Softcover. Palo Alto CA, Pacific Books, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 134 pages. Contains 78 poems of 71 poets. The 25th annual volume published in the Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards series. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press , 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 81 pages. Clean copy. Poet's second collection; he was a professor at The University of Bridgeport.
Softcover. Dublin IR, SurVision Books, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 40 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Winner of the 2018 James Tate Poetry Prize .
Softcover. NY, The Noonday Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 111 pages. Former owner's name on the first page, the rest unmarked. Pages lightly tanned.
Hardcover. US, Faber and Faber, 1st, 2006-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 76 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1st , 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Clean, tight copy. Dust jacket is worn with chipping along spine, and a blue stamp on back side of each fold. Dust jacker does have plastic wrap around it.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 86 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with only light rubbing on dust jacket.
Hardcover. US, University of Massachusetts , 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 268 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New Hampshire, Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc., 1st Edition, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 36 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Black cover boards, red title on spine. Pages unmarked. Binding tight. Spine straight. In beautiful condition. A proper and modern Norse saga, written with all the power of Melville and Hemingway and a true story now retold in the ageless rhythms of blank verse, as irresistible as the beautiful and specially commissioned woodcuts of Mary Azarian.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 193 pages. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket with $4.95 price on flap. Clean. Lowell's first dramatic work, The Old Glory, consists of three plays, Benito Cereno, My Knisman, Major Molineux, and Endecott and the Red Cross. Based on stories by Hawthorne and a novella by Melville, they are held together by the unifying symbol of the flag.
Hardcover. London/NewYork, Dent/Dutton, 1st, 1901, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 120 pages, 3-color illustrations throughout by Charles Robinson. Binding is shaken but intact with all of the wonderful plates. The cloth spine has separated from the backstrip and the 3-color decoration on the front cover suffers from rubbing/fading in areas. Small volume, 5" tall, 3 3/4" wide, one in a series titled The Bairn Books.
Hardcover. NY, Arrow Editions, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 146 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Light foxing to edges. Dust jacket with darkening, chipping along edges. Jacket now protected with clear plastic cover.
Paperback. New York, Knopf, 1st wraps, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Hirsch's hastily scrawled signature on title page SIGNED BY HIRSCH at 1999 Breadloaf Writers Conference in Vermont. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 95 pages. Poems in 3 sections; I. Exiles (22 poems written between 1948 & 1958), with revisions & changes in titles. II. Tiger Lilies (25 Poems reprinted from A Roof of Tiger Lilies); III. The Alligator Bride: New Poems (24 Previously uncollected poems). Book review laid in. Red lettering in spine lightly faded. Clean copy
Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, Reprint, 1888, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, All edges gilt. Mustard cloth covers with beveled edges. Elaborate gilt pictorial design. Gravure plates, b&w line drawings and text illustrations by Edmund Garrett and Chas Copeland. Patterned end papers. Front hinge starting. Shelf worn cover. Spine ends worn. Blank prelim page missing. Otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 60 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Stone Street Press, 1st wraps, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. SIGNED TWICE BY MCCORMICK, once on front fly leaf and again on limitation page in rear. This is #122 of 595 copies in colored paper wrappers. Calligraphy and string binding by McCormick.
Hardcover. Middletown, Conn., Wesleyan, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with slight odor. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to literary critic and historian Roger Shattuck. 93 pages. A very clean, tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Ecco Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 200 pages. Free verse poems present observations on political conditions in Greece and explore themes including freedom, death, and love.
NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, first Printing with code letter "I-C" and "First Edition" printed on copyright page. Paper label on spine, three quarter black cloth with blue paper over boards.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 77 pages, clean copy. A collection of poetry by the first African-American woman to be the U.S. Poet Laureate.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 115 pages, black cloth covers in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with minor edgewear to extremities. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. Portland ME, Thomas B. Mosher, 1st, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, half leather over marbled boards, 99 pages. "This First Edition on Van Gelder paper consists of 925 copies." Same date on title page and copyright page. Burton first published his famous poem in 1880, having written it twenty-seven years before, and posed as the translator and friend of a ficticious Arab writer. Covers with light edgewear, the top of the spine has a small nick to the leather. Otherwise very good.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 67 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very minor sun-fade to dust jacket spine, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st thus, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black and gilt, beveled boards, 89 pages, all edges gilt. Printed on heavy glossy stock. The frontispiece is an etching of Holmes by S.A. Schoff with a tissue guard. There are many wonderful illustrations throughout the book by 20 artists, including Howard Pyle, W.L. Tayor and W. Smedley. CLEAN COPY.
