The Poetry Library of Marie Bullock - Locus Solus Rare Books

signed by Masters, the entire edition. This copy has been additionally inscribed by Masters
on the first leaf: “For Marie Bullock, ‘For there is no joy like reading Homer in the Spring.’
Edgar Lee Masters, October 27, ’36.” Publisher’s prospectus loosely inserted. $175
605. MASTERS, EDGAR LEE. Poems of People. New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1936. First
edition. 8vo, blue cloth. Tips bumped, covers lightly rubbed, very good, without dust jacket.
With a warm presentation inscription, dated 1938, to Mrs. Bullock. $75
606. MASTERS, EDGAR LEE. The New World. New York: D. Appleton, 1937. First edition.
8vo, black cloth. Tips a trifle bumped, else fine in dust jacket, three creases on spine. $40
607. MASTERS, EDGAR LEE. More People. New York: D. Appleton, 1939. First edition. 8vo,
blue cloth. Fine in a very lightly sunned dst jacket, with a bit of soil. $40
608. MATHEWS, J. CHESLEY; FERGUSSON, FRANCIS; CIARDI, JOHN. Dante Alighieri:
Three Lectures. Washington: Library of Congress, 1965. First edition. 8vo, wrappers. Fine.
Lectures in the Gertrude Clarke Whittall series, with the LC publicity materials laid in. $25
609. MAXTON, HUGH. The Noise of the Fields: Poems 1970-1975. (Dublin): Dolmen Press,
(1976). First edition. 8vo, wrappers. Very slight fading, fine. Poet’s first book, a Poetry
Book Society selection, with the PBS bulletin laid in. $25
PRINTED BY JOHN JOHNSON
610. McCORD, DAVID. Oxford Nearly Visited: A Fantasy. Cambridge, Massachusetts:
Cygnet Press/Oxford University Press, 1929. First edition. 8vo, printed wrappers. A touch of
wear to yap-edged wrappers, else very fine and bright, uncut. One of 300 numbered copies
printed on hand-made paper by John Johnson, the entire edition. $100
611. McCORD, DAVID. Every Time I Climb a Tree. Illustrated by Marc Simont. Boston:
Little Brown & Co. (1967). Second printing. 4to, library binding, cloth. Fine in used dust
jacket. A children’s book, inscribed by McCord on the title page to Mrs. Bullock. $50
612. McCRAE, JOHN. In Flanders Fields and Other Poems. With An Essay in Character by Sir
Andrew McPhail. New York: G.P. Putnam’s, 1919. First edition. 8vo, dark blue cloth, t.e.g.
Slight rubbing, else fine in the scarce dust jacket, spine-darkened and with a few tiny chips,
as well as a tape-mend at the crown; early bookseller’s ticket pasted to the front flap. Some
of the most popular poetry to emerge from the First World War, including the famous title
poem. This copy belonged to the collector Paul Lemperley, whose bookplate is on the front
pastedown. $225
613. McKNIGHT, FLOYD. Buildings: A Philosophic Meditation in Verse. With Drawings by
Samjester Gelfand. New York: The Arts and Press Guild, 1935. First edition. 8vo, cloth.
Edges of blue cloth sun bleached, very good. $20
614. McKNIGHT, FLOYD. X Equals . . . Drawing by Gilbert Church-Affeldt. New York: The
Arts and Press Guild, 1937. First edition. 8vo, cloth-backed boards. Near fine in original
glassine jacket, chipped. With the publisher’s prospectus laid in on, upon which McKnight
has penned an inscription to Mrs. Bullock. The book is printed on vari-colored sheets of
paper, mimicking the original mansucript. $30
615. MEARS, ALICE MONKS. Brief Enterprise. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1945. First edition.
8vo, cloth. Fine in an edgeworn dust jacket with one tape mend. One of 1250 copies in the
edition, the 1945 prize volume of the League to Support Poetrry. $25
616. MEARS, ALICE MONKS. Sea and the Nearer Rocks. N.P.: Gray Moose Press, 1959.
First edition. 8vo, wrappers. Fine. One of 250 numbered copies, the entire edition, designed
by Joan Drew who also hand-printed the covers in three colors. $25
617. MENASHE, SAMUEL. To Open. New York: Viking Press, (1974). First edition. 8vo, clothbacked
boards. Fine in a lightly marked dust jacket. Inscribed on the half title page: “For