poetry

Hardcover. New York , G. P. Putman, reprint, 1864, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 322 pages. Dark green cloth, gilt title to spine, top edge gilt. Light edgewear to covers, internally a very clean, tight copy

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. Frontispiece illustration by Rockwell Kent. 1000 pages plus commentary in rear by John Crowe Ransom, William Carlos Williams and others. Previous owner's name on title page, gutter loose at title page. Rear hinge cracked. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harpercollins Childrens Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations by Barry Moser.

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. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Very good in an unclipped dust jacket. The scenery of Iceland, the South seas, and the American South, the awakening of first love, and the meaning of speech are some of the topics treated in this collection of poems by the novelist and critic. He is a poet the same way Somerset Maugham is a thinker; the poems are set in dozens of exotic locales and glitter like fireflies against the night of the page. As the title suggests, one exotic locale is pretty much the same as any other for Brad Leithauser, as long as you get mail from it. The messages that come through tell little stories, almost as though they weren't big enough to be used as the raw material for his novels.

Softcover. NY, Oxford University Press, reprint, 1999, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 292 pages. In the teens and twenties, New York was home to a rich variety of literary subcultures. Within these intermingled worlds, gender lines and other boundaries were crossed in ways that were hardly imaginable in previous decades. Among the bohemians of Greenwich Village, the sophisticates of the Algonquin Round Table, and the literati of the Harlem Renaissance, certain women found fresh, powerful voices through which to speak and write. Enda St. Vincent Millay and Dorothy Parker are now best remembered for their colorful lives; Genevieve Taggard, Gwendolyn Bennett, and Helene Johnson are hardly remembered at all. Yet each made a serious literary contribution to the meaning of modern femininity, relationship, and selfhood. Making Love Modern uncovers the deep historical sensitivity and interest in these women's love poetry. Light shelf wear. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 84 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Rear inside flap has ripped corner. Light rubbing on rear dust jacket.

Softcover. NY, Corinth Books, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 47 pages, limited to 1500 copies. The cover design is from a collage by Joe Brainard. Crease to bottom corner of front cover, clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne, reprint, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout by Greenaway. Some foxing to illustrated endpapers, otherwise very good, clean. Illustrated cardboard covers with brown cloth spine. Mild edgewear to covers.

Softcover. New York , Bouwerie Editions, 1st Ltd. Ed., 1970, Book: Very Good, Folded signature laid into gray wrappers with Bouwerie blindstamped on the front wrap. Text and wrappers rubberstamped by William Katz, and contains a color photograph by Katz of "Mary"s Fancy." This copy is designated 47 of 100 and is signed by Creeley. Clean, bright copy in folded brown wrapping paper with a label sticker and the title stamped in black, limitation lettered in blue ink.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2010-10-06, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 75 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Hopewell NJ, Ecco Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 146 pages, dark gray boards with black cloth spine. Bright dust jacket, unclipped.

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.

Hardcover. Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1st, 1867, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Non-Paginated. Black & white illustrations by W.J. Hennessy. Foxing to pages. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Title and decoration of girl raking in gilt on front cover and spine.

Softcover. London/NY, Cape Goliard Press/Grossman, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, illustrated wrappers with glassine dust wrapper. Unpaginated but well over 100 pages. First printing of the second volume of Olson's poetic opus. Clean copy.

Softcover. Santa Rose CA, Black Sparrow Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 198 pages. INSCRIBED BY WAKOSKI on the title page to author and teacher Paul Christensen, Clean copy.

Hardcover. Gloucester, MA, Peter Smith, Reprint, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 321 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with light wear to edges & black titles to spine. Faint soil to top edge. Otherwise clean inside and out. Tight copy.

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.

Softcover. NY, Grove Press , 3rd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 214 pages. Cover price of $2.45, E-552, ISBN number on rear cover so post 1970. Clean copy. This is the 3rd printing of the original Mexico City Blues (242 Choruses) by Jack Kerouac, a long poem composed of 242 "choruses" or stanzas, which was first published in 1959. It has been the inspiration for multiple films and novels, and serves as a pillar of Kerouac's oeuvre.

Hardcover. US, Beach Lane Books, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Could it be true that mice are...nice? That's certainly what the cat thinks in this after-dark romp just perfect for young children. Featuring whimsical, comforting poetry and vibrant collage illustrations from Caldecott Honor medalist Lois Ehlert, this engaging story puts a fresh spin on the classic cat-and-mouse dynamic.

Softcover. US, Damiani, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 110 pages, softcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Absence of Subject and Two Crowns of the Egg are Somoroff's most intriguing books of photography. In this edition of Two Crowns, the still life art work is as stunning as the female nudes. Of note, the rare combinations of objects (such. books of literature, high polished knives, exquisite dishes) and life matter (such pomegranates, honey, eggs, human skulls) set one's imagination in fire. These strange image compositions are as odd as the pairing of words by Postmodern poet Giannina Braschi who writes love poems to objects, animals, beings. The scholarly introduction by art historian Donald Kuspit is respectable but a bit dry. Regardless the imagery and poetry tower over any essay that one could write about them.

Hardcover. New York, John Lane , 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 82 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Corn colored cloth boards with gilt title on cover and spine. lightly soiled edges. Previous owners signature on front end paper.

Hardcover. Montana, Graywolf Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 334 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Softcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 132 pages, b&w illustrations. First edition, issued simultaneously with the hardcover edition. Clean copy.