Z-site: A Companion to the Works of Louis Zukofsky
 
LZ Library List Compiled by Celia Zukofsky

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Author Title Publication Information Date Ascribed Inscription/Notes Characterization of Marginalia Degree of Damage

 

Agenda Magazine

Vol. 14 No. 2, Summer 1976. Ed. William Cookson

 

dated Oct. 20, 1976

none

ruined

 

Agenda Magazine, David Jones Special Issue

Vol. 11 No. 4 & Vol. 12 No. 1, Autumn-Winter 1973/74

 

rec’d May 30/74 (inscribed “& C’s & P’s see p. 102”)

none

ruined

 

Agenda Magazine, David Jones Special Issue

Vol. 5 Nos. 1-3, Spring-Summer 1967. Ed. William Cookson

 

rec’d 1/25/68

none

ruined

 

Agenda Magazine, Special Issue in Honour of Ezra Pound’s 85th Birthday

Vol. 8 Nos. 3-4, Autumn-Winter 1970. Ed. William Cookson

 

“p. 82, 119, 130-7, 224”
“& P’s & C’s, Jan 8, 1971”;
includes Guy Davenport’s review of L.Z’s “A”13-21 and Catullus

none

ruined

 

Agenda Magazine, Special Issue on Myth

Vol. 15 Nos. 2-3, Summer-Autumn, 1977. Ed. William Cookson

 

rec’d Nov. 21/77

none

ruined

 

Agenda Magazine, Special Issue on Thomas Hardy

Vol. 10 Nos. 2-3, Spring-Summer 1972. Guest ed. Donald Davie

1973, Feb. 20

none

none

ruined

 

Agenda Magazine, Wyndham Lewis Special Issue

Vol. 7 No. 3-Vol. 8 No. 1, Autumn-Winter 1969-70. Ed. William Cookson

1970, Xmas

none

none

none

 

American Poetry Archive, Audio Tape Collection, 1954-1977 (Catalogue)

The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University

 

none

none

none

 

American Poetry Archive, second series (1977-78) (Catalogue)

The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University

 

none

none

none

 

Aprocrypha

World’s Classics, Oxford UP, 1960

1965

none

none

none

 

Beowulf: with the Finnesburg Fragment

Ed. C.L. Wrenn; D.C. Heath & Co., 1953

1953

none

much marginalia

ruined

 

Berlitz Self-Teacher Russian

Grosset & Dunlap, 1951

 

none

none

none

 

Book of the Dead, The

Intro. E.A. Wallis Budge; University Books, 1960

1964

none

none

ruined

 

Bright’s Anglo-Saxon Reader

Revised & enlarged J.R. Hulbert; Henry Hold & Co., 1957

1957

none

none

ruined

 

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Handbooks

 

 

volumes: Breeding Ornamental Plants; Flowering Trees; House Plants; Trained and Sculptured Plants

none

ruined

 

Buddhist Scriptures

Trans. Edward Conze; Penguin Books, 1959

1959

none

none

none

 

Century Dictionary & Cyclopedia of Names, The, 10 Vols.

Prepared under superintendence of William Dwight Whitney; Century Co., 1895

 

“10 vols. for Paul ca. 1950”

none

mild damage

 

Chinese Paintings

A Picture Book, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1940

 

none

none

ruined

 

Chinese Verse

Trans. R. Kotewall & N.L. Smith; Penguin Books, 1962

 

none

none

ruined

 

Common Weeds of the United States

Prepared by U.S. Dept. of Agriculture; Dover, 1971

1971, Aug. 30

“C’s and P’s”

none

ruined

 

Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature

Oxford UP, 1942

 

none

none

ruined

 

Controversy of Poets, A

Eds. Paris Leary & Robert Kelly; Anchor Book, Doubleday, 1965

1965, July 9

“desk”

none

mild damage

 

Conversation Dictionary: English-Italian & Italian-English Vocabulary & Grammatical Appendix

Davit Nutt, London

 

none

none

none

 

Dictionary of American Slang

Ed. H. Wentworth & S.T. Flexner; Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1960

1970

none

none

ruined

 

Dictionary of Art and Artists, A

Ed. Peter & Linda Murray; Penguin Books, 1959

 

none

none

ruined

 

Early English Christian Poetry

Trans. Charles W. Kennedy; Oxford UP, 1952

1952

none

none

none

 

Elegy and Iambus, Vols. I & II

Trans. J.M. Edmonds;
Loeb Classical Library, Harvard UP, 1961

 

Vol. I: remains of Callinus – Antimachus
Vol. II: remains of Plato – Scythinus; The Anacreontea

none

ruined

 

Encyclopedia of Gardening

Ed. N. Taylor; Houghton Mifflin, 1961

1969

“Celia’s, Louis Zukofsky, 1969”

none

none

 

English Poets, The, Vols. I & III

Intro. Matthew Arnold; Macmillan, 1907, 1908

1924 (vol I), 1943 (vol III)

Vol. I: Chaucer to Donne
Vol. III: Addison to Blake

none

ruined

 

Equinox, A Gathering of T’ang Poets

Trans. & adaptations David Gordon; Ohio UP, 1975

1975, Sept. 19

“for Louis Zukofsky, a ‘struggler in the desert’ who has become the conductor in ‘A,’ Music of Worlds.” David Gordon

none

ruined

 

Five Migilloth, The

Soncino Press, 1961

1964

none

none

none

 

Funk & Wagnall’s Standard College Dictionary

Harcourt Brace & World, 1963

1963

none

none

none

 

Greek Anthology, The, Vols. I-V

Trans. W.R. Paton; Loeb Classical Library, Vols. I & IV, Harvard UP, 1960, 1963, Vols. II, III & V, G. P. Putnam, 1925, 1926, 1927

1968, Dec. 21 (Vols. I, II, III, V)
1969, Feb. 11 (Vol. IV)

Vol. I: “for Louis’ Christmas and Hanukah, December 1968, love, Joan and Paul”
Vols. II, III, V: “love, Joan and Paul”
contents: Vol. I: Christian Epigrams; Christodorus of Thebes; Cyzicene Epigrams; Proems; Amatory Epigrams; Dedicatory Epigrams;
Vol. II: Sepulchreal Epigrams; Epigrams of St. Gregory;
Vol. III: Declamatory Epigrams;
Vol. IV: Hortatory & Admonitory Epigrams; Convivial & Satirical Epigrams; Strato’s “Musa Puerilis”;
Vol. V: Epigrams in Various Metres; Riddles; Miscellanea; Epigrams of the Planudean Anthology

none

ruined (Vol. II)

 

Greek Bucolic Poets, The

Trans. J.M. Edmonds;
Loeb Classical Library, Harvard UP, 1960

 

Contents: Theocratus; Bion; Moschus; Megara; The Dead Adonis; The Pattern-Poems

none

severe damage

 

Greek Mathematical Works, Vols. I & II

Trans. Ivor Thomas;
Loeb Classical Library, Harvard UP, 1967, 1968

1970

“Vol. I: Thales to Euclid”
“Vol. II: Aristarchus to Pappus”

none

none

 

Handy German-English and English-German Dictionary

David McKay Co.

1970

none

none

none

 

Hebrew Prayer Books (4)

 

1950: (2 books); 1953, 1960

  1. signed L.Z. ca 1960, “from my brother M.E.Z.”; “for Paul”
  2. signed L.Z. ca 1950
  3. signed L.Z. ca 1950, “my father’s, L.Z.”
  4. signed L.Z., ca 1953, “my father-in-law’s, Hyman Thaew’s Bible, L.Z.”; “&C’s & P’s etc”

marginalia dated 8/26/77 in book 3

none

 

Holy Bible, The

King James Version, S. S. Teacher’s Edition, Oxford UP

 

“C’s and Paul’s ’75”

much marginalia

none

 

Holy Bible, The

King James Version, Oxford UP, 1865

 

“desk”

none

none

 

Iceland, The Surprising Island of the Atlantic

Iceland Review, 1977

 

“To Celia & Louis Zukofsky, 1978”

none

ruined

 

Illustrated Pocket Medical Dictionary

Eds. N.L. Hoerr & A. Osol; Blakiston Co., 1952

 

none

none

none

 

Introduction to Haiku: An Anthology of Poems and Poets from Basho to Shiki, An

Trans. H.G. Henderson; Doubleday Anchor Book, 1958

 

none

none

ruined

 

James-Grassi Dictionary of the English & Italian Languages

Regan Publ.

1923

“from S.T. Hecht”

none

none

 

Job

Soncino Press, 1960

1964

none

none

none

 

Kings

Soncino Press, 1961

1964

none

none

none

 

Lacdaela Saga

Trans. from the Icelandic by Muriel A.C. Press; Temple Classics, J.M. Dent, 1906

1924

none

none

none

 

Langensheidt’s Pocket Hebrew Dictionary to the Old Testament

Barnes & Noble, 1961

1970

none

none

none

 

Larousse Dictionary: Nouveau Petit, Illustré

Librarie Larousse

1932

none

none

ruined

 

Lascaux

Caisse Nationale des Monuments Historiques, Paris, France

1957

none

none

ruined

 

London for the Visitor

A Geographia Guide

1969

none

none

ruined

 

Lumen/Avenue A

Vol. I No. 1 (NYC), 1979; Ed. Jim Graham

 

first issue dedicated to L.Z.
contributors: Schourup, Mobilio, Graham, Cernuda, Unger, Pines, Pasolini, Apollinaire, Wright, Savage, Schaefer, D’Adams, Sophocles (Schwerner), Abrams
 “3/10/79 – letter to C.Z. from J. Graham”

none

mild damage

 

Lyra Graeca, Vols. I, II & III

Ed. & trans. J.M. Edmonds;
Loeb Classical Library, Harvard UP, 1958, 1959

 

“Vol. I: Olympus, Eumelus; Terpander; Thaletas; Polymnastus; Alcman; Arion; Sappho; Alcaeus
Vol. II: Echembrotus; Sacadas; Xanthus; Stesichorus; Ibycus; Anacreon; Lasus; Apollodorus; Tynnichus; Telesilla; Simonides; Timocreon
Vol. III: Myrtis-Theano; Fragments; Folk Songs; Drinking Songs”

none

none

 

Mabinogion, The

Trans. Charlotte Guest; Temple Classics, J.M. Dent, 1902

1965

none

marginalia

none

 

Max on View

Max Beerbohm Exhibition

 

none

none

ruined

 

Meaning of the Glorious Koran, The

Trans. M.M. Pickthall; Mentor Book, New American Library, 1953

1953

none

none

none

 

Mirror of Perfection, The

Trans. from the Cottonian by Robert Steele; Temple Classics, J.M. Dent, 1903

1965

none

none

none

 

New Dictionary of Music, A

Ed. Arthur Jacobs; Penguin Books, 1958

 

none

none

none

 

New Directions 15, International Issue

New Directions, 1955

1955

none

none

none

 

New Directions 17

Ed. J. Laughlin; New Directions, 1961

 

“p. 252, for Celia, Louis and Paul, friends and admirers of the only begetter of this exegesis, Jack, 11/26/61”

L.Z. marginalia

ruined

 

Nineteenth Century Russian Drama

Intro. John Gassner; Bantam Books, 1963

 

contents: Pushkin, The Stone Guest; Gogol, The Inspector General; Turgenev, A Month in the Country; Ostrovsky, The Thunderstorm; Tolstoy, The Power of Darkness

none

none

 

Njal’s Saga

Penguin Books, 1960

 

none

none

none

 

Original Mechanical

for L. Z. Autobiography

 

none

none

severe damage

 

Paideuma: Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship

Vol. 4 Nos. 2 & 3, Fall & Winter 1975, U. of Maine, Orono

1976, June 19

“pp. 281, 339, 341, 342, 520, 522, 525”
“for Celia and Paul”

none

ruined

 

Passover Haggadah

 

 

“exclusively produced as a gift to the friends and supporters of the General Israel Orphan’s Home for Girls, Jerusalem, Israel”

none

none

 

Pentateuch and Haftorahs, The

Soncino Press, 1962

1964

“‘A’-14”

none

ruined

 

Persian Miniatures

A Picture Book, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1940

 

none

none

ruined

 

Poem of the Cid

Verse trans. W.S. Merwin; New American Library, 1962

 

none

none

ruined

 

Poems of Today, from 25 Icelandic Poets

Trans. Alan Boucher; Icelandic Review Library, 1974

 

none

none

none

 

Psalms, The

Soncino Press, 1962

1964

none

none

none

 

Queen’s Garland: Chosen Lyrics of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, The

Sel. Fitz Roy Carrington; Duffield & Co., 1906

1943

none

none

none

 

Reading Modern Stories

Key Editions, Scott Foresman & Co., 1955

1955

none

none

ruined

 

Roget’s Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases

World Publ. Co.

 

none

none

ruined

 

Samuel

Soncino Press, 1962

1964

none

none

mild damage

 

Scenes Along the Road

Photos by Ann Charters, poems & comments by Allen Ginsberg; Portents/Gotham Book Mart, 1970

 

“photos of old phantoms, for Louis Zukofsky, 7th Ave., NYC, Nov. 5, 1970 from Allen Ginsberg, RD 2, Cherry Valley, N.Y. 13320, 607-264-6811”

none

ruined

 

Shakespeare Companion, 1564-1964, A

Compiled by F.E. Halliday; Penguin Books, 1964

 

none

none

ruined

 

Tamarisk

Vol. II No. 2, Summer 1978;Ed. Dennis Barone; Ramsey, N.J.

 

“in memory of L. Z.”

none

none

 

Three Eighteenth Century Romances

Intro. H.R. Steeves; Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1959

1960

contents: “The Castle of Otranto”; “Vathek”; “The Romance of the Forest”

none

ruined

 

Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary

G.C. Merriam, 1948

 

none

none

none

 

World Game Editions Dymaxion Sky-Ocean Map

 

 

“signed by Buckminster Fuller, Aug. 28, 1979”

none

ruined

(Zukofsky, Louis)

Envelope of postcards pertaining to “4 Other Countries”

 

1957

contents: 2 from “The Unicorn Tapestries” & “King Arthur Tapestry,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; “Codex Sinaiticus,” British Museum; 3 from “Arles”; 3 from “La Provence Romaine”; 3 from “Milano”; 2 from “Ravenna”

none

none

Adams, Brooks

Law of Civilization and Decay, The

Intro. Charles A Beard; Vintage Books, 1995.

1955

none

none

none

Adams, Charles F. & Henry Adams

Chapters of Erie and Other Essays

James R. Osgood & Co., 1871.

