Hardcover. London, Chatto and Windus, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY PACK on the half tittle page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 426 pages. The most wide-ranging volume of the work of Europe's leading postwar poet. Paul Celan was born in 1920 in the East European province of Bukovina. Soon after his parents, German-speaking Jews, had perished at the hands of the Nazis, Celan wrote "Todesfuge" ("Deathfugue"), the most compelling poem to emerge from the Holocaust. Self-exiled in Paris, for twenty-five years Celan continued writing in his German mother tongue, although it had "passed through the thousand darknesses of death-bringing speech." His writing purges and remakes that language, often achieving a hope-struck radiance never before seen in modern poetry. But in 1970, his psychic wounds unhealed, Celan drowned himself in the Seine. This landmark volume includes youthful lyrics, unpublished poems, and prose. All poems appear in the original and in translation on facing pages. John Felstiner's translations stem from a twenty-year immersion in Celan's life and work. John Bayley wrote in the New York Review of Books, "Felstiner translates . . . brilliantly." Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with yellow lettering on spine, 289 pages. Collects poems from four of Sandburg's works. "A collection of Sandburg's finest and most representative poetry draws on all of his previous volumes and includes four unpublished poems about Lincoln." Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Lewisburg/London, Bucknell University Press / Associated University Presses,, 3rd pr., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 268 pages. "Ruben Dario" is the pseudonym of Felix Ruben Garcia Sarmiento. He was born in Metapa, Nicaragua (today known as Ciudad Dario) in January 18, 1867. Dual Spanish/English text. Clean, bright copy. Dario is possibility the poet who has had the greatest and most lasting influence in twentieth century Spanish literature. He has been praised as the prince of Castilian letters.
Hardcover. New York, Ecco, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 153 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page to fellow poet John Engels. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, The Falcon Press, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, cream cloth stamped in maroon, Illustrated with six full page plates: portrait frontis, 2 drawings by Gregorio Prieto and 3 plates by Baudelaire, including 2 self portraits. Illustrated endpapers, with line drawings by Prieto. 131 pages, translated by Geoffrey Wagner; introduction by Enid Starkie. Mild soil, shelf wear.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus & Company, 1st US, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 85 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. His first book of poetry to be published in the United States.
Hardcover. Port Townsend WA, Copper Canyon Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 117 pages. SIGNED BY PULITZER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR on front end paper. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Pawlet, VT, Priscilla Howes Grant, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 27 pages, hardcover. #37 of 126 copies; distributed to friends of the poet. Nickerson was a young poet who died in a motorcycle accident in 1972. Unmarked. Clean and bright; a tight copy.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a chipped, tape repaired dust jacket. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 266 pages. INSCRIBED BY SIPE on the front fly leaf to fellow professor Roger Mitchell. English majors are used to being told that Shakespeare frequently broke the rules of iambic pentameter, and that as he matured artistically, his usage became bolder and freer. Well, it isn't true. Shakespeare's iambics turn out to be extremely orthodox (which just makes all the more impressive the variations he was able to create within the rules). In 1968 Dorothy Sipe went to the remarkable labor of demonstrating this objectively through a painstaking analysis of over 13,000 lines of verse. She also supplied information I've never found anywhere else on the prosodic rules taught by poets to poets in Shakespeare's day. All this said, including a five star rating for the perfect achievement of its goal, the book is definitely not for everyone interested in Shakespeare's verse and methods. It is devoted to proving a highly specific case by means of many, many examples that non-specialists are likely to find tedious. But if you are deeply interested in some subjects -- Shakespeare's iambics, his coinages, and the history of English iambic technique -- it is well worth your time. Dust jacket tanned, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, David Godine, 1st , 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Ted Harrison. Dust jacket with closed tear otherwise very good.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 80 pages illustrated by Hilary Knight. Sprinkled throughout this cheery volume of familiar poems are pictures of people readinga lady in a straw hat reading to a toddler on an old-fashioned porch, a kangaroo reading to babies in her pouch. True to the title, the poems collected are perfect for reading side by side. There are story poems; counting rhymes; verses about seasons, holidays and animals. Every page is filled with Knight's rollicking watercolors of exuberant, bright-eyed children. What will ensure this book's popularity, however, is the inclusion of poems many parents and grandparents will remember, including "A Visit from St. Nicholas," "The Three Little Kittens" and "The House that Jack Built." Clean copy.
New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket., 32 pages, illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully, very clean, tight copy, like new. From skiing in January, to surfing in July, to giving in December, two energetic piglets romp through the months of the year in this delightful calendar in verse.
New York, Clarion Books, 4th pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket., 32 pages, illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully, very clean, tight copy, like new. From skiing in January, to surfing in July, to giving in December, two energetic piglets romp through the months of the year in this delightful calendar in verse.
NY, Lothrop Lee Shepard, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Lubin. Light edgewear to dust jacket..
Softcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled wraps, 16 pages illustrated in color by Ethel Bonney Taylor. Well-known nursery rhymes set to a musical score. No markings.
Hardcover. New York , Viking, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. including index. Black and white illustrations by Michael McCurdy. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Toronto, Oasis, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 69 pages. Softcover with minr wear to paper wrappers. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Illustrations throughout. Tight copy.
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