Poetry

Hardcover. London, Lawrence & Bullen, Revised Ed., 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 262 pages plus 37 preliminary pages. Bound in half leather and marbled boards. Spine with raised bands, gilt design. End papers with marbled design. Near Fine. With a 4 line inscription by poet and literary critic Joseph Warren Beach.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, Reprint, 1888, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, All edges gilt. Mustard cloth covers with beveled edges. Elaborate gilt pictorial design. Gravure plates, b&w line drawings and text illustrations by Edmund Garrett and Chas Copeland. Patterned end papers. Front hinge starting. Shelf worn cover. Spine ends worn. Blank prelim page missing. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Bollingen Foundation/Pantheon, 1st thus, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcovers, four volumes in a slipcase. Blue cloth covers with red spine labels, gilt lettering. Unclipped dust jackets. 345,547,540, and volume 4 index 109 pages and photo reproduction of the original 1837 edition in Russian. Bollingen Series LXXII. Slipcase is sound. Clean, bright set with only minoe shelf wear.

Hardcover. NY, Scribner & Welford, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color pictorial boards with a green cloth spine. Illustrated throughout in color by Seeley. The history of the inhabitants of Brandon Hall is told from the planting of a mulberry tree brought to England by Sir Francis Drake until the reign of Queen Victoria. No date but appears to be the first American edition. Originally published in London in 1881. Very nice copy, bright and clean.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1st illust. thus, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth with gilt lettering, color plate paste-down on front cover. Illustrated with a frontispiece, a decorative title page, a few color plates, and several in-text and full-page illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy. Some darkening to spine and cover edges, otherwise a sharp, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 113 pages, beige canvas boards with salmon cloth spine, wood-grained dust jacket in mylar cover. A collection of poems by American author R. G. Vliet (1929-1984), his first book. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY , Harper, reprint, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 196 pages. From New York Times best-selling Shel Silverstein, celebrated creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, and Falling Up, comes an amazing collection of never-before-published poems and drawings. Copyright page says First Edition, but line below suggests 2013 printing. First published in 2011. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1996, Hardcover, 106 pages, color plates. Edited with an Introduction by William Benton. Illustrated with full-page color reproductions of 40 paintings by Elizabeth Bishop. Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 October 6, 1979) was an American poet and short-story writer. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, the National Book Award winner in 1970, and the recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1976. Bump to bottom lower corner of book. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 104 pages with B/W illustrations by author. Soiled ivory colored covers with orange, blue and black printed design on front, black lettering on spine. Hinge cracking but binding solid. Pages clean. Previous bookseller's label on back end papers.

Softcover. Buffalo NY, Blazevox Books, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 58 pages, illustrated in color. A tribute to New York City in words and pictures by the two poets. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY SLEIGH on the title page. Widely considered one of the finest poets of his generation, Tom Sleigh brings to his new collection his trademark intensity and craftsmanship. In these poems, small things reveal large metaphysical and historical correspondences. In "Newsreel," for instance, the entire Cold War era comes to a drive-in movie theater, as Marilyn Monroe's screen image gives way to a tale of sci-fi Armageddon. In the elegiac "New York American Spell, 2001," Sleigh combines ancient spells with reportage of terrorism. Sleigh's overarching theme is the ever-changing face of love. As in Ovid's Metamorphoses, his poems reveal the workings of eros, for good or ill, in all its public and private guises. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Seymour, Greenwich Workshop Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 100 pages. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR SCOTT GUSTAFSON ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Seymour CT, Greenwick Workshop Press, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 100 pages illustrated in color by Gustafson. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Norfolk UK, Black Dog Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages. Hardcover. Author signed. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket front flap price clipped. Clean inside and out. From the dust jacket front flap: "These essays, written over a 30-year period and published to celebrate the Benson Medal for Literature awarded to Ronald Blythe in 2006, offer Blythe's lingering comment on his life as a writer."

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Page and Co. , 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 71 pages, illustrated end papers, copyright page and title page, color frontispiece. Color plates at pages 22 and 49. Light edge wear, small tears to dust jacket; protected by mylar cover. Foxing to top edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Riverdale-on-Hudson NY, The Sheep Meadow Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 115 pages. INSCRIBED BY BARNSTONE on the title page. Barnstone was a distinguished professor emeritus from Indiana University. He was in China during the Cultural Revolution, which is central to this collection. Clean, bight copy.

Hardcover. Rochester, NY, Judaic Impressions, 1st Edition, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. SIGNED NOTE FROM TRANSLATOR LAID IN. Hardcover Folio. Cover boards bound in black cloth, white paste-on on spine with title, a touch of fading to spine and some shelf wear. 2 light smudges of soil to 1st poem title page (see image). 3Scarce 1st Edition, only 100 printed. "The five poems (written during the Holocaust) compiled in this book are witness of the unquenchable spirit of man. They are personal, lyrical and so very Jewish. They speak to God - arguing, protesting, demanding, pleading, accusing and longing...".

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John Patterson and Friends, 1st, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 25 pages, b&w frontispiece portrait of Stevenson, green cloth spine over patterned boards. Some wear, fraying to spine, light residue to front pastedown where bookplate may have resided.

Hardcover. Columbia MO, University of Missouri Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 114 pages. Card SIGNED BY GARRETT taped to front fly leaf. Light ink marking especially to rear endpapers.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 48 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Softcover. New York, Knopf, 1st wraps, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, SIGNED BY HIRSCH with his hasty scrawl on title page. The author's first book.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with $3.95 on flap. Stated First Edition, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 99 pages, illustrated dust jacket with minor edge wear and closed tear on top spine edge, otherwise, internally clean and tight.

Hardcover. New York, McDevitt-Wilson, Reprint, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Book rebound. Full color illustrations by F. D. Bedford. Poetry by E. V. Lucas. Book illustrates the lives and occupations of 24 laborers. Marking on some pages in pencil or ink. Light foxing, closed tears to some pages.