Recent Arrivals from Abaculus Books

Hokusai: One Hundred Poets by Peter Morse 222 pages. Color and monochromatic plates. Oblong 4to, stamped red cloth, dust jacket. New York: George Braziller, (1989). First edition. Fine.

Questions Boys Ask by David W. Armstrong 160 pages. 8vo, stamped light grey cloth. New York: E. P. Dutton, (1964). Seventh printing. Ex-library, some wear to covers, some light staining to some pages, hinges reinforced. A good copy.

The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs Illustrated in black and white by J. Allen St. John. 227 pages + advertisements. 8vo, stamped green cloth, missing dust jacket. New York: A.L. Burt Company, (1916). Early American reprint. Ex-library, cloth frayed at edges, back end page torn, hinges reinforced. Contents clean and complete. A fair copy.

Rex Lee Night Flyer by Thomson Burtis Frontispiece. 239 pages + advertisements. 8vo, green cloth with orange and black decoration, no jacket. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, (1929). First edition. With an exquisite bookplate, "Ray Nelson". Cloth discolored at front cover near near spine. A very good copy.

The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks 240 pages. 12mo, paper wrappers. Greenwich: Fawcett Crest Books, (1963). First edition. Fawcett T1171. Cover photograph by the author. Slight staining to covers, pages slightly warped. A very good copy.

Claes Oldenburg: Mouse Museum/Ray Gun Wing by Coosje van Bruggen Profusely illustrated in color and black & white. 136 pages. Oblong 4to, paper wrappers. Cologne: Museum Ludwig, 1979. First edition. Missing dust jacket, cover illustration and spine label from dj are affixed to paper wrappers, internally clean and complete. A very good copy.

Cape Dorset: A Decade of Eskimo prints and recent sculptures 81 black and white plates, essays by James Houston. In French and English. 4to, staple bound exhibition catalog. Ottawa: The National Gallery of Canada/The Canadian Eskimo Art Committee, January 1967. Covers lightly worn, a very good(+) copy.

The Price of Stone & Earlier Poems by Richard Murphy 190 pages. 8vo, blue cloth, dust wrapper. Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press, (1985). First American edition. DJ lightly sunned and with a small tear. A fine copy in a very good(+) wrapper.

God, with the words of Swami Sivananda, Himalayas by Atman (Peter Max) Illustrated in color. Slim square 16mo, pictorial boards. New York: William Morrow & Sons, (1970). First edition. Faint scuff on back cover, a very good(+) copy.

The Wood Beyond The World by William Morris Facsimile of the 1894 Kelmscott Press edition. 261 pages. 8vo, paperback, printed in black and red. New York: Viking, (1972). A very good(+) copy.

Meeting the British by Paul Muldoon 64 pages. 8vo, paper wrappers. Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press, (1987). First American edition. Fine.

Poems 1963 - 1983 by Michael Longley 206 pages. 8vo, paper wrappers. Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press, (1987). First US edition. Clean and bright, a fine copy.

The Astrakhan Cloak by Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill Translations by Paul Muldoon. 103 pages. 8vo, blue cloth, glossy wrappers. Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press, (1993). First US edition. Fine.

The Astrakhan Cloak by Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill Translations by Paul Muldoon. 103 pages. 8vo, glossy paper wrappers. Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press, (1993). First US edition. Fine.

Pharaoh's Daughter by Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill Revised edition with translations by many celebrated poets. 159 pages. 8vo, glossy paper wrappers. Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press, (1993). First US edition. Fine.

Mount Eagle by John Montague 75 pages. 8vo, brown cloth, lacking wrapper. Winston Salem: Wake Forest University Press, (1989). First US edition. Fine.

The Hunt by Night by Derek Mahon 63 pages. 8vo, paper wrappers. Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press, 1983. First US edition. Inscribed by Mahon on title page: "For __ with very best wishes - Derek 17/2/91". Clean and bright, a fine copy.

On Ballycastle Beach by Medbh McGuckian 59 pages. 8vo, paper wrappers. Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press, 1988. First edition. Fine.

Philippe Jaccottet Selected Poems with translations by Derek Mahon 160 pages. 8vo, green cloth, dust wrapper. Winston Salem: Wake Forest University Press, 1988. First US edition. Wrapper ever-so slightly sunned. A fine copy in a near fine wrapper.

The Magdalene Sermon and Earlier Poems by Eilean Ni Chuilleanain 63 pages. 8vo, blue cloth, dust wrapper. Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press, (1991). First US edition. Signed by the author on title page. A fine copy in a fine wrapper.