Softcover. Minneapolis, Coffee House Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, number 100 of 300 copies SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ARTIST, Susan Nees in the rear. Sewn into handmade heavy paper wrappers. Also inscribed on the half title page.
Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood & Co., reprint, 1872, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed blue cloth with gilt stamping, 107 pages. Text edges stained red, title page in red and black. Previous owner's inscription on blank prelim page. Bright, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 48 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 81 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Santa Barbara CA, Capra Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Capra Chapbook Series No. 27, 50 pages. Small trade paper original simultaneous with scarcer hardcover issue. A collection of early poems by Ursula K. Le Guin, edited by Robert Durand and Noel Young, with a frontispiece portrait of the author by illustrator James Brunsman. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1910, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 90 pages. 10 color plates and frontispiece by John Rae. Gold decorations on endpapers. White cover with blue sparkly spine and corners. Color illustration front cover and gold lettering on cover and spine. Spine and edgewear. Soiling to covers.
Softcover. Paris, Pierre Seghers, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 54 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Hand stamped #35 of 300. Maroon paper covers with paste down titles on spine and front cover. Clean, tight copy.
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. London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages. Black and white cloth cover, slight wear to edges and corners. Dust jacket has minor edgewear. Previous owner's stamp on top edge. Illustrated by Jim Dine. Translated by Ron Padgett. Many b&w photographs and illustrations throughout. A bright, 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. 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. 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, 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. 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. 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, Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover First Edition Blue cloth with gilt to the spine. The author's third work, his first assembled book with the assistance of Hart Crane. One printing only, of 1000 copies. INSCRIBED BY COWLEY on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 112 pages. Stern's 12th collection is his first since winning the 1998 National Book Award for the new and selected This Time. The poems still rely on Stern's inimitable blend of coiled anger, love of life and raffish, on-the-outside-looking-in wit. Poem after poem reflects on what it means to have been a Jew, a Pennslyvanian, a nature-and-weather watcher, a world traveler and, for a longer time than many poets of his stature, an unknown writer during the middle of the last century: "If you can stand Strauss then so can I,/ oh filthy Danube, oh filthy Delaware, oh filthy Allegheny.// And anyone who never opened a Murphy bed/ night after night for seven years without ripping/ the sheet and had neither desk nor dresser can't walk/ in my shoes or wear my crocodile t-shirt." Stern's remembrances are not so much nostalgias as attempts to telescope the speaker's world and worldview through verse-talking, to test everyday language's ability to render his experiences to his liking, or at least his satisfaction.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with blue and gilt design on cover and spine. 184 pages, top edge gilt. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, E. P. Dutton & Co., reprint, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Embossed flexible leather covers with a string binding. Gilt script lettering on front. B&w frontispiece and many b&w engravinge throughout, 94 pages. Nice clean copy of this unusual binding.
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. 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. 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, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering and design on spine and front cover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. Additionally with a note to the title page stating she has hand-corrected some 20 errors in the printed text, unique thus. An epic poem "on the lives of a young composer-aviator and his intimates and casual acquaintances the accumulated wisdom and lore of the world in which we live." Winner of the Yale Poetry Award. No dust jacket. Mildred Dodge Jeremy Ingalls was an American poet and scholar of Chinese literature. In 1943, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship to work on her major poem, The Thunder Saga of Tahi, this being the result. Spine gilt faded.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. Frontispiece illustration by Rockwell Kent. 1000 pages plus commentary in rear by John Crowe Ransom, William Carlos Williams and others. Previous owner's name on title page, gutter loose at title page. Rear hinge cracked. 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.
Softcover. Brunswick ME, Shanti Arts , 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 121 pages. Poet J. R. Solonche adds The Book of a Small Fisherman to his impressive list of over thirty published poetry collections. His poems, says Chase Twichell, "are an extraordinary amalgam of wit, close observation, humor, and clear-seeing. Each one singles out and illuminates an ordinary moment-ordinary, that is, until the poet explodes into a miniature epiphany. Easy of access and frequently profound, J. R. Solonche's poems induce in me a state of delighted surprise."
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. Piermont NH, Bunker Hill Publishing, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. In this true modern saga, Olav Erikson and his son Martin pursue their destiny against a background of stark natural beauty. The author heard parts of this story years ago from the son's wife and has recreated the whole of their adventure in a narrative poem. With beautiful and specially commissioned woodcuts by Mary Azarian. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 426 pages. The most wide-ranging volume of the work of Europe's leading postwar poet. Paul Celan was born in 1920 in the East European province of Bukovina. Soon after his parents, German-speaking Jews, had perished at the hands of the Nazis, Celan wrote "Todesfuge" ("Deathfugue"), the most compelling poem to emerge from the Holocaust. Self-exiled in Paris, for twenty-five years Celan continued writing in his German mother tongue, although it had "passed through the thousand darknesses of death-bringing speech." His writing purges and remakes that language, often achieving a hope-struck radiance never before seen in modern poetry. But in 1970, his psychic wounds unhealed, Celan drowned himself in the Seine. This landmark volume includes youthful lyrics, unpublished poems, and prose. All poems appear in the original and in translation on facing pages. John Felstiner's translations stem from a twenty-year immersion in Celan's life and work. John Bayley wrote in the New York Review of Books, "Felstiner translates . . . brilliantly." Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Cape Goliard Press/Grossman, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A bright, clean copy in flax colored buckram, golden yellow enpapers, in a tan dust wrapper printed in dark blue, not price-clipped. This volume presents, for the first time in collected form, all the poems Charles Olson authorized for publication in his lifetime, from 1946 until his death in January, 1970, apart from the Maximus Poems sequence.
Hardcover. New York, Century Co., 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 87 pages, illustrated in color and line by John Wolcott Adams. Lavender cloth with 4-color decoration. Decorated endpapers. A clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 2nd pr., 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 431 pages, with unopened CD in back. SIGNED BY HALL on title page. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, April 18, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 479 pages. Light smudges to bottom and fore-edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2010-10-06, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 75 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
softcover. New York, HarperPerennial, reprint , 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 103 pages. Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 165 pages. Examining 20 poets and their poetry of the 1940s with relation to the prose of that period. Clean copy. University of California Publication Vol. 19 No. 3.
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.
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. 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. 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.
Softcover. Toronto, Oasis, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 69 pages. Softcover with minr wear to paper wrappers. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Illustrations throughout. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Francestown NH, Golden Quill Press, 1ST, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dark red faux leather cloth spine with red and white cloth over boards; gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. Red and white dust jacket in mylar cover. A collection of short humorous poems previously published in various magazines. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper:
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.
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.
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