Poets Poetry

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.

Hardcover. London, Sylvan Press, Ltd. Ed., 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with mild soil. Limited to 1000 copies. 64 pages, In French and English. The author takes on the task of offering readers four of Rimbaud's best-known poems in their original text, facing them with literal transcriptions with notes that make the renderings "documents" rather than poetic translations. In a separate section he offers his own versions, taking into consideration the character of the French language. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons , 1st, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green cloth with gilt fern and black lettering on cover, beveled edges, 178 pages. Mild foxing to some pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Victor Gollancz, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 63 pages. Corrections/alterations to several poems in blue ink and dated 4/23/85. Each dated alteration is accompanied by a capital letter 'M', presumably for Menashe. In addition there is a handwritten poem opposite the title page in blue ink titled "Walking Stick", probably by the author. Menashe's short, intense, spiritual poems canvas existential dilemmas and use implication and wordplay as a way of deepening the linguistic force of his words.

Hardcover. Indianapolis/New York, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, rubbed dust jacket, 190 pages. INSCRIBED BY BERGE on the front fly leaf to Roger (Mitchell), fellow poet and teacher. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 436 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent, covered in protective clear, plastic brodart. Black cover boards and quarter cloth, gilt title on spine, all very good. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful condition. A celebration of one of America's greatest poets and a wonderful and necessary addition to all poetry lovers' libraries.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt and Co., 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 20 pages. Green cloth covers stamped in silver. Clean, sharp dust jacket. Uncommon collection of poetry, Frost's own selections, one for each month of the year. Facsimile of "Stopping by Woods" as a frontispiece. No price on dust jacket, rear flap notes Frost's Selected Poems/Third Edition for $2.50. Front fly leaf with short inscription dated 12/8/36. Super condition.

Softcover. NY, Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 86 pages. Author's first book. Blurbs by Mark Strand, Robert Pack, John Logan, Michael Benedikt. Stated First Edition, the hardcover was published simultaneously. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Nashville TN, Vanderbilt University Press, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth with black and gilt title block on spine. 224 pages, Introduction by Louis D. Rubin Jr. B&w frontis portrait of participants: Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren,Merrill Moore, and others. The Fugitive was a poetry magazine published in the 1920s and this is a record of their gathering some 30 years later with their commentaries. Small name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Ottawa Ontario, Ru-Mi-Lou Books, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards stamped in two shades of blue, 79 pages, endpaper illustration and line drawings by the author. Dime-size stain to front cover, two pages with small chips to fore-edge. Otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. Hanover NH, University Press of New England, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 121 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the half-title page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, j.M. Stoddart & Co., 1st Edition, 1873, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 488 pages. Hardcover. "Richly Illustrated with one hundred and fifty steel engravings, executed in the finest style of the art, mostly from original designs by distinguished artists." Light blue, fancy textured endpapers. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Cover boards elaborately bound in leather with raised bands and gilt title and decoration on spine. Front cover has engraved decoration in black, with gilt title and design, back cover board has same design without gilt (see image). Boards have some chipping around the corners and edges (see images). Elaborately decorative first title page (see image). All edges gilt (quite bright). Hinge cracked at gutter in one place (second page,--second page), binding remains tight, otherwise. Tanning to pages from age, doesn't affect text or illustrations. Some shadowing on a few pages due to previous owner's pressed flowers (now removed). This beautiful old volume was obviously meant to decorate someone's library, as well as provide some comfort at the beginning of the Twentieth Century.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Row, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 66 pages, in a bright unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY ORR on the title page. Black and white drawings by Brad Holland. The poet's second book.

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, Revised Ed., 1995, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 296 pages. In this new edition of George Seferis's poems, the acclaimed translations by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard are revised and presented in a compact, English-only volume. The revision covers all the poems published in Princeton's earlier bilingual edition. Clean,bright copy.

Hardcover. Berkshire, England, Golden Cockerel Press, 1st Edition, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 71 pages. Hardcover. "This edition of 750 copies finished March 24th, 1922." With a lithograph portrait of the author by Pamela Bianco (see image) with tissue guard. Bound in green boards (faded), and blue cloth spine, (sunned) with paper paste-down label. Hinge split at gutter on back endpapers and gutter split at pages 48-49 (see image), binding still completely attached and no pages missing. Uncut edges. Light tanning from age throughout. Has clear, plastic mylar cover. Errata insert at contents page (see image). A clean, very good copy. The 8th book published by the Golden Cockerel Press.

Hardcover. Boston, Joseph Knight Company, 1st, 1894, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Green cloth with title and decoration in gilt, some spotting/soiling to covers. Front cover Pastedown photograph with light rubbing. Moderate/light foxing to pages throughout. Photographic illustrations by Mrs. N. Gray Bartlett. Scarce.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1910, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 90 pages. 10 color plates and frontispiece by John Rae. Gold decorations on endpapers. White cover with blue sparkly spine and corners. Color illustration front cover and gold lettering on cover and spine. Spine and edgewear. Soiling to covers.

Hardcover. Dublin, Dolmen Editions, First Edition, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 78 pages. Hardcover. Limited to 650 copies. Black cloth boards with white printed decoration & white titles to spine. Ink paintings by Louis le Brocquy in black & white throughout. Previous owner's bookplate to front endpaper. Clean, unmarked, tight copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Lewisburg, PA, Appletree Allley, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Numbered and signed by author #18/55. Linoleum engravings by Barnard Taylor. Tight copy.

Softcover. NY, E. P. Dutton & Co., reprint, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Embossed flexible leather covers with a string binding. Gilt script lettering on front. B&w frontispiece and many b&w engravinge throughout, 94 pages. Nice clean copy of this unusual binding.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped ($4.00) dust jacket, full yellow cloth, black titling. INSCRIBED BY EBERHART and dated on the front fly leaf.

Hardcover. US, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1996-04-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 61 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Remainder dot to bottom edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Clean, tight copy.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st , 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth covers, 143 pages. Black & white pictures by Albert Levering. Tear to top of plate opposite page 24. Spine lettering faded. Some browning to pages. Otherwise clean.