Hardcover. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a edgeworn dust jacket with light fading. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title page. Poems that deal with Darwin's voyages, evolution, ecology, natural selection, and animals. Illustrations by Rudy Pozzatti. No markings.
Softcover. NY, New Directions, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 276 pages. A collection of eight talk poems that were previously only performed spontaneously, by American poet and performance artist, David Antin. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. El Paso TX, Cinco Puntos Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE BY BYRD. "Byrd sure shoots a mean game with words. His language, his subject matter, his sensibility are there to remind us that 'we really inhabit / the holy body of God,' that we are all 'hungry ghosts / all of us." Ultimately, Byrd's book is about the community Byrd has learned to embrace--his book is a work that pays homage to those who have formed him--his neighbors, his children, his wife, the poets whose voices still urge him to write. This is a book for everybody." --Benjamin Alire Saenz. Small name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. NY, Grove Press , 3rd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 214 pages. Cover price of $2.45, E-552, ISBN number on rear cover so post 1970. Clean copy. This is the 3rd printing of the original Mexico City Blues (242 Choruses) by Jack Kerouac, a long poem composed of 242 "choruses" or stanzas, which was first published in 1959. It has been the inspiration for multiple films and novels, and serves as a pillar of Kerouac's oeuvre.
Softcover. Middlebury VT, Middlebury College Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 205 pages. Some fading to color on the covers, otherwise a tight, clean copy.
Softcover. St. Louis, Washington University Libraries, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages in stapled wrappers. An exhibit of printed materials and manuscripts drawn from the Modern Literature Collection of Washington University. Illustrated. 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. Port Townsend, Wash., Copper Canyon Press, 2nd Printing, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very slight dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, a spotless and tight 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. St. Paul, MN, Graywolf Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 82 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers. Small red stain on rear cover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE.
Hardcover. Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1st, 1867, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Non-Paginated. Black & white illustrations by W.J. Hennessy. Foxing to pages. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Title and decoration of girl raking in gilt on front cover and spine.
Hardcover. Concord NH, William B. Ewert, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 4 SIGNED AND NUMBERED Volumes. Hardcovers. The Snow Hen (1979) - Limited edition of 126 copies. Sections 1-7 of The Chestnut Rain. 27 pages. SIGNED. The Ewe's Song (1980) - Limited edition of 126 copies. Sections 8-18 of The Chestnut Rain. 27 pages. SIGNED. Blackberry Light (1981) - Limited edition of 126 copies. Sections 19-32 of The Chestnut Rain. 32 pages. SIGNED. Wenzel/The Ghost (1984) - Limited edition of 126 copies. Concluding Sections of The Chestnut Rain. 45 pages. SIGNED. Clean, bright copies.
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. Syracuse, NY, Tamarack Editions, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR IN BACK. Cloth and marbled paper-covered boards. Color linoleum-block prints throughout. Very slight fading of some of lettering on spine. Minor staining on spine. A little wear along edges. Nice, tight 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY SLEIGH on the title page. Widely considered one of the finest poets of his generation, Tom Sleigh brings to his new collection his trademark intensity and craftsmanship. In these poems, small things reveal large metaphysical and historical correspondences. In "Newsreel," for instance, the entire Cold War era comes to a drive-in movie theater, as Marilyn Monroe's screen image gives way to a tale of sci-fi Armageddon. In the elegiac "New York American Spell, 2001," Sleigh combines ancient spells with reportage of terrorism. Sleigh's overarching theme is the ever-changing face of love. As in Ovid's Metamorphoses, his poems reveal the workings of eros, for good or ill, in all its public and private guises. Clean copy.
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. Hanover NH, University Press of New England, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 121 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the half-title page. Clean copy.
Softcover. Providence RI, Burning Deck, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 16 pages, oblong stapled wrappers. One of 500 copies on Strathmore Pastell paper. Original silkscreen cover by Linda Lutes. This is an advance copy with publisher's note laid in, unnumbered. Tanning to spine edge, clean copy.
Softcover. Portland OR, Tin House Books, reprint, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 400 pages. Deadpan, epic, and searingly charismatic, A Sand Book chronicles climate change and climate grief, gun violence and bystanderism, state violence and complicity, mourning and ecstasy, sex and love, and the transcendent shock of prophecy, tracking new dimensions of consciousness for our strange and desperate times. Fading to front wrapper, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press , 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 68 pages. A tight clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Kodansha International, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 71 pages, color illustrated boards with mustard color cloth spine and an acetate dust jacket. Illustrated with color prints by Chieko Takamura. INSCRIBED BY THE TRANSLATOR, SOICHI FURUTA on the half title page. Small 1" tear to the acetate jacket on rear corner. Otherwise, clean, very good. Violet wraparound band with blurb by Donald Keene is present.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 163 pages. Includes selected poems from all his previous books and many new ones. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
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.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 115 pages, black cloth covers in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with minor edgewear to extremities. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good.
Softcover. New York, Jay Street, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 119 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to edges and pine, slight stain to for-edge, else a very neat, tight copy.
Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st, 2010-03-09, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 237 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
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, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY MULDOON on title page. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Le Roy Phillips, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 652 pages. Hardcover. Brown cloth covers with titles in gilt. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with 46 full color tipped-in plates. Pages featuring illustrations show some age darkening. Clean, tight copy.
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.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1st , 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Clean, tight copy. Dust jacket is worn with chipping along spine, and a blue stamp on back side of each fold. Dust jacker does have plastic wrap around it.
Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, Counterpoint, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.
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.
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