Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited Edition, one of 250 copies. "Privately Printed for W. K. Bixby." Printed by D. B. Updike of the Merrymount Press. Original publisher's blue paper boards backed with black cloth. Gilt lettering on spine. Gilt decorative initials ("WKB") on front cover. 8" x 10 1/2." Unpaginated, sixteen pages, complete. Pages unopened. Pages are very clean and intact except for some age toning and faint dampstaining limited to bottom margins (not affecting text). Covers are virtually pristine and intact except for slight wear to head and tail of spine, minuscule rubbing, and a faint dampstaining along bottom edges of front and back. A Fine copy. A collection of two poems by Eugene Field, "Seein' Things at Night" and "To M. L. Gray." Printed in facsimile from the original manuscript. Eugene Field, Sr. (1850-1895) was an American author. He became well-known for his essays and children's poetry. Back colophon: "Two hundred and fifty copies of "Two Poems by Eugene Field" were printed for W. K. Bixby by D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston in April 1922."
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, one of 250 copies. 4to. Inscribed by Bixby on ffep to Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Homer t Bolton Landing.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8 in. x 10 1/4 in. One of 250 copies printed for W. K. Bixby by D. B. Updike. Green cloth binding, with gilt initials "WKB" on cover; gilt titling on black spine. Damp staining and wear to spine. Bookplate of Wm G. Mather (1857-1951), a Cleveland, Ohio-based book collector. Inscribed to Mather by Bixby on front fly leaf.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Field, Eugene. Two Poems. Privately Printed By W. K. Bixby/Merrymount Press, Boston, 1922.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near Fine in blue paper boards with black cloth spine. Facsimiles of two poems written by Fields from the original manuscripts--'Seein' Things at Night' &'To M.L. Gray'. Poetry
Seller: Nightingale Books, stoughton, MA, U.S.A.