1924

 “For Paul’s library and more stately mansions, Louis, Aug 7/75”

marginalia

none

Adams, Henry

Degradation of the Democratic Dogma, The

Intro. Brooks Adams; Macmillan, 1920

1923

none

marginalia

ruined

Adams, Henry

Education of Henry Adams, The

Intro. James Truslow Adams; Modern Library, 1931.

 

none

much marginalia

none

Adams, Henry

Mont-Saint-Michel & Chartres

Doubleday Anchor Book, 1959

1964

none

none

none

Adams, Henry

Two Novels: Democracy and Esther

Doubleday Anchor Book, 1961

1961

none

none

none

Adams, Henry

United States in 1800, The

Cornell UP, 1957

1957

none

none

severe damage

Aeschylus

Aeschylus, Vols. I & II
[2 copies]

Trans. H.W. Smyth; Loeb Classical Library, Harvard UP, 1963

 

Vol. I: Suppliant Maidens; Persians; Prometheus; Seven Against Thebes
Vol. II: Agamemnon; Libation-Bearers; Eumenides; Fragments

none

1) severe damage
2) ruined

Agassiz, Louis

Gists from Agassiz

Sel. John Kasper; Square Dollar Series, 1953

1953

none

marginalia

mild damage

Agassiz, Louis

Intelligence of Louis Agassiz, The

Sel. with intro. by Guy Davenport; Beacon Press, 1963

 

“for Celia and Louis Zukofsky, Lexington, 27 IX 65, with all admiration, Guy"

none

ruined

Allegro, John M.

Dead Sea Scrolls

Penguin Books, 1956

 

none

none

none

Greenough, J.B., et al.

Allen and Greenough’s New Latin Grammar

Rev. ed. Ginn & Co., 1916

1950

none

none

ruined

Allen, Donald & Warren Tallman, eds.

Poetics of the New American Poetry, The

Grove Press, 1973

 

“C’s & P’s, Oct. 3, 1974”
“pp. 142-6; ref. passim inside”

none

ruined

Anderson, G.L., ed.

Masterpieces of the Orient

W.W. Norton, 1961

1961

none

none

ruined

Apollinaire, Guillaume

Oeuvres Poétiques

Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Editions Gallimard, 1965

 

“April 16/67, memento of Paris ORTF Sessions, April 14/67, to LZ p. 1224, love, PZ”

none

none

Apollodorus

The Library, Vols. I & II

Trans. Sir J.G. Frazer; Loeb Classical Library, Vol. I: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1921, Vol. II: Harvard UP, 1956

 

Vol. I: The Library: Bks. I, II, III
Vol. II: The Library: Bk. III cont’d; epitome; index

marginalia, Vol. I

severe damage

Apuleius, Lucius

Story of Cupid and Psyche, The

Trans. William Aldington; Temple Classics, J.M. Dent, 1903

1965

none

none

none

Aquinas, St. Thomas

 

Ed. Anton C. Pegis; Modern Library, Random House, 1948

1950

none

none

ruined

Arberry, A.J., ed.

Persian Poems

Everyman’s Library, E.P. Dutton, 1954

1954

none

none

ruined

Archilochos

Fragments

Trans. Guy Davenport, foreword Hugh Kenner; U. of California Press, 1964

 

“for Louis & Celia Zukofsky, Lexington 271X65, Guy”

none

ruined

Aristophanes

Aristophanes, Vols. I, II & III

Trans. B.B. Rogers; Loeb Classical Library, Harvard UP, Vols. I & II, 1950, Vol. III, 1946

 

Vol. I: The Acharnians; The Clouds; The Knights; The Wasps
Vol. II: The Peace; The Birds; The Frogs
Vol. III: The Lysistrata; The Thesmophoriazusae; The Ecclesiazusae; The Plutus

none

severe damage

Aristotle

“Art” of Rhetoric, The

Trans. J.H. Freese; Loeb Classical Library, Harvard UP, 1967

1969

none

none

severe damage

Aristotle

Metaphysics

Ed. & trans. John Warrington; Everyman’s Library, E. P. Dutton, 1956

1956

none

none

ruined

Aristotle

Nicomachean Ethics, The

Trans. H. Rackham, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard UP, 1945

 

“to Paul, May 23/55 from Louis for May 22 concert”

none

severe damage

Aristotle, Longinus & Demetrius

Poetics, On the Sublime, On Style

Trans. S. Halliwell, W.H. Fyfe & W.R. Roberts; Loeb Classical Library, Harvard UP, 1953

 

 

none

severe damage

Ashley, R. & E.M. Moseley, eds.

Elizabethan Fiction

Rinehart, 1953

 

contents: George Gascoigne’s “The Adventures of Master F.J.”; John Lyly’s “Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit”; Sir Philip Sydney’s “The Arcadia”; Thomas Nashe’s “The Unfortunate Traveller”; Thomas Deloney’s “Jack of Newbury”

none

ruined

Atiyah, Edward

Arabs, The

Penguin Books, 1958

 

“Paul’s, Sept. 14/75”

none

severe damage

Augustine, St.

Confessions, Vols. I & II

Trans. W. Watts; Loeb Classical Library, Harvard UP, 1968

1971, Jan. 5

none

none

none

Augustine, St.

Select Letters

Trans. J.H. Baxter; Loeb Classical Library, Harvard UP, 1965

1971, Jan. 5

none

none

none

Aurelius, Marcus

Golden Book, The

Trans. Meric Casaubon, Temple Classics, J.M. Dent, 1902

1965

none

none

none

Austen, Jane

Northanger Abbey

W.W. Norton, 1953

1953

p. 191: inscribed “perfect felicity” of the novel after 56 years – making absurdity lovely, Valentine’s day 1978, Port Jefferson, L Z, Paul’s what else but to do
includes: Persuasion

none

ruined

Austen, Jane

Persuasion

Laurel Editions, Dell Publ., 1959

1977, Aug. 23

“C’s & Paul’s”
includes: Lady Susan

much marginalia

ruined

Austen, Jane

Pride and Prejudice

World’s Classics, Oxford UP, 1948

1972, Jan. 11

“Paget, Bermuda”

much marginalia

ruined

Austen, Jane

Sense and Sensibility

People’s Library, Cassell & Co., 1908

 

none

much marginalia

ruined

Bacon, Francis

Essays

Odyssey Press, 1937

1950

includes: Essays; The Advancement of Learning; Magna Instrauratio; Historia Naturalis; De Dignitate; New Atlantis

none

ruined

Baedeker, K.

Central Italy and Rome

Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1900

1950

none

none

none

Barnes, Djuna

Selected Works

Farrar, Strauss & Cudahy, 1962

1963

includes: Spillway; The Antiphon; Nightwood

none

ruined

Barth, Karl

Anselm: Faith in Search of Understanding

Meridian Books, World Publ. Co, 1958

 

none

none

none

Bartholomew, J.G.

Literary & Historical Atlas of Asia

Everyman’s Library, E.P. Dutton, 1912

 

none

none

none

Bartram, William

Travels

Ed.Publ.ns

1971, August 30

“C’s/Paul’s”

none

severe damage

Baudelaire, Charles

Oeuvres Complètes

Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Editions Gallimard, 1961

1970

none

none

ruined

Beckett, Samuel

Malone Dies

Grove Press, 1956

1963

none

none

none

Beckett, Samuel

Molloy

Grove Press, 1955

1963

none

none

none

Beckett, Samuel

Unnamable, The

Grove Press, 1958

1963

none

none

none

Bede, The Venerable

Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation

Trans. L.C. Jane; Temple Classics, J.M. Dent, 1903

1965

none

none

mild damage

Beethoven, L.

Beethoven Letters, Journals and Conversation

Trans. & ed. M. Hamburger; Doubleday Anchor Book, 1960

 

none

none

none

Benton, Thomas H.

Bank of the United States

Square Dollar Series, 1954

1954

none

none

ruined

Berrey, L.V. & M. van den Bark

American Thesaurus of Slang

Thomas J. Crowell Co., 1966

1970

none

none

ruined

Blake, William

Complete Writings

Ed. Geoffrey Keynes; Oxford UP, 1966

1967, April 13

none

none

ruined

Boccaccio, Giovanni

Decameron, The

Trans. Richard Aldington; Dell Publ., 1962

 

none

none

none

Booth, Marcella

Catalogue of the Louis Zukofsky Manuscript Collection, A

Tower Bibliographical Series, no. 11, Humanities Research Center,U. of Texas at Austin, 1975

1975, May 17

“open shelf; L.Z. passim comments as noted”

none

severe damage

Borges, Jorge Luis

Labyrinths

Preface André Maurois, New Directions, 1964

1967

none

none

none

Boswell, James

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson

Temple Classics, J.M. Dent, 1903

1964

none

none

mild damage

Bouquet, A.C.

Comparative Religion

Penguin Books, 1953

 

none

none

none

Bouquet, A.C.

Sacred Books of the World

Penguin Books, 1954

 

none

marginalia

none

Bownas, Geoffrey & Anthony Thwaite, eds.

Penguin Book of Japanese Verse, The

Penguin Books, 1964

 

none

none

ruined

Bradley, S., R.C. Beatty & E.H. Long, eds.

American Tradition in Literature, The

W.W. Norton, 1961

1961

none

none

none

Breasted, James H.

Ancient Times

Ginn and Co., 1916

1924

none

none

severe damage

Breasted, James H.

History of Egypt, A

Bantam Books, 1964

1964

none

none

none

Brecht, Bertolt

Selected Poems

Trans. H.R. Hays; Grove Press 1959

 

“from P. Z., 1964”

none

ruined

Breul, Karl

German and English Dictionary

D.C. Heath & Co., 1906

1922

none

none

none

Bridgwater, Patrick, ed.

Twentieth-Century German Verse

Penguin Books, 1963

 

none

none

none

Brittain, F., ed.

Latin Verse

Penguin Books, 1962

 

none

none

ruined

Brooke, C.F. Tucker & N.B. Paradise, eds.

English Drama 1580-1642

D.C. Heath & Co., 1933

1947

“contents: George Peele; John Lyly; Robert Greene; Thomas Kyd; Christopher Marlowe; Thomas Dekker; Thomas Heywood; George Chapman; John Marston; Ben Jonson; John Webster; Beaumont and Fletcher; Philip Massinger; Middleton and Rowley; John Ford; James Shirley”

none

mild damage

Browne, Sir Thomas

Works, Vols. I, II & III

Bohn’s Library, George Bell & Sons, 1852, 1878

1950; 1970, Dec. 20

Vol. I: Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Bks. I-IV
Vol. II: Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Bks. V-VII; Religio Medici; The Garden of Cyrus
Vol. III: Hydriotaphia; Brampton Urns; Christian Moral; Miscellanies; Repertorium; Correspondence

none

ruined

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Complete Works, Vols. I & II

New Century Library, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1918

1929, Celia Thaew

“With Sincerest Wishes, Sivia Friedman”
Vol. I: A Drama of Exile; Sonnets
Vol. II: Casa Guidi Windows; Poems Before Congress; Last Poems; Translations

none

ruined

Browning, Robert

Complete Poetical Works

Macmillan, 1907

1943

none

none

ruined

Browning, Robert

Sordello

Temple Classics, J.M. Dent, 1902

1965

none

none

none

Bunyan, John

Pilgrim’s Progress, The

Golden Treasury Series, Macmillan, 1905

1922

none

none

ruined

Burckhardt, Jacob

Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, The

Phaidon Publishers, 1951

1951

none

none

none

Burnet, John

Early Greek Philosophy

Meridian Books, World Publ. Co., 1930

1965

Table of Contents: Milesian School; Science and Religion; Herakleitos of Ephesos; Parmenides of Elea; Empedokles; Anaxagoras; The Pythagoreans; Younger Eleatics; Leukippos

none

ruined

Burns, Robert

Complete Works

William P. Nimmo Co., 1872

1945

none

none

ruined

Burton, Robert

Anatomy of Melancholy, The

Tudor Publ. Co.

1971

“&C’s and P’s”

none

none

Butler, Samuel

Hudibras

George Bell & Sons, 1907

1943

none

none

severe damage

Butler, Samuel

Way of All Flesh, The

Harper & Bros., 1950

1950

none

much marginalia

none

Butts, Mary

Imaginary Letters

Afterword Robin Blaser, drawings by Jean Cocteau; Talonbooks, Vancouver, Canada, 1979

 

none

none

none

Byron, Lord

Don Juan and Other Satirical Poems

Odyssey Press, 1935

1956

none

none

mild damage

Caesar

Civil Wars, The

Trans. A.G. Peskett; Loeb Classical Library, Harvard UP, 1951

1955

none

none

severe damage

Callimachus

Hymns and Epigrams

Trans. A.W. & G.R. Mair; Loeb Classical Library, Harvard UP, 1950

 

includes: works of Lycophron

none

severe damage

Calvert, G.H.

Handy Spanish English and English Spanish Dictionary

David McKay Co., 1968

1970

none

none

ruined

Calverton, V.F., ed.

Making of Man: An Outline of Anthropology, An

Modern Library, 1931

1931

none

marginalia

ruined

Campion, Thomas

Works

Oxford UP, 1966

1967, April 13

“Pencil marginalia, summer and fall 1975, rereading all after 40 years. Sat., Nov 22, 1975, LZ for Paul”

much marginalia

ruined

Carolino, Pedro

English as She Is Spoke

Intro. Mark Twain; Dover

 

none

none

none

Carruth, Hayden

Dark World

Kayak, Santa Cruz, CA, 1974

1974, May 18

“pp. 7, 9, 26, 29”
“for Celia and Louis, affectionately, Hayden”

none

ruined

Carruth, Hayden

From Snow and Rock, From Chaos

New Directions, 1973

 

“For Celia and Louis, words from way off, way back, with love from Hayden, 30 April, 1973”

none

none

Carruth, Hayden, ed.

