poetry

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 2nd pr., 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 431 pages, with unopened CD in back. SIGNED BY HALL on title page. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 86 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with only light rubbing on dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st UK, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Color illustrations by Janina Domanska. In a lightly edgeworn, price-clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. no place, Whitman, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non Paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Full color & one-color illustrations by Pettee. Previous owner's name on half-title page.

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.

Paperback. New York, Knopf, 1st wraps, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Hirsch's hastily scrawled signature on title page SIGNED BY HIRSCH at 1999 Breadloaf Writers Conference in Vermont. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. New York, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Cover has minor wear to edges. Inside is bright and clean. Many color plates throughout. A nice copy. This book celebrates the art as well as the poetry of the great English poet William Blake. The Huntington Library has the most extensive collection of Blake's artwork in the world.

Softcover. Middletown PA, Pennsylvania State University, 1st, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Red perfect bound wrappers, 176 pages. Covers with a few faint creases, spine slightly faded, mild wave to book. Prints Williams' 80-page 1914 little red notebook in exact-size facsimiles with a transcription and two additional essays from his son William Eric Williams; additional contributions by Reed Whittemore, James Laughlin, Cecelia Tichi, Peter Schmidt, Mary Ellen Solt, Henry Sayre, Emily Wallace, Louis Martz and Albert Sonnenfeld. The journal showcases scholarly essays on any aspect of the life and work of William Carlos Williams.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn jacket with light fading ti spine. 160 pages. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. This American edition is a double volume, as the lyrics were published in England under the title *Inward Companion* and *Winged Chariot* followed as a separate book.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in embossed green boards with a yellow cloth spine. No dust jacket, but both flaps glued nicely to front fly leaf, the rear one with a photo of Tudor. Ageless poems selected by Tudor, and interpreted artistically and charmingly in many pencil and charcoal drawings, and five color plates. 119 pages, over 50 poets are represented. Color card art by artist pasted to inside front cover.

Softcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 75 pages. Galvin's 4th book, his photo on back cover. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Inc., reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages. Poems selected by Barbara Rogansky with illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Providence RI, Burning Deck, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled beige wrapper with brown line drawing and green text, limited to 500 copies. Clean 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. NY, The New Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 234 pages, b&w plates. Witness Against the Beast is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study in which the renowned social historian E.P. Thompson contends that most of the assumptions scholars have made about William Blake are misleading and unfounded. Brilliantly reexamining Blake's cultural milieu and intellectual background, Thompson detects in Blake's poetry a repeated call to resist the usury and commercialism of the ?Antichrist "embodied by contemporary society?to ?witness against the beast." Clean copy.

Softcover. Portland ME, Coyote Love Press, 1st Ltd. Ed., 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, plain paper wraps with a pictorial dust jacket in two colors on tan stock. 38 pages, SIGNED BY MCDOUGALL on title page, also INSCRIBED on the front fly leaf. Black and white drawings by Gary Buch. Limited to 500 copies of which 25 are signed and numbered. This copy is unnumbered. Promotional flyer laid in.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2008, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 873 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Robert Lowell once remarked in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop that "you ha[ve] always been my favorite poet and favorite friend." The feeling was mutual. Bishop said that conversation with Lowell left her feeling "picked up again to the proper table-land of poetry," and she once begged him, "Please never stop writing me letters-they always manage to make me feel like my higher self (I've been re-reading Emerson) for several days." Neither ever stopped writing letters, from their first meeting in 1947 when both were young, newly launched poets until Lowell's death in 1977. Presented in Words in Air is the complete correspondence between Bishop and Lowell. The substantial, revealing-and often very funny-interchange that they produced stands as a remarkable collective achievement, notable for its sustained conversational brilliance of style, its wealth of literary history, its incisive snapshots and portraits of people and places, and its delicious literary gossip, as well as for the window it opens into the unfolding human and artistic drama of two of America's most beloved and influential poets.

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st definitive ed., 1832-33, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Pub. orig. as 14 vols. then 3 more were added. Uniform complete 17 volume set in stunning condition: 3/4 black leather with elaborate design on spines with raised bands, marbled boards and end papers, top edge gilt . Black & white engraved frontis in each volume. Previous owner's bookplate (one on each front end paper), The slightest bumping to a few corners.

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. NY, Lawrence Hill and Company, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 234 pages.Introduction by Jack Conroy. Other contributors include Nelson Algren, Langston Hughes, Erskine Caldwell, James T. Farrell, William Carlos Williams, Michael Gold, Kenneth Patchen and Karl Shapiro. Clean, tight copy. Cheap paper tanning.

Hardcover. NY, G.K.Hall, rep, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 206 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Reproduced from works originally published in the early 1900s, Intro. by P. Jane Splawn. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. INSCRIBED WITH 2 DRAWINGS BY ILLUSTRATOR STEVEN KELLOGG ON PRELIMINARY PAGE. Full color illustrations by Steven Kellogg. Rear endpaper has 6" X 2.5" piece removed from bottom edge with scissors. Dust jacket with closed tear along spine, stain to title area, light wear to corners - jacket now 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.