Hardcover. NY, Arrow Editions, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 146 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Light foxing to edges. Dust jacket with darkening, chipping along edges. Jacket now protected with clear plastic cover.
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. 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 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, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 436 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent, covered in protective clear, plastic brodart. Black cover boards and quarter cloth, gilt title on spine, all very good. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful condition. A celebration of one of America's greatest poets and a wonderful and necessary addition to all poetry lovers' libraries.
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. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a brigh dust jacket with light edgewear. SIGNED BY KHERDIAN on front end paper.
Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket price clipped. "From a marketplace in Bangkok to the fields of New Hampshire, from recollections of her own childhood to celebrations of an infant grandson, Kumin stakes her far-flung claims with authority in her tenth book of poetry."--Publishers Weekly
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st , 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY STAFFORD on title-page. Dust jacket spine with light fading.
Paperback. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st wraps, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Dual language edition. Light spotting to spine otherwise VG. Paperback.edition. SIGNED BY KINNELL on front fly leaf.
Softcover. New York, Stone Street Press, 1st wraps, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. SIGNED TWICE BY MCCORMICK, once on front fly leaf and again on limitation page in rear. This is #122 of 595 copies in colored paper wrappers. Calligraphy and string binding by McCormick.
Austin, University of Texas, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 47 pages. INSCRIBED BY SHATTUCK on half title page. Woodcuts by Naoka Matsubara. Dust jacket with edgewear, chips. Limited to 750 copies.
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.
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.
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.
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. 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.
Paperback. New York, Knopf, 1st wraps, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Hirsch's hastily scrawled signature on title page SIGNED BY HIRSCH at 1999 Breadloaf Writers Conference in Vermont. Clean, bright copy.
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.
Softcover. New York, Knopf, 1st wraps, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, SIGNED BY HIRSCH with his hasty scrawl on title page. The author's first book.
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.
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, 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. Northridge, CA, Lord John Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. Ltd to 275 copies (#269) SIGNED BY BOTH ERDRICH & DORRIS. No dust-jacket issued. Clean, bright 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, Ecco, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 58 pages. INSCRIBED BY PLUMLY on the half-title page.
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.
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.
Memphis, Ion Books, 1st , 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover in a color illustrated dust jacket, 102 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page and dated 1991. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, John Lane Company, Limited 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 168 pages, with frontispiece portrait of Brooke with tissue guard, introduction by George Edward Woodberry. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, minor corner and spine edge wear and fray, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
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. 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. US, Faber and Faber, 1st, 2006-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 76 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. US, Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 123 pages. SIGNED AND DATED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Light shelf-wear and sun-fade to dust jacket spine. Faint foxing to edges, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
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. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 67 pages, INSCRIBED BY GRAHAM on half title page. The award winning poet's first book, scarce in hardcover. Very good in a similar dust jacket. There is a small ink notation on the last (copyright) page by the previous owner.
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.
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. Freelands, W.T.H. Howe, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 16 pages. Limited edition of 200 copies. Light wear. Features an original Etching, signed by artist Power O'Malley. Includes original promotional pamphlet, and mailing envelope.
Hardcover. New York, Grossman Publishers, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 124 pages. Hardcover with wrippled dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with light rubbing to cover boards.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 68 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with only light rubbing on dust jacket.
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. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 115 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket with light foxing and some browning, light edgewear. light fading to cover board top edges. Tight copy.
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. 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.
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Price: $25.00
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