poetry

Hardcover. NY, Rinehart & Co., 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with half the spine missing, Blue cloth with silver and black eagle on cover and silver and black lettering. Black lettering on spine. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated in b&w and 3-colors by Charles Child. Biographical rhyming verse: Columbus to Woodrow Wilson, some generic categories. Name on page opposite half-title, otherwise clean.

NY, Philomel Books, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Poetry collected by Karen Ackerman and illustrated by Tasha Tudor. 64 pages. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Tasha Tudor with 22 large oval watercolors. Poetry collected by Karen Ackerman. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. A collection of humorous verses about animals, friendly or otherwise. Additional poems by Lucy Gardner & Eugene Rudzewicz. Drawings by Lucy, Joel, Joan & John Gardner. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Star Bright Books, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, color illustrations throughout. First published in 1966, Brian Wildsmith's stunning art is the backdrop to this newly revised selection of Robert Louis Stevenson's wonderful poetry for children. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing Co., 1st thus, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 140 pages. Red cloth with color pastedown to front cover. An uncommon illustrated edition of Child's Garden of Verses including 7 color plates and 8 b&w plates by Josephine Wheeler Weage. Size: 8vo. No date but inscription on front fly leaf dated Dec. 25, 1916. Color frontispiece attached at gutter with tape on verso as it had become loose. Otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Co., reprint, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers with color label on cover, 93 pages. Illustrated with full-page color drawings and b&w text illustrations by E. Mars and M. H. Squire. A classic collection of 65 children's poems. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 482 pages. In this book Professor Gelpi traces the emergence of American Modernist poetry as a reaction to, and outgrowth of, the Romantic ideology of the nineteenth century. He focuses on the remarkable generation of poets who came to maturity in the years of the First World War and whose works constitute the principal body of poetic Modernism in English. This large historical argument is developed through monographic chapters on the poets which include close readings of their major poems. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Piermont NH, Bunker Hill Publishing, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. In this true modern saga, Olav Erikson and his son Martin pursue their destiny against a background of stark natural beauty. The author heard parts of this story years ago from the son's wife and has recreated the whole of their adventure in a narrative poem. With beautiful and specially commissioned woodcuts by Mary Azarian. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Middlebury VT, Middlebury College Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 355 pages. Edited by Robert Pack and Jay Parini. "Collecting short stories, essays, and the long narrativ poem "Fever and Chills," this Reader reveals the range of Elliott's talents and his seemingly effortless command of the written word. The smooth, realistic style of his short stories enhances the emotional resonance of such pieces as "Hymn of Angels," or contrasts with the caustic satire of others, such as the darkly Orwellian "The N.R.A.C.P." Clean copy.

Hardcover. UK, Oxford University Press, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two hardcover volumes in bright dust jackets, 408 and 388 pages. The secular Latin poetry of the Middle Ages is at once great in bulk and interesting in kind, embracing as it does lyrical, epical, satirical, philosophical, grammatical, and historical verse. The rhetorical tradition of the ancient world can be traced throughout its development, from the fifth to the thirteenth century, when the tradition passes over into the new literary vernaculars. No adequate English survey of this delightful and historically important literature has hitherto been made. These volumes form a sequel to the same author's 'History of Christian-Latin Poetry', and the two works together offer a complete introduction to the whole field of medieval Latin poetry. First published in 1934. Clean copies.

Hardcover. Grand Rapids MI, Eerdmans, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A brief collection of seasonal poems for young readers based on the author's experiences living in Lancaster County, PA. Beautifully illustrated in color by Bill Farnsworth.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A Knopf, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Author won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1934. Clean tight copy..

