The Poetry Library of Marie Bullock - Locus Solus Rare Books

DERRYDALE PRESS
42. BARBER, JOEL D. ’Long Shore. Foreword by Gordon Grand. Illustrations by Arthur D.
Fuller. New York: Derrydale Press, (1939). First edition. 12mo, full red leather stamped in
gilt. Very fine in the original tissue wrapper (torn) and box. One of 750 numbered copies
signed by Barber, the entire edition. With a small presentation card, inscribed by Barber,
loosely inserted. $500
43. BARBER, MELANIE GORDON. Ribbons to the Sun. Taconic, Connecticut: Bardon Press,
(1981). First edition. 8vo, cloth. Light sun-fading, else near fine. One of 400 clothbound
copies. Presentation copy, inscribed on the title page by Barber to the Bullocks, and with a
lengthy ALS to Mrs. Bullock laid in. $30
44. [BARKER, GEORGE] Elegy on Spain. (Manchester: Contemporary Bookshop/Cloister Press
Limited), 1939. First edition. 8vo, red cloth with printed label, frontispiece photograph
tipped in. Top edge roughly bumped, with some wear to cloth, else fine and bright. One of an
unknown number of copies, anonymously issued. The frontispiece is a haunting image of the
head of a dead child. Uncommon. $150
45. BARNARD, SEYMOUR. A Child’s Garden of Relatives. Illustrated by Edna Eicke. New
York: Rinehart & Company, (1950). First edition 8vo, cloth. Fine in a lightly sunned dust
jacket. Children’s poems for adults, colorfully illustrated; produced by the Chanticleer Press.
$40
46. BARTLETT, ALICE HUNT. Six Historic and Romantic Leaders Who Visioned
World Peace. . . Poetic Dramas. New York: Brentano’s, 1946. First edition. 8vo, cloth.
Fine in a sun-darkened dust jacket with a few small tears and a rather rough snag across the
spine. Verse dramas about Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, William the Conqueror,
Catherine the Great, George Washington, and Napoleon Bonaparte. Inscribed by Bartlett on
the title page to Mrs.Bullock. $45
SPIRAL PRESS
47. BAYNE, LOUISE. The Fruit of Years. New York: Spiral Press, 1966. First edition. 8vo,
cloth. Fine in a very lightly used dust jacket. Poems emerging from the experience of
psychoanalysis. $30
48. BEER, PATRICIA. Loss of the Magyar and Other Poems. London: Longmans, Green,
(1959). 8vo, red cloth. Fine in original acetate jacket; not issued in printed jacket, price label
tipped in at front endpaper. The poet’s first book, a Poetry Book Society selection, with the
PBS newsletter laid in. $50
49. BEER, PATRICIA. The Survivors. (London): Longmans, (1963). First edition. 8vo, yellow
cloth. Slight soil, near fine, without dust jacket. $25
first book
50. BENET, STEPHEN VINCENT. Five Men and Pompey: A Series of Dramatic Portraits.
Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1915. First edition. 8vo, original violet wrappers over
boards. Very faint lightening toward edges; tiny spot rubbed from the base of the spine, else
fine and bright in a custom slipcase. The poet’s first book. $450
51. BENET, STEPHEN VINCENT. Young Adventure: A Book of Poems. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1918. First edition. 8vo, cloth-backed boards. Some toning to poor quality
paper, near fine in an edgeworn dust jacket, darkened on spine, with a couple of small chips
and an internal tape mend. The poet’s second book. $100
52. BENET, STEPHEN VINCENT. Heavens and Earth. New York: Henry Holt, 1920. First
edition. 8vo, purple boards. Edges a bit sunstruck, near fine in a rubbed dust jacket with a bit
of wear, one tape mend at the crown, and abrasions to the spine and front panel. $150
53. BENET, STEPHEN VINCENT. The Ballad of William Sycamore 1790-1880. New York:
Edmund Byrne Hackett, (1923). First edition. 12mo, boards. Slight split to front hinge near
base of spine, else fine and bright in custom slipcase. $100