Hardcover. Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michigan Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. Previous owner's name and information on front flyleaf. Dust jacket unclipped, some light fading to spine of dj, glossy, excellent. This difinitive edition incorporates a commentary on the translation as well as an invaluable introduction, which includes new information about Hutchinson's life and writings, and a discussion of the De rerem natura and its impact on the seventeenth century.
Hardcover. Seattle, Wave Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 49 pages. She is often obscure, but her allusions are as much a sign of camaraderie as of scholarly pretension, her poems a pert crystallization impossible in more narrative poetry," The New Yorker. Caroline Knox once again demonstrates that she is a master at lyrical billiards, sending all levels of diction in surprising and comedic directions. No subject matter is off-limits for her examination. Her vast range of experiment is exciting, and the ensuing poems are games, dreams, and riddles. This collection is art on the page for the eye and the ear. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. Frontispiece illustration by Rockwell Kent. 1000 pages plus commentary in rear by John Crowe Ransom, William Carlos Williams and others. Previous owner's name on title page, gutter loose at title page. Rear hinge cracked. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Indianapolis/New York, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, rubbed dust jacket, 190 pages. INSCRIBED BY BERGE on the front fly leaf to Roger (Mitchell), fellow poet and teacher. Clean copy.
Softcover. South Orange NJ, Serving House Books, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 432 pages. SIGNED BY SOLONCHE on the title page. A generous offering of his favorite poems from past books, including the two nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, Invisible (2017) and Piano Music (2020) and the 2020 Shelf Unbound Notable Indie Book, The Porch Poems. In her introduction to Selected Poems: 2002-2021, Grace Cavalieri says, 'The absolute best remark I can make about this book is that I would give it to non-readers of poems as a conversion to poetry, for its language is as available as rain; hopeful as sunshine; and fresh as the wind. It's a perfect book to let the reading public know that this is America's poetry. This is a serious book disguised as playfulness, and we are its lucky recipients. 'J.R. Solonche has published poetry in more than 400 magazines, journals, and anthologies since the early 70s. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st thus, 19201st, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with illustrated pastedown on front cover. 147 pages, with 8 color plates by N.C. Wyeth plus the cover plate and endpapers illustration. Tercentenary edition. Ex-lib with light marking to endpapers, stamp to title page. Gilt lettering dulled, scar to front cover label. Plates all present and clean, very good.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus & Cudahy, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 64 pages, b&w iilustrations by Ben Shahn. Dust jacket with closed tear on front panel, light chipping.
softcover. New York, HarperPerennial, reprint , 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 103 pages. Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Hardcover. Chicago, Big Table, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 60 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Some spotting to black cloth covers. Unclipped dust jacket shows fading to spine and some light soil, rubbing to paper. Scarce in hardcover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 68 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with only light rubbing on dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 84 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Rear inside flap has ripped corner. Light rubbing on rear dust jacket.
Hardcover. Lewisburg, PA, Appletree Alley, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 47 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Numbered and signed by author #68/150. Linoleum engravings by Barnard Taylor. Tight copy.
Softcover. Santa Rosa CA, Black Sparrow Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 398 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Clean, tight copy with light wear to edges.
Hardcover. Port Townsend WA, Copper Canyon Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 117 pages. SIGNED BY PULITZER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR on front end paper. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Pawlet, VT, Priscilla Howes Grant, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 27 pages, hardcover. #37 of 126 copies; distributed to friends of the poet. Nickerson was a young poet who died in a motorcycle accident in 1972. Unmarked. Clean and bright; a tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 57 pages, in a bright unclipped dust jacket. Complete number line on copyright page. SIGNED BY KINNELL on the title page. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Grossman Publishers, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 124 pages. Hardcover with wrippled dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with light rubbing to cover boards.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with blue and gilt design on cover and spine. 184 pages, top edge gilt. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper and Row, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 66 pages, in a bright unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY ORR on the title page. Black and white drawings by Brad Holland. The poet's second book.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY VOIGT on title page.
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