Poetry

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 36 pages. Hardcover, decorated blue boards. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AT TOP OF PRELIMINARY PAGE. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover. One the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Slight darkening to spine. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Oxford University, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 275 pages. Edited from the old editions and numerous manuscripts with introductions & commentary by Herbert J. C. Grierson. Vol. 2 only - introduction and commentary. Discoloration on front flyleaf. Light foxing to endpapers and edges of textblock. Dark blue cloth with embossed design on front cover and gilt lettering on spine. Corners bumped, minor wear to top and bottom of spine. Beige dust jacket with blue writing, price-clipped. Edgewear, age soil, toned spine.

Softcover. New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press , 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 87 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page. light sunning to yellow wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. London, Quartet Encounters, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 163 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear.

Softcover. New York, New Directions, 1st paperback, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 231 pages. Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Wrapper in good shape, has a touch of tanning. A small bit of foxing to top edge, otherwise clean inside and out. Binding tight, in great condition for its age.

Softcover. New York, Knopf, Uncorrected proof wraps, 1994, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in light gray wrappers, an uncorrected proof. SIGNED BY HIRSCH on title page.

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. New York, VIKING PRESS, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 75 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED TO BRET BRITTON WHO WAS THE BOOK BUYER AT THE STRAND IN NEW YORK. Tight copy, with only light edge wwear to cover and dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, N.D., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. White lightly soiled covers with blue and silver lettering. Light foxing on piliminary pages. Featuring stories and poems by the likes of J.M. Barrie, Algernon Blackwood, and Rudyard Kipling, & illustrations by Walt Disney Studio, Paul Bloomfield, A.P. Payne, Sylvia Salisbury, A.H. Watson, H.S. Foxwell, etc, this book was printed as part of a charitable drive for the Princess Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth II) of York Hospital For Children

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 78 pages. Previous owner's pencil inscription on front endpaper. Dust jacket chipped, edgeworn, unclipped with 4.50 price.

Softcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 166 pages. INSCRIBED BY ROBERTS on the title page. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket 81 pages. SIGNED BY KINNELL on front fly leaf. Kinnell's twelfth book of poetry.

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, The Viking Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 113 pages, beige canvas boards with salmon cloth spine, wood-grained dust jacket in mylar cover. A collection of poems by American author R. G. Vliet (1929-1984), his first book. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 249 pages. The last book of poems published during Williams lifetime. Williams won a Pulitzer Prize and two National Book Awards for previous collections. A clean near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.

Softcover. Sandy Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 100 pages. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1st, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 95 pages. Hardcover. "This is one of five hundred large paper copies printed in 1926". SIGNED BY RUDYARD KIPLING. Full color tipped-in illustrations by Donald Maxwell. Moderate foxing to endpapers, light foxing to some pages and a few illustrations. Dust jacket with foxing, some light chipping along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue boards, black cloth spine with gilt lettering. 101 pages, two b&w frontispieces, clean copy. No dust jacket.

Softcover. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 79 pages. Clean copy.

Softcover. University of Pittsburgh Press, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 91 pages. SIGNED BY COLLINS on title page. Collins's fourth book of poems, remarkable for their wry, inquisitive voice and their sheer imaginative range, these poems are probing explorations, journeys into the unexpected. Questions About Angels reinforces Collins's place among the most talented poets of this generation. Clean copy.

Softcover. Baylor University Press, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 226 pages. The English poet U. A. Fanthorpe (1929-2009) liked to call herself "a middle-aged drop-out," having abandoned a successful teaching career to focus on her poetry, even concealing her Oxford degree so she could find paid work--at Hoover, then as a hospital receptionist. This gave her a chance to study people, which is what her wonderful poems do best. Fanthorpe's verse is instinctively English, often very moving, frequently funny, invariably rooted in her faith. Fanthorpe and her partner, Rosie Bailey, became Quakers in the 1980s. These poems touch on spiritual matters, dramatize Bible stories, and are underpinned by a profound moral sense. Fanthorpe does not judge; rather, she watches, records, and allows her words to do their work. Clean copy.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Black Sparrow Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, One of 1000 copies in wraps. 62 pages in light brown printed wraps. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Ann Arbor MI, Kylix Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 75 pages. Mild fading to dust jacket spine. No markings.

Hardcover. Ashfield MA, Paris Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 74 pages, clean, bright copy. Unclipped dust jacket also pristine. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.

