Poetry

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 127 pages. A very clean, tight copy. A prize-winning Irish poet's third collection of verse again brings his simultaneously witty and deeply profound insights into all aspects of modern life, sacred and profane, and includes a sequence of thirty sonnets set in a Paris restaurant.

Hardcover. MN, Graywolf Press, 1st, 1992-02-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 99 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Softcover. Barrytown NY, Station Hill Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 93 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Hardcover. Taipei, Bookman Books, Ltd., 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 81 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Slipcased.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 44 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY HALL ON TITLE PAGE. Godine Chapbook - Second Series. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1st, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. (Approximately 100 pages) Beautiful heavy paper stock with B&W plates, engravings, and illustrations throughout. Special leather covers with embossed floral design and gilt titles. Engravings produced under the supervision of George T. Andrew with drawings by W. St. John Harper, J. D. Woodward, H. Winthrope Peirce, Edmund H. Garrett, Harry Fenn, Chas Copeland, and W. J. Fenn. Pages very clean and crisp. Binding sewn with yellow string on outside. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Slight tear in tissue guard. Previous owner's signature in pencil on front fly leaf, slight rubbing and wear to cover edges, otherwise, clean and tight copy. Very scarce.

Softcover. Athens, GA, The University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 77 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO FELLOW POET JOHN ENGELS. Some scratches on covers. Corners and spine a little worn. Slight wear on rear cover along fore edge. Top corner of first few pages lightly bent/creased. Good, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Norfolk UK, Black Dog Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages. Hardcover. Author signed. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket front flap price clipped. Clean inside and out. From the dust jacket front flap: "These essays, written over a 30-year period and published to celebrate the Benson Medal for Literature awarded to Ronald Blythe in 2006, offer Blythe's lingering comment on his life as a writer."

Hardcover. New York, William Sloane, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated covers. SIGNED BY VAN DOREN opposite title-page . Front fly leaf missing. Some pages with dog ear creases, otherwise very good.

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. New York, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1st U.S., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 152 pages. Brodsky's second major collection. Navy blue cloth boards and spine with gilt lettering on spine. Color dust jacket with clear plastic guard, photo of author on back. A couple marks on plastic guard. Blue end papers. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 76 pages, in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. Rochester, NY, Judaic Impressions, 1st Edition, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. SIGNED NOTE FROM TRANSLATOR LAID IN. Hardcover Folio. Cover boards bound in black cloth, white paste-on on spine with title, a touch of fading to spine and some shelf wear. 2 light smudges of soil to 1st poem title page (see image). 3Scarce 1st Edition, only 100 printed. "The five poems (written during the Holocaust) compiled in this book are witness of the unquenchable spirit of man. They are personal, lyrical and so very Jewish. They speak to God - arguing, protesting, demanding, pleading, accusing and longing...".

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1sr, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding America's, and the world's, experiments in democracy. Whether depicting the first Jewish ghetto in sixteenth-century Venice or the contemporary efforts of Black Lives Matter, a girls' night clubbing in the shadow of World War II or the doomed nobility of Muhammad Ali's conscious objector stance, this extraordinary poet never fails to connect history's grand exploits to the triumphs and tragedies of individual lives.

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, Revised Ed., 1995, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 296 pages. In this new edition of George Seferis's poems, the acclaimed translations by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard are revised and presented in a compact, English-only volume. The revision covers all the poems published in Princeton's earlier bilingual edition. Clean,bright copy.

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. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Delta, reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 108 pages, selected poetry by the author, 1957-1968. Published as "Writing 20"; original price $1.95 on front wrap; cover photo by Edmund Shea (black-and-white photo of a barefoot woman sitting amid some rubble). Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

NY, Henry Holt & Company, 1st, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers, matching light green boards with dark green cloth spines with gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. BOTH VOLUMES SIGNED BY DE LA MARE on front fly leaf. Cover and edges show shelf wear. Volume two with light soil, stain to cover. Name on inside front covers. Pages are clean and intact.

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.

Softcover. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 334 pages. This revised edition of The Poem of Empedocles (1992) integrates substantial new material from a recently discovered papyrus and published by A. Martin and O. Primavesi. The papyrus contains evidence of over seventy lines or part lines of poetry, of which more than fifty are both new and usable. The integration of this material into the previously known fragments has significant impact on our understanding of Empedocles, one of the most influential philosophers and poets of antiquity. Name on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 75 pages. Galvin's 4th book, his photo on back cover. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Trumansburg,NY, self-published, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, yellow wraps, unpaginated. First printing of this early collection of verse by Anderson, also known as a dance critic. Saddle stapled pictorial wraps. A very good copy. Mild toning to wraps' edges. Small name on title page.

