Hardcover. Rutland, VT, George A. Tuttle & Company, 1st Edition, 1858, 400 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's dated (Feb. 10, 1859) signature on front flyleaf (see image). Brown cloth, stamped cover boards with agewear (see image), fraying to top of spine (see image), gilt title on spine and design on front cover board. Tanning from age to pages and edges, no rips, in incredibly good condition for its age.
Softcover. New York, Jay Street, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 119 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to edges and pine, slight stain to for-edge, else a very neat, tight copy.
hardcover. NY, Doubleday , 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Unpaginated, color and b&w illustrations by Aldren A. Watson. In a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR on title page.
Hardcover. UK, Scorpion Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 70 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Light shelf-wear and sun-fade to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. Clean, tight copy with minor rubbing on edges.
Hardcover. Brewster MA, Paraclete Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 112 pages. This volume marks the first translation of these prayer-poems into English. Originally written in 1899, Rilke wrote them upon returning to Germany from his first trip to Russia. His experience of the East shaped him profoundly. He found himself entranced by Orthodox churches and monasteries, above all by the icons that seemed to him like flames glowing in dark spaces. He intended these poems as icons of sorts, gestures that could illumine a way for seekers in the darkness. As Rilke here writes, "I love the dark hours of my being, for they deepen my senses." Translated by Mark S. Burrows.
Softcover. Minneapolis, Coffee House Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, number 100 of 300 copies SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ARTIST, Susan Nees in the rear. Sewn into handmade heavy paper wrappers. Also inscribed on the half title page.
Hardcover. NY, Arrow Editions, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 146 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Light foxing to edges. Dust jacket with darkening, chipping along edges. Jacket now protected with clear plastic cover.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, N.D., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. White lightly soiled covers with blue and silver lettering. Light foxing on piliminary pages. Featuring stories and poems by the likes of J.M. Barrie, Algernon Blackwood, and Rudyard Kipling, & illustrations by Walt Disney Studio, Paul Bloomfield, A.P. Payne, Sylvia Salisbury, A.H. Watson, H.S. Foxwell, etc, this book was printed as part of a charitable drive for the Princess Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth II) of York Hospital For Children
Softcover. University of Pittsburgh Press, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 91 pages. SIGNED BY COLLINS on title page. Collins's fourth book of poems, remarkable for their wry, inquisitive voice and their sheer imaginative range, these poems are probing explorations, journeys into the unexpected. Questions About Angels reinforces Collins's place among the most talented poets of this generation. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Princeton University Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with gilt and black title on spine, 353 pages. WITH THE AUTHOR'S INSCRIPTION pasted to front fly leaf. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Reilly & Britton Co., 1st Edition, 1910, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 110 pages. Hardcover. Also included: "The Bells", "Annabel Lee" and "The Philosophy of Composition", an essay by Edgar Allan Poe. Gorgeous Color & B/W Illustrated Drawings by John Rea Neill, Cover boards bound in green cloth, with illustrated paste-on on front cover board. Previous owner's bookplate on verso of front fly leaf. Some wear and soil to covers. Top edge gilt. Tanning to edges and pages, doesn't affect text or illustrations. Binding tight. Spine straight. Previous bookstore proprietary stamp on page 21.
Softcover. New Haven CT, Dia Art Foundation/Yale, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated gatefold wraps. 298 pages. Edited and annotated by the poet and editor with color photographs throughout at the gala readins. A wide representation from Bruce Andrews and Rae Armantrout to Lewis Warsh and John Yau. For over three decades, Dia Art Foundation has gathered renowned and visionary poets to present their work in conversation with one another in monthly events through its Readings in Contemporary Poetry series. This collection anthologizes ninety-four poets who gave readings between 2010--when the program resumed under the direction of Vincent Katz after a short break--and 2016. Clean copy.
Softcover. Santa Rosa CA, Black Sparrow Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 398 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Clean, tight copy with light wear to edges.
Hardcover. New York , Harper & Row, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages, in a bright unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY ORR on title page. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press , 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 81 pages. Clean copy. Poet's second collection; he was a professor at The University of Bridgeport.
Softcover. London, Anvil Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 300 pages. Bright, clean copy. "Stanley Moss is American poetry's best-kept secret, better known as the innovative publisher of other poets than for his own highly charged, stingingly beautiful lyrics. That should change with the publication of his long-awaited and gorgeous new poems. " --John Ashbery.
Hardcover. Boston, MA, Ticknor and Fields, 1st Edition, 1867, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 107 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's dated (1868) inscription on preliminary page (faded). Red cloth cover boards with beveled edges (slight moisture damage to front cover board), gilt title with decoration on spine and front cover board. Some agewear. Gilt top edge. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages unmarked and clean.
Hardcover. London & Boston, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A series of poems inspired by the photographs taken by Fay Godwin, preceded by the Rainbow Press limited edition, which only had four of the sixty-three included here. The work reflects on the landscape and people of the Calder valley, the place of Hughes's birth and early childhood. Scarce in such nice condition.
Hardcover. Madison WI, University of Wisconsin Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with fading to the spine. "Cary Nelson performs an invaluable service to the reader by recovering the work of dozens of forgotten poets, especially women, blacks, and writers on the left, while making it clear that the texts we recover inevitably gain new meaning from their positioning within contemporary culture." Nicely illustrated in b&w and some color, mostly book jackets and title pages of books discussed. Some light pencil marking in margins.
Hardcover. New York, New Directions, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 148 pages. Limited to 1,000 copies. Dust jacket age darkened along spine and edges. Clean, tight copy.