Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 47 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Otherwie, clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1996-06-20, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 134 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
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.
Hardcover. Winston-Salem NC, Wake Forest University Press, 1st US, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 379 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR opposite title page. Clean, tight copy in protective glassine wrapper.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 67 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very minor sun-fade to dust jacket spine, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 387 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 52 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Very faint sun-fade to front cover, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Manchester UK, Carcanet Press Ltd, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 319 pages. Top corner of front end paper has been diagonally cut. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
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.
Softcover. St. Paul MN, Ally Press, 3rd printing, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 53 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Poems printed in Russian (Cyrillic) and English. An English language translation of twenty poems by Anna Akhmatova by the noted poet Jane Kenyon.
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.
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.
Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 448 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Includes CD of author reading book.
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. Middleton,CT, Wesleyan, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ON TITLE PAGE BY AUTHOR.
Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st transl. thus, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 235 pages. Poems (1945-1971), now in its eighth edition in Greece, contains the nine volumes Miltos Sachtouris wrote during the most productive period of his poetic career. The collection chronicles the writer's reaction to three decades of intense social and political upheavel in a nation experiencing the successive horrors of occupation, civil war, and military dictatorship. Sachtouris' world is one of primary colors, blindingly bright and slightly surreal; images--of broken glass, of howling dogs, of bloody gauze and people who fly--recurring like totems throughout his work, bind the poems together into a tight unity. Sachtouris's verses build upon one another to an extraordinary degree, creating a kind of cumulative madness, a paralogical perspective that comes at the world--or flies from it--always at an angle, never straight on. CLEAN 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.
Softcover. Detroit MI, Broadside Press, 2nd pr., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled wrappers, 34 pages. Introduction by Dudley Randall. A seminal pamphlet from the Black Arts Movement, the work lays out Lee's early reflections on Black identity, self-respect, and cultural affirmation. Haki Madhubuti (He changed his name in 1973) published his first collection of poems, Think Black, in 1967 followed by Black Pride (1968), Don't Cry, Scream (1969), We Walk the Way of the New World (1970) and Book of Life (1973). His works deal with issues of racism, violence, stigmatization, and oppression of black people in America as well as the use of Christianity to persuade them to accept their condition. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. UK, Carcanet Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 41 pages. SIGNED BY LEARY on the title page. Also inscribed by author on the front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday and Co., reprint, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with publisher's sticker on front. INSCRIBED BY KENNEDY on the front fly leaf and signed "Joe Kennedy". 71 pages, his first book of poetry. No First Edition statement but 1961 on title page, $2.50 on flap. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 128 pages. John Lehmann, the English author, poet, editor, and publisher, was partner and general manager of The Hogarth Press (1938 to 1946); director of the publishing firm John Lehmann, Ltd. (1945-1952); and editor of the publications New Writing (1936-1939), Penguin New Writing (1940-1950), New Writing and Daylight (1942-1946), New Soundings (1952-1953), and The London Magazine (1954-1961). Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, chocolate-colored cloth with bright gilt stamping. Introduction and short biography by William Archer. First Edition with "published December, 1916 on copyright page with Scribner device. Small notation on inside rear cover, otherwise clean.
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, Martin Secker, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, 146 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. Previous owner's bookplate on front flyleaf, otherwise clean. There was no American edition of this book, reportedly 1000 copies printed. Millay won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her poem "Ballad of the Harp-Weaver"; she was the first woman and second person to win the award. Millay was highly regarded during much of her lifetime, with the prominent literary critic Edmund Wilson calling her "one of the only poets writing in English in our time who have attained to anything like the stature of great literary figures.''
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.
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. NY, Henry Holt and Co., 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 20 pages. Green cloth covers stamped in silver. Clean, sharp dust jacket. Uncommon collection of poetry, Frost's own selections, one for each month of the year. Facsimile of "Stopping by Woods" as a frontispiece. No price on dust jacket, rear flap notes Frost's Selected Poems/Third Edition for $2.50. Front fly leaf with short inscription dated 12/8/36. Super condition.
Hardcover. Boston, D.C. Heath and Company, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange boards with black cloth spine, 115 pages. A comprehensive scholarly examination of the enduring legacy and profound influence of the Roman poet Vergil. Mild edgewear to boards, light name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, with fading to spine. The sixth collection of original poetry written by Irish poet Seamus Heaney, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. It is dedicated to the Northern Irish playwright Brian Friel. The collection was first published in the United Kingdom and Ireland in 1984 by Faber & Faber and was then published in America by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1985.The poems in the collection are generally focused on the role of the poet and their relationship to history and politics but, more specifically, are also a platform through which Heaney can examine his own complex relationship with the sectarian violence of The Troubles in Northern Ireland (including his decision to move his family out of the north to the Republic of Ireland in 1972). Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. New Directions, 2nd pr., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, These poems on European themes by the author of Her (his Paris novel) and the enduring A Coney Island of the Mind were mostly written during the last seven years and, in the poet's words, are "transformations and transitions looking westward to America and beyond." Flowing from France to Italy to the Netherlands, on to Germany, back to France, and finally toward America, they follow Ferlinghetti's own recent journeying. The poems progress geographically and chronologically with a cohesive development of ideas and themes. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 2nd pr., 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, 53 pages. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, green cloth covers, 190 pages. Stated First Edition. Translated by Herbert Marshall. Bilingual edition. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. Brooklyn NY, New Rivers / Latitudes Press, 2nd Ed., 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 71 pages. Drawings by Lucas Johnson.
Softcover. London, Harvill Press, 1st pbk, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 160 pages, SIGNED BY DURCAN on the title page. Cries of an Irish Caveman is Paul Durcan's most inspired and surprising collection of poems. Through four distinct sections, he brings his tender lyricism to bear on the themes of love and loss, life and death. . In 2014 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Irish Book Award. Signed by author sticker on cover. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Macmillan & Co., 1st , 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 8 color (frontispiece with tissue guard), and black & white illustrations by Edmund J. Sullivan. 103 pages. Spine fade. Silver lettering, decorated front cover. Browning to pages. Front paste down separated from front flyleaf. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown.
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, 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.
NY, Laurel Press, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan boards with cream cloth spine, 88 pages. #199 of 450 copies. Previous owner's inscription front endpage. Corners lightly bumped, light edgewear. A late-sixteenth-century sonnet cycle written by Edmunde (Edmund) Spenser about his courtship and marriage to Elizabeth Boyle.
Hardcover. New York, Crowell, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 41 pages. Color illustrations by Roese. Oversize book. Some darkening, rubbing to covers. Otherwise clean, tight copy. An promotional piece directed at potential advertisers by Woman's Home Companian Magazine. Scarce.
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.
Softcover. Paris, La Caravelle, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 169 pages, color frontispiece, b&w text illustrations by Andre Margat. INSCRIBED BY ALI-BERT on front fly leaf to American scholar and professor Stephen Freeman, dated 1945. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Paris, Juvisy, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1Softcover, 69 pages, 9 b&w text illustrations by Andre Margat. INSCRIBED BY ALI-BERT on front fly leaf to American scholar and professor Stephen Freeman, dated 1945. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY MULDOON on title page. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, reprint, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 122 pages. Nineteenth century poetry profusely illustrated with pen line drawings by Abbey and Parsons. Green cloth with dark green design, gutter cracked at half title page, otherwise very good.
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