Softcover. Carbondale IL, Southern Illinois University Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 62 pages. INSCRIBED BY GALVIN on the title page. These poems chronicle the waxing and waning of the seasons from one winter to the next in the area around Egg Island, the dunes near a small seacoast town on the outermost reaches of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Galvin's training as a naturalist and environmental writer is evident as his practiced eye roves the waves, marshes, and forests, finding meaning and beauty in the smallest detail-- bird-watching, rebuilding a woodpile, or the flight of bobwhite quail. Other poems recall the poet's affectionate memories of his deceased wife and the life they shared together, acknowledging grief without veering into the maudlin. Always present beneath the surface is the question of where humans fit into this wild, ever-changing landscape. Mild crease to front cover otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Riverdale-on-Hudson NY, The Sheep Meadow Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 115 pages. INSCRIBED BY BARNSTONE on the title page. Barnstone was a distinguished professor emeritus from Indiana University. He was in China during the Cultural Revolution, which is central to this collection. Clean, bight copy.

Softcover. Santa Rose CA, Black Sparrow Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 198 pages. INSCRIBED BY WAKOSKI on the title page to author and teacher Paul Christensen, Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 894 pages. Edited by Jay Parini and with poetry and poetry criticism by Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor by Francis Murphy, Early African American Poetry, by Carolivia Herron, The Epic in the Nineteenth Century, by John McWilliams, Longfellow in the Aftermath of Modernism, by Dana Gioia, The Transcendentalist Poets by Lawrence Buell, Emily Dickinson, Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Walt Whitman, by Donald Pease and many others, such as Dana Gioia, Gregory Orr, Ann Charters, William Pritchard, Helen Vendler, Edward Hirsch, and the work of Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, the Beat poets and Native American poets and others. SIGNED BY PARINI on the title page. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, New Directions, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, quarter brick-colored cloth, green marbled paper boards. Winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. 64 pages, stated First Edition. Clean copy.

Softcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 72 pages. A lovely copy of this vintage book of Edson's landmark prose poetry. The author's 7th collection. Clean copy.

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.

Hardcover. County Meath IR, Gallery Books, 1st , 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 78 pages, black cloth covers. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.

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. New York, Ecco, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 153 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page to fellow poet John Engels. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 387 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Paris, Juvisy, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1Softcover, 69 pages, 9 b&w text illustrations by Andre Margat. INSCRIBED BY ALI-BERT on front fly leaf to American scholar and professor Stephen Freeman, dated 1945. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Robert M. McBride, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 87 pages. B&w drawings by Bacon. Light rubbing to cover corners. Cloth covers with slight age fading. Clean, tight 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. Cambridge, Mass, The Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 337 pages, with illustrations by David Gentleman throughout, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR in rear, number 794 of a limited 1500 copies, introduction by Aileen Ward, leather spine with gilt title and decoration, slipcase included. Very clean and tight.

Hardcover. New York , Harper & Row, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages, in a bright unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY ORR on title page. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean, very good.

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.

New York, Ecco, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 197 pages, green cloth covers with yellow cloth spine. With Pulitzer Prize sticker on cover.

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. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 141 pages. INSCRIBED BY PACK on the title page. Clean, bright copy in a dust jacket.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, j.M. Stoddart & Co., 1st Edition, 1873, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 488 pages. Hardcover. "Richly Illustrated with one hundred and fifty steel engravings, executed in the finest style of the art, mostly from original designs by distinguished artists." Light blue, fancy textured endpapers. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Cover boards elaborately bound in leather with raised bands and gilt title and decoration on spine. Front cover has engraved decoration in black, with gilt title and design, back cover board has same design without gilt (see image). Boards have some chipping around the corners and edges (see images). Elaborately decorative first title page (see image). All edges gilt (quite bright). Hinge cracked at gutter in one place (second page,--second page), binding remains tight, otherwise. Tanning to pages from age, doesn't affect text or illustrations. Some shadowing on a few pages due to previous owner's pressed flowers (now removed). This beautiful old volume was obviously meant to decorate someone's library, as well as provide some comfort at the beginning of the Twentieth Century.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 110 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a very neat, tight copy. INSCRIBED BY PHILLIPS on title page.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press,, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 69 pages. Greek and English texts. Translated, with a foreword and notes by Walter Kaiser. Bibliographical references. Dust jacket with upper cover illustration by Maud Morgan. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Forest Dale VT, Paul S. Eriksson, 1st, 2002, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. In this compilation of new and selected poems that span thirty years, [Hawley] focuses his penetrating eye upon life's ordinary and unusual occurrences. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. First edition of the second collection of poetry by the author. INSCRIBED BY ACKROYD on the title page and dated 2002. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Knopf, 1st ARC, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 70 pages. Uncorrected proofs in blue printed wrappers, the second collection, third book by this MacArthur Fellowship winner. Pub material stapled in; other than staples and minor scratching (from staples). Clean.

Hardcover. London, Anvil Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with faded spine. Errata slip tipped in. 158 pages clean and tight. Ronald Bottrall, born in 1906, emerged as a notable poet in the thirties when F. R. Leavis singled out his early work for attention. His Collected Poems (1961) was warmly received. The major part of his new book was written during 1972, and in these recent poems the mature talents of a very distinctive and distinguished writer are at their best. The book is in five parts; the first is a single long narrative poem, rich in humour, about the poet's Cornish childhood. There follow groups of shorter poems about people, events and places-lyrical, meditative, or satirical; and always superbly skilful.