Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket, 191 pages, 74 pages illustrated in color by Chobunsai Eishi. Exquisite illustrations in color throughout connecting beautifully with the text which includes one poem in English and Japanese by each poet. Historical background for each poet. Mild sunning to bottom edge of dust jacket. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, C.S. Francis & Co., 1st, 1850, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed tan cloth with the publisher's Little Library motif on the cover, 160 pages, two illustrated title pages, several b&w line drawings throughout, not credited. Title page dated 1850. Inscription on blank prelim page, otherwise clean with only mild foxing.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue publisher's cloth with titles and harp logo in gilt to front and spine, top edge gilt, on laid paper, 112 pages. The Philadelphia-born poet Florence Van Leer Earle Coates (1850-1927) came from a family of abolitionists and philanthropists. This mid-career volume was published in the same period she was regularly contributing to titles such as Atlantic Monthly, The Century Magazine and The Lippincott Magazine. Her family entertained various Roosevelt relatives at their Adirondak summer house. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Hartford, Joel Barlow, 1st, 1787, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 258 pages. Red leather covers with gilt lines along cover edges, and decorations on spine. Covers with light rubbing to edges and at corners. Title on spine in gilt on black. Marbled endpapers. Previous owners name on preliminary page and at top of title page. Includes Dedication to The King of France, and Introduction. All edges gilt.
Softcover. Madison WI, Coda Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Square softcover. Two titles bound in one volume, texts in English and French. The Voice in the Closet by Raymond Federman has text in English. Bound upside down at other end of book is La Voix Dans le Cabinet de Debarras by Federman, now in French, plus Echoes by Maurice Roche, also in French. English cover is white; French cover is black. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Sierra Club Books, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 51 pages, illustrated with wood engravings by Michael McCurdy. Bly's commentary sheds important new light on the intellectual and spiritual development of a major American literary figure. Mild fade to dj spine. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Henry Regnery Company, 1st, 1958, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket with closed tears to rear panel. 147 pages. INSCRIBED BY INGALLS on the front fly leaf. Owner's small stamp on same page.
Hardcover. UK, Oxford University Press, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy boards, 712 pages. John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester (1647-80), was a leading member of the group of "court wits" surrounding Charles II and one of the wittiest and most sexually explicit poets in English. In this long-awaited edition, Harold Love, a leading scholar of seventeenth-century manuscript circulation, presents a scholarly text based on detailed examination of Wilmot's manuscripts, with full textual and explanatory notes. This is a reprint of the 1999 first printing. Light notations to about 30 pages, otherwise bright, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton & Co., 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 299 pages. The author investigate the trauma behind poets Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, John Berryman, Randall Jarrell, and Delmore Schwartz. They formed one of the great constellations of talent in American literature. In the decades after World War II, they changed American poetry forever by putting themselves at risk in their poems in a new and provocative way. Their daring work helped to inspire the popular style of poetry now known as 'confessional.' But partly as a result of their openness, they have become better known for their tumultuous lives-afflicted by mental illness, alcoholism, and suicide-than for their work. This book reclaims their achievement by offering critical 'biographies of the poetry'-tracing the development of each poet's work, exploring their major themes and techniques, and examining how they transformed life into art. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue boards, black cloth spine with gilt lettering. 101 pages, two b&w frontispieces, clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Based on a tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne, here retold in verse. Black and white drawings and silhouettes by Marc Brown. Dust jacket with closed tear, edgewear at top of cover.
Hardcover. Hanover, NH, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY KOMUNYAKAA on title page.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press,, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 69 pages. Greek and English texts. Translated, with a foreword and notes by Walter Kaiser. Bibliographical references. Dust jacket with upper cover illustration by Maud Morgan. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st , 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers. SIGNED and dated 2002 by this Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1992 on the front fly leaf. With 26 full-page reproductions of Walcott's paintings. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 40 pages. hardcover, no dust jacket. Illustrations by Jim Downer. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated, color illustrations by Brown, very clean, tight copy, like new.
Hardcover. Seattle, Wave Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 49 pages. She is often obscure, but her allusions are as much a sign of camaraderie as of scholarly pretension, her poems a pert crystallization impossible in more narrative poetry," The New Yorker. Caroline Knox once again demonstrates that she is a master at lyrical billiards, sending all levels of diction in surprising and comedic directions. No subject matter is off-limits for her examination. Her vast range of experiment is exciting, and the ensuing poems are games, dreams, and riddles. This collection is art on the page for the eye and the ear. Clean copy.
Softcover. London, Faber & Gwyer, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial blue paper wrappers with narrow flap folds, 4 pages,stabbed & tied, edges slightly faded and rubbed. Cover separated at spine. Series: Ariel Poems ; No. 14. This poem was first printed, with slightly different text, in Flame, an Independent Labour Party magazine, in December 1925, under the title To An Inconspicuous Friend.
Softcover. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to fellow poet John Engels on title page. Light edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.
NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 253 pages. Black & white drawings by Margery Gill. Foreword by Leonard Clark. Price clipped dust jacket with light soil, wear to edges.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 28 pages illustrated in color by Blanche Fisher Wright. Copyright date is 1917, Lovely book of nursery rhymes. Paper chipping to spine covering. Binding is holding but fragile. No markings.