Voice That Is Great Within Us: American Poetry of the 20th Century, The

Bantam Books, 1971

 

“Revised edtn r’cd Apr. 10, 1975 ed. 1970, 1st Paul’s, pp. ix, xxxii, 249-258; signed Louis Zukofsky”
“To Louis, always – Hayden, 2 April 75”

none

ruined

Cassell

Latin Dictionary

Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1952

 

none

none

ruined

Catullus

Carmina

Oxford UP, 1958

1963

“P’s from C & L”

none

ruined

Catullus

Catullus

Ed. E.T. Merrill, College Series of Latin Authors, Ginn & Co., 1893

1957

Latin text with notes

none

ruined

Catullus

Poems of Catullus, The

George Bell & Sons, 1878

1958

“includes: Tibullus; The Vigil of Venus; metrical versions of Lamb and Grainger”

none

none

Catullus

Selected Poems of Catullus

Ed. F.P. Simpson; Macmillan, 1963

1963

“Paul’s”

none

severe damage

Catullus

Selections

Ed. M. Macmillan; Oxford UP, 1957

1960

Latin text with notes

none

ruined

Catullus, Tibullus, Pervigilium Veneris

Poems, The

Trans. F.W. Cornish, J.P. Postgate (Tibullus) & J.W. Mackail (Pervigilium); Loeb Classical Library, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1941

1944

“copy for the translation with C.Z. and for Paul”

none

none

Cavanah, Frances

Famous Paintings

Whitman Publ., 1946

1948

“illustrated with full color reproductions”
“P.Z.’s”

none

ruined

Cervantes, Miguel de

Don Quixote

Modern Library, Random House, 1950

 

none

none

none

Chapman, George

Homer’s Hymns and Epigrams

Library of Old Authors, John Russell Smith, 1888

1946

none

marginalia

none

Chapman, George

Odyssey of Homer, The, Vols. I & II

Library of Old Authors, John Russell Smith, 1874

1946

none

none

ruined

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Complete Works

Ed. W.W. Skeat; Oxford UP

1923

none

none

ruined

Chekhov, Anton

Peasants and Other Stories

Sel. & preface Edmund Wilson; Doubleday Anchor Book, 1956

 

none

none

ruined

Chekhov, Anton

Plays

Penguin Books, 1959

1960

contents: Ivanov; The Seagull; Uncle Vania; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard; The Bear; The Proposal; A Jubilee

none

ruined

Cheyney, E.G.

What Tree is That?

D. Appleton-Century Co., 1940

 

signed, “Celia Zukofsky”

L.Z. marginalia

none

Christ, Jesus

Verba Christi

Temple Classics, J.M. Dent, 1903

1965

none

none

none

Christensen, Erwin O.

Popular Art in the U.S., with Illustrations from the Index of American Design, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Penguin Books, 1948

 

none

none

severe damage

Cid, The

Chronicles

George Routledge & Sons

1937

none

none

none

Clodd, Edward

Story of the Alphabet, The

D. Appleton & Co., 1900

1944

none

marginalia

none

Cohen, J.M., ed.

Penguin Book of Spanish Verse, The

Penguin Books, 1956

 

none

none

none

Coleridge, Samuel T.

Biographia Literaria and Two Lay Sermons

Bohn’s Library, George Bell & Sons, 1905

1956

none

marginalia

ruined

Coleridge, Samuel T.

Selected Poetry and Prose

Rinehart, 1951

 

none

none

ruined

Columbus, Christopher

Four Voyages to the New World

Bi-Lingual, Letters & Selected Documents, ed. R.H. Major; Corinth Books, 1961

 

none

none

none

Compagni, Dino

Chronicle of Dino Compagni, The

Trans. Else C.M. Benecke & A.G. Ferrers Howell; Temple Classics, J. M. Dent, 1906

1965

none

none

mild damage

Congreve, William

Complete Plays

Mermaid Dramabook, Hill and Wang, 1956

1956

none

much marginalia

ruined

Conrad, Joseph

Lord Jim

Doubleday, Page, 1925

 

none

none

ruined

Corman, Cid

Antics

Origin Press, 1977

 

“for Louis & Celia, words like years – sands in the glass, love, always, Cid, 22 February 1978”

none

mild damage

Corman, Cid

Be Quest

Elizabeth Press, 1972

 

“for Louis & Celia, always a little more, love, Cid, Kyoto, 24th Feb., 1972”

none

ruined

Davenport, Guy

Da Vinci’s Bicycle

Johns Hopkins UP, 1979

 

dedication: “to the memory of Louis Zukofsky, 1904-1978

none

mild damage

Davenport, Guy

Flowers and Leaves

Jargon 46, Jonathan William, 1966

 

“for Louis & Celia, with admiration & tremendous, Guy, VI-66-Lexington”

none

ruined

Davenport, Guy

Tatlin!

Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1970

1974, June 25

none

none

none

David, H.T. & A. Mendel, eds.

Bach Reader, The

W.W. Norton, 1966

 

“Celia’s for 1/21/69, Louis 1/20/69”; “also, Paul’s for the year 2053 at least”

marginalia

none

Dawson, Fielding

Aunty Dot and The Christmas Tree

Piedmont Printers, David Southern, Durham, NC

1979, “Xmas”

“hope you have a good New Year! Regards to Paul, Fielding”

none

none

Dawson, Fielding

Dream / Thunder Road, The

Black Sparrow Press, 1972

1972, Oct. 18

“Straight Lines pp. 111-114”

none

none

Dawson, Fielding

Krazy Kat / The Unveiling & Other Stories

Black Sparrow Press, 1969

1969

“p.161”

none

none

Dawson, Fielding

Penny Lane

Black Sparrow Press, 1977

 

“#1 more of the same! FD, 1/17/78, sorry I got ’em switched”

none

mild damage

Dawson, Fielding

Two Penny Lane

Black Sparrow Press, 1977

 

“The 2nd of 5 – for Louie, with love and respect as always, Fielding, Jan. 17, 1978”

none

mild damage

De Leon, Luis

Perfect Wife, The

Trans. Alice P. Hubbard; College Press of the Texas State College for Women, 1943, copy no. 58

 

“Louis & Celia Zukofsky, with best wishes for 1944, W. C. Williams”

none

ruined

Debussy, Claude

Monsieur Croche the Dilettante Hater

Noel Douglas, London, 1927

1934, Feb. 13

signed, “Celia Thaew”

marginalia

none

Defoe, Daniel

Journal of the Plague Year, A

Temple Classics, J.M. Dent, 1900

1965

none

none

none

Defoe, Daniel

Moll Flanders

World Classics, Oxford UP, 1961

1965

none

none

ruined

Defoe, Daniel

Robinson Crusoe and A Journal of the Plague Year

Modern Library, Random House, 1948

1948

none

none

ruined

Del Mar, Alexander

History of Monetary Crimes, A

Square Dollar Series, 1954

1954

none

none

ruined

DeLosch, Allen, ed.

East Side Scene: American Poetry from 1960-1965, The

Doubleday Anchor Book, 1972

 

“& C’s & P’s, Jan. 22, 1972”

none

ruined

Dickens, Charles

Great Expectations

Collins Press

1939-1940

none

none

none

Dickens, Charles

Mystery of Edwin Drood, The

World’s Classics, Oxford UP, 1924

1964

none

marginalia

mild damage

Dickins, B. & R.M. Wilson, eds.

Early Middle English Texts

W.W. Norton, 1951

1951

none

none

none

Dickinson, Emily

Bolts of Melody

Eds. M.L. Todd & M.T. Bingham; Harper & Bros., 1945

1945

none

none

none

Dickinson, Emily

Poems

Intro. J.M. Brinnin; Laurel Poetry Series, Dell Publ., 1960

 

none

marginalia

none

Diderot, Denis

Rameau’s Nephew and Other Works

Trans. Jacques Barzun & Ralph H. Bowen; Doubleday Anchor Book, 1956

1956

“includes: D’Alembert’s Dream; Bougainville’s ‘Voyage’; The Two Friends from Bourbonne; Conversation Between a Father & His Children; The Encyclopedia; Regrets on Parting with My Old Dressing Gown”

marginalia

none

Diogenes Laertius

Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Vols. I & II

Trans. R.D. Hicks; Loeb Classical Library, Harvard UP, 1955, 1956

 

Vol. I: Bks. I-V, Thales - Heraclides
Vol. II: Bks. VI-X, Antisthenes - Epicurus

marginalia
(both)

ruined

Dolmetsch, Arnold

Interpretation of the Music of the XVII and XVIII Centuries

Oxford UP, 1946

1946

“Celia’s, Louis Zukofsky”

none

none

Donne, John

Complete Poetry and Selected Prose

Ed. John Hayward; Nonesuch Press, 1929

1929

none

none

ruined

Doria, C. & H. Lenourtz, eds.

Origins, Creation Texts from the Ancient Mediterranean

Anchor Books, 1976

 

none

none

none

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Brothers Karamazov, The

Trans. Constance Garnett; Modern Library, Random House, 1950

 

none

none

ruined

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Crime and Punishment

Trans. Constance Garnett; Modern Library, Random House, 1950

1963

none

none

ruined

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Idiot, The

Trans. Constance Garnett; Bantam Books, 1958

 

none

none

ruined

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Memoirs from the House of the Dead

Trans. Jessie Coulson; Oxford UP, 1956

1956

none

marginalia

ruined

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Possessed, The

Trans. Constance Garnett; Modern Library, Random House, 1930

1963

none

none

ruined

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Raw Youth, A

Trans. Constance Garnett; Dell Publ., 1950

 

none

none

none

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Short Novels, The

Intro. Thomas Mann; Dial Press, 1945

 

contents: The Gambler; Notes from Underground; Uncle’s Dream; The Eternal Husband;  The Double; The Friend of the Family

none

ruined

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Short Stories

Dial Press, 1946

 

none

none

ruined

Douglas, Gavin

Selections

Clarendon Medieval & Tudor Series, Oxford UP, 1964

1970, Jan. 21

“P’s gift”

none

none

Dryden, John

Plays, Vol. 2

Ed. George Saintsbury; Mermaid Series, Charles Scribner’s Sons

1947

“table of contents: All for Love; The Spanish Friar; Albion and Albanius; Don Sebastian

much marginalia

none

Dryden, John

Poetical Works

Ed. W.D. Christie; Globe; Edition, Macmillan, 1881

1947

none

none

none

Duc de Berry

Le Très Riches Heures

Les Éditions Nomis, Paris

 

none

none

none

Dunbar, William

Poems

Clarendon Medieval & Tudor Series, Oxford UP, 1958

1965

none

none

ruined

Duncan, Robert

Opening of the Field, The

Grove Press, 1960

1960

“for Celia and Louis, Robert Duncan”

none

ruined

Duncan, Robert

Selected Poems

Pocket Poets Series no. 10, City Lights Books, 1959

 

“for Louis & Celia in part payment of an everlasting homage the imagination owes re certain fiefs in words and music. R.D.”
“Elfmere, Stinson Beach, August 1959”

none

ruined

Edwards, J.H. & W.W. Vasse

Annotated Index to the Cantos of Ezra Pound

U. of California Press, 1957

 

“for Louis Zukofsky – Happy hunting!  John Edwards”

none

ruined

Eliot, T.S.

Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950

Harcourt, Brace & World, 1952

1964

none

none

severe damage

Eliot, T.S.

Sacred Wood, The

University Paperbacks, Barnes & Noble, 1964

 

none

none

ruined

Elizabeth I, Queen

Poems of Queen Elizabeth I, The

Ed. Leicester Bradner; Brown UP, 1964

1969

none

none

ruined

Ellmann, R. & R. O’Clair, eds.

Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry

W.W. Norton, 1973

1975, April 23

“C’s and P’s”

none

mild damage

Ellmann, Richard

James Joyce

Galaxy Book, Oxford UP, 1965

1965

none

none

none

Eluard, Paul

A Toute Épreuve

Éditions Surréalistes 1930

1930

none

none

none

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Letters and Social Aims

Houghton Mifflin, 1895

1950

“Bottom”

marginalia

none

Euripides

Euripides, Vol. II

Harper’s Greek & Latin Texts, Harper & Bros., 1876

 

“table of contents written in by L.Z. on page facing the inside cover: Ion; Helen; Andromache; Electra; Bacchae; Hecuba”

none

ruined

Euripides

Plays, The, Vols. I & II
[2 copies]

Ed. A.S. Way, trans. M. Wodhull & R. Potter, with Shelley’s Cyclops and Den Milman’s Bacchanals; Everyman’s Library, E.P. Dutton, 1947

 

Vol. I: The Cyclops; Hecuba; The Trojan Dames; Helen; Electra; Orestes; Andromache; Iphigenia in Aubia; Iphigenia in Tauris
Vol. II: The Bacchanals; Alcestis; Medea; Hippolytus; Ion; The Phoenician Damsels; The Suppliants; Hercules Distracted; The Children of Hercules

marginalia (both volumes), none

none, ruined

Everett, T.H.

Field Flowers

Illustrated in full color by Rudolf Freund; Whitman Publishing Co., 1945

 

none

none

none

Everett, T.H.

Woodland Flowers

Illustrated in full color by Rudolf Freund; Whitman Publishing Co., 1945

 

none

none

none

Ezra Pound & Marcella Spann, eds.

Confucius to Cummings

New Directions, 1964

1965

none

none

none

Faraday, Michael

Experimental Researches in Electricity

Everyman’s Library, E.P. Dutton, 1940

1943

none

none

none

Fellowes, E.H., ed.

English Madrigal Verse 1588-1632

Oxford UP, 1920

 

“S. T. Hecht 1924 to Louis Zukofsky”

none

ruined

Fétis, Ed

Les Musiciens Belges

Ajamar Editeur, Brussels

1950

“Celia’s, 1950”

none

none

Fielding, Henry

Jonathan Wild

World’s Classics, Oxford UP, 1932

1934

none

none

none

Fisher, James

Watching Birds

Penguin Books, 1951

 

none

none

none

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Portable F. Scott Fitzgerald, The

Sel. Dorothy Parker, intro. John O’Hara; Viking Press, 1945

1945

“volume includes: The Great Gatsby; Tender is the Night; short stories

none

none

Flaubert, Gustave

Oeuvres, Vols. I & II

Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Editions Gallimard, 1951, 1952

1967, March 27

“Vol. I: La Tentation de Saint Antoine; Madame Bovary; Salammbo
 “Vol. II: L’Education Sentimentale; Trois Contes; Bouvard et Pécuchet

none

none

Fontenelle, Bernard

Oeuvres Choisies

Librairie Larousse

 

none

none

none

Ford, Ford Maddox

Novels, Vols. I & II (Parade’s End)

Signet Classic, New American Library, 1964

1964

Vol. I: Some Do Not; No More Parades
Vol. II: A Man Could Stand Up; Last Post

none

mild damage

Forster, Leonard, ed.

Penguin Book of German Verse, The

Penguin Books, 1957

 

none

none

none

Francis, St.

Legend, The

Trans. E.G. Galter; Temple Classics, J.M. Dent, 1905

1965

none

none

none

Francis, St.

Little Flowers, The

Trans. T.W. Arnold; Temple Classics, J.M. Dent, 1926

1964

none

none

none

Francis, St.

