Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 436 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent, covered in protective clear, plastic brodart. Black cover boards and quarter cloth, gilt title on spine, all very good. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful condition. A celebration of one of America's greatest poets and a wonderful and necessary addition to all poetry lovers' libraries.
Softcover. New York, Knopf, 1st wraps, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, SIGNED BY HIRSCH with his hasty scrawl on title page. The author's first book.
Hardcover. US, Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 123 pages. SIGNED AND DATED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Light shelf-wear and sun-fade to dust jacket spine. Faint foxing to edges, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1ST, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 43 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Top edge of dust jacket torn and chipped. SIGNED AND NUMBERED 916/1000. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, Mitchell Kennerley, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt title on spine, 85 pages. Previous owner's name on inside cover, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 445 pages. Clean.
Hardcover. London, Channing Press, 1st Ltd Ed., 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in gilt on front, 29 pages. With frontispiece photograph tipped in of the author with tissue guard. Number 24 of 100 copies SIGNED BY LORING ON TIPPED-IN PAGE. Glassine wrapper.
Philadelphia, Porter and Coates, 1st thus, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 46 pages, b&w line illustrations, including frontispiece, by Hammatt Billings. No date. Ivory spine, white laminated covers with beveled gilt edges and rounded corners, bright silver, gold gilt and black decoration to the front panel. All edges gilt. Some light spotting to rear cover which is light beige color. Otherwise, a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Mrs. Clayton M. Richardson, 1st thus, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 77 pages, line illustrations throughout and gilt title on cover. Minor corner and edge wear, fading to parts of cloth otherwise tight. Poems reprinted from popular children's publications along with the drawings that accompanied them. no marking.
Hardcover. London, The Falcon Press, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, cream cloth stamped in maroon, Illustrated with six full page plates: portrait frontis, 2 drawings by Gregorio Prieto and 3 plates by Baudelaire, including 2 self portraits. Illustrated endpapers, with line drawings by Prieto. 131 pages, translated by Geoffrey Wagner; introduction by Enid Starkie. Mild soil, shelf wear.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 84 pages. A reissue of Updike's first collection of poems, with a new foreword by the author. Clean copy.
Softcover. Madison WI, Seventies Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Softcover with a dust jacket, 74 pages. SIGNED, with a brief inscription by Robert Bly on the title page. A collection of poetry by Rolf Jacobsen, a Norwegian poet, considered to be one of the first modernist writers in Norway. Poems in English and Norwegian. Some foxing to edge of the dust jacket, edge of the text block.
Softcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 43 pages. A book-length poem, Wampanoag Traveler, is told from the point of view of one Loranzo Newcomb, a fictional eighteenth - century natural historian, gardener, lone wanderer, fabulist, and failed lover. The poem is arranged in fourteen sections that deal variously with such subjects as gardening, the mystical delirium that follows a poisonous snakebite, failed love, hummingbirds and skunks, and the young Newcomb's apprenticeship to a "birdmaster" who bears a close resemblance to Audubon. Clean, like new.
Softcover. Santa Cruz CA, Kayak Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, original illustrated yellow wrappers. Profusely illustrated in black & white throughout. by Matta. In Spanish (the poet was born in Chile) with English versions on facing pages by Matthew Zion and Lennart Bruce. Printed on blue and pink paper and profusely illustrated. One of 800 copies.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY APPLEMAN on the half-title page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1st thus, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering and black stamped detail to front board, gilt decorative detail/ lettering to spine, top edge gilt, portrait frontispiece with facsimile signature and dedication to David McKay with tissue guard, 2 pull-out sections of facsimile handwritten autobiography notes by author. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. Tonawonda NY, KCP Poetry, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with black cloth spine, 44 pages illustrated in color by Jorisch. Visions in Poetry is an innovative and award-winning series of classic poems re-interpreted for today's readers by outstanding contemporary artists in distinctively beautiful editions. The sixth Visions in Poetry book is The Owl and the Pussycat, a nonsense poem by Edward Lear, brilliantly illustrated by Stephane Jorisch. The artist's vision begins in a segregated world where different species never mix and everyone hides behind a mask. Against this backdrop an aristocratic owl from Owl Heights and a bohemian pussycat from the other side of the tracks find each other. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 204 pages, red cloth covers in an unclipped dust jacket with light darkening to edges and spine. INSCRIBED BY SPENDER to literary historian and critic Roger Shattuck: "To Roger/My guide through/ Cambridge and Casablanca/with a great many thanks/Stephen Spender/Cambridge 1955".
Hardcover. Hopewell NJ, Ecco Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 99 pages, green boards with beige cloth spine. Bright dust jacket that has a small price clip that still shows $22.95 price.
