The Poetry Library of Marie Bullock - Locus Solus Rare Books

188. CUMMINGS, E.E. 73 Poems. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, (1962). First edition.
8vo, cloth-backed boards. Fine in a lightly spine faded dust jacket with a couple of tiny nicks
and rubs. $150
189. CUMMINGS, E.E. Adventures in Value: Fifty Photographs by Marion Morehouse. Text
by E.E. Cummings. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, (1962). First edition. 4to, black
cloth. Very light toning, near fine in a lightly rubbed dust jacket with a touch of wear to
extremities. $100
190. CUNNINGHAM, J.V. What Strangers, What Welcome: A Sequence of Short Poems.
Denver: Alan Swallow, (1964). First edition. 12mo, printed wrappers. As new. One of “about
1000 copies.” $35
191. D[OOLITTLE], H[ILDA]. Bid Me to Live. (A Madrigal). New York: Grove Press, (1960).
First edition. 8vo, cloth. Spine faded very slightly, else fine in crisp but faintly sunned dust
jacket with a touch of wear to the spinal extremities. With a good ALS to Mrs. Bullock from
Norman Holmes Pearson, H.D.’s champion and literary executor, referring to this book as
well as to the Award of Merit that H.D. was about to receive from the American Academy of
Arts and Letters, the first time it was granted to a woman. $75
192. D[OOLITTLE], H[ILDA]. Helen in Egypt. Introduction by Horace Gregory. New York:
Grove Press, (1961). First edition. 8vo, cloth. Fine in a lightly used dust jacket with a bit of
wear at the top of the spine. With the publisher’s compliments card laid in, signed by
Norman Holmes Pearson. $50
193. D[OOLITTLE], H[ILDA]. Hermetic Definition. (New York): New Directions, (1972).
First edition. 8vo, wrappers. Fine. Posthumous collection, edited by Norman Holmes
Pearson, inscribed by Pearson to Mrs. Bullock. $30
194. DAVENPORT, RUSSELL W. My Country. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1944. First
edition. 8vo, cloth. Fine in a lightly worn dust jacket with a small snag to the spine. With a
lengthy presentation inscription dated October 26, 1944, and a one-page autograph letter to
Mrs. Bullock tipped to the front pastedown. $50
195. DAVIDSON, DONALD. The Long Street. Engravings by Theresa Sherrer Davidson.
Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1961. First edition. 8vo, boards. Fine in a lightly
sunstruck slipcase, few marks. $50
196. DAVISON, PETER. The Breaking of the Day. Foreword by Dudley Fitts. New Haven:
Yale University Press, 1964. First edition. 8vo, cloth. Fine in a lightly rubbed dust jacket
with a few small closed edge-tears. The poet’s first book, part of the Yale Younger Poets
series. $35
197. DAY LEWIS, CECIL. Country Comets. London: Martin Hopkinson, 1928. First edition.
Small 8vo, green boards with paper label. Foxing to slim foredge, slight soil, else fine in
original glassine. $175
198. DAY LEWIS, C. Collected Poems 1929-1933 & A Hope for Poetry. New York: Random
House, (1935). First American edition. 8vo, brown cloth. Fine in a lightly sunned dust jacket
with just a touch of wear to the ends of the spine and a small chip near the upper front hinge.
$50
199. DAY LEWIS, C. Noah and the Waters. London: Hogarth Press, 1936. First edition. 8vo,
yellow cloth. Slight darkening toward edges and on spine, endsheets lightly offset, else fine
in a lightly darkened dust jacket with some rubbing to extremities. One of 2000 copies in the
trade edition. Woolmer 383b. $125
200. DEACON, SAMUEL. On The Choice of a Wife, Illustrated by Many Curious Examples .
. . Leicester: J.F. Winks, (1836). First edition. 16mo, original pale plum cloth with paper
label. An odd volume penned by an evangelical minister, although only published
posthumously, treating the title subject with surprising wit. $150