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.
Softcover. Middleton, CT, Wesleyan, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 103 pages. Softcover. Clean, unmarked. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Additional folded broadside laid-in, also SIGNED.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with paper boards multicolored in vertical stripe patterns, 64 pages. In her lifetime, Wylie garnered notoriety for her unconventional private life and acclaim for her poems and novels. The collection is most renowned for the sonnet sequence "One Person," a deeply moving and technically masterful exploration of love, devotion, and the human spirit.She was considered one of the most distinguished American poets of the 1920s. Though her literary career lasted only eight years, she was recognized as an extremely adept, accomplished author. Wylie's poetry is marked by a lively inventiveness, a subtle treatment of emotion, and a detached sensibility that Louis Untermeyer has described as "a passion frozen at its source." Her last book, published after her untimely death 1n 1928. Covers with mild soil, edgewear.
Hardcover. London, Lawrence & Bullen, Revised Ed., 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 262 pages plus 37 preliminary pages. Bound in half leather and marbled boards. Spine with raised bands, gilt design. End papers with marbled design. Near Fine. With a 4 line inscription by poet and literary critic Joseph Warren Beach.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, color decorations by Will Jenkins. This antique hardcover book is bound in olive-green cloth boards with a large color paste-down cover illustration of a woman by Will Grefe with gilt lettering. Features a variety of large color plates (about 12) from well-known illustrators of the day, many of which are suitable for framing, accompanied by verses of love. Bright, clean and tight.
Hardcover. New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press , 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 68 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Light edgewear and tanning to dust jacket. Otherwise, a tight clean copy.
Softcover. London, Quartet Encounters, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 163 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear.
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.
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.
Latham NY, Paris Review Editions, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 98 pages, the author's third collection of poems, SIGNED BY BAXTER on title page. Clean, sharp copy.
Softcover. Santa Rosa CA, Black Sparrow Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 398 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Clean, tight copy with light wear to edges.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Shoemaker Hoard, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 112 pages.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell , reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a beautifully designed binding: light gray-green cloth with rough and smooth textures, beveled edges. A white area centered on cover with gilt "Wordsworth" and "Illustrated" surrounded by a gilt branches decoration. All edges gilt, 951 pages. B&W illustrations, not credited. Introduction dated 1888, followed by the poems set in double columns. Copyright page states 1892. Very clean, tight.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 7th pr., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three uniform volumes in original red slipcase, 1266 pages. Gray cloth covers with black and gilt stamping to titles on spines. Interest in Emily Dickinson has grown throughout the years until, now, in this three-volume edition Thomas Johnson presents the entire body of poems she is known to have written, 1775 in all. Here are the familiar "I never saw a Moor" and "Because I could not stop for Death," along with other less well-known poems, including forty-three never before published. Casual notes to friends and relatives which frequently accompany scraps of verse help to reveal the poet's enigmatic character. After keen analysis of the manuscripts, Johnson has arranged the poems in what is believed to be their chronological order, with variations and rejected versions of each poem following .No dust jackets. Ink notations to about 15 pages in the 3 volumes, Otherwise clean and tight.
Softcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st , 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers. SIGNED and dated 2002 by this Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1992 on the front fly leaf. With 26 full-page reproductions of Walcott's paintings. Clean copy.
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.
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, 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. 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.
Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1st, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 95 pages. Hardcover. "This is one of five hundred large paper copies printed in 1926". SIGNED BY RUDYARD KIPLING. Full color tipped-in illustrations by Donald Maxwell. Moderate foxing to endpapers, light foxing to some pages and a few illustrations. Dust jacket with foxing, some light chipping along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st thus, 19201st, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with illustrated pastedown on front cover. 147 pages, with 8 color plates by N.C. Wyeth plus the cover plate and endpapers illustration. Tercentenary edition. Ex-lib with light marking to endpapers, stamp to title page. Gilt lettering dulled, scar to front cover label. Plates all present and clean, very good.
Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 104 pages. SIGNED BY JACKSON on the title page. Clean.
Hardcover. NY/San Francisco, New Directions / San Francisco Review, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good dust jacket with toning on the spine and edges, unclipped. A stark panorama of late 19th and early 20th-century America-the underside of the Gilded Age, beset by racism and casual violence, poverty and disease-in a radically stripped-down language. A legendary book that stands alongside Louis Zukofsky's "A" and William Carlos Williams' Paterson as a milestone of modern American poetry. 115 pages, no markings.
Hardcover. Alexandria VA, Orchises Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 80 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
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. New York, Jay Street, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 119 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to edges and pine, slight stain to for-edge, else a very neat, tight copy.
Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st, 2010-03-09, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 237 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
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. New York, Dodd Mead , reprint , 1902, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 227 pages. Green cloth covers with gold lettering and decoration by Margaret Armstrong. Rubbing to spine, corners. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece portrait of the author. First published in 1899, this is a 1902 printing. Clean.
Hardcover. London, George G. Harrap, reprint, ND, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Illustrated with 16 tipped-in full color plates by Willy Pogany. Brown leather covers with gilt decoration on front cover with green and gray/blue flower motif at center. Title in gilt on spine. Front cover spine cracked and separated majority of its length, but cover still holding with interior hinge paper. Edges and corners of covers rubbed. Interior clean and unmarked.
Softcover. New York, New Directions, 2nd pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 115 pages. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. AUTHOR'S INSCRIPTION on title page. Foreword by author. Very minor wear to cover and spine edges, corners slightly bumped. Previous owner's pencil inscription on page 3. B/W pictorial wrappers.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, reprint, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 87 pages, winner of the 1956 Lamont Poetry Selection. Minor dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper and Row, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 66 pages, in a bright unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY ORR on the title page. Black and white drawings by Brad Holland. The poet's second book.
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.
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.
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.
Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 117 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Author. Otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 60 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London/Boston, Foulis Books/Le Roy Phillips, 1st thus, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, gray cardboard covers with black lettering. Features 8 tipped-in color plates on gray pages by Frank Brangwyn, each with a tissue guard. Dust jacket present but chipped with half of spine gone. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise a clean copy.
Softcover. West Orange NJ, Warthog Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 55 pages. B&w illustrations by Susan Micklem. INSCRIBED BY EADY on the title page. In lightly worn tan wrappers.
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. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped ($4.00) dust jacket, full yellow cloth, black titling. INSCRIBED BY EBERHART and dated on the front fly leaf.
Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 141 pages. Clean, bright copy in a dust jacket.
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