Poets Poetry

Softcover. NY, New Directions, 1st pbk, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 140 pages. Clean copy.

Softcover. Tucson AZ, Grilled Flowers Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, includes critical essays by Louis Gallo and Alan Ziegler, an interview by Naomi Shihab, and a preface and portfolio of 18 new poems by Benedikt. 75 pages. INSCRIBED BY BENEDIKT on title page. Also signed on copyright page in red. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 9th pr., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 213 pages. INSCRIBED BY HEANEY and dated 20 April 2004 on the front fly leaf. Bright, clean copy in an unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 115 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket with light foxing and some browning, light edgewear. light fading to cover board top edges. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 115 pages, black cloth covers in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with minor edgewear to extremities. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good.

Softcover. Palo Alto CA, Pacific Books, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 134 pages. Contains 78 poems of 71 poets. The 25th annual volume published in the Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards series. Clean copy.

Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, Chronicle Books , 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Vivid color illustrations throughout. In great shape, clean inside and out. "Lyrical text and illustrations featuring Chinese characters and paper collage introduce the beauty and richness of China."

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 2nd, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginations. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ed Young. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 2nd pr., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.Color illustrations by Ed Young.

London, Faber & Faber, 1st , 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 198 pages. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean.

Hardcover. New York, Paul S. Eriksson, Inc., 1st , 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated, b&w illustrations by Arouni. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Several pages slightly loose. Else a very nice, clean copy.

Softcover. Detroit MI, Broadside Press, 2nd pr., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled wrappers, 34 pages. Introduction by Dudley Randall. A seminal pamphlet from the Black Arts Movement, the work lays out Lee's early reflections on Black identity, self-respect, and cultural affirmation. Haki Madhubuti (He changed his name in 1973) published his first collection of poems, Think Black, in 1967 followed by Black Pride (1968), Don't Cry, Scream (1969), We Walk the Way of the New World (1970) and Book of Life (1973). His works deal with issues of racism, violence, stigmatization, and oppression of black people in America as well as the use of Christianity to persuade them to accept their condition. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Providence RI, Brown University Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original gray boards, large format. Non-paginated (43 pages). William Blake's illustrations for Robert Blair's 'The Grave'. Some rubbing and lightly bumped corners on covers. Spine/hinge paper with narrow paper separation on upper 4". Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Color frontispiece, black and white reduced facsimile after the text. 169 pages. This work was commissioned by Blake's friend John Flaxman for his wife Ann, adapted from the 1790 edition of "Gray's Poems", and was likely completed around 1800. These illustrations were not available to the public during Blake's lifetime, likely due to a combination of the owner Ann Flaxman's desire to keep them exclusive, and the politically subversive nature of the contents which would have been dangerous for Blake. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. Full color illustrations by Ashley Wolff. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Athens, GA, The University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 77 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO FELLOW POET JOHN ENGELS. Some scratches on covers. Corners and spine a little worn. Slight wear on rear cover along fore edge. Top corner of first few pages lightly bent/creased. Good, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. NY, Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover First Edition Blue cloth with gilt to the spine. The author's third work, his first assembled book with the assistance of Hart Crane. One printing only, of 1000 copies. INSCRIBED BY COWLEY on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, Hurd and Houghton, unk, 1878, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards, corner wear, minor edgewear, previous owner's signature otherwise nice. Copyright 1877. Many b&w engravings, not credited. Children's stories, poems, and songs embedded in the daily life of a comfortable, cultured, and unassuming New England family. From the first Bodley series, very popular in their day. Scudder (1838 - 1902) was closely connected to Houghton for most of his career and for nine years the editor of the Atlantic Monthly.

Hardcover. London/NewYork, Dent/Dutton, 1st, 1901, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 120 pages, 3-color illustrations throughout by Charles Robinson. Binding is shaken but intact with all of the wonderful plates. The cloth spine has separated from the backstrip and the 3-color decoration on the front cover suffers from rubbing/fading in areas. Small volume, 5" tall, 3 3/4" wide, one in a series titled The Bairn Books.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 75 pages, in a bright unclipped dust jacket with $4.50 price. Top edge stained red. Stated First Printing on copyright page. INSCRIBED BY KINNELL on the title page: "For Ed, - in the Folkway - Galway Kinnell January 24, 1991". Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, reprint, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated by Marguerite de Angeli in color and black & white. Dust jacket worn with small chunks missing at top and bottom of spine, and corners.

Softcover. NY, Stone Street Press, 1st , 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, blue paper wrappers with illustrated label on front. SIGNED BY MCCORMICK on (C) page Lino cut Illustrations, calligraphy & translation by McCormick. #95 of 495 copies. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press , 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 158 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings by T. Ritchie and N. Montgomerie. Dust jacket with spine fade. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, color decorations by Will Jenkins. This antique hardcover book is bound in olive-green cloth boards with a large color paste-down cover illustration of a woman by Will Grefe with gilt lettering. Features a variety of large color plates (about 12) from well-known illustrators of the day, many of which are suitable for framing, accompanied by verses of love. Bright, clean and tight.