For sale by Veery Books:

, Grand Street: 67; Fire
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  Grand Street: 67; Fire
  Grand Street, New York, 1999, Wraps, , , Very Good
  
  

  241 pp. + advs. Bumps to corners, else fine. Poetry--John Ashbery from ''Girls on the Run''; Kendra Borgmann ''Genus: Rosa,'' ''Bed,'' ''Now Showing at the Roxy,''; Tomas Harris, ''Danger Zones,'' ''Sea of Crisis,'' ''The Burning Afternoons of Cathay''; Fiction--Roberto Bolano, ''Phone Calls''; Fydor Dostoyevsky, ''Siberian Notebook'' (tr. Peter Constantine); Laura Hird, ''The Last Supper''; Bilge Karasu ''Fork''; Linda Le ''Voice Crisis'' (tr. Deborah Treisman); Cees Nooteboom, Portrait of an other; Andrew O'Hagan, ''The Sea Shore''; Ben Okri, ''Infinite Riches''; Artist's Portfolio--Yves Klein, notes by Walter Hopps; Cai-Guo Qiang Portfolio; David King, ''Enemies of the People''; Ana Mendieta wtih notes by Charles Mereweather; Eduardo Paolozzi, Portfolio, notes by Jessica Morgan; Nonfiction--Jose Saramago, ''The Nobel Prize Lecture";"/imgs/000838.jpg;

  
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An excellent report by Maureen Mulvihill of the auction of rare books and manuscripts from the estate of Paula Peyraud

The Paula Peyraud Collection: Samuel Johnson & Women Writers in Georgian Society. An Auction Report by Maureen E. Mulvihill as published in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Fall 2009, with 8 images and a list of selected buyers, prices & new locations of the Peyraud properties. A pdf of the published report may be downloaded here: http://www.ilab.org/download.php?object=documentation&id=81

‘DARK LADY’ OF RARE BOOK COLLECTORS, PAULA FENTRESS PEYRAUD (CHAPPAQUA, NY, 1947 ~ 2008). Peyraud Collection Auction, May 2009, Bloomsbury Auctions N.Y. 483 Lots (books, manuscripts, images). Sales total: $1.6 million, including premium. Photograph, Margie Van Dyke. Bookplate from Peyraud copy of Frances Burney’s Cecilia, (lot 218, buyer McGill University). Bookplate bears inscribed initials (“FCP - EKP”), being the collector’s grandparents Frank C. Peyraud & Elizabeth Krysler Peyraud, both visual artists (see “Peyraud,” Benezit, vol. 10, 2006 edition).

A Croon on Hennacliff

I.

Thus said the rushing raven, 
    Unto his hungry mate, — 
“Ho! gossip! for Bude Haven: 
    There be corpses six or eight. 
Cawk! cawk! the crew and skipper, 
    Are wallowing in the sea: 
So there’s a savoury supper 
    For my old dame and me.” 

II.

“Cawk! gaffer! thou art dreaming, 
    The shore hath wreckers bold; 
Would rend the yelling seamen, 
    From the clutching billows hold. 
Cawk! cawk! they’d bound for booty 
    Into the dragon’s den: 
And shout, for ‘death or duty,’ 
    If the prey were drowning men.” 

III.

Loud laughed the listening surges, 
    At the guess our grandame gave: 
You might call them Boanerges, 
    From the thunder of their wave. 
And mockery followed after 
    The sea-bird’s jeering brood: 
That filled the skies with laughter, 
    From Lundy Light to Bude. 

IV.

“Cawk! cawk!” then said the raven, 
    “I am fourscore years and ten: 
Yet never in Bude Haven, 
    Did I croak for rescued men. — 
They will save the Captain’s girdle, 
    And shirt, if shirt there be: 
But leave their blood to curdle, 
    For my old dame and me.” 

V.

So said the rushing raven, 
    Unto his hungry mate, — 
“Ho! gossip! for Bude Haven: 
    There be corpses six or eight. 
Cawk! cawk! the crew and skipper, 
    Are wallowing in the sea: 
O what a savoury supper, 
    For my old dame and me.”