Sacrum Commercium

Trans. Canon Rawnsley; Temple Classics, J.M. Dent, 1904

1965

none

none

none

Frazer, Sir George

New Golden Bough, The

Mentor Book, New American Library, 1959

1964

none

none

none

Freud, Sigmund

Autobiographical Study, An

Trans. James Strachey; Norton Library, W.W. Norton, 1963

1966

none

none

none

Freud, Sigmund

Outline of Psychoanalysis, An

Trans. James Strachey; W.W. Norton, 1949

 

none

none

none

Frobenius, Leo

Das Sterbende Afrika

Abteilung Buchverlag, 1928

1928

none

none

none

Frobenius, Leo

Il Liuto di Gassire

Leggenda africana con una nota di Ezra Pound; Serie Oltremare, 15, Vanni Scheiwitter (Milano), 1961

1965, Oct. 23

none

none

none

Frobenius, Leo

Paideuma

Abteilung Buchverlag, 1928

1928

“page of L.Z. hardwritten ms. relating to ‘culture’ pasted into front cover”

none

none

Fustel de Coulanges, Numa Denis

Ancient City, The

Doubleday Anchor Book, 1956

1958

none

none

none

Garcia Lorca, Federico

Poems

Trans. J.L. Gili; Penguin Books, 1960

 

none

none

ruined

Gayley, Charles Mills

Classical Myths

Finn & Co., 1911

1929

“Celia Thaew”

none

ruined

Ghirshman, R.

Iran

Penguin Books, 1954

 

none

none

none

Gibbon, Edward

Autobiography

World’s  Classics, Oxford UP, 1962

1969

none

none

none

Gibbon, Edward

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vols. I-VI

Everyman’s Library, E.P. Dutton, 1925

1954

“Vol. IV inscribed “A”-15”

marginalia

none

Gibbon, Edward

Vindication

Oxford UP, 1961

1970

none

none

ruined

Giles, Herbert A.

History of Chinese Literature, A

D. Appleton & Co., 1928

1964

none

marginalia

mild damage

Goethe, Johan Wolfgang von

Faust

Christian Wegner Verlag, 1963

1969

none

none

none

Gogol, Nikolai

Dead Souls

Trans. George Reavey; World’s Classics, Oxford UP, 1957

1964

none

none

ruined

Golding, Arthur

Metamorphoses

Ed. W.H.D. Rouse; Norton Library, W.W. Norton, 1966

1966

none

none

severe damage

Goldsmith, Oliver

Two Plays

Ed. G.P. Baker; Mermaid Drama Book, Hill & Wang, 1931

1956

“table of contents: The Good Natur’d Man; An Essay on the Theatre; A Register of Scotch Marriage; She Stoops to Conquer

none

none

Goncharov, Ivan

Oblomov

Trans. Natalie Duddington; E.P. Dutton & Co., 1960

 

none

none

mild damage

Gower, John

Selections

Clarendon Medieval & Tudor Series, Oxford UP, 1968

1970, Jan. 21

“P’s”

none

ruined

Gray, Asa

Manual of Botany

Expanded by M.L. Fernald; American Book Co., 1950

1969

“for C.”

none

ruined

Gross, R. & G. Quasha, eds.

Open Poetry

Simon & Schuster, 1973

 

“C’s & P’s, May 9, 1973”
“p.5, 6, 231-242”

none

severe damage

Gurney, O.R.

Hittites, The

Penguin Books, 1966

 

“Paul’s, Sept. 14/75”

none

none

Hadas, Moses

Ancilla to Classical Reading

Columbia UP, 1961

1961

none

none

ruined

Hannesson, Gunnar

Reykjavik: A Panorama in Four Seasons

Iceland Review Books

 

“To dear Celia Zukofsky – with my love and best wishes, looking forward to showing you Reykjavik soon – from your Thorgerdur, Reykjavik, June 23, 1979”

none

ruined

Hardy, Thomas

Collected Poems

Macmillan, 1926

1926

none

none

severe damage

Hardy, Thomas

Desperate Remedies

Leisure Hour Series, Henry Holt & Co., 1874

1960

“pencilled W. July 28, Th. Aug 5/76 L. Z.”

much marginalia

ruined

Hardy, Thomas

Dynasts and Queen of Cornwall, The, Vols I & II

Macmillan, 1948, 1949

1964

“vol I Read by 1922, reread M.Dec 6/76-Th.Jan 6/77”; “vol II read (re-read?) care-full Part III Fri Jan 7/77-Sat Jan 15/77”

much marginalia

none

Hardy, Thomas

Far From the Madding Crowd

Modern Classics, Harper & Bros., 1918

 

“marginalia Wed. Aug 18-Tues. Sept. 7, 1976”

much marginalia

ruined

Hardy, Thomas

Hand of Ethelberta, The

Hovendon Co.

1960

“Read Mon. Nov. 1/76-Sunday Nov. 21/76”

much marginalia

ruined

Hardy, Thomas

Jude the Obscure

Modern Classics, Harper & Bros., 1957

1957

none

marginalia

ruined

Hardy, Thomas

Mayor of Casterbridge, The

Modern Library

1928

“notes back fly leaf”

much marginalia

ruined

Hardy, Thomas

Pair of Blue Eyes, A

A.L. Burt Co.

1960

“pencilled Th. Aug. 5-Tu. 17/76 L. Z.”

much marginalia

ruined

Hardy, Thomas

Personal Writings

Ed. Harold Orel; U. of Kansas Press, 1966

 

“Celia’s Happy New Years, Louis, Xmas ‘69”

none

ruined

Hardy, Thomas

Return of the Native, The

Modern Classics, Harper & Bros., 1922

 

none

none

ruined

Hardy, Thomas

Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Modern Classics, Harper & Bros., 1950

 

none

none

ruined

Hardy, Thomas

Under the Greenwood Tree

St. Martin’s Library, Macmillan, 1960

1960

none

marginalia

ruined

Hardy, Thomas

Woodlanders, The

Modern Classics, Harper & Bros., 1958

 

“margins Wed. Sept. 6-Mon. Oct 11/76, Louis Zukofsky”

much marginalia

ruined

Harper, William

Elements of Hebrew

U. of Chicago Press, 1963

1963

none

none

none

Harper, William

Introductory Hebrew

U. of Chicago Press, 1963

1963

none

none

none

Harris, Rex

Jazz

Penguin Books, 1953

 

none

none

none

Hawkins, Bobbie Louise

Frenchy & Cuban Pete and Other Stores

Tombouctout, Bolinas, CA, 1977

 

“For Celia and Louis with love and admiration, Bobbie”

none

none

Hawks, J. & C.

Prehistoric Britain

Penguin Books, 1958

 

none

none

none

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Blithedale Romance

Norton Library, W.W. Norton, 1958

1958

“first read, Nov. 28-Dec. 5, 1974, L.Z.”

marginalia

mild damage

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Marble Faun, The

Intro. David Levin; Dell Publ., 1960

1961

none

marginalia

none

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Scarlet Letter, The

Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1919

1967

none

marginalia

ruined

Heilman, Robert B., ed.

Anthology of English Drama Before Shakespeare, An

Rinehart, 1952

 

contents: “The N. Towne Betrayal”; “The York Crucifiction”; “The Wakefield Noah”; “The Wakefield Second Shepherd’s Play”; “Everyman”; “Gammer Gurton’s Needle”; “The Honorable History of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay”; “The Spanish Tragedy”; “The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus”

none

ruined

Heine, Heinrich

Gedichte

Philipp Reclam, 1965

1969

none

none

none

Heine, Heinrich

Prose and Poetry

Ed. Ernest Rhys; Everyman’s Library, E.P. Dutton, 1948

1954

none

none

ruined

Hemingway, Ernest

Green Hills of Africa

Permabooks, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1935

 

none

none

ruined

Henry, O.

Gift of the Magi

Doubleday

1968

“Celia’s and Louis’ from Walter Bradbury – Doubleday/Paris Review Editions, Xmas 1968”

none

none

Herodotus

History, The, Vols. I & II

Trans. George Rawlinson; Everyman’s Library, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1945

 

Vol. I: Clio; Euterpé; Thalis; Melpomene
Vol. II: Terpsichore; Erato; Polymnia; Urania; Callipé

marginalia, vol I

ruined

Herrick, Robert

Poems

World’s Classics, Oxford UP, 1951

1951

none

none

ruined

Hesiod

Homeric Hymns & Homerica

Trans. H. G. Evelyn-White; Loeb Classical Library, Harvard UP, 1950

 

none

none

severe damage

Hesse, Hermann

Steppenwolf

Holt, Rinehardt & Winston, 1957

 

none

none

none

Hine, Daryl & Joseph Parisi, eds.

Poetry Anthology, 1912-1977, The

Houghton Mifflin, 1978

 

none

none

ruined

Hofstadter, Richard, ed.

Great Issues in American History, Vols. I & II

Vintage Books, 1958

1958

none

none

none

Hölderlin, Johann C.F.

Selected Verse

Trans. Michael Hamburger; Penguin Books, 1961

1961

none

none

ruined

Holinshed, Raphael

Holinshed’s Chronicle as Used in Shakespeare’s Plays

Everyman’s Library, E.P. Dutton, 1927

 

none

none

ruined

Holt, Elizabeth, ed.

Documentary History of Art, A, Vols. I & II

Doubleday Anchor Books, 1957, 1958

1957, 1958

Vol. I: The Middle Age and the Renaissance
Vol. II: Michelangelo and the Mannerists, The Baroque and the 18th Century

none

ruined

Homer

Iliad, The, Vols. I & II

Trans. A.T. Murray; Loeb Classical Library, Harvard UP, 1946, 1947

 

none

none

severe damage

Homer

Odyssey, The, Vols. I & II

Trans. A.T. Murray; Loeb Classical Library, Harvard UP, 1946

 

none

none

none

Hood, Thomas

Hood’s Own Selected Papers: with comic illustrations

G. P. Putnam, 1852

1942

none

none

ruined

Hood, Thomas

Poetical Works, Vol. II

Little Brown, 1856

1942

none

none

ruined

Hopkins, Gerard Manley

Poems

Ed. Robert Bridges; Oxford UP, 1930

1930

none

none

ruined

Hopkins, Gerard Manley

Poems and Prose

Penguin Books, 1958

1958

“P’s pencilling”

much marginalia

ruined

Horace

Odes and Epodes

Loeb Classical Library, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1921

1930

none

none

none

Horace

Satires, Epistles, Ars Poetica

Trans. H.R. Fairclough; Loeb Classical Library, Harvard UP, 1942

 

none

none

mild damage

Houghton, Lord

Life and Letters of John Keats

Everyman’s Library, E.P. Dutton, 1927

1950

none

none

none

Humphreys, Christmas

Buddhism

Penguin Books, 1958

 

none

none

none

Huxley, Julian

Courtship Habits of the Great Crested Grebe

Grossman / Cape Eds., 1968

 

none

none

none

Ibn Khaldûn

Muqaddimah, The

Trans. Franz Rosenthal; Bollinger Series, Princeton UP, 1967

1970 Nov. 2

“Paul’s Sept. 14/75”

marginalia

none

Izzo, Carlo, ed.

Poesia Americana del ‘900

Guanda Editors, Parma, 1963

1964, Feb. 1

none

none

none

Jama, Stephen

Two Poems

“80 copies printed letterpress on Ultima in Monotype Cochin by Patrick Reagh, Jan. 1, 1980”; “this is copy no. 33,” signed Stephen Jama

 

“CZ – hope will enjoy these 2. Thank you. Stephen Jama”

none

mild damage

James, Henry

Ambassadors, The

Harper Bros., 1930

 

“b. Th. Mar 4/76, f. Tu. Mar 23/76”

much marginalia

ruined

James, Henry

American Essays, The

Intro. Leon Edel; Vintage Books, 1956

1956

none

none

none

James, Henry

American Novels & Stories, The

Ed. F.O. Matthiessen; Alfred A. Knopf, 1947

1947

none

none

ruined

James, Henry

American Scene, The

Intro. W.H. Auden; Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1946

1946

none

none

none

James, Henry

American, The

Dell Publ., 1964

1976

“read & pencilled Feb 9/76-Feb 16/76”

much marginalia

none

James, Henry

Art of the Novel, The

Intro. R.P. Blackmur; Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1937

1956

none

much marginalia

none

James, Henry

Aspern Papers, The & The Spoils of Poynton

Intro. R.P. Blackmur; Dell Publ., 1959

 

none

none

none

James, Henry

Autobiography

Criterion Books, 1956

1956

“includes: A Small Boy & Others; Notes of a Son & Brother; The Middle Years

none

mild damage

James, Henry

Awkward Age, The

Doubleday Anchor Book, 1958

 

none

none

ruined

James, Henry

Daisy Miller and An International Episode

Macmillan, 1927

1928

none

none

ruined

James, Henry

Daumier

Rodale Press, 1954

1954

none

none

ruined

James, Henry

Fifteen Short Stories

Intro. M.D. Zabel; Bantam Books, 1961

 

contents: “The Story of a Year”; “A Bundle of Letters”; “Pandora”; “The Pupil”; “The Private Life”; “Owen Wingrave”; “The Middle Years”; “The Death of the Lion”; “The Next Time”; “The Beldonald Holbein”; “The Two Faces”; “The Abasement of the Northmores”; “Flickerbridge”; “The Beast in the Jungle”; “The Jolly Corner”

much marginalia

ruined

James, Henry

Future of the Novel, The

Intro. Leon Edel; Vintage Books, 1956

1956

none

none

none

James, Henry

Golden Bowl, The

Intro. R.P. Blackmur; Dell Publ., 1963

 

none

marginalia

none

James, Henry

Guy Domville

Comments by Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Arnold Bennett; biographical chapters by Leon Edel; Rupert Hart-Davis, 1961

