fiction poetry

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st US, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Full color illustrations by Erik Blegvad. Clean, tight copy. Light wear on cover edges.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st thus, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green boards with design and paste-down illustration on cover. Illustrated by Arthur I. Keller. These are thick pages with glossy color plates on most every page. This edition is the first illustrated edition of the poetry which was first published in 1870 .

Hardcover. London, Harvill Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a translucent dust jacket, 165 pages. Illustrated with Steve Pyke's b&w photographs. SIGNED BY BOTH O'GRADY AND PYKE on the title page. Stranded in a dismal flat in England, the protagonist remembers his happy childhood in Ireland, the rough living and working conditions in England, and his only love. The language is quite simple and often Hiberno Irish, but deeply imaginative and so lyrical, that the line between prose and poetry gets blurred. The beautiful black/white pictures added to this book, and the author's ability to portray Irish music help to give an insight into Irish culture. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton-Century, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 132 pages. Black & white illustrations by Reginald Birch. Light soiling to covers, endpapers. Soiling & chipping to dust jacket. Brodart cover.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In this story in verse, Godden has created a new & delightful myth out of the story of the Flood. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 158 pages. Color frontispiece. and 23 gorgeous color plates by Byam Shaw. Blue cloth with orange and light blue decoration. Small sticker from previous owner back paste-down. Hinge starting. Beautifully illustrated edition of this wonderful anthology of tragic and erotic poetry written by Nicolson (1865-1904), who created a scandal when these were first published in 1901 when she tried to pass them off as translated from classic erotic Indian poets. Shaw (1872-1919), was considered one of the most important pre-Raphaelite painters, and the Garden of Kama as his best illustrated work.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray booards with red and blue pictorial design, 124 pages + 1 ad. Illustrated with black & white drawings by Oliver Herford. Ex-lib with label pasted on front pastedown. Die-cut library stamp on title page. Covers soiled, worn. Interior bright and clean.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 88 pages. Black silhouette illustrations by Decie Merwin. Rubbing to spine, corners. Spine faded.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 124 pges. Blockprint illustions by Helen Sewell. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down. Discreet tape repair page 88. Dust jacket with chips bottom edge, bottom corner.

New York, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1st, 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by David Diaz, his 1st book. Ex-lib with light stamping, residue. From family pictures to pinatas, from the "gato "with a meow like a rusty latch to Fourth of July fireworks, the poet celebrates the startling and often overlooked moments that define childhood. Affectionate without being overly sentimental, the collection provides a good introduction to contemporary poetry as well as a fine homage to a Chicano community.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages. INSCRIBED BY DENNIS LEE ON TITLE PAGE. Illustrations in full color and black & white by Frank Newfeld. Dust jacket with minor wear. Clean, tight copy. A collection of thirty nonsense poems including the tale of Nicholas Knock and his friendship with a silver honkabeest.

Hardcover. London, Methuen & Co., 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 103 pages, b&w drawings throughout by Ernest H. Shepard. Dark red cloth with gold gilt image to front board of Christopher Robin playing with his train and gold gilt image to back cover of Pooh Bear & Piglet. Also gilt edge rulings, gilt titles to spine & gilt to top leaf edge. Tight binding with only minimal wear to top of spine. Pictorial pink endpapers, front & back, showing Christopher Robin with Pooh and various other friends, are very nice. Pale blue dust jacket has darkening to spine and tiny chips to corners, larger chip to top of spine. Front and rear panels with Shepard's drawings.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 78 pages. Yellow spine cloth with aqua & white flower pattern covers. Spine label intact. Previous owners stamp on front endpaper. Illustrated with black & white drawings by Elizabeth Montgomery. Some darkening to covers. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illust. with black & white line drawings by Elizabeth Montgomery. 77 pges. Browning to front and back end-papers. Dust jacket with wear to corners, spine edges. Dust jacket with color illustration on cover. Scarce.

Softcover. Minneapolis, University Of Minnesota Press, reprint, 2021, Softcover, 329 pages. Many adoptees are required to become people that they were never meant to be. While transracial adoption tends to be considered benevolent, it often exacts a heavy emotional, cultural, and economic toll on those who directly experience it. Outsiders Within is a landmark publication that carefully explores this most intimate aspect of globalization through essays, fiction, poetry, and art. Moving beyond personal narrative, transracially adopted writers from around the world tackle difficult questions about how to survive the racist and ethnocentric worlds they inhabit, what connects the countries relinquishing their children to the countries importing them, why poor families of color have their children removed rather than supported--about who, ultimately, they are. In their inquiry, the contributors unseat conventional understandings of adoption politics, reframing the controversy as a debate that encompasses human rights, peace, and reproductive justice. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 467 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w plates. Light edgewear to black covers. Dust jacket has heavy chipping and short tears. Gutter cracking in places.

Hardcover. New York , Oxford University Press , 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 224 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w by Joan Hassall. Dust jacket is worn, torn and sun-faded, protected by a mylar cover. Book itself is in lovely condition. Contains 800 nursery rhymes and ditties which are the heritage of our oral tradition. All the well-known rhymes are included as well as many rare ones.

Hardcover. New York , Doubleday and Co., 1st US, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 page, green cloth covers. Illustrated in 2-colors by Edward Ardizzone. Light shelf wear, clean.

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1st, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 122 pages. Five black & white and color plates by Earl Oliver Hurst. Soiling to endpapers, covers. Faded yellow top edge.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st illust. thus, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with pictorial pastedown on the front cover. With 9 color plates by Maxfield Parrish, including the illustrated title page. 199 pages, two-color drawing on endpapers by Parrish. Spine has a 1/2" tear to top front edge, otherwise very good. No markings.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with color pastedown on front cover, gilt lettering on spine, 198 pages. Illustrated title page and 8 color plates plus endpapers illustration by Maxfield Parrish. Despite the 1904 date on title page, this is a reprint with a 1922 date on the copyright page, and a list of many Scribner illustrated classics (published later than 1904) on the last printed page. Gilt lettering on spine mostly gone or faded, but the rest of the book is clean and bright. There is a small scar to front label on scroll at top right.

Hardcover. NY, Arrow Editions, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 146 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Light foxing to edges. Dust jacket with darkening, chipping along edges. Jacket now protected with clear plastic cover.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 80 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w cartoon illustrations by Quentin Blake. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1892, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in silver, 143 pages. Black & white illustrations by various artists, including Harriet Roosevelt Richards and E. H. Garrett. Tear to middle of front end paper. Lower part of front hinge cracked. Spine frayed at top & bottom and corners worn.