Used & Rare Poetry Books

Softcover. Paris, Saint-Germain-Des-Pres, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. French text.

Hardcover. Santa Barbara CA, Black Sparrow Press, 1st thus, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, With a new Preface by the Author. Hardcover, numbered and signed issue, limited to 300 numbered hardcover copies, SIGNED BY PAUL BOWLES [# 64]. A fine copy in fine, unprinted acetate dust jacket. Octavo, cloth spine, paper-covered boards, 73 pages.

Hardcover. London, Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 1st UK, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 107 pages, very slight dust jacket edge fade, otherwise, spotless and tight copy.

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. 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.

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.

Softcover. Paris, Mercvre de France, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 265 pages. INSCRIBED TO ROGER SHATTUCK BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. With black & white illustrations by: Pablo Picasso, Jean Bazaine, Jacques Villon, Antoni Clave, and others. Spine paper with light sun fading. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 135 pages. Hardcover. Front cover and spine with black and white vertical stripes, and Black & white pastedown illustration. Features 6 black & white illustrations by E. W. Kemble. First edition with (1) at end of text. Dust jacket with light chipping, creasing along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Softcover. Princeton, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 65 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. MInor wear, soiling to cover. Else a nice, clean copy.

Hardcover. UK, Scorpion Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 70 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Light shelf-wear and sun-fade to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. New York, New Directions, 1st paperback, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 231 pages. Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Wrapper in good shape, has a touch of tanning. A small bit of foxing to top edge, otherwise clean inside and out. Binding tight, in great condition for its age.

Softcover. New York, Knopf, Uncorrected proof wraps, 1994, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in light gray wrappers, an uncorrected proof. SIGNED BY HIRSCH on title page.

Hardcover. US, Faber and Faber, 1st, 2006-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 76 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

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. 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. 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.

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.

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, Revised Ed., 1995, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 296 pages. In this new edition of George Seferis's poems, the acclaimed translations by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard are revised and presented in a compact, English-only volume. The revision covers all the poems published in Princeton's earlier bilingual edition. Clean,bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth spine with yellow paper boards, black cloth tips on corners. Chipped paper label with title on spine. Covers have some toning and soiling but the volume is square with only light wear otherwise. Cullen's version of the famous English ballad, "The Brown Girl." Attractive production, with b&w illustrations by Cullen's brother.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. One of the most pensive & delicious of all our poets, completed shortly before his death, Matthews seems to be looking his last . on all things lovely: music, food, wine, and especially love. Clean copy.

NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, first Printing with code letter "I-C" and "First Edition" printed on copyright page. Paper label on spine, three quarter black cloth with blue paper over boards.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MULDOON on the title page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st thus, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated pictorial stamped paper-covered boards. Book is in fine condition, crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. The poem is illustrated throughout in color with the watercolors and drawings of A. J. Keller. Includes facsimile of Lowell's handwritten manuscript.

Hardcover. San Francisco, North Point Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 97 pages. Clean copy.

Softcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 90 pages. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Seattle, Wave Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 45 pages. Limited to 400 copies. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Dublin IR, SurVision Books, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 40 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Winner of the 2018 James Tate Poetry Prize .

Softcover. NY, The Noonday Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 111 pages. Former owner's name on the first page, the rest unmarked. Pages lightly tanned.

Softcover. Madison WI, Seventies Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Softcover with a dust jacket, 74 pages. A collection of poetry by Rolf Jacobsen, a Norwegian poet, considered to be one of the first modernist writers in Norway. Poems in English and Norwegian. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. St. Louis, Washington University Libraries, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages in stapled wrappers. An exhibit of printed materials and manuscripts drawn from the Modern Literature Collection of Washington University. Illustrated. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly tanned, unclipped dust jacket. 55 poems by the Pulitzer Prize winning poet, 88 pages. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 275 pages. Joao Cabral de Melo Neto is one of Brazil's most acclaimed poets. From his early days, Mr. Cabral has written poems that are marked by a captivating use of simple language. Avoiding ceremony and circumstance, they follow centuries-old paths rather than struggle to break new ground. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 115 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, Dutton, 1st , 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 155 pages. A very clean, tight copy in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. US, University of Massachusetts , 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 268 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

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.

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.''

Softcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Softcover, 96 pages, poems by Hilda Dolittle, Amy Lowell, Richard Aldington, D.H. Lawrence. Card covers with green wrapper that has water stain, light edgewear. Internally very good with no traces of stain.

Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover. Stated first printing. Previous owners name at top left corner of front endpaper. Includes original readers reply card specific to title. Intact dust jacket protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Boston, L. Prang & Co, 1st, 1894, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 4 volumes, stiff light-green covers with color illustration, b&w frontispiece in each. Leedle Yawcob Strauss: 14 pages, 5 color plates. Yawcob's Dribulations: 17 pages, 7 color plates. Der Oak une der Vine: 15 pages, 5 color plates. Vas Marriage a Failure?: 14 pages, 5 color plates. Slight rubbing to covers; volumes in excellent condition.

Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 79 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper, with signed poem laid in. Black cloth, gilt title to spine, no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 656 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, J.E. Tilton and Company, 1st Edition, 1866, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 53 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout (By Hammatt Billings) with tissue guards. Gilt edges, brown endpapers. Slight tanning from age to pages. Dark green cover boards, with bevelled edges and gilt title with design on front cover board. Spine straight, binding tight, pages unmarked. Beautifully illustrated antique volume of poetry by Oliver Goldsmith.

Memphis, Ion Books, 1st , 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover in a color illustrated dust jacket, 102 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page and dated 1991. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Duell Sloan & Pearce, 1st , 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket with chipping to corners, spine, otherwise clean.

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. 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.

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. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press,, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 69 pages. Greek and English texts. Translated, with a foreword and notes by Walter Kaiser. Bibliographical references. Dust jacket with upper cover illustration by Maud Morgan. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original attractive olive cloth with a garland of leaves and flowers in gilt on the front cover. All edges gilt. Oblong llustrated book with poems by Dorr and full page illustrations in charcoal of the Rutland, Vermont area by Zulma Delacy Steele. Clean, bright copy.