Poets Poetry

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 8th pr., 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 666 pages, green cloth covers with gilt lettering to front and spine, top edge green. INSCRIBED BY FROST on front fly leaf, "To Mrs T.P. Washburn/ from Robert Frost/with best wishes/ Middlebury Vermont /October 1959". Tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket that has a 1/4" sliver missing from top of rear panel. Stated first printing. Previous owner's signature on half-title page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 248 pages. Errata slip laid in. Name on blank prelim pages. Otherwise clea.

Hardcover. New York, Penguin Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Color illustrations throughout. Thick textured paper. The epic poem by the twelfth-century Persian mystic and poet Attar of Nishapur, is here re-told by the acclaimed author and illustrator Peter Sis in a dazzlingly new graphic form.

NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, stated first edition with code letter "F-M" and "First Edition" printed on copyright page. Paper label on spine, three quarter black cloth with blue paper over boards. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, William Sloane, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated covers. SIGNED BY VAN DOREN opposite title-page . Front fly leaf missing. Some pages with dog ear creases, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 54 pages. Seamus Heaney's Nobel Lecture, captured here in Crediting Poetry, is a powerful defense of poetry as "the ship and the anchor" of our spirit within an ocean of violent, divisive politics and "world-sorrow." Beginning with the "creaturely existence" of his childhood in a thatched farmstead in rural County Derry, Heaney traces his path in "the wideness of language." It is a way forged by listening: to the "burbles and squeaks" of BBC and Radio Eireann from a wireless speaker, to the triple-rhyme in a line of Yeats', but also to the sound of gunfire in Ulster and the keening desolation of all the "wounded spots on the face of the earth." Out of all these sounds Heaney discovers the necessity of poetic order: "an order where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew." Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Harvill Press, 1st pbk, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 160 pages, SIGNED BY DURCAN on the title page. Cries of an Irish Caveman is Paul Durcan's most inspired and surprising collection of poems. Through four distinct sections, he brings his tender lyricism to bear on the themes of love and loss, life and death. . In 2014 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Irish Book Award. Signed by author sticker on cover. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Four Winds Press, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Pictorial boards, 32 pages. A poem for springtime with color illustrations by Joyce Powzyk, Dust jacket has significant tear in back that has been nicely mended with tape on reverse side.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 166 pages. Pindar (c. 518-438 B.C.), one of ancient Greece's most famous lyric poets, is perhaps best known for his victory (epinicean) odes, written to honor the winners at various sets of games, such as the Olympiad. In Crown of Song, Deborah Steiner's study of these odes, she writes "If Pindar is remote from us in genre, his style strikes the reader as vivid and immediate. And in my reading of the epinicean odes, it is the poet's use of metaphor that accounts for the dynamic quality of his verse." Steiner begins her analysis by exploring both ancient and modern theories of metaphor, and then turns to specific imagery employed by the poet--plant life, athletics, minerals and numerous others--as a way of understanding how these metaphoric complexes function in the poet's praise of the victor, his assertion of his own place as perpetuator of the victor's immortal fame, and in his vision of human achievement and glory in the context of mortal life and immortal gods. Written in a lively, readable style, Crown of Song opens up the sometimes difficult verse of this celebrated ancient poet to modern readers. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 69 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Tight, bright copy. Light rubbing on rear dust jacket.

Softcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co, advanced proof, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE, advanced reading copy, folded Houghton Mifflin Publishers news release about book included, color illustrated cover. Book in excellent condition.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Shoemaker Hoard, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 112 pages.

Softcover. Chicago, Gateway Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 517 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a edgeworn dust jacket with light fading. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title page. Poems that deal with Darwin's voyages, evolution, ecology, natural selection, and animals. Illustrations by Rudy Pozzatti. No markings.

Hardcover. Boston, Woodberry Society, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Tan boards with black cloth spine, paper label on spine. One of only 300 printed.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 138 pages. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Price clipped dust jacket shows standard wear with some darkening to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1st, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. (Approximately 100 pages) Beautiful heavy paper stock with B&W plates, engravings, and illustrations throughout. Special leather covers with embossed floral design and gilt titles. Engravings produced under the supervision of George T. Andrew with drawings by W. St. John Harper, J. D. Woodward, H. Winthrope Peirce, Edmund H. Garrett, Harry Fenn, Chas Copeland, and W. J. Fenn. Pages very clean and crisp. Binding sewn with yellow string on outside. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Slight tear in tissue guard. Previous owner's signature in pencil on front fly leaf, slight rubbing and wear to cover edges, otherwise, clean and tight copy. Very scarce.

Memphis, Ion Books, 1st , 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover in a color illustrated dust jacket, 102 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page and dated 1991. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in lightly worn wrappers. Mailer's only poetry book, $1.95 price on rear cover, small name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Published simultaneously with the hard cover edition.

Hardcover. Lewisburg ME, Bucknell University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with fading to spine and spine edge, 144 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 61 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name on front endpapers. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Paris, Saint-Germain-Des-Pres, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. French text.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, J.E. Tilton and Company, 1st Edition, 1866, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 53 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout (By Hammatt Billings) with tissue guards. Gilt edges, brown endpapers. Slight tanning from age to pages. Dark green cover boards, with bevelled edges and gilt title with design on front cover board. Spine straight, binding tight, pages unmarked. Beautifully illustrated antique volume of poetry by Oliver Goldsmith.