The Poetry Library of Marie Bullock - Locus Solus Rare Books

first book
350. GILPIN, LAURA. The Hocus-Pocus of the Universe. Garden City: Doubleday, 1977.
First edition. 8vo, cloth-backed boards. Fine in a price-clipped dust jacket. The poet’s first
book, winner of the Walt Whitman Award sponsored by the Academy. This is a meaningful
presentaion copy, inscribed by Gilpin to Mrs. Bullock. Laid in is a wonderful pre-publication
letter, discussing the appearance of the book and the award. $175
351. GLUECK, JOYCE. The Gothic Look: Poems. (Cambridge, Mass.): Privately Printed, 1957.
First edition. 8vo, cloth-backed decorative boards. Just about fine in the original glassine
wrapper with a touch of wear. A posthumous tribute volume gathering samples from
previous books, with an introduction by John Holmes. $20
352. GODDEN, RUMER. In Noah’s Ark. New York: Viking Press, 1949. First edition. 8vo,
cloth-backed boards. Top edge dusty, fine in a lightly sunned dust jacket with a bit of edgewear
and a pair of closed tears, taped. $75
353. GOGARTY, OLIVER [ST. JOHN]. Wild Apples. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison
Smith, (1929). First trade edition, first American edition. 8vo, light blue cloth. Tiny nick to
front pastedown, else fine in a bright, attractive dust jacket, darkened somewhat on the spine
and with a tiny closed tear to the rear panel. Preceded by a Dublin edition of only 50 copies. $75
354. GOGARTY, OLIVER ST. JOHN. Elbow Room. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1939. First edition.
8vo, cloth-backed boards. A touch of soil toward the base of the spine, else a fine, uncut,
bright and fresh copy in original glassine, lightly chipped. One of 450 copies, the entire
edition. $450
355. GOGARTY, OLIVER ST. JOHN. Intimations. New York: Abelard Press, (1950). First
edition. 8vo, blue cloth. Near fine in a lightly rubbed, spine faded dust jacket with a folded
tear to the rear panel. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front flyleaf: “Inscribed for George
A. Zabriskie by Oliver St. John Gogarty.” The recipient, a longtime President of the New
York Historical Society, was also the author of a popular drink-mixing manual, The Bon
Vivant’s Companion. Gogarty, himself a noted bon vivant, was the model for “stately, plump
Buck Mulligan” in Joyce’s Ulysses. $125
356. GOGARTY, OLIVER ST. JOHN. Collected Poems. (New York): Devin-Adair Company,
(1954). First American edition. 8vo, blue and gray cloth. Fine in a lightly sunned dust jacket
with a few tiny nicks and a bit of rubbing. Presentation copy, inscribed by Gogarty on the
front flyleaf to Mrs. Bullock. Includes prefaces by W.B. Yeats, A.E., and Horace Reynolds. $100
357. GOLL, IVAN. Chansons de France. Dessin de Fernand Leger. (New York: Gotham Book
Mart, 1940). First edition. 8vo, printed wrappers, sewn. Toning toward edges of covers, a
couple of small nicks, rumpling to upper corner, a delicate pamphlet. One of 700 numbered
copies on Chippendale Offset paper, the entire edition. A presentation copy, inscribed by
Goll on the inside front wrapper to Mrs. Bullock. Part of the series called Poet’s Messages,
produced as a gesture of sustenance for poetry and art during wartime. With two copies of
the original prospectus inserted. $400
358. GOLL, CLAIRE AND IVAN. Love Poems. With 8 Drawings by Marc Chagall. (New York):
Hemispheres, (1947). First edition. 8vo, printed wrappers. Light tanning to spine and edges
of wrappers, internally fine and bright. One of 600 numbered copies in the regular issue
(there were an additional 40 signed copies on Vélin). This copy bears a presentation
inscription, signed by both Golls with their names intertwined, to Mrs. Bullock. Laid in is a
fragment of the original mailing envelope with the Golls’ return address in Brooklyn
Heights. $350
359. GRAVES, ROBERT. The Penny Fiddle: Poems for Children. Illustrated by Edward
Ardizzone. Garden City: Doubleday, (1961). First American edition. 8vo, green cloth. Just
about fine in a lightly sunned dust jacket with a bit of wear to the extremities. An advance
review copy, with slip. $75