Poets Poetry

Hardcover. NY, The Vanguard Press, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped, price-clipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY SITWELL to literary historian and critic Roger Shattuck on the front fly leaf.

Hardcover. London, Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd. Ed., 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pale yellow buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, deckled page edges, printed on handmade paper, frontispiece illustration by Pavel Tchelitchew with tissue guard. SIGNED BY SITWELL on the copyright page. #241 of 320 copies. 278 pages, clean, bright copy, errata slip tipped in. No dj or slipcase.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st , 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on brown square on spine. 466 pages. Of this collected verse, Auden writes that the poems here fall into two categories: pieces he has "nothing against except their lack of importance; these must inevitably form the bulk of any collection since, were he to limit it to the [other] class alone, to those poems for which he is honestly grateful, his volume would be too depressingly slim". No dust jacket, clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Stratford-on-Avon, Shakespeare Head Press, Ltd. Ed., 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Eight hardcover volumes. The complete set published in an edition of 1060 copies. This set bound in gray boards with green cloth spines. Black lettering to spines, title pages in red and black, untrimmed edges. Mild wear to boards, Vol. 6 with cracked hinges and some pencil marking, otherwise a clean set. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT, This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.

Hardcover. London, Ellis and Elvey, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover 2 volumes octavo 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches- very handsomely leather bound in a simple half period blue morocco with marbled boards with gold letters and raised dentils, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, xlii, 528, xl, 521 pages. Notes by William M. Rossetti. A fine set in a gorgeous binding. Previous owner's name on both title pages otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 894 pages. Edited by Jay Parini and with poetry and poetry criticism by Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor by Francis Murphy, Early African American Poetry, by Carolivia Herron, The Epic in the Nineteenth Century, by John McWilliams, Longfellow in the Aftermath of Modernism, by Dana Gioia, The Transcendentalist Poets by Lawrence Buell, Emily Dickinson, Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Walt Whitman, by Donald Pease and many others, such as Dana Gioia, Gregory Orr, Ann Charters, William Pritchard, Helen Vendler, Edward Hirsch, and the work of Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, the Beat poets and Native American poets and others. SIGNED BY PARINI on the title page. Bright, clean copy.

Softcover. Boston, Zephyr Press , 2nd pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. One volume edition bound in stiff dull magenta wrappers, as issued. 908 pages. An authoritative edition containing all the poems, Edited by Roberta Reeder, with Introduction by Anatoly Naiman, and a memoir by Isaiah Berlin. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell , reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a beautifully designed binding: light gray-green cloth with rough and smooth textures, beveled edges. A white area centered on cover with gilt "Wordsworth" and "Illustrated" surrounded by a gilt branches decoration. All edges gilt, 951 pages. B&W illustrations, not credited. Introduction dated 1888, followed by the poems set in double columns. Copyright page states 1892. Very clean, tight.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st thus, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated pictorial stamped paper-covered boards. Book is in fine condition, crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. The poem is illustrated throughout in color with the watercolors and drawings of A. J. Keller. Includes facsimile of Lowell's handwritten manuscript.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st thus, 19201st, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with illustrated pastedown on front cover. 147 pages, with 8 color plates by N.C. Wyeth plus the cover plate and endpapers illustration. Tercentenary edition. Ex-lib with light marking to endpapers, stamp to title page. Gilt lettering dulled, scar to front cover label. Plates all present and clean, very good.

Softcover. Louisville KY, Sarabande Books, 4th pr., 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 40 pages, b&w photos. Lydia Davis is mathematician, philosopher, sculptor, jeweler, and scholar of the minute. Few writers map the process of thought as well as she, few perceive with such charged intelligence. The Cows is a close study of the three much-loved cows that live across the road from her. The piece, written with understated humor and empathy, is a series of detailed observations of the cows on different days and in different positions, moods, and times of the day. Clean copy.

Softcover. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 305 pages. "In The Dark End of the Street, Maria Damon brings a new sensitivity to modern poetic criticism. She adds an important dimension to cultural theory, revealing the struggles of one group of artists as they address improtant questions about art, social life, and the oppression they encounter. Taking as her premise that the intensity of poetic language is an appropriate venue for representing the 'dark end of the street' of social pain, Damon foregrounds the work and lives of a number of modern American poets in order to argue that the American avant-garde is located in the experimental literary works of social 'outsiders."

Philadelphia, Porter and Coates, 1st thus, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 46 pages, b&w line illustrations, including frontispiece, by Hammatt Billings. No date. Ivory spine, white laminated covers with beveled gilt edges and rounded corners, bright silver, gold gilt and black decoration to the front panel. All edges gilt. Some light spotting to rear cover which is light beige color. Otherwise, a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. First edition of the second collection of poetry by the author. INSCRIBED BY ACKROYD on the title page and dated 2002. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 140 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 346 pages. An intimately perceptive account, by a poet who knew them all, of the brilliant circle of poets who lived and worked in Boston through the half-decade beginning in 1955. That was the year Peter Davison, coming to Boston as a book editor. was swept up in a world -- in a tumult -- of poetry. He rediscovered his father's old friend Robert Frost. He briefly squired Sylvia Plath. He came to know Robert Lowell (whose poems and private disasters dominated the period) and Adrienne Rich, Stanley Kunitz, Richard Wilbur. Anne Sexton, W. S. Merwin, and others who, closely bound together in friendship or rivalry or both, defined the shape of American poetry at mid-century Through their eves as well as his own, and often in their words, Davison presents a sharply fresh vision of the shift from confidence to a troubled questioning that overtook America -- a transformation that was, in a sense, foreshadowed in the sensibilities, in the writings, sometimes in the lives, of some of our finest poets. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 248 pages. Clean copy.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Augustan Reprint Society, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages, facsimile reprint of a pamphlet, an early feminist document in the form of a poem with a 14 page introduction by Gae Holladay. Clean copy.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Augustan Reprint Society, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Facsimile reprint of 17th century (1754) edition; stapled wraps; 44 pages with a 12 page introduction by Jocelyn Harris.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1933, Hardcover, black cloth stamped with gilt title and design, 68 pages. Gilt lettering on spine with light fading. This is the first printing with 1933 on title page and First Edition stated on copyright page. Illustrated with seven drawings on glossy stock by Gibran and two facsimile manuscript pages, all present and intact. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, mild wear to covers, faint foxing to endpapers, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 139 pages. How does a poet repeatedly make art over a lifetime out of an arbitrary assignment of fate? By asking this question of the work of four American poets--two men of the postwar generation, two young women writing today--Helen Vendler suggests a fruitful way of looking at a poet's career and a new way of understanding poetic strategies as both mastery of forms and forms of mastery. Fate hands every poet certain unavoidable "givens." Of the poets Vendler studies, Robert Lowell sprang from a family famous in American and especially New England history; John Berryman found himself an alcoholic manic-depressive; Rita Dove was born black; Jorie Graham grew up trilingual, with three words for every object. In Vendler's readings, we see how these poets return again and again to the problems set out by their givens, and how each invents complex ways, both thematic and formal, of making poetry out of fate. Clean copy.

Hardcover. St Paul MN, Graywolf Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 62 pages. INSCRIBED/SIGNED BY THE POET on the front fly leaf. The poems discuss a journey across the ocean, a veterans' cemetery, money, an abandoned collection of dolls, and a man who escapes from his prison cell to commit a murder. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Knopf, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 90 pages. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Ginn and Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with black lettering on cover. A bright reprint of the book originally printed in 1921. Color frontis and b&w drawings throughout by Herford. Clean copy.