1964

none

none

none

James, Henry

Hawthorne

Great Seal Book, Cornell UP, 1956

1956

none

marginalia

none

James, Henry

In the Cage & Other Tales

Intro. M.D. Zabel; Doubleday Anchor Book, 1958

1958

contents: “The Author of Beltraffio”; “Brooksmith”; “The Altar of the Dead”; “The Figure in the Carpet”; “In the Cage”; “Broken Wings”; “The Great Good Place”; “The Jolly Corner”

much marginalia

none

James, Henry

Italian Hours

Grove Press

 

none

none

none

James, Henry

Little Tour in France, A

Houghton Mifflin

1945

none

none

none

James, Henry

London Life, A

Grove Press

 

none

none

none

James, Henry

Madonna of the Future and Other Early Stories, The

New American Library, 1962

 

contents: “The Story of a Year”; “My Friend Bingham”; “The Story of a Masterpiece”; “A Light Man”; “At Isella”; “The Madonna of the Future”; “The Last of the Valerii”; “Four Meetings”

none

mild damage

James, Henry

Marriages and Other Stories, The

New American Library, 1961

 

contents: “The Pension Beaurepas”; “The Point of View”; “The Marriages”; “The Real Thing”; “Miss Gunton of Pougkeepsie”; “The Two Faces”; “The Papers”; “Fordham Castle”; “Julia Bride”

none

none

James, Henry

Notebooks of Henry James, The

Ed. F.O. Matthiessen & K.B. Murdock; Oxford UP, 1961

1961

none

none

none

James, Henry

Outcry, The

Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1911

1965

none

none

none

James, Henry

Parisian Sketches

Intro. Leon Edel & I.D. Lind; Collier Books, 1961

 

none

none

none

James, Henry

Passionate Pilgrim and Other Tales, A

James R. Osgood & Co., 1875

1966, March 10

contents: “A Passionate Pilgrim”; “The Last of the Valerii”; “Eugene Pickering”; “The Madonna of the Future”; “The Romance of Certain Old Clothes”; “Madame de Mauves”

none

ruined

James, Henry

Portable Henry James, The

Ed. M.D. Zabel; Viking Press, 1959

 

contents: 5 tales; 3 nouvelles; criticism; portraits of places; passages of autobiography; letters

marginalia

ruined

James, Henry

Portrait of a Lady, The

Intro. R.P. Blackmur; Dell Publ., 1961

1961

“pencilled June 23-July 28/76”

marginalia

ruined

James, Henry

Princess Casamassima, The

Harper Torchbook, Harper & Bros., 1959

 

“marginalia pencillings 11/24/7-Feb. 6/76”

marginalia

ruined

James, Henry

Reverberator, The

Macmillan, 1888

1960

none

none

ruined

James, Henry

Roderick Hudson

Intro. Leon Edel; Harper Torchbook, Harper & Bros., 1960

 

“Paul’s May 8/76 / Louis”

marginalia

ruined

James, Henry

Sacred Fount, The

Intro. Leon Edel; Grove Press, 1953

 

none

none

ruined

James, Henry

Scenic Art: Notes on Acting and Drama 1872-1901, The

Ed. Allan Wade; Hill and Wang, 1957

 

none

none

ruined

James, Henry

Selected Letters

Ed. Leon Edel; Farrar, Strauss & Cudahy, 1955

1955

none

none

severe damage

James, Henry

Sense of the Past, The

Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1917

1965

none

none

ruined

James, Henry

Theatricals, The Album, The Reprobate

Harper & Bros., 1895

 

“Celia’s for May 8/71, love, Louis”

none

ruined

James, Henry

Tragic Muse, The

Intro. R.P. Blackmur; Dell Publ., 1961

 

“b. Tu. 2/17/76-f. W. 3/3/76”

marginalia

ruined

James, Henry

Turn of the Screw, The & The Lesson of the Master

Intro. Heywood Brown; Modern Library, Random House, 1957

1957

none

marginalia

mild damage

James, Henry

Watch and Ward

Intro. Leon Edel; Grove Press, 1959

1960

“Paul’s, May 3/76”

marginalia

ruined

James, Henry

What Maisie Knew

Doubleday Anchor Book, 1954

 

none

none

ruined

James, Henry

William Wetmore Story and His Friends

Thames & Hudson (London), 1903

1965

“pencilled April, May 8-June 22/76, Paul’s”

marginalia

ruined

James, Henry

Wings of the Dove, The

Intro. R.P. Blackmur; Dell Publ., 1958

 

none

none

very severely damaged or ruined

Jefferson, Thomas

Life and Selected Writings, The

Eds. A. Koch & W. Peden; Modern Library, Random House, 1944

1944

none

none

none

Jespersen, Otto

Growth and Structure of the English Language

D. Appleton & Co, 1923

1923

none

none

ruined

Johnson, Samuel

Johnson’s Dictionary: A Modern Selection

Eds. E.L. McAdam Jr. & G. Milne; Modern Library, Random House, 1965

1965

none

none

severe damage

Johnson, Samuel

Lives of the English Poets, Vols. I & II

World’s Classics, Oxford UP, 1936, 1936

1947

Vol. I: “pencil marks 1/18/77-3/17/77, LZ, Pt. J.”
Vol. II: “read again Pt. J. 11777, March 17/77-July 16/77”

much marginalia

mild damage

Johnson, Samuel & James Boswell

Portable Johnson & Boswell, The

Ed. Louis Kronenberger; Viking Press, 1947

 

none

none

none

Jones, David

Anathémata, The

Viking Press, 1965

1969

none

marginalia

severe damage

Jones, David

Epoch and Artist: Selected Writings

Chilmark Press, 1959

1969

“enc. 12/23/76, for 1977; David Jones: Vexilla Regis 1948; pencil and water color; cf pp.260-1 Epoch & Artist

marginalia

ruined

Jones, David

In Parenthesis

Intro. T.S. Eliot; Chilmark Press, 196

1969

none

none

ruined

Jones, David

Kensington Mass, The

Agenda Eds., 1975

1975, Aug. 5

none

none

ruined

Jones, David

Tribune’s Visitation, The

Fulcrum Press, 1969

1970, Feb. 21

none

none

ruined

Jonson, Ben

Works

Phillips, Sampson & Co., 1853

1922

none

none

ruined

Joyce, James

Collected Poems

Viking Press, 1957

1957

“contents: Chamber Music; Pomes Penyeach; Ecce Puer”

none

none

Joyce, James

Critical Writings, The

Eds. E. Mason & R. Ellmann; Viking Press, 1959

1959

none

none

none

Joyce, James

Dubliners

Albatross Modern Continental Library, 1932

1933

none

none

ruined

Joyce, James

Exiles

Intro. Padraic Colum; Viking Press, 1962

1962

none

none

ruined

Joyce, James

Finnegans Wake

Viking Press, 1959

1959

none

none

ruined

Joyce, James

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A

Viking Press, 1964

1964

none

none

none

Joyce, James

Ulysses

Modern Library, Random House, 1961

1964

none

none

none

Juvenal & Persius

Juvenal and Persius

Trans. G.G. Ramsay; Loeb Classical Library, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1920

1936

none

marginalia

severe damage

Kabir

Kabir-Poesie

a cura di Ezra Pound e Ghanshyam Singh; Oltremare, 23, Vanni Scheiwitter (Milano), 1966

1967, July 16

none

none

none

Kafka, Franz

Amerika

Preface Klaus Mann, trans. Edwin Muir, afterward Max Brod; New Directions, 1946

1954

none

none

ruined

Kafka, Franz

Castle, The

Trans. Willa & Edwin Muir, an homage by Thomas Mann; Modern Library, Random House, 1969

1971, April 1

none

none

ruined

Kafka, Franz

Great Wall of China, The

Trans. Willa & Edwin Muir; Schocken Books, 1946

1971, April 1

none

none

severe damage

Kafka, Franz

Trial, The

Trans. Willa & Edwin Muir, drawings by Franz Kafka; Schocken Books, 1969

1971, April 1

none

none

severe damage

Kamm, Minnie W.

Old Time Herbs for Northern Gardens

Dover, 1971

 

none

marginalia

none

Kay, George, ed.

Penguin Book of Italian Verse, The

Penguin Books, 1958

 

none

none

none

Keats, John

Poetical Works

World’s Classics, Oxford UP, 1948

1953

“pencilled Wed. 9/14/77 LZ”

marginalia

severe damage

Kenner, Hugh

Bucky, A Guided Tour of Buckminster Fuller

William Morrow & Co., 1973

1973, June 27

none

none

ruined

Kenner, Hugh

Counterfeiters: An Historical Comedy, The

Drawings by Guy Davenport; Indiana UP, 1967

 

“November 27, 1967 for Louis and Celia in esteem, Hugh Kenner”

none

mild damage

Kenner, Hugh

Flaubert, Joyce and Beckett: The Stoic Comedians

Drawings by Guy Davenport; Beacon Press, 1962

 

“for Louis Zukofsky, with the cordial good wishes of Hugh Kenner”

none

ruined

Kenner, Hugh

Gnomon: Essays on Contemporary Literature

McDowell, Obolensky, 1958

 

“October 12, 1962 for Louis Zukofsky with the respectful good wishes of Hugh Kenner”

none

ruined

Kenner, Hugh

Homemade World: The American Modernist Writers, A

Alfred A. Knopf, 1975

1975, May 9

“from H. K., see title pages, homeword, Baltimore, ‘An afternoon with L. Z.: his poetry and poetics, 4:30 PM, Garrett Room, Milton S. Eisenhower Library, L. Z. reading & C. speaking at Piano re ‘A’ –24’”
“for Louis and Celia Zukofsky, world-makers, remembering their visit to 103 Edgevale, Baltimore, 10 May 1975, Hugh Kenner, Mary Anne Kenner”

none

ruined

Kenner, Hugh

Joyce’s Voices

U. of California Press, 1978

 

“2 November 1978, for Celia, who hears voices, Hugh Kenner”

none

ruined

Kenner, Hugh

Pound Era, The

U. of California Press, 1971

 

“26 June 1973, for Louis and Celia Zukofsky in memory of our ‘A’-24 reunion.  Hugh Kenner”

none

ruined

Kenner, Hugh, ed.

Seventeenth Century Poetry: The Schools of Donne & Jonson

Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, 1964

 

“for Louis and Celia Zukofsky in commemoration of May 19, 1965, New York City”

none

severe damage

Ker, W.P.

Dark Ages, The

New American Library, 1958

1958

none

none

ruined

Kettridge, J.O.

New Handy French English & English French Dictionary

David McKay Co.

1970, Nov. 2

none

none

none

Khayyám, Omar

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, The

Trans. Edward Fitzgerald & E.H. Whinfield and prose version of Justin H. McCarthy with notes showing the variations in versions; Walter J. Black, N.Y. [1932?]

 

“Celia’s and Paul’s 1943”

none

ruined

Klee, Paul

 

Fernand Hazan, 1956

1956

none

none

ruined

Klonsky, Milton, ed.

Shake the Kaleidoscope: A New Anthology of Modern Poetry

Pocket Books, 1973

1973

“&C’s & P’s, Feb. 6, 1973”

none

none

Kostelanetz, Richard, ed.

Possibilities of Poetry

Delta Book, Dell Publ., 1970

 

“Celia’s & Paul’s, Jan. 28, 1971”
“xxii, 9, 140-151, 514; enclosure back covers re Language & Structure Tour, L.Z., 12/14/76”

none

none

Kusano, Shimpei

Selected Frogs

Trans. Susumu Kamaiki & Cid Corman; Origin Press, 1963

 

none

none

ruined

Lady Murasaki

Tale of Genji, The

Translated from the Japanese

 

none

none

ruined

Lady Murasaki

Tale of Genji, The,
Vols. I & II

Trans. Arthur Waley; Doubleday Anchor Book, 1959

 

none

none

mild damage

LaFontaine, Jean de

Oeuvres Complètes

Bibliotheque de la Pléiade, Editions Gallimard, 1954

 

“21 December 1968, love Joan and Paul”

none

none

Lamson, E. & H. Smith, eds.

Renaissance England, Poetry and Prose

W.W. Norton, 1956

1956

none

none

severe damage

Landor, Walter Savage

Day-Book, A

Oxford UP, 1919

1943

none

none

very severe damage

Landor, Walter Savage

Pentameron, The

Roberts Bros., 1888

1924

“for Cats & W. S.”
includes: “Citation and Examination of William Shakespeare,” Minor Prose Pieces, Criticisms

none

ruined

Langland, William

Piers the Plowman

Ed. W.W. Skeat; Oxford UP, 1965

1966

“& Paul’s”

none

none

Lawrence, D.H.

Etruscan Places

Viking Press, 1957

1957

none

none

none

Lawrence, D.H.

Plumed Serpent, The

William Heinemann Ltd., 1937

 

none

none

none

Lawrence, D.H.

Selected Poems

Intro. Kenneth Rexroth; Viking Press, 1959

1960

none

none

none

Lawrence, D.H.

Studies in Classic American Literature

Doubleday Anchor Book, 1951

1953

none

none

none

Lawrence, D.H.

Women in Love

Intro. Richard Aldington; Viking Press, 1960

1960

“first read ca. 1922”

none

none

Laxness, Halldor

Quire of Seven, A

Icelandic Review Library, 1974

 

“To Celia Zukofsky with gratitude and all good wishes from your Thorgertur, Dec. 12, 1979”

none

none

Laxness, Halldor

Salka Valka

George Allen & Unwin, 1973

 

“To Mrs. Celia Zukofsky – with love and gratitude and all best wishes – from Thorgertur, January 21, 1979”

none

none

Lembke, Janet

Bronze and Iron: Old Latin Poetry

U. of California Press, 1973

1973, Aug. 29

none

none

ruined

Lermontov, Mikhail Y.

Hero of Our Time, A

Trans. Philip Longworth; New American Library, 1964

 

none

none

mild damage

Lethaby, W.R.

Architecture

Henry Holt & Co.

1945

none

much marginalia

none

Levy, Emil

Petit Dictionnaire Provençal-Français

Carl Winter’s Universitatsbuchhand-lung, 1923

1930

“P’s /L”

none

none

Lewis, Charlton D. & Charles Short

Latin Dictionary, A

Oxford UP, 1958

1963

none

none

ruined

Lewis, Wyndham

Tarr

 

1955 (?)

none

none

none

Liddell, Henry G. & Robert Scott

Greek-English Lexicon, A

Oxford UP, 1953

 

none

none

ruined

Lin Yutang, ed.

Wisdom of China and India, The

Random House, 1942

1942

none

none

ruined

Lind, L.R.

Latin Poetry

Riverside Editions, Houghton Mifflin, 1957

1957

none

none

severe damage

Livy

Summaries, Fragments, Julius Osequens

Trans. A.C. Schlesinger; Loeb Classical Library, Harvard UP, 1967

1970

none

none

mild damage

Loy, Mina

Lunar Baedeker & Time Tables

Jargon 23, Jonathan Williams, 1958

1958

none

none

ruined

Lu Yu

Living in the Stream

Trans. David M. Gordon; White Pine Press, Buffalo, 1977

 

“for Louis & Celia Zukofsky, ‘vital free as itself,’ best regards, Dave Gordon”

none

ruined

Lucan

Pharsalia

Trans. Robert Graves; Penguin Classics, D.C. Heath & Co., 1957

 

none

none

none

Lucas, St. John, ed.

Oxford Book of French Verse: 13th-19th Century

Oxford UP, 1908

1920

“P’s/L”

none

none

Lucretius

De Rerum Natura

Trans. W.H.D. Rouse; Loeb Classical Library, Harvard UP, 1953

 

none

none

mild damage

Lydgate, John

Poems

Oxford UP, 1966

1970, Jan. 21

“P’s”

marginalia

none

MacDonell, Arthur A.