Softcover. New York , Poetry East, 1st Ltd. Ed., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. A collection of poems by Orr with an introduction by Stanley Kunitz. Copy 15 of 35 signed from a total edition of 175. A very near fine copy in stapled wrappers. SIGNED BY BOTH ORR AND KUNITZ on the limitation page. Poetry East Chapbook No. 2. Clean copy with just a trace of fading to pale blue wraps.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 48 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1996-06-20, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 134 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Macmillan & Co., 1st , 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 8 color (frontispiece with tissue guard), and black & white illustrations by Edmund J. Sullivan. 103 pages. Spine fade. Silver lettering, decorated front cover. Browning to pages. Front paste down separated from front flyleaf. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown.
Softcover. Paris, Mercvre de France, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 265 pages. INSCRIBED TO ROGER SHATTUCK BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. With black & white illustrations by: Pablo Picasso, Jean Bazaine, Jacques Villon, Antoni Clave, and others. Spine paper with light sun fading. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 135 pages. Hardcover. Front cover and spine with black and white vertical stripes, and Black & white pastedown illustration. Features 6 black & white illustrations by E. W. Kemble. First edition with (1) at end of text. Dust jacket with light chipping, creasing along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked copy.
Softcover. Princeton, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 65 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. MInor wear, soiling to cover. Else a nice, clean copy.
Hardcover. UK, Scorpion Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 70 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Light shelf-wear and sun-fade to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Machester, England, Manchester University Press, 1st thus, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 250 pages. Hardcover. "Of this edition only 450 copies have been printed for sale...". "Publication of the University of Manchester No. CCIX, English Series No. XX". Pages offset and some untrimmed. Former library volume with bookplate/stamps/labels expected. Green cloth bound cover boards (some agewear), gilt title on spine (slightly faded), cloth separation at spine. Pages and edges have some tanning from age, doesn't affect text. Binding good. Spine straight. Pages unmarked.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 115 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket with light foxing and some browning, light edgewear. light fading to cover board top edges. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Lewisburg, PA, Appletree Allley, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Numbered and signed by author #18/55. Linoleum engravings by Barnard Taylor. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1891, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt decoration and lettering, 352 pages. Frontispiece portrait of poet, other b&w illustrations. Previous owner's notation on blank prelim page otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with yellow lettering on spine, 289 pages. Collects poems from four of Sandburg's works. "A collection of Sandburg's finest and most representative poetry draws on all of his previous volumes and includes four unpublished poems about Lincoln." Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 7th pr., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three uniform volumes in original red slipcase, 1266 pages. Gray cloth covers with black and gilt stamping to titles on spines. Interest in Emily Dickinson has grown throughout the years until, now, in this three-volume edition Thomas Johnson presents the entire body of poems she is known to have written, 1775 in all. Here are the familiar "I never saw a Moor" and "Because I could not stop for Death," along with other less well-known poems, including forty-three never before published. Casual notes to friends and relatives which frequently accompany scraps of verse help to reveal the poet's enigmatic character. After keen analysis of the manuscripts, Johnson has arranged the poems in what is believed to be their chronological order, with variations and rejected versions of each poem following .No dust jackets. Ink notations to about 15 pages in the 3 volumes, Otherwise clean and tight.
Hardcover. Basking Ridge NJ, Jacoby Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, green cloth in a bright dust jacket, 128 pages. One of 1,000 copies printed at the Stinehour Press. Yiddish poetry translated into English by Mindy Rinkevitch. Drawings by Diego Rivera. A new copy, still in original shrink wrap.
Softcover. Rutland VT, Charles E. Tuttle, 4th pr., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, red wrappers with gilt stamping to front and back covers remains bright. Mild fading to red spine. Innovative Japanese binding and nicely designed two-color printing throughout. Book design and typography by Keiko Chiba. 59 pages. Paul Reps (1895 - 1990) was America's first haiku poet, over 20 years earlier than anyone else. His influential 1957 book, Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, introduced a generation of readers to Zen Buddhism. His work has steadily gained in popularity over the years. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Buffalo NY, Blazevox Books, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 58 pages, illustrated in color. A tribute to New York City in words and pictures by the two poets. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st thus, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original black lettered grey cloth, 179 pages, illustrated with 10 color plates by Claude Allin Shepperson tipped-in to tan pages. Light foxing to text pages. Edge-block foxed. Bringing together the best of Keats' poetry, this beautifully illustrated volume includes a critical essay by Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate.
Softcover. NY, Stone Street Press, 1st , 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, green paper wrappers with illustrated label on front. SIGNED BY MCCORMICK on (C) page Lino cut Illustrations, calligraphy & translation by McCormick. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Daleville IN, Barnwood Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 102 pages. Frontis of Goedicke and her husband, author Leonard Wallace Robinson. Clean copy.
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.
Softcover. Los Angeles, Sun & Moon Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Thick trade paperback original, 431 pages. Collected works from three early books: Definitions, Autobiography and Code of Flag Behavior along with selections from other books. Clean, bright copy.
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. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green cloth covers with embossed design, white lettering, 29 pages. Two-color frontis, b&w illustrations by Will Vawter. Small gouge/abrasion to front cover, name on front fly leaf. otherwise bright and clean.
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