Poetry

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Based on a tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne, here retold in verse. Black and white drawings and silhouettes by Marc Brown. Dust jacket with closed tear, edgewear at top of cover.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf , 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 78 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Hanover, NH, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY KOMUNYAKAA on title page.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press,, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 69 pages. Greek and English texts. Translated, with a foreword and notes by Walter Kaiser. Bibliographical references. Dust jacket with upper cover illustration by Maud Morgan. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st , 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers. SIGNED and dated 2002 by this Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1992 on the front fly leaf. With 26 full-page reproductions of Walcott's paintings. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 40 pages. hardcover, no dust jacket. Illustrations by Jim Downer. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated, color illustrations by Brown, very clean, tight copy, like new.

Hardcover. Seattle, Wave Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 49 pages. She is often obscure, but her allusions are as much a sign of camaraderie as of scholarly pretension, her poems a pert crystallization impossible in more narrative poetry," The New Yorker. Caroline Knox once again demonstrates that she is a master at lyrical billiards, sending all levels of diction in surprising and comedic directions. No subject matter is off-limits for her examination. Her vast range of experiment is exciting, and the ensuing poems are games, dreams, and riddles. This collection is art on the page for the eye and the ear. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Faber & Gwyer, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial blue paper wrappers with narrow flap folds, 4 pages,stabbed & tied, edges slightly faded and rubbed. Cover separated at spine. Series: Ariel Poems ; No. 14. This poem was first printed, with slightly different text, in Flame, an Independent Labour Party magazine, in December 1925, under the title To An Inconspicuous Friend.

Softcover. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to fellow poet John Engels on title page. Light edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Taipei, Bookman Books, Ltd., 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 81 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Slipcased.

NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 253 pages. Black & white drawings by Margery Gill. Foreword by Leonard Clark. Price clipped dust jacket with light soil, wear to edges.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 28 pages illustrated in color by Blanche Fisher Wright. Copyright date is 1917, Lovely book of nursery rhymes. Paper chipping to spine covering. Binding is holding but fragile. No markings.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st UK, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 41 pages. Color illust. by Beisner. Laminated boards with crisp finish, illustrated in color front and back.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 44 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY HALL ON TITLE PAGE. Godine Chapbook - Second Series. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 295 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Gilt title on spine. Deckled edges. Binding tight. In great shape, clean inside and out.

Hardcover. New York, VIKING PRESS, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 75 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED TO BRET BRITTON WHO WAS THE BOOK BUYER AT THE STRAND IN NEW YORK. Tight copy, with only light edge wwear to cover and dust jacket.

Softcover. NY, New Directions, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 296 pages. A collection of Antin's staggering, tightly controlled yet freewheeling improvisatory performance-poem talks. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. St. Paul MN, Ally Press, 3rd printing, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 53 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Poems printed in Russian (Cyrillic) and English. An English language translation of twenty poems by Anna Akhmatova by the noted poet Jane Kenyon.

Softcover. Madison WI, Seventies Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Softcover with a dust jacket, 74 pages. SIGNED, with a brief inscription by Robert Bly on the title page. A collection of poetry by Rolf Jacobsen, a Norwegian poet, considered to be one of the first modernist writers in Norway. Poems in English and Norwegian. Some foxing to edge of the dust jacket, edge of the text block.

Softcover. Madison WI, Seventies Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Softcover with a dust jacket, 74 pages. A collection of poetry by Rolf Jacobsen, a Norwegian poet, considered to be one of the first modernist writers in Norway. Poems in English and Norwegian. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Madison, MN, The Seventies Press, 1st pbk, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, 81 pages. Translated. by Lewis Hyde and Robert Bly.Edited by Lewis Hyde. Winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize for Literature. Mild fade to edges of dust jacket.

Fredonia NY, White Pine Press, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages. a reprint of Wright's early book considered the most private of his work. The author identified he and his wife Annie as the citizens in the title. Nice copy.

Hardcover. NY, B.W. Huebsch, Revised Ed., 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with a spine labe.l William Ellery Leonard (1876-1944) was an American poet, playwright, translator and literary scholar. Over his career, Leonard wrote numerous volumes of poetry, this being his most well-known work. It is a cycle of 250 sonnets about his tragic first marriage, which ended with his wife's suicide. Revised from the 1922 privately printed edition with "four scattered verbal changes and . four new stanzas in Part III." Spine label rubbed. Clean copy.