Poets Poetry

Hardcover. New York, Ecco, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 58 pages. INSCRIBED BY PLUMLY on the half-title page.

Hardcover. Chicago, Henry Regnery, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers, slightly faded gilt title on spine. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf and dated in 1953. Preface by William Butler Yeats; Epilogue by Oliver St. John Gogarty Frontispiece drawing by Diego Rivera. For more than 20 years, the manuscript of this book, including the preface by Yeats and the epilogue by Gogarty, had been lost. Includes several poems originally published in 'Poetry' under the pseudonyms Wesley Ames, Stanley Blackpool, Everett Owens and John Creigh. 62 pages. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 117 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Author. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Limited Editons Club, 1st Thus, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 73 pages. Limited Editions Club. SIGNED ON LAST PAGE BY PHOTOGRAPHER RICHARD MEAD ATWATER BENSON. HAND NUMBERED #794 OF 2000. Bound in silvery gray cloth, with title stamped in dark blue on spine. Slipcase features a blue wave motif on paper, with cloth at top and bottom of case. 2 minor spots of rubbing at left top edge of paper on slipcase. A bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black boards, gilt titles to spine (faded) and gilt vignette to front board. 81 pages, decorations by Charles Child. New poems by Benet just after his Pulitzer winning John Brown's Body. Inside, as new, with no prior owner marks, and no stains or browning.

Hardcover. New York, The Viking Press, 1st US, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 124 pages. Dust jacket edge wear and crease, minor rubbing, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. County Meath IR, Gallery Books, 1st , 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 55 pages, black cloth covers. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Softcover. Millbrae, CA, Celestial Arts, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 185 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Black and white photographs throughout.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd Mead and Co., 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 127 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club, decorations including cover gilt design by Margaret Armstrong. Title page in red and black. There is damp staining/fading of the green cloth covers along the top inch or so on both the front and rear. This does not effect any pages internally. There is a previous owner's signature along with "Xmas 1901" on the front fly leaf. Aside from the cover fade, a very nice copy.

Hardcover. London, Walker Books Ltd, reprint, 1988, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 75 pages. Illustrated by Reg Cartwright. Some wear to cover and dust jacket on corners and edges. Inside is bright and clean, many color illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. New York, Robert M. McBride, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 87 pages. B&w drawings by Bacon. Light rubbing to cover corners. Cloth covers with slight age fading. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. NY, Clayton Eshleman, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in yellow wrappers, 160 pages. Edited and published by Clayton Eshleman. B/w illustrations. Bibliographical references. Includes advertising matter. Stiff yellow wrappers, printed black. Contains contributions by Robert Duncan, Larry Eigner, Jack Hirschman, Michael McClure, Charles Olson, Adrienne Rich, Diane Wakoski, et al.; plus book reviews, etc. Light soil to wrappers, no markings.

Softcover. NY, Knopf, 1st ARC, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 70 pages. Uncorrected proofs in blue printed wrappers, the second collection, third book by this MacArthur Fellowship winner. Pub material stapled in; other than staples and minor scratching (from staples). Clean.

Softcover. Lausanne, La Guilde du Livre, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Softcover, pictorial boards with chipped glassine wrappers. An atmospheric, engaging set of photographs of post-war London alongside Prevert's poetry. 136 pages, handsome b/w photogravures by Izis-Bidermanas. FRENCH TEXT.

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 47 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Otherwie, clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In 1386, Geoffrey Chaucer endured his worst year, but began his best poem. The father of English literature did not enjoy in his lifetime the literary celebrity that he has today--far from it. The middle-aged Chaucer was living in London, working as a midlevel bureaucrat and sometime poet, until a personal and professional crisis set him down the road leading to The Canterbury Tales. Brought expertly to life by Paul Strohm, this is the eye-opening story of the birth one of the most celebrated literary creations of the English language. INSCRIBED BY STROHM on the title page.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st Edition, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 118 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Previous owner's dated (March 5, 1964) inscription on front flyleaf. Dark green cover boards with paste on decoration on front cover. Some fading to boards at spine. Light tanning thoughout and foxing on endpapers and a couple preliminary pages. In very good condition

Chicago, Rand McNally , Reprint, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with a pictorial label on front. 93 pages, 14 color plates, b&w plates and decorations by E. Mars and M. H. Squire. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, just a bit age-yellowed. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine, bound in red cloth. Other than a slight age-yellow, pages clean and unmarked inside. Touch of foxing to top edge and back of dust jacket. In great shape.

Hardcover. Columbia MO, University of Missouri Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange paper covered boards with purple cloth spine and gold spine title, 64 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the half title page. Also card-size poem ("Billy Budd") laid in with envelope, signed by Barnstone. Clean , bright copy.

NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth covers, Black & white illustrations by Garry MacKenzie. Front fly leaf corner clipped. A Christmas story told in poetry. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1912, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with gilt and black, 119 pages. Eight color and six b&w plates by Florence Storer. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1912, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 119 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Moderate soil on covers. Pages have light soil. Tight copy. Illustration by Florence Storer.

Softcover. Dublin IR, SurVision Books, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 40 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Winner of the 2018 James Tate Poetry Prize .