Softcover. Palo Alto CA, Pacific Books, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 134 pages. Contains 78 poems of 71 poets. The 25th annual volume published in the Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards series. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Hurd and Houghton, unk, 1878, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards, corner wear, minor edgewear, previous owner's signature otherwise nice. Copyright 1877. Many b&w engravings, not credited. Children's stories, poems, and songs embedded in the daily life of a comfortable, cultured, and unassuming New England family. From the first Bodley series, very popular in their day. Scudder (1838 - 1902) was closely connected to Houghton for most of his career and for nine years the editor of the Atlantic Monthly.

Hardcover. Boston, William D. Ticknor, 1st, 1847, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with gilt design on front and spine, 144 pages, all edges gilt. An anthology of English and American poetry edited by Longfellow, with his prefatory "Proem" (later collected as "Pegasus in Pound"). Other contributors: Blake, Keats, Emerson, Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, Tennyson, etc. Edition of 1,150 copies. Previous owner's bookplate, previous owner's signatures on front end paper. Otherwise a clean, bright copy with only minimal foxing.

Port Townsend WA, Copper Canyon Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 513 pages. Poetry is vital to language and living. This anthology celebrates 50 years of Copper Canyon Press publications, one extraordinary poem at a time. Since its founding, Copper Canyon has been entirely dedicated to publishing poetry books; here Editor in Chief Michael Wiegers invites press staff and board--past and present--to help curate a retrospective. The result is a collection of beloved poems from books spanning half a century: representing Pulitzer Prize-winning books, debut collections, works in translation, and rare books from Copper Canyon's early days. This book is a tribute to Copper Canyon poets and readers everywhere, because, as Gregory Orr writes, "Certain poems / In an uncertain world-- / The ones we cling to: // They bring us back." Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, John Lane, 1st, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, polished blue calf with ornate gilt rule to edges of both covers, spine with brown calf label with gilt lettering. Top edge gilt, blue and gray pattern endpapers. Decorative gilt design overall on spine. 107 pages, 6 etchings by E. Philip Pimlott. Edited by R.H. Case. A fine anthology of angling poetry, compiled by Buchan and published while he was still a student at Oxford. Sources include William Shakespeare, John Dennys, Phineas Fletcher, WilliamBrowne, Edmund Waller, John Floud, Sir Henry Wotton, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh, William Basse, Izaak Walton, John Donne, John Chalkhill, Charles Cotton, John Bunyan, Alexander Pope, John Gay, James Thomson, John Armstrong, and others. Mild sunning to top edge of covers, ink name and short inscription dated '96 on first blank page. Otherwise clean and tight.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 144 pages. Middle issue of this great book-format review edited by Barrett Watten and Lyn Hejinian. Clean, unmarked copy. Contributors include Jackson Mac Low, Lydia Davis, Bruce Andrews, Fanny Howe, Johanna Drucker, Bob Perelman, Jed Rasula, Rae Armantrout, Michael Davidson, Kit Robinson, Peter Seaton, Beverly Dahlen, Stephen Ratcliffe, Norman Fischer, George Lakoff, Paul Hoover, Larry Price, Claire Phillips, Andrew Ross, Michael Amnasan, and Watten.

Softcover. New Haven CT, Dia Art Foundation/Yale, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated gatefold wraps. 298 pages. Edited and annotated by the poet and editor with color photographs throughout at the gala readins. A wide representation from Bruce Andrews and Rae Armantrout to Lewis Warsh and John Yau. For over three decades, Dia Art Foundation has gathered renowned and visionary poets to present their work in conversation with one another in monthly events through its Readings in Contemporary Poetry series. This collection anthologizes ninety-four poets who gave readings between 2010--when the program resumed under the direction of Vincent Katz after a short break--and 2016. Clean copy.

Softcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Softcover, 96 pages, poems by Hilda Dolittle, Amy Lowell, Richard Aldington, D.H. Lawrence. Card covers with green wrapper that has water stain, light edgewear. Internally very good with no traces of stain.

Hardcover. Boston, Herbert B. Turner & Co., 1st, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in gilt, 4-3/8" x 6-5/8", 785 pages which includes Notes, Index of Authors, Index of First Lines. INSCRIBED BY BRAITHWAITE on front fly leaf. Covers worn, faded. Otherwise clean.