The Poetry Library of Marie Bullock - Locus Solus Rare Books

edge-worn dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by Spellman on the front flyleaf for the
Bullocks. $50
858. SPENDER, STEPHEN. Poems. New York: Random House, 1934. First American edition.
8vo, blue cloth. Fine in a lightly chipped dust jacket with some sun-darkening to spine and
edges. one tape mend to rear. Signed and dated by Spender (1994) on the title page. $100
859. SPENDER, STEPHEN. Vienna. London: Faber and Faber, (1934). First edition. 8vo, red
cloth. Bookplate, spine faded a shade, else a very good copy, without dust jacket. Signed and
dated (1994) by Spender on the title page. $75
860. SPENDER, STEPHEN. The Still Centre. London: Faber & Faber, (1939). First edition.
8vo, red cloth. Faint foxing, edges bumped and a bit soiled, else near fine in an edge-worn
dust jacket, mended with tape at the extremities. $75
861. SPENDER, STEPHEN. Inscriptions. [London: Poetry Book Society, 1958]. First edition.
8vo, printed wrappers, stapled. A bit of rumpling, else fine. Facsimile of the poet’s hand.
One of 1100 copies. $40
862. SPENDER, STEPHEN. Chaos and Control in Poetry. Washington: Library of Congress,
1966. First edition. 8vo, wrappers. Fine. Lecture delivered by Spender as Poetry Consultant
at the Library of Congress. With LC publicity materials laid in. $30
863. SPENDER, STEPHEN. The Magic Flute. Pictures by Beni Montresor. New York: G.P.
Putnam’s Sons, (1966). First American edition. Oblong 4to, cloth. Fine in a lightly used dust
jacket, one small nick to rear panel. With the printed invitation to the publication party laid
in. $50
864. [SPEYER, LEONORA]. Montaigne. Essais Choisis. Preface d’Emile Faguet. London: J.M.
Dent, 1911. 12mo,. Brown leather gilt. Front cover detached, edges worn, in a custom
morocco-backed clamshell box, with a Pegasus motif on spine. Inscribed on the first leaf:
“To dear Leonora Speyer, with my old love and my new lyric blessing, Edwin Markham,
Dec. 25, 1932.” Laid in is a nice autograph letter from Speyer’s daughter to Mrs. Bullock,
passing the book along her as a remembrance of her mother. $150
865. SPEYER, LEONORA. A Canopic Jar. New York: E.P. Dutton, (1921). First edition. 8vo,
blue cloth. Covers dulled and slightly soiled, good. $25
866. SPEYER, LEONORA. Naked Heel. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1931). First edition. 8vo,
decorative cloth. Covers rubbed, spine label gone. Inscribed by Speyer to Mrs. Bullock. $40
867. SPEYER, LEONORA. Slow Wall: Poems New & Selected. New York: Alfred A. Knopf,
1939. First edition. 8vo, blue cloth. Near fine, without dust jacket. Laid in are three
autograph letters signed by Speyer to Mrs. Bullock. $50
SPEYER, LEONORA. See nos. 64, 537, 892 & 898
868. (SPIRAL PRESS). Arnold and Janetta Whitridge: An Anniversary Bouquet, April 25
1918 Paris, April 25 1968 New York. (New York: Spiral Press, 1968). First edition. 8vo,
original printed wrappers, saddle-stitched. Small mark to title page, fine. One of an
unspecified, but assuredly small, number of copies printed for private use as an anniversary
keepsake. Nicely calligraphic title page; the text constitutes a series of quotations on
marriage from Dante to Dostoevsky, printed in black and red. Although this book is not
recorded in Cronenwett’s recent Spiral Press bibliography, the title page is nevertheless
reproduced as an illustration to the ephemera section. $75
869. STAFFORD, WILLIAM; JACOBSEN, JOSEPHINE. Leftovers & From Anne to
Marianne. Washington: Library of Congress, 1973. First edition. 8vo, wrappers. Fine. Two
lectures presented at the Library of Congress. $30