The Poetry Library of Marie Bullock - Locus Solus Rare Books

582. MASEFIELD, JOHN. The Bluebells and Other Verse. London: William Heinemann, (1961).
First edition. 8vo, green cloth. Very slight lean, else fine in dust jacket. One of a small
number of copies used for review in the United States, with inserted publicity materials and a
review slip from Masefield’s U.S. publisher, Macmillan. Inscribed and signed by Masefield
with a few lines of verse, dated July 8, 1961, two months before U.S. publication. $175
583. MASON-MANHEIM, MADELINE. Hill Fragments. With a Preface by Arthur Symons and
Five Drawings by Kahlil Gibran. New York: Brentano’s, 1925. First edition. 8vo, black
cloth. Some toning to endsheets, covers very lightly rubbed, without dust jacket. Presentation
copy, warmly inscribed: “For Marie, with Madeline’s love, 1936. ‘Hold this little thought |
Within your hand | Feeling its better part | A-Tremble in your spirit.’” With three good
autograph letters from Mason to Mrs. Bullock laid in. $100
584. MASON, MADELINE. The Cage of Years. Illustrations by Theodore Conrath. New York:
Bond Wheelwright Company, 1949. First edition. 8vo, cloth-backed decorative boards. Spine
slightly faded, stamping dulled, else fine. Nicely printed on laid paper by the Elm Tree Press
in Woodstock, Vermont. A presentation copy: “To my dear Marie, in loving memory of
many years of friendship and of work together for poetry’s sake. Madeline Mason. ‘Poetry
says it best.’” With a pair of autograph letters signed by Mason to Mrs. Bullock loosely
inserted. $35
585. MASON, MADELINE. At the Ninth Hour: A Sonnet Sequence in a New Form. With
Introductory Notes on the Sonnet. Washington, D.C.: University Press of Washington D.C.,
(1958). 8vo, cloth. Fine in a rubbed dust jacket. $50
586. MASON, MADELINE. At the Ninth Hour: A Sonnet Sequence in a New Form. With
Introductory Notes On the Sonnet. Washington, D.C.: University Press of Washington D.C.,
(1958). First edition. 8vo, full brown calf. Wear to corners, chip from top of spine, joints and
edges rather brittle and splitting in places. One of fifty copies in the “Holograph Edition” for
subscribers, with a sonnet from the book penned by Mason to the front free endpaper. In
addition, the poet has inscribed this copy to Mrs. Bullock, the original subscriber. Scarce. $150
587. MASTERS, EDGAR LEE. Maximilian: A Play in Five Acts. Boston: Richard G. Badger /
The Gorham Press, 1902. First edition. 8vo, original dark gray wrappers with printed label.
But for a few tiny chips to the wrapper-edges and a touch of soil, a fine copy. The scarce
wrappered issue of Masters’s second book. $250
588. MASTERS, EDGAR LEE. The New Star Chamber and Other Essays. Chicago: The
Hammersmark Publishing Co., 1904. First edition. 8vo, original cloth-backed boards. A bit
of discoloration to spine label, covers a trifle rubbed, one bump, fine. Essays on politics and
historical figures. $125
589. MASTERS, EDGAR LEE. Spoon River Anthology. New York: Macmillan, 1915. First
edition. 8vo, slate blue cloth stamped in gilt and black. Light rubbing to extremities, faintest
hint of darkening to the spine, else a fine, bright copy, in custom slipcase. The first issue,
measuring exactly 7/8” across the top. This copy belonged to the poet and reviewer Clement
Wood, whose 1915 ownership signature is on the front flyleaf. In addition, Wood has
annotated the text at various points, noting his likes and dislikes, both in reference to
individual poems and to specific lines and strophes. Wood has pasted a copy of his
contemporary review of the book for a New York newspaper to the rear endpapers. An
interesting association copy of a classic of modern American poetry.
$1,250
590. MASTERS, EDGAR LEE. The Great Valley. New York: Macmillan, 1916. First edition.
8vo, black cloth. Light toning to endsheets, covers a trifle rubbed, near fine. Inscribed to
Mrs. Bullock, with an allusion to the Ouija Board. $75
591. MASTERS, EDGAR LEE. Toward the Gulf. New York: Macmillan, 1918. First edition.
8vo, blue cloth. Fine in a chipped dust jacket with a few edge-tears and a tape-mend at the
top of the spine. Signed by Masters on the front flyleaf. $175