Vedic Reader for Students, A

Oxford UP, 1965

1968, Feb. 1

“from C. C. Kyoto”

none

none

Mackail, J.W.

Latin Literature

Collier Books, 1962

1962

none

none

ruined

Magnusson, Magnus

Hammer of the North: Myths and Heroes of the Viking Age

Photographs by Werner Forman; Orbis Publ., London, 1976

 

none

none

severe damage

Mahaffy, J.P.

Old Greek Life

D. Appleton & Co., 1876

1947

none

much marginalia

ruined

Mallarmé, Stéphane

Oeuvres Complètes

Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Editions Gallimard, 1945

1967, March 27

none

none

mild damage

Mallarmé, Stéphane

Poems

New Classics Series, New Directions, 1951

1966, May 17

“for Paul”

none

none

Marlowe, Christopher

Works

Ed. C.F. Tucker Brooke; Oxford UP, 1910

1922

none

none

severe damage

Martial

Epigrams, Vols. I & II
[2 copies]

Trans. W.C.A. Ker; Loeb Classical Library, Harvard UP, 1968

1969

Vol. I: Bks. I-VII
Vol. II: Bks. VII-XIV

none

mild damage (vol. II),
ruined

Martinelli, Sheri

 

Xerox copies of her drawings with Ezra Pound related material

 

none

none

none

Marx, Karl

Capital, Vols. I & II

Trans. Eden & Cedar Paul; Everyman’s Library, E.P. Dutton, 1932, 1951

1927, 1969

ca. 1927 “A”;
“A-9”

none

ruined

Massingham, H.J., ed.

Treasury of Seventeeth-Century English Verse, A

Macmillan, 1919

1923

none

marginalia

ruined

Masson, Gustave

La Lyre Francaise

Macmillan a, 1898

 

none

none

ruined

Mathews, M.M.

Americanisms: A Dictionary of Selected Americanisms on Historical Principles

U. of Chicago Press, 1951

 

none

none

ruined

Melville, Herman

Confidence Man, The

Intro. Hennig Cohen; Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1964

 

none

none

none

Melville, Herman

His Fifty Years of Exile (Israel Potter)

Intro. Lewis Leary; Sagamore Press, 1957

 

none

none

none

Melville, Herman

Mardi

Intro. H. Bruce Franklin; Capricorn Books, 1964

 

none

none

none

Melville, Herman

Moby Dick

Intro. Leon Howard; Modern Library, Random House, 1950

 

none

none

none

Melville, Herman

Omoo

Everyman’s Library, E.P. Dutton., 1925

 

none

none

none

Melville, Herman

Pierre, or The Ambiguities

The New American Library, 1964

1974, Oct.-Nov.

“Paul’s Sept. 14/75”
“First read Oct.-Nov. 1974, L. Z.”

marginalia

ruined

Melville, Herman

Selected Tales and Poems

Ed. Richard Chase; Rinehart, 1955

1955

none

much marginalia

none

Melville, Herman

Typee

Intro. Clifton Fadiman; Bantam Books, 1958

1958

none

none

none

Melville, Herman

White Jacket

Intro. William Plomer; Grove Press

 

none

none

ruined

Mencken, H.L.

American Language, The

Alfred A. Knopf, 1937

1964

none

none

ruined

Merton, Thomas

Way of Chuang Tzu, The

New Directions, 1965

 

“to Louis Zukofsky, may we be people in Tao, ‘art, without impediment,’ Tom Merton”

none

mild damage

Messerli, Douglas & David Lewis

DjunaBarnes: A Bibliography

Stinehour Press, 1975

1978, Jan. 27

none

none

ruined

Miller, Perry & T.H. Johnson, eds.

Puritans: A Sourcebook of Their Writings,The, Vols. I & II

Harper Torchbook, Harper & Bros., 1963

1963

none

none

none

Milton, John

Areopagitica and Other Tracts

Temple Classics, J.M. Dent, 1925

1965

none

none

none

Milton, John

English Poems, The

The World’s Classics, Oxford UP, 1929

1950

none

none

ruined

Mirsky, Prince D.S.

History of Russia, A

Doubleday, Doran, 1928

1948

none

none

none

Miurhead, Findlay

London and Its Environs

Macmillan, 1919

1948

“for Paul, 8/7/75”

none

none

Molière

Oeuvres

Oxford UP, 1900

1950

“Old Lyme”

none

none

Montague, John, ed.

Book of Irish Verse, The

Macmillan, 1974

 

“For Louis and Celia anticipating St. Pat’s Day ’77 when all Irishmen stick together, Hugh”

none

ruined

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de

Essays

Trans. E. J. Trechmann; Oxford UP

1963

none

none

ruined

Moore, Marianne

Collected Poems

Macmillan, 1951

 

“For Louis and Mrs. Zukofsky from Marianne Moore who hopes they will never care to retire from music and poetry, Feb. 29, 1952”

none

ruined

Moore, Marianne

Complete Poems, The

Macmillan/Viking Press, 1967

1967, Nov. 8

“Celia and Louis, from Marianne Moore, so fondly, Aug. 28, 1968”

none

none

Moore, Marianne

Omaggio a Marianne Moore

Trans. Mary de Rachewiltz; Vinni Scheiwiller (Milano), 1964

1965, Oct. 25

none

none

none

Moore, Marianne

Reader, A

Viking Press, 1961

 

“For Louis Zukofsky, Celia and Paul from their admiring and affectionate friend, Marianne, see 185”

none

ruined

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Mozart’s Letters

Ed. Eric Bloom; Penguin Books, 1956

 

none

none

none

Nerval, Gerard de & Louis Bouilhet

Les Roses de France

Éditions de l’Abeille D’Or, Paris

1922

none

none

none

Nevins, A. & H.S. Commager

Short History of the United State, A

Modern Library, Random House, 1956

1970, July 18

none

none

none

Newman, Cardinal John Henry

Idea of a University, The

Rinehart, 1960

 

none

none

none

Niedecker, Lorine

My Life by Water: Collected Poems 1936-1968

Fulcrum Press, 1970

 

“To Louis and Celia by water too – Lorine, 67 in ‘70”

none

ruined

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Trans. R.J. Hollingdale; Penguin Books, 1961

 

none

none

none

Norman, Charles

Ezra Pound

Funk & Wagnalls, 1969

1969, April 19

“L & C’s copy for Paul”
“for Celia & Louis, affectionately, Diana & Charles, May 9, 1970”

none

ruined

Obolensky, Dimitri, ed.

Penguin Book of Russian Verse, The

Penguin Books, 1962

 

none

none

none

Oliphant, Dave

Footprints: Poems 1961-1978

Thorp Springs Press, Austin, TX, 1978

 

“for Celia in memory of Louis, affectionately, Dave Oliphant, 2-9-79”

none

ruined

Olmstead, A.T.

History of the Persian Empire

U. of Chicago Press, 1948

1963

none

none

none

Olson, Charles

Archaeologist of Morning

Grossman, 1973

1973, April 25

none

marginalia

severe damage

Olson, Charles

Maximus Poems, The

Jargon 24, Jargon/Corinth Books, 1960

1960

none

none

none

Omond, T.S.

English Metrists: Being a Sketch of English Prosodical Criticism from Elizabethan Times to the Present Days

Oxford UP, 1921

1921

none

none

severe damage

Onions, C.T., ed.

Shakespeare Glossary, A

Oxford UP

1947

none

none

severe damage

Ovid

Art of Love and Other Poems, The

Trans. J.H. Mozley; Loeb Classical Library, Harvard UP, 1939

1954

none

none

ruined

Ovid

Fasti

Trans. Sir J.G. Frazier; Loeb Classical Library, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1931

1952

none

none

ruined

Ovid

Heroides and Amores

Trans. Grant Showerman; Loeb Classical Library, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1931

 

none

none

mild damage

Ovid

Metamorphoses, Vols. I & II

Trans. F.J. Miller; Loeb Classical Library, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1929

1954

Vol. I: Bks. I-VIII
Vol. II: Bks. IX-XV

none

severe damage

Ovid

 Selected Works

Eds. J.C. & M.J. Thornton, Everyman’s Library, E.P. Dutton Co., 1948

1952

“Paul’s”
“for Louis from Paul Xmas, 1952”
includes: Elegies; Letters; Art of Love; Festivals; Metamorphoses; Letters from Exile; Invective Against Ibis

marginalia

severe damage

Ovid

Tristia and Ex Ponto

Trans. A.L. Wheeler; Loeb Classical Library, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1924

1954

none

none

none

Palgrave, Francis T., arranged

Golden Treasury, The

World’s Classics, Oxford UP, 1928

1929

none

none

ruined

Palgrave, Francis T., arranged

Golden Treasury, The

Macmillan, 1899

1950

“from Helen Taggart ca. 1950”

none

severe damage

Pallottino, M.

Etruscans, The

Penguin Books, 1955

 

none

none

none

Paris, G. & E. Langlois, eds.

Chrestomathie du Moyen Age

Classiques Hachette

 

“Dick Moore’s gift to Louis Zukofsky, 3-16-66 (filming NET)”

none

severe damage

Parkes, James

History of the Jewish People, A

Penguin Books, 1964

1964

none

none

none

Parkman, Francis

Discovery of the Great West, The

Rinehart, 1956

1956

none

none

mild damage

Pascal, Blaise

Thoughts of Blaise Pascal, The

Trans. W.F. Trotter; Temple Classics, J.M. Dent, 1904

1965

none

none

none

Patridge, Eric

Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

Macmillan, 1938

1964

none

none

ruined

Paz, Octavio

Configurations

New Directions, 1971

1971

none

none

mild damage

Paz, Octavio

Eagle or Sun?

October House

1970

none

none

ruined

Peacock, W., ed.

English Prose, Vol. III

World’s Classics, Oxford UP, 1921

1947

contents: Walpole to Lamb

none

ruined

Pharr, Clyde

Homeric Greek

D.C. Heath & Co., 1924

1948

none

none

ruined

Pierce, Charles S.

Values in a Universe of Chance

Ed. Philip P. Wiener; Doubleday Anchor Book, 1958

1958

none

none

none

Piggott, Stuart

Prehistoric India

Penguin Books, 1952

 

none

none

none

Pindar

Odes, The

Loeb Classical Library, Harvard UP, 1961

 

none

none

severe damage

Plato

Republic, The, Vols. I & II

Trans. Paul Shorey; Loeb Classical Library, Harvard UP, 1963, 1969

1971, Jan. 5

Vol. I: Bks. I-V
Vol. II: Bks. VI-X

none

severe damage

Plato

Timaeus, Critias, Cleitophon, Menexenus, Epistles

Trans. R.G. Bury;
Loeb Classical Library, Harvard UP, 1966

1970, Feb. 28

none

none

severe damage

Plautus

Rudens

Oxford UP, 1961

1965

“A-21; 1/20/72; P. 1st with Philharmonic & so his Louis”

none

none

Pliny the Elder

Natural History

Trans. H. Rackham [?]; Loeb Classical Library, Harvard UP, 1967

1970

none

none

none

Plotinus

Ennead

Trans. A.H. Armstrong; Loeb Classical Library, Harvard UP, 1966

1970

none

much marginalia

ruined

Plutarch

Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, Vols. I, II & III

Trans. John Dryden; Everyman’s Library, E.P. Dutton, 1929

1966

none

none

ruined

Plutarch

Moralia

Trans. F.C. Babbitt; Loeb Classical Library, Harvard UP, 1969

1970

none

none

severe damage

Plutarch

Parallel Lives, Vol. I

Trans. B. Perrin; Loeb Classical Library, Macmillan, 1914

1966

“read b./f. Wed. Apr. 12/78”
contents: Theseus; Romulus; Lycurgus; Numa; Solon; Poplicola

much marginalia

ruined

Poe, Edgar Allan

Complete Poems

Intro. Richard Wilbur; Dell Publ., 1962

 

none

none

none

Poe, Edgar Allan

Great Tales and Poems

Pocket Library, 1951

 

none

marginalia

none

Poe, Edgar Allan

Selected Prose and Poetry

Intro. W.H. Auden; Rinehart, 1954

1954

none

none

none

Polo, Marco

Travels, The

Trans. R.E. Latham, Penguin Books, 1958

 

none

none

none

Pope, Alexander

Poetical Works

Ed. Rev. H.F. Cary; D. Appleton & Co., 1857

1947

none

none

none

Pound, Ezra

. . . A Lume Spento 1908-1958

Ed. & published Vanni Scheiwitter, Milano, 1958

1965, Oct. 23

none

none

none

Pound, Ezra

Cantos, The

New Directions, 1970, 1st ed.

1970, Nov. 25

none

none

none

Pound, Ezra

Classic Anthology Defined by Confucius, The

Harvard UP, 1954

 

“For Louis’ Birthday 1959, Love, Paul”

none

mild damage

Pound, Ezra

Gaudier-Brzeska

Vanni Scheiwiller (Milano), 1957

1965, Oct. 23;

none

none

none

Pound, Ezra

Gaudier-Brzeska

New Directions, 1970

1977, June 30

none

none

none

Pound, Ezra

Letters of Ezra Pound 1907-1941, The

Ed. D.D. Paige; Harcourt, Brace, 1950

1966

none

none

none

Pound, Ezra

Literary Essays of Ezra Pound

Ed. & intro. T.S. Eliot; New Directions, 1968

1977

none

none

none

Pound, Ezra

Personae: The Collected Poems of Ezra Pound

New Directions

1965

none

marginalia

none

Pound, Ezra

Selected Cantos

New Directions, 1970

1970, Nov. 12

“for Paul”

none

none

Pound, Ezra

Selected Prose 1909-1965

Ed. William Cookson; New Directions, 1973

1973, Sept. 5

“L.Z. see Index”

none

none

Pound, Ezra

Thrones, 96-109 de los cantares

New Directions, 1959

 

“To Louis from Paul, Christmas 1959”
“Louis Zukofsky & Yours Paul”

none

none

Pound, Ezra

Translations, The

Intro. Hugh Kenner; New Directions

1977, June 30

none

none

none

Pound, Ezra

Translations, The

Intro. Hugh Kenner; Faber & Faber, 1953

1957, Paris

“Paul’s, July 1, 1977, (back from Iceland) gift”

none

ruined

Pound, Omar S.

Arabic & Persian Poems

New Directions, 1970

1970, Nov. 2

none

none

ruined

Prescott, W.H.

