Poetry

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1st , 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Clean, tight copy. Dust jacket is worn with chipping along spine, and a blue stamp on back side of each fold. Dust jacker does have plastic wrap around it.

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards, 39 pages illustrated in color by Bernie Fuchs. No dust jacket. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Century Co., 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 87 pages, illustrated in color and line by John Wolcott Adams. Lavender cloth with 4-color decoration. Decorated endpapers. A clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Vergennes, VT, Jeptha Shedd & Co., unk, 1813, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 216 pages. Hardcover. All leather with areas worn to wood board. Heavy foxing throughout. Wright & Sibley, Printers. Heavy soiling to edges.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co., 1st, 1882, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages. Hardcover with lightly rubbed boards. Previous owner's inscription. Boards have wear and chips to the top and sides. Corners lightly bumped. Partially detached front board and nearly detached back board. A fragile copy. Gutter cracked in several places. Unmarked, bright illustrations throughout by noted illustrator George Cruikshank.

NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated with color watercolor pictures by Ted Rand. This slim volume includes 19 poems about nature, including 8 about birds, all of which are illustrated with bold, realistic watercolor paintings. The poems describe animal appearance and behavior in natural, clear images that any nature-watcher can understand. The cardinal, for example, ``Tries not to look conspicuous/ In red, but doesn't quite know how,'' and the spaniels have ``Periscope tails and hairy feet.'' Several poems such as ``The Beaver, Alas'' are wry commentaries on human attitudes toward nature. The few poems which try for an arch tone (``Slothful the sloth is certainly noth'') are less successful. Rand's detailed close-up paintings of individual birds and animals and his more humorous montages of animals for poems such as ``At the Zoo'' balance beautifully with the text.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 2nd pr., 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean copy.

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. NY, Alfred A Knopf, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 40 pages illustrated in color by Nola Langer. Humorous tale told in rhyme by the noted poet. Library binding, NOT ex-library. Ownership stamp inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Kirksville MO, Truman State University, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 100 pages. Winner of the 2002 T.S. Eliot Prize. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 67 pages, INSCRIBED BY GRAHAM on half title page. The award winning poet's first book, scarce in hardcover. Very good in a similar dust jacket. There is a small ink notation on the last (copyright) page by the previous owner.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton-Century, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 132 pages. Black & white illustrations by Reginald Birch. Light soiling to covers, endpapers. Soiling & chipping to dust jacket. Brodart cover.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick Press, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket, 160 pages. Color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick Press, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with scarred dust jacket, 160 pages. Color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Clean, tight copy. Front panel of dj has scuff leaving white paper. Otherwise a super clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick Press, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket, 160 pages. Color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st thus, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black and gilt, beveled boards, 89 pages, all edges gilt. Printed on heavy glossy stock. The frontispiece is an etching of Holmes by S.A. Schoff with a tissue guard. There are many wonderful illustrations throughout the book by 20 artists, including Howard Pyle, W.L. Tayor and W. Smedley. CLEAN COPY.

Latham NY, Paris Review Editions, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 98 pages, the author's third collection of poems, SIGNED BY BAXTER on title page. Clean, sharp copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket 81 pages. SIGNED BY KINNELL on front fly leaf. Kinnell's twelfth book of poetry.

Hardcover. NY, Morrow , 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 62 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1895, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 101 pages. Black & white illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy. Christy's first book. Scarce. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. Gilt top edge. Gold lettering and decoration cover and spine. Soiling to covers. Sunning to spine. Corners a bit bumped.

Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Half cloth covers, oatmeal buckram with gray paper, sepia lettering on spine. O'Hara's poems coupled with 30 different artists in loose sheets. In a cloth folio, in a slipcase with a gray paper label. Number 692 from an edition of 2500 copies. Edited by Bill Berkson. A beautifully produced collection that includes poems by Frank O'Hara paired with illustrations by Nell Blaine, Norman Bluhm, Joe Brainard, John Button, Giorgio Cavallon, Allan D'Arcangelo, Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Niki de Saint Phalle, Helen Frankenthaler, Jane Freilicher, Michael Goldberg, Philip Guston, Grace Hartigan, Al Held, Jasper Johns, Matsumi Kanemitsu, Alex Katz, Lee Krasner, Alfred Leslie, Roy Lichtenstein, Marisol, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Reuben Nakian, Barnett Newman, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, and Jane Wilson. Previous owner's small sticker on inside cover, otherwise clean, bright. The cloth slipcase with light soil, foxing.

Hardcover. NY, The Museum of Modern Art, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, unpaginated. Reprint Edition of a work originally published by MOMA in 1967. Limited to 2500 numbered copies though this copy is unnumbered on the limitation/colophon page. Bound in half tan cloth over gray paper-covered boards with titles stamped in red on spine. Illustrated by 30 artists, who had known the poet, to accompany the poems. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In this story in verse, Godden has created a new & delightful myth out of the story of the Flood. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Port Townsend, Wash., Copper Canyon Press, 2nd Printing, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very slight dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, a spotless and tight copy.