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 20, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Drawing on original and exhaustive research from interviews and never-before-seen material in the Picasso family archives, this book opens with a visit by the Hungarian-French photographer Brassai to Picasso's chateau in Normandy, Boisgeloup, where he would take his iconic photographs of the celebrated plaster busts of Marie-Therese, Picasso's mistress and muse. Picasso was contributing to Andre Breton's Minotaur magazine and he was also spending more time with the likes of Man Ray, Salvador Dali, Lee Miller, and the poet Paul Eluard, in Paris as well as in the south of France. It was during this time that Picasso began writing surrealist poetry and became obsessed with the image of himself as the mythic Minotaur--head of a bull, body of a man--and created his most famous etching, Minotauromachie. Richardson shows us the artist is as prolific as ever, painting Marie-Therese, but also painting the surrealist photographer Dora Maar who has become a muse, a collaborator and more. In April 1937, the bombing of the town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War inspires Picasso's vast masterwork of the same name, which he paints in just a few weeks for the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris World's Fair. When the Nazis occupy Paris in 1940, Picasso chooses to remain in the city despite the threat that his art would be confiscated. In 1943, Picasso meets Francoise Gilot who would replace Dora, and as Richardson writes, "rejuvenate his psyche, reawaken his imagery and inspire a brilliant sequence of paintings." As always, Richardson tells Picasso's story through his work during this period, analyzing how it shows what the artist was feeling and thinking. His fascinating and accessible narrative immerses us in one of the most exciting moments in twentieth century cultural history, and brings to a close the definitive and critically acclaimed account of one of the world's most celebrated artists.

Hardcover. St. Paul MN, Graywolf Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 242 pages. The Arab poet's story, from her childhood in Nablus, on the West Bank of the Jordan, between the world wars to the occupation by the Israelis in 1967. A rare glimpse of Arab culture from a woman's perspective. Includes a selection of her poetry. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1st U.S., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 152 pages. Brodsky's second major collection. Navy blue cloth boards and spine with gilt lettering on spine. Color dust jacket with clear plastic guard, photo of author on back. A couple marks on plastic guard. Blue end papers. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 474 pages. This wonderful collection contains all of Bogan's criticism, most of it written during her many years as poetry critic for The New Yorker magazine. "One does not easily recall another writer of such stature who served her fellow writers, and the reading public, for so long, or with such pertinence and distinction." She lived from 1897-1970. Flap price crossed out with smaller price in ink. Otherwise like new condition.

Softcover. Galway, The Friends of Thoor Ballylee, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 8 page booklet printed at The Brewhouse Press for The Friends of Thoor Ballylee in a limited numbered edition of 500 copies. This is copy #66. Produced by Rigby Graham and Trevor Hickman. Green wrap-around outer card covers with gilt illustration on front cover. Thread bound. Two b/w drawings (including frontispiece) and one color illustration by Rigby Graham. Laid in is a note card signed by curator Frances MacNally. Clean copy.

Softcover. Portland OR, Tin House Books, reprint, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 400 pages. Deadpan, epic, and searingly charismatic, A Sand Book chronicles climate change and climate grief, gun violence and bystanderism, state violence and complicity, mourning and ecstasy, sex and love, and the transcendent shock of prophecy, tracking new dimensions of consciousness for our strange and desperate times. Fading to front wrapper, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, The Truth Seeker Company, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth stamped in black and gilt. Morgan Andrew Robertson [1861-1915] was an American author and the self-proclaimed inventor of the periscope. This title is apparently his rare first book- a narrative poem about heaven versus the devil. B&w frontis and great text illustrations by A. Carey K. Jurist. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 163 pages. Includes selected poems from all his previous books and many new ones. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

New York , Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrated by Marjorie Priceman. Fans of Poems of A. Nonny Mouse will rejoice in this effervescent sequel containing more than 50 wittily illustrated short verses. In an introductory letter, Ms. Mouse acknowledges that since the successful publication of her first volume, she's "been able to afford the occasional wedge of imported cheese" and "put away something for her old age." Along with traditional offerings, tongue twisters, limericks and four unlabeled poems by Prelutsky--identified as the editor of Ms. Mouse's scribblings--the book includes the familiar poem about infamous "Ooey Gooey," the worm who ends up squashed on a railroad track, and a subversive rendition of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" that concludes with "Throw your teacher overboard / And listen to her scream." Priceman's watercolors, like those she executed in Prelutsky's For Laughing Out Loud , are frolicsome and frisky, mischievously expressive.

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. Cambridge, MA , Harvard University Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. INSCRIBED TO LOUIS UNTEMEYER BY WHITMAN on half-title. Title-page engraving by Michael McCurdy (repeated on dust jacket ). Dust jacket with light edgewear.