poetry

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st thus, 1890, Hardcover, 3/4 decorated white cloth with gilt stamped decorative pattern. Vignette edition with engraved frontispiece and 100 illustrations by Thos. McIlvaine. An Oriental romance, originally published in 1817, consisting of four narrative poems connected by a prose section. Small blank label on inside front cover, otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Softcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st pbk, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 393 pages. Reaching beyond sensational headlines, Land of the Unconquerable at last offers a three-dimensional portrait of Afghan women. In a series of wide-ranging, deeply reflective essays, accomplished scholars, humanitarian workers, politicians, and journalists-most with extended experience inside Afghanistan-examine the realities of life for women in both urban and rural settings. They address topics including food security, sex work, health, marriage, education, poetry, politics, prisoners, and community development. Eschewing stereotypes about the burqa, the contributors focus instead on women's empowerment and agency, and their struggles for peace and justice in the face of a brutal ongoing war. A fuller picture of Afghanistan's women past and present emerges, leading to social policy suggestions and pragmatic solutions for a peaceful future. Review copy stamp on top edge otherwise like new.

New York, The Viking Press, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 76 pages. B&W illustrations. Green cloth cover with sun-fading and slight soiling. Gilt title to spine. Previous owner signature on front flyleaf. Other poetry by author inlaid. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 217 pages. Emotions have long been a central concern in philosophy, psychological and sociological studies. When anthropologists began to study emotion, they challenged many assumptions shared by Western academics and lay persons by exposing the cultural variability of emotional meanings. In this collection of original essays by anthropologists concerned with the relationship of language and emotion, it is argued that the key focus to the study of emotion might be the politics of social life rather than the psychology of the individual. Through close studies of talk about emotion and emotional discourses in social contexts from poetry and song to therapeutic narratives, scholars who have worked in India, Fiji, the United States, Egypt, Senegal and the Solomon Islands show how emotion is tied to politics of everyday interaction. Their arguments and cross-cultural findings will intrigue and provoke anyone who has thought about the relationship between emotion, language and social life. The book will be of special interest to those who find the boundaries between cultural, psychological and linguistic anthropology, sociology, cross-cultural psychiatry, and social psychology too confining. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 263 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 112 pages. Stern's 12th collection is his first since winning the 1998 National Book Award for the new and selected This Time. The poems still rely on Stern's inimitable blend of coiled anger, love of life and raffish, on-the-outside-looking-in wit. Poem after poem reflects on what it means to have been a Jew, a Pennslyvanian, a nature-and-weather watcher, a world traveler and, for a longer time than many poets of his stature, an unknown writer during the middle of the last century: "If you can stand Strauss then so can I,/ oh filthy Danube, oh filthy Delaware, oh filthy Allegheny.// And anyone who never opened a Murphy bed/ night after night for seven years without ripping/ the sheet and had neither desk nor dresser can't walk/ in my shoes or wear my crocodile t-shirt." Stern's remembrances are not so much nostalgias as attempts to telescope the speaker's world and worldview through verse-talking, to test everyday language's ability to render his experiences to his liking, or at least his satisfaction.

Softcover. NY, Available Press/Ballantine, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 191 pages. Last Words is the first major collection of poems by a Milwaukee poet born soon after World War II who reached maturity during the late 1960s. It contains his highly acclaimed epic "Factory,"described by Allen Ginsberg as "a definitely powerful epic by one of Whitman's 'poets and orators to come.'" Antler was born in Milwaukee and grew up in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. He "worked his way through college" in various factories. As John Muir left the University of Wisconsin at Madison for "the University of the Wilderness" in 1863, Antler left the Milwaukee campus for the same destination in 1973. Besides factories, he has explored wildernesses in Upper Peninsula Michigan, Minnesota, Ontario, Colorado, and California. Clean copy.

Softcover. Paris, La Caravelle, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 169 pages, color frontispiece, b&w text illustrations by Andre Margat. INSCRIBED BY ALI-BERT on front fly leaf to American scholar and professor Stephen Freeman, dated 1945. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Paris, Juvisy, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1Softcover, 69 pages, 9 b&w text illustrations by Andre Margat. INSCRIBED BY ALI-BERT on front fly leaf to American scholar and professor Stephen Freeman, dated 1945. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Modern Library, 1st thus, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, this is the first edition in the Illustrated Modern Library series, 410 pages with Index of First Lines & About the Artist in rear, blank endpapers. quarter green cloth over boards covered in pastel decorative green paper, with red title box to spine, edged & lettered in bright gilt. Housed in a green cardboard slipcase with a color illustration pasted to the front. Minor wear to corners of slipcase. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1st thus, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering and black stamped detail to front board, gilt decorative detail/ lettering to spine, top edge gilt, portrait frontispiece with facsimile signature and dedication to David McKay with tissue guard, 2 pull-out sections of facsimile handwritten autobiography notes by author. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean copy.

Softcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 76 pages, illustrated wraps. SIGNED BY JACKSON on title page.

Softcover. Paris, Saint-Germain-Des-Pres, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 56 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. French text.

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. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY APPLEMAN on the half-title page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, reprint, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 87 pages, winner of the 1956 Lamont Poetry Selection. Minor dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover with fair dust jacket. Illustrated with woodcuts by Clare Leighton. Dj with large chunks gone, edgewear, tanning.

Softcover. Sandy Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 100 pages. Clean, like new.

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. Mankato MN, Creative Editions, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. In 1949, SPORT magazine published Lineup for Yesterday, a collection of poems by Ogden Nash celebrating the greatest big-league baseball players of the 1800s and early 1900s. Using an alphabetical approach, the famous wordsmith paid entertaining tribute to 24 legends of the diamond, encapsulating each in just 4 clever lines. Creative Editions is proud to present this masterpiece to a new generation of fans, reintroducing icons from the formative years of professional baseball. The masterful mixed-media illustrations of C. F. Payne portray these heroes of summer in their athletic primes in this, the first-ever picture book publication of Nash s classic. Clean copy.

New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 87 pages. Black & white and 3-color illustrations by author. Dust jacket has some small tears.

Softcover. Washington, D.C., Wall Street Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 79 pages. INSCRIBED BY JOYCE ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Black laminate covers, perfect binding, large b&w photograph of poet to front cover, one large b&w plate. Light rubbing to covers, page block crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Daleville IN, Barnwood Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 102 pages. Frontis of Goedicke and her husband, author Leonard Wallace Robinson. Clean copy.