Conquest of Mexico, The, Vols. I & II

Everyman’s Library, E.P. Dutton, 1957

1965

none

none

none

Prescott, W.H.

History of the Conquest of Peru

Everyman’s Library, E.P. Dutton, 1963

1965

none

none

none

Propertius

Elegies

Trans. H.E. Butler; Loeb Classical Library, Harvard UP, 1952

 

none

none

severe damage

Proust, Marcel

Captive, The

Trans. C.K. Scott Moncrieff; Modern Library, Random House, 1956

 

“LZ C’s 1965”

none

ruined

Proust, Marcel

Cities of the Plain

Trans. C.K. Scott Moncrieff; Modern Library, Random House, 1955

 

“LZ C’s 1965”

none

ruined

Proust, Marcel

Guermantes Way, The

Trans. C.K. Scott Moncrieff; Modern Library, Random House, 1952

 

“LZ C’s 1965”

none

none

Proust, Marcel

Jean Santeuil

Preface by André Maurois; Dell Publ., 1961

1961

none

none

none

Proust, Marcel

Past Recaptured, The

Trans. F.A. Blossom; Modern Library, Random House, 1959

 

“LZ C’s 1965”

none

ruined

Proust, Marcel

Swann’s Way

Trans. C.K. Scott Moncrieff; Modern Library, Random House, 1956

 

“for Celia rereading all of à la Recherche, 1965”

none

none

Proust, Marcel

Sweet Cheat Gone, The

Trans. C.K. Scott Moncrieff; Modern Library, Random House, 1930

 

“LZ C’s 1965”

none

ruined

Proust, Marcel

Within a Budding Grove

Trans. C.K. Scott Moncrieff; Modern Library, Random House, 1951

 

“LZ C’s 1965”

none

none

Pushkin, Alexander

Queen of Spades & Other Stories, The

Trans. Rosemary Edmond; Penguin Books, 1962

1962

contents: “The Negro of Peter the Great”; “Dubrovsky”; “The Queen of Spades”; “The Captain’s Daughter”

none

ruined

Quasha, George & Jerome Rothenberg, eds.

America, a Prophecy

Vintage Books, Random House, 1973

1974, Feb. 7

“airmailed from NYC to Port Jefferson?”; “pp. xiii, xxiii, xxv, xxvi, xxix, xxxvi, xxxvii, 347-350; 432; 553-4; 603”

none

none

Quevedo, Don Francisco De

Dog & the Fever, The

Trans. & intro. Wm Carlos Williams & Raquel Hélène Williams; Shoe String Press, Hamden, CT, 1954

 

“to Louis from Bill”

none

ruined

Rabelais, Francois

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Vol II

World’s Classics, Oxford UP, 1934

 

none

none

severe damage

Rabelais, Francois

Oeuvres Complètes

Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Editions Gallimard, 1955

 

“21 December, 1968, love Joan and Paul”

none

ruined

Racine, Jean

Oeuvres Complètes

Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Editions Gallimard, 1950

1970

none

none

none

Read, Herbert

Meaning of Art, The

Penguin Books, 1959

 

none

none

none

Reinach, S.

Apollo: An Illustrated Manual of the History of Art Throughout the Ages

Trans. Florence Simmonds; Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1924

1947

none

none

none

Reznikoff, Charles

By the Waters of Manhattan

Intro. C.P. Snow; New Directions/San Francisco Review, 1962

 

“for Louis, Celia and Paul Zukofsky, Charles Reznikoff, Sept. 25, 1962, A Happy New Year!"

none

none

Reznikoff, Charles

By the Well of Living and Seeing: New and Selected Poems 1918-1973

Black Sparrow Press, 1974

 

“for Celia and Louis from Charles with affection, September 30, 1974, A happy New Year!”

none

ruined

Reznikoff, Charles

Complete Poems, Vols. I & II

Ed. Seamus Cooney; Black Sparrow Press, 1976

1977, April 21

none

none

none

Reznikoff, Charles

Family Chronicle

Charles Reznikoff, 1963

 

“for Louis and Celia Zukofsky from Charles Reznikoff, December 6, 1963”

none

ruined

Reznikoff, Charles

Lionhearted, The

Jewish Publication Society of America, 1944

 

“for Louis and Celia, Charles, Aug. 4, 1944”

none

ruined

Rhys, Ernst, ed.

Literary and Historical Atlas of Asia, A

Everyman’s Library, J.M. Dent

 

“first published in this edition, 1912”

none

severe damage

Rice, David T.

Byzantine Art

Penguin Books, 1954

 

none

none

ruined

Rice, David T.

Russian Icons

Penguin Books, 1947

 

none

none

ruined

Richardson, Samuel

Clarissa

Modern Library, Random House, 1950

1950

none

none

none

Richardson, Samuel

Pamela

Norton Library, W.W. Norton, 1958

1958

none

none

none

Rilke, Rainer Marie

Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

Trans. M.D. Herter Norton; Norton Library, W.W. Norton, 1938

1962

none

none

none

Rimbaud, Jean-Nicolas-Arthur

Selected Verse

Ed. Oliver Bernard; Penguin Books, 1962

1962

“marginalia ‘67”

marginalia

none

Ross, J.B. & M.M. McLaughlin, eds.

Portable Medieval Reader, The

Viking Press, 1955

 

none

none

none

Ross, J.B. & M.M. McLaughlin, eds.

Portable Renaissance Reader, The

Viking Press, 1958

 

none

none

none

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, trans.

Early Italian Poets, The

together with Dante’s “Vita Nuova”; Temple Classics, J.M. Dent, 1904

1965

none

none

none

Rothenberg, Jerome, ed.

Big Jewish Book, A
(4 copies)

Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1978

1) 1978, March 1; 5738;
2) 1978, 5738

1) “passim references & anthology 167-8, 188-9, 350-55, 561-2, note 632”
“Port Jefferson, N.Y., 11777
4) “Celia’s and Paul’s, March 1, 1978, Port Jefferson, NY, 11777”; editor’s letter with C.Z. writing indicating references to L.Z. attached to jacket

1) much marginalia; March 1-7/78

1) ruined
2) mild damage
3) severe damage
4) none

Rothenberg, Jerome, ed.

Revolution of the Word: A New Gathering of American Avant Garde Poetry 1914-1945

Seabury Press, 1974

1975, Feb. 27

“& C’s & P’s”
“Paul has his copy inscribed April 7/75 recd. from W. W. Norton”
“C. has hers from L. with the compliments of the permissions dept., The Viking Press, r’cd August 18/75”

none

severe damage

Saintsbury, George

Short History of English Literature, A

Macmillan 1924

1924

none

none

ruined

Sappho

Sappho: Poems and Fragments

Trans. Guy Davenport; U. of Michigan Press, 1965

1966

none

none

ruined

Sargent, H.C. & G.L. Kittredge, eds.

English and Scottish Ballads (Child’s)

Houghton Mifflin, 1904

1953

none

marginalia

ruined

Scheiwiller, Vanni

Publications from Serie Olremare

Vanni Scheiwiller, Milano

1957

Titles included: Poesie Degli Indios Parios; Poesie Indonesiane; Canti del Dalai-Lama; Proverbi Cinesi; Massime Egizie; Liriche Amorose dgli Egizi; Proverbi Africani; Kagekiyo-Dramma Giapponese; Nishikigi-Dramma Giapponese; Stofe del Vietnam

none

none

Sextus Empiricus

Against the Professors

Trans. R.G. Bury;
Loeb Classical Library, Harvard UP, 1949

1965

none

marginalia

severe damage

Shahn, Ben

Sweet Was the Song

Illuminated & text drawn by Ben Shahn; Odyssey Press, 1965

1975, Sept. 14

none

none

none

Shakespeare, William

Shakespeare Apocrypha, The

Ed. C.F. Tucker Brooke; Oxford UP, 1918

1947

none

none

ruined

Shakespeare, William

Complete Plays and Poems

Ed. W.A. Neilson & C.J. Hill; Houghton Mifflin, 1942

 

none

none

severe damage

Shakespeare, William

Hamlet, the First Quarto, 1603

Ed. A.B. Weiner; Barron’s Educational Series, 1962

 

none

none

ruined

Shakespeare, William

Norton Facsimile of the First Folio of Shakespeare, The

Prepared by Charlton Hinman; W.W. Norton, 1968

1968, Dec. 20

“from George P. Brockway (W. W. Norton & Co.), Xmas 1968”
“& Celia’s, Paul’s happy 1969”

none

ruined

Shakespeare, William

Poems and Pericles

Ed. Stanley Lee, Facsimile of the first editions, from the Malone collection in the Bodleian Library; Oxford UP, 1905, copy no. 758

 

“Celia’s & Paul’s 8/7/75”
“L & CZ, 10/7/47, MVD”; enclosed 1964 Xmas card from Mark Van Doren
contents: “Venus & Adonis”; “Lucrece”; “The Passionate Pilgrim”; Sonnets; Pericles

none

ruined

Shelley, Percy B.

Complete Poetical Works

Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.

1933, Feb.

“signed, Celia Thaew”

none

none

Sheridan, Richard B.

Six Plays

Mermaid Dramabook, Hill and Wang, 1957

1957

“includes: The Rivals; St. Patrick’s Day; The Duenna; A Trip to Scarborough; The School for Scandal; The Critic

none

none

Sidgwick, A.

Greek Prose Composition

Longmans, Green, 1923

 

none

marginalia

ruined

Sieburth, Richard

Instigations: Ezra Pound and Remy de Gourmont

Harvard UP, 1978

 

“To C. Z., In memory of another instigator”

none

ruined

Simmons, A.G.

Plants of Shakespeare

Caprilands, Coventry, Conn.

1971, July

none

marginalia

ruined

Skeat, Walter W.

Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, A

Oxford UP, 1951

 

none

none

severe damage

Smart, Christopher

Jubilate Agno

Re-edited from the original mss. with an introduction and notes by W. H. Bond; Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1954

1969, Dec. 21

none

marginalia

none

Smart, Christopher

Poems

Ed. R. Brittain; Princeton UP, 1950

1950

“See Wm. H. Bond’s edition of Rejoice in the lamb – restored 1954, for sections intended as responsive reading; original order of pages mixed up in Stead’s ed.”

none

none

Smith, Adam

Selections from The Wealth of Nations

Crofts Classics, Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1957

 

none

none

none

Smollett, Tobias George

Roderick Random, Vols. I & II

Bohn’s Library, G. Bell & Sons, 1925

1925

none

none

none

Solt, Mary Ellen, ed.

Concrete Poetry: A World View

Indiana UP, 1968

1969, Feb. 28

“C’s & P’s”

none

none

Sophocles

Sophocles, Vols. I & II

Trans. F. Storr,
Loeb Classical Library, Macmillan, 1912, 1913

 

Vol. I: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone
Vol. II: Ajax; Electra; Trachiniae; Philoctetes

none

ruined (vol. I)

Sorrentino, Gilbert

Elegiacs of Sulpicia

Perishable Press, Mt. Horeb, Wisc., 1977

 

“cui donolepidum novum libellum arido modo pumice expolitum? – to Louis and Celia, of course, with love, from Gil"

none

none

Sorrentino, Gilbert

Orangery, The

U. of Texas Press Poetry Series, no., 3

 

“April 1978 – to Louis and Celia – as always, Gil”

none

mild damage

Sorrentino, Gilbert

White Sail

Black Sparrow Press, 1977

1977

none

none

none

Spenser, Edmund

Poetical Works

Eds. J.C. Smith and E. de Selincourt; Oxford UP, 1942

1955 ca, “Old Lyme”

none

none

none

Spinoza, Benedict de

Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza, The, Vols I & II

Trans. R.H.M. Elwes; Dover, 1951

 

“for L.Z., Xmas 1966, P”
Vol. I: Theologico-Political Treatise; A Political Treatise
Vol. II: On the Improvement of the Understanding; The Ethics; Selected Letters

marginalia

mild damage

Spinoza, Benedict de

Ethics

Trans. Andrew Boyle, intro. George Santayana; Everyman’s Library, E.P. Dutton, 1916

1922

includes: Treatise on the Correction of the Understanding

much marginalia

none

Spinoza, Benedict de

Spinoza’s Short Treatise on God, Man and Human Welfare

Trans. Lydia Gillingham Robinson; Open Court, 1909

1923

none

none

none

Stein, Gertrude

Lectures in America

Modern Library, Random House, 1935

1940

none

none

none

Stein, Gertrude

Selected Writings

Ed. & intro. Carl Van Vechten; Modern Library, Random House, 1962

1965

none

none

none

Stein, Gertrude

Three Lives

Vintage Books, Random House, 1961

 

none

none

none

Stendhal

Oeuvres Intimes, Vol. III

 

 

none

none

ruined

Stendhal

Vols. I, II & III

Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Editions Gallimard, 1952, 1955

1967

“P. Z.’s gift from Paris recording sessions, Concerto”
Vol. I: Armance; Le Rouge et la Noir; Lucien Leuwen
Vol. II: La Chartreuse de Parme; Chroniques Italiennes; Lamiel; Romans et Nouvelles
Vol III: Vie de Henry Brulard; Journal; Souvenirs d’Ègotisme; Essais D’Autobiographie; Earline; Les Privilèges

none

severe damage

Sterne, Lawrence

Tristram Shandy

Oxford UP, 1928

1931

none

marginalia

ruined

Stevens, Wallace

Collected Poems, The

Alfred A. Knopf, 1954

1965

“reread all (many for the first time) March 1971, noting in pencil marginalia parallels to L.Z.’s poems etc., I wasn’t aware of.  L. Z.”

much marginalia

ruined

Stevens, Wallace

Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination

Vintage Books, Random House, 1965

 

none

much marginalia

none

Stevens, Wallace

Opus Posthumous

Ed. & intro. S.F. Morse; Alfred A. Knopf, 1957

1965

“read (much for the first time) noting ‘resemblances’ to my work in pencil marginalia, L. Z., March 1971”

much marginalia

ruined

Stevick, Robert D., ed.

One Hundred Middle English Lyrics

Bobbs-Merrill, 1964

1964

none

none

ruined

Stewart, George R.

