 1914 and Other Poems. London: Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, 1915.
First edition. 8vo, photographic portrait frontispiece; dark blue cloth with printed spine label.
Neat leather booklabel on front pastedown, with corresponding offsetting, very slight
darkening and very shallow chipping to the spine label, else fine and bright, without dust
jacket. $500
101. BROOKE, RUPERT. The Old Vicarage, Grantchester. With a Woodcut by Noel Rooke.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1916. First separate edition. 12mo, original printed gray
wrappers, oversized. Very faint foxing, slight dent to wrappers, else quite fine and fresh,
enclosed in custom chemise With the bookplate of Thomas B. Mosher on the inside front
wrapper. $250
102. [BROOKE, RUPERT]. DRINKWATER, JOHN. Rupert Brooke: An Essay. London: Printed
for the Author at the Chiswick Press, 1916. First edition. 12mo, original blue paper-covered
boards with printed labels. Offsetting to endsheets, very faint lightening toward edges of
blue covers, else a lovely copy of a delicate book. One of only 115 numbered copies in the
edition, a moving eulogy of Brooke, who was killed in action. $200
103. BROOKS, OLIVE. Panama Quadrant. New York: Bookman Associates, (1960). First
edition. 8vo, cloth. Fine in a crisp graphic dust jacket with a hint of sun and one small closed
tear to the rear panel. Inscribed and signed by Brooks on the front endpaper with a verse
quote. $35
104. BROUGHTON, JAMES. Tidings. San Francisco: Pearce & Bennett, (1965). First edition.
Large 8vo, natural cloth. Fine in a faintly faded but bright and fresh dust jacket. One of 500
copies, printed at the Pterodactyl Press. This is a review copy, with publisher’s slip laid in. $75