Poets Poetry

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1sr, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in faded blue boards with a black cloth spine, title label on front cover. 138 pages, humorous poetry with fabulous b/w illustrations by Stuart Hay. The author was a humorist, journalist, and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, newspaper columnist, and playwright. He is remembered best for creating the characters Archy and Mehitabel, supposed authors of humorous verse. Despite cover fading, a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 266 pages. In these eloquent essays on recent American, British, and Irish poetry, Helen Vendler shows us contemporary life and culture captured in lyric form by some of our most celebrated poets. An incomparable reader of poetry, Vendler explains its power; it is, she says, more often the voice of the soul than the socially marked self, speaking directly to us through the stylization of verse. 'Souls Says,' the title of a poem by Jorie Graham, is thus the name of this collection. In essays on Seamus Heaney, Donald Davie, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Rita Dove, Jorie Graham, and others, Vendler makes difficult poetry accessible and explores the force and beauty of contemporary lyric verse. Clean copy.

Softcover. Paris, Pierre Seghers, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 54 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Hand stamped #35 of 300. Maroon paper covers with paste down titles on spine and front cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 65 pages, black cloth covers, in an unclipped dust jacket that has light fading to spine.. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Co, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 68 pages. INSCRIBED WITH DRAWING BY AUTHOR TO FRONT PRELIM PAGE. Collection of children's poems with b&w illustrations by Marc Simont. Color illustrated dust jacket show light wear. Overall a tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. London, William Pickering, 1st, 1835, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 298 pages. Black leather covers with gilt rules, faded gilt title on ribbed spine. All edges gilt. Covers with edgewear and the top 6th of the spine leather is gone. Marbled endpapers with bookplate inside front cover. Rear flyleaf with a chunk cut out. Interior is very good. Medieval and Renaissance French poetry, translated into English by an acclaimed poet, travel writer, historian, and painter. Louisa Costello (1799-1870), was an accomplished Anglo-Irish artist and prolific poet and author. She was also a fine miniature painter, and her illustrations show her exquisite sensibility. 4 beautifully hand-colored lithograph plates by the author. Not all copies contain these plates.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, Non-paginated. Color illust. by Elsa Eisgruber. In the scarce dust jacket with light soil and chipping. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. US, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 4th printing, 1996-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 70 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Dj wrapped in clear plastic brodart.

Softcover. Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 91 pages. INSCRIBED BY HULL on the title page. Previous owner's name on the front fly leaf. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. US, Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 123 pages. SIGNED AND DATED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Light shelf-wear and sun-fade to dust jacket spine. Faint foxing to edges, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 123 pages. The title poem is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with "the growth of a poet's mind.'" There are also many poems with richly meditative lyrics and the final section is in the voice of the legendary Sweeney, a king of Ulster. A marvelous group of poems, this was Heaney's sixth major collection and many believe it ranks among his best. Previous owner's name, date on the front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, with fading to spine. The sixth collection of original poetry written by Irish poet Seamus Heaney, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. It is dedicated to the Northern Irish playwright Brian Friel. The collection was first published in the United Kingdom and Ireland in 1984 by Faber & Faber and was then published in America by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1985.The poems in the collection are generally focused on the role of the poet and their relationship to history and politics but, more specifically, are also a platform through which Heaney can examine his own complex relationship with the sectarian violence of The Troubles in Northern Ireland (including his decision to move his family out of the north to the Republic of Ireland in 1972). Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Santa Monica, The Lapis Press, First Edition, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with french flaps & light wear to edges. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Pen marking to several pages in commentary sections. Poetry is clean & unmarked throughout. Black printed illustrations.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 627 pages, b&w illustrations. The literary, political, and artistic interests of poet and cultural icon Stephen Spender (1909-1995) are illuminated in this narrative based on his private papers, tracing his rise to success as a poet in the 1930s through his later years as cultural statesman of the twentieth century, and examining his relationships with such luminaries as Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, T. S. Eliot, and Virgina Woolf. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 2008, Hardcover, 524 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY BOTH HEANEY & O'DRISCOLL on title page. Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies; but no book-length portrait has appeared until now. Through his own lively and eloquent reminiscences, Stepping Stones retraces the poet's steps from his early works, through to his receipt of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature and his post-Nobel life. It is supplemented with a large number of photographs, many from the Heaney family album and published here for the first time.

Softcover. Boulder CO, Colorado Quarterly, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 83 pages. A Bonus Issue of Colorado Quarterly August 1978. INSCRIBED BY BARNSTONE on the title page. Illustrated by Karmen Effenberger. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 141 pages. INSCRIBED BY PACK on the title page. Clean, bright copy in a dust jacket.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 141 pages. Clean, bright copy in a dust jacket.

Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1963, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 71 pages. Black & white illustrations by Jim McMullan, his first book. Previous owner's inscription front end paper. Dust jacket price clipped. Creases, large tears, light soiling. Clear plastic protective cover.

Softcover. Leicester UK, Troubador Publishing Ltd, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, glossy wrappers, 104 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2005, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A poetic interpretation of the summer evenings of childhood. Seizing their moment, the children steal away from the dinner table to play out of doors, until it's too dark to see the ball and their mothers call them home. Finely wrought oil paintings, beguiling and dreamlike in their detail, give a free-spirited interpretation of the poem. Together, words and pictures evoke the lush scents, sounds, and feel of the full lingering days of summer, when outside and inside is lost in the doorways. INSCRIBED BY ILLUSTRATOR WITH A SKETCH on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. London, William Heinemann, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 295 pages. Hardcover with plastic protected dust jacket. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf and light pencil markings throughout. Spine faded and heavily tanned.

Softcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Stated First American edition. A handsome volume containing the revised text of Sweeney Astray by Heaney with 34 photographs by Rachel Giese. SIGNED BY HEANEY on title page and dated 2005 on occasion of his visit to The Breadloaf Writer's Conference in Vermont. There is a previous owner's signature on the front fly leaf.