American Place Names

Oxford UP, 1970

 

“Celia’s 12/22/70 & Happy New Years & Louis”

none

ruined

Strabo

Geography, The

Trans. H.L. Jones; Loeb Classical Library, Harvard UP, 1967

1970

none

none

ruined

Strachey, Lytton

Portraits in Miniature

Norton Library, W.W. Norton, 1959

1962

none

none

ruined

Stravinsky, Igor

Poetics of Music

Trans. A. Knodel & I. Dahl; Harvard UP, 1947

1949

none

none

none

Strindberg, August

Seven Plays

Trans. Arvid Paulson, intro. John Gassner; Bantam Books, 1960

1960

contents: The Father; Miss Julie; Comrades; The Stronger; The Bond; Crimes & Crimes; Easter

none

none

Sturlsuson, Snorri

Heimskringla: The Olaf Sagas, Vols. I & II

Trans. Samuel Laing; Everyman’s Library, E.P. Dutton, 1964

1965

none

marginalia

none

Sturluson, Snorri

Heimskringla: Sagas of the Norse Kings

Trans. Samuel Laing; Everyman’s Library, E.P. Dutton, 1964

1965

none

none

ruined

Suetonius

Twelve Caesars, The

Amsterdam, 1650; entry followed by:
Trans. Robert Graves; Penguin Classics, 1957

1957, Paris

none

none

none

Sullivan, J.P., ed.

Ezra Pound: A Critical Anthology

Penguin Books, 1970

1973, Aug. 27

“for L.Z., see Index”
“Paul’s gift from London, Prom’s trip”

none

none

Surrey, Earl of (Henry Howard)

Poems

Clarendon Medieval & Tudor Series, Oxford UP, 1964

1970, Jan 21

“P’s”

none

severe damage

Swift, Jonathan

Gulliver’s Travels

Temple Classics, J.M. Dent, 1904

1965

none

none

none

Swift, Jonathan

Gulliver’s Travels and Other Writings

Modern Library College Editions, Random House, 1958

 

volume includes: “A Tale of a Tub”; “The Battle of the Books”; “Resolutions”; “Partridge-Bickerstaff Papers”; from “Journal to Stella”; “Correspondence”

none

none

Swift, Jonathan

Journal to Stella

Intro. Sir Walter Scott; Everyman’s Library, E.P. Dutton

1964

none

marginalia

none

Swift, Jonathan

Poetical Works, Vols. I, II & III

Little Brown, 1854

1964

none

none

ruined

Swinburne, Algernon

Poems

Penguin Books, 1961

 

none

none

none

unting, Basil

Collected Poems

Fulcrum Press, 1968

 

“for Louis Zukofsky, Basil Bunting”

none

ruined

Ure, Percy N.

Justinian and His Age

Penguin Books, 1951

 

none

none

none

Vaillant, G. C.

Aztecs of Mexico, The

Penguin Books, 1951

 

none

none

none

Vasari, Giorgio

Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Vols. I-VIII

Trans. A.B. Hinds; Temple Classics, J.M. Dent, 1900

1965

none

none

mild damage

Vaughan, Henry

Silex Scintillans or Sacred Poems

Temple Classics, J.M. Dent, 1900

1965

none

none

none

Veblen, Thorstein

Theory of the Leisure Class, The

Mentor Book, New American Library, 1953

 

none

none

none

Vico, Giambattista

Autobiography

Trans. M.H. Fisch & T.G. Bergin; Great Seal Books, Cornell UP, 1963

1963

none

none

none

Vico, Giambattista

New Science, The

Trans. M.H. Fisch & T.G. Bergin; Doubleday Anchor Book, 1961

1961

none

none

none

Villion, François

Book, The

International Pocket Library

 

“C’s”

none

none

Villon, François

Complete Works of François Villon, The

Trans. Anthony Bonner, intro. Wm. Carlos Williams; Bantam Books, 1960

1960

none

none

none

Villon, François

Oeuvres

Ed. Paul Lacroix; Librarie des Bibliophiles

1929

“for Paul, ‘75”

none

none

Virgil

Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid, Minor Poems, Vols. I & II

Trans. H.R. Fairclough; Loeb Classical Library, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1930; Harvard UP, 1950

 

Vol. I: Eclogues; Georgics; Aeneid, Bks. I-VI
Vol. II: Aeneid, Bks. VII-XII; Minor Poems

none

severe damage

Vittorini, Domenico

Italian Grammar

David McKay Co., 1947

1947

none

none

none

Voltaire

Candide

Trans. Peter Gay; Bilingual ed., St. Martin’s Press, 1963

 

none

none

mild damage

Waddell, Helen

Mediaeval Latin Lyrics

Penguin Classics, 1962

 

none

none

ruined

Waddell, Helen

Wandering Scholars, The

Doubleday Anchor Book, 1955

1955

none

none

ruined

Walton, Izaak

Complete Angler, The

Temple Classics, J.M. Dent, 1905

1965

none

none

none

Webster, John & Cyril Tourneur

John Webster and Cyril Tourneur

Mermaid Series, Charles Scribner’s Sons

1923

includes: Webster: The White Devil; The Duchess of Malfi;
Tourneur: The Atheist’s Tragedy; The Revenger’s Tragedy

none

none

Wells, H.G.

Outline of History, The

Garden City Publ., 1949

1949

none

marginalia

none

Wessely, J.E.

Handy English French & French English Dictionary

David McKay Co.

1922

none

none

ruined

Wessely, J.E.

Handy Italian English & English Italian Dictionary

David McKay Co.

1970

none

none

none

Weston, Jessie L.

From Ritual to Romance

Doubleday Anchor Book, 1957

1957

none

none

none

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill

Gentle Art of Making Enemies, The

G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1911

1955

“Paul’s Sept. 14/75”

none

none

White, Gilbert

Natural History of Selborne, The

Temple Classics, J.M. Dent, 1901

1965

none

none

none

White, John Williams

First Greek Book

Ginn & Co., 1896

1950

none

none

ruined

Whitman, Walt

Complete Poetry and Selected Prose

Ed. J.E. Miller Jr.; Houghton Mifflin, 1959

1959

none

marginalia

none

Willetts, William

Chinese Art, Vols. I & II

Penguin Books, 1958

 

none

none

severe damage

Williams, Gwyn

Introduction to Welsh Poetry, An

Dufour Eds., 1952

1970, March 14

none

none

mild damage

Williams, Jonathan

Empire Finals at Verona, The

for Louis Zukofsky; Collages & drawings by Fielding Dawson; Jargon 30, Jonathan Williams, 1958

 

“L. Z.’s copy for Paul back from Iceland, July 2/77”
“for Louis, I quote the dedication again, Jonathan, NYC, Jan. 21, 1960”

none

ruined

Williams, Jonathan, ed.

Madeira & Toasts for Basil Bunting’s 75th Birthday

Jargon 66, Jargon Society, Dentdale, March, 1975

 

none

none

ruined

Williams, Oscar, ed.

Modern Verse

Newly revised by Hyman J. Sobiloff; Pocket Books, Washington Square Press, 1972

 

“Celia’s, Paul’s & Louis’ copy, Happy Passover, Easter etc. resurrectedly yrs, April 21, 1973, L. Z.”

none

ruined

Williams, William Carlos

Autobiography, The

Random House, 1951

1951

none

marginalia

none

Williams, William Carlos

Collected Later Poems, The

New Directions

1973, July 20

none

none

none

Williams, William Carlos

Complete Collected Poems: 1906-1938

New Directions, 1938

1938

none

marginalia

none

Williams, William Carlos

Embodiment of Knowledge, The

New Directions, 1974

1975, Nov. 29

“Paul’s back from Paris to Belle Terra ‘ransacked’”

much marginalia

none

Williams, William Carlos

Farmer’s Daughter: Collected Stories, The

Intro. Van Wyck Brooks, New Directions

1973, June 15

none

none

none

Williams, William Carlos

I Wanted to Write a Poem

Ed. Edith Heal; Beacon Press

1965, Oct. 23

none

none

none

Williams, William Carlos

Il Fiore è il nostro signo; Carteggio e poesie

Ed. Margherita Pieracci Harwell; Vanni Scheiwiller (Milano)

None

none

none

none

Williams, William Carlos

Imaginations

New Directions, 1970

1973, June 15

“p. 269”
contents: Kora in Hell; Spring and All; The Great American Novel; The Descent of Winter; A Novelette and Other Prose

none

none

Williams, William Carlos

In the American Grain

Albert & Charles Boni, 1925

1928

“Louis Zukofsky, from his friend, W. C. Williams”

none

ruined

Williams, William Carlos

Many Loves and Other Plays

New Directions, 1961

1961

“William Carlos Williams”
contents: Many Loves; A Dream of Love; Tituba’s Children; The First President; The Cure

none

none

Williams, William Carlos

Paterson

New Directions, 1963

1967, Nov. 8

none

none

none

Williams, William Carlos

Pictures from Brueghel

New Directions, 1962

 

“William Carlos Williams”

none

none

Williams, William Carlos

Selected Essays

Random House, 1954

1966, May 17

none

none

none

Williams, William Carlos

Selected Letters

Ed. John C. Thirlwall; McDowell, Obolensky, 1957

1957, Oct. 18

“Louis from Bill”

none

ruined

Williams, William Carlos

Voyage to Pagany, A

New Directions, 1970

1973, June 15

none

none

none

Williams, William Carlos

Yes, Mrs. Williams

McDowell, Obolensky, 1959

1959

“Louis from Bill”

none

ruined

Wilmot, John (Earl of Rochester)

Poems

Harvard UP, 1953

1969

none

much marginalia

none

Wilson, John D.

Life in Shakespeare’s England

Penguin Books, 1959

 

none

none

ruined

Winbolt, S.E.

Britain Under the Romans

Penguin Books, 1945

 

none

none

none

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Blue and Brown Books, The

Harper Torchbooks, Harper & Row, 1965

1965

none

marginalia

ruined

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Notebooks 1914-1916

Trans. G.E.M. Anscombe; Harper Torchbooks, Harper & Row, 1961

1970, May 20

none

none

ruined

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Philosophical Investigations

Trans. G.E.M. Anscombe; Macmillan, 1969

1970, May 20

none

none

mild damage

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Remarks on the Foundation of Mathematics

Trans. G.E.M. Anscombe; M.I.T. Press, 1967

1970, Sept. 2

“P.Z.’s gift”

none

none

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Tractatus Logio-Philosophicus

German & English texts, trans. D.F. Pears & B.F. McGuinness, intro. by Bertrand Russell; Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1961

1970, May 20

none

none

none

Woledge, Brian, Geoffrey Brereton & Anthony Hartley (Vols. III & IV), eds.

Penguin Book of French Verse, The, Vols. I-IV

Penguin Books, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961

 

“Vol. I: to the 15th century
Vol. II: 16th to 18th century
Vol. III: 19th century
Vol. IV: 20th century

none

none

Woodbridge, Frederick J.E.

Purpose of History, The

Kennikat Press, 1965

 

“from Barry Ahearn c/o Hugh Kenner, rec’d April 13, 1977, Louis Zukofsky”
“To Louis Zukofsky from Barry Ahearn, Dec. 8, ‘77”

much marginalia

none

Wordsworth, William

Poetical Works

Oxford UP, 1960

 

none

none

mild damage

Wyatt, Sir Thomas

Poetical Works

Little, Brown, 1864

1923

none

much marginalia

ruined

Xenophon

Anabasis

Harper’s Greek & Latin Texts, Harper Bros., 1883

 

none

marginalia

ruined

Xenophon

Cyropaedia, Vols. I & II

Trans. W. Miller; Loeb Classical Library, Harvard UP, 1968

1970

none

none

severe damage; Vol. II ruined

Yeats, W.B., ed.

Irish Fairy and Folk Tales

Modern Library, Random House

1956

none

none

mild damage

Yeats, William Butler

Collected Plays, The

Macmillan, 1965

1969

none

none

severe damage

Yeats, William Butler

Collected Poems, The

Macmillan, 1959

1959

none

none

mild damage

Zimmer, Heinrich

Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization

Harper Torchbook, Bollinger Library, Harper & Row, 1962

1964

none

none

mild damage

Zukofsky, Celia

“Year by Year Bibliography of Louis Zukofsky, 1904-1978”

[published in Paideuma Vol. 7 No. 3, Winter 1978]

 

14 copies
[off-prints]

none

ruined

Zukofsky, Celia & Louis

Catullus

Cape Goliard Press, London, 1969

 

“L. Z. desk copy”
“Celia’s, Paul’s and Louis Zukofsky’s advance copy from Tom, May 13, 1969 (publication date May 29/69), London, reading at Camden Festival and U.S. Embassy, May 14 & May 21”
“corrections noted in L. Z. handwriting”
inserts: printed errata sheet with L. Z. handwritten notes & typed carbon copy of letter to Barry Hall indicating errata

none

ruined

Zukofsky, Louis

“A foin lass bodders”

[published in Paideuma Vol. 7 No. 3, Winter 1978]

 

15 copies
[off-prints]

none

ruined

Zukofsky, Louis

“A” 1-12

Paris Review Eds., Doubleday, 1967

1967, Aug. 29

“errata entered pp 94, 114, 172, 261; adjust spacing errors (p.46) of Origin edition of which this is a photo offset; graph pp 169-170 should be aligned on one page; enter omitted French accents; also page 267 revised for U. of Calif. Press, Los Angeles complete edition of “A” 1-24, 1978, Louis Zukofsky, Sat., Apri. 8, 1978”
inserts: newspaper clipping, review of “A” 1-12, London Sunday Times, Nov. 6, 1966, attached to inside of jacket & newspaper clipping nominating “A” 1-12 for National Book Award, New York Times, Tues., Feb 13, 1968, attached to back inside jacket

none

severe damage

Zukofsky, Louis

“A” 13-21

Paris Review Eds., Doubleday, 1969

1969, June 27

“L. Z. desk copy”
“errata noted; poor alignment down the page thruout; also broken type”
insert: Hayden Caruth review of “A” 13-21 in Hudson Review, May 1970 attached to inside front jacket

none

ruined

Zukofsky, Louis

“A” 22 & 23

Trigram Press, London, 1977

 

3 copies

none

ruined

Zukofsky, Louis

“A” 22 & 23

Trigram Press, London, 1977

1977, Dec. 1

“C’s, P’s & L’s airmail”

none

ruined

Zukofsky, Louis

“A”-24

Grossman, 1972

 

“rcd. Sept 18, 1972, Yom Kippur 5733, Louis Zukofsky’s desk copy, Celia”
corrections noted in L. Z. handwriting
inserts: Cubiculo program performance June 14, 15, 16 and June 21, 22, 23, 1973; corrections and notes in LZ handwriting; page with L. Z. handwritten notes attached to program

none

severe damage

Zukofsky, Louis

Arise, Arise

Grossman, 1973

 

43 copies

none

ruined

Zukofsky, Louis

Ferdinand

Grossman / Cape Editions, 1968

 

45 copies

none

ruined

Zukofsky, Louis

Little: for Careenagers

Grossman, 1970

1970, Aug. 13

“L. Z. desk copy”
“errata p. 66”

none

ruined