Used & Rare Poetry Books - pg. 4 including Cats of the Temple by: Leithauser, Brad

Softcover. NY, Knopf, 1st ARC, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 70 pages. Uncorrected proofs in blue printed wrappers, the second collection, third book by this MacArthur Fellowship winner. Pub material stapled in; other than staples and minor scratching (from staples). Clean.

Softcover. Port Townsend WA, Copper Canyon Press, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 372 pages. Cesare Pavese was one of Italy's great post-war writers. His poetry was revolutionary--both artistically and politically--rejecting the verbal and philosophical constraints of tradition and utilizing direct, colloquial language. His subjects were peasants, hobos, and prostitutes, and this bilingual volume includes all the poetry Pavese ever published, including work originally deleted by Fascist censors. A landmark volume. Clean copy.

Softcover. Rutland VT, Charles E. Tuttle, 4th pr., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, red wrappers with gilt stamping to front and back covers remains bright. Mild fading to red spine. Innovative Japanese binding and nicely designed two-color printing throughout. Book design and typography by Keiko Chiba. 59 pages. Paul Reps (1895 - 1990) was America's first haiku poet, over 20 years earlier than anyone else. His influential 1957 book, Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, introduced a generation of readers to Zen Buddhism. His work has steadily gained in popularity over the years. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Inc, 2nd pr., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 86 pages. SIGNED BY SIMIC on the title page. Stated First Edition with letter line starting with B. A very nice copy of this book of poems from the acclaimed author who went on to win the Pulitzer Prize.

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.

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. 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.

Hardcover. Mrs. Clayton M. Richardson, 1st thus, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 77 pages, line illustrations throughout and gilt title on cover. Minor corner and edge wear, fading to parts of cloth otherwise tight. Poems reprinted from popular children's publications along with the drawings that accompanied them. no marking.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 249 pages. The last book of poems published during Williams lifetime. Williams won a Pulitzer Prize and two National Book Awards for previous collections. A clean near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.

Port Townsend WA, Copper Canyon Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 513 pages. Poetry is vital to language and living. This anthology celebrates 50 years of Copper Canyon Press publications, one extraordinary poem at a time. Since its founding, Copper Canyon has been entirely dedicated to publishing poetry books; here Editor in Chief Michael Wiegers invites press staff and board--past and present--to help curate a retrospective. The result is a collection of beloved poems from books spanning half a century: representing Pulitzer Prize-winning books, debut collections, works in translation, and rare books from Copper Canyon's early days. This book is a tribute to Copper Canyon poets and readers everywhere, because, as Gregory Orr writes, "Certain poems / In an uncertain world-- / The ones we cling to: // They bring us back." Clean copy.

NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, first Printing with code letter "I-C" and "First Edition" printed on copyright page. Paper label on spine, three quarter black cloth with blue paper over boards.

NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, stated first edition with code letter "F-M" and "First Edition" printed on copyright page. Paper label on spine, three quarter black cloth with blue paper over boards. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue publisher's cloth with titles and harp logo in gilt to front and spine, top edge gilt, on laid paper, 112 pages. The Philadelphia-born poet Florence Van Leer Earle Coates (1850-1927) came from a family of abolitionists and philanthropists. This mid-career volume was published in the same period she was regularly contributing to titles such as Atlantic Monthly, The Century Magazine and The Lippincott Magazine. Her family entertained various Roosevelt relatives at their Adirondak summer house. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Herbert B. Turner & Co., 1st, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in gilt, 4-3/8" x 6-5/8", 785 pages which includes Notes, Index of Authors, Index of First Lines. INSCRIBED BY BRAITHWAITE on front fly leaf. Covers worn, faded. Otherwise clean.

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. 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. New Haven CT, Dia Art Foundation/Yale, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated gatefold wraps. 298 pages. Edited and annotated by the poet and editor with color photographs throughout at the gala readins. A wide representation from Bruce Andrews and Rae Armantrout to Lewis Warsh and John Yau. For over three decades, Dia Art Foundation has gathered renowned and visionary poets to present their work in conversation with one another in monthly events through its Readings in Contemporary Poetry series. This collection anthologizes ninety-four poets who gave readings between 2010--when the program resumed under the direction of Vincent Katz after a short break--and 2016. Clean copy.

