Poetry

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1912, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 119 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Moderate soil on covers. Pages have light soil. Tight copy. Illustration by Florence Storer.

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.

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

Softcover. Managua, Nicaragua, Editorial Nueva Nicaragua, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Softcover. (Spanish Text) Vivid color and b/w illustrations throughout, many of Marilyn Monroe. In excellent shape. Binding tight. Clean inside and out.

Softcover. Ann Arbor MI, University of Michigan Press, 2nd pr., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 462 pages. Illustrated in b&w. Includes bibliography. From rear cover: "From Kenneth Rexroth to the Czechoslovakian secret police, from Marianne Moore to the F.B.I., from Diana Trillling to Time magazine - Allen Ginsberg's work has always drawn a spirited response. Now, for the first time, these responses - remarks, reviews, and essays - have been collected in a single volume. Beginning with William Carlos Williams's early letters of support and ending with James Breslin's biographical analysis of 'The Origins of Howl and Kaddish', this collection reflects a full thirty years of praise, complaint, debate, and analysis of the work of one of the most innovative poets of our century". Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Century Company, 1st, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original green cloth, gilt. Top edge gilt. Printed by The DeVinne Press on white coated paper. The front cover features a silhouette of the doctor in his horse and buggy, stamped in colors, within a gilt box. Profusely illustrated with frontispiece, 26 full-page plates, and numerous drawings in the text, by C. M. Relyea. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, reprint, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 87 pages, winner of the 1956 Lamont Poetry Selection. Minor dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Rinehart, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrations by Rockwell Kent. Previous owner's bookplate on front cover paste down. Hinges with small tears. Stained cloth and end papers.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 138 pages. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Price clipped dust jacket shows standard wear with some darkening to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , G. P. Putman, reprint, 1864, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 322 pages. Dark green cloth, gilt title to spine, top edge gilt. Light edgewear to covers, internally a very clean, tight copy

Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 355 pages, in a bright unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY SIMIC on the half title page. Also a handwritten postcard from Simic laid in as well as two related newspaper clippings about the book.

Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 79 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper, with signed poem laid in. Black cloth, gilt title to spine, no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

NY, Harcourt , 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 84 pages. SIGNED BY SIMIC on the title page. In this new collection of sixty-two poems Charles Simic paints exquisite and shattering word pictures that lend meaning to a chaotic world populated by insects, bridal veils, pallbearers, TV sets, parrots, and a finely detailed dragonfly. Suffused with hope yet unafraid to mock his own credulity, Simic's searing metaphors unite the solemn with the absurd. He received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1990.

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. 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.

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. 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. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY JONG on front fly leaf. Clean 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, Farrar Straus & Company, 1st US, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 85 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. His first book of poetry to be published in the United States.

Softcover. NY, Stone Street Press, 1st , 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, black paper wrappers with illustrated label on front. SIGNED BY MCCORMICK on (C) page Lino cut Illustrations, calligraphy & translation by McCormick. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Ticknor and Fields, 1st Edition, 1867, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 107 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's dated (1868) inscription on preliminary page (faded). Red cloth cover boards with beveled edges (slight moisture damage to front cover board), gilt title with decoration on spine and front cover board. Some agewear. Gilt top edge. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages unmarked and clean.

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. Austin TX/NY, Curbstone Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 47 pages. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

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.

Hardcover. London, Lawrence & Bullen, Revised Ed., 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 262 pages plus 37 preliminary pages. Bound in half leather and marbled boards. Spine with raised bands, gilt design. End papers with marbled design. Near Fine. With a 4 line inscription by poet and literary critic Joseph Warren Beach.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd Mead , reprint , 1902, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 227 pages. Green cloth covers with gold lettering and decoration by Margaret Armstrong. Rubbing to spine, corners. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece portrait of the author. First published in 1899, this is a 1902 printing. Clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Richard G. Badger, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, green cloth in an edgeworn, chipped dust jacket. 64 pages.SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Owner's signature on same page at top. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 448 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Includes CD of author reading book.

Hardcover. London, Ellis and Elvey, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover 2 volumes octavo 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches- very handsomely leather bound in a simple half period blue morocco with marbled boards with gold letters and raised dentils, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, xlii, 528, xl, 521 pages. Notes by William M. Rossetti. A fine set in a gorgeous binding. Previous owner's name on both title pages otherwise clean.

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.

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.

Softcover. Boston, Zephyr Press , 2nd pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. One volume edition bound in stiff dull magenta wrappers, as issued. 908 pages. An authoritative edition containing all the poems, Edited by Roberta Reeder, with Introduction by Anatoly Naiman, and a memoir by Isaiah Berlin. 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.

Softcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, Revised Ed., 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in red and green wrappers, 26 pages with b&w drawings by Shahn. First published in 1949 by Curt Valentine, this is the first printing by MOMA in June 1951. per the colophon on last page. Mild wear to wrappers, small inscription on title page.

Hardcover. London, Sylvan Press, Ltd. Ed., 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with mild soil. Limited to 1000 copies. 64 pages, In French and English. The author takes on the task of offering readers four of Rimbaud's best-known poems in their original text, facing them with literal transcriptions with notes that make the renderings "documents" rather than poetic translations. In a separate section he offers his own versions, taking into consideration the character of the French language. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2006-04-18, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 52 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

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.

Port Townsend WA, Copper Canyon Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 513 pages. Poetry is vital to language and living. This anthology celebrates 50 years of Copper Canyon Press publications, one extraordinary poem at a time. Since its founding, Copper Canyon has been entirely dedicated to publishing poetry books; here Editor in Chief Michael Wiegers invites press staff and board--past and present--to help curate a retrospective. The result is a collection of beloved poems from books spanning half a century: representing Pulitzer Prize-winning books, debut collections, works in translation, and rare books from Copper Canyon's early days. This book is a tribute to Copper Canyon poets and readers everywhere, because, as Gregory Orr writes, "Certain poems / In an uncertain world-- / The ones we cling to: // They bring us back." Clean copy.

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.

Softcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pastel orange wrappers, 165 pages. SIGNED BY ARMITAGE on title page. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Janovich , 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, b&w illustrations by Charles Mikolaycak. Dust jacket with light edgewear, closed tear.

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. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st , 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers. SIGNED and dated 2002 by this Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1992 on the front fly leaf. With 26 full-page reproductions of Walcott's paintings. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Middleton,CT, Wesleyan, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ON TITLE PAGE BY AUTHOR.

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. Manchester UK, Carcanet Press Ltd, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 319 pages. Top corner of front end paper has been diagonally cut. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Vanguard Press, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped, price-clipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY SITWELL to literary historian and critic Roger Shattuck on the front fly leaf.