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. New York, New Directions, 2nd pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 115 pages. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. AUTHOR'S INSCRIPTION on title page. Foreword by author. Very minor wear to cover and spine edges, corners slightly bumped. Previous owner's pencil inscription on page 3. B/W pictorial wrappers.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1888, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 131 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Ex-Library with bookplate pasted in on front end aper and sleeve in rear. Spotting and moderate wear to cover boards. Fabric missing to top edge of spine. internal pages clean, but lightly browned.
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. New York, Dutton, 1st , 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 155 pages. A very clean, tight copy in a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. One of the most pensive & delicious of all our poets, completed shortly before his death, Matthews seems to be looking his last . on all things lovely: music, food, wine, and especially love. Clean copy.
Softcover. Saint Paul MN, Graywolf Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 53 pages. Gallagher was born in 1943 in Washington state, and studied at the University of Washington under Theodore Roethke. She later married the poet and writer Raymond Carver.
Hardcover. New York, George Braziller, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 61 pages, in an unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY SIMIC on the half title page. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Rutland, VT, George A. Tuttle & Company, 1st Edition, 1858, 400 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's dated (Feb. 10, 1859) signature on front flyleaf (see image). Brown cloth, stamped cover boards with agewear (see image), fraying to top of spine (see image), gilt title on spine and design on front cover board. Tanning from age to pages and edges, no rips, in incredibly good condition for its age.
Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Page and Co. , 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 71 pages, illustrated end papers, copyright page and title page, color frontispiece. Color plates at pages 22 and 49. Light edge wear, small tears to dust jacket; protected by mylar cover. Foxing to top edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell , reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a beautifully designed binding: light gray-green cloth with rough and smooth textures, beveled edges. A white area centered on cover with gilt "Wordsworth" and "Illustrated" surrounded by a gilt branches decoration. All edges gilt, 951 pages. B&W illustrations, not credited. Introduction dated 1888, followed by the poems set in double columns. Copyright page states 1892. Very clean, tight.
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. 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.
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.
Hardcover. Berkshire, England, Golden Cockerel Press, 1st Edition, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 71 pages. Hardcover. "This edition of 750 copies finished March 24th, 1922." With a lithograph portrait of the author by Pamela Bianco (see image) with tissue guard. Bound in green boards (faded), and blue cloth spine, (sunned) with paper paste-down label. Hinge split at gutter on back endpapers and gutter split at pages 48-49 (see image), binding still completely attached and no pages missing. Uncut edges. Light tanning from age throughout. Has clear, plastic mylar cover. Errata insert at contents page (see image). A clean, very good copy. The 8th book published by the Golden Cockerel Press.
Hardcover. New York, Penguin Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Color illustrations throughout. Thick textured paper. The epic poem by the twelfth-century Persian mystic and poet Attar of Nishapur, is here re-told by the acclaimed author and illustrator Peter Sis in a dazzlingly new graphic form.
Hardcover. Evanston IL, Northwestern University Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A portrait of Black America in the nineteenth century. Over the course of two decades, award-winning poet Patricia Smith has amassed a collection of rare nineteenth-century photographs of Black men, women, and children who, in these pages, regard us from the staggering distance of time. Unshuttered is a vessel for the voices of their incendiary and critical era. Smiths searing stanzas and revelatory language imbue the subjects of the photos with dynamism and revived urgency while she explores how her own past of triumphs and losses is linked inextricably to their long-ago lives. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1985-10-30, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Paris, La Caravelle, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 169 pages, color frontispiece, 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, Harper & Row, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 83 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Previous owners name and address on front endpaper. Dust jacket with light wear along edges, darkening to paper. Clean, tight 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.
Hardcover. San Francisco, North Point Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 97 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Ecco Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. (American Poetry Series; Volume 13). The author's first published collection of poetry. small closed tear to dust jacket, 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 & Giroux , 1st US, 1987-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 51 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light shelf-wear to price clipped dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace and company, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 111 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrations by Gary Kelley. Stiker on rear dust jacket. otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons , 1st, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green cloth with gilt fern and black lettering on cover, beveled edges, 178 pages. Mild foxing to some pages. Clean copy.
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, Dodd Mead and Co., 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 127 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club, decorations including cover gilt design by Margaret Armstrong. Title page in red and black. There is damp staining/fading of the green cloth covers along the top inch or so on both the front and rear. This does not effect any pages internally. There is a previous owner's signature along with "Xmas 1901" on the front fly leaf. Aside from the cover fade, a very nice copy.
Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, color decorations by Will Jenkins. This antique hardcover book is bound in olive-green cloth boards with a large color paste-down cover illustration of a woman by Will Grefe with gilt lettering. Features a variety of large color plates (about 12) from well-known illustrators of the day, many of which are suitable for framing, accompanied by verses of love. Bright, clean and tight.
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. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, April 18, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 479 pages. Light smudges to bottom and fore-edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Very good in an unclipped dust jacket. The scenery of Iceland, the South seas, and the American South, the awakening of first love, and the meaning of speech are some of the topics treated in this collection of poems by the novelist and critic. He is a poet the same way Somerset Maugham is a thinker; the poems are set in dozens of exotic locales and glitter like fireflies against the night of the page. As the title suggests, one exotic locale is pretty much the same as any other for Brad Leithauser, as long as you get mail from it. The messages that come through tell little stories, almost as though they weren't big enough to be used as the raw material for his novels.
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. 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. NY, B.W. Huebsch, Revised Ed., 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with a spine labe.l William Ellery Leonard (1876-1944) was an American poet, playwright, translator and literary scholar. Over his career, Leonard wrote numerous volumes of poetry, this being his most well-known work. It is a cycle of 250 sonnets about his tragic first marriage, which ended with his wife's suicide. Revised from the 1922 privately printed edition with "four scattered verbal changes and . four new stanzas in Part III." Spine label rubbed. Clean copy.
New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 51 pages. INSCRIBED BY NORMAN on front fly leaf, dated with a sketch of a flower vase. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped. Poems inspired by service in World War II.
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. NY, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1sr, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in faded blue boards with a black cloth spine, title label on front cover. 138 pages, humorous poetry with fabulous b/w illustrations by Stuart Hay. The author was a humorist, journalist, and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, newspaper columnist, and playwright. He is remembered best for creating the characters Archy and Mehitabel, supposed authors of humorous verse. Despite cover fading, a clean, tight copy.
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.
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.
Softcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 52 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Very faint sun-fade to front cover, else a clean, tight copy.
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