Hardcover. New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Top spine has heavy chipping to cover board and dust jacket missing chunk. Moderate soiling to dust jacket, currently covered by plastic protective sleeve. Page edges browned, but tight copy. Illustrations by Netta Aldington.
Hardcover. New York, VIKING PRESS, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 75 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED TO BRET BRITTON WHO WAS THE BOOK BUYER AT THE STRAND IN NEW YORK. Tight copy, with only light edge wwear to cover and dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 69 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Tight, bright copy. Light rubbing on rear dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 84 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Rear inside flap has ripped corner. Light rubbing on rear dust jacket.
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. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 9th pr., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 213 pages. INSCRIBED BY HEANEY and dated 20 April 2004 on the front fly leaf. Bright, clean copy in an unclipped dust jacket.
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. 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.
Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 141 pages. INSCRIBED BY PACK on the title page. Clean, bright copy in a dust jacket.
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.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket that has a 1/4" sliver missing from top of rear panel. Stated first printing. Previous owner's signature on half-title page, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Rome, privately printed, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, limited to 150 copies; octavo, 142 pages; no dust jacket; beautiful gilt blind-stamped front cover decoration on white linen, beveled boards which are soiled around the perimeter; very tight binding. All edges gilt, ribbon marker. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR and dated 1912. A self-published collection of poetry, 142 pages printed on one side of sheets.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st Ltd, 1886, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Illustrated by George Wharton Edwards and F. Hopkinson Smith. SIGNED BY HOLMES, EDWARDS and SMITH on a tipped in leaf stating it's limited to 100 signed copies. 50 pages (3pp). Top edge gilt. Frontispiece portrait of Holmes, 27 full-page illustrations (as called for). Oliver Wendall Holmes was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He is considered one of the finest jurists to have sat on the bench.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, N.D., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. White lightly soiled covers with blue and silver lettering. Light foxing on piliminary pages. Featuring stories and poems by the likes of J.M. Barrie, Algernon Blackwood, and Rudyard Kipling, & illustrations by Walt Disney Studio, Paul Bloomfield, A.P. Payne, Sylvia Salisbury, A.H. Watson, H.S. Foxwell, etc, this book was printed as part of a charitable drive for the Princess Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth II) of York Hospital For Children
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1ST, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 43 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Top edge of dust jacket torn and chipped. SIGNED AND NUMBERED 916/1000. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace and company, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 111 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrations by Gary Kelley. Stiker on rear dust jacket. otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, J.B. Lippincott Company, reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 62 pages. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Illustrated by Edward Gorey. Clean tight copy with minor wear to spine.
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. New York, Viking, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. Clean, tight copy with minor rubbing on edges.
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.
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. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1995, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 72 pages. Blue cloth, silver title to spine, pictorial dust jacket. Beautiful copy. Like new.
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. 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. Lewisburg, PA, Appletree Allley, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Numbered and signed by author #18/55. Linoleum engravings by Barnard Taylor. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 93 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white photographs throughout. Light fraying to covers. Dust jacket shows chipping and small tears.
Hardcover. Rochester, NY, Judaic Impressions, 1st Edition, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. SIGNED NOTE FROM TRANSLATOR LAID IN. Hardcover Folio. Cover boards bound in black cloth, white paste-on on spine with title, a touch of fading to spine and some shelf wear. 2 light smudges of soil to 1st poem title page (see image). 3Scarce 1st Edition, only 100 printed. "The five poems (written during the Holocaust) compiled in this book are witness of the unquenchable spirit of man. They are personal, lyrical and so very Jewish. They speak to God - arguing, protesting, demanding, pleading, accusing and longing...".
Hardcover. New Hampshire, Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc., 1st Edition, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 36 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Black cover boards, red title on spine. Pages unmarked. Binding tight. Spine straight. In beautiful condition. A proper and modern Norse saga, written with all the power of Melville and Hemingway and a true story now retold in the ageless rhythms of blank verse, as irresistible as the beautiful and specially commissioned woodcuts of Mary Azarian.
Hardcover. NY, Mitchell Kennerley, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt title on spine, 85 pages. Previous owner's name on inside cover, otherwise a clean, bright 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.
Hardcover. Berkshire, England, Golden Cockerel Press, 1st Edition, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 71 pages. Hardcover. "This edition of 750 copies finished March 24th, 1922." With a lithograph portrait of the author by Pamela Bianco (see image) with tissue guard. Bound in green boards (faded), and blue cloth spine, (sunned) with paper paste-down label. Hinge split at gutter on back endpapers and gutter split at pages 48-49 (see image), binding still completely attached and no pages missing. Uncut edges. Light tanning from age throughout. Has clear, plastic mylar cover. Errata insert at contents page (see image). A clean, very good copy. The 8th book published by the Golden Cockerel Press.
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.
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:
Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1st thus, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Four hardcover volumes. All volumes have marbled bindings with maroon leather spines and corners and gold lettering on spines. All have gilded top page edgings. 292, 319, 326, 287 pages. Volume I contains a black and white frontispiece bearing a portrait of Robert Browning. Six pages in Vol 3 have some rough edges otherwise a clean, bright set.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Shoemaker Hoard, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 112 pages.
Softcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pastel orange wrappers, 165 pages. SIGNED BY ARMITAGE on title page. Clean, bright copy.
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, 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. Boston, James R. Osgood, 1st, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 3/4 brown calf over marbled boards. NOT Holiday Edition or Household Edition. Whittier is the only editor, no mention of Lucy Larcom. Decorated edges Gilt lettering on spine lightly faded. Four page Preface by Whittier dated September 1875, copyright page states 1875. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1891, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt decoration and lettering, 352 pages. Frontispiece portrait of poet, other b&w illustrations. Previous owner's notation on blank prelim page otherwise clean.
Softcover. Ann Arbor MI, University of Michigan Press, 2nd pr., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 462 pages. Illustrated in b&w. Includes bibliography. From rear cover: "From Kenneth Rexroth to the Czechoslovakian secret police, from Marianne Moore to the F.B.I., from Diana Trillling to Time magazine - Allen Ginsberg's work has always drawn a spirited response. Now, for the first time, these responses - remarks, reviews, and essays - have been collected in a single volume. Beginning with William Carlos Williams's early letters of support and ending with James Breslin's biographical analysis of 'The Origins of Howl and Kaddish', this collection reflects a full thirty years of praise, complaint, debate, and analysis of the work of one of the most innovative poets of our century". Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1sr, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding America's, and the world's, experiments in democracy. Whether depicting the first Jewish ghetto in sixteenth-century Venice or the contemporary efforts of Black Lives Matter, a girls' night clubbing in the shadow of World War II or the doomed nobility of Muhammad Ali's conscious objector stance, this extraordinary poet never fails to connect history's grand exploits to the triumphs and tragedies of individual lives.
Hardcover. London, Ellis and Elvey, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover 2 volumes octavo 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches- very handsomely leather bound in a simple half period blue morocco with marbled boards with gold letters and raised dentils, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, xlii, 528, xl, 521 pages. Notes by William M. Rossetti. A fine set in a gorgeous binding. Previous owner's name on both title pages otherwise clean.
Softcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 166 pages. INSCRIBED BY ROBERTS on the title page. Clean, bright copy.
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