Used & Rare Poetry Books

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1895, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 101 pages. Black & white illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy. Christy's first book. Scarce. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. Gilt top edge. Gold lettering and decoration cover and spine. Soiling to covers. Sunning to spine. Corners a bit bumped.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 138 pages. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Price clipped dust jacket shows standard wear with some darkening to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Dublin, Dolmen Editions, First Edition, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 78 pages. Hardcover. Limited to 650 copies. Black cloth boards with white printed decoration & white titles to spine. Ink paintings by Louis le Brocquy in black & white throughout. Previous owner's bookplate to front endpaper. Clean, unmarked, tight copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , G. P. Putman, reprint, 1864, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 322 pages. Dark green cloth, gilt title to spine, top edge gilt. Light edgewear to covers, internally a very clean, tight copy

Hardcover. Pawlet, VT, Priscilla Howes Grant, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 27 pages, hardcover. #37 of 126 copies; distributed to friends of the poet. Nickerson was a young poet who died in a motorcycle accident in 1972. Unmarked. Clean and bright; a tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Morrow , 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 62 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

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. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Janovich , 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, b&w illustrations by Charles Mikolaycak. Dust jacket with light edgewear, closed tear.

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.

Softcover. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 89 pages, very clean and tight copy.

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.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 110 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a very neat, tight copy. INSCRIBED BY PHILLIPS on title page.

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.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers, gilt title & design on spine, 84 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean copy.

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. 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. 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, Modern Library, 1st thus, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, this is the first edition in the Illustrated Modern Library series, 410 pages with Index of First Lines & About the Artist in rear, blank endpapers. quarter green cloth over boards covered in pastel decorative green paper, with red title box to spine, edged & lettered in bright gilt. Housed in a green cardboard slipcase with a color illustration pasted to the front. Minor wear to corners of slipcase. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Ecco Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. (American Poetry Series; Volume 13). The author's first published collection of poetry. small closed tear to dust jacket, clean copy.

Hardcover. Indianapolis/New York, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, rubbed dust jacket, 190 pages. INSCRIBED BY BERGE on the front fly leaf to Roger (Mitchell), fellow poet and teacher. Clean copy.

Softcover. Milwaukee, Membrane Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 63 pages. Photo of author as frontis., clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 95 pages. Poems in 3 sections; I. Exiles (22 poems written between 1948 & 1958), with revisions & changes in titles. II. Tiger Lilies (25 Poems reprinted from A Roof of Tiger Lilies); III. The Alligator Bride: New Poems (24 Previously uncollected poems). Book review laid in. Red lettering in spine lightly faded. Clean 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. NY, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with minor edgewear, unclipped, 334 pages. Poet/critic's posthumously published third volume of essays, here mostly writer's he loved, including: Stead, Frost, Stevens, Kipling, Auden, Graves and Chekov and other Russians. Name on blank prelim page, otherwise clean.

Softcover. NY, New Directions, 1st pbk, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 140 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Santa Barbara CA, Black Sparrow Press, 4th pr., 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an acetate dust jacket. Bright clean copy. 6 x 9, 153 pages, b/w author photo, black endpapers.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd Mead and Co., 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 144 pages, illustrated with photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club. Brown cloth with decorative binding in three colors plus gilt by Margaret Armstrong. Front hinge cracked, some wear to top and bottom of spine cloth, otherwise clean and bright copy.

Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 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.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 127 pages. A very clean, tight copy. A prize-winning Irish poet's third collection of verse again brings his simultaneously witty and deeply profound insights into all aspects of modern life, sacred and profane, and includes a sequence of thirty sonnets set in a Paris restaurant.

Hardcover. MN, Graywolf Press, 1st, 1992-02-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 99 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Softcover. Barrytown NY, Station Hill Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 93 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Hardcover. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 90 pages. Previous owner's signature and date on front fly leaf, internally clean.

Hardcover. Taipei, Bookman Books, Ltd., 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 81 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Slipcased.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 44 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY HALL ON TITLE PAGE. Godine Chapbook - Second Series. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1st, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. (Approximately 100 pages) Beautiful heavy paper stock with B&W plates, engravings, and illustrations throughout. Special leather covers with embossed floral design and gilt titles. Engravings produced under the supervision of George T. Andrew with drawings by W. St. John Harper, J. D. Woodward, H. Winthrope Peirce, Edmund H. Garrett, Harry Fenn, Chas Copeland, and W. J. Fenn. Pages very clean and crisp. Binding sewn with yellow string on outside. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Slight tear in tissue guard. Previous owner's signature in pencil on front fly leaf, slight rubbing and wear to cover edges, otherwise, clean and tight copy. Very scarce.

Softcover. Athens, GA, The University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 77 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO FELLOW POET JOHN ENGELS. Some scratches on covers. Corners and spine a little worn. Slight wear on rear cover along fore edge. Top corner of first few pages lightly bent/creased. Good, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. New York, George Braziller, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 222 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edgewear to dust jacket and heavy fading on rear. Internally clean. Color illustrations by Hokusai.

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.

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.

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. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 193 pages. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket with $4.95 price on flap. Clean. Lowell's first dramatic work, The Old Glory, consists of three plays, Benito Cereno, My Knisman, Major Molineux, and Endecott and the Red Cross. Based on stories by Hawthorne and a novella by Melville, they are held together by the unifying symbol of the flag.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1912, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 119 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Moderate soil on covers. Pages have light soil. Tight copy. Illustration by Florence Storer.

Hardcover. London/NY, Ernest Nister/ EP Dutton, 1st thus, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 4 1/2 X 5 3/4", decorated boards with white cloth spine, 48 pages. The Laurel Wreath Series. Translated by Lord Lytton, Four color plates by J. Ayton Symington. Cover faded, fore-edge with light foxing, otherwise clean, tight.

Softcover. Madison, MN, The Seventies Press, 1st pbk, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, 81 pages. Translated. by Lewis Hyde and Robert Bly.Edited by Lewis Hyde. Winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize for Literature. Mild fade to edges of dust jacket.

Hardcover. London & Boston, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A series of poems inspired by the photographs taken by Fay Godwin, preceded by the Rainbow Press limited edition, which only had four of the sixty-three included here. The work reflects on the landscape and people of the Calder valley, the place of Hughes's birth and early childhood. Scarce in such nice condition.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 2nd pr., 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean copy.

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. 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, 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..