Poetry

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 93 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white photographs throughout. Light fraying to covers. Dust jacket shows chipping and small tears.

Softcover. London, Faber & Faber, reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 56 pages. The poet's second collection of poems, first appeared in 1969. Clean copy.

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press;, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 123 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page and INSCRIBED by him on front fly leaf. Poems inspire our trust, argues James Longenbach in this bracing work, because they don't necessarily ask to be trusted. Theirs is the language of self-questioning--metaphors that turn against themselves, syntax that moves one way because it threatens to move another. Poems resist themselves more strenuously than they are resisted by the cultures receiving them. But the resistance to poetry is quite specifically the wonder of poetry. Considering a wide array of poets, from Virgil and Milton to Dickinson and Gluck, Longenbach suggests that poems convey knowledge only inasmuch as they refuse to be vehicles for the efficient transmission of knowledge. In fact, this self-resistance is the source of the reader's pleasure: we read poetry not to escape difficulty but to embrace it. An astute writer and critic of poems, Longenbach makes his case through a sustained engagement with the language of poetry. Each chapter brings a fresh perspective to a crucial aspect of poetry (line, syntax, figurative language, voice, disjunction) and shows that the power of poetry depends less on meaning than on the way in which it means--on the temporal process we negotiate in the act of reading or writing a poem. Readers and writers who embrace that process, Longenbach asserts, inevitably recoil from the exaggeration of the cultural power of poetry in full awareness that to inflate a poem's claim on our attention is to weaken it.

Softcover. West Orange NJ, Warthog Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 55 pages. B&w illustrations by Susan Micklem. INSCRIBED BY EADY on the title page. In lightly worn tan wrappers.

Softcover. New York, The Spiral Press, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12mo. Printed wrappers. Decorations by Philip Grushkin. First edition of Frost's Christmas poem for the year. INSCRIBED BY FROST on first page: "To Garry Simpson from Robert Frost/At Miami arranging (?) March 4, '57". Light soil to outer wraps, Otherwise very good.

Softcover. Santa Monica, The Lapis Press, First Edition, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with french flaps & light wear to edges. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Pen marking to several pages in commentary sections. Poetry is clean & unmarked throughout. Black printed illustrations.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 141 pages. Clean, bright copy in a dust jacket.

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. New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and Company, 1st US, 1872, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 282 pages, hardcover. A Hidden Life and Other Poems. Cloth boards with gilt lettering and design. Beveled boards. Slight tears to head of spine. Edgewear and bumping to boards. Rubbing to boards as well, but gilt is still relatively bright. Mild cocking to spine, binding still tight. Slight staining from bleed half title page to prelim page. Previous owner's inscription to prelim page. With tipped-in old timey bookmark. A bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, reprint, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 122 pages. Nineteenth century poetry profusely illustrated with pen line drawings by Abbey and Parsons. Green cloth with dark green design, gutter cracked at half title page, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. London, William Heinemann, 1st thus, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 116 pages, illustrated with 4 color and 12 b&w plates by G.D. Armour. Green cloth covers with brown lettering and design, gilt lettering on spine. The green dust jacket is worn, chipped with a small hole at the edge of the spine. SIGNED & HANDWRITTEN LETTER BY AUTHOR tipped inside cover, also ANOTHER SIGNED NOTE W/ENVELOPE laid in.

New York, The Viking Press, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 76 pages. B&W illustrations. Green cloth cover with sun-fading and slight soiling. Gilt title to spine. Previous owner signature on front flyleaf. Other poetry by author inlaid. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co., 1878, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound in 3/4 leather over marbled boards, spine with raised bands and ornate gilt design, title in gilt on red leather label. All edges with marble design, marbled endpapers, 625 pages. The Globe Edition of this work. With an introduction by David Masson. Illustrated with a couple of in-text engravings. A collection of the poetry of John Milton, including his best known 'Paradise Lost'.

Hardcover. New York, John Lane , 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 82 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Corn colored cloth boards with gilt title on cover and spine. lightly soiled edges. Previous owners signature on front end paper.

Hardcover. County Meath IR, Gallery Books, 1st , 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 78 pages, black cloth covers. Bright unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Franklin Center PA, The Franklin Library , 1st thus, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, full genuine brown leather binding, heavily gilt stamped with elaborate decorations and multiple rules. All edges gilt. Sewn in silk bookmark, marbled paper end-sheets and smyth sewn. Illustrated with drawings by Lloyd Bloom. A proven bestseller time and time again, Robert Frost's Poems contains all of Robert Frost's best-known poems-and dozens more-in a portable anthology. Here are "Birches," "Mending Wall," "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "Two Tramps at Mudtime," "Choose Something Like a Star," and "The Gift Outright," which Frost read at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy." An essential addition to every home library, Robert Frost's Poems is a celebration of the New England countryside, Frost's appreciation of common folk, and his wonderful understanding of the human condition. Clean, bright copy.

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.

Hardcover. Barre MA, Imprint Society, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two matching hardcovers, decorative pattern boards with a gray cloth spine, gilt lettering on spine. Attractive reprint of Frost's collected works, with an introduction and bibliographic & textual notes by Lathem. Designed & SIGNED by Rudolph Ruzicka, who also provides a frontispiece for each volume. Printed by letterpress at the Stinehour Press in an edition of 1950 copies, this set unnumbered. Lacks slipcase. Corners with light wear, otherwise clean set.

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. Lewiston ID, Confluence Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. This chapbook is clean and unmarked in very good condition. Unpaginated. Limited edition of 500 copies.

Softcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 240 pages. Clean. bright 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. DuBois PA, Mammoth Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 74 pages. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a chipped dust jacket. Blue cloth. Previous owner's inscription on title page, otherwise clean

Hardcover. New York, George Braziller, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 222 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edgewear to dust jacket and heavy fading on rear. Internally clean. Color illustrations by Hokusai.

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. NY, Morrow , 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 62 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Reeves and Turner, 1st, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 196 pages. Red cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine. No dust jacket issued. Sun-fade to front cover and spine. Previous owner's bookplate and inscription on front end paper.

Hardcover. Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1st thus, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Unpaginated, illustrated with b&w engraved plates by various artists. Cloth covers with color illustration on front and back. Previous owner's inscription on first blank page. All edges gilt. Includes

Softcover. Mexico , Flor Ruiz, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 80 pages, introduction by Jay Parini. Softcover with dust jacket, uncut pages. Limited to 1000 copies.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 158 pages. Color frontispiece. and 23 gorgeous color plates by Byam Shaw. Blue cloth with orange and light blue decoration. Small sticker from previous owner back paste-down. Hinge starting. Beautifully illustrated edition of this wonderful anthology of tragic and erotic poetry written by Nicolson (1865-1904), who created a scandal when these were first published in 1901 when she tried to pass them off as translated from classic erotic Indian poets. Shaw (1872-1919), was considered one of the most important pre-Raphaelite painters, and the Garden of Kama as his best illustrated work.

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. Santa Barbara CA, Black Sparrow Press, 1st thus, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, With a new Preface by the Author. Hardcover, numbered and signed issue, limited to 300 numbered hardcover copies, SIGNED BY PAUL BOWLES [# 64]. A fine copy in fine, unprinted acetate dust jacket. Octavo, cloth spine, paper-covered boards, 73 pages.

Hardcover. New York , George Braziller , reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 70 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Dust jacket with visible wear - jacket now protected with Clear plastic cover.

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.

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.

Softcover. San Francisco, Sixteen Rivers Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 101 pages. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Clean copy.