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.

Softcover. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to fellow poet John Engels on title page. Light edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. US, Carcanet Pr, 1st, 2001-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 378 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Crowell, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 41 pages. Color illustrations by Roese. Oversize book. Some darkening, rubbing to covers. Otherwise clean, tight copy. An promotional piece directed at potential advertisers by Woman's Home Companian Magazine. Scarce.

Hardcover. Hartford, Joel Barlow, 1st, 1787, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 258 pages. Red leather covers with gilt lines along cover edges, and decorations on spine. Covers with light rubbing to edges and at corners. Title on spine in gilt on black. Marbled endpapers. Previous owners name on preliminary page and at top of title page. Includes Dedication to The King of France, and Introduction. All edges gilt.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 104 pages with B/W illustrations by author. Soiled ivory colored covers with orange, blue and black printed design on front, black lettering on spine. Hinge cracking but binding solid. Pages clean. Previous bookseller's label on back end papers.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 184 pages, blue cloth, gilt decorated cover and title. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf and minor edge wear, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Softcover. Portland ME, Coyote Love Press, 1st Ltd. Ed., 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, plain paper wraps with a pictorial dust jacket in two colors on tan stock. 38 pages, SIGNED BY MCDOUGALL on title page, also INSCRIBED on the front fly leaf. Black and white drawings by Gary Buch. Limited to 500 copies of which 25 are signed and numbered. This copy is unnumbered. Promotional flyer laid in.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, J.E. Tilton and Company, 1st Edition, 1866, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 53 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout (By Hammatt Billings) with tissue guards. Gilt edges, brown endpapers. Slight tanning from age to pages. Dark green cover boards, with bevelled edges and gilt title with design on front cover board. Spine straight, binding tight, pages unmarked. Beautifully illustrated antique volume of poetry by Oliver Goldsmith.

Memphis, Ion Books, 1st , 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover in a color illustrated dust jacket, 102 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page and dated 1991. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Duell Sloan & Pearce, 1st , 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket with chipping to corners, spine, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket that has a 1/4" sliver missing from top of rear panel. Stated first printing. Previous owner's signature on half-title page, otherwise clean.

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.

Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood, 1st, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 3/4 brown calf over marbled boards. NOT Holiday Edition or Household Edition. Whittier is the only editor, no mention of Lucy Larcom. Decorated edges Gilt lettering on spine lightly faded. Four page Preface by Whittier dated September 1875, copyright page states 1875. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 112 pages. Stern's 12th collection is his first since winning the 1998 National Book Award for the new and selected This Time. The poems still rely on Stern's inimitable blend of coiled anger, love of life and raffish, on-the-outside-looking-in wit. Poem after poem reflects on what it means to have been a Jew, a Pennslyvanian, a nature-and-weather watcher, a world traveler and, for a longer time than many poets of his stature, an unknown writer during the middle of the last century: "If you can stand Strauss then so can I,/ oh filthy Danube, oh filthy Delaware, oh filthy Allegheny.// And anyone who never opened a Murphy bed/ night after night for seven years without ripping/ the sheet and had neither desk nor dresser can't walk/ in my shoes or wear my crocodile t-shirt." Stern's remembrances are not so much nostalgias as attempts to telescope the speaker's world and worldview through verse-talking, to test everyday language's ability to render his experiences to his liking, or at least his satisfaction.

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.

Softcover. Fredonia NY, White Pine Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 254 pages. SIGNED BY ST. JOHN at the 2000 Breadloaf Writers Conference. Essays and reviews by poet David St. John of collections of verse by poets including Marvin Bell, Charles Wright, Donald Hall, Randall Jarrell, Pablo Neruda, Donald Justice, Mark Strand, Jorie Graham et al, followed by six interviews with David St. John (in various journals).

Softcover. Burlington VT, Rumble Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 28 pages, plain stiff white paper wraps, outer layer of light purple rice paper with title label pasted on front, pages tied with string at spine, hand printed by Bruce Conklin, #82/400 copies, poems of self-awareness published in celebration of Sarton's eightieth birthday, Clean copy.

Softcover. Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 91 pages. INSCRIBED BY HULL on the title page. Previous owner's name on the front fly leaf. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Grandville MI, Nada Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages. Contributors include William Burroughs, Jr., Antler, Anne Waldeman. Clean, bright copy.