Softcover. Buffalo NY, Blazevox Books, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 58 pages, illustrated in color. A tribute to New York City in words and pictures by the two poets. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black boards, gilt titles to spine (faded) and gilt vignette to front board. 81 pages, decorations by Charles Child. New poems by Benet just after his Pulitzer winning John Brown's Body. Inside, as new, with no prior owner marks, and no stains or browning.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st , 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on brown square on spine. 466 pages. Of this collected verse, Auden writes that the poems here fall into two categories: pieces he has "nothing against except their lack of importance; these must inevitably form the bulk of any collection since, were he to limit it to the [other] class alone, to those poems for which he is honestly grateful, his volume would be too depressingly slim". No dust jacket, clean, bright copy.

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.

Hardcover. NY, Galleon Press, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in gilt, 317 pages. Collects three longer poems from both Pushkin and Lermontov, as translated to English and with a forward by Jacob Krup. With twelve interpretive illustrations by Herbert Fouts. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Otherwise a clean, bright 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. 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. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1st illust. thus, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth with gilt lettering, color plate paste-down on front cover. Illustrated with a frontispiece, a decorative title page, a few color plates, and several in-text and full-page illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy. Some darkening to spine and cover edges, otherwise a sharp, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 77 pages, clean copy. A collection of poetry by the first African-American woman to be the U.S. Poet Laureate.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MULDOON on the title page. Clean copy.

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. 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. NY, W W Norton & Co., 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with publisher's silver sticker. A follow-up to the author's highly acclaimed Kyrie, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, offers an intimate exploration of the obstacles and joys of modern life. Voigt's disciplined poems are scrubbed clean, exact in their forms, and calm in tone, refined distillations of deep feelings and long meditations on nature and life as seen flourishing in wondrous manifestations right in her own backyard. These are classical works, and Voigt lays her cards on the table by paying homage to Horace and his odes, models of balance and precision. Like her mentor, Voigt is aware of death hovering in the wings, and, indeed, illness, injury, and age work their bent and burdened ways into her poems; yet the poet remains undaunted, continuing to take profound pleasure in gazing at trees and flowers, gardening, and participating in various kitchen activities, from careful conversations between adult sisters living very different lives to the affectionately aggressive banter among men happy to sit down to a good meal. Deceptive in their hominess and welcoming clarity, Voigt's poems are thoroughly considered creations in which every word, no matter how humble, is worth its weight in gold. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf , 5th pr., 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, clean copy.

Hardcover. Dublin, Maunsel and Co., reprint, 1917, Book: Very Good, 63 pages. Hardcover, two tone cloth with gilt title on cover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Interesting, readable poems by Irish poet, first published in 1909. Light wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

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. 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

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.

Softcover. Fredonia NY, White Pine Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 254 pages. SIGNED BY ST. JOHN at the 2000 Breadloaf Writers Conference. Essays and reviews by poet David St. John of collections of verse by poets including Marvin Bell, Charles Wright, Donald Hall, Randall Jarrell, Pablo Neruda, Donald Justice, Mark Strand, Jorie Graham et al, followed by six interviews with David St. John (in various journals).

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A Knopf, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Author won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1934. Clean tight copy..

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st thus, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black and gilt, beveled boards, 89 pages, all edges gilt. Printed on heavy glossy stock. The frontispiece is an etching of Holmes by S.A. Schoff with a tissue guard. There are many wonderful illustrations throughout the book by 20 artists, including Howard Pyle, W.L. Tayor and W. Smedley. CLEAN COPY.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 84 pages. A reissue of Updike's first collection of poems, with a new foreword by the author. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 113 pages, beige canvas boards with salmon cloth spine, wood-grained dust jacket in mylar cover. A collection of poems by American author R. G. Vliet (1929-1984), his first book. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 64 pages. Poet's first collection. SIGNED BY VOIGT on the title page, clean copy, no dust jacket.

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, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with light fading to spine. A collection of 16 poems by Meredith, all based on the fictitious painter Hazard. #66 of 100 copies numbered and SIGNED on a tipped-in prelim page. In addition, also INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 123 pages. The title poem is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with "the growth of a poet's mind.'" There are also many poems with richly meditative lyrics and the final section is in the voice of the legendary Sweeney, a king of Ulster. A marvelous group of poems, this was Heaney's sixth major collection and many believe it ranks among his best. Previous owner's name, date on the front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Denver CO, Big Mountain Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY GLAZIER on the front fly leaf and signed "Lyle". The poet's first book. Clean copy.

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.

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.

Softcover. NY, Stone Street Press, 1st , 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, blue paper wrappers with illustrated label on front. SIGNED BY MCCORMICK on (C) page Lino cut Illustrations, calligraphy & translation by McCormick. #95 of 495 copies. Clean, bright copy.

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.