Hardcover. New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Top spine has heavy chipping to cover board and dust jacket missing chunk. Moderate soiling to dust jacket, currently covered by plastic protective sleeve. Page edges browned, but tight copy. Illustrations by Netta Aldington.
Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, Chronicle Books , 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Vivid color illustrations throughout. In great shape, clean inside and out. "Lyrical text and illustrations featuring Chinese characters and paper collage introduce the beauty and richness of China."
Softcover. New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press , 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 87 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page. light sunning to yellow wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Reilly & Britton Co., 1st Edition, 1910, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 110 pages. Hardcover. Also included: "The Bells", "Annabel Lee" and "The Philosophy of Composition", an essay by Edgar Allan Poe. Gorgeous Color & B/W Illustrated Drawings by John Rea Neill, Cover boards bound in green cloth, with illustrated paste-on on front cover board. Previous owner's bookplate on verso of front fly leaf. Some wear and soil to covers. Top edge gilt. Tanning to edges and pages, doesn't affect text or illustrations. Binding tight. Spine straight. Previous bookstore proprietary stamp on page 21.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover with fair dust jacket. Illustrated with woodcuts by Clare Leighton. Dj with large chunks gone, edgewear, tanning.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st thus, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated pictorial stamped paper-covered boards. Book is in fine condition, crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. The poem is illustrated throughout in color with the watercolors and drawings of A. J. Keller. Includes facsimile of Lowell's handwritten manuscript.
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.
Fredonia NY, White Pine Press, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages. a reprint of Wright's early book considered the most private of his work. The author identified he and his wife Annie as the citizens in the title. Nice copy.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 81 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Collection of early work published in England and first volume of the Braziller Poetry Series edited by Richard Howard. Gray boards, gilt titles at spine. Like new.
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, J.E. Tilton and Company, 1st Edition, 1866, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 53 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout (By Hammatt Billings) with tissue guards. Gilt edges, brown endpapers. Slight tanning from age to pages. Dark green cover boards, with bevelled edges and gilt title with design on front cover board. Spine straight, binding tight, pages unmarked. Beautifully illustrated antique volume of poetry by Oliver Goldsmith.
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.
Hardcover. Chicago, Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in the publisher's original paper covered boards. Title paste-down on front and back covers. Beautiful illustration in green on title page. This collection of 50 sonnets and poems was written by American poet, writer and philanthropist Helen Hay. The collection includes poems such as 'The Days', 'Throne and Altar' and 'In the Mist'. Helen Julia Hay Whitney (March 11, 1875 - September 24, 1944) was an American poet, writer, racehorse owner/breeder, socialite, and philanthropist. She was a member by marriage of the Whitney family of New York. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Austin TX, The Steck Company, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering, 131 pages. Clean, bright copy, no markings.
Hardcover. US, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 4th printing, 1996-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 70 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Dj wrapped in clear plastic brodart.
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. 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. US, University of Massachusetts , 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 268 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 36 pages. Hardcover, decorated blue boards. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AT TOP OF PRELIMINARY PAGE. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover. One the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Slight darkening to spine. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 94 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf "For Jack and Peggy with warm wishes- Bill/ New York April 18 1970". Dust jacket with edgewear, bottom inch of spine gone, unclipped, otherwise clean. Meredith won both the Pulitzer Prize and The National Book award and was Consultant to the Librarian of Congress.
Hardcover. New York, Paul S. Eriksson, Inc., 1st , 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated, b&w illustrations by Arouni. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Several pages slightly loose. Else a very nice, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This celebratory volume gives us the entire career of Donald Justice between two covers, including a rich handful of poems written since New and Selected Poems was published in 1995. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Justice has been hailed by his contemporary Anthony Hecht as "the supreme heir of Wallace Stevens." In poems that embrace the past, its terrors and reconciliations, Justice has become our poet of living memory. The classic American melancholy in his titles calls forth the tenor of our collective passages: "Bus Stop," "Men at Forty," "Dance Lessons of the Thirties," "The Small White Churches of the Small White Towns." This master of classical form has found in the American scene, and in the American tongue, all those virtues of our literature and landscape sought by Emerson and Henry James. For half a century he has endeavored, with painterly vividness and plainspoken elegance, to make those local views part of the literary heritage from which he has so often taken solace, and inspiration. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1891, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt decoration and lettering, 352 pages. Frontispiece portrait of poet, other b&w illustrations. Previous owner's notation on blank prelim page otherwise clean.
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. US, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1996-04-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 61 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Remainder dot to bottom edge, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Lewisburg/London, Bucknell University Press / Associated University Presses,, 3rd pr., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 268 pages. "Ruben Dario" is the pseudonym of Felix Ruben Garcia Sarmiento. He was born in Metapa, Nicaragua (today known as Ciudad Dario) in January 18, 1867. Dual Spanish/English text. Clean, bright copy. Dario is possibility the poet who has had the greatest and most lasting influence in twentieth century Spanish literature. He has been praised as the prince of Castilian letters.
Softcover. New York, New Directions, 1st paperback, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 231 pages. Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Wrapper in good shape, has a touch of tanning. A small bit of foxing to top edge, otherwise clean inside and out. Binding tight, in great condition for its age.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 8th pr., 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 666 pages, green cloth covers with gilt lettering to front and spine, top edge green. INSCRIBED BY FROST on front fly leaf, "To Mrs T.P. Washburn/ from Robert Frost/with best wishes/ Middlebury Vermont /October 1959". Tight, clean copy.
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.
Softcover. Stuttgart, Jonathan Williams, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 70 pages, pictorial wrappers of rice paper sewn Japanese style with an acetate dust wrapper. The acetate has some large chips to bottom edge. Issued as Jargon 15, limited to 300 copies. Some darkening of cover paper, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. Hanover, NH, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY KOMUNYAKAA on title page.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with gilt embossed lettering on spine, gilt lettering and black design on front. No dust jacket. 19 mostly full-page engraved illustrations. Will Carleton, brought up in a log farmhouse in rural Michigan, was America's poet. Writing about ordinary Americans and everyday life, he enjoyed the same kind of success that Robert Burns had in Scotland. "Betsy and I Are Out," a poem about divorce, was picked up by a national newspaper and brought him widespread recognition, that was cemented by "Over The Hill To the Poorhouse," which brought attention to the shabby treatment provided to the country's old and poor. "City Legends" is Carleton's third collection of "city" related poetry and 17th collection overall. Clean, bright 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.
Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Poems that deal with experiences of Irish women in love, marriage, motherhood, and modern society. 'Eavan is a marvelous poet, and Outside History is the best possible introduction to her work. Love and anxiety, memories and mysteries-she's woven them all into a rich verse fabric, thrown like a flowered shawl over her shoulders as she stands out under the chilling night sky, no other soul around but (for that haunting moment) the reader's own.' -J. D. McClatchy. Clean 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. Fayetteville, University of Arkansas Press, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 61 pages. SIGNED BY COLLINS on the title page. A collection which includes some of Collins' most anthologized poems, including "Introduction to Poetry," "Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House," and "Advice to Writers".
Softcover. New York, Knopf, Uncorrected proof wraps, 1994, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in light gray wrappers, an uncorrected proof. SIGNED BY HIRSCH on title page.
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